Privacy policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.

Consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

B. Source

This document has been created using a SEQ Legal template (seqlegal.com).

C. Collecte d’informations personnelles

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, the type and version of your browser, and your operating system;
Information about your visits and your use of this website including the source referer, the duration of the visit, pages viewed, and the navigation paths of websites;
Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
Information you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, your profile picture, your gender, your date of birth, your marital status, your interests and hobbies, your educational background and your work history;
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when you use the services on our website;
Information generated when using our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you perform on our site, which include your name, address, phone number, email address and banking information;
Information you publish on our website in order to publish it on the internet, including your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts;
Information contained in all communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata;
Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of that person concerning the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

D. Utilisation de vos informations personnelles

The personal information provided to us via our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant site pages. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;
Personalize our website for you;
Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
Send you the goods purchased on our site;
Provide you with the services purchased on our site;
Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you may tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you may tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (such that those third parties cannot identify an individual user with those data);
Process requests and complaints relating to your site made by you or concerning you;
Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
Check compliance with the terms governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through the private messaging service of our website); and other uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish it and may use it in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted in your privacy settings on the site.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, nor that of other third parties.

E. Divulgation de vos informations personnelles

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or contractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

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

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we are looking to sell; and
To any person whom we reasonably consider to be part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of these personal data if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of these personal data.

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

F. Transferts internationaux de données

Information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all countries in which we operate, in order to allow us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries not having data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

Personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of such information by third parties.

You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Conservation de vos informations personnelles

This Section G outlines our data retention policies and procedures, designed to assist us in complying with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding section G-2, we will generally delete the personal data of these categories at the date and time specified below:

This type of personal data will be deleted after 1 year.

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

To the extent required by law;
If we think that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

H. Sécurité de vos informations personnelles

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 secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).

All electronic financial transactions conducted via our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently not secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted over the Internet.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may inform you of changes to this policy by email or via the private messaging service on our website.

J. Vos droits

You can request a copy of any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

Payment of a fee; and
Provision of adequate evidence of your identity (for these purposes, we will generally accept a notarised photocopy of your passport plus an original utility bill showing your current address).

We may retain such personal information as is required by law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will explicitly and in advance consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to object to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Sites web tiers

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Mise à jour des informations

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

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then returned to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session”.

We only use session cookies on our website. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: identify a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they browse, enable the use of a shopping cart, improve the use of a website, analyze usage, administer the site, prevent fraud, personalize the site and deliver targeted advertising.

Cookie management

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

Internet Explorer (v10): You can block cookies by using the override settings for cookie management available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced.”
Firefox (v24): You can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites.”
Chrome (v29): You can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu then clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” then selecting “Do not allow sites to set data” under the “Cookies” header.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.

Suppression des cookies

You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer. Example:

Internet Explorer (v10): You must delete the cookies file manually (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
Firefox (v24): Click on “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then select “Use custom settings for history” and click on “Show Cookies”, then on “Delete All Cookies.”
Chrome (v29): Go to the “Customize and control” menu then click “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data” then “Clear cookies and other site data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”