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<p>
<b>Privacy Policy</b>
</p>
<p>('<b>We</b>') FurryMate are committed
to protecting and respecting your privacy.</p>
<p>This policy (together with our terms
and conditions of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the
basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to
us, will be processed by us.
Please read the following carefully to understand
our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>What information do we collect about
you?</b>
</p>
<p>We may collect and process the
following information about you:</p>
<p>·  .
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site (the
'Site') (including your personal details, contact details, and other profile
information you submit when you create a membership profile).
We may also
collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide
feedback and participate in competitions.</p>
<p>·  .
Information from your web-based email accounts (including your profile
picture and other publicly visible information) if you agree to add the Site's
email address to the contact lists stored at your email provider's website.</p>
<p>·  .
Your location according to the IP address assigned to your PC by your
Internet Service Provider.</p>
<p>·  .
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.</p>
<p>·  .
Details of transactions you carry out through the Site, including
any information we require to provide any products or services that you order
from us through the Site.</p>
<p>·  .
Website usage information is also collected using cookies (see below
under 'Cookies'). </p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>How will we use the information about
you?</b>
</p>
<p>We use the information we hold about
you in the following ways:</p>
<p>·  .
To administer your user account with us (including notifying you of any
compatible matches, tips, announcements, updates, special offers or services,
should you consent to it).</p>
<p>·  .
To help us improve the structure, layout and usability of the Site.</p>
<p>·  .
To allow you to participate in any interactive features of the Site</p>
<p>·  .
To help personalize your repeat visits to the Site.</p>
<p>·  .
To notify you of any compatible matches or any matches who are near your
location.</p>
<p>·  .
To provide you with information, products or services that you request
from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be
contacted for such purposes</p>
<p>·  .
To answer any questions you may raise or respond to any comments you may
send to us.</p>
<p>·  .
To notify you about changes to our service or the functionality of the
Site.</p>
<p>·  .
To carry out market analysis and research.</p>
<p>·  .
To ensure that you are complying with the terms and conditions of use
and to comply with our statutory and regulatory obligations. .
</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>What information do we collect about
others?</b>
</p>
<p>Some features of the Site allow you
to share your Site experience with people you know (“your Contacts”), or to
invite them to join the Site.
When given the option to do so you can choose to
upload your Contacts information.
we will request their name and email address.</p>
<p>If you give us your password to
upload these Contacts through a web based email provider we shall not store your
password after you have uploaded your Contacts’ addresses.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>How do we use information about your
Contacts?</b>
</p>
<p>If you choose to upload your
Contact’s name and email address you are allowing us to send an email
invitation on your behalf, inviting your Contact to join the Site.</p>
<p>We will store your Contact’s name and
email address solely for the purposes of inviting them to join our Site and for
associating your Contact with you and other people they may know.</p>
<p>If your Contact does not want us to
store their email address which you uploaded to our Site, they can ask us to
remove it by contacting us at using our contact form.</p>
<p>We will not store your Contacts
information after invitations (up to a maximum of 3) have been sent.
Your
Contacts will then only receive future emails from us if they choose to accept
the invitation and join our Site, or if you use any of our tools to share
experiences with your Contacts and you input their email address for us to use
again.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Disclosure of your information</b>
</p>
<p>As we continue to develop our
business, we might sell or buy assets.
In such transactions, the information we
have collected about you will generally be one of the transferred business
assets.
Also in the unlikely event that we or our assets are purchased, your
information will also be one of the transferred assets.
We may share
information about you with:</p>
<p>·  .
Other companies in the same corporate group as us.</p>
<p>·  .
A buyer or prospective buyer of our business.</p>
<p>·  .
Our professional advisers, such as our lawyers, where it is necessary
for them to advise us.</p>
<p>·  .
Other persons if we are under a duty to disclose or share your
information in order to comply with any legal obligation.</p>
<p>We may also share information about
you with third parties that we engage to help us in certain areas, such as
processing payments for services you order from us.
However, we will control
and be responsible for the use of your information by these third parties.</p>
<p>We may also provide information about
you to other users of the Site as reasonably required in order to provide the
services that you order from us.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Marketing and other uses of your
non-personal data by us and by third parties</b>
</p>
<p>We may share non-personal information
we collect under any of the above circumstances.
We may share it with our own
companies or other third parties to develop and deliver targeted advertising to
you, or to help us prepare or share aggregate business and marketing reports.</p>
<p>We would like to send you information
about goods and services offered by us and selected third parties that we think
may be of interest to you.
For that, the email address or mobile phone number
you have provided can be used.</p>
<p>If you do not want us to use your
data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing
purposes please tick the appropriate boxes situated in the 'my account' area of
the Site.
You can also ask us to not to use your personal information, or to
pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, by e-mailing us
using the contact form found in the footer of the site.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Cookies</b>
</p>
<p>We may collect information about your
computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and
browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to
our advertisers.
This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and
patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may
obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file
which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.
Cookies contain information
that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
They help us to improve the
Site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
They enable us:</p>
<p>·  .
To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.</p>
<p>·  .
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise the Site according to your individual interests.</p>
<p>·  .
To speed up your searches.</p>
<p>·  .
To recognize you when you return to the Site.</p>
<p>Cookies are small text files that are
placed on your computer by websites that you visit.
They are widely used in
order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide
information to the owners of the site.
We use cookies to enhance our
security, help us gather information during subscription and understand our web
traffic trends.
You can amend your browser settings so that you do not accept
cookies, but this will probably adversely affect the way you experience our
Site.</p>
<p>Non-personal data may be gathered on
our behalf using cookies, log file data, and code that is embedded on our
websites by specific third party partners.
We use this non-personal information
to help improve the services we provides to you.
The non-personal data gathered
is used to provide anonymised statistical information.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Where we store your personal data</b>
</p>
<p>The personal data that we collect
from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a secure server.
It may also be
processed by staff who work for us or for one of our suppliers (for example,
staff who are involved in providing services that you order from us, processing
your payment details or providing support services for the Site).
By submitting
your personal data to us through the Site, you agree to this transfer, storing
or processing.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your
data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.</p>
<p>Where we have given you (or where you
have chosen) a password or user ID code which enables you to access certain
parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping the password or user ID code
confidential.
We ask you not to share a password or user ID code with anyone.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure.
Athough we will do our
best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your
data transmitted to the Site.
any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we
have received your information, we will use procedures and security features to
try to prevent unauthorized access.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Other Websites</b>
</p>
<p>The Site may, from time to time,
contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and
affiliates.
If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that
these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any
responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please check these policies
before you submit any personal data to these websites.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Access to information and correction</b>
</p>
<p>You have the right to request a copy
of the information that we hold about you.
If you would like a copy of some or
all of your personal information, please contact us using our contact form
located at the footer of the website.
Please note that we may make a small
charge for this service.</p>
<p>We want to make sure that your
personal information is accurate and up to date.
You can ask us to correct or
remove information you think is inaccurate at any time by e-mailing by using
our contact form located at the footer of the website.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Changes to our privacy policy</b>
</p>
<p>We keep our privacy policy under
regular review and will post any changes to it on this page.
We encourage you
to regularly review our privacy policy to make sure you are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if
any, we may share it with other parties.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<b>Questions</b>
</p>
<p>If you have any questions about this
privacy policy then please contact us at using our contact form located in the
footer of the site.</p>