Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for MeetPositives.com

Last Updated: 07/30/2024

MeetPositives.com ("Meet Positives," "we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services ("Service"). By using our Service, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

### 1. Information We Collect

**1.1. Personal Information**
When you register for our Service, create a profile, or otherwise engage with us, we may collect the following types of personal information:
- Name
- Email address
- Physical address
- Phone number
- Date of birth
- Payment information (for subscription purposes)
- Photos and videos uploaded by you

**1.2. Non-Personal Information**
We automatically collect certain non-personal information when you visit our site or use our Service, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited and duration
- Clickstream data

**1.3. Sensitive Information**
Given the nature of our Service, you may provide sensitive personal information, such as details about your health condition or sexual orientation. You have control over the information you choose to disclose.

### 2. How We Use Your Information

**2.1. Personal Information**
We use your personal information to:
- Provide and manage your account
- Communicate with you, including sending promotional messages, newsletters, and service updates
- Process transactions and manage subscriptions
- Personalize your experience on our Service
- Improve our Service based on user feedback and usage patterns
- Ensure security and prevent fraud

**2.2. Non-Personal Information**
Non-personal information is used for:
- Analyzing trends and usage patterns to improve our Service
- Administering the site
- Tracking user movements to gather demographic information

### 3. Sharing Your Information

**3.1. Third-Party Service Providers**
We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer support. These providers are obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your information.

**3.2. Legal Requirements**
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect and defend our rights or property
- Prevent fraud
- Act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users or the public

**3.3. Business Transfers**
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the new owner.

### 4. Your Choices

**4.1. Account Information**
You can update, correct, or delete your account information at any time by logging into your account settings or contacting us directly.

**4.2. Marketing Communications**
You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the unsubscribe link in those emails or by contacting us at [email protected].

### 5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

**5.1. Cookies**
We use cookies to enhance your experience, personalize content, and analyze site traffic. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.

**5.2. Web Beacons**
Web beacons are used to anonymously track the online usage patterns of our users. No personally identifiable information is collected using these technologies.

**5.3. Do Not Track**
Our site does not respond to Do Not Track signals at this time. However, you can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being set and to block most cookies.

### 6. Data Security

We use industry-standard encryption and security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

### 7. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

### 8. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete such information from our records.

### 9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our site and updating the effective date. Your continued use of our Service after such modifications constitutes your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy.

### 10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]  
Address: [Insert Physical Address]  

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1. **Improved Clarity and Structure**: The new policy is organized into clear sections for easier navigation.
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6. **Children's Privacy**: Clearer statements regarding the handling of data from minors.

This new policy offers more comprehensive protection and transparency, aligning with best practices and legal requirements.

This document represents a legal document that serves as our Privacy Policy. It governs the privacy terms of our Service. Our Privacy Policy is part of our Legal Terms. Capitalized terms,unless otherwise defined below, have the meaning specified within the Definitions section our Terms of Service.

The last update to our Privacy Policy was posted on July 29, 2015.

Your Privacy

Meet Positives follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information.
We break up the types of information you share into Non Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information.
“Non Personal Information” is information that is not personally identifiable to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Service with a web browser.
“Personally Identifiable Information” is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide you within access to certain features of our Service. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your email address, physical location, and other related information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you. It may also include any pictures that upload when using our Service.

Information We Collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to MeetPositives when using our Service.

As a Visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about our Service. You are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information as a Visitor.

However, if register as a Member to use our Service, you must provide Personally Identifiable Information to MeetPositives in order for us to provide you with certain features our Service. As a Member, we collect your Personally Identifiable Information in the following ways:

At Member Registration

When you register for membership, we collect your email address so that we can communicate with you about our Service.

Participation in Our Service

As a Member participating in our Service, you may disclose Personally Identifiable Information such as personal information about yourself or images of yourself. You should take great care in what you disclose and in what images you may upload to protect your privacy as you see fit. We don’t have a duty to review what you submit to make sure that no identifiers are present.

At Subscription

When you purchase a Subscription for our Service, we collect your Payment Method and other billing information so that we can charge you for your Subscription.

Online Forms

There are many online forms used in our Service. The information you enter into these online forms may contain Personally Identifiable Information.

Personal Health Information

Our Service is oriented to Members that have specific health issues, but we are not a collector or processor of personal health information (“PHI”) or otherwise considered as “Business Associate” as may be defined under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). As such, we are not bound to any HIPAA regulations, including but not limited to, HIPPA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and Part 164, Subparts A and E (typically referred to as the “Privacy Standards”), the HIPAA Security Standards, 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and Part 164, Subparts A and C (typically referred to as the “Security Standards”), and the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and Part 164, Subparts A and D (typically referred to as the “Breach Notification Rule”). You acknowledge that any PHI you disclose in a Posting or share with others, whether using our Website or through other means, is not protected by HIPAA. You acknowledge that we are not liable for any PHI disclosure you make. As such, you should use great care in how PHI you share.

