Privacy Policy for DateDaily
1.Overview
As the leading provider of content for men and women regarding dating and relationships, we want you to feel comfortable reading, searching, interacting, and socializing on our site. We know the importance of feeling safe online and we’re committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and protected.
Below, you will find the terms of our Privacy Policy which outlines the type of information we typically ask for while you are within DATEDAILY, as well as the methods that we process and, sometimes, distribute information collected from you.
DATEDAILY considers the protection of personal privacy to be one of our most important values. This privacy policy (“Policy”) gives you specific information on how we protect your privacy, how we treat personal information, and the choices you have.
As a condition of using DATEDAILY, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy. The Policy is accessible through DATEDAILY in several ways, including from a link entitled “Privacy Policy” at the bottom of the DATEDAILY home page. You acknowledge that this Policy may change over time. If we make a material change to the terms of this Policy, we will give you 30 days notice of those changes (“Notice Period”) through reasonably prominent disclosure, including via email. However, you should check DATEDAILY regularly for these and other important announcements. Your continued use of DATEDAILY following the Notice Period will signify that you agree to these changes.
2. Information that DateDaily Collects, Stores & Uses
We refer to information that identifies an individual as “Personal Information.” In general, DATEDAILY collects Personal Information from users of DATEDAILY in connection with access to certain online areas or services, including during (i) registration for certain online community services and tools such as message boards, chat rooms or other community services; (ii) registration for special communications, such as email updates and newsletters; (iii) subscription registration; (iv) user surveys; (v) events, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions. Your Personal Information is stored on DATEDAILY’s computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in the United States and/or Canada.
We may gather navigational, click stream data that indicates the areas of DATEDAILY you visit or access. This navigational data does not identify you as an individual user (i.e., your IP). We may enter into agreements with outside companies that possess the technology that allows DATEDAILY to customize the advertising and marketing messages you receive on DATEDAILY. Your non-personal information and click stream data about your activities on DATEDAILY may be shared with these companies so this customization can be accomplished. These companies have agreed not to share your information with any third party or use it for any other purpose. Anonymous click stream and demographic information may also be shared with DATEDAILY’s advertisers and business partners. We also use and share navigational data in aggregate, non-personal form in order to understand how our users as a group use DATEDAILY.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in public areas of DATEDAILY, such as the member home pages and message boards, your information can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise users to be especially careful in such public areas about disclosing Personal Information, such as full name, home address, and phone number.
Below are more details about the Personal Information we, or third parties, may gather from you and how we may use it.
A. Membership Information. When you register for membership on DATEDAILY, we will ask you for certain minimum required information, such as a member name and password and provide DATEDAILY with your first and last names, email address, mailing address, zip code, country, gender, age, and birth date. The form also includes optional information that you may choose to provide to us like marital status, household income, education, and employment status. We do this so we can better understand your preferences and tailor DATEDAILY to suit you better. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor DATEDAILY and promotions to your interests. Additionally, third-party service providers may require you to assent to their privacy party as a condition to receiving their service.
- Service Providers: We offer our members other services provided by third parties such as email and their personal website(s) / blog(s), among others. When you register for membership on DATEDAILY or activate a related service by clicking on a particular service link (i.e., email) on the DATEDAILY, you may be automatically registered to receive the services we offer and some of your Personal Information may be transferred from DATEDAILY to those third-party service providers. By becoming a member, you authorize us and our third-party service providers to send you email updates and information about promotions and special offers. We take care to require that our third-party service providers only use our members’ data as necessary to provide the particular service and to give you updates on that service provider’s products and services.
- Co-registration with Other Sites: As a member, we offer you the ability to co-register with select third-party partner sites. In some instances where DATEDAILY provides co-registration, the co-registration partners allow you to opt-out of their membership. If you choose to co-register with our partners and accept their terms of service, then you are automatically registered as a member of their select web sites and your Personal Information is transferred to those organizations. As a result, you may receive information from one of these web sites as any of their members would. We advise you to review the privacy and data collection policies of the third-party partner sites for further information. In order to cancel your membership with any of these partners, you will need to go directly to the partner’s site.
B. Email Updates to Members. If you so elect at registration, we may periodically send you promotional email about products or services offered by DATEDAILY, our partners and advertisers. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving these types of promotional emails, please follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any email we send you.
We may contact you regarding account status, changes to this Policy, our User Agreement or other terms of use, to confirm your registration or for any other business reason related to your use of DATEDAILY.
C. Email Newsletters. DATEDAILY offers email newsletters to its registered users. We will use your email address to send you only the specific newsletter that you signed up for. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving a newsletter, follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any newsletter we send you.
D. Surveys and User Research. DATEDAILY conducts email- and web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our users. Taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not Personal Information, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising or other offerings on our service. We also use some of the Personal Information that you provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make DATEDAILY more useful to you.
E. Contests, Sweepstakes and Promotions. We may ask you for Personal Information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by DATEDAILY or a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by a third party, the Personal Information you provide will be subject to the privacy policy of the third party sponsor. We encourage you to check the applicable third party policy before providing any Personal Information.
F. Postcard Service and “Email to a friend.” DATEDAILY offers you the ability to send an article to another person via email or to send an electronic postcard. If you use either of these services, we will use the recipient’s email address in order to send the article or postcard, and we will also ask for your email address. Each may be stored so that we can ensure delivery and that the recipient can retrieve the postcard. We do not use the recipient’s email address for any other purpose unless the recipient grants DATEDAILY permission to do so.
