Privacy Policy
We are rings (“rings” / “we”/ “our” / “us”). At rings we are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors. We will continue to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”), together with any national laws, regulations and secondary legislation as amended or updated from time to time in the UK.
This privacy policy explains how and when rings collects, uses and shares your information, in addition to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site or communicate with us. By visiting this website you consent to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this privacy policy. If you do not consent, please do not submit any personal data to us.
We update this privacy policy at our own discretion, so please review this privacy policy regularly in order to stay fully up to date. rings can obtain your personal information through a variety of different means. For example, your data will be shared with us whenever you fill out a form on our website; this includes our newsletter form, general contact form, and our survey. Your data may also be shared with us if you contact us directly or if you interact with our apis or applications, in addition to any other third party api or application that is associated with rings. Irrespective of which country you reside in or supply information from, you authorise rings to use your information in any country where rings operates. If you wish to no longer receive newsletters or other marketing communication from us, you can opt out via the unsubscribe link in the marketing emails or by following the process mentioned below in the ‘your rights in respect to your data’ section.
If you fill out one of our surveys, you are consenting to share with us your personal information so that we can process and analyse your data as we see fit. This data is primarily used for research purposes so that we can better understand our audience and tailor our product accordingly. However, it may also be shared with our partners and other third parties so that they, too, can gain more insight into the dating app market.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USAGE
We collect and use the following information in order to provide our services and to measure and improve our services over time:
Location Information: We may use data from your device to determine location. For example, information about wireless networks or mobile phone towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information about your location in order to provide features for our services which are tailored to you (e.g. relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow).
Links: rings may keep track of how you interact with links across our website, including our third-party services and client applications. We do this to help improve our services and to provide more relevant advertising (e.g. to be able to share aggregate statistics such as the frequency of a particular link being clicked on).
Cookies: This website uses cookies and similar technologies to collect additional application usage data and to improve our services. rings may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services (e.g. to monitor aggregate usage by our users and traffic routing on our services), and to customise and improve our services. Most applications automatically accept cookies.
Google Analytics: We may install Google Analytics on any rings application in order to understand your behaviours while using our services. We will also recommend some other services that may be suitable for you based on our analysis.
Facebook Pixel: We may install Facebook Pixel tracking scripts on any rings application in order to understand your behaviours while using our services. The Facebook Pixel allows us to create custom audiences based on our website traffic in order to market to them on Facebook. For more information about Facebook’s ToS please visit this link: https://www.facebook.com/terms.
Twitter Pixel: We may install Twitter Pixel tracking scripts on any rings application in order to understand your behaviours while using our services. Twitter Pixel cookies allow us to collect user data through our website for the purpose of creating tailored audiences based on our website traffic in order to serve advertising targeted to users’ interests and track conversions on Twitter, including the storing and access of cookies.
For more information about Twitter’s use of cookies please visit this link: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514. To opt out of Twitter’s interest based advertising please click here for instructions: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405
Log Data: When you use the rings website, we may receive information (“Log Data”) such as your IP address, device information (including device and application IDs) and search terms. rings uses Log Data to provide, understand, and improve our services. We process personal information for certain legitimate business purposes, which include some or all the following:
- To enhance, modify, personalise, or otherwise improve our website, our services and communications for the benefit of our customers.
- To identify and prevent fraud.
- To enhance the security of our network and information systems.
- To better understand how people interact with our website.
- To administer the website, carry out data analysis, troubleshooting and testing, and
to determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising.
We do not disclose your private personal information except in the limited circumstances as listed below:
- Your Consent: We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorise a third-party web client or application to access the rings website.
- Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this privacy policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect rings’ rights or property. However, nothing in this privacy policy is intended to limit any legal defences or objections that you may have to a third party, including a government, requesting to disclose your information.
- Business Transfers: If rings is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, re-organisation or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
- Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information. This may include your public user profile information, the people you share your information with, the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did), or reports to advertisers about unique users who saw or clicked on their ads after we have removed any private personal information (such as your name or contact information).
You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. If you would like to withdraw your consent or prefer not to receive any information from us, please let us know by getting in touch here..
If you do not want us to contact you for marketing purposes, please let us know by clicking the “Unsubscribe” option in any marketing email we send to you and providing the details requested or by contacting us via the contact form . We will take steps to ensure that this information is deleted as soon as possible. In this scenario, we will retain your personal data on a suppression list to the extent we need it to ensure we don’t send you any further marketing communications.
Calls: Calls to our company, including any of our representatives whether on land-line or mobile may be recorded for security, training and monitoring purposes.
YOUR RIGHTS IN RESPECT TO YOUR DATA
If any of the information you provide to us changes, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make the necessary changes to the information we hold for you on our database.
If you wish to make any changes to your information, or if you wish to see the information we hold on you, please contact us here. We shall process your request to access your information and provide this information to you free of charge unless your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
To request that your information is deleted or if you wish to restrict / object to the processing of your information, please contact us here.
If you have any complaints about our use of your personal data, please contact us. You may also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/ or other relevant supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.
If you have any further queries or comments on our privacy policy, please contact us here. We always welcome your views about our Website and our privacy policy.
FUTURE CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. The most current version of the privacy policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at /privacy-policy. If we make a change to this privacy policy that, at our sole discretion, is material, we will update /privacy-policy. By continuing to access or use the services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised privacy policy. Last update: 26th October 2024