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This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how information associated
with you or about you (“personal information”) is collected, used and disclosed
by REPUBLICAN SINGLES, LLC. (“REPUBLICAN SINGLES,” “we” or “us”) when you use
our services through our mobile applications and websites linked to this
Policy, as well as our products (including REPUBLICAN SINGLES’s downloadable
products and applications and pages operated by REPUBLICAN SINGLES on other
platforms and social networking sites) (collectively, the “Services”).
If
you have questions about this Policy, please contact us at privacy@republicansingles.com
or by writing to us at: REPUBLICAN SINGLES, Inc., Attn: Privacy Policy, PO Box
6115, La Quinta, CA 92248.
The
language of this Policy is English. Where REPUBLICAN SINGLES has provided a
translation of the English version of this Policy, you agree that the English
language version of this Policy will govern your relationship with REPUBLICAN
SINGLES and that the translation is provided for your convenience only. If
there is any contradiction between what the English language version of this
Policy says and what a translation says, then the English language version will
take precedence.
The
use of our Services is restricted to individuals age 18 and above. We do not
intentionally collect or maintain personal information from minors under the
age of 18. If you become aware that personal information about a person under
18 has been provided to us, please immediately contact us using the contact
information above. By using, registering, or subscribing to the Services, you
confirm that you have read, understand and consent to the use of your personal
information to send you notifications, promotions and advertising by email, SMS
or MMS text message or in accordance with this Section B.
By
using, registering, or subscribing to the Services, you understand, agree, and
consent to the collection and use of location information, and the collection
of your personal and sensitive information as described in this Policy,
(including, but not limited to, your contact information, demographic
information, age, gender and dating gender preference), and including
information collected from social networking sites;
The
information we collect can include:
i.
Information You Provide. When you use, register, or
subscribe to any of our Services or take part in any interactive features of
the Services (such as any promotions, contests, games, surveys, quizzes,
questionnaires, research, or other features or services), we may collect a
variety of information, including:
·
Contact Information such as
your name, email address, phone number, including mobile phone number, and
correspondence address (“Contact Information”); and
·
Other Information such as geographical
location (including GPS), password, billing information, credit card
information, age, birth date, gender, ethnicity, personal description, physical
characteristics, political views, religion, pictures, photos, videos,
demographic information, place of work, your personal interests and background,
dating age range preference, sexual life experiences, dating gender preference,
and any other information you share with the Services. We may also receive information
about you from other users. For example, we will collect your email address if
another user tries to refer REPUBLICAN SINGLES to you or reports you for abuse.
We may collect billing or payments information if you engage with a paid
Service through our Services.
ii.
Information About How You Use the Services. We may
collect information about your participation and actions on the Services. This
may include information such as the pages, profiles, photographs, and other user
content you view, how you browse and use the Services, including your likes and
ratings of other user content, your REPUBLICAN SINGLES Virtual Currency balance
and purchases you make through the Services such as gifts and boosts. It can
also include the various functions and features that you use, such as
REPUBLICAN SINGLES Messenger, other friends or contacts you invite to the
Services, the connections and friends you make through the Services, profile
searches you perform, or your use of our applications.
iii.
Information Automatically Collected. When you access our
Services, we and our third-party partners automatically record information from
your device and its software, such as your IP address, Internet Service
Provider (ISP), platform type, browser type, date and time stamp, the site from
which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our website,
and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your
account. When you access our Services using a mobile device, we may also
receive or collect identification numbers associated with your device (such as
a unique device ID, IDFA, Google Ad ID and Windows Advertising ID), device
type, make, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and
model, mobile carrier, phone number, email address, other apps that you have
downloaded, and, if you have enabled features and functions of the Services
that enable the use your device’s location information, your geographical
location data (including GPS). We also collect information about your usage of,
and activity on, our Services. Some of the information we collect can be used
to approximate a device’s location. We may work with third-parties to employ
technologies which attempt to recognize you across multiple devices so that we
understand how you use our Service across various devices and platforms.
iv.
Location Data. When
you have enabled geographical location-based or GPS services on your device in
relation to a REPUBLICAN SINGLES mobile app or any REPUBLICAN SINGLES features or
services that use geographical location-based or GPS information, we will
collect information about your geographical location or GPS position based on
the location of the device you are using to access our Services.
v.
Information from Content You Upload. We may
collect information about content you upload to the Services (such as photos,
videos, the time, date and place the photo or content was taken or uploaded, also
known as metadata), and how you use them, who views them or with whom you share
them.
vi.
