Singlez - Privacy Policy
Singlefriends.com
Because we believe “finding that ‘someone’ begins with meeting everyone” SingleFriends is designed to bring singles to the attention of other singles and enable them to “click” together in whatever way and degree they desire.
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices of SingleFriends.com regarding what information we collect from you and how it is used and shared.
Please read our Privacy Policy before using the http://www.singlefriends.com website operated by GotFriendz, LLC.
Your access to and use of SingleFriends.com is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Policies. These Policies apply to all visitors, members, users and others who access or use SingleFriends.com. By accessing or using SingleFriends.com you agree to be bound by these Policies.
How We Collect and Use Information
Mobile Device Additional Terms
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties
Links to or Access from Other Sites
Acceptance of Privacy Statement
What Information We Collect
In addition to and aside from your name, the types of information that we collect fall under two general categories: personally identifiable information (PII) and non-personally identifiable information (non-PII).
We do not consider your name as exclusively PII or non-PII.
PII consists of confidential personally identifiable information which can be used to specifically authenticate, locate, contact and/or remotely track you as an individual.
Non-PII consists of aggregate information or any information that does not reveal your PII. Non-PII also includes information about your networks and connections, including groups and events you are connected to. The following sections describe how your PII and non-PII are collected by us, and how we use and share such information.
How We Collect and Use Information
Log Files. Any time you visit any of our websites, our servers automatically gather information from your browser (such as your IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks) to analyze trends, administer the site, prevent fraud, track visitor movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information. For example, we may log your IP address for system administration purposes. IP addresses are logged to track a user’s session. This gives us an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We do not share the log files externally.
Cookies. We use “cookies” to keep track of some types of information while you are visiting our website or using our services. Cookies are very small files placed on your computer, and they allow us to count the number of visitors to our website and distinguish repeat visitors from new visitors. They also allow us to save user preferences and track user trends. We rely on cookies for the proper operation of our website; therefore, if your browser is set to reject all cookies, the website will not function properly. Users who refuse cookies assume all responsibility for any resulting loss of functionality.
Web Beacons. “Web beacons” (also
known as “clear gifs” and “pixel tags”) are small transparent graphic images that are often used in conjunction with cookies in order to further personalize our website for our users and to collect a limited set of information about our visitors. We may also use web beacons in email communications in order to understand the behavior of our customers.
Mobile Analytics. We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded
from.
Information About You. When you register or subscribe to our service, in addition to your name, we collect a wide variety of information about you. For example, you provide us with answers to your Create Profile Registration form, and we use your answers to build a personality profile for you and to bring you to the attention of other members/users, and singles groups and/or singles events member/organizers. While your individual responses to PII questions will be held strictly confidential, your name and other non-PII about yourself (such as your occupation, height, etc.) will be used to build your "My Profile." We display your name as part of your member profile along with your non-PII with may also include marital status, most recent log-in date, your networks and singles groups and singles events connections as well as other information to other member/users of SingleFriends’ services. You may hoose to provide us with your photo(s) or video(s) and by providing us such content, you agree that we may make them available to other member/users of SingleFriends’ services.
Purchase Information. To process purchases, we may require your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card information. Such information is used primarily to process your order or as otherwise described herein as PII. Credit card transactions are processed through industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and/or strong encryption (3DES) by a third party, which only uses your information for that purpose.
E-mails and Telephone Calls. We require an e-mail address from you when you register for our services. We use your e-mail for transactional purposes (e.g., order confirmation, refund and renewal processing, and special account notifications). E-mail messages we send you may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the e-mails, including whether the e-mail was opened and what links (if any) were clicked. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the SingleFriends services, such as service announcements and administrative messages. We may also contact you by telephone or text message (including to any wireless number you may provide to us) solely in connection with SingleFriends services. If you would rather not receive telephone calls or text messages from us, you may change or delete your number from your account preferences page(s), or ask to be removed from our contact list if you receive a call or text message from us. We fully comply with the requirements of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.
Mobile Device If you use a mobile device to access our site or download any of our applications, we may collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system and version information, and IP address. We collect your geolocational information only upon your consent.
