Friends & Strangers Privacy Policy

Friends & Strangers takes your policy seriously. Please read the rest of notice to learn more about our privacy policy.

How F&S Uses Your Personal Information

This policy covers how Friends & Strangers collects and handles personal information that you provide to the Site. Personal information is information about you that could potentially identify you. This includes your name, address, email address, phone number and other data.

This privacy policy applies only to Friends & Strangers

This policy applies to your use of the Friends & Strangers website, either on a computer or on a mobile device. This notice does not apply to the practices of websites that Friends & Strangers does not own or control.

Information We Collect and Use

Friends & Strangers collects personal information when you register with Friends & Strangers, when you use Friends & Strangers services or products, or when you visit any Friends & Strangers web page. Friends & Strangers may combine information we collect about you with information from partner companies or other sources.

When you sign up on Friends & Strangers we ask you to provide information such as your name, email address, birth date, ZIP code, a physical description, and information about your personal interests. When you sign up to Friends & Strangers and use the services of the website, you are not anonymous to us.

Friends & Strangers collects information bout your transactions with us and with some of our partner companies, including information about your subscription level and use of both free and subscription services that we offer.

When you access the Friends & Strangers website, we automatically receive information from your browser and computer, including your IP address, Friends & Strangers browser cookie information, attributes of the device your used to access the site including hardware and software details. We also record the page you used to access the site and other pages you request during your browsing session.

Friends & Strangers uses the information we collect about you for the following purposes: To validate users and attempt to remove invalid profiles, to provide friend suggestions, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Friends & Strangers collects information about your use of your different profiles. This includes but is not limited to information about your connections, locations you frequent, events you are interested in and other profile-specific information.

Children

The Friends & Strangers service is not open to users who are under the age of 18. We ask users to indicate their age when they signup. When a user attempts to signup and indicates they are under the age of 18, we do not allow them to enter the site and provide alternate destinations that may be more appropriate for them.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Friends & Strangers does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with third parties except to provide products or services you have requested or under the following circumstances:

• We may provide information about you to trusted partners who provide services or work on behalf of Friends & Strangers. These partners are subject to confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Friends & Strangers provide you with offers from Friends & Strangers and advertising partners. In all cases, these partner companies do not have any independent right to share this information with other people or companies.
  
  
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  
  
• It is necessary to share information in order to investigate or take action against illegal or deceptive activities, potential fraud, violations of Friends & Strangers’ terms & conditions, or as otherwise required by law.
  
  
• We will transfer information about you if Friends & Strangers is acquired by or merged with another company. In this situation, Friends & Strangers will notify you via email before information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  
  
  
  

Friends & Strangers displays targeted advertising and provides targeted marketing messages based on personal information. Advertisers, including direct advertisers, ad networks, or third party service providers for advertisers or ad networks may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads or marketing messages meet the targeting criteria. This includes but is not limited to gender, age, ethnic group, location, current group, and information about the connections you are seeking.

Friends & Strangers does not provide any personal information directly to the advertiser when you view or interact with a targeted ad or marketing message. However, when you encounter an ad you are consenting to and indicating that you understand that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the criteria used to display the ad.

Friends & Strangers works with advertisers in all categories of business, and multiple sectors. Your information may be shared with partners without limitation to category as outlined in this policy.

Cookies

Friends & Strangers may set and access cookies on your computer or mobile device.

Friends & Strangers allows other companies that provide advertisements or marketing messages to set and access their cookies on your computer or mobile device. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Friends & Strangers privacy policy.

Messaging

We reserve the right to send you communications relate to the Friends & Strangers service, such as service announcements, administrative messages, a newsletter or other communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of them.

Mobile Messaging

By providing Friends & Strangers with your mobile phone number and indicating that your device is able to receive text messages or multimedia messages, you are granting Friends & Strangers permission to send advertisements or marketing messages to this mobile device as allowed by this privacy policy.

Further, if you have signed up for a subscription package that includes a Discreet Fone number, you understand that Friends & Strangers may send marketing text messages, voicemail or other communications to your Discreet Fone number.

Privacy Policy Changes

Friends & Strangers may update this policy from time to time and at its sole discretion. We will notify you about changes that we deem to be significant changes to the way we handle your personal information by sending an email to your primary email address, or by placing a notice on the website.