Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Privacy Policy of Pride Party. Thank you for taking the time to review it. We appreciate the trust you place in us by providing your information, and we are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy outlines the information we collect, why we collect it, how it's used, and your choices regarding your information. We've crafted this policy to be easy to understand, avoiding legal and technical jargon whenever possible.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the websites, apps, events, and other services provided by Pride Party. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our "services" in this Privacy Policy. We've included links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable services to ensure clarity. Some services may have their own unique privacy policy. If a particular service has its own privacy policy, that policy—not this Privacy Policy—applies.
Information We Collect
Recommend the most suitable communities requires us to gather certain information about you. This includes basic profile details and preferences regarding the types of individuals you'd like to connect with. Additionally, we collect data generated during your use of our services, such as access logs. Furthermore, when you access our services through a social media account, we may also collect information from third-party sources. For a more comprehensive understanding, we provide further details below.
The information you choose to provide when using the services:
1. Account Creation:
• Username: The name you choose to identify yourself on the platform.
• Email address: Used for communication and account recovery.
• Gender identity: Your self-identified gender.
• Photographs: Images you upload to represent yourself on the platform.
• Location: Information about your geographical location.
2. Subscription/Purchase:
• When you opt for a paid service or make a purchase directly, financial information like your debit or credit card number is collected.
3. Surveys and Focus Groups:
• When participating in surveys or focus groups, you share insights, responses to questions, and testimonials about the products and services.
4. Promotions, Events, or Contests:
• Information you provide when registering or entering such activities.
5 Customer Care Interaction:
• Information given during interactions with the customer care team. These interactions might be monitored or recorded for training purposes and service quality assurance.
6 Communication on Behalf of Others:
• If you request the platform to communicate or process information on behalf of others, the relevant information about those individuals is collected to fulfill your request.
The usage of cookies and similar data collection technologies.
1. Purpose of Cookies: The provider uses cookies to deliver, secure, and enhance its services. This includes functionalities such as remembering user preferences, recognizing users upon website visits, and personalizing ads based on user interests.
2. Linking Information from Cookies: The provider may link information obtained from cookies with other personal information they hold about the user. This integration helps in better understanding user behavior and preferences.
3. Cookie Management Options: Users are provided with various options to manage their cookies preferences. However, it's noted that modifying these preferences may affect the browsing experience on the website. In some cases, users might encounter limitations in accessing certain parts of the site if they choose to disable certain types of cookies.
4. Do Not Track (DNT) Feature: Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" feature, which allows users to signal to websites that they do not want their online activities to be tracked. If a website receives a DNT signal, it may refrain from collecting certain information about the user's browsing behavior. However, not all browsers support this feature, and the implementation of DNT signals is not yet standardized across platforms. Consequently, many businesses, including the service provider mentioned, do not currently respond to DNT signals.
How We Use Information
1. Create and manage your account: This involves collecting necessary information to set up and maintain user accounts on the platform. It may include details such as username, email address, password, and other profile information required for account creation and management.
2. Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests: User information is utilized to offer assistance and address any inquiries or issues users may have regarding the services provided. This can involve collecting relevant data to understand user concerns and providing timely and effective support to resolve them.
3. Complete your transactions: User information is used to facilitate and process transactions carried out on the platform. This may include collecting payment details, shipping addresses, and other transaction-related information necessary to complete purchases or transactions initiated by users.
4. Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing: User information is utilized to communicate important updates, notifications, and information related to the services provided. This can include order confirmations, billing statements, service updates, and other relevant communications necessary to keep users informed about their account status and transactions.
To prevent, detect, and combat fraud or other illegal activities
1. Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform: The platform takes proactive steps to address instances of misbehavior occurring either within the platform's ecosystem or outside of it. This may involve investigating reports of misconduct, enforcing community guidelines or terms of service, and taking appropriate actions such as warnings, suspensions, or bans against users found engaging in such behavior.
2. Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures: Data analysis is conducted to gain insights into fraudulent or illegal activities, as well as patterns of misconduct. By analyzing various data points such as user behavior, transaction records, and communication patterns, the platform can identify potential threats and design effective countermeasures to mitigate risks and protect users from harm.
3. Retain data related to fraudulent activities: Data related to fraudulent activities is retained to prevent recurrences and enhance security measures. By keeping records of past incidents, the platform can identify recurring patterns, trends, or common tactics used by perpetrators. This information is valuable for improving fraud detection algorithms, strengthening security protocols, and implementing preventive measures to safeguard the platform and its users against future threats.
To ensure legal compliance regarding user data and interactions
1. Comply with legal requirements: The platform commits to complying with all relevant legal requirements, ensuring that its operations, including data processing and user interactions, adhere to applicable laws and regulations.
2. Assist law enforcement: The platform agrees to assist law enforcement agencies as necessary, providing information or cooperation in investigations related to illegal activities or breaches of the law.
3. Enforce or exercise our rights, for example our Terms: The platform reserves the right to enforce its terms of service and exercise its legal rights, such as taking action against users who violate these terms or engage in behavior that harms the platform or its users.
4. Provide our service to you: Processing user information is necessary to perform the contract between the platform and its users, such as maintaining accounts and profiles, making them viewable to others, and recommending connections.
5. Legitimate interests: The platform may process user information based on its legitimate interests, such as analyzing user behavior to improve services, suggesting relevant offers, and processing information for administrative, fraud detection, and other legal purposes.
How We Share Information
1. Sharing with Other Users: The primary sharing of users' information occurs with other users of the platform. This sharing is in line with the platform's goal of facilitating meaningful connections between users. Essentially, users' profiles and relevant information are made accessible to other users to facilitate interactions and connections.
