| Intimate Adults Privacy Policy |
Intimate Adults and the Relationship Exchange
are committed to protecting the privacy of our members. Your privacy
is very important to us and we will take all necessary steps to protect
it. Any information collected is used to help you make the most of your
experience on Intimate Adults.
About Intimate Adults
Intimate Adults operates a high quality Internet based personals
service powered by the Relationship Exchange that allows single men
and women to meet and engage in electronic conversations from the safety
and comfort of their home computer.
The Relationship Exchange
The Relationship Exchange is a network of successful personals web sites
with access to a shared database of millions of online personal profiles.
Intimate Adults is powered by the Relationship Exchange. For you,
this means more successful searches, more communication, and more matches.
Relationship Exchange partners agree to a common code of conduct and
policies to ensure that the integrity of each Relationship Exchange
site is maintained. These policies will also serve to protect and to
provide end users with a high level of comfort when it comes to safety,
quality, and privacy.
Information Collected
We gather four types of information: public, private, communicative,
and automatic.
- Public:
Definition
Public information will be available for registered members to view.
This includes your demographic information such as gender, age,
appearance, religion, occupation, and geographical location.
Purpose
Your demographic information is used to: personalize your experience;
allow other members to find you through a search result; and compose
your personal profile which is associated with an identity you have
created.
- Private:
Definition:
Private information is information that can personally identify
you such as your real name, email address or credit card number.
Purpose:
When you register to use any Relationship Exchange service, you
will be asked for some general identifying information to enable
us to provide you with this individualized service. We gather contact
information (such as your email address) and, if you choose to make
a purchase, financial information (such as your credit card number
and expiry date). This information is encrypted via a secure server
to ensure that others cannot read it. Once on the secure server,
your credit card information is sent to a third party intermediary
for processing. You will know you are in secure mode when the tiny
padlock icon - located at the bottom right of your browser - appears
"locked". We will only use this information in the course of providing
our service to you. The specific information we collect is not rented,
sold, or shared with any third party, except to the financial institution
that processes your transaction or where required by law.
- Communicative:
Definition:
Communicative information is exclusive between the parties involved
in some form of communication through this Relationship Exchange
web site. Information such as your internal messaging conversations,
instant messages, email messages to our service personnel, submission
of answers to surveys, and participation in contests are considered
communicative information.
Purpose:
We store your messages for the purpose of our anonymous internal
messaging system. Just like email, messages must be stored somewhere
in order to deliver them. We allow you to utilize our internal messaging
system so that you may remain anonymous by not giving up your email
address to other members. Our instant messenger works much the same
way.
We acquire information from our surveys so that we can better understand
our members and continually improve our service.
Contest information (such as your contact information) is collected
so that we may contact our contestants with information regarding
the contest. The specific information we collect is not rented,
sold, or shared with any third party without your explicit consent
and is only ever disclosed in situations where required by law.
- Automatic:
Definition:
Automatic information is information that we collect that is not
personally identifiable such as your IP address, browser type, and
browser settings. None of this information discloses any of your
personal information.
Purpose:
We use your IP address to avoid fraudulent registrations. Information
that we may obtain regarding your browser and browser settings is
to ensure that our site’s technical features are available to you.
The specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared
with any third party without your explicit consent and is only ever
disclosed in situations where required by law.
Sharing of Information
The Relationship Exchange does not rent, sell, or share personal information
about you with any third party, except to the financial institution
that processes your transaction or where required by law.
As a member of Intimate Adults powered by the Relationship Exchange,
your profile is displayed on all Relationship Exchange web sites.
Only the public information located in your profile will be shared throughout
the Relationship Exchange. Private information such as your real name,
email address or credit card number is never shared with other Relationship
Exchange sites without your explicit consent. All member sites adhere
to a common set of privacy policies and therefore follow the same principles
outlined in this privacy policy.
Changing/Suspending/Removing your Information
To make changes to your profile, suspend your account, or remove your
account completely, you may do so at any time by logging in to your
account and editing your settings in the "My Profile" section of the
site.
Security
We limit the access to your personal information to employees who we
believe need to come into contact with that information to provide services
to you or to do their jobs.
We have several different safeguards to protect your information, which
include physical, technical (such as firewalls and industry-standard
SSL encryption to protect data transmissions), and procedural methods.
All of which comply with federal regulations and responsible business
practices.
Cookies
The Relationship Exchange may use cookies on the site. A cookie is a
small piece of data that is sent to your browser from the site you are
visiting and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are very
common and completely normal throughout the Internet. Cookies do not
harm your computer nor can they access information stored on your computer.
The primary purpose of cookies is to maintain your customized settings
on a site. Members that do not accept cookies will not be able to log
on to the site.
Single-Pixel Gifs
The Relationship Exchange may use single-pixel gifs (also known as web
bugs, web beacons, or tracking pixels) on the site. The purpose of these
single-pixel gifs is to verify and count web page accesses and gather
some statistical information. These single-pixel gifs do not gather
any personal information.
Email
To enhance your experience as a Relationship Exchange member, we send
out match and message notifications. Our site provides you with the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving different types of communications
and each email that we send out has a method for opting-out located
at the bottom of the message.
The specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with
any third party, except to the financial institution that processes
your transaction or where required by law.
Children
Children under the age of 18 are not permitted to use our services and
we make every reasonable effort to ensure this. Our advertising efforts
are targeted towards Internet users who are at least 18 years of age.
All technical aspects of our site have been programmed to ensure that
the minimum age a user can enter is 18 years of age.
Links
Intimate Adults may have links to other web sites on our site. Although
we are careful to link to sites that we determine practice good privacy
policies, our site does not guarantee the privacy policies of these
links.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We will notify all registered members of any change to this privacy
policy either by posting a notification on the main page of the site
or via email, unless you have opted-out of receiving email from us.
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