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Privacy Policy |
- Introduction
a. SinceritySeekers.com, operated by Nirvana Company Limited (“we” “us” or
“SinceritySeekers”) has provided this Privacy Policy to assist you in understanding
how we collect and use the personal information that you provide to us and to assist
you in making informed decisions when using the SinceritySeekers web site located
at www.SinceritySeekers.com (the “Web Site”).
- The Information We Collect
a. When you visit the Web Site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and
Web Site use information collected by us as you browse our Web Site.
b. When you register on the Web Site, you create your own profile and privacy
settings. Your profile includes personal information, such as your personal interests,
gender, age, education, occupation and certain relationship preferences. Your profile
information, as well as your name, email and photo, may be displayed to other users
of the Web Site. If you post personally identifiable information in areas of the
site accessible to other users, you should be aware that such information can be
read, collected, or used by other users, and could be used improperly (including
for example to send you unsolicited messages). We are not responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums or for other’s misuse
of such information.
c. When you enter our Web Site, we collect the user’s browser type and IP address.
This information is gathered for all users of the Web Site and is used for administrative
and analytical purposes, including diagnosing problems with our servers. In addition,
when you enter our Web Site, we store certain information from your browser using
“cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information
about the user. We use session cookies containing encrypted information to allow
the system to uniquely identify you while you are logged in. This information allows
us to process your online requests and preferences. We also use persistent cookies
that only we can read and use, for purposes of personal identification. We are careful
about the security and confidentiality of the information stored in persistent cookies.
For example, we do not store account numbers or passwords in persistent cookies.
You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want
to disable this convenience feature.
- Use of Information Obtained by SinceritySeekers.com
a. We use personal information to provide the services we offer. Your profile,
pictures and user name are displayed in order to facilitate user interaction and
for purposes of our matching services. With the exception of inviting friends and
certain notifications, a user’s email address is not shared or displayed. Users
may communicate using various SinceritySeekers messaging services, including a form
of instant messenger, without disclosing their email addresses. To facilitate searching
and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, SinceritySeekers allows users
to search for other members using certain profile matching systems and/or specific
user names. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in the course
of using the service provided by SinceritySeekers and/or participating in any of
the public forums available via the Web Site becomes public information; accordingly,
you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information
b. From time to time, SinceritySeekers or a partner may sponsor a promotion
or contest on the Web Site. Users may be asked to provide personal information including
name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate.
We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly
requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection
who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
c. In cases of suspected abuse or service problems, SinceritySeekers may use
an IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce
our Terms of Service and/or to protect or troubleshoot this Web Site, its users
or others who may be affected.
d. SinceritySeekers may archive information, including personal information,
you provide in the course of using our services and any other aspects of the SinceritySeekers
Web site. We store that information on servers that are controlled by us or by third
parties who have agreed to comply with our commitments made under this Privacy Policy
and with whom we have a contractual relationship. Archived information will not
ordinarily be erased unless and until your entire account with SinceritySeekers
is deleted, and even then we may retain some or all of your information on back-up
files; provided, however, we assume no obligation or guarantee to archive any information
and do not warrant that any archived information will later be made available to
you.
e. We may use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate
and improve the services we offer.
- Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
a. We may share your information with third parties, including companies with
which we have a relationship. For example and without limitation:
i. We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the
services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business,
such as directing and displaying specific advertisements on the Web Site. In connection
with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access
to your personal information for use in connection with these business activities.
ii. We may be required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful
requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws.
Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary
to comply with law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing
information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
iii. We may share information with advertisers.
iv. If the ownership of all or substantially all of the SinceritySeekers business
or assets were to change, your user information would likely be transferred to the
new owner(s).
v. We may share with, or disclose or sell to, third parties aggregated information
which does not reference individually identifiable users.
b. If you do not want to receive promotional email from SinceritySeekers and/or
do not want us to share your information with third parties for marketing purposes,
please submit a request by emailing us at
support@sincerityseekers.com . We will make reasonable efforts to implement
any choice you make as soon as possible; provided, however, SinceritySeekers reserves
the right to send you certain communications relating to the SinceritySeekers service,
such as service announcements and administrative messages without offering you the
opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
- Links
a. This site may contain links to other websites. SinceritySeekers is not responsible
for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web
site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to this Web Site.
- Third Party Advertising
a. Advertisements that appear on the Web Site are delivered to users by our
advertising partners. Our advertising partners may download cookies to your computer.
Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they
send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where
you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine
which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising network
to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to
you. SinceritySeekers does not have access to or control of the cookies that may
be placed by the third party advertisers. This privacy statement covers the use
of cookies by SinceritySeekers and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its
advertisers.
- Changing or Removing Information
a. SinceritySeekers users may modify or remove any of their personal information
at any time by logging into their account. For technical reasons, any modifications
or deletions which you request may take a short period of time to take effect.
b. If you change or delete any of your personal information, SinceritySeekers
will remove the old or deleted information from public view; however, as noted,
we may keep such information archived indefinitely.
- Security
a. SinceritySeekers takes appropriate precautions to protect our users? information.
Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because
email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication, we request that you
do not send private information to us by email. In addition, as all security measures
are subject to possible circumvention, we cannot and do not provide any guarantees
regarding the effectiveness of the security we employ or our ability to prevent
third parties, acting unlawfully, from obtaining information that you provide to
us. If you have any questions about the security of the SinceritySeekers Web Site,
please contact us.
b. SinceritySeekers encourages all users to maintain a pseudonymous identity
when using the services provided by SinceritySeekers or any other public aspects
of the Web Site. SinceritySeekers cannot ensure that your identity, telephone number,
work or home address and other personal identifying or contact information will
not be discovered by other users of the Web Site. This is particularly true because
your location (within a radius of approximately five miles) will be revealed. It
is, of course, more likely that your true identity will be discovered if you post
photographs or share other unique identifying information about yourself on public
areas of the Web Site.
- Changes in Our Privacy Policy
a. We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time. If we do
this, we will post the changes to this policy on this page and will indicate at
the top of this page the policy’s effective date. We therefore encourage you to
refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy
policy.
- Acceptance
a. This privacy policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms and conditions
of SinceritySeekers’s Terms of Service Agreement. Use of SinceritySeekers’s services
is subject to your compliance with those terms and conditions, which constitute
a legal agreement between you and SinceritySeekers. Each time you use SinceritySeekers’s
services you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the
Terms of Service, which incorporates the privacy policy, and the applicable posted
guidelines. USE OF THIS WEBSITE SIGNIFIES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE
AGREEMENT AND THE PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not agree with the terms of either of
these documents, please do not provide SinceritySeekers with any information and
do not use SinceritySeekers’s services or this Web site. Your continued use of SinceritySeekers’s
services or this Web site in light of changes to this statement, to the privacy
policy or to the relevant principles will signify your acceptance of the changes.
- Contacting the Web Site
a. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at
support@sincerityseekers.com.
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