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We at MatchConnection.com, firmly believe in protecting your personal information.
Therefore, we or (MatchConnection.com) created and provide this privacy policy
to demonstrate our commitment to not only protecting your personal information
but also to inform you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies
to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the
MatchConnection.com Website, and double blind email communications between MatchConnection.com
members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or
offline point of contact between MatchConnection.com, or any other company,
and consumers. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information,
by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy
at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer
and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use
your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information
about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password,
and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do
not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers
on the Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these
cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal information"
(i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using
the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address),
"financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic
information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is
neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but
is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth
date, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching
history information, registration history information, and the content of communications
between you and other members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public information",
which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one communications
between you and other users of the Site; and 2) "public information", which
consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter
personal information or financial information into your Profile (for example,
do not use your address or passcode as your username, or include your name or
address in your written responses), because if you do then it may be posted
publicly on the Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic
information" that is "public information." Please note that nowhere on the Site
do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of
18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years
old.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some
of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual
property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit
these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names,
trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do
not control these other Websites or these other Websites business practices,
and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently,
the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds of information
about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than
we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their
privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently
operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other
activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or
important news that could affect your relationship with MatchConnection.com),
and to forward messages to you from other MatchConnection.com users. These types
of communications, are known as "Operational Communications." In some cases,
Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner
ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers
and other promotional materials for MatchConnection.coms or third parties goods
or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as
discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. By posting a profile
on the Site, you are opting in to receive any MatchConnection.com email. To
operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents,
representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with
support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination,
receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order
fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities
not to use your information for any other purpose. By purchasing, or registering
or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third
parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or
magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes
or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored
by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information
to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information
in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those
third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use
of your personal information by them. 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
you submit to us.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information
is authorized to use your personal 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.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you
for products and services and 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 Site, you consent to our providing 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 Site, or by participating in programs
offered on the Site 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.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We
may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine
that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate
with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of MatchConnection.com
or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses,
and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common
corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is
disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information
along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated
legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial
information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with
the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of
such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a Match
for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor
the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic
information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is
to increase the likelihood that our advertisers goods and services will appeal
to MatchConnection.com users, so that we may target specific ads at specific
demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers
is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular MatchConnection.com
users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this
privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to
remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide
to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be
able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also
be aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal information
to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded
Company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications
between you and other members.
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