Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is a legal agreement between you and gaydatingsites.ca the owner and provider of the Gaydatingsites.ca (“Gaydatingsites.ca”) website and app. This Policy is governed by and part of a Terms of Service. Please read this Policy and the Terms of Service carefully before registering as a Member of the Gaydatingsites.ca Service by checking the box at the end of Gaydatingsites.ca’s Terms of Service and agreeing to the terms and conditions of this Policy and the Terms of Service. To review the Terms of Service, please click here. Before registering to become a Gaydatingsites.ca Member, you must check the box below and agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
1. YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:
1.1 Gaydatingsites.ca is committed to ensuring that your personal and profile information (“Personal Information”) is protected, but you must also take necessary steps to protect your Personal Information from access by persons whom you do not wish to view it, including anyone who is a Gaydatingsites.ca Member. This Policy was created to demonstrate Gaydatingsites.ca’s commitment to protecting your Personal Information and to inform you how Gaydatingsites.ca handles information it receives from you. This Policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data which is gathered on the
Gaydatingsites.ca website (including double blind email communications between Gaydatingsites.ca or Gaydatingsites.ca Members) but does not apply to any non-Affiliate website or offline point of contact or any other company or consumers with whom you may interact and which Gaydatingsites.ca does not control.
2. ENTERING INTO THIS LEGAL AGREEMENT:
2.1 By checking the box at the end of the Terms of Service, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy for as long as you are a Member of Gaydatingsites.ca and use the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, please do not check the box at the end of the Terms of Service or register as a Gaydatingsites.ca Member. If at any point as a Gaydatingsites.ca Member you disagree with any of the terms and conditions contained in this Policy or those in the Terms of Service, you may terminate your membership by sending an email to [email protected].
3. YOUR IP ADDRESS:
3.1 Each time you visit the site, Gaydatingsites.ca automatically collects your IP address, Gaydatingsites.ca Cookie information and the web page from which you entered the site. Gaydatingsites.ca uses that information and your IP address to identify you and to gather demographic information about you to diagnose problems with Gaydatingsites.ca’s site and to administer and optimize the Gaydatingsites.ca website for your use.
4. COOKIES:
4.1 Gaydatingsites.ca uses cookie files saved to your computer for record keeping purposes. Gaydatingsites.ca can also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other Personal Information, so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the website and app. To disable these cookies, simply go to the “help” portion of the toolbar on your browser, which should tell you how to proceed. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app.
5. YOUR PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
5.1 Gaydatingsites.ca collects Personal Information from you to better serve your needs. Gaydatingsites.ca does this in order to operate the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app, and occasionally to display advertisements about products or services that may be of interest to you. Personal Information is personally identifiable information like your name, address, email address, or phone number that is not otherwise publicly available. We also collect “Financial information” such as your credit card numbers or passwords. Further, Gaydatingsites.ca collects certain demographic information that is neither Personal Information nor Financial Information, which may include, but is not limited to, zip code, gender, username, and age/birth date.
5.2 Gaydatingsites.ca does NOT knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 18. Gaydatingsites.ca requires that all Members affirm that they are at least 18 years old.
6. INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES:
6.1 Gaydatingsites.ca may obtain Personal Information and non-personal information about you from the Gaydatingsites.ca Network and credit card or other payment processors, which Gaydatingsites.ca adds to its account information or other information it has collected for management purposes. This information includes user preferences, email addresses, user site preferences, and billing information.
7. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND OTHERS:
7.1 Gaydatingsites.ca may collect and store Personal Information that you provide to us about other people, such as their name, address and email address. This information will be used solely for the purpose for which it is provided, such as your referral of our service to others, or to manage your preferences, process requests, and facilitate your future activities on Gaydatingsites.ca.
8. HOW gaydatingsites.ca USES PERSONAL INFORMATION:
8.1 Gaydatingsites.ca uses your email address and your other Personal Information to operate the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app efficiently, to contact you in connection with your membership and other activities on the website and app (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with Gaydatingsites.ca), and to forward messages to you from other Gaydatingsites.ca Members. These types of communications are known as “Operational Communications.”
8.2 To operate the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app, Gaydatingsites.ca may share your Personal Information with Gaydatingsites.ca’s agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide Gaydatingsites.ca with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, and customer relationship management services. Gaydatingsites.ca requires these entities not to use your Personal Information for any other purpose.
8.3 Any Third Party (not Gaydatingsites.ca) with whom you permit Gaydatingsites.ca 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 Gaydatingsites.ca has no control. You agree that Gaydatingsites.ca is not responsible or liable for any Third Party actions or omissions. You will need to instruct any Third Parties who contact you regarding your preferences for their use of your Personal Information.
8.4 You agree that your Personal Information and Financial Information may be provided to a Third Party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets by Gaydatingsites.ca or a bankruptcy or to comply with the law or to protect the interests or safety of Gaydatingsites.ca or other visitors to the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app.
