A. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to my website is very important and I am committed to protecting it. This policy details what I do with your personal information.
Consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to my website allows me to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referring source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register on the site
Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, your profile picture.
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to my emails and / or newsletters.
Information that you enter when using the services of my website.
Information generated while using my site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
Information relating to the purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you make through my site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and banking information.
Information contained in all communications you send to me by e-mail or on my website, including their content and metadata.
Any other personal information that you provide to us.
Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to disclose and process that personal information under the terms of this policy.
C. Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to me through my website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or in the relevant pages of the site. I can use your personal information to:
Administer my website
Customize my website for you
Allow your use of the services offered on my website
Send you the goods purchased on my site
Provide you with the services purchased on my 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 can inform me at any time of your wish to no longer receive my newsletter);
To send you marketing communications relating to my activities or to carefully selected third-party companies that I think may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly given your consent, by e-mail or similar technology (you can me inform at any time of your wish to no longer receive marketing communications)
Provide statistical information about my users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify an individual user with this information);
Deal with requests and complaints relating to my website made by or relating to you
Maintain the security of my website and prevent fraud
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of my website (including monitoring private messages sent through my website's private messaging service) and
other uses.
If you submit personal information to my website for the purpose of publishing it, I will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant me.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the posting of your information on my website and may be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your express consent, I will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.
D. Disclosure of your personal information
I can disclose your personal information:
Insofar as I am required to do so by law
In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings
To establish, exercise or defend my legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)
To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in my possession that I wish (or plan to) sell and
To any person whom I reasonably believe to be an integral part of a court or other authority having jurisdiction over the disclosure of such personal information if, in my opinion, such court or such authority would be likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise provided in this policy, I will not pass your personal information on to third parties.
E. International data transfers
The information I collect may be stored, processed and transferred to any country in which I operate, in order to enable me to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information I collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have 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 that you post on my website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. I cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section E.
F. Retention of your personal information
This Section F details my data retention policies and procedures, designed to help me comply with my legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
The personal information that I process for any purpose is not kept longer than necessary for that purpose or for those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions, we will keep documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
Insofar as I am required to do so by law;
If I believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings and
To establish, exercise or defend my legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
G. Security of your personal information
I will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
I will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions made through my website will be protected by encryption technologies.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that I cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access my website; I will not ask you for your password (except when you identify yourself on our website).
H. Amendments
I can sometimes update this policy by posting a new version on my website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. I can notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on my website.
I. Your rights
You can ask me to provide you with any personal information that I hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
Payment of costs and Presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes, I generally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
I may withhold the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can ask me at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly and in advance express your consent for me to use your personal information for marketing purposes or provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
J. Third party websites
My website contains hypertext links to third party websites and information about them. I have no control over these sites, and am not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
K. Updating information
Please let me know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.