A. Introduction

1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, so we are committed to protecting it. This privacy policy explains how we will treat your personal information.

2. In accordance with the terms of this information, by giving your consent to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, you allow us to use these cookies every time you visit our site

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B. Collection of personal data

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

1. information about your device, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;

2. information regarding your visits and use of this site, including the referring web page (referral), the duration of the visit, the pages visited and navigation paths within the website;

3.  information provided by you when registering on our website, such as your email address;

4. information you provide when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, education and occupation;

5. information you provide to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;

6. information you provide by using the services on our website;

7. information generated during the use of our website, such as date and time, frequency and the circumstances of your use;

8. information relating to any purchases, services used or transactions made by you through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card details;

9. information you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;

10. information relating to any communications you send to us by email or via our website, including the content and metadata of such communications;

11. any other information or personal data you submit to us.

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Before sharing another person's personal information with us, you will need to obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

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C. Use of personal data

Personal information submitted to us via our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

1. managing our website and business;

2.  customizing our website for your benefit;

3. enabling you to use the services available on our website;

4.  sending products purchased through our website;

5. the provision of services purchased through our website;

6.  sending statements, invoices and payment reminders as well as collecting payments owed by you;

7.  sending commercial communications without marketing purposes;

8.  sending email notifications specifically requested by you;

9.  sending our newsletter by e-mail, if requested by you (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);

10. 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, by post or, if you have explicitly accepted it, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);

11. the provision of statistical data concerning our users to third parties (these third parties will not be able to trace the identity of individual users based on this information);

12. handling inquiries and complaints from you about your actions in relation to our website;

13. maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;

14.  verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);

15.  further uses.

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If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you have granted to us.

Through the appropriate controls made available on the site, you can configure your privacy settings to limit the publication of your data and information on our website.

Without your explicit consent, we will in no way provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing activities nor for the promotional activities of other third parties.

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D. Disclosure of Personal Data

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 notice.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (that is, our subsidiaries, our parent company and each of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this notice.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. to the extent required of us by law;

2. in the context of ongoing or future legal proceedings;

3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

4.  to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any of our businesses or assets that we are considering (or considering) disposing of;

5. any person reasonably deemed by us to apply to a court or other authority having jurisdiction regarding the disclosure of such personal information, if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably inclined to require disclosure of such personal information.

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With the exception of the cases provided for in this statement, we will not provide any of your information or personal data to third parties.

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E. International Data Transfers

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between each of the countries in which we operate, in order to allow us to use it in accordance with this policy.

2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection regulations equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

3. Personal information that you post or submit to posting on our website may be available worldwide on the Internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.

4. You expressly accept the transfers of personal data described in this Section F of this policy.

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F. Retention of Personal Data

1. This Section F sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which have been designed to help us ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data and information.

2. The personal information we process will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the intended purposes.

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

   1. to the extent required of us by law;

   2. if we believe that such documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings;

   3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including the provision of information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

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G. Personal Data Security

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to avoid any event of loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

2. We will store any personal information you provide to us on our secure servers (properly protected by passwords and firewalls).

3. Every electronic financial transaction made through our website will be protected using cryptographic technology.

4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information online is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will never ask you for your password (except when logging in to our website).

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H. Changes

We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. We advise you to periodically check this page to make sure you have understood any changes made to the information. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or via the private messaging system on our website.

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I. Third Party Sites

Our site 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 such third parties.

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J. Updating of Information

Please notify us of any corrections or updates we need to make to the personal information we hold about you.

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K. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) which is sent by a web server to a browser, and memorized by it. The identifier is then sent back to the server whenever that browser requests access to a page on that server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session": a persistent cookie will be memorized by a browser and will remain valid until its expiry date, unless the user cancels it first; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user's session, i.e. when the browser is closed. Generally, cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, however the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in, and obtained from, cookies.

1. Below, the names of the cookies we use on our website, as well as the purposes of their use:

   1. We use the Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site, track users as they navigate the site, improve site usability, analyze site usage, administer the site, prevent fraud and improve site security, send targeted advertising proposals that may be of particular interest to specific users;

2. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies; for example:

   1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) it is possible to block cookies using specific management settings that replace the basic configuration, by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";

   2. in Firefox (version 69) it is possible to block all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting "Options"; in the “Privacy and security” section, “Content blocking”, select “Custom”; here select the "Cookies" box and in the relative drop-down menu choose "All cookies";

   3. in Chrome (version 77) it is possible to block all cookies by accessing the menu at the top right and clicking on "Settings"; on the left, select "Advanced", "Privacy and security", then click on "Site settings", "Cookies and site data"; finally, deactivate the option "Allow sites to save and read cookie data".

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Blocking all cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites. By blocking cookies, you will not be able to use all functions of our website.

1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example

   1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to manually delete cookie files (instructions for doing this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

   2. in Firefox (version 69), it is possible to delete all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting "Options"; in the "Privacy and security" section, "Cookies and website data", click on the "Delete data..." button; check that the appropriate box is selected, then press the "Delete" button;

   3. in Chrome (version 77), it is possible to delete all cookies by accessing the menu at the top right and clicking on "More tools", "Delete browsing data"; here, in the “Time range” drop-down menu, select “All”; check that the "Cookies and other site data" box is selected, finally press the "Clear data" button.

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Deleting your cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites.