Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice 

Effective Date: September 1 2020

Last Reviewed on: September 17 2020

Welcome to Intro-Social.com (“Intro-Social,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Website”)! We take your privacy seriously, and put together this privacy policy to explain to you how we collect, use, and share your Personal Data (as defined by applicable law) that we collect through this website and the various services and products we offer you (the “Services”). Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy only covers information we collect about you directly through the Services as well as communications between you and Intro-Social LLC. This Privacy Policy is incorporated in our Terms of Use. By using this Website or any of our services or products, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect And How We Collect It

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information“). Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

In particular, we have collected personal information from the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, image and/or likeness, personality traits, interests, account name, or other similar identifiers.	YES
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	This categories listed in this statute are name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation	YES
D. Commercial information.	or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	YES
E. Biometric information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	YES
G. Geolocation data.	Physical location for determination of billing city.	YES
H. Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.	NO
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.	YES

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase. Examples of information you provide to us directly include information from:
  • Forms you fill out on our website when you register an account, register or RSVP for an event, create a guest account, subscribe to become an event host or organizer, when you create an event, when you purchase tickets for an event, or when you provide feedback from an event.
  • Email interactions and other correspondences between you and us, correspondences between you and other users of this site, or correspondences between you and hosts or guests of events. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and that your user contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your user contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your user contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website. This includes:
    • As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
      • Details of your visits to our Website, including location data, message logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
      • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
    • The information we collect automatically is mostly statistical data but may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties]. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
      • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
      • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
      • Speed up your searches.
      • Recognize you when you return to our Website.
    • The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
      • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access some or all of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.
      • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
      • Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information [https://date.intro-social.com/delete/].
  • We may collect personal information from third parties when you make a purchase of one of our products or services.

We may use technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Internet browsers may be configured to send “do not track” signals to websites you visit. Like many other companies and websites, we do not alter our practices when we collect a “do not track” signal.

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask about an event we are facilitating, a type you want to host through our platform, a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. We may use your personal information to facilitate events and products we offer through our platform. If you provide your personal information to register for an event or purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment, facilitate delivery, or distribute materials and credentials used for the event. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders, process returns, or inform you of products, services, or events that may be of interest to you.
  • To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.
  • To make use of a desired website or application function or activity, as necessary for the proper operation of that function or activity.
  • To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
  • To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth under applicable laws.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. Unless you opt-in, we will not use any of your personal information for testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract . The CCPA prohibits third parties who purchase the personal information we hold from reselling it unless you have received explicit notice and an opportunity to opt-out of further sales. We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Intro-Social’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Intro-Social about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

Third parties to whom we are currently sharing your personal information with include: Hosts, organizers, venue representatives, and guests of events; service providers (for transaction processing); data aggregators (calendar aggregators, Google Analytics, Jetpack, WordPress); service providers; and companies we use for retail sales.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.

Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.

Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

Category D: Commercial information.

Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold personal information.

We currently do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

a. Right to Delete Information. You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. For date.intro-social.com, a user must be logged-in to their account before they can click the “Delete Account” link at https://date.intro-social.com/delete/. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
   • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
   • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
   • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
   • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.) or similar laws.
   • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
   • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
   • Comply with a legal obligation.
   • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

b. Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights.

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

c. Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising.

If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to tyler@intro-social.com

d. Promotional Offers from Intro-Social.

During registration of your account, you may choose to opt-in to allow Intro-Social or third parties to promote products or services. f we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email to tyler@intro-social.com asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

e. Targeted Advertising.

If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out sending an email to tyler@intro-social.com.

f. Third Parties.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

g. Nevada Residents.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: tyler@intro-social.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at tyler@intro-social.com

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. To designate an authorized agent, you may do so by email at tyler@intro-social.com.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:
  • Name, address, email, phone number, username.
  • If an inquiry comes from an email address associated with a guest or host account, that will serve as verification of account.
  • If an inquiry comes from a user that is currently logged-in to the website under their email address, that will serve as verification of account.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

• California Privacy Rights

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. These rights include . We currently extend these rights to non-California residents as well. Below are the following rights provided under the CCPA, and clicking below will take you to the section discussing those rights.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights. Unless permitted under applicable law, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, the CCPA does allow us to offer California residents certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time. [We currently provide the following financial incentives:

California’s “Shine the Light” law (California Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to tyler@intro-social.com.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions, interactions, and web functions, will be encrypted using SSL technology.

Administrator accounts may include 2-factor authentication.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password, or in some cases an identifier code, for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Your identifier code may or may not be your responsibility to keep confidential, depending on the specific function or feature of the Website. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which Intro-Social collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law or that we extend to non-residents of California, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Website: http://intro-social.com/contact/

Email: tyler@intro-social.com