10. LOCATION INFORMATION AND SERVICES:
10.1 The Gaydatingsites.ca website includes location based services and features. These features are used to connect you to other users based upon your geographic location and to provide other services that personalize your experience. To implement these features, Gaydatingsites.ca may collect your location data, including but not limited to GPS data, WiFi data, and cell tower data.
11. HOW WE USE PUBLIC INFORMATION AND OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
11.1 Gaydatingsites.ca may review all your demographic information. Gaydatingsites.ca may use public information to enable other Members of the Gaydatingsites.ca service to communicate with you. Gaydatingsites.ca may use demographic information to tailor the Gaydatingsites.ca website and app, and cater to your interests.
11.2 Gaydatingsites.ca may also use the information you provided during registration to automatically set up an email account for you at the registered site, to make online social networking more convenient and secure.
13. DCMA COMPLAINCE:
13.1 Gaydatingsites.ca complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). The DCMA process applies only to copyright and copyright related claims only, not notices pertaining solely to defamation, privacy, community guidelines, terms of service violations, trade secrets, and trademark infringement. To submit a notice under the DMCA, please send an email to Gaydatingsites.ca’s DMCA agent at [email protected].
14. gaydatingsites.ca’S SECURITY PRECAUTIONS:
14.1 The Gaydatingsites.ca website and app have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under Gaydatingsites.ca’s control. Gaydatingsites.ca’s secure server software (SSL) is among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. Gaydatingsites.ca encrypts all of your Personal and Financial Information as it travels over the Internet and Gaydatingsites.ca stores your Financial Information on its servers in encrypted form. Your information may be
transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have laws which are as protective of your privacy as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
14.2 Gaydatingsites.ca and Gaydatingsites.ca uses both in-house and third party security measures to attempt to detect Members using Gaydatingsites.ca in violation of the Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy. Gaydatingsites.ca reserves the right to terminate such Members.
14.3 Although Gaydatingsites.ca tilizes security measures to protect user data and privacy, does not guarantee that the security measures in place are an absolute bar to potential security violation, and the theft, misappropriation, or mishandling of user data and personal information. Gaydatingsites.ca and shall not be held liable for any unauthorized access and resultant theft, misappropriation, or distribution of inappropriately obtained user data or personal information.
15. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR EMAIL PREFERENCES, PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND PUBLIC INFORMATION:
15.1 At any time, you may modify Personal Information or demographic information you have provided to Gaydatingsites.ca. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Gaydatingsites.ca website and the Gaydatingsites.ca database. Please note that changing or deleting your information will only change or delete the data in the Gaydatingsites.ca database for purposes of future activities on the Gaydatingsites.ca website and for managing future communications
from Gaydatingsites.ca and/or Gaydatingsites.ca. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that Gaydatingsites.ca may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other Third Parties, all as provided above in this Privacy Policy. Further, if you delete your information from the Gaydatingsites.ca website or app, but place future purchase or memberships with Gaydatingsites.ca, you may receive emails from Gaydatingsites.ca regarding those transactions and items.
15.2 Gaydatingsites.ca applies attributes used to classify user profiles, including items such as age, gender, location, income, and source or name of Affiliate website. By registering with the Gaydatingsites.ca website, you acknowledge and agree that Gaydatingsites.ca may apply such classifications to your profile and may use such classifications to restrict:
the availability of communication between you and other Members of Gaydatingsites.ca;
the availability of the details of other Members that you can see; and
the availability of your details that other Members can see.
16. TERMS OF PRVACY POLICY SUBJECT TO CHANGE:
16.1 IF AT ANY POINT Gaydatingsites.ca DECIDES TO USE PERSONAL INFORMATION IN A MANNER DIFFERENT FROM THAT STATED AT THE TIME Gaydatingsites.ca COLLECTED IT, Gaydatingsites.ca WILL NOTIFY MEMBERS BY AN EMAIL OR NOTICE ON THE Gaydatingsites.ca WEBSITE AND APP PROVIDING 30 DAYS’ NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT OR NOT TO ACCEPT ANY MATERIAL CHANGES IN THE POLICY. WITH REGARD TO INFORMATION GATHERED OR AFTER YOU ACCEPT THE CHANGES IN THE POLICY, Gaydatingsites.ca WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE CHANGES OR DISAGREE WITH THEM, YOU MAY TERMINATE YOUR MEMBERSHIP BY
SENDING AN EMAIL TO [email protected] AT ANY TIME.
16.2 IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, Gaydatingsites.ca RESERVES THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO MODIFY, CHANGE, ADD OR REMOVE ANY PORTION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART. Gaydatingsites.ca WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH WRITTEN NOTICE OF MATERIAL CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND/OR THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND WILL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT OR NOT ACCEPT SUCH CHANGES. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT SUCH CHANGES, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE Gaydatingsites.ca WEBSITE AND APP, AND YOUR MEMBERSHIP WILL BE TERMINATED.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service, the Gaydatingsites.ca website or app, or Affiliate websites, please contact Gaydatingsites.ca at [email protected].