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Effective Date: January 1, 2005
Privacy Policy
exxxtremedating.com, a HMU Services, Inc. ("exxxtremedating.com," "we" or "us") property, is an online adult-oriented dating service at the website, www.exxxtremedating.com (the "Website"), designed to provide an easy way for our members to meet each other on the Internet. To accomplish this goal, our members create their own unique profiles and our matching technology provides members with matches based on their pre-selected criteria. In order to do this, we must ask for certain personal information, none of the information we gather can be used by the public to identify specific individuals, unless the specific member chooses to reveal his/her identity, or portions thereof (including, without limitation, a full name, telephone number, e-mail address and personal picture) on the Website, through a unique profile or by any other means.
exxxtremedating.com is a membership-based service. We collect credit card, address and/or bank information from those individuals that choose to purchase a exxxtremedating.com membership. In addition, we may collect credit card information for age verification purposes. All visitors to our Website may browse selected portions of the Website, search personal advertisements and view articles or features that our Website has to offer, without entering any personal information.
California Residents
If you are a California state resident you may opt-out from having your personal information transferred to third parties for use is such third parties' direct marketing efforts by clicking here and completing an opt-out request or by sending a written e-mail request to CAoptout@exxxtremedating.com. However, where California residents opt-out from permitting their personal information to be shared, such individuals may still receive selected offers directly from exxxtremedating.com, in accordance with the law.
Information submitted to exxxtremedating.com
There are two types of member-submitted information that we collect: Public and Private. We define PUBLIC information as personal information that may be displayed on the Website (such as gender, age and height, as well as member profiles and submitted photographs) but cannot be linked to a particular member. PRIVATE information is defined as any information that allows others to contact a member other than through exxxtremedating.com or allows the collection of information about the member other than what is displayed on the Website.
PUBLIC: To accomplish our goal of bringing compatible people together, we must gather personal information, which may or may not include: member-specified exxxtremedating.com username; gender; age; ethnic background; appearance; religion; income range; occupation; personal photograph; preference/lifestyle information; and general geographic location. Much of this information is optional, and meant to be seen by exxxtremedating.com members and visitors to the Website (collectively, "Users") but cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, etc.
PRIVATE: This information is gathered from members who register for the various services that our Website offers. This information includes, but is not limited to: e-mail address; first name; last name; birth date; social security number; credit card information or other form of age verification mechanism; credit card number or checking account information for payment; a member-specified password; mailing address; zip code; and telephone number.
SURVEYS & CONTESTS: From time-to-time, exxxtremedating.com requests information from Users on our Website via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the User therefore has a choice as to whether or not to disclose requested information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code and age).
Use of Information Obtained by exxxtremedating.com
PUBLIC: Public information supplied by a member is intended for public viewing by Users. Users may use this information for searching and matching purposes. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, telephone number, etc.
PRIVATE: We primarily use e-mail addresses submitted by members to verify enrollment and when forwarding anonymous e-mails from other members, although the member's actual e-mail address is not disclosed. We may also use a member's e-mail address to send news to the member regarding our Website, but the member may choose not to receive e-mail of this type by contacting us. E-mail addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the member for customer service-related issues.
The private information that you submit to exxxtremedating.com remains your property, but by submitting the information to exxxtremedating.com you grant us the right to use such information for marketing purposes including, but not limited to, sharing such information with third parties. exxxtremedating.com may also use such information to directly market certain offers to you, to monitor compliance with our Terms and Conditions and for content improvement and feedback purposes. We may sell the personal information that you supply to us and we may join together with other businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our members. These businesses may include, but are not limited to: (a) providers of direct marketing services and applications including, without limitation, lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation; and (b) affiliated telemarketers. exxxtremedating.com reserves the right to release current or past User information: (a) in the event that we believe that the Website is being or has been used in violation of the Terms and Conditions or to commit unlawful acts; (b) if the information is subpoenaed; or (c) if exxxtremedating.com is sold or acquired. Moreover, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when exxxtremedating.com, in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time.
