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We
respect your privacy. We do not sell, rent, trade or give private
information like email addresses, home addresses, telephone numbers or names
about our members or guests to any other parties. Your private information
stays private.
We
have created this Privacy 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.
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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.
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§ 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.
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§ 2 INFORMATION
WE COLLECT
Information we may
collect from you:
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contact information
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general information
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personal information
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profile information
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finacial information
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photos of you
This
includes your full name, your residential address, your email address, your
phone number, your age, you occupation, description of your appearance
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 your first name or
your username you chose upon registering, your photo or any other information
you choose to publish.
Data Storage
Please note that your personally
identifiable information will be stored and processed on our computers. The
laws on holding personal data may differ from country to country. We will
hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure
environment. We automatically track certain information to improve our
Service and our Website for statistical purposes. This information may
include:
- the type of browser used
- the number and type of pages
viewed
- the referring URL
- the exit URL
- the time and date of visits
- the IP address
We are 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.
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. It might
occur that this will limit your access to features on or site.
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.
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§ 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.
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§ 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.
4.1. 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.
4.2. 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.
4.3. 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.
4.4. 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.
4.5. 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.
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§ 5 YOUR USE OF OTHER
MEMBERS INFORMATION
As a member you have access to the
Member's ID No., and you might obtain other information of member(s) through
the regular use of the instant messaging and chat rooms and email
communications. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree to use
information about other members only for communications related to this
Website and that are not commercial messages and that are in agreement with
our Terms and Conditions. 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. We and our
members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you
are not licensed to add a DatingWalk.com member to your mail list (email or
physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate
disclosure. To report spam, please Contact Us.
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§ 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.
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§ 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 DatingWalk.com password or login
information to any third parties. We will never
send an Email to you to request your login information! 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 password.
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§ 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 we do not control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are
subject to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to
others.
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§ 9 SECURITY
We use industry standard practices
to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information.
We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and
unauthorized access. However, "perfect security" does not exist on
the Internet.
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§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.
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