Privacy Policy
This privacy policy covers how we treat personal information that we collect
and receive. We do not intend to collect any personal information from anyone under 18 years old. The Site is for Adults only.
General
We gather user information to provide you with a customized experience on our
site. Your user information helps us tailor the content, services, goods and
advertising to your current and future needs. For this reason, in order to use the HottyMatcher.com
service, we require that you provide your e-mail address, zip code, age and gender.
We also collect your IP address and related information from your browser, and we use cookies to remember your computer when you return to the site.
No other personally identifiable information is required for the site, although your personal profile may include additional information about yourself, including photographs.
If you register with our site or purchase products/services from us, from time to time we
may e-mail you with messages about our services or third party products and
services we believe may be of interest to you, such as new products, features,
services, special offers and updated information. The newsletters may contain
code that enables our database to track your usage of the newsletters, including
whether the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were clicked. We will
combine that information with other information we have about you and may use
that information to improve your site experience and/or provide customized
e-mail communications to you. In addition, if you register with our site or
purchase products you may automatically receive e-mails confirming your
registration and/or purchase and providing you with necessary information
relating to the access or use of your registration and/or purchase. With the
exception of the e-mails described in the preceding sentence which are necessary
to provide customer support and deliver products and services to you, you may
opt-out of receiving e-mail from us as described below.
Use of Information
When you register, we ask for your e-mail address, a unique nickname selected by
you and other information. Once you are a registered user you can update your
profile and may be able to provide additional preferential information.
For contests, we collect information from users in order to register them for
the contest and to provide for payment. We may use an order form for users to
request information, products and services. For that order form, we collect a
user's contact information (e-mail address) and necessary financial information
to process the order (i.e. credit card number). Contact information from the
order (including e-mail) may be used to deliver digital products and
information. We may use third parties to accept and process orders and credit
card purchases for merchandise and products, including software.
We may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by
another company. To qualify for entry in that contest or promotion, we may ask
you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with
the sponsor(s) or with others, we will provide a statement to that effect in the
contest or promotion terms.
All communication on the Internet takes place between pairs of IP Addresses. Our
Web servers will log the IP address that any connection is made from. We may use
these IP addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent abuse of our
systems or other site users. Your IP address may also be used to gather
aggregate demographic data and target advertisements accordingly.
Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a
cookie is sent. A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your Web
browser for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide better service to
you. We use cookies to save your password (in an encrypted format) on your
machine so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and track your
downloads and purchases from our site.
We may use companies to serve advertisements on some of our pages. These companies and
advertisers may place and access their cookies on your computer. Other
companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not
ours. We may use your information or allow advertisers or companies that serve
advertisements access to your information to determine which advertisements you
will see. This information may include your demographic information, geographic
location, what content you access on our site, how you rate various content,
language contained in your comments and other information.
Our site contains links, including banner and other ads, to other Websites. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites.
Our site may also link to Websites that feature our trademarks and names along
with trademarks and names of other companies. You should look at the privacy
policy on that co-branded Website, as the co-branded Website may not be under
our control.
Applications you use or download from our site may contain third party digital
rights management systems ('DRMS') which may allow for communication between
your software and the third party and utilize security features (e.g.,
preventing distribution of or access to the applications in the event of
unauthorized use). These DRMS are subject to their own license agreements and
you agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort
relating to the use of the DRMS or your dealings with such third parties. The
applications may also contain DRMS produced by us which allow for communication
between the applications you use or download and our systems and which collect
information describing your computer system in order to prevent illegal or
unauthorized use of the applications.
For reasons such as improving member experience and providing customized
communications to our users, we may receive information about you from third
party sources and our web logs and add it to the information that we have
received from you. Web logs automatically record anything a web server sees,
which may include e-mail addresses you enter into a form or pages viewed by a
user at a particular IP address.
Information Sharing
We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties,
aside from entities that perform services for us, such as fulfilling orders or
processing payment, that either are bound to comply with our privacy policy or
have privacy policies that protect your information unless you have "opted-in"
to such sharing. If you have previously opted-in to such sharing under a prior
privacy policy version, you are still considered to have opted-in under this
privacy policy. As stated, and whether or not you have opted-in, we may use
third parties to accept and process orders for merchandise and products,
including software, and such third parties may get access to your personal
information for the purposes of providing services or products to you on our
behalf. In addition, if you opt-out, we may share that information with third
parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do not e-mail you.
However, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or
if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with
the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or
property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone�s safety.
In the event that we are acquired by another company, your personal information may
be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.
Opt-Out
If you provide us with your e-mail address, and do not opt-out of receiving
e-mail from us, we may e-mail you with information, including information about
selected third parties. If you do not want to receive information from us, you
may decline to receive it (or "Opt-Out") either when you provide personal
information to us or you may update your profile. You may also choose to Opt-Out
from certain types of e-mail by following the unsubscribe instructions that
appear on each newsletter. You may also contact us as provided below. Please
note that there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to
opt-out and when it is processed and reflected in our systems; accordingly you
might continue to receive e-mails from us for a few days after you unsubscribe.
We maintain records of those users who opt-out of specific e-mail options so
that we do not e-mail them with respect to those types of e-mails, and we may
share this information with third parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that
they do not e-mail you; this information may also be contained in web logs (see
above).
Adults Only
Our site is directed to adults only (you must be at least 18 years old). We assume products
purchased through credit card means are purchased by adults.
If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to
we, he or she can contact us via e-mail or postal mail as listed below. We will
promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under
the age of 18. Please note that it is possible some of this information may
remain archived in web logs and back-up archives after we delete the information
from its active database (see above regarding web logs, and below regarding
archived information).
We believe that parents should supervise their children's online activities and
consider using parental control tools available from online services and
software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment.
These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their
name, address and other personal information without parental permission.
Other
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of
the information under our control. These include a firewall to prevent
unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration information
in a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing
secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over
the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. We
will protect the transmission of credit card information through industry
standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
We may offer chat, user reviews, submitted articles, bulletin board, or other
public functions and any posting by you is considered public information
available to other users. Any posting is governed by our Terms of Use. You
should take care to not use personal information in your screen name or other
information that might be publicly available to other users.
If a user elects to use our site for informing a friend about our site or
particular features or content, we ask them for the friend's name and e-mail
address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them
to visit our site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time e-mail.
Your personal information is password-protected, and you should take appropriate
measures to protect the secrecy of your password. If you use a computer in a
public place or share a computer with others, remember to sign out and close
your browser window when you finish a session with us in order to prevent others
from accessing your personal information.
We maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other systems and
information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain
archived after we delete the information from its active database (see above
regarding web logs). We maintain archives for disaster recovery, legal and other
non-marketing purposes.
Profile
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of your profile. If at any
time you wish to update your information or stop receiving communication from
us, sign in and then select "update your profile" to change your newsletter
preferences.
Contact
Please address comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy to us by
e-mail at support@HottyMatcher.com.