Privacy
Policy
Effective as from February 2016 and last updated 20th January 2019
MeetLocals.nl has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to help our users better understand what information we
collect about them and what may happen to that information.
We make it even easier to understand the data we have about you, how you can correct it
and how you can ask us to stop using it. Your privacy comes first.
We now meet the high standard for data privacy introduced by the new European data protection
law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on the
25th of May 2018.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide
certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can
be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This policy may be changed from time to time by updating this page. You should check this
page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. We protect your personal
data.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for the Websites listed below.
Overview
As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some
cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy describes
the information we collect about you and what may happen to that
information. By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and
Conditions, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your
personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the
Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Statement applies to all related sites. All other worldwide
sites operate under similar privacy practices as described in this
Privacy Policy, and subject to the requirements of applicable local law,
we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout
the online personals sites.
1. A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors
(under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If
you are a minor, you may not use this service.
2. Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you
with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to
provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to
customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that in
order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature members'
profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to
time to our members. Your name, address and telephone number are
confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is
available for other members to view. Members' profiles include a
description and photos, likes and dislikes, individual essays and other
information helpful in determining matches. Your viewable profile does
not include any identifying information about you, except the username
you chose upon registering.
Please note that your personally identifiable information will be stored
and processed on our computers in the United States. We will hold and
transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure
environment.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on
our Websites using cookies and other devices. We use this information
for internal research on our members' demographics, interests, and
behavior to better understand and serve you and the use of
MeetLocals.nl. This information may include the URL that you just
came from (whether this URL is on our site or not). Which URL you next
go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are
using, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our
Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that
assist us in providing customized services. We also can offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". Cookies
can also help us provide information which is targeted to your
interests. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are
automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You
are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.
We may use a third party for different purposes. The third party may
also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site.
This is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device,
commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an action tag, which we place on
various Web pages within our Web site or in an html e-mail that allows
the third party to collect anonymous information. The third party may
use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order
to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you.
3. Our Use of Your Information
We use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other
information we obtain from your current and past activities on the
Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our
Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members to
identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine
your information to identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.
You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you
to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage,
improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Site's
content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better
tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver
information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests,
such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product
offerings, and communications relevant to your use on the Websites. By
accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this
information.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of
your private communications and other personally identifiable
information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in
this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing),
we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law
enforcement agencies or third parties. Under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or
private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information
that they collect from our Websites. Therefore, although we use industry
standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you
should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or
private communications will always remain private.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally
identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the
following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed.
Financial Information.
Under
some circumstances we may require some additional information, such as,
but not limited to credit card details. We use this financial
information, including your name, address, and other information, as
well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your financial
information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services
and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and
similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a
purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that
uses financial information on the Websites, you consent to our providing
of your financial information to our service providers and to such third
parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your
activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for
their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card
companies and banking 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
Websites, or by participating in programs offered on the Websites 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. 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.
Advertisers.
We aggregate
(gather up data across all our members' accounts) personally
identifiable information and disclose such information in a
non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third
parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these
situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that
could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as
your name, email address, password, credit card number and bank account
number, are never disclosed to marketing advertisers. We may use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These
companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel
gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any
information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags
is completely anonymous.
External Service Providers.
There may be a number of services offered by external service providers
that help you use our Websites. If you choose to use these optional
services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the
external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect
information about you, then their use of your information is governed by
their private policy.
Other Corporate Entities.
We may
share much of our data, including personally identifiable information
about you, with our parent and/or subsidiaries that are committed to
serving your online needs and related services, throughout the world. To
the extent that these entities have access to your information, they
will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they
obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will
follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our
practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by
applicable law. It is possible that We and/or it's subsidiaries, or any
combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business
entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that we would
share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide
the service. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it
occurs) and we will require that the new combined entity follow the
practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests.
We cooperate
with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to
enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other
rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about
you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole
discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an
investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other
activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
5. Your Use of other Members
Information
Our services also can include access to instant messaging and chat
rooms. As a member you have access to the Member's ID, and you might
gain access to other contact information of the Member(s) through the
regular use of the instant messaging and chat rooms. By accepting this
Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members'
personally identifiable information that you obtain through instant
messaging communication, the chat rooms and email, We hereby grant to
you a license to use such information only for: (a) Your Company related
communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any
other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate
disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an
opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to
review what information you have collected about them. In addition,
under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you
disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any
third party without our consent and the consent of such other member
after adequate disclosure. MeetLocals.nl and our members do not
tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not
licensed to add an MeetLocals.nl member to your mail list (email or
physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate
disclosure. To report spam from other MeetLocals.nl members
please click
Report Spam and select 'Report abuse' and fill in the form.
6. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing
Your Profile
Following registration, you can review and change the information you
submitted during registration through the Member Service Menu including:
Your password and e-mail address. If you change your password and email
we keep track of your old password and email. You can also change your
registration information such as: name, address, city, state, zip code,
country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date
profile, essays and saves search criteria.
Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership, contact
information, and financial information from our active databases. Such
information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in
accordance with our suspension policy and applicable law. To remove your
profile so that others cannot view it, visit the Remove Your Profile
section of FAQ.
We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove for
certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior
information is never completely removed from our databases due to
technical and legal constraints, including stored 'back up' systems.
Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally
identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases
in response to your requests.
7. Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information
and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you
disclose your MeetLocals.nl password or login information to any
third parties. If you choose to share this information with third
parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all
actions taken with your login information and password and therefore
should review each third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of
your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally
identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions
taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised
for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
8. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this
document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect
from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other
parties, whether they are on our Websites or on other sites throughout
the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of
the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third
party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since
MeetLocals.nl does not control the privacy policies of the third
parties, you are subject to ask questions before you disclose your
personal information to others.
9. Security
MeetLocals.nl uses industry standard practices to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including
"firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. MeetLocals.nl treats data as an
asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We
employ many different security techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by members inside and outside the company. However,
"perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
10. Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your
comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and
disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective after we
provide you with at least (30) days notice of changes by sending email
to members. We provide you with (30) days notice to allow you the
opportunity to notify MeetLocals.nl if you do not agree to such
changes.
11. English version prevails
In the event that this Privacy Policy is translated into other languages
and there is a discrepancy between the two language versions, the English
language version shall prevail to the extent that such discrepancy is the
result of an error in translation.