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SantaMatch Privacy Policy
- SantaMatch is uncompromisingly committed to your privacy. We value our reputation as a trustworthy introduction site and have no intentions of compromising any of our customers' personal information or privacy. Our only revenues are derived from your profile approval fee and from advertising on SantaMatch.com.
- We do not rent, sell or share your personal information with other people or companies for their promotional purposes.
- Registration - In order to use SantaMatch.com, you must first complete the registration process, which will require you to provide your email address, a screen name, a password, your gender and your date of birth, as well as some other personal information necessary to introduce you to compatible mates. We use your email address to notify you when other members are attempting to contact you and to notify you when we find new matches as you have requested by agreeing to our Terms of Use. SantaMatch does not have a newsletter or a periodical, however, from time to time we may remind you if you have unopened mail in your mailbox or you have not logged in to view your newly found introduction. Once you have checked your mail or logged in to view your introductions, you will not receive any more reminder emails. If you wish not to receive those reminders, you may log in, go to Settings, click Other Settings and cancel your account.
- SantaMatch.com and its parent Happy Mondays GWG LLC are the sole owners of the information collected on SantaMatch.com. SantaMatch.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
- Agents - We use PayPal to process your credit card / PayPal account payments. PayPal does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes. We do not give access to your personally identifiable information collected on our website to any agent, vendor or third party.
- Tell-A-Friend - If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or one of our members, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. SantaMatch.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and for tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at
to request that we remove this information from our database.
- Access to Personally Identifiable Information - If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may cancel your account by going to your member settings, then clicking Other Settings and following the instructions on the screen. You can also cancel your account by emailing us to or by physical postal mail at the contact information listed at the bottom of this page.
- Cookies - A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site, however we do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. In addition to your session ID cookie, which identifies you as a logged in member, we use cookies to trace the affiliate that referred you to us and to remember your search criteria so we can automatically display members who fit your criteria of age, location and gender. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If you reject cookies, you will not be able to log in as a member and your membership experience may be very limited. In addition to cookies installed by our website, when you pay for a profile approval, our payment processing agent, PayPal (a subsidiary of Ebay Inc.) may install cookies on your hard drive for various payment processing purposes.
- We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us to . We guard all your personal data and profile information on servers that are accessible only to our staff for operational purposes such as approving profiles and reviewing and investigating abuse reports
- Changes in this Privacy Statement - If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
- We may disclose your personal information only in case that such information is subpoenaed under court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies only if such action is required to investigate possible illegal activities, suspected fraud or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or as otherwise required by law.
- We do not sell your personal information to advertisers for marketing purposes.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you and your browsing habits.
- We will not contact you or any other member to discuss or question any information that you have entered on your profile.
- Our physical address for mailing and other inquiries:
SantaMatch.com
c/o Happy Mondays GWG LLC
1062 Childers Rd.
Atlanta, Georgia 30324
United States
SantaMatch.com through its parent Happy Mondays GWG LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.SantaMatch.com. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact customer support by email at or by mail to the address listed above. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
Effective date: April 1, 2008.
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