The owners of this Service have
created this Privacy Statement (Policy) in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to helping our users better understand what
information we collect about them and what may happen to that
information.
The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for the Websites listed below.
Overview
As part of the normal operation
of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose
information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information
we collect about you and what may happen to that information. By
accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions, you
expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal
information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This
Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of
the Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Statement
applies to all related sites. All other worldwide sites
operate under similar privacy practices as described in this Privacy
Policy, and subject to the requirements of applicable local law, we
strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout
the online personals sites.
1. A Special Note
About Children
Children are not eligible to use our
services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit
any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this
service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect
Our primary
goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a
smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to
provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to
customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that
in order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature
members' profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out
from time to time to our members. Your name, address and telephone
number are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your
profile is available for other members to view. Members' profiles
include a description and photos, likes and dislikes, individual
essays and other information helpful in determining matches. Your
viewable profile does not include any identifying information about
you, except the username you chose upon registering.
Please note that your personally identifiable information
will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States.
The laws on holding personal data in the United States may differ
from the European laws but as we explain below, We will hold and
transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure
environment.
We automatically track certain information
based upon your behavior on our Websites using cookies and other
devices. We use this information for internal research on our
members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand
and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL
that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not).
Which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not),
what browser you are using, and your IP address.
We use
data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our
Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that
assist us in providing customized services. We also offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a "cookie".
Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to
your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they
are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a
session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser
permits.
We use a third party advertising company, to
serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also
collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site. This
is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device,
commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an action tag, which we place
on various Web pages within our Web site or in an html e-mail that
allows Atlas DMT to collect anonymous information. Atlas DMT may use
information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to
provide ads about goods and services of interest to you.
3. Our Use of Your Information
We use
information in the files we maintain about you, and the other
information we obtain from your current and past activities on the
Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our
Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members
to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may
examine your information to identify members multiple Member ID No.
or aliases.
You agree that we may use personally
identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and
product offerings, and customize our Site's content, layout, and
services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet
your needs.
You agree that we may use your information to
contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are
targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements,
administrative notices, product offerings, and communications
relevant to your use on the Websites. By accepting this Privacy
Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Due
to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of
your private communications and other personally identifiable
information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described
in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and
foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the
government, law enforcement agencies or third parties. Under certain
circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access
transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or
misuse your information that they collect from our Websites.
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect
your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personally identifiable information or private communications will
always remain private.
As a matter of policy, we
do not sell or rent any personally identifiable
information about you to any third party. However, the following
describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed.
Financial
Information. Under some circumstances we may require some
additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card
details. We use this financial information, including your name,
address, and other information, as well as to bill you for use of our
services. We use your financial information to check your
qualifications, to bill you for services and/or products, to enable
you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which
you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in
any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information on the Websites, you consent to our providing of your
financial information to our service providers and to such third
parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your
activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer
for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card
companies and banking institutions used to process and support the
transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for products or services of third parties offered on the
Websites, or by participating in programs offered on the Websites
that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit
financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our
providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of
these various third parties may be authorized to use your financial
information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such
third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over
which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible
or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally, you
agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted
to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to
use and disclose any other information that you submit to us.
Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across
all our members' accounts) personally identifiable information and
disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to
advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and
promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not
disclose to these entities any information that could be used to
identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name,
email address, password, credit card number and bank account number,
are never disclosed to marketing advertisers. We may use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may
employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or
web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information
that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is
completely anonymous.
External Service Providers.
There may be a number of services offered by external service
providers that help you use our Websites. If you choose to use these
optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose
information to the external service providers, and/or grant them
permission to collect information about you, then their use of your
information is governed by their private policy.
Other
Corporate Entities. We share much of our data, including
personally identifiable information about you, with our parent and/or
subsidiaries that are committed to serving your online needs and
related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these
entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least
as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their
other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will follow privacy
practices no less protective of all members than our practices
described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law.
It is possible that We and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of
such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity.
Should such a combination occur, you should expect that we would
share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide
the service. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it
occurs) and we will require that the new combined entity follow the
practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Legal
Requests. we cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well
as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual
property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us
to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other
government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary
or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud,
intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is
illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
5.
Your Use of other Members Information
Our services
also include access to instant messaging and chat rooms. As a member
you have access to the Member's ID No., and you might gain access to
other contact information of the Member(s) through the regular use of
the instant messaging and chat rooms. By accepting this Privacy
Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally
identifiable information that you obtain through instant messaging
communication, the chat rooms and email, We hereby grants to you a
license to use such information only for: (a) Your Company related
communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b)
any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate
disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an
opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to
review what information you have collected about them. In addition,
under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you
disclose personally identifiable information about another member to
any third party without our consent and the consent of such other
member after adequate disclosure. [Your Company] and our members do
not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are
not licensed to add a [Your Company] member to your mail list (email
or physical mail) without their express written consent after
adequate disclosure. To report spam from other [Your Company], please
Contact Us.
6.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your
Profile
Following registration, you can review and
change the information you submitted during registration through the
Member Service Menu including: Your password and e-mail address. If
you change your password and email we keep track of your old password
and email. You can also change your registration information such as:
name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile,
likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays and saves search
criteria.
Upon your written request, we will suspend your
membership, contact information, and financial information from our
active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as
reasonably possible in accordance with our suspension policy and
applicable law. To remove your profile so that others cannot view it,
visit the Remove Your
Profile section of Member Services.
We will retain in
our files information you have requested to remove for certain
circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and
enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is
never completely removed from our databases due to technical and
legal constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore,
you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable
information will be completely removed from our databases in response
to your requests.
7. Control of Your
Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with
your login information and password, including fees. Therefore we do
not recommend that you disclose your [Your Company] password or login
information to any third parties. If you choose to share this
information with third parties to provide you additional services,
you are responsible for all actions taken with your login information
and password and therefore should review each third party's privacy
policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose
substantial control over your personally identifiable information and
may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf.
Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you
should immediately change your passwod
8. Other
Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly
included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use
and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that
you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are on
our Websites or on other sites throughout the Internet, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you
disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers,
they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since [Your Company] does
not control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are
subject to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others.
9. Security
[Your
Company] uses industry standard practices to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including
"firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. [Your Company] treats data as
an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access.
We employ many different security techniques to protect such data
from unauthorized access by members inside and outside the company.
However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
10. Notice
We may change this Privacy
Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to
accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. All
changes to this policy are effective after we provide you with at
least (30) days notice of changes by sending email to members. We
provide you with (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to
notify [Your Company] if you do not agree to such changes.
