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We, at Datepetlovers.com Dating site, are committed to protect your privacy and have created this document to help you better understand what information we collect and how the information might be used.
We gather IP addresses from Guests, Free, and Paid members when they visit the site. IP addresses are a series of numbers relating to your computer, and do not reveal any personal information about you or harm your computer.
We use cookies to help us provide a better user experience and to identify traffic directed to us from different affiliates and suppliers. The use of cookies is a very common tool used for user identification, although they do not carry any personal information about you. Cookies are not bad for your computer. When you register as a free or paid member , you will be asked for personally identifiable information (like your email address and password) and this information will be used to provide you with our service and will not be shared with other members. Other non-personally identifiable information such a demographic information (like your city of residence or age) and profile interests will be shared with other members in accordance with our Terms of Use Agreement. However, if you do decide to provide us with a photograph, your photo may become personal information which may be identifiable to other users. Should you decide to become a paying member, we will need to collect financial information (like your credit card number and expiry date) in order to process your payment. Also we may need to provide this information to other companies (for example, our bank) in order to complete your purchase or verify your identity.
1. How Your Information is Used
We use the information collected about you from current and past activities on the site to help improve our service, enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, solve technical issues and help arbitrate disputes. We also may use your information in response to meet legal and regulatory obligations. If you chose to have notices sent to you we may use your information to send;
a) updates and notices of valuable advertising and promotions from us and
b) notification of messages from other members and other valuable updates.
You may opt out of receiving these notices by not selecting the appropriate box.
2. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. We do not put your name on any mailing list other than our own. Your information may be disclosed to others if:
a) You have provided your consent;
b) Subpoenaed, ordered by a court of law or other legal means;
c) In order to provide you with our service;
d) To affiliates or other companies (such as our bank and our web hosting company) who assist us in providing you with our service;
e) Should you violate Datepetlovers.com Terms of Use Agreement.
Should a disclosure be made for the any of the above reasons, the disclosure will be confidential and be made only for the reason it was disclosed.
3. Retention of Your Information
We keep your personally identifiable information for as long as you are a member of the service or as long as required by law which ever is longer.
4. Security of Your Information
We use standard industry practices to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, including but not limited to; Firewalls, Anti Virus, Anti Spyware, and Encryption by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). We employ many different security techniques to protect your personal information from unauthorised access. However, we cannot guarantee absolute security of your personal information as no method of electronic storage or internet transmission is 100 percent secure. We recommend that you exit the site by using the Logout Button located at the top right of each page instead of exiting the site by simply closing down your web browser.
5. Changing Your Information
You may review and change your information at any time by visiting your Admin, then Manager link located at the top of the members` main page.
6. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change and update our Privacy Policy at any time and will advise you of any such changes by sending you an email to the email address you have provided to us.
7. Refusal of Information
You may refuse to provide us with your personal information. However, this may limit our ability to provide our services to you.
8. Privacy Issues Contact
Should you have any concerns or issues regarding our use of your personal information, you may contact our Privacy Officer at: Privacy [at] Datepetlovers [dot] com
This Agreement was last updated on May 2, 2007.
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