DatingWaves has created this Privacy Statement (Policy) in order to demonstrate DatingWaves’s commitment to help our users better understand what information DatingWaves.com collects about them and what may happen to that information.

 

The following discloses DatingWaves’s information gathering and dissemination practices for the websites listed below.

 

Overview

As part of the normal operation of DatingWaves’s services we collects and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information DatingWaves collects about you and what may happen to that information. By accepting this Privacy Policy and DatingWaves’s Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to DatingWaves’s 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, DatingWaves strives 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 DatingWaves’s services, and DatingWaves asks 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 DatingWaves Collect

DatingWaves’s 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 DatingWaves’s service to make your experience easier. You agree that in order to assist DatingWaves’s members to meet each other DatingWaves may feature members' profiles in DatingWaves’s editorials and newsletters that DatingWaves sends out from time to time to DatingWaves’s 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 DatingWaves’s computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may differ from the European laws but as DatingWaves explains below, DatingWaves will hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.

 

DatingWaves automatically tracks certain information based upon your behavior on DatingWave.com using cookies and other devices. DatingWaves uses this information for internal research on DatingWave members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and DatingWave’s community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on DatingWave.com 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.

 

DatingWaves uses data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of DatingWave.com. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. DatingWaves also offers 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 DatingWave’s cookies if your browser permits.

 

DatingWaves uses a third party advertising company, to serve ads on DatingWave’s behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous information about your visits to DatingWave.com. This is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device, commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an action tag, which DatingWaves places on various Web pages within DatingWave.com 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. DatingWaves’s Use of Your Information

DatingWaves use information in the files DatingWaves maintains about you, and the other information DatingWaves obtains from your current and past activities on the Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce DatingWave’s Terms and Conditions. At times, DatingWaves may look across multiple members to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular DatingWaves may examine your information to identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.

 

You agree that DatingWaves may use personally identifiable information about you to improve DatingWave’s marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve DatingWave’s content and product offerings, and customize DatingWave’s Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve DatingWave .com and better tailor it to meet your needs.

You agree that DatingWaves 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. DatingWaves’s Disclosure of Your Information

Due to the existing regulatory environment, DatingWaves 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), DatingWaves 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 DatingWave.com. Therefore, although DatingWaves uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, DatingWaves does not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

 

As a matter of policy, DatingWaves does 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.

 

Advertisers. DatingWaves aggregates (gather up data across all DatingWave’s 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, DatingWaves does 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. DatingWaves may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on DatingWave’s 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 DatingWave.com. 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. DatingWaves share much of DatingWave’s data, including personally identifiable information about you, with DatingWave’s 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. DatingWave’s parent and/or subsidiaries will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than DatingWave’s practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that DatingWaves 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 DatingWaves 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 DatingWaves will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

 

Legal Requests. DatingWaves cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. DatingWaves can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as DatingWaves, in DatingWave’s 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

DatingWave’s 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, DatingWaves 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 DatingWave’s consent and the consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. Your Dating Site Title and DatingWave’s members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Your Dating Site Title member to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other Your Dating Site Title, please contact us through this e-mail: info@datingwaves.com

 

 

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 DatingWaves 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, DatingWaves will suspend your membership, contact information, and financial information from DatingWave’s active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with DatingWave’s suspension policy and applicable law. To remove your profile so that others cannot view it, visit the “Remove Your Profile” section of Member Services.

 

DatingWaves will retain in DatingWave’s files information you have requested to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce DatingWave’s terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from DatingWave’s 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 DatingWave’s 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 DatingWaves do not recommend that you disclose your Your Dating Site Title 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 password

 

8. Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information DatingWaves collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are on DatingWave.conm 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 DatingWaves use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since Your Dating Site Title 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

Your Dating Site Title uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. Your Dating Site Title treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. DatingWaves 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

DatingWaves may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and DatingWave’s need to accurately reflect DatingWave’s data collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective after DatingWaves provide you with at least (30) days notice of changes by sending email to members. DatingWaves provide you with (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify Your Dating Site Title if you do not agree to such changes.