Privacy Policy

This website is operated by ichatonline.com (“we” “our” or “us”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this policy explaining how we collect, use and disclose the personally identifiable information you submit on this website, if any (“Site”). For certain products or services, there may be additional notices about information practices and choices. Please read those additional privacy disclosures to understand how they apply to you.

If you do not agree with anything contained in this Privacy Policy then please cease and desist from using our Site immediately.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Technical and usage information. We collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you use our Site such as but not limited to, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider or mobile carrier, IP address, and certain usage information.

Device Information. We may collect information from your devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.), including information about how you interact with our Site and those of our third-party partners and information that allows us to recognize and associate your activity across devices and this Site. This information includes device specific identifiers and information such as IP address, cookie information, mobile device and advertising identifiers, browser version, operating system type and version, mobile network information, device settings, and software data. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences and advertising across the devices you use.

Information from other sources. We may, on occasion and in our sole and absolute discretion, combine information we receive online with outside records and use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

Providing our products and services. We use the information we collect about you to fulfill your requests for our products and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, to provide, personalize, and improve our offerings and to offer you other products, programs or services from us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you.

Mobile Device Data Usage. When you access our Site on a mobile device, we may use the information collected for any purpose whatsoever so long as it complies with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Use of non-personally identifiable information. We use aggregate information about our users and non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design, functionality and content of our Site and to enable us to personalize your experience with our Site and offerings. We use this information to (i) provide, maintain, personalize, protect, improve, and develop our products, programs, and services and to operate our business, (ii) to analyze usage and performance of our Site, and (iii) for us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties to offer you products, programs, or services.

3. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Legal and law enforcement purposes. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, including but not limited to court orders and subpoenas, or in response to a request from a law enforcement agency. We may also disclose such information to third parties in connection with fraud detection, and prevention activities or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of any of our terms of use or other policies, to protect our rights and the rights of others, and as otherwise required by law.

You understand and agree that we maintain the option, in our sole and absolute discretion, to inform you of any disclosure of your personally identifiable information for legal and law enforcement purposes.

Change of control. We may transfer any information about you in the event of a business transaction, such as if we or one of our business units or our relevant assets are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company.

Our Vendors and service providers. Our agents, employees and contractors may have access to personally identifiable information to help carry out the services they are performing for us.

Affiliates and other third parties. We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We may also work with third-party service providers to prepare or send any communications to you, or to assist us in connection with any of our administrative or business functions, or in the provision of any of our products or services to you (including for example, hosting or operating the website and our databases and site analytics); provided that, where required by applicable law, we enter into written agreements with those third-party service providers requiring them to provide the same level of protection that said applicable law require and limiting their use of the data to the specified services provided on our behalf.

We may also share such information with business partners and third parties, such as other marketers, publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations, that want to market products or services to you.

Linked third-party sites. Our Site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. You should consult the other sites’ privacy policies before submitting any information, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. We make no representations or warranties as to any content located on any linked sites and you hereby assume all risks associated with visiting said linked sites.

Sponsors and co-promotions. We sometimes may offer content or programs that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the activity. We have no control over these third parties’ use of this information.

Advertisement servers. Reputable third parties may present or serve advertisements, provide us with data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, and site analytics, and assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies. The use of these technologies by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

Mobile Device. Third parties and ourselves may also obtain information about other applications that you have downloaded to your mobile device, the mobile websites you visit, and other information about you or your device in order to help analyze and serve anonymous targeted advertising on the Site and elsewhere.

4. YOUR CHOICES

Marketing Communications. We provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving certain marketing communications from us. If you ever decide in the future that you would like to update these preferences, (i) you may follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in any marketing email you receive, or (ii) you may contact us through the following contact form. If you previously chose to receive push notifications on your mobile device from us but no longer wish to receive them, you can manage your preferences either through your device or app settings, depending on the type of device.

5. COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Cookies. We, and our affiliates, third party service providers, and our business partners may use cookies or similar technologies to store your individual user preferences in order to make your user experience more enjoyable in the future. “Cookies” are tiny bits of information stored by your browser on the device you use to access our website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies by default and they are commonly found on many websites throughout the Internet.

Managing cookies. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other Website. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of our Site can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of the content or features of our Site.

Analytics. We have implemented Google Analytics features known as Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings provided by Google. In addition, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. We will use the data provided by Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to further develop and improve our products.

6. SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard the information we collect on the Site. Despite the reasonable security measures that we have created, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be used or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us or for as long as we reasonably require to retain the information for our lawful business purposes (such as for the purposes of exercising our legal rights), or for as long as the law otherwise permits.

7. INFORMATION UPDATES, CORRECTIONS AND WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT

To access the personally identifiable information collected about you on the pages on which this Privacy Policy is posted, to correct factual errors in such information, or to update your interests or preferences, please contact us through the following  contact form. Subject to legal or contractual requirements or restrictions, you can, at any time, revoke your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of personal information by sending us a reasonable prior notice through the following contact form and we will proceed to erase your personally identifiable information. Even if you withdraw your consent, pursuant to applicable law, we may nevertheless have the right or obligation to continue to retain, use or disclose certain personal information. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access, making corrections or erasing any information.

8. PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and post a notice of any substantial changes, if any. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. In any event, we will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most changes will be minor.

9. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation you may contact us through the following contact form.