BeeMatch (the "Company") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this privacy policy (the "policy"). This policy describes the types of information the Company may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit BeeMatch ("Website") and the Company's practices for collecting, using, keeping, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information the Company collects:
- On the Website (including desktop and mobile versions).
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Company.
- When you interact with the Company's advertising and applications on third-party websites and services.
- When you interact with the Website through third-party social media platforms.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- The Company offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third-party.
- Any third-party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand the Company's policies and practices regarding your information and how the Company will treat it. If you do not agree with the Company's policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this policy and consent to the Company's collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your personal information as described in this policy.
Table of Contents
- 1. Are minors welcome?
- 2. What information does the Company collect?
- 3. How does the Company use your information?
- 4. With whom does the Company share your information?
- 5. What choices do you have?
- 6. How do you access and correct your information?
- 7. How does the Company protect your information?
- 8. International Users (including the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland)
- 9. Do Not Track Policy
- 10. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA)
- 11. Links to Other Websites
- 12. No Rights of Third Parties
- 13. DMCA Takedown Requests
- 14. Changes to Privacy Policy
- 15. Contact Information
1. Are minors welcome?
The Website is not intended for persons under 18-years old. You will only access the Website or register if (1) you are at least 18-years old and (2) have reached the age of majority where you live. The Company prohibits all persons who do not meet the age requirements from accessing the Website. Minors must not access the Website or use its services.
The Company does not knowingly collect any information about children, minors, or anyone under the age of majority. Nor does the Company knowingly market to children, minors, or anyone under 18-years old. If you are under 18-years old, you must not submit information to the Company and must leave the Website.
If the Company becomes aware that a child, minor, or anyone under 18-years old has registered with the Website and provided the Company with personal information, the Company will take steps to cancel that account. If the Company cancels your account because you are under 18-years old, the Company may keep your email and IP address to ensure that you do not elude the rules by creating a new account.
2. What types of information does the Company collect about you and how is it collected?
The Company may collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:
- Personal Information: By which you may be personally identified, including your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number/federal employment identification number, or any other information that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under law.
- Non-Identifying Information: That is about you but individually does not identify you, including your age, gender, location, and any other optional information you provide about yourself.
- Technical Information: About your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.
How Information is Collected
The Company collects this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to the Company.
- Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, for example, the Company's business partners.
Information You Provide to the Company
The information the Company collects on or through the Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website, including at registration, signing up for an account, purchasing credits or tokens, or requesting services.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact the Company.
- Your responses to surveys that the Company might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfillment of your requests.
- Your search queries on the Website.
User Contributions
You may provide information to be published or displayed ("posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "user contributions"). Your user contributions are posted on the Website and transmitted to others at your own risk.
Warning: Although you may set certain privacy settings for this information by logging into your account, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. The Company cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your user contributions. Thus, the Company cannot and does not guarantee that your user contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information Collected through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with the Website, the Company may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
- Information about your mobile device and Internet connection, including the device's unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device's telephone number.
Opt-Out from Interest-Based Advertising
In compliance with the Digital Advertising Alliance's suite of Self-Regulatory Principles (DAA Principles) you can opt-out from receiving targeted ads:
- Android: Open the "Google Settings app" from your app drawer, tap "Ads", and select "Opt-out of Interest-based ads".
- iOS: Click on Settings → General → About → Advertising and toggle Limit Ad Tracking to 'ON'.
Location Services
If you do not want your location known, you can turn off location services on your mobile device:
- iOS: Settings → Location Services → Off
- Android: Profile → Privacy → On
Technologies Used for Automatic Data Collection
- Essential cookies: The Website uses its own cookies to keep you signed in, keep your session and forms secure, and remember your privacy choices. The Website does not work without them, so they are always used.
- Advertising partners' cookies: Some ads on the Website come from advertising partners whose code may set its own cookies. These are optional: visitors from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked first and only see partner ads after they accept, and anyone can turn them off on the Your Privacy Choices page.
- Cookies (or browser cookies): A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Your browser stores cookies in a manner associated with each website you visit. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. To learn more about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Flash Cookies: Certain features of the Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences. For information about managing your Flash cookie settings, access your Flash management tools from Adobe's Website.
