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Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy” or “Policy”) applies to the websites operated by or otherwise provided to you by TheDatingMentor (respectively, the “Site/s”, “Website/s”, “us” or “we”). By accessing or using this Website, you are deemed to have accepted this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to any part of this Cookie Policy, you should stop accessing this Website and navigate away from it.

If we decide to make material changes to this Cookies Policy, we will provide notice through the Website, or by other means, to provide you an opportunity to revise changes before they become effective. We would also make visible the last date of updates introduced to this Cookies Policy for your convenience. We also encourage you to check this page from time to time for the latest information. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy.

This Cookies Policy explains:

  1. What cookies are
  2. Types of Cookies used
  3. The usage of Cookies by Third Parties
  4. Your Cookies options
  5. How to manage cookies
  6. How to enable and disable cookies
  7. Interest-Based Advertising
  8. Third Party Cookies

1. What Cookies are?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie.

These cookies contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

2. Types of Cookies used

When you access and/or use the Site or interact with the services, we, or a third party may place a number of cookies in your browser. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will be used for a longer-term purpose, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Each cookie serves one of the following purposes:

Essential Cookies: These first party cookies allow users to use a feature of the Site such as: (i) remaining logged in, or (ii) making purchases.

Analytics Cookies: These cookies track information about how the Site/s are being used so that we can improve them and report on our performance. We may also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages or features to see how users react to them. Analytics cookies may either be first party or third-party cookies.

Preference Cookies: These first party cookies store your Site preferences.

Ad Targeting Cookies: These third party cookies (also known as “behavioral” or “targeted” advertising are placed by advertising platforms or networks in order to: (i) deliver ads and tracks ad performance, and (ii) enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant based upon your activities.

3. The usage of Cookies by Third Parties

Usually the Third Party vendors or ad networks use cookies to collect user information on an anonymous basis. They may use that information to better understand users’ activities on the Site and other websites that they visited immediately after.

4. Your Cookies options

If you don’t like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. To learn more about how to do this, visit the help pages of your browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or do not accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

You may also opt out of third party cookies by following the instructions provided by each third party in its privacy policy.

5. How to manage cookies?

As cookies help you to get the most out of our Site/s and services, in case you disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our Site do not properly function.

Please be notified that in case you are concerned about behaviorally targeted advertising cookies, users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ for more information.

6. How to enable and disable cookies

Google Chrome.

Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar >> Select Settings >> Click ‘Show advanced settings’ >> In the “Privacy” section, click the ‘Content settings’ button.

To enable cookies in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Allow local data to be set’, this will enable both first-party and third-party cookies. To allow only first-party cookies pick ‘Block all third-party cookies without exception’.

To disable cookies, in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Block sites from setting any data’.

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’ >> In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab.

To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below.

To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies.

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Microsoft Edge

Click on the More actions button on the toolbar, and select Settings >>Search for View advanced settings and click on it >> Under Cookies section, select to either Don’t block cookies (default), Block only third party cookies >> Restart Edge.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and select ‘Options’ >> Select the Privacy panel.

To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’.

To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’.

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies

Opera

Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and select ‘Settings’ >> Select ‘Quick Preferences’.

To enable cookies: check “Enable Cookies”.

To disable cookies: uncheck “Enable Cookies”.

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to the following page from Opera Software: https://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari on OSX

Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option >>Click on ‘Security’.

To enable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Only from site you navigate to’.

To disable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Never’.

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html

All other browsers

Please look for a “help” function in the browser or contact the browser provider.

7. Interest Based Advertising

In order to deliver advertisements and personalized content that we and other advertisers believe will be of interest to you, we and third parties engage in interest-based advertising provided by vendors. Please be informed that to the extent third-parties are using cookies or other technologies to perform these services, the Site does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information for online, mobile, or email advertising, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
In case you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, you may contact us by sending an email to *EMAIL*.

8. Third Party cookies

1) Google

We use various products and features provided by Google LLC. These products are:

• Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses “cookies” to analyze how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Please note the fact that Google Analytics is supplemented by the code “gat._anonymize();” on this website to guarantee the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

• Google Dynamic Remarketing

We use Google Dynamic Remarketing to advertise our site across the Internet, in particular on the Google Display Network. Dynamic remarketing will display ads to you based on what parts of our websites you have viewed by placing a cookie on your web browser. This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer or mobile device. The cookie is used to indicate to other websites that “This user visited a particular page, so show them ads relating to that page.” Google Dynamic Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.

If you do not wish to see ads from our site, you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. For further information, visit Google’s “Privacy Policy”.

• Google AdWords

We use Google AdWords to advertise our site across the Internet, in particular on the Google search.

If you do not wish to see ads from our site, you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. For further information visit Google’s “Privacy Policy”.

• DoubleClick by Google

DoubleClick uses cookies to enable interest-based advertisements. The cookies identify which ad has been shown in the browser and whether you have accessed a website through an ad. The cookies do not collect personal information. If you do not wish to see interest-based ads, you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. For further information visit Google’s “Privacy Policy”.

2) Hotjar

Hotjar is an Analysis and Feedback tool provided by Hotjar Ltd. It helps us to reveal the online behaviour and feedback of our visitors. Hotjar uses a tracking code, which collects your information and transmit it to Amazon Web Services secure cloud servers based in Ireland. The following information may be collected through your device and browser:

  • your device’s IP address (collected and stored in an anonymized format);
  • device screen size;
  • device type (unique device identifiers) and browser information;
  • geographic location (country only);
  • preferred language used to display the webpage.

We use this Information to improve the functionality of our website and makes it more user-friendly, more valuable and simpler for you to use.

You may opt-out from having Hotjar collect your information when visiting a Hotjar website at any time by using a ‘Do Not Track’ header. For further Information please visit Hotjar Privacy Policy.