In this Privacy Policy, we delineate the information collection processes concerning individuals, hereafter referred to as “you,” that occur during your utilization of our website, mobile applications, and other associated services. By accessing and using the Pridate site, mobile applications, and services, you explicitly acknowledge and accept the terms and conditions outlined in the Pridate Privacy Policy, our recently updated User Agreement, and the Pridate Community Guidelines. It is your responsibility to thoroughly review and comprehend all these terms. By providing personal data while using the Pridate site, mobile applications, and services, you consent to the practices expounded in this Privacy Policy. Should you disagree with this Privacy Policy, refrain from accessing or utilizing the Pridate site, mobile applications, and services.

Pridate has formulated this privacy policy to underscore our commitment to safeguarding the privacy of our members and recognizing their entitlement to keep personal information confidential. This statement elucidates our practices related to gathering and disseminating information on the World Wide Web site located at www.pridate.com, mobile applications, and other associated services. We assertively maintain that private information must remain confidential. We encourage you to provide feedback on this statement. For comments or questions, kindly reach out to us through the Contact Us section.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, the document exclusively addresses the utilization and disclosure of information collected from you. Different regulations may govern the use or disclosure of personal information you disclose to other parties, be they other members of Pridate or other sites/apps across the Internet.

Information Collection and Usage

Cookies

Our website, mobile applications, and services employ cookies to administer our products, gather demographic information, deliver requested content, customize our offerings, and save user credentials. Cookies, in this context, refer to small text files containing character strings placed on your computer or mobile device. Technologies such as cookies, pixels, and local storage are utilized to deliver, secure, and comprehend products, services, and advertisements.

A cookie, a small data line, is stored on your hard drive or device. While some cookies expire after a browser session, others persist across sessions. We solely save passwords and member names with your explicit permission, encrypting and storing them on your device, and transferring them over the Internet in an encrypted format. Notably, limiting cookie acceptance may impede the functionality of certain parts of Pridate’s site and apps.

The site and apps employ various types of cookies, including:

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

Essential for accessing and navigating the site and apps.

Analytics/Performance Cookies: Used to comprehend user behavior and enhance services.

For comprehensive details on cookies, please refer to All About Cookies.

Registration Form:

Membership on the Pridate Site, mobile apps, and services is voluntary. The registration form requires users to provide an email address. Users may choose to receive newsletters and promotional emails during registration, with the option to unsubscribe at any time. Pridate ensures non-disclosure of email addresses to third parties without explicit consent.

Control of Your Password:

Users are advised not to disclose or share passwords with third parties. In the event of password compromise, immediate change is recommended.

Order Forms:

When purchasing products or services on the Pridate site, users provide credit card, billing, and shipping information, which is transmitted securely. Financial information is accessible only to billing vendors for the sole purpose of billing customers.

Community Tools:

Pridate offers various tools for member interaction and community engagement. User discretion is advised when using tools like chat rooms, as they may reveal user information publicly. Users who prefer to keep information private should refrain from posting in public areas.

Pridate Profiles and ProAds:

Users may submit adult-oriented personal information for Pridate Profiles and ProAd services. This information is stored for member self-publishing and interaction, with an understanding that it may be shared with other members.

Member Feedback:

Pridate retains feedback from members for administrative refinement and, at times, may share aggregated or individually anonymized feedback with partners.

IP Addresses:

Pridate tracks individual IP addresses for diagnostic and demographic purposes, using the information solely for internal purposes.

Location Information:

Pridate may receive location information either voluntarily disclosed by users or determined through device data such as GPS, wireless networks, or IP addresses.

Information from Service Usage:

Data collected includes log data, device information, and usage information, serving purposes such as user authentication, responding to inquiries, customizing services, conducting research, and ensuring security.

Information Usage:

Personal data is utilized for user authentication, responding to inquiries, customization of services, research, reporting, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and marketing. Users may receive marketing communications based on consent, with an opt-out option.

Targeted Advertisement:

Pridate may display targeted advertisements based on personal data, with third parties assuming user compliance with targeting criteria. Pridate does not provide personal data to advertisers upon user interaction with targeted advertisements.

Publicly Posted Information:

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information posted in public areas of services, as such information is subject to third-party privacy practices and policies.

For EU Individuals:

Refer to the “European Union (EU) Users” section for details on legitimate interests and rights.

Marketing:

Users may receive marketing communications based on consent, with an opt-out option.

When and why we share information:

Pridate reserves the right to disclose some or all of your personal information to its parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other entities aiding in the fulfillment of business requirements and operations. In the event of Pridate being acquired by another company, said entity will acquire the member information gathered by Pridate and assume the rights and obligations outlined in this privacy policy pertaining to that information.

Notwithstanding any other provisions in this policy, Pridate may also reveal personal and aggregate information when compelled by a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or when deemed necessary, at the sole discretion of Pridate, to safeguard our rights and the safety of others, including our members, employees, or properties.

Pridate upholds the belief that private communications among members in chat rooms, emails, and instant messaging-like conversations should generally remain confidential. Pridate refrains from disclosing private communications unless mandated to do so through a valid legal mechanism, such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, to protect the company’s rights and property, or in emergencies where safety is deemed at risk. It is important to note that information posted or written in public areas such as chat rooms and message boards is accessible to all Pridate members and, in many instances, other visitors to the Pridate site. Additionally, Pridate is not accountable for the actions of other users concerning private communications exchanged with them. While chat and instant message-like conversations pass through Pridate’s servers, logs of these conversations are not stored.

