Welcome to the ExpertTak Privacy Policy ("Policy")! This explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it. We suggest you read this in conjunction with our brilliant T&C's. Whilst you're enjoying the ExpertTak website, we collect some information about you. In addition, you may choose to use the website to share information with other uses, including your friends and contacts ("Users"). We may also need to share your information sometimes.
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, please feel free to contact us at contact@ExpertTak.com
When you create an account ("Account"), we may collect certain information ("Registration Information") about you, such as:
. Name;
. Username;
. Email address;
. Mobile number;
. Gender identity;
. Date of birth;
. Sexual preference;
. Photographs;
. Location
You will also be required to create a password in connection with the registration of your Account. Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information at any time by accessing your "Edit Profile" page! You control your user profile and are able to correct or update your information at any time by just logging in to ExpertTak.
The information we collect helps to enhance the ExpertTak service and verify our Users (Machines are not welcome!!). Registration Information such as your name and username may be visible to the public on your profile page.
We may also collect additional information in connection with your use of ExpertTak, for example if you use our electronic messaging function.
If you contact our Customer Support team, we will receive your email address, and may track your IP address as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other Users (and from other Users about you).
We recommend and encourage you (and all our members) to think carefully about the information you disclose about yourself. We also do not recommend that you put email addresses, URLs, instant messaging details, phone numbers, full names or addresses, credit card details, national identity numbers, drivers' licence details and other sensitive information on your profile which is open to abuse and misuse.
Please be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile such as your religious denomination and health details. While you may voluntarily provide this information to us when you create your profile, including your sexual preferences, there is no requirement to do so. Please remember that photographs that you post on ExpertTak may reveal information about yourself as well. Where you do upload and choose to tell us sensitive information about yourself, you are explicitly consenting to our processing of your information and making this public to other users.
When you post information about yourself or use the messaging function, the amount of personal information you share is at your own risk. Please see Section 4 below for more information on who can access what you post on ExpertTak. If you post anything that is inconsistent with our Terms and Conditions of Use, we reserve the right to terminate your Account - we really don't want to have to do this so please play by the rules!
For safety and security and to ensure you have the best possible user experience, we require users to verify their accounts and might ask for your phone number. We want to make sure you are not a robot! And we also want to avoid fake ExpertTak accounts being created which can be used for malicious activities and cybercrime - they threaten the ExpertTak network and ruin things for everyone.
To prevent abuse of the website, ExpertTak uses manual decisions to block accounts as part of its anti-spam procedures. In order to do this, our systems check accounts and messages for content that indicates breaches of our Terms and Conditions of Use. If an account or message meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms and Conditions of Use are likely to have been breached, the relevant account will automatically be blocked. All users of accounts that have been blocked will be notified that their account has been blocked and affected users can contact ExpertTak to contest the decision.
If you decide to purchase any of our premium services, we will process your payment information and retain this securely for the prevention of fraud and for audit/tax purposes.
Finally, we want to keep in touch with you to make sure you know about the great promotions and offers we have available. If you've told us it's OK, we will use your email address to send you information on these. You can withdraw this consent at any time by contacting us via email.
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes (as set out in Section 11 below) and as permitted by applicable law.
In practice, we delete or anonymise your information upon deletion of your account (following the safety retention window), unless:
1. we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, some "traffic data" is kept for one year to comply with statutory data retention obligations);
2. we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for five years);
3. there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
4. the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing users' safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behaviour or security incidents from opening a new account.
We may collect information about your device when you use the website including the unique device identifier, device model, operating system, and MAC address. In addition, if you permit us to do so, the website may access your device's address book solely in order to add someone to your contacts.
LinksWe may keep track of how you interact with links available on ExpertTak including third party services and clients by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on
Cookies Our cookies are small data files that are transferred to your computer's hard disk and are basically a tool that stores information about website visits, recognises you and your preferences each time you visit ExpertTak, and ensures site functionality and enables us to provide the services our members request.
The cookies we collect enable us to learn how people interact with ExpertTak, which in turn helps us make a better product for you! Cookies store information about your website visits and can recognise you and your preferences each time you visit the ExpertTak site. They help us to provide a better service to you!
ExpertTak'S use of cookies and local storage devices is basically related to the performance of ExpertTak'S site, such as analytics that help us determine how our site is performing and ensuring a smooth and trouble-free experience for our members and visitors.
Below is a table to explain ExpertTak'S cookie functions and why they're used.