Cookies and Similar Technologies. By using,
registering, or subscribing to the Services, you understand, agree, and consent
to the use of cookies and similar technologies to store and access information
on devices you connect to the Services in accordance with our Cookie
Policy. We and our third-party partners may
use cookies and similar technologies to collect, analyze and store information,
to provide and/or improve the Services and/or other products or services
offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES, to provide customized advertising on our Services
and on other sites or applications, and to identify and prevent fraudulent
activities.
vii.
Your Communications with Us and Other Users. We
collect communications you send to us (such as emails), comments that you post
on the pages we have on a third-party service, such as our Facebook, Twitter,
and Instagram pages and messages that you send us directly through those
services. We may also collect any comments, photos, messages, likes or other
emotes, or other content or communications you and other users share on the
Services.
viii.
Third-Party Social Networking Sites. When you have enabled the
use of our Services through a third-party social networking or similar site or
mobile or other application (a “Social Networking Site”) or connect or link our
Services to a Social Networking Site, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, or Google+, you permit REPUBLICAN SINGLES to
access and use certain information about you that is made available to
REPUBLICAN SINGLES through or from that Social Networking Site. The information
obtained by REPUBLICAN SINGLES varies by Social Networking Site and may be
affected by the privacy and permission settings you establish at that Social
Networking Site, but can include information such as your name, username, user
ID, location, country, language, profile picture, public Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Tumblr, or Google+ profiles, networks, gender,
age range or birthday, place of work, relationship interests, interests,
photos, photos you are tagged in, videos, contacts list, friends lists or
followers and other information such as information about Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Tumblr, or Google+ friends you might share in
common with other members of the Services. By using or linking our Services
through or with a Social Networking Site, you are authorizing REPUBLICAN
SINGLES to collect, store, retain and use, in accordance with this Policy and
any applicable laws, any and all of your information that REPUBLICAN SINGLES
has obtained from the Social Networking Site, including to create a REPUBLICAN
SINGLES profile page and account for you. Depending on the Social Networking
Site and your privacy settings, REPUBLICAN SINGLES may also post information to
your Social Networking Site profile or page. Your agreement to the foregoing
takes place when you “accept” or “allow” or “go to” (or other similar terms,
such as tapping “Okay”) our application from a Social Networking Site, go to a
Social Networking Site from the Services, when you sign up or login to the
Services through a Social Networking Site (such as by tapping “Sign up with
Facebook” or “Log in with Facebook” on the Services), when you otherwise
connect or link your Social Networking Site to our Services, or the transfer of
information to REPUBLICAN SINGLES from such site. If there is information about
your “friends” or people you are associated with in your Social Networking Site
account, the information we obtain about those persons may also depend on the
privacy settings such people have with the applicable Social Networking Site.
You acknowledge and agree that REPUBLICAN SINGLES is not responsible for, and
has no control over, any applicable privacy settings on any Social Networking
Sites (including any settings related to any messages or advertisements about
REPUBLICAN SINGLES that the Social Networking Site may send to you or your
friends). You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy
settings on Social Networking Sites before getting or using applications such
as ours or linking or connecting your Social Networking Site account to the
Services.
ix.
Information Provided by Others. We may be provided with
information relating to you or your conduct on the Services by other users of
the Services. We also collect information that third-party organizations may
provide to us, such as contact details, demographic information, Internet
navigation details, credit reference or fraud prevention information. Financial
institutions or payment processors may also provide us updated payment
information or payment methods related to your paid account or paid subscription
and services.
x.
Address Book. We may also offer you the
ability to import your address book contacts or manually enter email addresses
so that you can (i) invite your contacts to join you on the Services or other
products or services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES; or (ii) locate your
contacts on the Services or other products or services offered by REPUBLICAN
SINGLES. When we invite your friends to join the Services, we may include your
name, photo or other information to let them know that you are the person
extending the invitation. After sending these invitations, we may also send
reminder emails to your invitees on your behalf. We will store those contacts
for purposes of alerting you when your contacts join the Services or other
products or services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES at a later time, so that you
may connect with them on REPUBLICAN SINGLES, and to suggest friends and
connections to other members of the Services or other products or services
offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES.
By using, registering, or subscribing to the
Services, you confirm that you have read, understand and consent to the use of
your personal information to send you notifications, promotions and advertising
by email, SMS or MMS text message or in accordance with this Section C.
