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Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is a complete statement of what information we collect and how we use it. Your data is not used for any other purposes except those explicitly stated here.
Non-personal information
Non-personal information is the information our servers automatically collect when you visit this site; it is used to generate statistics on our performance and our audience. It cannot be traced back to you. It is collected whether or not you choose to join our site and includes:
- URLs of pages you visit
- your ISP
- your IP address
- your web browser type and version
- your operating system
- the URL you clicked on to get here
Personal information
Personal information is information you explicitly give us, and in some cases it can be traced back to you. It is only collected if you join the web site. It is divided into two types: private data - that is data which we store and do not share with other users. And public data - that is data which we store and will publish to other users. Public data is in the public domain and can therefore be seen on this site and other sites in our network and may also be reachable through search engines and web directories.
Private data (non paying members)
- username and password
- email address
- postcode/zip code
- mobile phone number
- date of birth
- agreement to our terms and conditions
- date of joining
- account status
- times and dates of logins
- IP address
- private messages sent to other members
- email correspondence you have with us
- lists of favourites, flowers and other bookmarks sent and received
Public data
- screen name (nickname used on the site)
- country of residence
- county or region of residence
- sex and sexuality
- age and birthday
- number of children
- marital status
- number of children
- height
- build
- drinking habits
- smoking habits
- self description
- seek description
- hobbies and interests
- photographs
Termination of account
If you choose to close your account or your account is terminated by us, the above data remains on our system for up to 12 months, to ensure that if you wish to reopen your account, you can. If you do not return, it is permanently deleted from our database after 12 months.
The exception to this is your public message contributions which cannot be removed without destroying the threads.
Other web sites
We run several web sites, and your data may appear on other sites in our network, although no copies of your data are made, and all data is held centrally within our main database.
Your email address
Your email address is used to send you a welcome message and for message alerts to be sent to your email account or to send you occasional bulletins about this site and other services which may be of interest to you. We do not under any circumstances release your email address to other companies, individuals or organisations.
We may accept advertising on some of our sites, from Google.
Data Protection law
This site will respect and protect your privacy at all times and complies fully with the letter and the spirit of UK Data Protection.