Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June, 2006
bedroompartner.com
is committed to taking all reasonable steps to protect
the privacy of our members, and has created this privacy
policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting
your personal information and informing you about
how we handle it.
About bedroompartner.com
bedroompartner.com (the "Site") is a high
quality Internet based personals service that allows
single men and women to meet and engage in electronic
conversations from the safety and comfort of their
home computer. The Site is owned by AGL (the "Owner").
The
The bedroompartner.com is a network of successful,
high traffic personals web sites with access to a
shared database of millions of online personal profiles.
, which means that you will have access to that pooled
database of personal public profiles (and in return,
they shall have access to your public profile). For
you, this means more successful searches, more communication,
and more matches.
bedroompartner.com agree to a consistent code of conduct
and policies to ensure that the integrity of each
member site is maintained. While each member site
is solely responsible for upholding its obligations
thereunder, these policies will serve to protect and
to provide end users with a high level of comfort
when it comes to safety, quality, and privacy.
Information Collected
We gather four types of information: public,
private,
communicative,
and automatic.
Public:
Definition
Public information will include that information available
for registered members to view, or demographic information.
This includes your demographic information such as
gender, user name, age, birth date, purchase history
information, browsing history information, appearance,
religion, occupation, zip code and geographical location.
Purpose
Your demographic information is used to: personalize
your experience; allow other members and other third
parties to find you through a search result and to
communicate with you; compose your personal profile,
which is associated with an identity you have created;
and to deliver targeted advertising and promotional
offers to you if you choose to receive them.
Private:
Definition:
Private information is information that can personally
identify you such as your real name, email address
or credit card number.
Purpose:
When you register to use any Site service, you will
be asked for some general identifying information
to enable us to provide you with this individualized
service. We gather contact information (such as your
email address) and, if you choose to purchase a subscription,
credits or other services, financial information (such
as your credit card number and expiry date). Credit
card transactions may be processed by the Site via
its third party intermediary/financial institution,
or by a professional payment authorization service
chosen for security and reliability. In either case,
only the purchase price and the credit card information
provided by the customer will be supplied, and such
information will be maintained in their database for
accounting and billing purposes. However, information
from these transactions is not released to other third
parties. This information is encrypted via a secure
server to ensure that others cannot read it. Once
on the secure server your credit card information
is sent to a third party intermediary for processing.
You will know you are in secure mode when the tiny
padlock icon - located at the bottom right of your
browser - appears "locked". We will only
use this information in the course of providing our
service to you. Except as permitted herein, the specific
information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared
with any third party, except to the third party intermediary
that processes your transaction or where required
by law.
Communicative:
Definition:
Communicative information is exclusive between the
Site and parties involved in some form of communication
through the Site. Information such as your internal
messaging conversations, instant messages, email messages
to our service personnel, submission of answers to
surveys, and participation in contests are considered
communicative information.
Purpose:
We store your messages for the purpose of our anonymous
internal messaging system. Just like email, messages
must be stored somewhere in order to deliver them.
We allow you to utilize our internal messaging system
so that you may remain anonymous by not giving up
your email address to other members. Our Messenger
works much the same way.
We acquire information from our surveys so that we
can better understand our members and continually
improve our service.
Contest information (such as your contact information)
is collected so that we may contact our contestants
with information regarding the contest. Except as
permitted herein, the specific information we collect
is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party
without your explicit consent and is only ever disclosed
in situations where required by law.
Automatic:
Definition:
Automatic information is information that we collect
that is not personally identifiable such as your IP
address, site usage and purchase behavior, browser
type, browser activity, and browser settings.
Purpose:
We use your IP and/or Mac address to avoid fraudulent
registrations, and monitor site usage demographics
and dynamics. Information that we may obtain regarding
your browser and browser settings may be used to ensure
that our site's technical features are available to
you. Except as permitted herein, the specific information
we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any
third party without your explicit consent and is only
ever disclosed in situations where required by law.
Sharing of Information
As a member of the Site, therefore your profile is
displayed on all websites. While data from all member
sites is maintained in a common database, only the
public information located in your profile will be
shared throughout the site. Private information such
as your real name, email address or credit card number
is never shared with other sites without your explicit
consent. All member sites adhere to a consistent set
of privacy policies and therefore follow the same
principles outlined in this privacy policy.
