Privacy Policy
We at finder4date
www.finder4date.com ("we" or "finder4date") have created this privacy
policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal
information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only
applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered,
on the finder4date Website, finder4date Messenger and double blind email
communications between finder4date members (collectively, the "Site") but does
not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between finder4date,
or any other company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy
periodically as we may modify it from time to time. Each time you visit
the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the
practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to
administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our
Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use
cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password,
and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do
not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on
the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you
how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able
to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From
You In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about
products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly
(without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords)
or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we
collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this
may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender,
username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration history information,
and the content of communications between you and other members over the Site),
subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into
two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of purchase history
information and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the
Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of all other demographic
information. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial
information into your Profile (for example, dont use your address or passcode
as your username, or include your name or address in your written responses),
because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the
information will then be treated as "demographic information" that is "public
information." Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect
personal information from children under the age of 18, as we require that all
users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.
Information Other Websites Collect From
You On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties.
Some of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other
intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links
and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our
brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware
that we do not control these other Websites or these other Websites business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites.
Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds
of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to,
confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with
finder4date), and to forward messages to you from other finder4date users. These
types of communications, are known as "Operational Communications." In some
cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as
banner ads and special offers. We also use personal information to send you
newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for finder4date
or third parties goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of
value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information.
The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from
finder4date (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of
these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may
be more general. By posting a profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive
the finder4date by Mail email. To stop receiving finder4date by Mail, go to the
"Email Options" section of your account settings and change your desired
frequency" to "Never." To operate the Site, including processing your
transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your
personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service
providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of
credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services,
customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes
and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your
information for any other purpose. By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on
the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine
subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other
programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third
parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to
those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in
accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those
third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use
of your personal information by them. 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
you submit to us. In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship
with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or
trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages"
and these companies are known as Co-Branded Companies. If the page on which you
submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link
on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the
associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to
contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your
preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you
agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such
Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and
disclose any other information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may
contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that
a third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to read
cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other
(non-finder4date) web sites before your visit to finder4date. This technology is
used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other Websites that
promote Co-Branded Pages. Further, Avenue A, or such other third parties, may
use the information collected through this technology to learn more about your
visits to this Site and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. We have been informed by Avenue A that
unless you are otherwise notified, they do not use your name, address, e-mail
address or telephone number, and do not link your online actions to any
information that can be used to identify or contact you. However, as we may not
verify that this is the case, we ask that you seek Avenue As assurances
yourself and do not hold us accountable for the accuracy of the above
statement. Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal
information is authorized to use your personal 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. Those
who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your
preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Please read the
information below under the heading
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information. How We Use
Financial Information We use your financial information to check your
qualifications, to bill you for products and services and 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 Site, you consent to our
providing 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 Site, or by participating in programs offered on
the Site 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. Additionally, if the page on
which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking
on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information
with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties
(including Co-Branded Companies) 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. Please read the information below under the heading "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your financial information. Special Cases in which we
Share Personal and Financial Information Your personal information or financial
information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of
ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information
or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to
comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the
interests or safety of finder4date or other visitors to the Site. We also may
disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary
and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and
businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal
information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may
also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous
basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and
businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or
non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of
this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such
information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match
for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to
tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share
demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis
(i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we
may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers goods and
services will appeal to finder4date users, so that we may target specific ads at
specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with
advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular
finder4date users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest
of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask
you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you
decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser
may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please
also be aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal
information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose
to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the content
of one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please also be
aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous
basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we
Share Personal and Financial Information." Also, to read further details about
how we may use your public information, see our Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial
information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be
transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside
of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you
reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are
located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or
jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site.
Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy
policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information,
without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy,
provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after
the date of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and
Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to
hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to,
the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the Account Settings or My
Profile section of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank
you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information
through the " Account Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Site, or
otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from finder4date, will
only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future
activities on the Site and for managing future communications from finder4date.
These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information
that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or
any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices
of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at
support@finder4date.com or visit http://www.finder4date.com/