We at TheDatePoint.com, ("we" or "TheDatePoint.com")
have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment
to protecting your personal information and informing you about
how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions
and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the TheDatePoint.com
Website, TheDatePoint.com Messenger and double blind email communications
between TheDatePoint.com members (collectively, the "Site")
but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact
between TheDatePoint.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please
review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from
time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on April 17,2005.
Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by
doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy
policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we
automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which
you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and
to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help
identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your
purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience
on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to
your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save
other personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter
it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the
Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish
to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar
on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser
to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas
on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information
about products or services that may be of interest to you, we may
collect "personal information" (i.e. information that
could be used to contact you directly (without using the Site) such
as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), "financial
information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic
information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we
collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code,
hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information,
browsing history information, searching history information, registration
history information, and the content of communications between you
and other members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public
information", which consists of purchase history information
and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the
Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of all
other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter personal
information or financial information into your “Profile”
(for example, don’t use your address or passcode as your username,
or include your name or address in your written responses), because
if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information
will then be treated as "demographic information" that
is "public information." Please note that nowhere on the
Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children
under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to us
that they are at least 18 years old.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other
parties. Some of these other Websites contain our brand names and
trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do
not. When you click on these links and visit these other Websites,
regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks
and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do
not control these other Websites or these other Websites’
business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply
to these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of these other
Websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and
may use and disclose that information in different ways than we
would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review
their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to
help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection
with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including,
but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could
affect your relationship with TheDatePoint.com), and to forward
messages to you from other TheDatePoint.com users. These types of
communications, are known as "Operational Communications."
In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial
messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials for TheDatePoint.com’s
or third parties’ goods or services. We attempt to send you
offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers
or special event information. The Site provides you with options
to decline to receive communications from TheDatePoint.com (other
than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these
options may only be for a certain category of communications; others
may be more general. By posting a profile on the Site, you are opting
in to receive the TheDatePoint.com by Mail email. To stop receiving
TheDatePoint.com by Mail, go to the "Email Options" section
of your account settings and change your desired frequency"
to "Never."
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and
supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal
information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service
providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization
of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support
services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment
and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities
not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products
or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or
electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions)
or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs
(such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by
third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal
information to those third parties. Those third parties may use
your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information
by them. 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
you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with
another company in which we prominently display their brand name
or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded
Pages" and these companies are known as “Co-Branded Companies.”
If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page,
or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then
we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information
in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to
contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding
your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information
so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in
which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information
you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an action tag
(also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that a third
party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to read
cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser
at other (non-TheDatePoint.com) web sites before your visit to TheDatePoint.com.
This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements
on such other Websites that promote Co-Branded Pages. Further, Avenue
A, or such other third parties, may use the information collected
through this technology to learn more about your visits to this
Site and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. We have been informed by
Avenue A that unless you are otherwise notified, they do not use
your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, and do not
link your online actions to any information that can be used to
identify or contact you. However, as we may not verify that this
is the case, we ask that you seek Avenue A’s assurances yourself
and do not hold us accountable for the accuracy of the above statement.
If you would like Avenue A to provide you with more information
about their practices, click here.
Any third party with whom we are allowed 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 we have no
control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for
any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need
to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information"
to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications,
to bill you for products and services and 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
Site, you consent to our providing 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 Site, or by participating
in programs offered on the Site 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. Additionally, if the page on which you submit
information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on
a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information
with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third
parties (including Co-Branded Companies) 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. Please read the information below under the heading
"Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information"
to learn more ways in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed
on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets,
or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial
information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary
to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement
or to protect the interests or safety of TheDatePoint.com or other
visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies
and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses
with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal
information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph,
we may also disclose your demographic information along with it,
on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated
legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information,
financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information
from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect
to their use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information
to enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether
they are a match for you and to communicate with you. We may use
demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to
your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers
on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the
advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is
to increase the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and
services will appeal to TheDatePoint.com’s users, so that
we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing
of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e.,
we do not tell advertisers which particular TheDatePoint.com users
are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of
this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however,
we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic
group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information,
then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member
of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we disclose
your financial information or personal information to a Co-Branded
Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded
Company your demographic information, other than the content of
one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please
also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information
on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled
"Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information."
Also, to read further details about how we may use your public information,
see our Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our
secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among
the best software available today for secure commerce transactions.
We encrypt all of your personal and financial information as it
travels over the Internet and we store your financial information
on our 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 privacy laws as protective
as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it
was collected, we will notify users by way of an email or by providing
30 days notice on the Site. Please note that we will continue to
have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how
we use your personally identifiable information, without notice,
as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided
that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or
after the date of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal
Information and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications
and modify personal information or demographic information you have
provided to us, and to hide demographic information from, or make
demographic information visible to, the public users of the Site,
at anytime by going to the Account Settings or My Profile section
of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site.
We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting
your information through the "Account Settings" or "My
Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt
of email communications from TheDatePoint.com, will only change
or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities
on the Site and for managing future communications from TheDatePoint.com.
These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or
information that we may have already forwarded to other users or
credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided
above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy,
the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can
contact us at at
legal@TheDatePoint.com.
You can also send us mail to: Privacy Officer, TheDatePoint.com,
c/o Legal Department, 307 Lakeview Ave., Lantana, Florida 33462