G. Sites You Visit. As you access our Partner Sites and browse around DATEDAILY, we may store information about which pages and which Partner Sites you visit and other information presented in your browser’s URL address line. DATEDAILY will use this information to help determine what our users are most interested in.
H. Use of Cookies and IP Address. A “cookie” is a piece of information (a file) that a website transfers to a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of DATEDAILY involves cookies. We use cookies to recognize users who have already registered for DATEDAILY, allowing those users to speed up their future activities on DATEDAILY. Cookies help DATEDAILY and our advertising service (discussed below) track the frequency and placement of advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate (total) usage and traffic to DATEDAILY and to specific offerings. This aids us in producing content that best meets our users’ preferences. In order to implement new services, we may use other types of cookies as well. We also may use cookies to better understand what parts of DATEDAILY you like best. We may use that information to display advertisements that we think will be of particular interest to you. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of DATEDAILY. Certain pages of DATEDAILY may contain electronic images (called a “single-pixel GIF” or “web beacon”) that allow a website to count users who have visited that page. DATEDAILY occasionally uses web beacons in order to count users and to recognize registered users by accessing the DATEDAILY cookies.
Your IP address is a number that is assigned by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to your computer to identify its location. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We also sometimes use IP addresses to communicate with members and subscribers and possibly even ban some members who are abusive.
I. Sharing Non-Personal Information. DATEDAILY may share information that is not Personal Information — meaning non-personal, aggregate, or summary, information regarding our users — with other third parties not mentioned in this Policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually.
J. Purchase of Products or Services. When you purchase products or services from or through DATEDAILY, we may require Personal Information such as name, address, telephone number, and billing information, including credit card, debit card or bank account data. DATEDAILY will not disclose your Personal Information, including billing information, except to the extent necessary to complete your transaction, for example during an online purchase or where needed to deliver a product or service you ordered.
K. Software Updates; Interactive Material. DATEDAILY automatically updates software used in conjunction with certain services available on the site. In order to update this software, DATEDAILY collects a user’s current version information from the user’s computer. This information is not archived and is only used to determine which software requires updating. DATEDAILY may record audio conversations or copy text chat or video images from chat rooms and may disclose such material for use in connection with promoting DATEDAILY.
L. Legal Authorities. DATEDAILY may also disclose Personal Information in cases when we reasonably believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating DATEDAILY policies or User Agreements or other terms of use, or who may be a threat to DATEDAILY or third party rights, property, or personal safety. DATEDAILY may disclose Personal Information to comply with valid legal process such as a duly issued search warrant, subpoena or court order.
M. Merger or Acquisition. In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or the sale of an individual website owned by DATEDAILY, we may transfer your Personal Information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale.
3. Information Security and Storage
Your Personal Information is stored on DATEDAILY’s computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in the United States and/or Canada. We protect your Personal Information with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. But DATEDAILY is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect all Personal Information against foreseeable hazards.
Notwithstanding these security measures, please be aware that when you submit Personal Information to DATEDAILY over the Internet, the information may travel over many systems that are not under DATEDAILY’s control. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end take reasonable safeguards to prevent interception of any Personal Information. In the case of shopping pages, for example, the credit card information you submit is protected by secure servers.
All of your membership information, as well as other sensitive areas, require use of your password. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone.
DATEDAILY uses industry-standard tools, such as firewalls, to ensure that your information is secure and confidential.
4. Outside Links to Other Sites by way of DateDaily
Linking to Other Sites: You may also visit independent websites, not owned or operated by DATEDAILY, through links. Such sites are operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these sites will have their own separate membership processes and privacy policies. We do not control sites that are operated by others and are not responsible for the information practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea to check the privacy policy and terms of use of any site before offering any of your Personal Information. We do not share your Personal Information with these independent websites.
Our Partner Sites: You should be aware that when you are on DATEDAILY, you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites associated with DATEDAILY. These sites are identified as our “Partner Sites.” These sites are not owned or operated by DATEDAILY, but are part of a larger network of sites with which DATEDAILY shares content and advertising opportunities. We do not share your Personal Information with these Partner Sites.
5.Guidelines Regarding Children
DATEDAILY is not directed at children under the age of 13. DATEDAILY prohibits registration by, and DATEDAILY will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13. This requirement will be posted at points of data collection within DATEDAILY, such as registration for services.
Note to Parents: If you have any concerns about DATEDAILY, please contact us via email at privacysupport @ datedaily.com
DATEDAILY encourages parents to instruct their children never to give out their real names, addresses or phone numbers without parental permission when using the Internet.
6. How to Unsubscribe
Newsletters: You may unsubscribe to email newsletters by following the instructions at the bottom of each newsletter.
Email updates and special offers: You may unsubscribe to email announcements by following the instructions at the bottom of each email.
Services: You may unsubscribe to any service for which you have previously elected by following the instructions included on the DATEDAILY website.
7. Updating your Personal Information
To access, correct or update your account or other Personal Information, such as your city or interests, please sign in at the top of the DATEDAILY homepage.
If you have any other questions, comments or complaints about this Policy, please contact us via email at privacysupport @ datedaily.com or write to us at:
DATEDAILY
Attn: General Counsel / Privacy Administrator 4200 St. Laurent Blvd., suite 550 Montreal, Quebec Canada, H2W 2R2