1. The Information We Collect.
When you use our services, we collect information about you, such as:
- Registration Information: When you create an account, you provide us with at least your login credentials, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to work, such as your gender and date of birth.
- Profile Information: You can add additional information to your profile, such as your personality, lifestyle, interests and other details, as well as content such as photos and videos.
- Usage Information: We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g., date and time you logged in, features you've been using, searches, clicks and pages which have been shown to you, referring webpage address, advertising that you click on) and how you interact with other users (e.g., users you connect and interact with, time and date of your exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).
- Device Information: We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including hardware and software information, IP address, device ID and type, app settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs, and identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies.
2. How We Use Information.
The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we use your info to help keep you safe and to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you.
We use your information to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests.
- Complete your transactions.
- Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing.
- Analyze your profile and that of other users to recommend connections that match your preferences.
- Show users’ profiles to one another.
3. How We Share Information.
Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, the main sharing of users’ information is, of course, with other users. We also share some users’ information with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services, with other Match Group companies and, in some cases, with legal authorities.
We do not sell your personal data. We do not share your personal data with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your permission.
4. Your Rights.
We want you to be in control of your information, so we have provided you with the following tools:
- Access / Update tools in the service: Tools and account settings that help you to access, rectify or delete information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the service.
- Device permissions: Mobile platforms have permission systems for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone book and location services as well as push notifications. You can change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications.
- Deletion: You can delete your account by using the corresponding functionality directly on the service.
5. Data Security.
We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. As with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always remain secure.
We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and organizational security measures.
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