Privacy policy

We take the user’s privacy very seriously. The below explained privacy policy outlines the way we control, process, handle and protect the personal information while using this website. The section also includes your rights, current laws and regulations. In case you do not agree with our privacy policy you can cease viewing and using the website.

Please note that the privacy policy is GDPR compliant.

Processing of your personal data

The purposes for collecting information about you are:

1. To determine what you may like or find interesting, so we can provide you with targeted information and advertising on our Website;
2. If the user wishes to be contacted - we keep the contact information in order to be able to reach out.

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about the user electronically using the lawful basis of consent.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Types of Data Collected

You actively send information to us when you use this Website or subscribe to our newsletter, post opinions, comments, respond to us or contact us through our email address.

With your direct consent the data we may collect is:

• Name;
• Email address;
• Mailing address;
• Phone number;
• Any other details you may voluntarily send when contacting us.

Since Google Analytics is used on the website we automatically track your device or web browser when interacting with our website. We may collect the following:

• Internet domain from which you access this Website;
• IP address;
• Browser type and operating system;
• Data and hour when you accessed the Website;
• Pages that were visited;
• The referral link that redirected to us;
• Any other navigational and stat data we consider important.

This information is collected to understand your interaction with the website and to personalise and improve the website.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;

• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information (e.g. we have installed SSL certificate for connection encryption).

Data retention period

We delete emails we receive through our contact information after resolving the given question/request. Google Analytics data is deleted after 14 months Cookies can be deleted any time by the user through browser settings.

We continue to process the user’s information under this basis until the user withdraws consent or it is determined the consent no longer exists.

Your contact with other third parties

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third party websites, services and applications, such as Facebook that you elect to access through the Service. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those third party Websites or Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of those third party Websites or Services.

The Website does not make any representations or warranties with respect to any content or privacy practices, or otherwise with respect to such third parties or any items or services that may be obtained from such third parties, and you agree that the Website will have no liability with respect to any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of any dealings between you and any third party, or as a result of the presence of such third parties on the Website.

Your dealings with advertisers or other third parties found on or accessible through the Website are solely between you and the third party and you make them solely at your own risk.

We advise you to go through the privacy policy of the third party website/service if any questions arise.

Disclosure of Data

We keep the data we collect confidential and we generally do not disclose it, with the exception of the following:

• Our external suppliers, such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense,. The reason to disclose the data is to help us provide the service through this website (and not for the third parties). They access and use such data subject to our instructions, and under confidentiality and security obligations;
• If we ever sell this Website or any parts of our business, we may disclose the data that we collect to a (prospective) buyer by the condition that such third party agrees to comply to the Privacy Policy;
• We may also share the data we collect about you to respond to law enforcement requests, court orders or other legal processes or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent or respond to illegal activities, fraud, physical threats to you or others required by any applicable law or regulation.
• We do not directly provide the data we collect about you to any advertising customers. However, they may find it or use it indirectly. We freely use and disclose data in anonymous form, for instance, in statistics or reports to our advertising customers.

Take note that posting any information in any area of our Website that is generally accessible to users (such as comments area, but not limited to) will make you the only responsible for it and that will be available to the public.

Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for The Date Idea, accessible from thedateidea.com

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or queries or concerns with respect to this Privacy Policy or the Website you may contact a representative of 'The Date Idea' by contact@thedateidea.com

Updates to the Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and without prior notice to you. If we make changes in the way we collect or use data, we will notify you by posting an announcement in this Privacy Policy and, in certain circumstances, seeking your consent.