PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Service, which describes the terms under which you use the Service and which are available at TERMS OF SERVICE. This Privacy Policy should, therefore, be read in conjunction with those terms. Unless stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, the personal data that you provide us will only be stored for as long as it is necessary for us to fulfill our obligations in respect of the provision of the Service.

We will review and may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on this page . Please check our website frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy, a summary of which we will set out below.

User Content

Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as User Content is private. The Service does not control, is not responsible for, and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any User Content. The content that we deliver to you is only accessible per your request and a copy of such content is not maintained on our system for longer than is reasonably necessary for you to download the copy.

Use of cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies like web beacons, pixel tags, or local shared objects (“flash cookies”), to deliver, measure, and improve our Service in various ways. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a computer or other device and is used to identify the user or device and to collect information. We use both session cookies, which expire after a short time or when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain stored in your browser for a set period of time. We use session cookies to identify you during a single browsing session. We work with a number of analytics partners, who use cookies and similar technologies to help us analyze how users use the Service. By using our Service you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication and security

  • To protect your security;

  • To help detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that violate the Agreement;

Preferences

  • To remember data about your preferences;

  • To remember your settings and other choices you’ve made;

Analytics and research

  • To help us improve and understand how you use the Service

Information we use

If you give us any information about you, we will keep it and use it to provide our Service and make our Service better. We may also use this information to correspond with you and to address any issues you raise about the Service. We use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:

  • To provide the Service to you

  • To help us improve the Service and our users’ experience, including by monitoring aggregate metrics such as the total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns;

  • To get in touch with you about features and offers relating to the Service that we think you would be interested in and to make sure that you get the most relevant offers and promotions based on your use of the Service, and your preferences;

  • To monitor activity that we think is suspicious or potentially fraudulent, and to identify violations of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.

The Service takes technical, organizational, and legal measures or ensures their adoption to protect the Users’ personal data from unauthorized or accidental access, collection, storage, use, transfer, blocking, or destruction, as well as from other illegal actions or accidental leaks. A secure HTTPS connection is used, providing a high degree of data security.

Who we may share your information with

We may share your personal data with third parties in the ways that are described below:

Our Affiliates

    Our affiliates may access your personal data to help us develop, maintain and provide our Service and help manage our customer relationships.

    Service Providers

      Our service providers provide us support for our Service, including, for example, website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, payment processing, analysis, and other services for us, which may require them to access or use personal data.

      Professional Advisers

        Our lawyers, accountants, bankers, auditors, and insurers may need to review your personal data to provide consultancy, compliance, banking, legal, insurance, accounting, and similar services.

        Legal Authorities

          We may disclose your personal data if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, order, subpoena, rule of a self-regulatory organization or audit to protect the safety of any person to address fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of others.

          Business Partners

            We may share certain information such as your location, browser and cookie data, and other data relating to your use of our Service with our business partners to deliver personalized advertisements that may be of interest to you. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, computer, or mobile device, these personalized ads, and ad links, and will automatically receive your IP address when they do so.

            Researchers

              To enhance the public understanding of patterns and trends in the markets served by our Service, we may provide personal data to third parties under confidentiality obligations such as, for example, academics or contractors for research purposes.

              We may also share non-personal data (such as anonymous usage data, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to help them understand the usage patterns for certain Services or conduct independent research based on such anonymous usage data.

              Within our Service, there may be links to third-party websites or applications. We are not responsible for the content or privacy compliance of third-party websites or applications. You should check those websites or applications for their privacy statements and applicable terms.

              We may share your information in circumstances where we sell divest or transfer the Service or any combination of its products, services, assets, or businesses to a third party in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, dissolutions, reorganizations, liquidations, similar transactions or proceedings involving the Service. We will implement appropriate safeguards to protect the security and integrity of that personal data.

              Users rights

              The Service processes the User’s personal data only if the User has provided consent to the processing of their data by any means provided for in the Agreement, or if the processing of the User’s personal data is necessary for the execution of the Agreement; or the relevant personal data are made publicly available by the User and are in the public domain; or the processing of the Users' personal data should be carried out by the Service in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, a resolution of a court or a competent state or municipal authority.

              You have the right to opt out of receiving direct marketing communications. However, even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications by email, we may still send you some communications for purposes such as providing customer support.

              We recognize the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Children under 13 or under 16 in the European Economic Area (EEA) should not use the Service. If we learn that we’ve collected personal data from a child under those ages, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. Parents who believe that we may have collected personal data from a child under those ages can submit a request that it be removed, please contact us directly at [email protected] .

              You may have rights under the EEA and other laws to have access to your personal information and to ask us to rectify, erase and restrict the use of your personal information. You may also have the right to object to your personal information being used, to ask for the transfer of personal information you have made available to us, and to withdraw consent to the use of your personal information. If you have any questions about privacy and our data policies, please contact us directly at [email protected] .