Cookies
Our objective and mission are to assist you in finding the right online Dating service. We test, rate, and review the best services and providers, so you know what is available and how it suits your needs.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a piece of information placed on your device by a website to recall something about you or your device at a later time.
We may use both Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies. After you close your browser, a Session Cookie vanishes but a Persistent Cookie remains and can be used by your browser on visits to the website that occur subsequently.
Our website’s cookies may be set by third-party partners or by us and can be categorized as one of the following:
– Third-party services
– Performance
By allowing us to monitor how visitors use our website, cookies help us deliver the excellent experience we strive to achieve. The data facilitates developing and improving our services, providing anonymous statistics on the number of people visiting the website, where those people have come from, and which pages they visit.
Third-Party
- Google Analytics: Collects statistical information about how you use the site so that we can improve the site (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout)
- Facebook: Social media integration (http://facebook.com/policy.php)
- Twitter: Social media integration (http://dev.twitter.com/web/overview/privacy)
Functionality
These cookies let you share content from our website on popular social media platforms.
Advertising
Some of these cookies let us monitor the performance of our online advertising campaigns. Others allow for more individualized advertisements to be directed toward you when you browse the internet by identifying for third parties what you demonstrate an interest in.
Third-Party
- Google AdWords: Tracks performance of advertising campaigns (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/)
- Facebook Ads: Tracks performance of advertising campaigns (http://www.facebook.com/policy.php)
- Bing Ads: Tracks performance of advertising campaigns (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.aspx)
Affiliate Links
Affiliate links are usually what you use to visit one of the Dating service providers from our website. When you sign up for an online Dating service, these affiliate links, along with the cookies set by them, ensure our commission is received and helps secure the continued operation of our free website.
A website devoted to supporting your understanding of how affiliate marketing works was created by the Affiliate Marketing Council, part of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), a trade association for online and mobile advertising.
Third-party cookies
The following is a list of the primary cookies set by the third-party services used by us to enhance your experience on our website, as well as a short description of what they do:
_ga: Google Analytics cookie used to identify unique users. (2 years)
_gat: Google Analytics cookie that limits the number of requests made to their servers. (10 minutes)
How to control cookies
You can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed and delete all the cookies already on your computer. Doing this may require you to adjust preferences each time you visit a site manually, and certain services and functionalities may not be available. Learn how to control and/or delete cookies on aboutcookies.org.
Additional cookie information and opt-out options and methods can be found at the following resources:
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising