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 Socialireland.com Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Statement applies to all Socialireland.com sites. All other Socialireland.com 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 Socialireland.com 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.
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 Ireland. The laws on holding personal data in
the Ireland may differ from other 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 Sites 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 Members 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. Socialireland.com
and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing,
you are not licensed to add a Socialireland.com member to your mail list (email
or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure.
To report spam from other Socialireland.com, 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 Socialireland.com
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 partys 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 Socialireland.com 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
Socialireland.com uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. Socialireland.com 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 Socialireland.com if
you do not agree to such changes.