If for any reason you decide that you do not want all of your ExpertTak activities to be stored you may set your browser and mobile settings to block cookies and local storage devices, but please remember that if you do so, you may not be able to access all of the features ExpertTak offers!
We use the following types of cookies:
Cookie Functions
Cookie Purposes
Analytics and research
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited. For more information about Google's Privacy Policy, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.
Performance
We need to use certain cookies and save data to your local storage devices to ensure our members have the best possible experience. They assist with your navigation of our site, ensuring pages load quickly and respond promptly to your requests - no one likes slow pace technology!
Our use of cookies and local storage devices, including the specific cookie names, may change over time, but will generally fall into the above categories. We will notify you of any important changes to our use of cookies and local storage devices. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of any changes.
If you would like to know more about these clever and inedible cookies, including flash cookies/local storage devices, the following websites provide useful information:
. www.allaboutcookies.org
. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html
. www.youronlinechoices.eu
Our main goal is to ensure your experience on ExpertTak is an enjoyable one. In order to deliver an enjoyable experience to you, we may use your Registration and other information to:
. offer you our services and features;
. contact you with information about the Website (e.g., updates and new offerings);
. personalise the Website and the content we deliver to you;
. conduct research and analytics about how you use and interact with the Website;
. resolve disputes between you and other Users; and
. investigate fraud, protect our legal rights, and to enforce our Terms & Conditions.
Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information, except in the limited circumstances described here:
Your Consent - If you consent, we may share or disclose your Registration Information, such as when you use a third party web client or application to access your Account.
Service Providers - We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services e.g. information technology companies (hardware and software) which provide services to support our products.
Moderators - To monitor activity on the Websites and approve content.
Payment Processing and Telecommunications Companies - To facilitate payments for our premium services.
Law and Harm - We think it is very important that all ExpertTak'S behave whilst using the Website. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement enquiries from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law or to protect the vital interests of a person. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, including your Registration Information, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues e.g. through anti-spam providers to protect the service from criminal activity or to protect our rights or property or those of third parties. In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
Business Transfers -In the event that ExpertTak or any of our affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organisation, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal data.
Aggregated Information - We may share aggregated information with third parties that includes your personal data (but which doesn't identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling. You may opt-out of receiving marketing messages by using the opt-out mechanisms and links provided in each email.
We ensure these parties must adhere to strict data protection and confidentiality provisions that are consistent with this Policy. Measures are taken to ensure that the data shared is non-attributable to the greatest extent possible
We think our users are awesome, and we want you to share how awesome you are with the world, so we have built certain features to enable this. Our Website is designed to make it easier for you to connect with other Users and to interact with them. May be viewed and shared by users with individuals who may or may not be Users or via third party applications at our discretion. For example, a User may recommend you as a pair to his or her Facebook friends by sharing your picture, regardless of whether such friend(s) is also a User of the Website. You might share information like the photos and messages you send or upload and any metadata provided with those messages, along with any comments or information you provide in connection with your photos.
When using ExpertTak, you should assume that anything you post or submit on the Website may be publicly-viewable and accessible, both by Users of the Website and non-Users of the Website. We want our users to be careful about posting information that will eventually be made public.
You may access or modify the Registration Information you provided at any time or permanently delete your Account (we hope you don't!)
When your Account is deactivated, we take reasonable efforts to make sure it is no longer viewable on the Website. For up to 30 days it is still possible to restore your Account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. After 30 days, we begin the process of deleting your Account from our systems. We are not responsible for any information, pictures, comments, or other content that is deleted from our systems resulting from the deactivation of your Account.
To prevent abuse and/or misuse of ExpertTak by a User following termination or deletion of a profile/Account we shall retain such information as we deem in our sole discretion may be necessary to ensure that User does not open a new Account and profile in breach of our insert our T&C's and to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.
Warning: Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your Account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by other Users or to the extent such information has been shared with search engines. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your personal information they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.
Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 30 days to enable restoration, but will not be available to others in the meantime.
Although we want as many people as possible to enjoy our platform, you have to be at least 18 years old to use the Website.
TYMPA AS does not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors or anyone under the age of 18. If you are less than 18 years old, we request that you do not submit information to us. If we become aware that a child, minor or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person's registration and delete their Registration Information from ExpertTak. If we do delete a profile because you violated our no children rules, we may retain your email and IP address to ensure that you do not try to get around our rules by creating a new profile.
As ExpertTak evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at ExpertTak.com/privacy/. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice within ExpertTak. By continuing to access or use the Website after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Here at ExpertTak we pride ourselves on taking commercially reasonable security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse and unauthorised access, or disclosure. We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.