- Web Beacons: Pages of the Website (and the Company's emails) may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email.
Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website.
The Company does not control third-party tracking technologies or how third parties use them. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. You can stop partner ads that may use these technologies on the Your Privacy Choices page.
Social Networks and Third-Party Plug-ins
The Website may include plugins from social networks and other third parties. An example of a plugin is the Facebook® "Like" button. Where legally permitted, these plugins may communicate with and send information to the party that provided the plugin, even if you do not click on the plugin. This information may include your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the address of the webpage you are visiting on the Website.
3. How does the Company use your information?
The Company may use information that it collects about you or that you provide to the Company, including any personal information:
- To present the Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from the Company.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out the Company's obligations and enforce its rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and the Company, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to the Website or any products or services the Company offers.
- To allow you to participate in any interactive features on the Website.
- To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Website and for marketing or advertising purposes.
- To investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access to the Website, and other illegal activities.
- To keep the Website safe and appropriate: the photos and profile text you post are checked, including by automated tools from service providers that use artificial intelligence, before or after other members see them, and content that breaks the Website's rules may be removed.
- To personalize the Website content, features, or advertisements.
- In any other way the Company may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
The Company may also use your information to contact you about the Company's own and third parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want the Company to use your information in this way, please contact us at
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4. With whom does the Company share your information?
The Company may disclose aggregated information about its users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. The Company may disclose personal information that it collects or you provide as described in this policy:
- To the Company's subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties the Company uses to support its business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company's assets.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by the Company when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
The Company may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply the terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If the Company believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, its customers, or others.
5. What choices do you have about how the Company uses and discloses your information?
The Company strives to provide you with choices about the personal information you provide to the Company:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's Website. To learn how you can manage your other cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising: If you do not want the Company to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt out by changing your email settings in your account or by contacting us at
. - Promotional Offers from the Company: If you do not want to have your email address used by the Company to promote its own or third parties' products or services, you can opt out by changing your email settings in your account or by contacting us. If the Company has sent you a promotional email, you may click on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email.
- Targeted Advertising: If you do not want advertising partners' code that may use cookies to show you ads based on your activity across websites, opt out on the Your Privacy Choices page (or turn on your browser's Global Privacy Control). For emails, change your email settings in your account.
6. How do you access and correct your information?
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also contact us at
to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to the Company.
Closing your account: when you close your account in Settings, your profile, photos and messages are hidden from other members and any membership is cancelled. The Company keeps your information so that you can reopen your account by signing in again, and to meet its legal, billing and safety obligations. To have your account and personal information permanently deleted, contact us; the Company will delete it except where the law requires it to be kept.
The Company cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your account. The Company will not accommodate a request to change information if it believes the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your user contributions from the Website, copies of your user contributions might remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users of the Website.
7. How does the Company protect your personal information?
The Company has implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, change, and disclosure. All information you provide to the Company is stored on its secure servers behind firewalls. The Company encrypts all payment transactions using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where the Company has given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. The Company asks you not to share your password with anyone.
Warning: The transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although the Company does its best to protect your personal information, the Company cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. The Company is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
8. International Users
This policy is intended to cover collection of information on or through the Website from residents of the United States. If you are visiting the Website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where the Company's servers are located.
The data protection and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Company's services, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to the Company's facilities and those third parties with whom the Company shares it as described in this policy.
When you provide personal information to the Company through the Website, you consent to the processing of your data in, and the transfer of your data to, the United States, or any other country in which the Company or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers host these services.
Users in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland
If you use the Website from the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (or the UK's or Switzerland's equivalent law) applies to the Company's use of your personal information, and the Company is its controller. The Company uses your personal information:
- to provide the Website and your account, and to carry out the purchases you make (performance of a contract);
- to keep the Website and its members safe, prevent fraud, and improve the Website (the Company's legitimate interests);
- to meet legal, tax and accounting obligations (legal obligation); and
- with your consent: for optional cookies such as advertising partners' cookies, and for any information about your sex life or sexual orientation that your profile shows (for example, who you are seeking). You can withdraw your consent at any time, on the Your Privacy Choices page for cookies, or by changing or deleting your profile.
