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. Kiss Afro and our members
do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you
are not licensed to add a Kiss Afro member to your mail list
(email or physical mail) without their express written consent after
adequate disclosure. To report spam from other Kiss Afro, 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 Kiss Afro 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 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 Kiss Afro 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
Kiss Afro uses industry standard practices to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including
"firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. Kiss Afro 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 Kiss Afro if you do not agree to such
changes.
