Security/Privacy

Matchfinder Security/Privacy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Matchfinder.co.nz is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the Matchfinder.co.nz Web site. The Matchfinder.co.nz Web site is owned and operated by Matchfinder Pty Ltd New Zealand.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail here.

Gathering of Information

Voluntary Submission

Matchfinder.co.nz does not collect personally identifying information about any individual Matchfinder.co.nz Web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we ask you for information when you register for our site or to receive a newsletter. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit some of the Matchfinder.co.nz Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. Matchfinder.co.nz uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.

Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Browser Level Information

Matchfinder.co.nz Web servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most Web sites.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.

Matchfinder.co.nz derives the majority of its revenue from subscriptions. In order to attract and retain members we use the aggregated, anonymous information that we gather (as well as information from third-party market researchers) to describe our services to partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better understand our audience. We do not disclose personally identifying information about our users to these parties.

Matchfinder.co.nz may also disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

In addition, any personally identifiable information provided by our users as part of an advertiser promotion online may be provided directly to advertisers.

Please be aware that Matchfinder.co.nz sponsors, advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those parties and Web sites linked to Matchfinder.co.nz are not covered by this privacy statement. Matchfinder.co.nz users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

Kids under 18: Do not send any information about yourself to us--including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail here.

This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

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DEFINITIONS:

IP address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an “IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc. As part of its database analysis Matchfinder.co.nz resolves IP addresses to domain names.

Browser type: A user’s browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser software and version.

Referrer: The referrer is the URL of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser to request a page or image from Matchfinder.co.nz servers.