GratefulDating.com is a service of Grateful Dating. This privacy policy describes how Grateful Dating treats personal information of our members who registered for Grateful Dating.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This privacy policy pertains to the use of the Grateful Dating web site at http://www.GratefulDating.com/
• This privacy policy covers how Grateful Dating treats personal information that Grateful Dating collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number.
• Children under 18 are not permitted to use the Grateful Dating service, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for children's use of the site.

Information Collection and How it is used

General Information

• Grateful Dating collects personal information when you register with Grateful Dating to use Grateful Dating services or to post content on Grateful Dating.
• When you register we ask for your name, contact information, and other personal information.
• Grateful Dating does not accept ore require any credit card information.
• Grateful Dating automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.
• Grateful Dating uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
• If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Grateful Dating Site, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Grateful Dating Site.

IP Addresses

IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with Grateful Dating.

IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including but not limited to:

• To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
• To estimate the total number of users visiting Grateful Dating from specific geographical regions.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

• You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
• If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Grateful Dating products or services that require you to "sign in," and you will not be able to take full advantage of the Grateful Dating service.
• Grateful Dating uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
• Access your information when you "sign in".
• Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Grateful Dating's services.
• Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
• Conduct research to improve Grateful Dating's content and services.

Web Beacons

Grateful Dating may use web beacons to research certain usage and activities of the Grateful Dating web site and service. The information collected through these web beacons is used to find out more about our users, for more accurate reporting, improve the effectiveness of our customer service, and to make Grateful Dating better for users in the future. No personally identifiable information from your Grateful Dating account is collected using these web beacons.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• When you register a profile, your information besides your last name, address, e-mail address, and phone number are visible to other registered members.
• Grateful Dating does not rent or sell your personal information.
• Generally, Grateful Dating does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent except to provide products or services you've requested and in the following circumstances: Grateful Dating may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Grateful Dating's terms of use, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial).
• When you register with us, your personal information and other data will be stored and processed in Canada and the United States and this information may be subject to the laws of these jurisdictions.

Editing and Deleting Account Information. Security.

• You can change your Grateful Dating account information, at any time.
• We may send you certain communications relating to the Grateful Dating service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your Grateful Dating account.
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• You can delete your Grateful Dating information at any time from your profile page; however, please note that your identification and contact information may remain in Grateful Dating's records for some period.
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• We limit access to protected personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
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• Your Grateful Dating account information is password-protected.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy

Grateful Dating may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your Grateful Dating account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

If you have questions or suggestions please contact us.