Privacy Policy | The Meeting Place

Last updated: 2 December 2021

1. Who Are We - TMP

IconomySA CC

Trading as The Meeting Place (TMP)

AMR Building 3

9 Concorde Road East

Bedfordview

2007

Gauteng

South Africa

2. Where does this policy apply

This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events and other services operated by TMP. These are referred to as “services” in this Privacy Policy.

3. Information We Collect

We need certain information to help you make meaningful connections, such as basic profile details and the interests of types of people you’d like to connect with. We also collect information generated as you use our services, for example access logs, as well as information from third parties, like when you access our services through a social media account.

Information you give us

You may give us certain information when using our services, such as:

Your login information, your gender, your date of birth, details on your personality, lifestyle, interests, racial or ethnic origins, and religious beliefs, and other information about you, as well as content such as photos and videos. By providing this information, you consent to our processing of that information.
When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us (rather than through a platform such as iOS or Android), you provide us or our payment service provider with information, such as your debit or credit card number or other financial information.
When you participate in surveys or focus groups, you give us your insights into our products and services, responses to our questions and testimonials.
When you choose to participate in our promotions, events or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter.
If you contact us, we collect the information you give us during the interaction.
If you ask us to communicate with or otherwise process information of other people, we collect the information about others that you give us to complete your request.
Of course, we also handle your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services.

Information we receive from others

In addition to the information you provide us directly, we receive information about you from others, including:

Other Users: Other users may provide information about you as they use our services. For instance, we may collect information about you from other users if they contact us about you.
Social Media: You may be able to use your social media login (such as Facebook Login) to create and log into your TMP account. This saves you from having to remember yet another username and password and allows you to share some information from your social media account with us.
Other Partners: We may receive info about you from our partners, for instance where TMP ads are published on a partner’s websites and platforms (in which case they may pass along details on a campaign’s success).

Information collected when you use our services

When you use our services, we collect information about which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to access our services. These include usage information, device information and other information with your consent.

4. Cookies and Other Similar Data Collection Technologies

We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to recognise you and your device(s). You may read our Cookie Policy for more information on why we use them (such as authenticating you, remembering your preferences and settings, analysing site traffic and trends, delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, allowing you to use social features) and how you can better control their use, through your browser settings and other tools.

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) have a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) feature that tells a website that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked. If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option, and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many businesses, including TMP, do not currently respond to DNT signals.

5. How We Use Information

We use your information to deliver and improve our service to you. We also use your information for safety reasons and advertising. Below is more detail on how we use your information.

Create and manage your account
Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests
Complete your transactions
Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing
Analyse your profile, activity on the service, and preferences to recommend meaningful connections to you and recommend you to others
Show users’ profiles to one another
Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a consistent experience of our services on all of them, to help identify and link them.
Register you and display your profile on new TMP features and apps
Administer your account on these new features and apps

Administer competitions, discounts and other offers
To advertise to you issues of interest on our services and other sites

Communicate with you by email, phone, social media or mobile device about products or services that we think may be of interest to you
Administer focus groups and surveys
Conduct research and analysis of users’ behaviour to improve our services and content as well as develop new features
Address alleged misbehaviour on and off-platform and perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures against these activities
Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent recurrences
Comply with legal requirements
Assist law enforcement
Enforce or exercise our rights

6. How We Share Information

We share information with other users to create meaningful relationships. We also share some users’ information with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services and in some cases with legal authorities. Below are examples of where we may share your information.

With other users
With our service providers and partners
For corporate transactions
When required by law
To enforce legal rights
With your consent or at your request

7. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Sharing of information laid out in section 6 above sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, for instance, to the United States of America and other jurisdictions. As an example, where the service allows users to be located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), their personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA. We use standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission or other suitable safeguard to permit data transfers from the EEA to other countries. Standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data

8. Your Rights

You have the following ways to protect your information.

Amend and update your profile on the system
Using the mobile platforms permission settings
Delete your account on the system
Uninstall the app using the standard uninstall process for your device
In certain countries, including in the European Union, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information

9. Residents of California

If you are a California resident, you can request a notice disclosing the categories of personal information about you that we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To request this notice, please submit your request to us, together with proof of identity.

10. How We Protect Your Information

We work hard to protect you from unauthorised access to or alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. As with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect that your personal information will always remain secure.

We periodically monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and organisational security measures.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately.

11. How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law. To protect the safety and security of our users on and off our services, we keep your information for three months following account deletion, After that, your account is deleted. It is also deleted after two years of no activity.

We delete your information upon deletion of your account, unless:

we must keep it to comply with applicable law;
we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for five years);
there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
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 preventing a user who was banned for unsafe behaviour or security incidents from opening a new account.

Even though our systems are designed to carry out data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot promise that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to technical constraints.

12. Children's Privacy

Our services are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or older. We do not permit users under the age of 18 on our platform. If you suspect that a user is under the age of 18, please report this to us.

13. Privacy Policy Changes

We are always looking for ways to improve. Therefore this policy may change from time to time. We will notify of these changes which will be updated on the website.

14. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us:

Online: Click Here

By post:

CEO

IconomySA

PO BOX 10169

Edenglen