Be2Gether.com Privacy Policy
We at Be2Gether dating services wish to show our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This policy applies only to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the Be2Gether.com Website, Be2Gether.com Messenger and double blind email communications between Be2Gether.com members, but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between Be2Gether.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this policy periodically as we may require to modify it from time to time. This policy was revised last on 7th June 2004. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information you are accepting the terms described in this policy.
BE2Gether Credit Card Security Precautions: Full Membership Subscription, Credit Card Payments
You can gain full online dating membership status instantly by using our secure online payment service provider who accept all major credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover, Advanced bank-level security and encryption Our payment service provider is not handled directly by the be2gether dating site but by a separate reputable payment service provider using a secure web browser link. It is that site which requests card details and validates your payment. be2gether dating services do not record card details on this site. Your online transaction will be as safe as any conventional credit card transaction.
Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, county, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Cookies
This Website uses cookies to trace your purchases and other activities to enhance your online dating experience. Likewise we use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal information so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site.
Note: If you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on this Website.
Information We Collect From You
To provide you with information about products or dating services that may be of interest, we may collect personal information that could be used to contact you directly: such as full name, postal address, phone number, email address, that you submit; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date. We ask that you do not enter personal details or financial information into your “ Dating Profile” (for example don’t use your address or password as your username, or include your name, or address in your written responses) if you do then it may be posted publicly on the be2getherweb site, and the data will be in the public domain. We do not knowingly accept personal details from anyone under 18 years of age. We require that all applicants confirm that they are at least 18 years old before they can complete the pesonal dating profile.
Why we need personal details
We use your email address and other personal details to help us operate the Be2gether dating site, to contact you about your transactions and other activities, and to forward messages to you from other Be2Gether.com members. These messages may also contain commercial information such as banner ads and special offers.
We use personal details to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotions for Be2Gether.com’s or third parties’ goods or services. We send you offers such as discounts, or special event information. The Site provides options to decline or receive communications from Be2Gether.com. By posting your dating profile on the Site, you are opting to receive Email.
To operate the be2gether dating Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering, you consent to providing your personal details to stated third parties. Those third parties may use your personal data in accordance with their own privacy policies. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all data to third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other data you submit to us.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal data is authorised to use your personal data in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal data by them.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial details to check your qualifications, to bill you for products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may be interested. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations 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 consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded Companies) may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share your Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on 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 Be2Gether.com or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a Be2Gether member and able to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to Be2Gether.com’s users, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular Be2Gether.com users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information." Also, to read further details about how we may use your public information, see our Terms of Use.
Policy Update
If at any point we decide to use particular 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 or by providing 30 days notice on the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable data, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to data gathered on or after the date of the change. .
To Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify personal details or demographic details that you have provided, and to with-hold demographic data from, or make demographic details visible to the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to my profile, my email preferences, and un-tick (Allow third parties to send me information box) to remove unwanted communications.
Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes to affect public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from Be2Gether.com, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications from Be2Gether.com. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, as provided above in this privacy policy.