| 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 15) 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.
Advertisement & Policy.
chatfriendz.com allows other
companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve
advertisements within the chatfriendz.com. These third-party ad servers
or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the
advertisements and links that appear on the chatfriendz.com. They
automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also
use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to
measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the
advertising content you see.
chatfriendz.com does not provide any personally identifiable information
to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or
except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have
the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an
advertiser asks chatfriendz.com to show an advertisement to a certain
audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example,
men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you
respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude
that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach.
The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the
chatfriendz.com, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not
any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to
deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party
ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and
for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices.
chatfriendz.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot
control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data
obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with
chatfriendz.com is maintained and dealt with by chatfriendz.com in
accordance with this privacy policy.
We also may use DART cookies for ad
serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your
computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using
DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests
("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on
your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing
sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel
advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about
hockey). DART uses non personally identifiable information. It does NOT
track personal information about you, such as your name, email address,
physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank
account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad
serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting
You can view the Following Companies Privacy Policies by clicking on
there name & see instruction on how to opt-out of certain practices.
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Google Adsense
Advertising & Privacy
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Adbrite Privacy Policy
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Pubmatic Privacy Policy
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http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
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http://www.linkworth.com/products/partner-index.php
External Network
Sites. On Registering to chatfriendz.com site
You become the part of Our Social Network. You can login to these
Network sites with same ID as we share data with Our network Sites, Our
Community sites domain are based on regions. Member from those network
can contact you, or you can communicate with them while staying at Your
regional site. The purpose of sharing data is to create a larger Social
Network while providing a regional interface and interests of users such
as Advertisements, Offers etc.
So far
Our Social Network consist on following domains :-
http://www.chatfriendz.com
(International Site)
The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy remain the same across Our Social
Network Sites.
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.
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. |