This Privacy Policy describes how GamerDating collects, uses and discloses information, and what choices you have with respect to the information.

Updates in this version of the Privacy Policy reflect changes in data protection law. In addition, we have worked to make the Privacy Policy clearer and more understandable by:

• organizing it into the sections listed in the Table of Contents below,
• providing a series of examples that help illustrate how the policies may be implemented by GamerDating and
• defining and capitalizing a few terms that are used more than once for simplicity and brevity.

When we refer to “GamerDating”, we mean the GamerDating Ltd entity that acts as the controller or processor of your information, as explained in more detail in the “Identifying the Data Controller and Processor” section below.

Table of Contents:

• Applicability of this Privacy Policy
• Information We Collect and Receive
• How We Use Information
• Data Retention
• How We Share and Disclose Information
• Security
• Age Limitations
• Changes to this Privacy Policy
• International Data Transfers: Privacy Shield and Contractual Terms
• Data Protection Officer
• Identifying the Data Controller and Processor
• Your Rights
• Data Protection Authority
• Contacting GamerDating

Applicability Of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to GamerDating’s online dating tools and platform, including the associated GamerDating mobile and desktop applications (collectively, the “Services”), GamerDating.com and other GamerDating websites (collectively, the “Websites”) and other interactions (e.g., customer service inquiries, user conferences, etc.) you may have with GamerDating. If you do not agree with the terms, do not access or use the Services, Websites or any other aspect of GamerDating’s business.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party applications or software that integrate with the Services through the GamerDating platform (“Third Party Services”), or any other third party products, services or businesses. In addition, a separate agreement governs delivery, access and use of the Services (the “Customer Agreement”), including the processing of any messages, files or other content submitted through Services accounts (collectively, “Customer Data”). If you have any questions about specific GamerDating settings and privacy practices, please contact alex@gamerdating.com who is our dedicated Privacy Officer.

If you have an account, you can check http:// www.GamerDating.com/contact for contact information and a form to get in touch with us that way.

Information We Collect And Receive

GamerDating may collect and receive Customer Data and other information and data (“Other Information”) in a variety of ways:

• Customer Data. Customers or individuals granted access to GamerDating by a Customer (“Authorized Users”) routinely submit Customer Data to GamerDating when using the Services.
• Other Information. GamerDating also collects, generates and/or receives Other Information:
1. Dating and Account Information. To create or update a GamerDating account, you supply GamerDating with an email address, phone number, password, and/or similar account details either using an email address or through using one of any of the social logins (Facebook, Steam, Twitch, etc) in which case those Third Party entities are responsible for keeping your details safe. In addition, Customers that purchase a paid version of the Services provide GamerDating (or its payment processors) with billing details such as credit card information, banking information and/or a billing address. GamerDating does not hold information containing your banking details on any of our Data Centres or Servers, and instead uses Stripe https://www.stripe.com/  to securely hold and process any data that is passed to us via SSH Encrypted channels. A popular and secure online payment gateway. You can find Stripe’s Privacy policy here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
   
   
2. Usage Information.
• Services Metadata. When an Authorized User interacts with the Services, metadata is generated that provides additional context about the way Authorized Users date. For example, GamerDating logs the Pages, channels, people, features, content and links you interact with, the types of files shared and what Third Party Services are used (if any).
• Log data. As with most websites and technology services delivered over the Internet, our servers automatically collect information when you access or use our Websites or Services and record it in log files. This log data may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the address of the web page visited before using the Website or Services, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data.
• Device information. GamerDating collects information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and crash data. Whether we collect some or all of this Other Information often depends on the type of device used and its settings.
• Location information. We receive information from you, and other third-parties that helps us approximate your location to help you better find matches and match you with your appropriate currency for our packages. We may, for example, use a residential address approximation by you, or an IP address received from your browser or device to determine approximate but never your exact location. GamerDating may also collect location information from devices in accordance with the consent process provided by your device.
  
  
3. Cookie Information. GamerDating uses cookies and similar technologies in our Websites and Services that help us collect Other Information. The Websites and Services may also include cookies and similar tracking technologies of third parties, which may collect Other Information about you via the Websites and Services and across other websites and online services.
   