Demographic Data. Demographic data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our member/users experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. Some of this information may be shared with advertisers on a non-personally identifiable basis.
Online Survey Data. We may periodically conduct voluntary member surveys. We encourage our members to participate in such surveys because they provide us with important information regarding the improvement of our services. You may also volunteer for certain surveys that we may offer to our users, and any additional rules regarding the conduct of such surveys will be disclosed to you prior to your participation. We do not link the survey responses to any PII, and all responses are anonymous.
Information Regarding Your Friends. We encourage you to refer your single friends to our service encouraging you to notify your single friends or your membership with us and/or by sending us a friend’s name and email address. We will keep this information in our database, and send that person a one-time e-mail containing your name and inviting them to visit our site. This e-mail will also include instructions on how to remove their information from our database. You agree that you will not abuse this feature by entering names and addresses of those who would not be interested in SingleFriends services. For some of our services, you may also give gift memberships to your friends, in which case we will use your friends’ e-mail address that you provide in order to deliver the gift.
Public Forums. Any information that you disclosed in any comments wall of SingleFriends becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose such information. Please consult our available guidelines for our Singlefriends comments walls when posting your communication.
Use for Research. In addition to the uses outlined above, by using our site, you agree to allow us to anonymously use any information from you and your experiences to continue our research to improve our website app and our customer service.
Mobile Device Additional Terms
Mobile Device If you use a mobile device to access our site or download any of our applications, we may collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system and version information, and IP address.
Geo-Location Information. We do not ask you for, access or track any location-based information from your mobile device at any time while downloading or using our Mobile Apps or services.
Push Notifications. We send you push notifications if you choose to receive them for notifying you of matches for our singles service, letting you know when someone has sent you a message, or for other service-related matters. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications you may turn them off at the device level.
Disclosure of Your Information
Disclosure to Our Members. As an integral part of providing the SingleFriends.com Services, we may disclose your photos, profile information and connections to other singles groups and singles events members/organizers and to other members/users. We may also make features available enabling our members to share your profile information, including photos, with members of their social network(s). We never share your contact information and/or your PII with our members/users.
Disclosure By Law. You acknowledge and agree that we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law, at the request of a third party, or if we, in our sole discretion, believe that disclosure is reasonable to (1) comply with the law, requests or orders from law enforcement, or any legal process (whether or not such disclosure is required by applicable law); (2) protect or defend SingleFriends’, or a third party’s, rights or property; or (3) protect someone’s health or safety, such as when harm or violence against any person (including you) is threatened.
Disclosure to Protect Abuse Victims.Notwithstanding any other provision of this privacy statement or our Terms and Conditions of Service, we reserve the right, but have no obligation, to disclose any information that you submit to the services, if in our sole opinion, we suspect or have reason to suspect, that the information involves a party who may be the victim of abuse in any form. Abuse may include, without limitation, elder abuse, child abuse, spousal abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. Information may be disclosed to authorities that we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate to handle such disclosure. Appropriate authorities may include, without limitation, law enforcement agencies, child protection agencies, or court officials. You hereby acknowledge and agree that we are permitted to make such disclosure.
Disclosure to Trusted Third Parties By Us. We may share your non-PII with third parties, but not in a manner that would reveal your PII. We may share your PII, sometimes in conjunction with your non-PII, with service providers that may be associated with us to perform functions on our behalf. For example, outsourced customer care agents or technology assistants may need access to your information to perform services for you. Your information will be treated as private and confidential by such service providers and not used for any other purpose than we authorize.
In addition, from time to time, we may share PII (such as e-mail or mailing address) about our user base with carefully selected third parties, so they can offer goods and services that we believe may be of interest to our users. If you do not wish to receive offers from our trusted partners, you can change your e-mail preferences at any time by following the steps outlined in the “Choice/Opt-Out” section below.