We
use your personal information for purposes described in this Policy or
disclosed to you on or in connection with our Services (e.g., through
disclosures or consent mechanisms that may appear when you access certain services,
features or applications). By using, registering, or subscribing to the
Services, you confirm that you have read, understand and consent to the
following ways in which we may use this information:
·
Provide the requested Services: to administer and maintain
your REPUBLICAN SINGLES account and to provide the functions and features that
are generally considered part of the Services (including to provide
communications as described below). We will use all categories of information described
in Section C of this Policy to do this. This includes using your information as
described in this Policy and providing the functions and features of the
Services to you;
·
Analyze and develop our products and services: to develop, analyze,
monitor, measure, improve, and deliver our Services or other products or
services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES and to develop new products and
services. We will use all categories of information described in Section C for
this;
·
Protect the Services and REPUBLICAN SINGLES’s
property: to
prevent and detect abusive, malicious, fraudulent, or potentially illegal
activities, and to protect the rights, safety or property of REPUBLICAN SINGLES
or our users including to exercise or enforce any rights in our Terms of Use
Agreement. Although we may use other categories of information described in
Section C where they are relevant for this purpose, we will predominantly use
information about how you use the Services and information provided by others
(such as reports from other users relating to your conduct on the Services).
·
Communicate with you: We will use your Contact
Information when we communicate with you to respond to your questions, comments
and feedback, and to provide customer service, to provide any messaging or
communications associated with the features and functions of the Services
(including by email, SMS or MMS text message), to keep you posted about our
latest product or service announcements or updates, to provide you with software
updates, security alerts and any technical notices, to provide you with invoices,
confirmation of purchases, support and administrative messages or notices about
changes to our terms, conditions or policies. Where it is relevant to the
issues we are contacting you about we may also use the other categories of
information described in Section C above.
·
Promotions and advertising: We will use your Contact
Information for direct communications with you to communicate with you about
and administer promotions, contests, and rewards, upcoming events and other
news about products and services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES and our selected
partners that may be relevant to you, your interests and how you use the
Services, including advertising communications and marketing; and to develop,
display and track content or advertising that may be relevant to you on our
site and other sites, including providing our advertisements to you when you
visit other sites. We may use all categories of information described in Section
C for this purpose. For information on your marketing and advertising options
see the “Advertising Choices” section below. You can also find out more about
our use of cookies and similar technologies for advertising and marketing purposes
in our Cookie Policy.
·
Geographical or GPS location-based services: in addition to the uses
described above, to provide features of the Services that may be relevant to
you and your geographical location or GPS information, such as Services
provided through our mobile apps that may allow users to see more information
about each other, for example, common restaurants or points of interest visited
or seen; you should always check the location-based settings on both your
device and on the Services to manage such services;
·
Perform other functions as may otherwise be
described to you at the time of collection or as enabled by you in relation to
our Services or other products or services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES; and
·
Link or combine information about you with
other information we get from third parties to help understand your needs and
provide you with a better service.
By using, registering, or subscribing to the Services,
you confirm that you have read, understand and consent to the use of your
personal information to send you notifications, promotions and advertising by
email, SMS or MMS text message or in accordance with this Section D.
Our
Services allow you to share information about yourself with other individuals
and other companies, including other users and potential users of the Services
or other products or services offered by REPUBLICAN SINGLES and third-party
Social Networking Sites. You should consider your own privacy and personal
safety when sharing your information with anyone, including information you
share through your profile, as profiles include basic information that was
provided at registration, information provided through a Social Networking
Site, and may include other information added by you or your friends (for
example, your religion, ethnicity and physical characteristics), as well as
information about your use of the Service (for example, whether you were
recently logged in to REPUBLICAN SINGLES). Please review our Online
Dating Safety Guide for tips
in using our Services.
Information
on your profile is viewable by other visitors or users of our Services, and may
also be viewable through public search or on third-party sites that you use. We
do not control who reads the information you share or what others may do with
this information, so we encourage you to use caution and discretion with
respect to your personal information. Also, when sharing information about others,
please consider their privacy and safety and get their consent for that
sharing.
Additionally,
we may share information with third parties as follows:
i.
with your consent (for example, if you
consent to our sharing your information with a third party for the third
party’s own and independent direct marketing purposes subject to its separate
privacy policy);
ii.
with our business partners or affiliates who
offer a service to you jointly with us, for example, when running a promotion
or contest;
iii.
with third party vendors, consultants,
advertising partners, and other service providers that perform services on our
behalf, which may include, but is not limited to, identifying and serving
targeted advertisements, processing payments, providing fraud detection services,
providing chargeback representation services or providing analytics or
attribution services;
iv.
in connection with any company transaction,
such as a merger, reorganization, financing, sale of assets or shares, change
of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another
company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy, dissolution, divestiture
or any related or similar proceedings; and
v.
to, in our sole discretion, (i) satisfy any
applicable regulation, law, subpoena/court order, legal process or other
government request, (ii) detect, prevent or otherwise address criminal
(including stalking or fraud), security or technical issues, (iii) enforce our
Terms of Use Agreement, including the investigation of potential violations
thereof, (iv) investigate and defend
ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, and (v) protect
against harm to the rights, property or safety of REPUBLICAN SINGLES, its users
or the public as required or permitted by law.
