The owners of this Service have created this Privacy Statement (Policy) in order
to demonstrate our firm commitment to helping our users better understand what
information we collect about them and what may happen to that
information.
The following discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for the Websites listed below.
Overview
As part of the normal
operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose
information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect
about you and what may happen to that information. By accepting this Privacy
Policy and our Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to our use and
disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy
Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the
Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Statement applies to all related
sites. All other worldwide sites operate under similar privacy practices as
described in this Privacy Policy, and subject to the requirements of applicable
local law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout
the online personals sites.
1. A
Special Note About 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 can use this service only in
conjunction with your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect
Our primary
goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth,
efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and
features that most likely meet your needs and to customize our service to make
your experience easier. You agree that in order to assist our members to meet
each other we may feature members' profiles in our editorials and newsletters
that we send out from time to time to our members. Your name, address and
telephone number are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your
profile is available for other members to 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.
Please note that your personally identifiable
information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States.
The laws on holding personal data in the United States may differ from the
European laws but as we explain below, We will hold and transmit your
information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.
We
automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our Websites
using cookies and other devices. We use this information for internal research
on our members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and
serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just
came from (whether this URL is on our site or not). Which URL you next go to
(whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your
IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain
pages of our Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that
assist us in providing customized services. We also offer certain features that
are only available through the use of a "cookie". Cookies can also help us
provide information which is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are
"session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard
drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if
your browser permits.
We use a third party advertising company, to serve
ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect
anonymous information about your visits to our Web site. This is primarily
accomplished through the use of a technology device, commonly referred to as a
Web beacon or an action tag, which we place on various Web pages within our Web
site or in an html e-mail that allows Atlas DMT to collect anonymous
information. Atlas DMT may use information about your visits to this and other
Web sites in order to provide ads about goods and services of interest to
you.
3. Our Use of Your
Information
We use information in the files we maintain about you,
and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the
Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and
Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members to identify problems
or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to
identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.
You agree that we may
use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product
offerings, and customize our Site's content, layout, and services. These uses
improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that
we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that,
in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner
advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications
relevant to your use on the Websites. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you
expressly agree to receive this information.
4. Our Disclosure
of Your Information
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we
cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally
identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described
in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing), we
may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement
agencies or third parties. Under certain circumstances, third parties may
unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or
members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our
Websites. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally
identifiable information or private communications will always remain
private.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally
identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following
describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be
disclosed.
Financial Information. Under some circumstances we may require
some additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card details. We
use this financial information, including your name, address, and other
information, as well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your
financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services
and/or products, 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 Websites, you consent to our providing of 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 Websites,
or by participating in programs offered on the Websites 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. Any of these various third parties may be authorized to use your
financial 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. 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 that you submit
to us.
Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all our members'
accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a
non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for
other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do
not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify
you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password,
credit card number and bank account number, are never disclosed to marketing
advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our
behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single
pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information
that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely
anonymous.
External Service Providers. There may be a number of services
offered by external service providers that help you use our Websites. If you
choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose
information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to
collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by
their private policy.
Other Corporate Entities. We share much of our
data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our parent
and/or subsidiaries that are committed to serving your online needs and related
services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to
your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat
information they obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries
will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our
practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law.
It is possible that We and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such,
could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a
combination occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your
information in order to continue to provide the service. You will receive notice
of such event (to the extent it occurs) and we will require that the new
combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy
Policy.
Legal Requests. we cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as
well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property
rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any
information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we,
in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an
investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity
that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
5. Your Use of other Members
Information
Our services also include access to instant messaging
and chat rooms. As a member you have access to the Member's ID No., and you
might gain access to other contact information of the Member(s) through the
regular use of the instant messaging and chat rooms. By accepting this Privacy
Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally identifiable
information that you obtain through instant messaging communication, the chat
rooms and email, We hereby grants to you a license to use such information only
for: (a) Your Company related communications that are not unsolicited commercial
messages, and (b) any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after
adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an
opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what
information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances,
except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable
information about another member to any third party without our consent and the
consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. Abovo LLC and our
members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are
not licensed to add a Abovo LLC member to your mail list (email or physical
mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report
spam from other Abovo LLC, please Contact Us.
6. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your
Profile
Following registration, you can review and change the
information you submitted during registration through the Member Service Menu
including: Your password and e-mail address. If you change your password and
email we keep track of your old password and email. You can also change your
registration information such as: name, address, city, state, zip code, country,
phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays and
saves search criteria.
Upon your written request, we will suspend your
membership, contact information, and financial information from our active
databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in
accordance with our suspension policy and applicable law. To remove your profile
so that others cannot view it, visit the Remove Your Profile section of Member
Services.
We will retain in our files information you have requested to
remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information
is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal
constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, you should not
expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely
removed from our databases in response to your requests.
7. Control of Your
Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your login
information and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you
disclose your Abovo LLC password or login information to any third parties. If
you choose to share this information with third parties to provide you
additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with your login
information and password and therefore should review each third party's privacy
policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control
over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally
binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been
compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your passwod
8. Other
Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in
this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of
information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your
information to other parties, whether they are on our Websites or on other sites
throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of
the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party
advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since Abovo LLC does not
control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are subject to ask
questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
9.
Security
Abovo LLC uses industry standard practices to safeguard
the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including
"firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. Abovo LLC treats data as an asset that
must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different
security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by members
inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on
the Internet.
10. Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to
time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data
collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective
after we provide you with at least (30) days notice of changes by sending email
to members. We provide you with (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to
notify Abovo LLC if you do not agree to such changes.
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