Firstly, personal information is any information that can be used to identify you.

We may also collect “special personal information” or “sensitive personal information”, which requires a higher level of protection. This can include information about your health, sexual orientation, race, or criminal convictions. 

We may collect and process the following personal information: 

• Contact details: name, address, phone number, email address, country of residence, and emergency contact details.
• Professional/Job details: such as academic qualifications, professional experience, current company name, and job title;
• Correspondence: such as the content, date and time of emails, chats, social media messages and other communications with you; 
• Login credentials: such as your username and (hashed) password, recovery email address, secret questions, and security logs; 
• Personal characteristics: such as age, gender, date of birth, place of birth, civil status and nationality. 
• Preferences: such as your personal preferences for our products and services, lifestyle and social circumstances, languages and marketing preferences; 
• Customer and vendor classification information: such as unique categories defined by the size, sector, geographical location and other parameters; 
• User-generated content: such as your postings on any blogs, forums, wikis and any other social media applications and services that We provide; 
• Website and service usage information: such as the host name and IP address of your device, your browser type and version, your operating system, the pages you visit, the time and duration of your visit and the website that referred you to us;
• Cookies: small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. For more information about our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.