IHOOKUP NOW PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy (the "Policy")
applies to ihookupnow.com, the ihookup iphone app, and all websites and applications operated by Checkmate Mobile, Inc. or its subsidiaries
(the "CMM Websites" or "Our Websites").
Checkmate Mobile, Inc. ("CMM",
"us" "we") understands that the privacy of
its members, subscribers, guests and/or visitors ("Members",
"you" or "your") is very important. We've
developed this Policy to ensure that your privacy is protected while using any
of Our Websites.
1. A Special Note About
Children
Children under eighteen years of age are prohibited from using Our Websites or
any of our services. We ask that children not submit information to us.
2. About Information CMM
Collects
During the registration process for any of the CMM Websites, you may provide us
with certain Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") including,
but not limited to, your name, address, email address, and credit card and bank
information.
CMM Websites also use "cookies" to store and
sometimes track information to make your online experience easier and more
personalized. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web
browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies may record information a user
accesses on one webpage to simplify subsequent interactions with that website
by the same user, or to use the information to streamline the user's
transactions on related webpages. Cookies make it easier for a user to move
from webpage to webpage and to complete transactions over the Internet.
Most
major web browsers are set up so that they will initially accept cookies, but
you may modify your computer's preferences to issue you an alert when a cookie
is downloaded, or to disable the ability of third parties to download a cookie
to you. If you choose to reject all cookies, there are areas of CMM Websites
that may not function properly. You may obtain further information about
cookies and how they function at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
We
may also use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons or 1x1
"gifs" and other similar technologies (collectively "Pixel
Tags"), to track your use of Our Websites. A Pixel Tag is an electronic
image, often a single pixel (1x1), that is ordinarily not visible to Site
visitors and may be associated with cookies on the visitors' hard drives. We
also may include Pixel Tags in advertisements or promotional or other e-mail
messages, or to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The
information enables us to customize the services we offer.
If you send
us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other CMM Website
users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings
on any CMM Website, we may collect such information into a file that is
accessed only by authorized CMM personnel or representatives. We may also
collect other Members' comments about you.
On some of Our Websites, you
may choose to use our referral service to tell a friend or friends about us. In
this case, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address and email
your friend a invite to him or her to visit Our Website. We maintain this
information for the sole purpose of sending email and tracking the status of
the referral. Your friend or friends may contact us by email at support@ihookupnow.com to
request that we remove their email address from our records.
3. Our Use of Your
Personally Identifiable Information We use your PII internally to improve our
marketing efforts, analyze CMM Website usage, improve our content and product
offerings and customize Our Websites' content and layout. We believe these uses
allow us to improve Our Websites and better tailor your online experience.
We
may also use your PII to deliver information that, in some cases, is targeted
to your interests, such as banners and promotions.
We also send you
periodic informational updates via email.
We may use PII to resolve
disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce any agreements, policies and rules
governing the use of CMM Websites.
4. Our Disclosure of Your
Information
We DO NOT sell or rent any of your PII to third parties for marketing purposes
without your permission. We do, however, provide your PII to our service
providers (e.g., credit card processing companies, billing services) as
reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide services on the CMM Websites.
We
do disclose information in the aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing
and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we DO NOT disclose
information in any form that could be used to identify you personally such as
your CMM Website password, credit card number, and bank account number.
In
response to compulsory (required) governmental and/or third party inquiries, we
may disclose PII to comply with a court order, subpoena, and search warrant. We
expressly reserve the right to disclose your PII when we have a good faith
belief that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, or to enforce our
agreements, policies, and rules governing your use of the CMM website, or to
cooperate voluntarily with law enforcement inquiries.
We may share or
transfer some or all of your PII among our CMM family of companies, or to one
or more non-CMM family entities that acquire some or all of the business in
which that PII is used or maintained.
5. Your Use of CMM
Websites' Members' Information You may not use another CMM Websites' Members'
information, whether private or not, for commercial purposes, to spam, to
harass, or to make unlawful threats. We reserve the right to terminate those
who misuse other Members' information or who otherwise violate any user
agreements, policies, or rules governing the use of any CMM Website.
6. Do Not Disclose Your
PII or Password Please DO NOT post, share or disclose in public forums, e.g., chat
rooms, blogs, any PII that you do not wish other Members to know. We encourage
you to ask questions before you disclose your PII to others. Similarly, you
should never disclose or share your password with anyone else. If you lose
control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your PII and
may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. If your
password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change
your password and/or contact us at support@ihookupnow.com.
7. Reviewing, Changing or
Removing Your Personally Identifiable Information Once you register, you
will be able to review and change much of your PII including, but not limited
to:
◦
Your email address
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Your city, state, ZIP or other postal code, country
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Your password
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Your profile
Please promptly update your information by logging in to your account
and following the screen prompts. We strongly urge you to change your password
periodically to help reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your account
information.
Upon your request, we will remove your credit card number
and credit card expiration date from our main databases. To make this request,
email us at support@ihookupnow.com.
Despite the foregoing and even though you have requested us to remove
information, we will retain in our files certain data such as credit card
information used to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, comply with credit
card merchant banking and association agreements, enhance security, reduce
fraud, comply with Federal and State law, or to enforce any agreements,
policies, and rules governing your use of CMM Websites. Removed information
also may persist in backup copies and/or other users' caches. For example, any
information exchange with other Members may remain in their e-mail boxes,
computer caches, or instant message archive. Whether your exchanged information
is kept by another Member is beyond the control of any CMM Websites. Any such
information retained by CMM or under its control is not available to third
parties except as provided in this Policy.
8. Third Party Collections
of Information; Ad Tracking This Policy only addresses the use and disclosure
of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your PII to
others while using Our Websites or other sites throughout the internet,
different rules may apply to its use, maintenance, or disclosure. CMM does not
control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the
privacy policies of those third parties where applicable.
We may use
third party companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ
cookies or Pixel Tags to measure advertising effectiveness.
9. Security CMM Websites use reasonable security measures to help protect and
prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
We use industry standard efforts, such as firewalls, to safeguard your PII
information. While "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet,
or elsewhere, our technical staff works hard to help ensure your secure use of
our services.
10. EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework Participation (Please note: this
section applies to European Union residents only.) We participate in the EU
Safe Harbor Privacy Framework as set forth by the United States Department of
Commerce. As part of such participation, we have agreed to Better Business
Bureau ("BBB EU Safe Harbor") dispute resolution for disputes
relating to our compliance with the Safe Harbor Privacy Framework. If you have
complaints regarding our compliance with the Safe Harbor, you should contact us
by email at support@ihookupnow.com. If
contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may raise your complaint by
emailing BBB EU Safe Harbor at eusafeharbor@council.bbb.org.
11. Location CMM Websites are located in the United States. If you are visiting Our
Websites from outside the United States, you are on notice that your
information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.
The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries
might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.
12. Update/Delete/Opt-Out You have the following choices to modify or delete
your PII from our database:
* Send an email to support@ihookupnow.com
*
Log in with your password and modify/delete your profile
* Send a snail
mail to Checkmate Mobile, Inc. at 7960 B Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003, United
States, Attn: Privacy
*
By using the above contact information,
you may also receive emails from third party advertisers.
13. Revisions to this Privacy Policy CMM reserves its right, in their sole and
absolute discretion, to revise, amend, modify or revoke this Privacy Policy at
any time and in any manner to the fullest extent permitted by law. Changes to
this Policy will be effective by posting revisions on the CMM Websites.