   
4. Third Party Services. Customer can choose to permit or restrict Third Party Services for their dating experience. Typically, Third Party Services are software that integrate with our Services like Facebook social login, and you can permit your device to enable and disable these integrations for their experience. Once enabled, the provider of a Third Party Service may share certain information with GamerDating. For example, if Facebook is enabled to permit your email address to be used as a login for a user name and email address of Authorized Users, along with additional information that the application has elected to make available to GamerDating to facilitate the login. Authorized Users should check the privacy settings and notices in these Third Party Services to understand what data may be disclosed to GamerDating. GamerDating uses best practice to minimise the importing of data from third party services and we active use a minimal data collection scheme when doing so, as we only ever require your email and username in order to log you in and verify it is you. When a Third Party Service is enabled, GamerDating is authorized to connect and access Other Information made available to GamerDating in accordance with our agreement with the Third Party Provider. We do not, however, receive or store passwords for any of these Third Party Services when connecting them to the Services.
5. Contact Information. In accordance with the consent process provided by your device, any contact information that an Authorized User chooses to import (such as an address book from a device) is collected when using the Services.
6. Third Party Data. GamerDating may receive data about organizations, industries, Website visitors, marketing campaigns and other matters related to our business from parent corporation(s), affiliates and subsidiaries, our partners or others that we use to make our own information better or more useful. This data may be combined with Other Information we collect and might include aggregate level data, such as which IP addresses correspond to zip codes or countries. Or it might be more specific: for example, how well an online marketing or email campaign performed.
7. Additional Information Provided to GamerDating. We receive Other Information when submitted to our Websites or if you participate in a focus group, contest, activity or event, apply for a job, request support, interact with our social media accounts or otherwise communicate with GamerDating.

Generally, no one is under a statutory or contractual obligation to provide any Customer Data or Other Information (collectively, “Information”). However, certain Information is collected automatically and, if some Information, such as Workspace setup details, is not provided, we may be unable to provide the Services.

How We Use Information

Customer Data will be used by GamerDating in accordance with Customer’s instructions, including any applicable terms in the Customer Agreement and Customer’s use of Services functionality, and as required by applicable law. GamerDating is a processor of Customer Data and Customer is the controller. Customer may, for example, use the Services to message other users and configure settings, access, modify, and remove Customer Data.

GamerDating uses Other Information in furtherance of our legitimate interests in operating our Services, Websites and business. More specifically, GamerDating uses Other Information:

• To provide, update, maintain and protect our Services, Websites and business. This includes use of Other Information to support delivery of the Services under a Customer Agreement, prevent or address service errors, security or technical issues, analyze and monitor usage, trends and other activities or at an Authorized User’s request.
• As required by applicable law, legal process or regulation.
• To communicate with you by responding to your requests, comments and questions. If you contact us, we may use your Other Information to respond.
• To develop and provide search, learning and productivity tools and additional features. GamerDating tries to make the Services as useful as possible for specific Searches and Users. For example, we may improve search functionality by using Other Information to help determine and rank the relevance of match dating ratings, suitability or proximity to an Authorized User, make Services suggestions based on historical use and predictive models, identify organizational trends and insights, to customize a Services experience or create new productivity features and products.
• To send emails and other communications. We may send you service, technical and other administrative emails, messages and other types of communications. We may also contact you to inform you about changes in our Services, our Services offerings, and important Services-related notices, such as security and fraud notices. These communications are considered part of the Services and you may not opt out of them. In addition, we sometimes send emails about new product features, promotional communications or other news about GamerDating. These are marketing messages so you can control whether you receive them in your account settings.
• For billing, account management and other administrative matters. GamerDating may need to contact you for invoicing, account management and similar reasons and we use account data to administer accounts and keep track of billing and payments.
• To investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse.

If Information is aggregated or de-identified so it is no longer reasonably associated with an identified or identifiable natural person, GamerDating may use it for any business purpose. To the extent Information is associated with an identified or identifiable natural person and is protected as personal data under applicable data protection law, it is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data.”

Data Retention

GamerDating will retain Customer Data in accordance with a Customer’s instructions, including any applicable terms in the Customer Agreement and Customer’s use of Services functionality, and as required by applicable law. Depending on the Services plan, Customer may be able to customize its retention settings and apply those customized settings. Customer may also apply different settings to messages, files or other types of Customer Data. The deletion of Customer Data and other use of the Services by Customer may result in the deletion and/or de-identification of certain associated Other Information. GamerDating may retain Other Information pertaining to you for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This may include keeping your Other Information after you have deactivated your account for the period of time needed for GamerDating to pursue legitimate business interests, conduct audits, comply with (and demonstrate compliance with) legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

How We Share And Disclose Information

This section describes how GamerDating may share and disclose Information. Customers determine their own policies and practices for the sharing and disclosure of Information, and GamerDating does not control how they or any other third parties choose to share or disclose Information.

