Online Dating at Colorblindmatchmaking.com
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to the U.S. operations and Services offered by Color
Blind International.
Overall privacy statement
We take your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we want to help you understand the terms and conditions
surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct
or change it. These privacy practices apply to the Web site that you were
viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which is operated directly by
us, by our partner, or by our affiliate.
1. What information does Color Blind International collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the
best and most useful content and services. Several of the services and features
that we offer on our sites require you to provide us with information as a
condition of usage. These may include access to members-only areas, the ability
to post opinions or other content, participation in sweepstakes or contests,
subscriptions to print magazines and email newsletters and participation in
message boards.
We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email
address, postal address, phone number, mobile number and credit card information
when you provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other
sensitive information such as your job title, gender, username and password. We
may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the
information you provided to us.
Once you register with our Site you are no longer anonymous to us.
2. What is Color Blind International's practice regarding cookies?
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts
of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need
to have cookies turned on to visit most of our site, although active
participation in certain areas of our site may require cookies. Cookies alone
tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally
identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your
services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your
browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected.
We also use technologies, including electronic images known as Web
bugs-sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or beacons-that allow us to
track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and record
information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address,
the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you
visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or services, the
information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched
with any personally identifiable information about you.
We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:
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Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners'
sites;
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Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass),
statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage;
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Determining which features our overall user population likes best;
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Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit
our site;
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Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content based on your
interests.
We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on our site and,
sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking technology on your computer. We do
not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this
relationship. Unless you visit the Web site of these companies and provide them
with personally identifiable information about yourself, these tracking
technologies tell those advertisers nothing about who you are. Our advertisers'
use of tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.
3. How does Color Blind International use the information?
We use the information we gather for four general purposes:
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To customize the advertising and the content you see;
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To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking
information to determine how well each page performs overall based on
aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you;
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To fulfill your requests for certain products and services;
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To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be
of interest to you.
Personally identifiable information
We will make your personally identifiable information available to other
companies or people when:
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You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you
registered with us or provided us the information, or through a subsequent
affirmative election through our site.
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You volunteer information or create a public profile in the course of your
participation in our community features such as forums, user opinions and
reviews, chat rooms, photo sharing or other forms of public communication
and interaction.
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You use cobranded services (i.e., sites or services that we offer to you in
connection with a partner, who is identified on the site). When you use a
cobranded service on our site, you grant us permission to pass your
registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your
information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
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We may hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services such as
customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and
de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services
that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the
information in order to help us fulfill our services to you. We do not
provide your information to these companies for their own, permanent use.
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You unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a third
party. We may share your removal instruction with the third party so that it
may be added to that person's list of people to whom they may not send
emails.
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You are the winner of a contest or a sweepstakes that is co-sponsored with a
third party and that third party needs your information in order to manage
the prize fulfillment process.
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When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or
legal process.
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We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Color Blind
International’s Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products
or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our
users, or others.
Aggregate information
We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information
in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties
for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these
entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.
Business transfers
We are always seeking to improve our site and our business. In accomplishing
these objectives, we may buy or sell a company, or one or more of the companies
in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we
sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of
the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for
other business purposes.
5. What are my options?
Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our
registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of
the content and use many of the services offered by our site without
registering.
We also give users the following options:
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Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties
when registering. Users who opt in may remove themselves from mailing lists
at any time through the subscription-management pages or by following the
instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
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Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a
site, provided, however, that you may not be able to use some of our
products or services without providing us with certain information.
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How can I review and update my personally identifiable information?
You can review, correct, or change the information collected during registration
for our site. The instructions for doing this can be found in our
member-services areas. Users may change information at any time and as often as
necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have
questions about how our services work can contact us using e-mail addresses at
the bottom of this page.
7. How will I know if the privacy policy is changed?
Any modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected first within this
area of our site. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we
will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a
link to the new privacy statement. If we are going to be using the information
collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the
time of collection, we will send affected users written notice of the change by
e-mail.
8. Privacy of children
Our site is not directed to children under the age of 18. We operate our site in
compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit
registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable
information from, anyone under 18 years of age. This requirement is clearly
posted during the registration process.
Questions, Comments
Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our network
of Web sites should be sent to our corporate offices at Color Blind
International. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to
every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and
discard the information.
Effective date: March, 2011