2. Sharing with Service Providers: The platform shares some users' information with service providers who assist in operating the services. These service providers could include entities responsible for hosting the platform's infrastructure, providing technical support, managing customer data, or delivering specific features or functionalities of the platform. Sharing with service providers is essential for the platform to ensure the smooth operation and delivery of its services.
3. Sharing with Partners: Additionally, the platform may share users' information with partners who collaborate in operating the services. These partners could include companies or organizations that have a strategic partnership with the platform to enhance its offerings or extend its reach. Sharing with partners might involve data collaboration or integration to provide users with additional features, services, or opportunities for engagement.
Your Rights
1. Access / Update Tools: The platform offers tools and account settings within the service that allow you to access, rectify, or delete the information associated with your account. These tools empower you to manage your personal data directly within the platform. If you have questions or need assistance with these tools and settings, you can reach out to the customer support team at [email protected] for help.
2. Device Permissions: Mobile platforms have permission systems governing specific types of device data and notifications, such as access to your phone book, location services, and push notifications. You have the option to adjust your device settings to either consent to or oppose the collection of certain information or the display of certain notifications. However, it's important to note that modifying these settings may result in certain services losing full functionality.
3. Deletion: You have the ability to delete your account directly within the service. This functionality allows you to remove your account and associated information from the platform.
4. Reviewing Your Information: Depending on the jurisdiction and applicable privacy laws, you may have the right to review the personal information retained by the platform. This may be referred to as the right of access, right of portability, or similar terms. You can request a copy of your personal information by contacting the platform at [email protected].
5. Updating Your Information: If you believe that the information held by the platform is inaccurate, or if you no longer wish for the platform to use your information and want to request rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, you can contact the platform at [email protected] to make such requests.
Residents of California
If you are a resident of California, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). One of these rights is the ability to request a notice disclosing the categories of personal information that a company has shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year.
Here's what you need to know:
1. Requesting the Notice: If you are a California resident and you want to request this notice from Pride Party, you can do so by submitting your request via email to [email protected].
2. Response Time: PrideParty commits to responding to your request within 30 days. This ensures that you receive the necessary information in a timely manner.
3. Proof of Identity: To protect your privacy and the privacy of all users, Pride Party may ask you to provide proof of your identity before fulfilling your request. This verification process helps ensure that only authorized individuals gain access to sensitive personal information.
By providing this notice and offering the ability to request information about the sharing of personal data for direct marketing purposes, PrideParty aims to uphold transparency and comply with relevant privacy regulations, particularly those specific to California residents under the CCPA.
How We Protect Your Information
1. Preventing Unauthorized Access, Alteration, Disclosure, or Destruction: Pride Party implements measures to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information, as well as any unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of such data.
2. No Absolute Guarantee: It's important to note that despite their efforts, Pride Party cannot guarantee that your personal information will always remain secure. Like all technology companies, they acknowledge the inherent risks involved in managing and storing data.
3. Continuous Monitoring and Review: Pride Party regularly monitors its systems for potential vulnerabilities and threats. They also conduct routine reviews of their information collection, storage, and processing practices. This allows them to stay updated on the latest security measures and address any potential weaknesses promptly.
4. Security Measures Updates: As part of their commitment to security, Pride Party updates their physical, technical, and organizational security measures as needed. This ensures that they remain equipped to handle emerging threats and maintain the integrity of your personal information.
5. Suspension of Services in Case of Security Breach: In the event that Pride Party suspects or detects any breach of security, they reserve the right to suspend your use of some or all of their services without prior notice. This proactive measure helps prevent further unauthorized access or harm to your information.
6. Reporting Security Concerns: If you believe that your account or personal information is no longer secure, Pride Party encourages you to notify them immediately by contacting [email protected]. This allows them to investigate the issue and take appropriate action to address any security concerns.
Data retention
1. Legitimate Business Purposes: They retain personal information only for as long as necessary for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law.
2. Safety Retention Window: After an account is deleted, Pride Party implements a safety retention window of three months. During this period, account information is retained for the safety and security of users, although the account itself is not visible on the platform.
3. Deletion or Anonymization Upon Account Deletion: Following the safety retention window, Pride Party deletes or anonymizes your information upon the deletion of your account.
4. Account Inactivity: If an account remains inactive for two years, it will be disabled, and the account information will be stored for an additional six months before permanent deletion, unless:
• Legal Requirements: Information may be retained to comply with applicable laws, such as retaining traffic data for one year to meet statutory data retention obligations.
• Compliance Evidence: Pride Party may retain information to evidence compliance with applicable laws, such as records of consents to their Terms, Privacy Policy, and similar agreements for five years.
• Outstanding Issues: If there are unresolved issues, claims, or disputes, relevant information may be retained until resolution.
• Legitimate Business Interests: Information may be kept for legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing user safety and security. For example, data may be retained to prevent banned users from opening new accounts.
5. Technical Constraints: Pride Party notes that while their systems are designed to carry out data deletion processes according to their guidelines, they cannot guarantee that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to technical constraints.
Children's Privacy
1. Pride Party's services are exclusively for users who are 18 years of age or older.
2. Users under the age of 18 are not permitted on the platform, and Pride Party does not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18.
3. Users are encouraged to report any suspicion of underage users through the reporting mechanism provided on the platform.
Privacy Policy Changes
1. Pride Party acknowledges that their privacy policy may evolve over time as they strive to introduce new and innovative features to facilitate meaningful connections.
2. Users will be notified before any significant changes to the privacy policy take effect, giving them an opportunity to review the modifications.
How to Contact Us
For inquiries regarding the privacy policy or any related matters, users can contact Pride Party's support team at [email protected].