Disclosure to Trusted Third Parties at Your Request. While visiting our site, we may provide you with advertisements, promotions, sweepstakes and offers from third party providers. If you choose to accept any such offers, you may either (depending on the situation) directly provide your information in connection with the offer to such third party provider, or we will provide your information, including billing information, to the third party provider by pre-populating the offer registration forms. Your information will not be transferred until you actually accept the offer. You may opt-out of the offer at any time up until this point. Please refer to the third party provider’s own privacy policy (provided on the offer pages) if you have any questions regarding how your information is used by such providers. Please be aware that these offers may be presented on pages framed by a SingleFriends website. We do this to provide a seamless experience. Although these offer pages have the look and feel of our websites, you will be submitting your information directly to the third-party advertiser. You agree that we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings, including the sharing of the information you supply to us with third party providers described here, or as the result of the presence of such providers on a SingleFriends site.
Search Engine. Some portions of your profile may be available to search engine crawlers and therefore may appear in internet search results, but no PII (e.g., last name, photos) will be included in such search results. Because your submissions to the Basic Info sections of your profile may be publicly available, we strongly encourage you not to disclose PII or contact information in such areas of your profile.
Information Transferred As a Result of Sale of Business. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets and, depending on the transaction, your PII may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are acquired by another company, your PII may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party. If this occurs, you will be notified if there are any material changes to the way your PII is collected or used.
Third-Party Advertising
We may use third-party advertising agencies or other service providers to serve ads on our website on behalf of SingleFriends or third-party advertisers (e.g., retailers of goods or services). These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is completely anonymous. Some of these third-party advertising agencies may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers you the option to opt out of ad targeting from its member agencies by following the procedures listed at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.
Third Parties, with whom we partner to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117118
We will only share your information with third parties in the ways defined in this privacy statement.
Age Restrictions
Our age restrictions for different services are set forth in each applicable Terms and Conditions of Service. We do not target our sites or services to individuals under the age of 18. In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, any information we may receive from users we believe to be under the age of 18 will be purged from our database.
Security
We have extensive security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information stored in our database. These measures include the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and/or strong encryption (3DES) technology during credit card transactions and administrative access to site data, as well as other proprietary security measures which are applied to all repositories and transfers of user information. We will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, but given that no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and hence accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.
Links to or Access from Other Sites
You may be able to access your account or content of your account from third party sites, such as social networking sites, by way of various applications. The privacy policies and practices of such sites in connection with information you disclose on such sites may differ from the practices of SingleFriends as set forth in this privacy statement, and you should review their policies and practices to ensure that the privacy of the information you submit on their site does not conflict with and is consistent with how you wish your information to be treated. Such sites may also place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of any other websites that may provide access to, or be linked to or from, this site, including that of any social networking sites and third-party advertisers whose offerings require you to navigate away from our site.
Choice/Opt-Out
You may use the following options for removing your information, including an unauthorized profile, from our e-mail database if you wish to opt out of receiving promotional e-mails and newsletters. Click on the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the e-mail;
Send mail to the following postal address letting us know which promotional e-mails you wish to opt-out of:
SingleFriends.com
Attn: Opt-Out Department
3214 N. University Avenue, #404
Provo, UT 84604 USA
Updating Your Information
SingleFriends provides users the following options for changing and modifying information previously submitted, including deletion of your personal information.
Regarding PII account information SingleFriends members may select the My Account link to change their PII account information. Members may change their credit card (if applicable), e-mail address, password and other information from the account settings or preferences page; or they may send mail to the postal address listed above, providing us with your account information and letting us know which information you wish to update.
Regarding changing Non-PII information found on their Member Profile members may select the Edit Profile link found on their My Account page.
Data Retention
Because many members/users tend to use our service at different points of their relationship-seeking life, we retain your personal information for continued service and convenience purposes until you advise us not to do so.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may retain personal information in order to comply with applicable laws, keep accurate records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce our Terms and Conditions of Service or other agreements, or for any other legally permissible purpose.
Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, you can contact:
SingleFriends.com
Attn: Site Administrator
3214 N. University Avenue, #404
Provo, UT 84604 USA
Acceptance of Privacy Statement
Your use of our website(s), including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy statement and the applicable Terms and Conditions of Service.
BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND THE APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement page and any other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by other means, such as e-mail, at our discretion.
Your continued use of any portion of our website following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
Effective Date
This privacy statement was last revised on May 9, 2024.
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