GlobalDate: Privacy Policy

GlobalDate (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our” etc.) values the privacy of all of our users and has established this privacy policy (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy”) to show commitment to these rights and to safeguard your privacy. If you (hereinafter “you”, “yours”, etc.) use GlobalDate apps, including mobile applications and downloadable products (collectively the “Apps”) as well as pages operated by GlobalDate on social media and other platforms, (collectively the “Services”), then we urge you to read this Privacy Policy and become fully informed about how it affects your personal privacy. Please refer to this Privacy Policy to find out how to CONTACT US if you have any questions about the contents herein.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. WHO WE ARE
  2. WHEN YOU ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
  3. AGE RESTRICTION
  4. WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW
  5. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
  6. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
  7. HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA
  8. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
  9. CONTACT US
  10. MISCELLANEOUS

WHO WE ARE

GlobalDate Application and related services are operated by GlobalDate and its affiliates and related entities. Please find more details in the CONTACT US section down below.

GlobalDate is the Service that you can use to get access to your YouTravelMates, Amolatina, Hotti, EuroDate, ZenDate, AmalDate, PinaDate (hereinafter the “Dating Service(s)”) accounts. The list of Dating Services is not final and may be amended from time to time. Please follow the news on the App.

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, please contact the DPO using the details set out in the CONTACT US section down below.

ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

By using our Services, you are accepting the conditions set out in this Privacy Policy and the related Terms of Use Agreement.

AGE RESTRICTION

Persons under 18 years of age are not allowed to use our Services, as they are not targeted at persons under the age of 18. Any personal data we receive from users we believe to be aged 18 or under will be removed from our database.

If you believe that we have collected, used or disclosed personal data of a person under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction), please contact our support team via the CONTACT US section down below so that we can take appropriate action.

DATA COLLECTION

GlobalDate is a personal data processor (the “Data Processor”) acting on behalf and according to the instruction of the respective Dating Service. Every piece of personal data we collect about you will be governed by the respective Dating Service’s privacy policy. For more information, please refer to the privacy policies of: YouTravelMates, Amolatina, Hotti, EuroDate, ZenDate, AmalDate, PinaDate

The list of Dating Services is not final and may be amended from time to time. Please follow the news on the App.

DATA USAGE

Generally, we may use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you for the Services (e.g. connecting and maintaining data exchange with the Dating Service).
  • Where you have given consent for us to use your personal data and your sensitive personal data to provide certain Services (you may withdraw your consent for some uses of the data at any time in your Profile or via CONTACT US section down below).
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Unless specifically mentioned, we do not use your personal data for any other reason. We will never sell your personal data to a third party, and we will never give a third party access to your personal data, except as may be provided in our Terms of Use Agreement, and this Privacy Policy or unless required to do so by law.

We will generally only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

DATA DISCLOSURE

DATING SERVICES

We will share personal data you provide to Us with the Dating Services you have connected through the App. The exchange of personal data is governed by this Privacy Policy and privacy policy of the respective Dating Service.

OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS AND STAFF

The personal data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Processor, in some cases, the personal data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of our Services (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communication agencies) appointed, if necessary, as data sub-processors by the Data Processor.

We may share your personal data you provide to us with specially selected service providers who assist us in delivering the products and services we offer for the sole purpose of providing the services or when we consider their services or products to be of interest to you. These service providers must adhere to strict confidentiality and data transfer obligations in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the agreements we enter into with them. We may cooperate with external service providers to:

  • oversee a customer personal data database;
  • help us in sending out emails, sms (message and data rates may apply) and presents;
  • help us with direct marketing;
  • assist us with storage and data analysis;
  • prevent from fraudulent activities;
  • help us in maintaining, developing and improving our systems/websites/applications/services;
  • collect payments.

TRANSFER OF BUSINESS

We may transfer or share a copy of your personal data in cases where the Data Processor or one of its properties, affiliates, or subsidiaries is part of a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling part of its assets, or in the event of bankruptcy, dissolution, divestiture or any related or similar proceedings.

We may share your personal data to, in our discretion, (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoena/court order, legal process or other government request, (ii) enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, including the investigation of potential violations thereof, (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, (iv) protect against harm to the rights, our property or safety, our users or the public as required or permitted by law and (v) detect, prevent or otherwise address criminal (including fraud or stalking), security or technical issues.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We may share personal data internally within Data Processor’s subsidiary, affiliated and partner companies or with third parties for purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Personal data collected within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may, for example, be transferred to countries outside of the EEA for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. We utilize standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under European Union law (such as, where applicable, corporate binding rules), and obtain your consent to legitimize data transfers from the EEA to the United States and other countries.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected and/or processed it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Please note that the personal data transferred to the connected Dating Service will be retained according to the privacy policy of the respective Dating Service.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

The Personal data is processed at the Data processor’s operating offices and in any other place where the parties involved with the processing are located. We also retain backups of the Services, including your personal data, on a rolling basis according to our internal data retention, disaster recovery, and business continuity policies. Our backups are stored off-site in the European Union, United Stated and other countries where we operate, in secure facilities in order to help ensure the protection of your personal data, and the Services.

