Privacy Policy

 

Amended: 18th May 2018

 

Pink Lobster Dating Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

 

This policy (together with our terms of use [http://www.pinklobsterdating.com/Terms.aspx] and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

 

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 25th May 2018, the data controller is Pink Lobster Dating Limited with our trading address at Ellenborough House, Wellington St, Cheltenham GL50 1YD.

 

Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Juliette Prais, Director.

 

Information We May Collect From You

 

We are registered as a Data Controller as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  We will follow the principles set out in that legislation at all times while processing your personal information.  We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website www.pinklobsterdating.com ("our website"). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our website, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website.  This information can include your name, postcode, date of birth, email address, sexuality, gender, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, photos and general information related to yourself.
  • If you contact us or we contact you, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our website and of the fulfilment of your orders.
  • Details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

 

How We Use The Information

 

The above information is used to provide our services to you in our capacity as a dating website and matchmaking agency.  We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device which you are using to access the site.
  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
  • To notify you about changes to our service.

 

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email, post or telephone.

 

We will be able to contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you unless you specifically opt-out via the mechanism we provide to you from time to time.

 

We may permit selected third parties to use your data, they will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this by ticking the relevant box.

 

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form) and in your settings. 

 

Holding Your Information

 

Your information will be held whilst you are a user of the services provided by PLD. 

 

We will then keep your personal information only as long as we need to for our records for legitimate business interests as required by law up to a period of seven years to respond to any queries or complaints. 

 

We may retain information needed to be kept to identify users together with the reason for leaving for safety and security, for example, to prevent fraud or a banned user from setting up a new account.

 

We will regularly audit personal data that we hold on users and delete such information which we consider no longer necessary.


Your Rights

 

You have a number of legal rights to control what we do with your information:

  • You have a right to access the personal information we hold about you and obtain a copy of it.
  • You have a right to update any inaccurate personal information and to update incomplete personal information.
  • You have a right to request for us to delete personal information from our system.
  • You have a right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, for example sending you marketing material.
  • You have a right to ask us to send some of your data to someone else for them to use.

 

Please note that in some cases, asking us to do this may mean that we are no longer able to provide you with products or services. For more information and to exercise your right, you can ask us to do this at any time by contacting jp@pinklobsterdating.com

 

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

 

Security and Performance

 

PLD uses a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of the PLD website.  We may collect information about your device, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.  The data we collect may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. We ensure that third-party service providers who handle or store data outside the UK or EU, adhere to the requirements of GDPR. 

 

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

Cookies

 

We use cookies to monitor usage of this website to ensure it is working fully.  A number of important parts of this website will not function if cookies are not enabled.  To see our full Cookies Policy click here or paste the following in to your browser https://www.pinklobsterdating.com/Cookies.aspx

 

Disclosure Of Your Information

 

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

 

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If Pink Lobster Dating or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use [http://www.pinklobsterdating.com/Terms.aspx] or terms and conditions of membership [http://www.pinklobsterdating.com/Membership-Terms.aspx] and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Pink Lobster Dating, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

 

Contact

 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Pink Lobster Dating Limited, Ellenborough House, Wellington St, Cheltenham GL50 1YD, UNITED KINGDOM or jp@pinklobsterdating.com

Pink Lobster Dating Ltd.