The System Administrator at TurtleDate.com created this statement of privacy policies to demonstrate a definite commitment to protect your personal information, to inform you about the type of information collected, and to diclose what may happen to that information. This privacy policy applies only to your transactions and activities, and data gathered, on the TurtleDate.com Website, TurtleDate.com Messenger, and double blind e-mail communications between TurtleDate.com members. This privacy policy does not apply to any other Website or offline contact between TurtleDate.com and members or users. Acceptance of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service is your express consent for TurtleDate.com to use and disclose your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Each time you visit the Website, we automatically collect your IP address, what browser you are using, the URL you came from, and your next URL. We use your IP address to help identify you and gather other information for internal research on our members' demographics, and behavior within the Website to provide better service to you and to diagnose any problems within our Website.
"Cookies" are small software files placed on your hard drive that assist in providing customized services. TurtleDate.com uses "cookies" to keep track of your activities and communications on the Website. We may use "cookies" to deliver content specific to your use of the Website, to save your password and, to save other personal information to eliminate reentry of it each time you visit the Website. Most "cookies" are "session cookies" that are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. If you wish to decline these "cookies", consult the "help" section on the toolbar of your browser for the procedure. If you set your browser to decline "cookies", you may not have access to all areas on the Website, and some areas of the Website may not be able to function properly, or may have unexpected results.
We may collect the following types of information to operate the Website and to provide information about services that may interest you: personal information that could be used to contact you directly such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address; financial information such as credit card numbers or passwords to bill you for our services; or demographic information. Demographic information is defined as either non-public information, such as one-on-one communications between you and other members of the Website, or public information, which may include, but is not limited to, zip or postal code, hometown, gender, username, age or birth date, browsing history information, searching history information, and registration history information.
Your profile, available for other members to view, includes a self description and up to five photos, likes and dislikes, individual essays and other information helpful in determining matches. Your viewable profile should not contain any identifiable information about you, except the username you chose when you register. Do not use your address or passcode as your username, or include your name or address in your written responses to profile essay requests. Do not enter personal or financial information into your profile, such as your name, address and telephone number.
Our double-blind email system protects Your e-mail address from being revealed to other members. We do not share your email addresses with other members. We do not sell or allow your email address to be available to any third party organization, business, individual, marketing agency, or any other entity except where required by law. Please refer to our Terms of Service Agreement for understanding conditions in which we may be legally required to disclose your email to a law enforcement agency.
Please note that we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 on the Website. The Terms of Service require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.
You agree that we may use collectively identifiable information about you to improve the content of the Website, to analyze the Website usage, and to customize the Website content, layout, and services to better serve you. You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver communications relevant to your use on the Website. Acceptance of this Privacy Policy is your express agreement to receive these communications. If you do not wish to receive certain optional communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of these communications from TurtleDate.com by changing the "Account Settings" and/or "My Profile" settings section of the Website.
Your personal or financial information may be shared with a third party in the event of a transfer of Website ownership/assets or bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal or financial information when such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable state and federal laws, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of TurtleDate.com or other users of the Website. Whenever personal or financial information is disclosed under conditions listed in this paragraph, we may also disclose your non-anonymous demographic information along with it. Any legal entities and third parties that legitimately receive your personal, financial, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will respect and comply with the terms of this privacy policy with their use and disclosure of such information.
We use public information: to enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether the user is a match for you and to communicate with you on the Website. See our Terms of Service for details on how we may use public information.
We may review all demographic information collected on TurtleDate.com. We may use demographic information to customize the Website and our communications to your interests.
Your personally identifiable information will be stored and processed on our computers currently located in Canada. The laws on holding personal data in Canada may be different from the laws of other nations. TurtleDate.com will hold and transmit your personally identifiable information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.
TurtleDate.com employs many different security techniques within industry standard practices to safeguard your personal identifiable information from unauthorized access by members inside and others outside TurtleDate.com. Unscrupulous third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions of private communications or members may abuse or misuse your information collected from our Website. We cannot guarantee that all private communications and your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, we do not promise, nor should you expect, that all private communications or your personally identifiable information always remain secure.
After you register as a member, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration. We give you the opportunity to modify personal or demographic information you gave us, to opt-out of certain communications and to hide or make demographic information visible to the public users of the Website. You may go to the "Account Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Website to change or delete your information at any time. You can change: your password, e-mail address, name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile, and search criteria.
Please take note that the changes you make may take hours to display in the public areas of the Website. A change or deletion of your information through the "Account Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Website, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of e-mail communications from TurtleDate.com, will only impact future activities and communications data in our database. These changes and deletions will not impact information or e-mails that have already been forwarded to other users, credit card companies, or any other third parties described in this privacy policy.
Upon receipt of your written request, TurtleDate.com agrees to remove your membership, contact, and financial information from our active database. Such information will be removed as soon as reasonably possible. Prior information is not entirely deleted from our database, due to technical and legal constraints including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, we do not guarantee, nor should you expect, that all of your personally identifiable information will be entirely deleted from our database in response to your request.
Please review this privacy policy periodically, as the System Administrator reserves the right to modify it as required.