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Kiwi Cupid : About Us : Your Privacy
| Your Privacy |
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times we get questions from our users, regarding what information about
them we store via cookies in their browser and other privacy concerns.
Well this page is here to answer those questions. Questions regarding
this page should be sent to the New Zealand
Cupid staff at staff@kiwicupid.com.
1. What information does
Kiwi Cupid gather/track about you?
2. What this site does with the information it
gathers/tracks.
3. With whom this site shares the information it
gathers/tracks.
4. About the Community section.
5. About any links you may find on this site.
6. What Kiwi Cupid
does with cookies.
7. This site's policy on correcting and deleting personally
identifiable information.
What information does this site gather/track about you?
Kiwi Cupid
is an online matchmaking service created to make it easier for our members
and visitors to meet other individuals on the Internet. Our search engine
and MatchMaker engine provide them with matches based upon their specified
criteria. None of the information we gather can be used by the public
(visitors, other members, and anyone not employed by Kiwi Cupid,
its corporate affiliates, or the financial institutions we use to process
membership charges) to identify a specific individual. Members choose when
to disclose their personal information at their own risk such as when
contacting others through the contact system or listing any personal
contact information on their profile.
We are a membership-based service. We collect the name and email address
of standard Full account members. For Deluxe account members we collect
credit card, address, or bank information only from those who choose to
pay for a Deluxe account. No credit card information is stored on our
servers. Anyone on the Internet can search our profiles, participate in
the Community section, or sign up for a Full free account and use all
standard member features at no charge. Anyone is also welcome to create a
online profile/ad, free of charge. For maximum exposure, member profiles
are viewable on any of the Kiwi Cupid
consortium sites including any of our "co-branded" partner
sites. All sites of Kiwi Cupid
are owned and operated by Webcapacity Incorporated and none of the
information is shared with any third party unless you join on on one our
partner "co-brand" sites in which you will be notified up-front
that your Kiwi Cupid
information will be shared with the Kiwi Cupid
co-brand partner. All Kiwi Cupid
websites access and store profiles on our one central database and on no
third party systems.
Kiwi Cupid
gathers two types of information: information that users submit to us and
information not directly submitted by users.
Information submitted to Kiwi Cupid
There are two types of information we collect that users submit: public
and private. We define private information to be any information that
allows others to contact a user other than through Kiwi Cupid
or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is
displayed on the site. Public information is personal information that may
be displayed on the site, such as gender, age and height, but cannot be
linked to a particular user. (Except in the case of a Deluxe member who
chooses to list their contact information in their profile which is
viewable to all.)
Private Information:
The information gathered from free Full account members includes, email
address, IP address, first and last name.
The information gather from Deluxe members includes all of the above in
addition to credit card info, address and other billing information.
Credit card numbers are never committed to disk on our servers (stored on
our servers). Credit card numbers are only used during real time
authorization/billing so no one can get your credit card information.
Public Information:
To accomplish the goal of bringing compatible individuals together, we
must gather personal information such as gender, age, appearance, caste,
religion and more for the online profiles. This information is meant to be
seen by members and visitors to the site but cannot be used to identify a
specific member by name, address, etc. Kiwi Cupid
discourages individuals from including contact information in their
profile descriptions/text fields however Deluxe account holders can do so
if they choose. Any contact/personal information that is disclosed in
those areas is done so at the members own risk.
Information that users do not submit to us is aggregate information: This
is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as
what kind of browser you are using, IP address and occasionally traceroute
output to your computer. This information is gathered for all visitors to
the site.
What this site does with the information it gathers/tracks
Private Information:
All information collected in the registration process is not accessible by
other members except the below:
If a member has a profile on the site and another member contacts them, an
email is sent to the contacted member with their message and the
contacter's reply-to email address. What the contacter discloses in this
email is up to them and is done at their own risk. If the contacted member
wishes to respond it is up to them how to do it and what they want to
disclose. They can retrieve the contacter's reply-to email address via
their contact manager or in the initial message itself. When a member
contacts another member on the site via our contact system they are
disclosing their email address on file to the contactee at their own risk.
This is done so the contactee can get back in touch with them.
Deluxe account members can also choose to display their contact
information in their profile and do this at their own risk since the
information is publically viewable to the world.
Kiwi Cupid
will occasionally send out news/notices to all members. If the member
wishes to be removed from this list they can login with their username and
password. Go to their member home page and click on "Email
preferences". There they can choose to be removed from the list.
Note that users occasionally submit lists of emails to our "Recommend
Us" page. These emails are added to our future promotions mailing
list.
Public Information:
Public information supplied by the user on their profile is intended to be
viewed by visitors and members of the site. This information is disclosed
by members at their discretion.
Information that users do not submit to us is aggregate information: We
use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the
general administration of our website and for tracking where people come
from and other data.
With whom this site shares the information it
gathers/tracks
Kiwi Cupid
does not disclose any member information with any other third party unless
you have joined on a "co-branded" partner site. In the latter
case you are notified up-front before you join a Kiwi Cupid
co-branded site if your membership/information will be shared with a Kiwi Cupid
partner.
About any links you may find on this site
Any links to sites outside of Kiwi Cupid
or the Kiwi Cupid
sites, are not controlled or operated by Kiwi Cupid.
Hence this privacy information no longer applies when you leave this site.
This includes links to partners, any banner ads, or links in individuals
profiles etc.
What Kiwi Cupid
does with cookies
Like
thousands of other personalized websites on the Internet, the first time
you connect to Kiwi Cupid,
our server generates a random pair of numbers that is placed in three
cookies, and set in your browser. This random pair of numbers is then sent
back to the server each time you request a page on Kiwi Cupid.
Our server uses those numbers to identify your computer, and for example,
remember where you were in your search results or any of the various
things that can be customized on Kiwi Cupid.
Rest assured that there is absolutely NO PERSONAL information being stored
on your machine or sent back and forth between your computer and Kiwi Cupid.
Our cookies only store those two random numbers and cannot personally
identify you. Note however that if you are a logged in member on a shared
computer or public kiosk remember to click on LOGOUT! This will log you
out of your session and prevent others from accessing your account.
Also note that if you are a member and want to login, we provide two ways
to do this. The first being a standard login which your username and
password are transmitted in clear text, and the second being a SSL
encrypted login form which transmits your username and password in a more
secure encrypted fashion. Also note that, unlike some other sites which
pass your username and password in each HTTP request's Authorization
header, your username and password are only transmitted once and not each
request. Once again, your username or password are not stored in a cookie.
Kiwi Cupid
also makes certain pages accessible via SSL to its members, such as
billing history or editing/viewing your personal information. It is
optional for members to use however we added it for our members
convenience and privacy. For paying members also note that absolutely no
credit card numbers are stored on our servers.
Please note that Kiwi Cupid
does use several third party ad agencies. Each agency may or may not set
similar cookies to deliver ads to you. To find out more about these ad
agencies and their privacy policies you can visit their websites at:
http://www.burstmedia.com/release/privacy.asp
http://www.datais.com/privacy.html
This site's policy on correcting and deleting personally
identifiable information
Members have full control over any information they submit to this site.
The members profile can be edited, deleted, or hidden at anytime by
logging in with the username and password and clicking on "Update my
profile". The members private information can also be changed at
anytime via the same process above, and select "change my
information". |
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