The public demographic information contained in your
profile may be presented and/or displayed on other
sites, in order to enhance the Site or maximize your
exposure (however, any such usage shall be for dating
related purposes, and at no time will your private
information be disclosed or presented for usage by
such third party site except in accordance with the
provisions of this policy).
Except as permitted herein, the Owner does not rent,
sell, or share personal information about you with
any third party, except to the third party intermediary
or financial institution that processes your transaction
or where required by law. However, we may use demographic
information to tailor the Site and communications
to your interests, and we may share demographic information
with advertisers or other third parties on an anonymous
and aggregated basis such that individual private
information or behavior may not be determined (i.e.,
without telling the advertisers your identity). Our
sharing of demographic information is anonymous (i.e.,
we do not tell which particular users are members
of which demographic groups), subject to the rest
of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement
and give the advertiser your personal information,
then the advertiser may be able to identify you as
being a member of that demographic group.
In the event the Owner goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, being acquired by another company,
selling all or a portion of its assets, or enters
bankruptcy, members' personal information will, in
most instances, be part of the operations or assets
transferred. You agree that we or our successors may
do so without your further express consent, and you
agree that the successor may continue to possess and
use the information conveyed in accordance with the
terms of this policy. If as a result of the business
transition, the members' personally identifiable information
will be used in a manner different from that stated
at the time of collection members will be given choice
consistent with our "Changes to our Privacy Policy"
section below.
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,
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.
To operate the 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. By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services offered or
sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing
to receive communications (such as emails or magazine
subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests,
sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or
rewards 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
by them. 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 you submit
to us.
Changing/Suspending/Removing
your Information
To make changes to your profile, suspend your account,
or remove your account completely, you may do so at
any time by logging in to your account and editing
your settings in the "My Profile" section
of the site. We also give you the opportunity to opt-out
of certain communications and modify personal information
or demographic information you have provided to us,
to the public users of the Site, at anytime by going
to the “My Profile” section of the Site.
Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the 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, will only change or delete the data
in our database for purposes of future activities
on the Site and for managing future communications
from the Site. 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, all as provided
in this privacy policy.
Security
The Owner reserves the right, but has no obligation,
to monitor all services used on the Site. This includes
but is not limited to the materials posted in the
public areas as well as the contents of communications
transmitted while engaging in chat, email, or other
means of communication. We limit the access to your
personal information to employees who we believe need
to come into contact with that information to provide
services to you or to do their jobs.
The Owner shall have the right to remove any material
that violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or
our terms of usage. Information may be released when
we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably
necessary to: (1) comply with applicable law or to
assist governmental or legal requests; (2) operate
the service properly or enforce or apply the terms
of any of our user terms, conditions and agreements;
or (3) protect the rights, property or safety of our
users and/or any third parties.
We have several different safeguards to protect your
information, which include physical, technical (such
as firewalls and industry-standard SSL encryption
to protect data transmissions), and procedural methods.
All of these comply with federal regulations and responsible
business practices.
Cookies
The Owner may use cookies on our Site. Third party
advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies
on your browser. A cookie is a small piece of data
that is sent to your browser from the site you are
visiting and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Cookies are very common and completely normal throughout
the Internet. Cookies do not harm your computer nor
can they access information stored on your computer.
The primary purpose of cookies is to maintain your
customized settings on a site. Members that do not
accept cookies will not be able to properly use all
features of the site.
Third Party Cookies: The Site may elect to engage
Omniture, a third party, to track and analyze non-personally
identifiable usage and volume statistical information
from visitors to the Site to help us administer the
Site and in order to constantly improve Site quality.
Omniture uses cookies to help track visitor behavior
and sets cookies on behalf of the Site. Omniture does
not use cookies to relate website visitors to any
personally identifiable information and provides the
Site with information about site usage that reflects
individual behavior of visitors, but not their identity.
All data collected by Omniture on behalf of the Site
is used only to provide information on Site usage
and is not shared with any other third parties, except
as permitted herein. Omniture's privacy practices
have been certified by TRUSTe and may be found at
www.omniture.com.
Single-Pixel Gifs
The Owner and its advertisers may use single-pixel
gifs (also known as web bugs, web beacons, or tracking
pixels) on the Site. The purpose of these single-pixel
gifs is to verify and count web page accesses and
gather some statistical information. These single-pixel
gifs gather usage and demographic information, but
do not gather any personal information.
