Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at saudimuslimmatch.com ("company", "we", "us", or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices, with respect to your personal information, please contact us at privacy@muslimmatch.com .
When you visit our website https://www.saudimuslimmatch.com(“Website”), mobile application ("APPs"),Wireless Application Protocol (“WAPs”) and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites or APPs or WAPs and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our Website, APPs, WAPs and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the "Sites").
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
For European Union Members ( EU)
If you are located in the EU, you will be asked to provide consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your personal information. Personal information means any information related to an identified or identifiable natural person. You have the right to share and access your personal information and right to withdraw consent for sharing your personal information at any point of time and right to erase your personal information subject to applicable laws. Your personal information may be stored in databases located outside of the EU including in India. Where we transfer personal data outside of EU, we either transfer personal information to countries that provide an adequate level of protection or we have appropriate safeguards in place. We may require proof of or need to verify your identity before we can give effect to these rights. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form by sending an email to privacy@matrimony.com. We may share your information with third parties who are an anti-fraud solution provider(s). They help us to ensure we keep you safe from scammers and fraudster.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
4. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
Besides the information provided by you, herein called “Personal Information”, we also collect some other information about you, herein called “Other Information”.Under certain circumstances and depending on applicable law, some of this Other Information may constitute “Personal Information”. Personal Information together with Other Information is hereinafter referred to as "User Information".
We collect User Information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering at the Sites or APPs or WAPs, when participating in activities on the Sites or APPs or WAPs or otherwise contacting us.
The User Information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites or APPs or WAPs, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The User Information we collect can include the following:
Personal Information. We collect personal data that you provide while registering on our platform such as name, email address, education, occupation, Country, etc.
Credentials. We collect passwords, One Time Passwords, Facebook ID and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Payment Information. If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, including billing address, credit card number or payment instrument, credit card expiration date that may be used for the auto-renewal of Membership and tracking information from checks or money orders.
Social Media Data. Our Service allows you to register with or connect using social networking platforms such as Facebook. We may collect personal data you choose to allow us to access through their APIs.
All User Information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such User Information. By choosing to provide this personal data, you consent to our processing of that data.
Information automatically collected
When you use our Sites or APPs or WAPs, we automatically collect and store certain information about your computer or mobile device and your activities.
This information includes:
- Mobile Device ID. Your mobile device's unique ID number.
- Geographic Location. Your mobile device's geographic location.
- Device Information/Specifications. Technical information about your computer or mobile device (e.g., type of device, web browser or operating system, IP address) to analyse trends, administer the site, prevent fraud, track visitor movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information.
- Activity Within the Service. When you use the Service, we may collect personal data as you take actions within the service, such as users you have interacted with and how you use the Service. Collecting this information allows us to provide the service and helps us improve our Service by refining our recommendation algorithm, diagnosing bugs or issues, developing new features, and monitoring for behaviour that violates our Terms of Service.
- Cookies. We may use and allow others to use "cookies" (a small piece of data stored on your computer's hard drive) to know if you've used or visited our Service. We use this to offer you services such as authenticating you, remembering your preferences and settings, analysing site traffic and trends, delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, allowing you to use social features and how you can better control their use, through your browser settings and other tools.
- Log Files. This may include IP addresses, browser type, ISP referring/exit pages, operating system information.
- Web Beacons. Web beacons (also known as "clear gifs" and "pixel tags"), are small, transparent graphic images that are often used in conjunction with cookies in order to further personalize our services for our users, collect a limited set of information about our visitors. We may also use web beacons in email communications in order to understand the behaviour of our customers, such as whether an email has been opened or acted upon.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfilment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, with your consent.
We use User Information collected via our Sites or APPs or WAPs for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your User Information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests ("Business Purposes"), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you ("Contractual"), with your consent ("Consent"), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations ("Legal Reasons"). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
• To facilitate account creation and log-on process
• To facilitate matches
• To fulfil and manage your subscriptions
• To post testimonials
• To deliver targeted advertising to you
• To administer surveys or reach out to you
• To request feedback and respond to customer service requests
• To enforce our terms, conditions and policies
We may use also your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites or APPs or WAPs, products, services, marketing and your experience, direct marketing, research (including marketing research), network and information security, fraud prevention, and enforcing or defending against legal claims, provide, maintain, and improve our overall business.
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
We may share your user data with other users, with service providers and partners who help us operate the Service, in the event of a business transaction and for law enforcement purposes, as set out below:
Other Users: We will share user data with other users when you voluntarily disclose that information on the Service. For example, we will display your profile to other users when we match you with them.
Service Providers: We may share your user data with third parties to provide you with the Service (such as analytics services or customer relationship management services).
Corporate Transactions: If we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of control or ownership, we may transfer personal data in relation to that transaction.
Required by Law: We may share your user data in the following circumstances such as, to comply with a legal process, court order, subpoena or search warrant, a government investigation or other legal requirements to help in the prevention or detection of crime (subject to applicable law); or to protect the safety of any person.
Enforce Legal Rights: We may also share your user data to enforce legal rights, including, to mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, partners or other interested parties; to enforce our agreements with you; and to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites or APPs or WAPs. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website(s) and other Websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Affiliates. We may share your User Information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
With your Consent. We may disclose your User Information for any other purpose with your consent.
We do not sell, rent, or loan any identifiable information at the individual level, regarding its customers to any third party.
4. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
We may transfer, store, and process your User Information in countries other than your own. Our servers are located in India. If you are accessing our Sites or APPs or WAPs from outside India, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information in India, and in other countries.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not have data protection or other laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all necessary measures to protect your User Information in accordance with this privacy policy, terms and conditions and applicable law.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We retain the User Information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our services or as necessary to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our services, resolve disputes, establish legal defences, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your User Information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your User Information, transmission of User Information to and from our Sites or APPs or WAPs is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not target or allow persons less than 18 years of age to use our services, and we do not knowingly collect information from persons under the age of 18. If you are a parent or legal guardian who discovers that your child has provided us with information without your consent, you may contact us at privacy@muslimmatch.com, and we will promptly delete such information from our files.8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
You can directly take steps to unsubscribe to the newsletters that you receive from us. Please allow fifteen to thirty business days for change to take effect. On some services, pertaining to transactional communication, you may continue to receive emails as a part of our services.
If you are an EU resident, you may have certain rights including:
The right not to provide your Personal Information to us;
The right to access your Personal Information;
The right to request erasure, or restricting of Processing of your Personal Information;
The right to have your Personal Information transferred to another controller;
The right to withdraw your consent;
The right to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities.
We may require proof of or need to verify your identity before we can give effect to these rights. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form by sending an email to privacy@muslimmatch.com.
9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on feedback from clients or as a result of a change of policy in our company.
10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
Grievance
The Grievance Officer:
Mr. Akilan Paneerselvam.
Matrimony.com Limited,
94, TVH Beliciaa Towers, Tower-2,
10th Floor, MRC Nagar, Chennai - 600028
The Grievance officer shall be available between 10 am and 6 pm IST from Monday to Saturday excluding Sundays and Public Holidays in India.
The Grievance officer is appointed as per Section 5 (9) of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security & Procedures and Sensitive Personal data or Information) Rule, 2011.