SingleAndActive.com Privacy Notice
Last Updated: April 3, 2003
SingleAndActive.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting SingleAndActive.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
SingleAndActive.com, LLC (“SA” or “We”) and its various online partners (each a “Partner”) respect the privacy of visitors to the Partner-branded online “personals” services (“Personals” or “Social Network”) powered, hosted, and maintained by SingleAndActive.com, LLC, and made available through an area (each a “Partner Personals Area”) that is linked from each Partner’s respective website (each a “Partner website”). This Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of information from you by SingleAndActive.com, LLC and it’s through your use of the Personals Services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to SingleAndActive.com, LLC or any Partner through other means; for example, at a live event, via mail, or via telephone. Likewise, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected directly or indirectly by Partners (including their advertisers and third party service providers) for goods or services made available through a Partner Website that are not directly associated with your use of the Personals Services (for example, subscribing to a Partner’s online newsletters, the online purchase of goods or services through a Partner Website, registering for an online contest, or registering to participate in a message board maintained on or through a Partner Website).
By visiting this Partner Personals Area, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over SingleAndActive.com, LLC’s and any Partner’s online privacy practices relating to the Personals Services, and this Partner Personals Area, are governed by this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service associated with the Personals Services and this Partner Personals Area.
What Personal Information About Customers Does SingleAndActive.com Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at SingleAndActive.com. Here are the types of information we gather. In order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature members’ profiles on our websites’, in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to time to our members.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing features for you, improving our service, and communicating with you.
- Information You Provide: The profile you create is available for other members to view, unless you choose to hide it from public 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.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses SingleAndActive.com. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at SingleAndActive.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: From time to time, we may compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences.
- Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalization, greetings, and storage of items member profile between visits.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of SingleAndActive.com’s coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does SingleAndActive.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries SingleAndActive.com, LLC. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
- Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses. In some cases these businesses operate stores at SingleAndActive.com or sell offerings to you at SingleAndActive.com. In other cases, we operate websites, provide services, or sell products jointly with these businesses. When a third party is involved in your transactions we may share customer information related to those transactions with that third party.
- Agents: We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of SingleAndActive.com customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please adjust your Personal Profile Preferences.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy websites, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that SingleAndActive.com, LLC. or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
- Protection of SingleAndActive.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of SingleAndActive.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
- With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Which Information Can I Access?
SingleAndActive.com gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with SingleAndActive.com for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information, the list of which will change as our Web site evolves.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to subscribe or make a purchase or to take advantage of numerous SingleAndActive.com features.
- You can add or update certain information on pages. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
- If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Profile Preferences. (If you do not want to receive Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of SingleAndActive.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use such important features as personalization if you do not use cookies.
- The Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.
Children
SingleAndActive.com does not sell products or services for purchase by 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. If you are a minor, you cannot use any portion of this site.
Safe Harbor
SingleAndActive.com adheres to the Safe Harbor program developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union. For more information about the Safe Harbor visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Web site.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit SingleAndActive.com your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at SingleAndActive.com, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you search, profile, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for other members; subscribe through SingleAndActive.com or one of our Partners; provide information in Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail address when signing up with us); communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; compile “My Connections” or other registries; provide employer information when opening a corporate account; participate in Discussion Boards or Chat; provide and rate Reviews. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; e-mail addresses of “My Connections” and other information; content of reviews and e-mails to us; personal description and photograph in “My Profile”.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; profiles you viewed or searched for; pages you visited and your clickstream history. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from our Partners with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search term and search result information from some searches; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.