Unfortunately no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss or other breaches will never occur, but here are some handy tips to help keep your data secure:
1. Please make sure you log out of your Account after use as you never know who may stumble onto your device.
2. Please don't share your social media password with anyone else.
3. We recommend you change your social media password periodically.
If you ever think someone has had access to your social media passwords, please report it to the relevant social media platform and change your password immediately. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data while it is being transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk.
WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ANY BREACHES OF SECURITY, DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE, OR ANY LOSS OR UNAUTHORISED USE OF YOUR REGISTRATION INFORMATION OR OTHER DATA.
ExpertTak has designated a Data Protection Officer and they can be reached by emailing Support@ExpertTak.com
If you want to exercise any of your rights listed above please contact our DPO.
How does ExpertTak protect my personal data?
ExpertTak has implemented appropriate security measures to protect and prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, including your personal data. Our technical experts at ExpertTak work hard to ensure your secure use of our site.
While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our website, member database and records no website or Internet transmission is completely secure and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal data safe (including your password) and to log out of your account after use. If you lose your password or give it out, or another service provider that you use suffers a data breach and you have used the same credentials with that service provider as you have with ExpertTak, your personal data may be compromised. If that happens, please report it to Support via Support@ExpertTak.com
Where is my personal data kept?
We want you to be able to access ExpertTak wherever you happen to be in the world. To enable us to provide that service, we operate a global network of servers including in the US, Hong Kong and Czech Republic. The hardware is located in third-party data centres but is owned by the ExpertTak Dating group. Data collected by advertising partners may also be held outside the European Economic Area. We ensure that the data is adequately protected by ensuring that valid, legal mechanisms are in place such as: EU approved model clauses, US privacy shield certification (please note that ExpertTak is not Privacy Shield certified but we may pass information to third party service providers or advertising partners who are based in the US and who are Privacy Shield certified); and implementing robust contractual standards. If you want more information relating to the nature of the safeguards we have in place, please email Support@ExpertTak.com
Does ExpertTak collect any other personal data about me?
If you contact our Customer Support team Support@ExpertTak.com we will receive your email address, and may track your IP address, as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other users (and from other users about you) for 6 years after deletion of your account.
Does ExpertTak use my personal data for any other purpose?
We may use material that you post on the open access areas of ExpertTak in advertising and promotional materials on our partner sites and partner products. We believe these uses are in line with our legitimate interests in enabling us to improve our site and better tailor your online experience to meet your needs. If we intend to do this, we will contact you for your prior approval.
We use your personal data to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use.
We are only permitted to use your data when we have a lawful basis to do so. The table below provides an overview of the legal bases that we rely on to use your data. Where the legal basis is consent, you can withdraw consent at any time. Where the legal basis is legitimate interests, you have a right to object to our use of your data. We explain in the relevant sections in this Policy how you can withdraw consent or opt-out of certain data uses (where applicable).
Purpose for which data is used
Data
Legal basis
To provide you with the ExpertTak social networking service
Name, email address, date of birth, location
Contractual necessity
To facilitate networking opportunities on the ExpertTak site
Optional information that you choose to provide in your profile, which may include information about your sexual preferences, religion, ethnic background, photos etc.
Consent
To take payment for premium services
Payment card details
Contractual necessity and legitimate interests - we have a legitimate interest in receiving payment for our premium services
To serve targeted advertisements to Users of the Website
Demographic and location information
Legitimate interests - it is in our legitimate interests to target advertisements so that users see relevant advertisements and to allow us to generate income from advertising revenue
To send you marketing information about our offers and services
Email address
Legitimate interests - it is in our legitimate interests to promote our products and services
To show "nearby" location information to you and other users of the site
Wifi access points and location data when you use the Website
Consent
To carry out research and analysis to help us improve the Website
Log and usage data, including IP address, browser type, referring domain, pages accessed, mobile carrier and search terms
Legitimate interests - it is in our interests to analyse the way in which Users are accessing and using our services so that we can further develop the Website and improve the service
To respond to correspondence and queries that you submit to us
Email address and IP address
Legitimate interests - it is in our legitimate interests to respond to your queries to ensure that we provide a good service to Users and troubleshoot problems
To block accounts as part of our anti-spam procedures
Email address, IP address and IP session information, social network ID, username, user agent string
Legitimate interests - it is in our legitimate interests to prevent unauthorised behaviour and to maintain the safety and security of our services
Thanks for ExpertTaking with us and reading this Privacy Policy!
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 21st oct 2021.