DATA RETENTION EXCEPTIONS

We retain blacklists of fraudulent activity or security threats indefinitely in order to protect the security of our Services and your personal data. We share these blacklists with third party service providers in order to continue to improve the security of our Services and your personal data.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research, statistical or other purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

DATA DELETION REQUESTS

If you wish to delete personal data we have collected during your use of our Services, You should send a request to our support team via CONTACT US link down below. Processing of your request will take some time to take effect. Thank you for your patience.

Please note that changing or deleting your personal data will only change or delete the data in our database for the purposes of future activities and for managing future communications. These changes and deletions may not entirely change or delete emails or personal data our Services may have already forwarded to: (i) Dating Services (ii) other users, (iii) payment providers and credit card companies or (iv) any other third parties, as they might still retain part of the data for their legitimate or lawful purposes.

We may keep your personal data, subject to the requirements of the law and legitimate interests of the Data Processor, please refer to the HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA section above for further details. In case of your request to delete all your personal data, you agree that your email will be stored in our database to avoid creation of duplicate accounts and for identification purposes. The email will not be used in marketing activities, nor forwarded to third parties.

Please note that, even after termination of membership and deletion of any personal data, as well as termination of any license granted hereunder, some content may continue to exist because of cached internet pages beyond our control.

RIGHTS OF EU USERS

If you are located in the European Union, as data subject (a person whose personal information is collected, stored and processed) you have several rights under General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”):

  • You have the right to obtain confirmation if your personal information is being processed by us. If that is the case, you can access your personal information and the following information:
    • the purposes of the processing;
    • the categories of personal information;
    • to whom the personal information have been or will be disclosed;
    • the envisaged period for which the personal information will be stored, or the criteria used to determine that period.
  • If you would like to have a copy of your personal information from us, we will provide it only in case: (1) you will prove your identity, (2) it will not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
  • You have the right to demand that we erase your personal information, and we shall erase it without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
    • this personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were processed;
    • you withdraw consent if the processing was based on your consent, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;
    • you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds;
    • your personal information has been unlawfully processed;
    • your personal information has to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation.
  • You have the right to receive your personal information which you provided us with in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another company, where:
    • the processing is based on your consent or on a contract; and
    • the processing is carried out by automated means.
  • You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing of your personal information at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of your personal information infringes GDPR.

You can exercise the above rights by contacting our support team via the CONTACT US section down below.

RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA USERS

If you are located in California, USA, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives you the right to exercise the following rights:

  • Right to know and access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the:
    • categories of personal information we collect, use or share;
    • purposes for which categories of personal information are collected or used by us;
    • categories of sources from which we collect personal Information; and
    • specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
  • Right to equal service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
  • Right to delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete personal information about you that we have collected.

In order to verify your identity when you make a request, you will be required to log in to your password-protected account or respond to an email verification request.

Under CCPA, you can appoint an authorized agent to make the requests for exercising the rights above on your behalf. In order to do this, we will ask you to verify the request directly via email.

Under CCPA we are bound to disclose to you what categories of personal information we collect, how and when we share it. You can find this information in sections WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW and HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA of this Privacy Policy.

The CCPA also requires us to disclose certain metrics about the various requests we get, such as how many specific requests we received from California residents in the last calendar year. You can request for us to provide the said metrics via the CONTACT US section down below.

RIGHTS OF VIRGINIA USERS

If you are located in Virginia, USA, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) gives you the right to exercise the following rights:

  • To confirm whether or not the Data Processor is processing your personal data and to access such personal data;
  • To correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes of the processing of your personal data;
  • To delete personal data provided by or obtained about your;
  • To obtain a copy of your personal data that you previously provided to the Data Processor in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another processor or controller without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means; and
  • To opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of (i) targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of personal data, or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

In order to verify your identity when you make a request, you will be required to log in to your password-protected account or respond to an email verification request.

We hereby inform you that we do not sell the personal Information of our users or share it in exchange for any value to any parties. We only share your personal information in manners and for purposes described above, which include solely business purposes.

You can find what categories of personal information we collect, how and when we share it in sections WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW and HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA of this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

Your Data Processor’s contact information is: {fullCompany}.

Please send all the requests, including exercise of rights for EU, US and other users regarding personal data, as well as communications, inquiries, clarifications and provision of information to our support team via email at [email protected].

Please refer to the relevant Dating Service connected to our App to know more about how your personal data is processed on their side.

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR LIABILITY

You hereby confirm and guarantee that you will never generate any databases, websites, software, legal entities and services that compete with our Services. Such behavior will be fully investigated, and necessary legal action will be carried out, including, without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

We reserve the right to replace, modify or amend this Privacy Policy at our own discretion. It is your responsibility to review this page and check for any Privacy Policy updates. Please note the latest modification date at the bottom of the Privacy Policy.

Last modified: 13/05/2024