Online Gay Dating at DowntownDudes.com
Privacy Policy
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for DowntownDudes.com, a subsidiary of Unison Media Group.
1. The organization collecting the information...
- DowntownDudes.com
DowntownDudes.com is an online introduction and dating service providing a means for our members to meet other members on a personal level via the Internet. While the DowntownDudes.com site is solely responsible for collecting, displaying, and storing member data, entrance into DowntownDudes.com via the Internet may be from affiliated partners via the partners' Internet address and identity. A member's inclusion into DowntownDudes.com, by arrival via any one specific Internet address or identity will enable their publicly viewable ad and profile to be available to all other partner sites. To accomplish this, our members create their own personalized profile by providing certain personal information. None of the information we gather is permitted to be used by the public (visitors, members of our Partner Program, other members, or anyone not employed by DowntownDudes.com, Unison Media Group or the financial institutions we use to process membership fees) to identify a specific individual.
We are a subscription-based site. We collect no personally identifiable information from users that is not voluntarily submitted. We only collect credit card or bank information from those who choose to join at a premium membership level. All visitors to our site may browse the site, search the ads and view any articles or features our site has to offer by creating a simple and personalized membership ad.
2. What information we gather and/or track...
DowntownDudes.com gathers two types of information: Information
users voluntarily submit to us and information indirectly submitted to
us by users. Information users voluntarily submit to us:
There are two types of user-submitted information we
collect: Public and Private. We define Public information as personal
information that may be displayed on the site, such as age, gender and
height, but cannot be used to define any member’s real identity. Private
information is defined as any information that allows others to contact
a user other than through the DowntownDudes.com sites or allows the collection
of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site.
Private:
This information is gathered from members and guests who
apply for various services our site offers. This information includes
email address, first name, last name, birth date, credit card number,
and a user-specified password.
Public:
To accomplish our goal of bringing compatible people
together, we must gather personal information such as birthdate, gender,
height, marital status, etc.. This information is meant to be seen by
members and visitors to the site, but cannot be linked by any visitors
to any member’s private information.
Information indirectly submitted to us by users
This is information we collect, which is not personally
identifiable, such as browser type, cookies, and IP addresses. This
information is gathered for all users to the site.
3. What we do with the information we
gather and/or collect...
- Information users submit to DowntownDudes.com:
Public:
Public information supplied by the user is intended to be viewed by visitors to the site. This information is used by visitors for searching and matching purposes. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, etc..
Private:
Email addresses submitted by members and those placing personal ads are used by us when forwarding e-mail responses. Member email addresses are not disclosed to the person responding to a member’s or advertiser’s profile, unless permitted otherwise. We may use a user's email address to send valuable update or other information regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by contacting us at Support@DowntownDudes.com. Email addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service issues. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. All other private information submitted by the user is confidential. All private information can be updated or deleted by the user at any time.
Information indirectly submitted to us by users:
We use your IP address, server, and browser related information to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.
4. With whom the information may be shared...
- We do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of
your personal information except to the financial institution that
processes your credit card.
Our site uses temporary cookies to keep member session information. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. We use cookies to track items such as unique visitors to a page. At times we will pay to advertise on sites other than our own on a click-through basis, and we have used cookies to monitor traffic from those sites on which we advertise. If the user chooses to disable the use of cookies in their browser, most areas of the Service will not function properly. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user!
5. What choices are available to you regarding deleting and deactivating the information...
- You are under no obligation to remain a registered
member of DowntownDudes.com. At anytime, you can delete your membership from our
site by contacting us at
Support@DowntownDudes.com with your request. Once
we receive this request, please allow us up to 48 hours to make this
change to our database.
Some information concerning your membership may be retained for future legal and/or investigation purposes, if needed.
6. Security procedures in place
to protect your information...
- DowntownDudes.com takes every precaution to protect your
information and has security procedures in place to attempt to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our
control. The personal registration information collected by
DowntownDudes.com is
stored in secure operating environments with encryption capabilities
that are not available to the public. Only authorized employees have
access to your personal information, and DowntownDudes.com has strict
policies in place for
employees who have access either to the databases that store user
information or to the servers that host our services. While
DowntownDudes.com and Unison Media Group
cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur;
we make every effort to prevent such occurrences.
Also, you are responsible for the security of your DowntownDudes.com username and password. Please take care when using and storing them in a safe place. DowntownDudes.com suggests that you do not provide your password to anyone. You should log out of your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence, especially if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place, such as a library or Internet cafe.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can email us at Support@DowntownDudes.com.
7. How to correct any inaccuracies in the information...
- DowntownDudes.com gives registered members the following options
for accessing, correcting or modifying the information stored in
DowntownDudes.com database. You may update this information at any time from
within your DowntownDudes.com account by clicking Edit Profile from the
My Profile navigation
bar.
8. Security surrounding the use of credit cards...
- DowntownDudes.com has security measures in place to attempt to
protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under
our control. Our site features a secured server with encryption
capabilities. Only authorized employees have access to the information;
your real name, password, and credit card information, and
DowntownDudes.com has
strict policies in place for employees who have access either to the
databases that store user information or to the servers that host our
services. While DowntownDudes.com and Unison Media Group
cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur;
we make every effort to prevent such occurrences.
Your credit card number is encrypted prior to transmission.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can email us at Support@DowntownDudes.com.
Changes in our Privacy Policy...
- We may occasionally update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our
practices and services. If we make material changes in the way we collect,
use, or share your personal information, we will notify you by email at the
email address you most recently provided to us and/or by posting notice of
the changes on our website.
Contacting DowntownDudes.com, a subsidiary of Unison Media Group...
- If you have any questions about this summary, our Privacy Policy, or our
information practices, please contact us by email or postal mail:
Unison
Media Group
Attn: Privacy Officer
351 Pleasant St # 354
Northampton, MA 01060
Support@DowntownDudes.com