You have the right to access your personal information, have it corrected or deleted, restrict or object to its use, receive a copy in a portable format, and withdraw consent, as well as the right to complain to the data protection authority where you live. To use these rights, contact us at
. Your information is processed in the United States; where the law requires it, the Company relies on appropriate safeguards for this transfer. The Company keeps your information while your account is open and afterwards only as long as needed for the purposes above and its legal obligations.
Visitors from these regions are asked before any optional cookies are used, and the Website only uses essential cookies until they accept.
Canadian Users: The Website may be subject to Canadian law, specifically, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (S.C. 2000, c. 5). If you believe that we have violated your privacy rights in any way, please contact us immediately at
. You may visit www.priv.gc.ca for more information about your privacy rights.
9. Do Not Track Policy
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in your browser. DNT is a way for you to inform websites and services that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services.
The Company is committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information it collects and that is why the Company provides you the ability to opt out. The Company does not respond to DNT signals, as the Internet industry has not agreed what DNT means. The Company does honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: a browser that sends it is treated as having opted out of the sale or sharing of personal information (see section 10).
For more information, visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
10. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the "CCPA"), gives you the right to: know what personal information the Company collects about you and how it is used and disclosed; get a copy of it; ask the Company to correct or delete it; opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information; limit the use of sensitive personal information; and not be treated differently for using any of these rights. To make a request, contact us at
or use our Contact Us page. The Company will verify your request using the information in your account, and you may use an authorized agent to make a request for you.
Personal information the Company collects (in the last 12 months): identifiers (such as your name, username, email address, phone number and IP address); account and profile information you provide (such as date of birth, gender, location, photos and profile text), which can include sensitive personal information about your sex life or sexual orientation (who you are seeking); commercial information (purchases and billing records; card numbers are processed by the payment processor and are not stored by the Company); internet activity on the Website; and approximate location from your IP address or the city you choose. It comes from you, your browser or device, and the Company's service providers, and is used for the purposes in section 3. The Company uses sensitive personal information only to provide the Website and keep it safe, so the right to limit its use does not apply.
Sale and sharing: The Company does not sell personal information for money and does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. Advertising partners' code on the Website may collect identifiers and internet activity through cookies to show ads based on activity across websites, which may count as "selling" or "sharing" under the CCPA. You can opt out on the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page, and the Company treats a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser as the same opt-out.
The Company keeps personal information while your account is open and afterwards as long as needed for the purposes in section 3 and its legal, billing and safety obligations.
California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits users of the Website that are California residents to request certain information about the Company's disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make this request, please contact us at
.
Further, if you are a California resident and would like to opt out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third-party for marketing purposes, please contact us at
.
Please be advised that if you opt out from permitting your personal information to be shared, you may still receive selected offers directly from the Company in accordance with California law.
11. Links to Other Websites
The Website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those other websites. The Company encourages its customers to be aware when they leave the Website and to read the privacy statements of any other website that collects personally identifiable information.
12. No Rights of Third Parties
This policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the Website.
13. DMCA Takedown Requests
The Website voluntarily complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you reasonably believe that your copyrighted work has been used or posted by a third-party without your consent, you may follow the instructions on our DMCA Notice page on how to report it.
By submitting a copyright infringement notice or another communication (including communications about content stored on or transmitted through the Website), you consent to have these communications forwarded to the person or entity who stored, transmitted, or linked to the content addressed by your communication, to facilitate a prompt resolution. The Company forwards DMCA infringement notices (including any personally identifying information contained in the notice) as submitted to the Company without any deletions.
14. Changes to Privacy Policy
The Company will post any changes it makes to this policy on this page. If the Company makes material changes to how it treats your personal information, the Company will notify you by email to the email address identified in your account or through a notice on the Website homepage.
This policy identifies when the Company last updated it at the top of the page. You are responsible for making sure the Company has an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for frequently visiting the Website and this policy to check for any changes.
15. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this policy and the Company's privacy practices, contact the Company at:
BeeMatch, K Brance 1173/15, PMB 18, Prague 155 00, Czechia
For general inquiries, please visit our Contact Us page.