Computer Information Collected

When you use our Service, MeetPositives automatically collects certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Service. Such information is typically considered Non Personal Information. MeetPositives also collects the following:

Cookies

Our Service uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our Service that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Service. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Service correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

Web Beacons

We may also use a technology called, web beacons, to collect general information about your use of our Service and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by Web Beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people that open our emails. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Service. We do not link Non Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the Service from which you entered our Service, if any, as well as the name of the Service to which you’re headed when you leave our Service. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Service provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Service.

“Do Not Track/Follow” Settings

In compliance with applicable laws, MeetPositives wants you to know that our Website does not currently honor “do not track” or “do not follow” settings as your web browser may allow, nor do we have any liability for not doing so. If we change our policy in the future, it will be reflected here in an update to our Privacy Policy.

How We Use Your Information

MeetPositives uses the information we receive from you as follows:

Providing and Improving Our Service

MeetPositives may use the Personally Identifiable information you provide to us along with any computer information we receive to provide our Service to you as well as to make improvements to it.

Communications and Email Alerts

When MeetPositives communicates with you about our Service, we will use the email address you provided when registering as a Member. We may also send you service alerts regarding your use of our Service. Finally, we may also send you emails with promotional information about MeetPositives, unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change contact preferences at any time through your account. While you can opt-out of promotional messages, you cannot opt-out of receiving service alerts.

Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties

MeetPositives does not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for marketing purposes. Furthermore, we will not share your Personally Identifiable Information to any of our affiliate sites without your permission. However, we may use non-personal information regarding your use of our Website for data aggregation purposes which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your Personally Identifiable Information. We may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to affiliates that provide services to MeetPositives with regards to our Service (i.e. payment processors, webhosting companies, etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide the respective services and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information.

Community Discussion Boards

Our Service may offer the capability for Users to communicate with each other through online Community Discussion Boards. MeetPositives does not filter or monitor what is posted on such discussion boards. If you chose to post on these discussion boards, you should use care when exposing any Personally Identifiable Information as such information is not protected by our Privacy Policy nor are we liable should you choose to disclose Personally Identifiable Information through such Postings.

Legally Required Releases of Information

MeetPositives may be legally required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of MeetPositives, our Users, employees, and affiliates.

Disclosures to Successors

If MeetPositives is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, with another business that would become responsible for providing the Service to you, we retain the right to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your Personally Identifiable Information according to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted by the new business.

Changing Your Information

You may change your Personally Identifiable Information at any time using the Account & Settings Tab on our Service.

Protecting Your Child’s Privacy

We want to protect your Child’s privacy. Even though our Service is not designed for use by a Child, we realize that a Child may attempt to access our Website. We do not knowing collect Personally Identifiable Information from a Child. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your Child is using our Website, please contact us. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that a Child is accessing our Website, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our Users nor do we have any liability to do so. If you are a Child, please do not access our Website.

Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties

We believe in everyone’s right to privacy. If any Postings you make to our Service contain information about third parties, you need to make sure you have permission to include them in your Posting. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our Users, we will remove any Postings for which we are notified that such Postings violate the privacy rights of others.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites. You agree that MeetPositives has no control over such websites and that such websites are NOT subject to this Privacy Policy. These websites may have their own privacy policies and other legal documents. It is your sole responsibility to verify the privacy policies and other legal documents of such websites to see how they treat your personal information. You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites is solely at your own risk.

Our Email Policy

MeetPositives and our affiliates fully comply with international laws regarding SPAM. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from MeetPositives and/or our affiliates. We agree that we will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission.

Our Security Policy

MeetPositives has constructed our Service using industry standard encryption and authentication tools to protect your Personally Identifiable Information. When we collect your Personally Identifiable Information through our Service, we encrypt this information and attempt to prevent unauthorized access to it by using industry standard technologies, such as encryption software, routers and firewalls. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot completely guarantee that your Personally Identifiable Information is completely protected. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our Service and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our Service when not in use, especially if you are sharing a computer or mobile device with someone else or are using a public computer.

Privacy Policy Updates

MeetPositives reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. We will also change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies.

Changing Your Information

You may change your email address or other Personally Identifiable Information at any time using the account management features found on our Service.

Questions About Our Privacy Practices or This Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about our Privacy Practices or this Policy, please contact us by email at [email protected].