We built flirtatious to provide you with a fun and enjoyable social playground where you can meet, flirt, socialize and network with people in a safe, secure and anonymous environment. Flirtatious respects the privacy of our members and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe for you, as an individual who is a user of the flirtatious website or who is an advertiser on our website, the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services or transacting business with us. By using our website or otherwise doing business with us, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The following terms are incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use Agreement and are subject to all Terms and Conditions of such Agreement. Your use of any flirtatious service or this website is subject to the Terms of Use Agreement in its entirety.If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for additional information on how to contact us.
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1. Passwords
You may not disclose your password to any third party. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information. In addition, you may run the risk of another user accessing your password and using it to falsely represent your identity. If you have reason to believe that your password has been compromised for any reason, flirtatious strongly recommends that you immediately change your password.
2. Internet safety
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is an attempt to steal consumers' personal identity data, financial data, or account credentials. "Phishers" use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging Personal Information such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords, and social security numbers. WE DO NOT SEND EMAILS ASKING YOU TO PROVIDE OR CONFIRM SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION SUCH AS YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD! If you receive such email communication, please forward it immediately to the Site's Privacy Administrator at abuse@flirtatious.com, and then immediately delete the fraudulent email from your computer. If we need to talk to you, we will send you an email to your flirtatious inbox.
3. Information we collect
When you interact with our website, two types of information are collected. Information you provide and information collected through the use of technology.
INOFMRATION YOU PROVIDE: When you register with flirtatious you create your own profile and establish search settings which tell our computer system what you are looking for. Your anonymous profile information including your flirtatious username and photos are displayed to other users so you can connect with people on our social playground. Our goal is to connect you with people whom you are interested in.
Your anonymous username, profile and pictures will be available in search results across the flirtatious network. If you want to invite existing friends to join flirtatious or if you find new friends on-line, you can send them a friend request. Anyone searching the site will see your anonymous username unless they have a verified “friend” relationship to you. People whom you have a confirmed relationship with will see your first name, your initials or whatever you have specified in your user profile. The information friends see can always be edited but to keep it safe and clean, we ask that you never provide your last name or any personal contact information anywhere on your profile. This violates our TERMS of USE and also allows spammers or other unsavory people to bother you.
INFORMATION COLLECTED USING TECHNOLOGY: Information in your profile may be quantitatively analyzed without identifying you as an individual. For example, we may aggregate how many people in a particular city or state like a TV show or movie. We may also personalize advertisements and promotions to match your individual preferences so that we can provide you with a better flirtatious experience. For example, if you are looking at a page with advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you if they are somewhat relevant to your tastes. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar movie in your town. But we won't tell the movie company who you are or provide any personally identifiable data.
4. Disclosures
Free Member Activity. You can view basic profiles, play games and access free dating advice on flirtatious without having a paid flirtatious membership. You can also contact us about a particular member or profile concern without having a paid flirtatious membership.
Account-Related Activity. Certain activities on flirtatious such as posting comments, sending emails to members, reading emails from members and playing interactive versions of our social games may require you to have a paid flirtatious Account or game credits. We ask for some personal information when you create a flirtatious Account. This information includes your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
Usage Information. We may record basic information and web statistics regarding site usage, such as the members you communicate with, photos or profiles you tag as being inappropriate and the frequency and size of emails that are being sent (to detect spammers on the website). We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the flirtatious site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or photo or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (in descriptions, chat rooms, messages, on your profile pages, etc..., etc...) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by anyone with access to the internet.
Communication with flirtatious. If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the flirtatious.com website, we use your personal information to operate and maintain your user account and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you may send to us.
Anonymity.Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other flirtatious users when you upload photos, profiles or send messages through flirtatious.com. Flirtatious users can also contact you via anonymous email. Any photos or profiles that you submit to flirtatious may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. If you do not want anyone to have access to your images or profile, we ask you not to upload or share this information. We will never knowingly or intentionally redistribute this information, but internet users can easily copy your information or use information you send them via email and we want to make you aware of this fact.
Information That Becomes Public. When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age, your sexual orientation, and other profile information. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as when you send messages or play interactive games. Other flirtatious users can contact you through messages and games. You may also choose to add detailed personal information that will visible to other Users on your profile page (which is the public page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, your username, gender, relationship status, or other details.
If you choose to add someone as a friend, they will be able to see your first name. This is the name you supply upon registration and it can be updated and changed at any time. Any photos that you submit or upload to the flirtatious website may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels by anyone with basic computer knowledge. Any scrapping, harvesting, mining, copying other duplication of data or images on the flirtatious.com website is strictly prohibited and subject to the liquidated damages clause of our Terms of Use Agreement. (click here to read our Terms of Use). When you use flirtatious.com, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items, this information may become publicly available.
Commercial Emails. We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major site changes or for customer service purposes). You have the option to select what types of mail and notices you wish to receive in your account settings.
Cookies. We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc...
5. Your choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the flirtatious.com website, in which case you can still view profiles and explore our social playground, however, flirtatious may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced flirtatious features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up, complete the registration process or verify your email address.
You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your edit account profile page.
You may browse our site anonymously by changing your privacy settings at any time through the “View Profiles Anonymously" feature.
You may control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account, photos, description and profile specific data with our easy to use site navigation.
Once you register, you select the types of email notifications you wish to receive from us. We call this your email preferences. You can make changes to your email preferences at any time. Periodically, flirtatious may send you announcements as part of the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message or someone new flirts with you will receive an email alerting you to this fact.
