Welcome to Lovechitter.com (the “Site”)! We have created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Site.
Personal Information:
When you register for an account, you create your profile, which may include personal information such as your personal interests, gender, age, education, sexual orientation and certain relationship preferences. Your profile also includes a free text entry area where you may enter any information you wish about yourself. Please be aware that your profile information (including the free text entry), as well as your username and photo, will be displayed to other users of the Site. If you do not want your personally identifiable information read, collected or used by other users of the Site, do not post personally information in the free-text area of your profile or any other area of the Site, including but not limited to email messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to post anywhere in your profile or on the Site and we are not liable if anyone uses any information you post in or on the Site for improper purposes (including but not limited to, use of such information to send you unsolicited messages or use of such information to find your physical location).
If you choose to refer a friend to the Site, we will ask you for your friend's e-mail address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail invitation to visit the Site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
IP Addresses, Cookies, Tracking Tools:
Our server automatically logs information about each of our users, such as your IP address, your browser type and language, and the date and time of your visit to the Site. This information is used for security purposes and to help us improve our service.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record keeping purposes. We may assign your computer one or more cookies which may collect information to facilitate access to our Site and to personalize your experience on our Site. We may also allow our authorized service providers to serve cookies from our Site to allow them to assist us in various activities, such as analysis and research on the effectiveness of our Site, content and advertising.
In addition to cookies, we may use standard Internet tools, such as web beacons, which collect information that tracks your use of our Site and enables us to customize our services and advertisements. Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. Unlike cookies which are stored on the user's hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use web beacons to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages and to understand usage patterns. We also may include web beacons in promotional (or other) e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. We also may receive an anonymous identification number if you come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website.
When you submit your profile or post a message through the Site, other users of the Site may view the information you submit. Please be aware that we do not, and cannot, control who reads your profile or postings or what they do with the information you provide. We encourage you to use extreme caution when posting any personal information on or through the Site.
This site uses a tool that collects your requests for pages and passes elements of them to search engines to assist them in indexing this site. We control the configuration of the tool and are responsible for any information sent to the search engines.
We may allow third-party advertising companies or ad networks to display advertisements on our Site. We do not provide any personal information about our users to these third parties. However, these companies may use cookies or other tracking tools to gather information about computers used to view or interact with their advertisements. Some of these third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org).
The Site may contain 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 policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.
We may use your information to fulfill your requests for information, to facilitate your use of the Site, to customize the advertising and content that you see on the Site, to help you manage your account and your preferences, to analyze and improve the Site and to enforce our Terms and protect against improper use of the Site.
We reserve the right to disclose any activities or information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, determine necessary or appropriate, including in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us, you or our users or affiliates to legal liability of any kind.
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personal information with any third parties unless we inform you in advance and give you the opportunity to opt out.
We may share personal information with third parties as necessary to comply with legal requirements, to prevent fraud, and to protect the safety of our users. We may also share aggregated, non-personal information with advertisers and others.
You are free to browse the Site without providing any personal information. However, if you choose not to provide personal information (for example, by choosing not to register for an account or create a profile), many features of the Site will not be accessible to you. You may review and update your personal information by logging into your account and updating the information online.
You may also decline cookies by changing your browser settings, although if you do so, some of the features of our Site may not function properly.
We take industry standard physical, electronic, and other security measures to help safeguard personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Should we ever knowingly do so, we will comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect any changes in our privacy practices. If we make material changes in the way we collect, use, or share your personal information, we will notify you by email sent to the email address you most recently provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Site.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy at Lovechitter.com.