Email
To enhance your experience as a Site member, we send
out match and message notifications, newsletters and
site announcements, and from time to time third party
offers from companies that we feel may have something
that will benefit you. Our site provides you with
the opportunity to opt-out of receiving different
types of communications (except system communications,
or communications required for account maintenance),
and each email that we send out has a method for opting-out
located at the bottom of the message.
Opt-Out and CAN-SPAM
Act
You may choose to provide our Site with your email
address, personal information, or any other information
for the purposes of opting-out of receiving email
solicitations in respect of the Site. In that event,
you agree that we may use and disclose that information
for this purpose, in such manner as we deem appropriate.
Such use and disclosure shall be carried out in order
to allow compliance with our internal and Site policies,
and to take all steps we deem necessary in order to
ensure compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. As
such, and without limiting the foregoing, email addresses
or any other information you provide may be compiled
into a suppression list or other database, and may
be provided to third party publishers, advertisers
or otherwise for the purposes of ensuring such third
parties do not provide email solicitations in respect
of the Site to opted out persons. However, the Site
shall not be responsible for the consequences of any
release, use or abuse of the information which has
been provided to the third party in furtherance of
the effecting the opt-out requests, whether such release,
use or abuse by that third party was is in breach
of any confidentiality agreements or otherwise.
Children
Children under the age of 18 are not permitted to
use our services and we make every reasonable effort
to ensure this. Our advertising efforts are targeted
towards Internet users who are at least 18 years of
age. All technical aspects of our site have been programmed
to ensure that the minimum age a user can enter is
18 years of age. The Site will never knowingly or
intentionally collect any personal information about
children under the age of 13. If the Site obtains
actual knowledge that it has collected personal information
about a child under the age of 13, that information
will be immediately deleted from its database. Because
it does not knowingly or intentionally collect such
information, to the best of the Site's knowledge and
belief, it has no such information to use or to disclose
to a third party. The Site has designed this policy
in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act.
Links
The Owner may have links to other websites on our
Site. Some of these other websites contain our brand
names and trademarks and other intellectual property
that we own; others do not. When you click on these
links and visit these other websites, regardless of
whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks
and other intellectual property, you need to be aware
that we do not control these other websites or these
other websites' business practices, and that this
privacy policy does not apply to these other websites.
Consequently, the operators of these other websites
may collect different kinds of information about you,
and may use and disclose that information in different
ways than we would if it were collected on the Site.
We encourage you to review their privacy policies
and remind you that we will not be responsible for
their actions. However, we are not responsible for
the content, privacy practices nor the collection,
usage and distribution of private information by third
party sites.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship
with another company in which we prominently display
their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site.
These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages"
and these companies are known as "Co-Branded
Companies." 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 personal information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct
them directly regarding your preferences for the use
of your personal information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose all such information
so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same
manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose
any other information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded
Pages may use Omniture cookies (see above) or may
contain an action tag (also known as a beacon or a
1 pixel .gif file) that a third party may use to read
cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on
your browser at other web sites before your visit
to the Site. Further, such third parties may use the
information collected through this technology to learn
more about your visits to this Site and other websites
in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. 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.
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 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.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share
your personal information is authorized to use your
personal 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. Those
who contact you will need to be instructed directly
by you regarding your preferences for the use of your
personal information by them.
Associates
When you register to become an associate of our site,
you will be asked for contact information and information
related to your site. Except as permitted herein,
it will not be shared with any third party without
your explicit consent except in situations where required
by law. Your information will be used to secure your
approval as an associate, to facilitate communication
between our two sites and to send you payment, based
on your site's performance.
Changes to our Privacy
Policy
Please review this privacy policy periodically as
we may modify it from time to time. We will notify
all registered members of any change to this privacy
policy either by posting a notification on the site
or via email, unless you have opted-out of receiving
email from us. Continued use of the Services or non-termination
of your membership after changes are posted or emailed
constitutes your acceptance or deemed acceptance of
the terms as modified, regardless of whether the notice
or email was successfully received, read, or lost
during transmission. Each time you visit the Site
or provide us with information, by doing so you are
accepting the practices described in this privacy
policy at that time.
Contact us with your
questions or suggestions
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our
privacy policy, please contact our Customer Care Department.
C/o
M/S. IDEAL FANTACY
Jagdamba Classic,
MIDC Baramati,
Dist.-Pune,
Pin Code - 413 133
Maharashtra
India.
Email-info@bedroompartner.com