We
may also share information with others that is not personal information, or
that is in an aggregated or anonymous form that does not reasonably identify
you directly as an individual or is provided in hashed, non-human readable
form.
For
further information on your marketing and advertising options see the “Advertising
Choices” section below. Note that the term “third party” does not include
companies in the same group of companies as REPUBLICAN SINGLES, which includes
our subsidiaries (that is, any organization we own or control) or our ultimate
holding company (that is, any organization that owns or controls us) and any
subsidiaries that our holding company owns. Unless otherwise indicated, these
companies will use your personal information in the same way as we can under
this Policy.
i.
Communications from Us. By registering for our
Services, you consent to receive email messages from us. You can opt out of
receiving certain messages from us by visiting the “settings” page of your
account or by clicking the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link on these email
communications from REPUBLICAN SINGLES. Note that you are not permitted to
unsubscribe or opt out of non-promotional messages regarding your account, such
as technical notices or purchase confirmations, or our ongoing business
activities in order to provide the Services to you. If you consent to receive
SMS or MMS text messages, we may communicate with you via text.
ii.
Online Advertising and Tracking. In addition to the
advertising practices described above, we may use, share or permit third party
advertising networks or similar third-party partners to collect information
about your browsing and usage activities over time and across websites and
applications when you use our sites or Services. Typically, this information is
collected through pixels, cookies, or similar technologies which recognize the
device you are using and collect information, including hashed data, click
stream information, browsing and usage activities on our Services and on other
applications and sites around the Web, browser type, time and date you visited
the site, and other information. This information is typically used to display
targeted ads on or through our Services or other products or services offered by
REPUBLICAN SINGLES, to display targeted ads to our users or website visitors on
other websites or apps, including on Facebook, and to analyze the success of
our marketing campaign efforts. If you would like to disable cookies, limit
advertising that utilizes cookies or similar technologies, or find out more
about cookies and how to manage their use in connection with advertising,
please read our Cookie Policy. Please
note that you may not be able to limit all advertising and tracking on your
mobile device.
By
using, registering, or subscribing to the Services, you confirm that you have
read, understand and consent to the storage and processing of your personal
information in the United States of America (and other countries) as described
below:
Most
of the personal information we hold about you is either available directly from
viewing your account and looking back over your activities, or is available
from the Social Networking Sites that you have connected to the Services. You
may access and change certain information by visiting the “Profile Edit” and
“Settings” sections of your account. You may also contact us for assistance
using the address provided above if you want to access, remove or deactivate
your account information. Nonetheless, REPUBLICAN SINGLES expressly reserves
the right to maintain and store any information or other data where REPUBLICAN
SINGLES reasonably believes in its sole discretion that such action is required
to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations or for the detection or
prevention of criminal or other unlawful activity or where REPUBLICAN SINGLES
has a legitimate business reason to do so, such as collecting amounts owed,
resolving disputes, maintaining automated back-ups, for analytical purposes,
enforcing our Terms of Use Agreement or for recordkeeping integrity.
Please
note that if you change information in your account or otherwise opt out of
receiving certain communications, this will only affect future activities or communications
from us. If we have already provided your information to a third party before
you have changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to
change your preferences directly with that third party.
The
personal information we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored in
the United States of America and other countries. If you are located in the
European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use
that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information,
including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not
have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the
transfer of information to the U.S. or any other country in which REPUBLICAN
SINGLES or its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain
facilities, and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in
this Privacy Policy. REPUBLICAN SINGLES will take reasonable measures to help
protect your information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized
access, disclosure, alteration or destruction and to treat it in accordance
with this Policy. No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We urge you to
keep your personal information safe (including your account password). Please
see the United States Federal Trade Commission’s website at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm
for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.
By
using, registering, or subscribing to the Services, you confirm that you have
read, understand and consent to the sharing of personal information with third
parties as described here. The Services may, from time to time, contain links
to and from third party websites of our affiliates, advertisers, partner
networks, partner merchants, or partner retailers. Please note that these
websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any
responsibility or liability for their policies, if you follow a link to any of
these websites. Please always check the privacy policies that apply to a third-party
site before you provide any information to the third-party website.
We
may share your personal information, including your payment transactions and
activities on the REPUBLICAN SINGLES Services, with third party partners for
security and fraud prevention purposes.
We
reserve the right to change or modify this Policy from at our discretion. If we
make changes to this Policy, we will change the “Last Revision” date at the top
of this Policy and will post the updated Policy on this page. We may also utilize
other methods of notice or request your consent depending on the circumstances.
This
Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require
disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the Service.