Privacy Policy at Gatewaymatch.com
Gatewaymatch.com® Privacy Statement
Gatewaymatch.com is committed to your privacy. We have created this "Privacy Policy" to help our users better understand what information we collect about them and what we may do with that information.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website.
Overview
The protection of your privacy is very important to us and we undertake the following practices to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information. We will notify all registered users by email of any significant change to this Privacy Policy.
Gatewaymatch.com® Privacy Policy
1. Information we Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a seamless and enjoyable experience on our website. Registering on our site is free and collecting information from you is necessary to allow you access to our services and features. You agree that we may feature member's profiles, including your profile, in newsletters or "featured" lists on our website. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other members to view and only displays information that you, yourself, have chosen to disclose.
We may use and/or share certain information about you (such as contact and demographic information) for our own research purposes with our professional advisors or consultants and third party partners. We do not share or sell your contact information to any party for any marketing purposes. We do not collect any financial information (such as credit card number and expiry date) from you as we have a third party agreement with PayPal. Any financial information you provide will be processed through PayPal's online payment solutions.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on various pages of our website. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing you with customized service. The use of cookies can help provide us with information that is targeted to your interests and is commonly practiced on the Internet. Most cookies are "session cookies" and thus are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. If you are uncomfortable with the this practice, you can disable all cookies through your browser settings. This will not affect your enjoyment of our website.
We use your IP address (identifying numbers associated with your computer) to help us maintain our site and identify problems with our server. Your IP address does not disclose any personal information about you.
2. Our Use of Your Information
We may use your contact information to send you valuable updates and timely notices of promotions. We also use your information from your current and past activities on the website to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use. At times, we may review the data of multiple members to identify problems or resolve disputes.
Your non-personally identifying demographic information is used to personalize your experience, allow other members to find you through a search, allow us to forward you further search results and to deliver promotional offers to you from us and/or external companies that are of relevance to your demographic profile. Gatewaymatch.com may send you promotional offers and services to your Gatewaymatch.com mailbox as well as your email account. If you do not wish to receive any promotional offers, please contact us and we will remove you from our mailing list.
3. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to the government, law enforcement agencies or other third parties where required by law, judicial proceedings, court order, or other legal process. Please note that, under various circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications that we are unaware of. Other members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our website. We cannot be held responsible for such abuse or misuse. Gatewaymatch.com tries to discourage the unauthorized use of pictures or videos by placing a logo or watermark on the image/video.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.
4. Our Monitoring of Your Account
Members communicate with each other through instant messaging, forums and onsite mail. While we do not generally moderate or monitor members' private exchanges, we reserve the right to do so if we suspect users of being under 18 years of age or of using our service for the purpose of solicitation or any other violation of our Terms of Use or Privacy Statement.
Member submissions that appear on the public area of the site are monitored and moderated. We reserve the right to edit, delete, and remove any communication on a public area of the site. Members may choose to participate in public polls. The results of these polls are tracked by gender only and do not reveal any personally identifiable information linked to the individual voters.
5. Your Use of Other Members Information
As a member of Gatewaymatch.com, you have access to other members' identification numbers and/or user names and might gain access to other contact information of other members through regular use of our Services and Features. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other members' personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Services, you may only use such information for Gatewaymatch.com related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages. Under no circumstances may 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.
Spam emails are not tolerated by Gatewaymatch.com and our members, therefore, you are not licensed to add a Gatewaymatch.com member to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure.
6. Accessing, Reviewing and Editing Your Profile
Following registration, you may review and edit/change the information you submitted during the registration process. You can do this through the "my profile" tab on the main webpage once you have signed in. You can change registration information such as email address and password. All members can review and edit their profile likes and dislikes, desired match's profile, essays, and search criteria.
To temporarily hide your profile, please select the "put profile on hold" option on the Main Page of your Home Tab. This option allows you to hide your profile so that others cannot view it. Should you wish to remove your profile permanently, you may do so at the bottom of the Edit Profile Page of the My Profile Tab. This operation cannot be undone and you will not be entitled to any refund on the balance of your subscription. Please review the Terms of Use.
We will retain in our files information you have requested be removed from our active databases for certain purposes, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use. Further, such prior information may never be completely removed from our databases due to technical or legal constraints, including stored "back-up" systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to any request you may submit.
7. Security Features
We follow generally accepted industry standards, including "firewalls"to safeguard the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Advertisers
If you inquire about advertising opportunities on our site, you will be asked for contact information and information related to your advertising objectives. This information will be used to provide you with the business opportunities you are seeking. This information will only be shared by internal staff. We may at any time use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf.
9. Notice
Gatewaymatch.com may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on changes in the law, your comments and/or concerns, or our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. We will notify you either electronically or by email about any significant changes in the way we collect and store your personal information. If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy, please contact us and we will endeavour to respond to your concerns.
This agreement was last updated on September 20, 2011
