The owners of this Service have created this Privacy Statement (Policy) in order
to demonstrate our firm commitment to help 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. 100% Free Online Dating and our members
do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed
to add a 100% Free Online Dating member to your mail list (email or physical mail)
without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam
from other 100% Free Online Dating, 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 100% Free Online
Dating 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 100% Free
Online Dating 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
100% Free Online Dating uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket
Layers. 100% Free Online Dating 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 100% Free Online Dating if you do not agree
to such changes.