Privacy & Cookies Policy
- This policy covers the following:
- What information Chancedit.com may collect about you
- How Chancedit.com may use information we collect about you
- Whether Chancedit.com may share your personal information with others
- How you can update and access your personal information collected by Chancedit.com
- Use of cookies on Chancedit.com and managing cookies
1. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY CHANCEDIT.COM
- We collect personal information when you register with Chancedit.com and when you visit Chancedit.com pages.
- When you register with Chancedit.com we ask for your name, gender, post code, country location, email address and birth date to enable us to provide you with the Chancedit.com service.
- Chancedit.com also automatically collects information from your browser including your computer’s IP address and Chancedit.com cookie information. This information is not used to track online movements to develop a personal profile of you.
- Chancedit.com complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
- Chancedit.com takes appropriate security measures to help safeguard personal information from unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.
2. USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY CHANCEDIT.COM
- Chancedit.com uses your personal information for purposes including:
- (a) to email you service administration announcements. For example, you may receive an email alerting you to a new personal message sent by a user or reminding you of your log in details.
- (b) to email you about any material posted or transmitted by you on Chancedit.com. For example, a missed connection posted by you.
- (c) to email you invitations to voluntarily complete surveys about the Chancedit.com service or enter competitions.
- (d) to email you for marketing purposes or about new services only where you have specifically agreed to be emailed for these purposes.
- (e) to personalise the way Chancedit.com content is presented to you.
- (f) to analyse and improve the Chancedit.com service.
- (g) use your personal information without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as managing our relationship with advertisers or auditing usage of the site.
- (h) use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your email/internet provider or law enforcement agencies about material or behaviour which Chancedit.com reasonably believes is or may be illegal.
- (i) use third parties for the processing of your personal information. If we transfer your personal information to countries which do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK, we put in place adequate contractual protections.
- Chancedit.com will only send your personal information to third parties when we have your consent to share the personal information, where we are required by law or as described in this paragraph 2.
3. USE OF COOKIES
- When you visit Chancedit.com a short text file called a “session cookie” is downloaded to your computer. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This session cookie allows you to (a) carry information across pages of the site and avoid having to re-enter information (b) access stored information within your account. Find out more about cookies.
- Chancedit.com may use a third party to serve advertisements on the site. Cookies may be associated with these advertisements to enable the advertiser to compile anonymous statistics, personalise advertising content and monitor the effectiveness of their campaigns.
- Chancedit.com uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of Chancedit.com including your IP address will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of Chancedit.com, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using Chancedit.com you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
- We do not have access to or control of cookies placed by third party advertisers or Google and this policy does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by third party advertisers or Google.
4. ALLOWING AND BLOCKING COOKIES
- You can configure your browser to allow all cookies, delete or block all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. If you block all cookies you may not be able to use certain features of Chancedit.com.
5. UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- You may edit your profile and preferences at any time by logging into your account and going to “Edit Profile”. Please update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
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6. DELETING POSTINGS AND MESSAGES
- You may delete any missed connection postings created by you or personal messages received by you at any time by logging into your account and going to “My Posts” and “Messages” respectively. Personal messages sent to other users can only be deleted if you cancel your registration.
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7. CANCELLING YOUR REGISTRATION
- If you wish to cancel your registration email us at notify@chancedit.com from the email address registered with Chancedit.com and we will disable your account and remove all your missed connection postings from the public areas of the site. Your account will then be permanently deleted as soon as reasonably possible. Note, once your account has been deleted you will not be able to retrieve any of the content or information.
8. HOW LONG WILL CHANCEDIT.COM KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?
- We hold your personal information on our backup systems for a reasonable period of time after you have cancelled your registration.
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9. FINDING OUT WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION CHANCEDIT.COM HOLDS ABOUT YOU
- Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to (a) request a copy of the personal information Chancedit.com holds about you (we charge £10 for information requests) (b) have any inaccuracies corrected in your personal information (this is free).
- Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer at the address below.
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10. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
- We may change this policy at any time by amending this page. If you use Chancedit.com after we have posted changes you are agreeing to be bound by this policy as amended.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
- Write to the Data Protection Officer at Chancedit.com Limited, PO BOX 61309, London N19 3TQ or email us at info@chancedit.com and our team will be in touch.