Legal info

A. INTRODUCTION
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

B. COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

• information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
• information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
• information that you enter while using the services on our website;
• information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
• information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
• any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

C. USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:

• administering our website and business;
• personalizing our website for you;
• enabling your use of the services available on our website;
• sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
• sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
• sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
• sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
• providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
• dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
• keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
• verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website; and
• other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we might publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

D. DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
• to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

E. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Personal information that you submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section E.

F. RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION
This Section F sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
• in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

G. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

H. AMENDMENTS
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.

I. YOUR RIGHTS
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity. For this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

J. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

K. UPDATING INFORMATION
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

L. COOKIES

We make use of cookies on our website. A cookie is a small file sent by an internet server and stored on your computer. When you first visit our website, we will display a message explaining why we use cookies, namely the cookie banner.

You can disable cookies yourself through your internet browser. The default settings of your browser are usually set to accept all cookies. The Help function of your browser will provide you with specific information about cookies.

More information on the use of cookies can be found in our Cookie Policy.