We at Christian Match respect the privacy of the individuals who use our web site and we are firmly committed to doing all we can to protect that privacy. Whilst we collect personal information about you, we have put in place measures to ensure the protection of any information that could be used to identify you specifically such as your name, address, email address, or phone numbers.
 
This privacy policy outlines what kinds of personal information we gather and how we store and use that information in the course of providing products and services on this site.

Christian Match may, from time to time, review and update this privacy policy statement. Revised versions will be published on the website.

Information we collect about you

• Contact details As part of the member registration process, we ask you to provide us with information we can use to contact you. This might include information such as your name, phone number(s), and address details. We also need you to provide us with a valid email address, as this is our primary means of communicating with you. You can update your contact details at any time.
• Profile information If you choose to create a user profile on Christian Match we will ask you to provide further information about yourself such as age, gender, nationality, interests, marital status, location etc. You can see the full range of profile information collected by looking at any profile on our site. This information is used by other members in identifying people whom they might want to contact through our service. You can modify or update your profile information it at any time.
• From time to time we might collect other personal information provided voluntarily by you in the course of using our site.
• In addition, we collect all email or other communications between yourself and other members that pass through the Christian Match systems. We also collect any communications between you and Christian Match including testimonials, complaints and general member feedback.
• Other members might also provide information relating to you in the form of 'private notes' about you. Other members might add you to their ‘favourites’ lists and make notes to remember details of communications with you. Such notes are only ever visible to the individual member.
• We collect non-personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited etc. None of this information identifies you personally. This information is aggregated and used to help us improve our service and infrastructure.
• Our site also uses cookies to enhance the functionality of the site for users. Cookies are small pieces of data that a web site transfers to your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can set your web browser to refuse them. However, doing so may reduce the functionality and efficiency of using our site to some extent and may compromise the security of your account.

How we use the personal information we collect about you

Christian Match will only use information it collects from you for the primary purpose for which it is collected or for secondary purposes that are in some way related to the primary purpose of collection. In general, we use your personal information to:

• Provide you with products and/or services you have requested
• Personalise and customise your Christian Match service
• Post your profile on the Christian Match website
• Help us to manage and improve our service
• Forward messages to you from other members
• Provide you with information about other products or services offered through Christian Match
• Otherwise communicate with you

Communications between members are sent to those members automatically. They are also stored for a limited period so that they can also be accessed by either party via the website.
 
We post some testimonials provided by members on our website. Testimonials or quotations from testimonials might also be included in emails to members to help promote our services. We assume that both parties mentioned in a testimonial are happy for the testimonial to be used in these ways.
 
Christian Match may also provide information about you to:

• Third parties engaged by us to perform functions on its behalf related to the provision of the Christian Match service
• Third parties authorised by you to receive information held by Christian Match
• Other third parties as required by law

Storage and security of personal information

All information we hold for you is stored on secure servers protected in controlled facilities. We require all our employees and contractors who provide services related to the Christian Match site to respect and protect the confidentiality of any personal information we hold. Christian Match will not be responsible for any events arising from unauthorised access of personal information held by us.

Updating of personal information

• You can update your contact and profile information at any time by logging onto the Christian Match website and following the appropriate links.
• Communications between members are deleted from our systems on a regular basis. Testimonials, complaints and other feedback are stored indefinitely.

Finding out what personal information we hold about you

• You can access all the contact and profile information we hold about you at any time by logging on to the Christian Match site.
• If you have any other queries about what information we hold about you please contact us via the contact link on the website

Intervention between members by Christian Match

• In general, Christian Match does not review the content of private e-mail messages or screen profiles posted by members. We may review a profile if we become aware of the possibility that a profile includes content that is inappropriate or that breaches our terms of use. Christian Match accepts no responsibility for resolving disputes between members.
• In the event that Christian Match receives a communication from a member concerning another member, our policy is to try to be as open as possible with all our members without compromising the privacy of any individuals.
• If you complain about another member, we will not inform the member who made the complaint without your express permission. We may advise that member that a complaint about him / her has been received, but we will not do so without your express permission if we think the member might be able to identify who made the complaint.
• When a complaint about a member is received, no action will be taken unless the complaint is substantiated by evidence. However, a record of the complaint may be made and included in the data held about that member.
• Communications between two members will be released to either member on request. They will not be released to third parties.
• Under no circumstances will we divulge the contents of any 'private notes' another member may have written about you either to you or any other third party.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or anything related to the operation of or services provided by this site, please contact us