We may share or disclose your information based on your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party service to access your account or when you voluntarily share information or content via our services. Other users may also share or disclose information about you, for example, when they mention you.

Under specific circumstances, we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without providing further notice, unless required by law, as explained below:

Vendors and Service Providers:

To assist us in meeting business operations needs and performing certain services and functions, such as hosting, email communication, customer support, analytics, marketing, and advertising.

Business Transfers:

In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, your Personal Data and other information may be transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that transaction.

Legal Requirements:

If required by law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, respond to requests from law enforcement or government authorities, or protect the personal safety of users or the public.

Your rights and choices

OFF-SITE LINKS: The site and apps may contain links to other websites and apps not operated or controlled by us (“Third Party Sites”), including the Social Media Services. The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy.

OPT-OUT: Our site provides users with the opportunity upon registration to opt out of receiving communications from us and from our partners, affiliates, and advertisers. These options are available during registration and through the notification setting on the MY ACCOUNT page. Please note that even if you have chosen to opt out of receiving communications from us, we reserve the right to contact you by email about material changes to this privacy policy or the Pridate User Agreement.

Data retention and delete information

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by law. If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we will retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications and in accordance with our policies.

To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we consider factors such as the nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Pridate provides users with the following options for removing their information from our database:

On the MY ACCOUNT page, click on the Delete Account link and follow the instructions provided.

You can send an email to support@pridate.com. Please be sure to include your name, username, and email address.

Pridate provides users with the following options for changing or modifying information previously provided:

In the MY ACCOUNT page, user info can be changed in the “Edit My Profile” page, and photos can be uploaded or deleted in the “Upload My Photo” page.

Security:

Pridate implements security measures to protect your data from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access. While Pridate takes data privacy and security seriously, it acknowledges that no physical or electronic security system is impervious. Information provided to us is stored on secured servers, and steps are taken to safeguard Personal Data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet or email transmission is entirely secure or error-free. The use of Pridate services is at your own risk, and the security of the service’s servers or databases cannot be guaranteed. Pridate cannot guarantee that information supplied will not be intercepted during transmission over the internet, and any transmission is at your own risk.

Pridate cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share information. Therefore, Pridate does not guarantee that information or content posted by a user on or through our services will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. Pridate is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our services or Social Media Services. Users are advised not to share passwords with anyone.

Changes to Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. Significant changes to the treatment of personal information will be communicated via email or by posting a notice on the Pridate site. If there are any questions about this privacy policy, users are encouraged to contact Pridate.

How you can access your personal information and update your information

Users can access some of the personal information collected by logging into their accounts. The right to make a request to access other personal information held and to request corrections of any errors is also available.

If changes or corrections to Personal Data are needed, users may contact Pridate. Requests for data deletion can be sent to support@pridate.com. Requests will be addressed as required by applicable law. Users can also update their Personal Data from their user settings.

Information about children

Pridate’s services are restricted to individuals aged 18 or older. Persons below the age of 18 are not permitted to become members or use the services. If awareness arises that a child or minor uses the services, users are encouraged to contact Pridate using the information provided below or through the reporting tool for appropriate actions.

California Privacy Disclosure

In compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, Pridate does not distribute personal information to outside parties without user consent. Users can make changes to their information at any time by logging into their account and editing their profile.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or dealings with this site, users are invited to contact Pridate.

Information We Collect

Our website and apps collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information“). In the last twelve (12) months, our website and apps have collected the following categories of personal information:

Category A. Identifiers: Examples include real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

Category B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)): Examples include name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, bank account number, credit card number, medical information, or health insurance information.

Category C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law: Examples include age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information.

Category F. Internet or other similar network activity: Examples include browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

Category G. Geolocation data: Examples include physical location or movements.

Category K. Inferences drawn from other personal information: Examples include a profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and respond to your inquiries.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our or our affiliates’ assets.
• We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collect for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties for business purposes, entering into contracts that describe the purpose and require recipients to keep the information confidential.

Categories of third parties with whom we share personal information include service providers and data aggregators.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) specific rights regarding their personal information. This includes the right to request access to and deletion of personal information. Users may submit verifiable consumer requests through the provided email address.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights: Users have the right to request disclosure of certain information about the collection and use of personal information over the past 12 months.

Deletion Request Rights

Users have the right to request the deletion of personal information, subject to certain exceptions.

To exercise these rights, users may submit a verifiable consumer request through the provided email address. We will respond within forty-five (45) days, and the response will cover the preceding 12-month period.

Personal Information Sales

We do not sell personal information. If this changes, we will provide opt-out and opt-in rights as required by the CCPA.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against users for exercising CCPA rights. This includes not denying goods or services, charging different prices or rates, providing different levels or quality of goods or services, or suggesting differences in price, rate, or quality.

Other California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law permits users to request information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

This privacy notice may be amended at our discretion and at any time. Changes will be posted on our website, and continued use constitutes acceptance of the changes.

Contact Information

For questions or comments about this notice, information collection and use, choices and rights, or to exercise California law rights, please contact us at support@pridate.com.