You may opt out of such emails notifications by changing your mail preferences settings at any time. We reserve the right to send you important notices about your account even if you have selected to opt out of all voluntary email notifications. For example, if you request your password, we will send you a password reminder email even if you have opted out of all email notifications.
6. Third-party advertisers, links to other sites
flirtatious allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the flirtatious websites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the flirtatious websites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
Flirtatious does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks flirtatious to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who drink) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the flirtatious websites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Flirtatious.com's Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with flirtatious is maintained and dealt with by flirtatious in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Many advertisements are managed and placed on our Web sites by third parties. These companies are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers who place advertisements on our Web sites may use cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Web sites and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Finally, please keep in mind that if you click on an advertisement on one of our Web sites and link to a third party's Web site, then our Privacy Policy will not apply to your personally identifiable information collected on that third party's Web site and you must read the Privacy Policy posted on that site to see how your personally identifiable information will be handled.
7. Your privacy
We utilize cookies to auto fill certain user input boxes in the site. For example, we utilize cookies to auto fill search boxes based on your “search preferences” or to automatically fill in your username (but not your password) on the log in screen.
If you have Macromedia Flash installed on your computer, we may also use a file called a Flash Object to store your unique customer code or search preferences on your computer too. Unless deactivated by you, the Flash Object provides us with a backup method for recognizing you in the event that we are unable to identify your cookies.
8. Requests for your personal data
We are strongly opposed to the near Nazi like policies of the Bush administration here in the United States and are concerned with the pervasive government surveillance and increasing encroachment on the rights of individual freedoms and individual autonomy worldwide. This includes the myriad of unconstitutional acts perpetrated on the world under the guise of the “Patriot Act” and the appallingly illegal and immoral acts of wiretapping, eavesdropping and spying of honest law abiding citizens in all nations. We do not approve of these activities and we will not support them in any way.
We will not knowingly release any private data about you or your actions on our website without justification from a law enforcement agency. If you harass, threaten or stalk a website member in any way, we will ban you from the site and provide law enforcement with a log of your activity. If you violate the Terms of Use or display malicious behavior to us or other flirtatious members, your account will be closed immediately.
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the flirtatious service or using the flirtatious name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
Regardless of any opt-out choices that you make flirtatious may disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) facilitate compliance with laws, including, for example, compliance with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest, sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our web sites, Flirtatious Media, and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property that belongs to flirt.atious.com, LLC, Flirtatious Media or other third parties.
9. How we protect your personal information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption in the transmission of your sensitive personal information between your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your personal information.
We want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's website at www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.
10. Children's privacy
Our website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
11. Visiting our websites from outside the united states
This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website from residents of the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred, stored or processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.
12. No rights of third parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the website.
13. Changes in ownership (purchase and sale of businesses)
If the ownership of all or substantially all of the flirtatious.com business, or individual business units owned by flirtatious.com, LLC, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy. From time to time, we may also purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses (or portions thereof) and your personally identifiable information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. In the event that we purchase a business, the personally identifiable information received with that business would be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. In the event that we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable information in the same manner required by this Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this Privacy Policy). In light of this protection, your opt-out choices will not affect our right to transfer your information to a purchaser in these circumstances. The provisions of this paragraph will also apply in the event that one or more businesses of any other member of a flirtatious.com related Company is sold and personal information subject to this Privacy Policy is transferred to a purchaser of those businesses.
14. Changes to this privacy policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will notify you by either sending an email to the email address you most recently provided us in your account, profile or registration (unless we do not have such an email address), and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our website. We recommend that you check our website from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.
15. Your browser
Our site works best with Firefox, Chrome and Safari web browsers. If you still use Internet Explorer, we suggest that you download Firefox for free. Please click here to download Firefox. Our research has shown the users do not like the new “awesome bar” in Firefox version 3. It is not very “awesome” and typically annoying so we continue to recommend that you also install this firefox add-on directly from Mozilla .
16. Monitoring site use
We reserve the right to monitor site use including user input text, advertisements, profiles, descriptions and messages to ensure that they conform to content guidelines and code of conduct which is subject to change from time to time.
17. Termination of access to service
We may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of this Agreement, violations of our Terms of Use and/or violations of our Code of Conduct. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity, or activity that may otherwise affect the enjoyment of the Service or the Internet by other users may be grounds for termination of your access to all or part of the Service at our sole discretion, and you may be referred to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
18. Proprietary information
The Service contains information which is proprietary to us, our partners and our users. We assert full copyright protection in the Service. Information posted by us, our partners and our users of the Service may be protected whether or not it is identified as proprietary to us or to them. You agree not to modify, copy or distribute any such information in any manner whatsoever without having first received the express written permission of the owner of such information.
19. No responsibility
You acknowledge that we are not responsible for suspension of the Service regardless of the cause of the interruption or suspension. You acknowledge that we cannot guarantee or control the speed of your internet connection or temporary site outages regardless of the cause.
20. More information
For questions concerning your account, please check out the support page
21. Helpful hints for meeting online
Remember that you can remain completely anonymous. Site users will see your username unless your grant them access to be your “friend”. Only people who you have accepted into your social circle will be able to see your first name. All other members will see your anonymous username.
Never include your personal contact information in your profile, especially telephone numbers, email information, your home address or your last name. This is a violation of our Terms of Use.
Set up an email account just for online dating, ask a lot of questions and watch for inconsistencies, trust your instincts and then have fun with the right people!
