Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of our platform visitors and users is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data.
By using our platform, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy and consent to our data practices as described herein. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our platform.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our platform permits us to use cookies every time you visit our platform.

B. Data Controller

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller of your personal data is Otkrovenia, contactable at .

C. Collecting personal data

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

information about your device including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
information about your visits to and use of this platform including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and platform navigation paths;
information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our platform;
information that you enter when you create a profile on our platform—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
information that you enter while using the services on our platform;
information that is generated while using our platform, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our platform, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details;
information that you post to our platform with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our platform, including its communication content and metadata;
any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal data of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal data in accordance with this policy.

D. Legal basis for processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for specific purposes, such as sending you newsletters or marketing communications.
Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Legal obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests include operating our platform, providing our services, ensuring the security of our platform, and communicating with users.

E. Using your personal data

Personal data submitted to us through our platform will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the platform. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

administering our platform and business;
personalizing our platform for you;
enabling your use of the services available on our platform;
sending you goods purchased through our platform;
supplying services purchased through our platform;
sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
sending you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our platform;
keeping our platform secure and prevent fraud;
verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our platform (including monitoring private messages sent through our platform private messaging service); and
other uses as described throughout this policy.

If you submit personal data for publication on our platform, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our platform and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the platform.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal data to any third party for direct marketing purposes.

F. Disclosing personal data

We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal data:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal data to third parties without your explicit consent.

G. International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When we transfer personal data outside the EEA, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, which may include:
- Using specific contracts approved by the European Commission that give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
- Transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of an approved framework or have entered into appropriate contractual clauses with us.
Personal data that you publish on our platform or submit for publication on our platform may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal data described in this Section G.

H. Retaining personal data

This Section H sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section H, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

I. Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
We will store all the personal data you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our platform will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our platform confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our platform).

J. Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to be informed: You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent, and easily understandable information about how we use your data and your rights.
Right of access: You have the right to obtain access to your data (if we're processing it) and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy).
Right to rectification: You are entitled to have your data corrected if it's inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten'): This enables you to request the deletion or removal of your data where there is no compelling reason for us to keep using it.
Right to restrict processing: You have rights to 'block' or suppress further use of your data in certain circumstances.
Right to data portability: You have the right to obtain and reuse your data for your own purposes across different services, allowing you to move, copy or transfer your data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way.
Right to object: You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing based on our legitimate interests and processing for direct marketing.
Rights related to automated decision making including profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this policy. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights).

We will respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

K. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our platform. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our platform.

L. Cookies

Our platform 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 is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set 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 session, when the web browser is closed.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our platform and as you navigate our platform;
Status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our platform;
Personalization - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the platform for you;
Security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials;
Analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our platform and services;
Cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.

Please note that blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our platform.

M. Third-party websites

Our platform 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 third parties.

Even after we delete the info at our side, there is maybe data for it left on third party servers/services like cached pages and indices of the search engines like Google. We have no control over them and you should contact them for assistance.

N. Data of children

Our platform is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

O. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal data, or your rights, please contact us:

By email:

P. Complaints

If you are concerned about our handling of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the European Union, you may contact the data protection authority in your country of residence.

Q. Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our platform. Google Analytics uses cookies to gather usage data, which helps us improve the user experience. All analytics data is anonymized and processed in accordance with GDPR requirements. You can control your analytics cookie preferences using the button above.