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Privacy Statement for AppleGays.net
Usage of Emails:
- Email address is used for enrolment confirmation and notification when other
member responds to the member's personal ad.
- We do not spam.
- We don't sell, share or give away email addresses of our members to anyone.
- Members may cancel account anytime.
- Members can change email notifications anytime.
About AppleGays.net and the Information we collect
AppleGays.net in an online matchmaking service providing its members an easy
way to find their desired partner using search and matchmaking technology. In
order to do that we collect personal information. There are two types of
information we collect, public and private. Public information is general
information (such as gender, height, hair color…) which is visible on the
website to the public (all members). We also collect private information (such
as ZIP code, E-mail address and date of birth) which is not visible to the
public, is kept confidential and is used only for internal purposes. When we
collect any information, it is clearly marked whether the collected piece of
information is public (visible to other users) or private (confidential). None
of the information can be used by the public (visitors or members of our site)
to identify specific individuals.
Use of Information obtained by AppleGays.net
Public information supplied by our members is visible on our site to the public
and is used by the members of our site for matching and searching purposes.
Public information can not be used to identify specific person by his real
name, address, etc.
Private information supplied by our members is kept in secret and is used only
internally for billing purposes and contacting the member.
Email address is used for enrolment confirmation and notification when other
member responds to the member's personal ad or replies to his message posted on
our message board. Responder's email address IS NOT included in the response
notification email and can not be obtained in any way from our site. We are
keeping our members and communication between them anonymous (Member is
recognized only by his nickname), so that our members can decide by themselves
whether and when it is safe to share their personal information (such as cell
phone number) with each other.
Date of Birth is kept private and is used for these two purposes:
a) Precisely calculating age of our members. Age is public information and is
visible to other members.
b) Calculating Zodiac Sign of the member which is visible to other members.
ZIP Code is kept private and is used for calculating distance between members.
Distance is public information and is visible to other members. ZIP code is
also used internally for demographic analysis.
Public Forums and Chat Rooms
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information
online - for example on message boards or in chat areas - that information can
be collected and used by others. In short, by posting personal information
online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from
other parties in return.
Sharing of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks
We do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal
information except to the financial institution that processes your credit card
or check transaction unless required by law or for the protection of your
membership.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, are not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web
site.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information
about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the
session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates.
A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an
extended period of time.
We use session cookies to maintain a session between the user and our server
after the user signs in. In order to use the membership portion of our website
it is mandatory that user's browser can accept session cookies and that this
feature is enabled.
We use persistent cookie to store user's login name and password on user's
computer only if he or she checks the "Remember Password" button on the sign-in
form. By doing this, user doesn't have to enter his or her password and login
name again next time when he or she wants to use our site.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once
we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at:
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