Privacy Policy

Your privacy is our priority

We, the team of Hookupmasters, treat the privacy of our visitors seriously.All information we’ve gathered through hookupmasters.com (hereinafter, “the Site”, “the Website”, or “hookupmasters.com”) is treated with respect to your privacy rights: the personally-identifying data you provide while exploring the Site is under protection. This Privacy Policy applies to the wSite and was created to clarify what type of data we might gather on the Site, how this data might be used, and what types of conditions might lead to the disclosure of the data to third parties. This Privacy Policy covers only the data which we collect with the help of the Site: whichever information we gather from other sources is not influenced by this Privacy Policy.  This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use constitute a set of rights, rules, and obligations you are expected to follow and abide by when using the Site. In specific cases, you might be asked to accept additional terms.

The Site Visitors

The Site regularly bundles material that does not identify the personality of the user. This information is usually made available by browsers and servers. They reveal material including the type of the browser used, the language selected, site references, and the time and date a particular user visits the Site. The reason such non-privately-identifying information is collected isimportant as it helps us find out how our clients use the Site. This material might be occasionally released in the form of an aggregated information base or in the form of a generalized report reflecting the key trends in the use of hookupmasters.com. We also collect some privately-identifying information. Users who log into the Site and those who post their commentaries on the Site have their IP addresses detected and recorded. This material is only revealed in the selected cases and under conditions which are listed below.

Gathering of privately-Identifying information

To some extent, the disclosure of privately-identifying material depends on the Site visitors. Some activities on hookupmasters.com require providing additional information. For instance, when users decide to post their reviews, they are supposed to sign in and supply their email addresses and usernames. We will gather this material and keep it. But not all users are obliged to supply us with such information.

Security

We do our best to guarantee a level of information protection: we use tools that help us shield your personal data from leakage and misuse. However, we cannot give you a 100% guarantee that your information would not be compromised. Be aware that when you share any material on the Web or store any files online, you face particular risks.

Advertising on the Site

We cooperate with several advertising partners, and their ads may occasionally appear on the Site. Usually cookie files are used. It means that every time you see an ad on the site, the advertising server detects your computer or gadget and collects particular information about you or the one using your computer or gadget at the moment. The information is gathered in such a way that helps companies supply you with targeted ads that supposedly reflect your interests and fit your needs. According to this Privacy Policy, the use of cookies by external parties is not regulated – only the use of cookies by the Site is covered.

Links to External Sites

On the Site, you may see links redirecting you to external platforms. When you click on such links and open the page, we assume no responsibility for the outcome. We have no control over the content and policies of third parties sites, and all the consequences of visiting such sites is your own responsibility. We recommend you to be cautious, to check out privacy policies and terms of use of every new site you visit.

Use of AdWords

Those who have already visited hookupmasters.com may see the ads of our services among Google search results or on the websites of third parties. Hence, we use the information about your previous visits to offer you to come back again and continue cooperation with us. We collect the information on your previous actions through cookies. Third parties and Google do the same. These actions do not threaten your privacy as whichever information gathered with the help of cookies will be used exclusively in the ways that are consistent with our Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of Google. Therefore, none of your privacy rights are under the threat of violation. You can manage the ads Google shows you by changing settings on the Google Ad Preferences page. If you are not interested in whichever ads you have a chance to refuse seeing advertising – you have to alter your cookies settings or apply specific plugins for your browser.

Privately-Identifying Information: Selective Protection

There are only two cases when we disclose material which is truly or possibly privately-identifying to third parties, our own employees and contractors or the actors we are affiliated with. Thus, we share such information if: It is required to guarantee the proper functioning of the Site and the availability of all its functions. A third party gave a promise not to transmit the data further. In some cases, people we share information with are located in geographically remote areas. If you continue using hookupmasters.com, we suppose that you concur on the transfer of your information to the countries where third parties are located. There are no cases in which we sell or rent your privately-identifying information. The only additional reason such information might be revealed lies within the legal field: if we receive a subpoena, or a request from a court or government we are obliged to disclose your information. Also, in case we consider you to be a threat to the safety of the Website, its property or rights, we reserve our right to make your information available to third parties or the general public. Considering you created an account at the Site, your email address has been added to our list of contacts. Therefore, we might send you letters informing you about the latest functions and services we provide, asking you to take part in a survey or to supply your feedback, or letting you know about the general news considering our Site and products. We will not overwhelm you with our emails as usually, we post all the essential information on our blog which you can find on the Site. Considering you contact us directly and ask to solve a particular issue we might post your request and the solution we provide in order to let other users know how they may deal with the identical problem. We do our best to eliminate whichever risks and situations in which your privately-identifying information might be somehow compromised – accessed by unauthorized individuals, used without your permission, changed or deleted.

Aggregated Statistics

When you use the Site, we collect particular statistical information concerning the behavior and actions of the Site visitors. This statistical material may be revealed and shared publicly only in a generalized and bundled form. It means that none of your privately-identifying information is revealed separately.

Affiliate Disclosure

We admit placing affiliate links on the Site. Some of them bring us a commission, but the fact that we benefit from links does not mean that the prices you pay or the very process of purchasing whichever services are somehow affected.

Cookies

As we want you to benefit from our services fully, we use so-called “Cookies” which allow us to follow your actions on the Site, track your preferences, and supply you with personalized content (e.g., advertising which you see displayed in Google search results). The idea behind cookies is simple: whenever you visit the Site information about the session is saved on your computer and the next time when you enter the Site again your browser transmits the information about your visit to the Site. Hence, we get an opportunity to monitor who visits our Site, to find out the patterns of hookupmasters.com use, and to detect the main preferences of the visitors. If you do not want your browser to store cookies, you may change the standard settings. As a result, we would not get access to your activity, but you should be informed that some functions of the Site might fail to work properly when cookies are not applied. If you do not alter the basic settings, we suppose that you understand that we use cookies and that you concur to their use.

Alterations in Privacy Policy

We maintain our right to alter this Privacy Policy. Possible changes are likely to be minor and to some extent insignificant. We recommend you look through this Privacy Policy on a regular basis in order not to miss any alteration that might somehow affect you. In case a particular change was mentioned in this Privacy Policy, and after that, you kept visiting the Site we suppose that you concur with the alteration and accept it.

Contact material

If you have any questions or commentaries related to this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us via phone or email.  Wheelsman Media Company, since 1988.