Privacy Policy
A Friend Of A Friend's (AFOAF) Data Protection and Privacy Notice
Your privacy is important to us and we will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. In holding your personal data at AFOAF, we are concerned to ensure that your privacy is protected and that use of personal data is rigorously controlled. Only restricted information from your personal data will be available to other users of www.afoaf.com. Non-members will only have access by invitation to restricted profile information (one picture) but no other information. If you send a message through our service, the personal data contained within that message will be shared with the recipient of that message. All other personal data that we process is kept confidential on our secure database. We will use your personal data to provide you with our services (including moderating your profile and photograph(s), communicating with you regarding your membership and responding to complaints), for administration and accounting, for marketing and to ensure that the content and services that we offer are tailored to your needs and interests.
We will store your personal data for so long as you are a registered user. After you cease to be a registered user we will keep your personal data on our records for a period of one year to enable us to respond to any queries or complaints that you may have. After this time we may continue to store your personal data, however such personal data shall only be processed where necessary for legal reasons (for example we will need to keep your billing data for 7 years in accordance with HM Revenue and Customs rules) or we have reason to believe that the processing may (i) assist with the detection and/or prevention of crime; and/or (ii) protect your safety or that of a third party.
By providing us with your personal data you consent to our processing your sensitive personal data, such as your sexual orientation, for the above purposes. You also consent to our transferring your personal data to countries or jurisdictions that do not provide the same level of data protection as is provided in the United Kingdom.
If you have provided us with data about another person, you confirm that they consent to the processing of their personal data including their sensitive personal data and that you have informed them of our identity and the purposes (as set out above) for which their personal data will be processed.
In the event that you (whether on your own behalf or on behalf of someone else) choose to pay for our services you will be required to provide your name, address and card details, which will be passed immediately to our payment provider via a secure link. Your card details are not retained on our database. We will keep your name and address confidential on our secure database and process these in accordance with this Data Protection and Privacy Notice.
We take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data is kept secure and is kept for only so long as is necessary for the purpose for which it is used. We only hold such personal data about you as you, or your friend, have provided to us and we update this personal data within 2 working days of any new personal data being provided to us, to ensure that the personal data we hold about you is as accurate and up to date as possible.
Going forward we may link to a variety of other sites. Furthermore, although we don't currently display advertisements from third parties on our site we may do so in future. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of these sites or third party advertisers, nor for the way in which information about their users is treated. In particular, unless expressly stated, we are not agents for these sites or advertisers, nor are we authorised to make representations on their behalf. You are entitled to ask for a copy of any personal data that we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your personal data corrected.
For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications with us.
Cookies
We may store information about you in a cookie (a small file that is sent by our web server to your computer), which we can access when you make return visits to the site. Sending cookies is usual practice for any site that needs to remember what its members preferences are and we use cookies to keep track of your choices in this site (such as login or registration identification, login time, user preferences etc.).
It is our intention that using Cookies is for your benefit and convenience. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that cookies are stored in. Our cookie has the file name "AFOAF_cookie". If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in the future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Further information about deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org. Please note that when you visit our site, we may also log your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device. We will keep these records for up to 2 years.
If your personal details change, please log in to www.afoaf.com and update your details in the 'Edit Profile' section (located in the Toolbox at the top right of every page). If you have any queries about how we use your personal data or how we could improve our Privacy Policy for all members please don't hesitate to contact our Customer Services team at:
Customer Services, AFOAF LLP, Third Floor, Grant House, 56/60 St JohnStreet, London, EC1M 4HG.
The nice people at A Friend Of A Friend (AFOAF LLP).