In addition, as a member of exxxtremedating.com and/or agreeing to receive e-mail marketing from exxxtremedating.com, you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR §310 et seq. (the "Rule"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, exxxtremedating.com retains the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule. Moreover, by registering with, or requesting information from, a third-party advertiser at or through the Website, such action shall constitute an inquiry and/or application with the respective third-party advertiser for purposes of the Rule and you may be contacted via e-mail, direct mail and/or telemarketing by such third-party advertiser in accordance with the Rule.
To the extent that customer credit card-specific information and/or social security number is collected by exxxtremedating.com and any of its affiliates and/or subsidiaries, said information will be kept in confidence and will not be shared with any third parties (other than consumer credit agencies) without the member's prior informed consent, except to charge the member for services purchased at the Website and/or verify the member's age. In addition, by submitting your credit card information to us, you authorize exxxtremedating.com to periodically verify that your credit card account continues to be a valid and active one by charging and, thereafter immediately crediting, a small sum to the card. Such verification may be conducted through a third party and, in that case, exxxtremedating.com will share your specific credit card information with this third party for verification purposes. Apart from the foregoing uses, exxxtremedating.com and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries reserve the right to share with third parties the fact that they have credit card information on file for specific members but they will not share this credit card information with third parties without the member's prior informed consent. All private information can be updated or deleted by members at any time by logging into the My Account section of the Website.
SURVEYS & CONTESTS: Contact and other information collected for contests will be used to notify members of entry, the winners and award prizes. Survey information collected will be used for purposes of monitoring and improving the use and satisfaction of this Website. In addition, aggregate results collected from surveys and contests may be used for promotional purposes.
General information collection and use
AGGREGATE: We gather User's server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our Website. exxxtremedating.com reserves the right to transfer and/or sell aggregate or group data about exxxtremedating.com Users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage or other characteristics of exxxtremedating.com Users as a group without disclosing personally identifiable information. By submitting your personal information to, and/or using, the Website, you agree to allow exxxtremedating.com to transfer and/or sell such aggregate data to third parties.
LINKS: This Website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that exxxtremedating.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of other third party websites. We encourage Users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website.
USE OF COOKIES: A cookie is a piece of data stored on a 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 Website. Once a User closes his/her browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our Website, a member would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our Website. Even in the case where a member rejects a cookie, they may still use our Website. The only drawback to this is that the member will be limited in what he/she can access in some areas on our Website, much like visitor-level access.
We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our Users to enhance the experience on our Website and/or for advertising tracking purposes. In addition, cookies may be used on our Website for the operation of enhanced capabilities available to members, such as instant messaging. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any User.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
exxxtremedating.com provides members with several options for modifying or removing their information from their unique profile and/or our database. Please visit the My Account page or contact us to do so.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
If we change the substance of our Privacy Policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so that our Users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what 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 members by way of e-mail correspondence. Members will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
Security
exxxtremedating.com takes every precaution to protect our member's information. When a member submits sensitive personal information via the Website, the information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order process prompts a member to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card or social security number), the information is encrypted and is protected with industry-standard encryption - SSL technology. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect member information off-line. Access to member information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need access to the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. If you have any questions about the security at our Website, please contact us. security@exxxtremedating.com
Our members are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having information used for purposes not directly related to our Website at the point where we ask for the information.
Members who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from us or our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the applicable e-mail or by logging-in and changing their e-mail options in the My Account section of the Website.
Minors
The Website is an adult-oriented website. Visitors under 18 years of age (or under the applicable legal age to view adult material in the jurisdiction from which you are accessing the Website, if 18 is not the legal age) are not permitted to use and/or submit their personal information at our Website. exxxtremedating.com does not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under 18 years of age. exxxtremedating.com encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, exxxtremedating.com privacy practices or your dealings on this Website, please contact us at: info@exxxtremedating.com |
