Privacy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how Men Seeking Men Community in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal information?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for instance, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.

Why do we need your personal data?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data so as to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we need under applicable law to process your data. You keep the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not consent to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please don't use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the details you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your preferences on that SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can reverse our access to the information that you supply in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. By way of instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We don't use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. However, we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Essential Cookies

These cookies are crucial to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to let you use some of its features. By way of example, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services you have asked for can't be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the modifications you make to other parts of our Site which you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site.

We utilize Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only utilized to enhance how our Site works.

You can find out more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

Targeted and advertising cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third party advertisers can set cookies to enable them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.

You may disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they might not be relevant to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, which means you may still get some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that aren't listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you join your accounts or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You may typically remove or reject cookies through your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your usage of our Site. For example, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might want to log in every time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our Site, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be confidential or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such opinions with your personal information. If you have given your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

International Data Transfer

Your data, including personal data that we gather from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not offer the same degree of protection as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this move, processing or leasing. We'll take all steps reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of data via the world wide web isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the security of any account you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the aforementioned rights you would like to enforce. For your security, we may only implement requests regarding the private data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we may have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you started before requesting such alteration or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We'll respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the regional data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or queries about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our website.