A. Introduction
1.
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us,
and we are committed to protecting it.
This policy explains what we do with your personal data.
2.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the
terms of this policy when you visit our website for the
first time, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit
our website.
B. Acknowledgement
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal
(seqlegal.com) and modified by SweHosting (swehosting.se)
C. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be
collected, stored and used:
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Information about your computer, including IP address,
geographical location, browser type and version, and
operating system;
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Information about your visits to and use of this
website, including the reference source, length of
visit, page views and website navigation paths;
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Information you provide when you register on our
website, such as your email address;
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Information you provide when you create a profile on our
website, such as your name, gender, relationship status,
birthday, profile pictures, interests, hobbies,
education and employment details;
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Information you provide to subscribe to our emails
and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
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Information you provide when you use our website's
services;
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Information generated when you use our website,
including when, how often and under what circumstances
you use it;
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Information relating to anything you buy, the services
you use or transactions you make through our website,
including your name, telephone number, address, email
address and credit card details;
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Information that you post on our website with the
intention of publishing it on the internet, including
your username, your profile pictures and the content of
your posts;
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Information contained in any communication you send to
us via email or our website, including its content and
metadata;
- Any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing another person's personal information
to us, you will need that person's consent for the
personal information to be both disclosed and processed
in accordance with this policy
D. Use of your personal information
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:
- Administering our website and activities;
- To customise our website for you;
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To enable you to use the services available on our
website;
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To send goods that you have purchased via our website to
you;
- To deliver services purchased through our website;
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Sending statements, invoices and payment reminders to
you and collecting payments from you;
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Sending commercial communications that are not for
marketing purposes;
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To send emails that you have specifically requested;
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To send you our newsletter by e-mail if you have
requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no
longer need the newsletter);
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To send you marketing communications relating to our
business or the business of carefully selected third
parties that we think may be of interest to you by post
or, where you have specifically consented to this, by
email or similar technology (you may inform us at any
time if you no longer require marketing communications);
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To provide third parties with statistical information
about our users (but these third parties will not be
able to identify an individual user from the
information);
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To handle enquiries and complaints from or about you
regarding our website;
- To keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
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To confirm your acceptance of our website's terms of use
(including the monitoring of private messages sent via
our website's private messaging service); and
- Other use.
If you submit personal information for publication on
our website, we will publish and otherwise use that
information in accordance with the permission you give
us.
Your privacy settings may be used to restrict the
publication of your information on our website and can
be adjusted using the website's privacy controls.
We will not disclose your personal information to third
parties for their or any other third party's direct
marketing purposes without your express consent.
E. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our
employees, directors, insurers, professional advisers,
agents, suppliers or subcontractors as is 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 holding company and any of its subsidiaries) as is
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;
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In connection with ongoing or future court proceedings;
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To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights
(including disclosing information to others for fraud
prevention and credit risk mitigation purposes);
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To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any
business or asset that we are in the process (or
contemplating) of selling; and
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To any person whom we reasonably believe may require a
court or other competent authority to require us to
disclose the personal information if, in our reasonable
opinion, such court or authority could reasonably order
us to disclose the personal information.
We will not disclose your personal information to third
parties except as set out in this policy.
F. International data transfer
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Information that we collect may be stored, processed in
and transferred between any of the countries in which we
operate to enable us to use the information in
accordance with this policy.
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Information we collect may be transferred to the
following countries that do not have data protection
laws equivalent to those in force in the European
Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China
and India.
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Personal information that you publish on our website or
submit for publication on our website may be accessible
via the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the
information from being used or misused by others.
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You expressly consent to the transfer of personal
information as described in this Section F.
G. Retention of personal information
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This Section G describes our data retention policies and
procedures, which are designed to ensure that we comply
with our legal obligations regarding the retention and
deletion of personal information.
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Personal information that we process for any purpose or
purposes will not be retained longer than is necessary
for that purpose or purposes.
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Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally
erase personal data that falls within the categories
below by the date and time specified below:
Personal data will be deleted at least every year when
it is not needed.
Regardless of the other provisions of this Section G, we
will retain documents (including electronic documents) that
contain personal information:
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
Whether we believe the documents may be relevant to pending
or future court proceedings; and
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including
disclosing information to others for fraud prevention and
credit risk mitigation purposes).
H. Your personal information security
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We will take reasonable technical and organisational
precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of
your personal information.
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We will store any personal information you provide on
our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
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All electronic financial transactions made through our
website are protected by encryption technology.
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You acknowledge that the transmission of information
over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot
guarantee the security of data transmitted over the
Internet.
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You are responsible for keeping the password you use to
access our website confidential; we will not ask you for
your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Changes
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new
version on our website. You should check this page from time
to time to ensure that you understand any changes to this
policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email
or through our website's private messaging system.
J. Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information
we hold about you; the provision of such information will be
subject to the following:
- Payment of a fee of 9 SEK; and
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Provision of appropriate proof of your identity (we
usually accept a photo of your passport that has been
certified by a notary public, plus a copy of a utility
bill showing your current address).
We may withhold the personal information you request as
permitted by law.
You can ask us not to process your personal information for
marketing purposes at any time.
In practice, you will usually either explicitly consent to
our use of your personal information for marketing purposes,
or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of the use of
your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third party websites
Our website contains 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.
L. Updating of information
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) that is sent by
a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser.
The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the
browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be either "persistent cookies" or "session
cookies": a persistent cookie is stored by a browser and
remains valid until the specified expiry date, unless
deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session
cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the
user's session, when the browser is closed.
Cookies do not usually contain information that personally
identifies a user, but personal information that we store
about you may be linked to the information stored in and
obtained from cookies. We use both persistent and session
cookies on our website.
Below are the names of the cookies we use on our website and
the purposes for which they are used:
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We use Google Analytics on our website to recognise a
computer when a user visits the website / enable the use
of a shopping cart on the website / improve the
usability of the website / analyse the use of the
website / administer the website / prevent fraud and
improve the security of the website / customise the
website for each user.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies - for
example:
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In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies
using the cookie management override settings by
clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and
then "Advanced";
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In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by
clicking on "Tools", "Settings", "Privacy & Security",
selecting "Custom Content Blocking" and clicking on "All
Cookies"; and
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In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by
opening the "Settings" menu and clicking on "Site
settings" under "Privacy and security" and then
unchecking "Allow websites to save and read cookie
data".
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the
usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will
not be able to use all the features of our website.
You can delete cookies that have already been stored on your
computer - for example:
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In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually
delete cookies (you can find instructions on how to do
this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
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In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by
clicking on "Tools", "Preferences", "Privacy & Security"
and then selecting "Clear data" under "Cookies and site
data"; and
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In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by
opening the "Settings" menu and clicking on "Clear web
information" under "Privacy and security".
Removing cookies will have a negative impact on the
usability of many websites.