privacy policy of the foom.com website
Introduction
foom.com Limited (“we” or “us”) takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy sets out how we protect your personal information and how any personal data we collect from you will be used by us.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“Act”), foom.com Limited (Company Number 6406730), Moneysupermarket House, St David's Park, Ewloe, Chester, CH5 3UZ is the data controller in relation to the Services and your personal data. If you have any queries relating to our use of your personal data or any other data protection issues, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprivacy@foom.com. Defined terms used here shall bear their meaning in the Terms of Use.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as once you use our Services you will be regarded as having read and accepted this Privacy Policy. You must not use our Website or our Services if you do not accept this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of our Website or the Services after we have amended this Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
The information we collect
When you register with us, we ask for your name, your email address, your hometown, your date of birth and your gender. You can enter additional personal details on your own profile page such as places you go to or where you work or study.
We do not sell this information to third parties. However, without identifying who you are, we may share this information with third parties such as advertisers or promoters. This enables these third parties to personalise and customise adverts and promotions that may be of particular interest to you according to your age, gender, interests or where you live etc. For example, if you live in Manchester, we might serve you an advert promoting a restaurant in Manchester.
If you provide us with personal information on another person (someone you fancy, for example) we will only:
- share this personal information with third parties such as advertisers or promoters if the person in question has also registered on our Website.
- make publicly available on our Website limited information on that person. That information is restricted to their first and last name, their known name, their age range, their key physical attributes (height, hair colour and eye colour) and their hometown. When that person registers on our Website, they can edit, add to or delete their personal information or profile.
All registered users have full control over what personal information is displayed on their profile on our Website and can edit, add or delete their personal information or profile at any time. If you wish to have your profile removed from our Website, log into the site and then follow the prompts under Contact Us at the foot of every page. We recommend that you exercise caution in deciding what information you disclose on the Website.
If you send someone an anonymous message on foom.com, your chosen username (your ‘foomie’ name) will be displayed. It is important therefore that the username you select does not relate to your real name so that you can maintain your anonymity when using our Website.
When you enter the name of someone you fancy on our Website, you can also enter their email address. We do not make these email addresses public to other users of our Website. However we do store these email addresses to match admirers with people they fancy. Recipients of email invitations can contact us to request that we remove their personal information (including their email address) from our database. Such requests should be emailed to dataprivacy@foom.com.
We also record non-personally-identifiable information such as your IP address and browser type to improve and manage your website experience. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to you.
Purposes for which we use information about you
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to enable you to access and use the Services.
- to personalise aspects of our overall service to you.
- to communicate with you.
Passing on information about you
Please be aware that once you use our Services, you will be regarded as having given your consent to us disclosing your personal information to third parties where necessary for those third parties to provide additional products or services requested by you or with your prior consent.
Please be aware that we may disclose information about you in connection with legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings; if otherwise permitted or required to do so by law; to prevent illegal activity; to protect the safety of members of the public or users of this Website; or to protect our interests or to enforce the Terms of Use of this Website.
Links
Our Website may contain links to other third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of these other websites. Before visiting another website you should read the privacy policy relating to that website. Our privacy policy only applies to information collected on the Website. We have no responsibility for the uses to which a third party puts your personal information once you have visited their website.
Security
Keeping information about you secure is important to us. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. As a result, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk. Sensitive information (for example, your password) is encrypted during transit to minimise the risk of interception.
Cookies
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your computer by a web browser, which has been sent by a web server. It is essentially an "identification card" relating to you. The main purpose of our cookies is to identify you when you visit our Website. Each time your browser requests a web page from our server, the browser sends the information in the text file back to the server and lets the server know that you have returned to that web page. We use cookies to provide you with a better service tailored to suit you. We will store your cookies for a maximum of three months.
Cookies help you to save time. For example, if you have already visited our Website, a cookie helps us to remember who you are and what your preferences are. Next time you return, we can display pages that are more relevant to you.
Third party advertisers may place or recognise a unique "cookie" on your browser in order for us to place advertisements that may be more relevant to you.
If you do not accept incoming cookies then the performance of our Website on your system may not be to full standard or our Website may not serve at all.
Transferring your information abroad
Information supplied by you to us will only be transferred abroad by us or our agents for the purpose of performing contractual obligations to you or when you have given your prior consent to such transfer.
People under age 16
People under the age of 16 are not eligible to use our Website and must not attempt to register with us and/or submit any personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any person who is under the age of 16 or allow them to register with us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information on anyone under the age of 16, we will delete that information and/or that person’s profile as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have any information from or about someone under the age of 16, please email us at abuse@foom.com and we will delete any such information.
Your Rights
You have certain rights under the Data Protection Act 1998. For example, we will let you have a copy of all personal information we have about you should you request it. We may charge you a fee for a copy of such information. If you have concerns or questions relating to privacy issues on our Website, you can email us at dataprivacy@foom.com.