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This privacy
statement discloses the privacy practices for
BoomerDate.
BoomerDate has created this privacy statement
in order to show that we are firmly committed to protecting your
personal privacy and advising you about how we handle it. This
privacy statement only applies to data gathered on this website,
www.BoomerDate.net, and does not apply to any other web site.
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. Overview
As part of the
normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may
disclose information about you. This Privacy Statement describes the
information we collect about you and how we handle that
information.
By accepting this
Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use, you expressly consent to our
use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner
described in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement is
incorporated into and subject to the terms of the BoomerDate, Inc.
Terms of Use.
The privacy practices of this statement apply to
the BoomerDate web site (the 'Site').
Information we
collect
BoomerDate collects information from our users
at several different points on our website, and is the sole owner of
the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or
rent this information to others in ways different from what is
disclosed in this statement.
BoomerDate registration form
asks users to provide "personal contact information" that could be
used to contact users directly. This "personal contact information"
includes but is not limited to, full name, postal address, phone
number or email address, "financial information" such as credit card
numbers, or "demographic information" that is neither personal or
financial information; this includes but is not limited to, zip
code, postal code, hometown, state, gender, and age/birth date. We
may also collect browsing history information, searching history
information, registration history information, and the content of
communications between you and other members over the
Site.
We ask that you do not enter personal or financial
information into your "Profile" (for example, don't use your address
as your username, or include your name or address in your "About Me"
section), because then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and
the information will then be treated as public information. Please
note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal
information from children under the age of 18, as we require that
all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years
old.
Information other sites
collect
BoomerDate contains links to other sites.
Please be aware that BoomerDate is 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 directly by BoomerDate.
How we use Your
Information
We use your email address and your other
personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to
contact you in connection with your transactions and other
activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation
emails or important news that are relevant to your relationship with
BoomerDate), and to alert you that you have messages from other
BoomerDate users in your private mail box.
We may also use
personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers,
and other promotional materials for BoomerDate's or third parties'
goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value
to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event
information. BoomerDate provides you with options to decline to
receive promotional communications.
To operate the Site,
including processing your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your information with our
service providers so they can provide us with services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, support services, order
fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require
these parties to agree not to use your information for any other
purpose.
By purchasing products or services offered or
sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive
products or communications or electing to participate in contests,
sweepstakes or other programs offered or sponsored by third parties
on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information
to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will
need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal
information.
We use your financial information to bill you
for products and services. By making a purchase, or engaging in any
other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information, on the Site, you agree to our providing your financial
information to our service providers and to such third parties as we
consider are necessary to support and process your activities and
transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their
purposes. By purchasing, or registering for products or services of
third parties offered on the Site, or by participating in programs
offered on the Site that are administered by third parties and that
require you to submit financial information in order to use them,
you also agree to our providing your financial information to those
third parties.
Your personal or financial information may be
furnished to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership
or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal
information or financial information when we determine that such
disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate
with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of
BoomerDate.net or other visitors to the Site.
We will share
aggregated demographic information with our partners and
advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
We use a credit card
processing company to bill users for goods and services, and we use
an outside shipping company to fulfill and ship orders. These
companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary purposes and are not
allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the
purpose of providing these services.
IP Address
We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information.
Use of
Cookies
Akin to most websites, BoomerDate uses cookies
to keep track of your purchases and other action on the Site and
aupdent your experience on the Site. A cookie is a piece of data
stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the
user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes
their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by
setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a
password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a
user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only
drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of
our site.
Cookies can also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site, to
save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and
financial information to eliminate your having to re-enter it each
time you visit the Site. Please note that third party advertisers on
the BoomerDate.net Site may send cookies to users of the site and
BoomerDate.net does not control or have access to this
information.
Surveys and Contests
From
time-to-time BoomerDate requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or
not to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or
improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Friends
If a user elects to use our referral service for
informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name
and email address. BoomerDate will automatically send the friend
an email inviting them to visit the site. The friend may contact
BoomerDate at: customerservice@BoomerDate.net
to request the removal of this information from the
database.
Security
BoomerDate takes
every precaution to protect our user's information. When users
submit sensitive information via the website, the information is
protected both online and off-line.
When our registration form
asks users to enter sensitive information (such as personally
identifiable information, credit card number, etc.), that
information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption
software in the industry - SSL. We store personally identifiable
information on servers that are kept in a secure environment, on a
tier 1 global Intercom service providing the highest of security
levels.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do everything in our power to protect
user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just
the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our
offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information. BoomerDate employees will ask questions to verify
your identity, but will never ask you for your credit card/social
security numbers. Our employees must use password-protected screens
when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter
their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore,
ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are
added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the
importance we place on privacy, and whey they can do to ensure our
customers' information is protected.
If you have any
questions about the security at our website, you can send an email
to: security@BoomerDate.net
Supplementation of
Information
In order for BoomerDate to enhance its
ability to tailor the site to an individual's preference, we combine
information about the purchasing habits of users with similar
information from our partners to create a personalized user profile.
When a user makes a purchase from either of these two companies, the
companies collect and share that purchase information with us so we
can tailor the site to our users' preferences.
Special Offers
We send all new members a
welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members
will occasionally receive information on products, services, special
deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users
we present the option to not receive these types of communications.
Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site and
Service Updates
We also send the user site and service
announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from
service announcements, which contain important information about the
service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or
phone.
Correction/Updating Personal
Information
If a user's personally identifiable
information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer
desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct,
update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can
be done at the member home page.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of
having their information used for purposes not directly related to
our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example,
our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product
from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email
address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive
our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may
opt-out of receiving these communications by selecting their
preferences in the 'mail options' section of their home page.
Notification of
Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes on our Site so our users are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.
Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in
accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected. |