• Customer’s Instructions. GamerDating will solely share and disclose Customer Data in accordance with a Customer’s instructions, including any applicable terms in the Customer Agreement and Customer’s use of Services functionality, and in compliance with applicable law and legal process.
• Displaying the Services. When an Authorized User submits Other Information, it may be displayed to other Authorized Users in the same or connected Profiles. For example, an Authorized User’s date of birth may be displayed with their profile.
• Communication with Others. The Services provide different ways for Authorized Users looking to find friendships and relationships to communicate, such as shared contact information. Other Information, such as an Authorized User’s profile Information, may be shared.
• Customer Access. Owners, administrators and other Customer representatives and personnel may be able to access, modify or restrict access to Other Information. This may include, for example, the ability for us to read flagged abusive messages, or accessing or modifying your profile details should they be against the GamerDating Terms and Conditions.
• Third Party Service Providers and Partners. We may engage third party companies or individuals as service providers or business partners to process Other Information and support our business. These third parties may, for example, provide virtual computing and storage services. These services include www.tune.com to provide our partners with Affiliate tracking and partner services. Also www.cloudinary.com whom we use as a virtual content delivery service to deliver encrypted images to customers from a local datacentre to enable faster load speeds on our media heavy website and finally www.amazon.com with whom we have our dedicated encrypted servers based in Dublin, Ireland.
• Third Party Services. Customer may enable or permit Authorized Users to enable Third Party Services such as Facebook Social Login. When enabled, GamerDating may share Other Information with Third Party Services. Third Party Services are not owned or controlled by GamerDating and third parties that have been granted access to Other Information may have their own policies and practices for its collection and use. Please check the privacy settings and notices in these Third Party Services or contact the provider for any questions.
• Corporate Affiliates. GamerDating may share Other Information but never Personal Data information with its corporate affiliates, parents and/or subsidiaries.
• During a Change to GamerDating’s Business. If GamerDating engages in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, sale of some or all of GamerDating’s assets or stock, financing, public offering of securities, acquisition of all or a portion of our business, a similar transaction or proceeding, or steps in contemplation of such activities (e.g. due diligence), some or all Other Information may be shared or transferred, subject to standard confidentiality arrangements.
• Aggregated or De-identified Data. We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified Other Information for any purpose. For example, we may share aggregated or de-identified Other Information with prospects or partners for business or research purposes, such as telling a prospective GamerDating customer the average amount of time spent on the platform.
• To Comply with Laws. If we receive a request for information, we may disclose Other Information if we reasonably believe disclosure is in accordance with or required by any applicable law, regulation or legal process. GamerDating enforces the highest form of privacy protection for its users and, where necessary, will protect user data over the demands of governmental organizations unless pressed to do so with a genuine warrant presented by a judge, and only after being summoned to trial and pressed to do so. GamerDating will in no circumstances ever reveal customer Private Data to law enforcement within any extra judicial territory without the explicit format as outlined above or as perturbs to English and Welsh common law in an International Court in England and Wales. No extrajudicial demand outside of England and Wales will be enforced without the explicit warrant of a judge from England and Wales being presented to the directors.
• To enforce our rights, prevent fraud, and for safety. To protect and defend the rights, property or safety of GamerDating or third parties, including enforcing contracts or policies, or in connection with investigating and preventing fraud or security issues.
• With Consent. GamerDating may share Other Information with third parties when we have consent to do so.

Security

GamerDating takes security of data very seriously. GamerDating works hard to protect Other Information you provide from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. These steps take into account the sensitivity of the Other Information we collect, process and store, and the current state of technology. GamerDating has received internationally from the Information Commissions office in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZA290992  (as a private controller of personal data). Given the nature of communications and information processing technology, GamerDating cannot guarantee that Information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others.

Age Limitations

To the extent prohibited by applicable law, GamerDating does not allow use of our Services and Websites by anyone younger than 18 years old and in some states 21. If you learn that anyone younger than 18 has unlawfully provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will takes steps to delete such information.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

GamerDating may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Laws, regulations and industry standards evolve, which may make those changes necessary, or we may make changes to our business. We will post the changes to this page and encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, GamerDating will provide additional notice, such as via email or through the Services. If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Policy, you should deactivate your Services account. Contact the Customer if you wish to request the removal of Personal Data under their control.

International Data Transfers And Contractual Terms

Data Protection Officer

To communicate with our Data Protection Officer, please email alex@GamerDating.com.

Identifying The Data Controller And Processor

Data protection law in certain jurisdictions differentiates between the “controller” and “processor” of information. In general, Customer is the controller of Customer Data. In general, GamerDating is the processor of Customer Data and the controller of Other Information. GamerDating Limited, a British company based in London, England, is the controller and processor of Other Information and a processor of Customer Data relating to Authorized Users.

Your Rights

Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area, have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to Information, as well as to seek to update, delete or correct this Information. You can usually do this using the settings and tools provided in your Services account. If you cannot use the settings and tools, contact contact@gamerdating.com for additional access and assistance. Please check https://www.GamerDating.com/account/ for Customer contact information.

To the extent that GamerDating’s processing of your Personal Data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, GamerDating relies on its legitimate interests, described above, to process your data. GamerDating may also process Other Information that constitutes your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes and you have a right to object to GamerDating’s use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time.

Data Protection Authority

Subject to applicable law, you also have the right to (i) restrict GamerDating’s use of Other Information that constitutes your Personal Data and (ii) lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or the British Data Protection Commissioner, which is GamerDating’s lead supervisory authority in the European Union. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and believe we maintain your Personal Data within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may direct questions or complaints to our lead supervisory authority:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745
Fax: 01625 524510

Email: registration@ico.org.uk

Contacting GamerDating

Please also feel free to contact GamerDating if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or GamerDating’s practices, or if you are seeking to exercise any of your statutory rights. You may contact us at feedback@GamerDating.com or at our mailing address below: