Privacy Policy
Your trust is our priority. This policy explains how Ownmates collects, uses, and protects your information.
Overview
This policy covers how Ownmates ("Ownmates.com," "we," "us," or "our") treats personal information that it collects and receives on www.ownmates.com. This notice tells you what information we collect, steps we take to protect and secure it, how we use and share information, and finally, how you can contact us with questions or concerns.
Information We Collect
When you create an account, we need to collect some information about you. We may collect and store personal information you provide to us when you register for our Service, including GPS location, your First Name, Last Name, gender, email address, password, Date of birth, country and state. We may also collect any communications between you and Ownmates and any other information you provide to Ownmates. Ownmates may also collect personal information when you enter into promotions or sweepstakes.
Ownmates may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or others. Ownmates may also collect information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners. This information might include information necessary to process payments due to us from you such as your Bank details information, credit card number, Debit card number, UPI Id.
Ownmates may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request. Ownmates uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
IP Address
Ownmates may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users depending upon how you access our web sites. IP addresses, browser and session information may be used for various purposes, including to: Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP. Estimate the total number of users visiting Ownmates.com's web sites from specific geographical regions. Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content, services or resources that we offer. Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse. Provide more relevant advertisements to you.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use Ownmates services or products that require you to "Log In" and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.
Ownmates uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Require you to re-enter your password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents. Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the Ownmates.com Sites, Products and Services. Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic. Conduct research to improve the content and services provided on the Ownmates.com Sites, Products and Services. Ensure that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize advertising based on browser type and user profile information.
Information Relating to Children
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Ownmates does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information through the Ownmates web site from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of Ownmates service is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Ownmates service or web site at any time or in any manner.
Child Safety & Protection
Ownmates is committed to providing a safe environment for all users. Users under the minimum supported age are not permitted to create an account. Users can report profiles, messages, posts, comments, groups, or any content that violates the Community Guidelines. Users can block other users to prevent unwanted contact. Ownmates reviews reports and may remove content, suspend, or permanently terminate accounts that violate policies. Content involving child sexual abuse, child exploitation, grooming, or any form of child endangerment is strictly prohibited and will be removed immediately. Where required by law, Ownmates may report such content to the appropriate authorities. Users can contact the safety team at support@ownmates.com to report child safety concerns.
Information Use, Sharing and Disclosure
Ownmates does not share personal information we learn about you from your use of the Ownmates web sites, products and services with others except as described in this policy. When you provide personal information through using Ownmates you are however sharing your personal information with Ownmates.com and its affiliated entities. The use of your personal information by these organizations is subject to this policy. We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Ownmates may use or share your personal information where it is necessary to complete a transaction, to operate or improve the Ownmates products and services, to do something that you have asked us to do, or tell you of products and services that we think may be of interest. From time to time, Ownmates.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Ownmates. You may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate.
Confidentiality and Security
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we take reasonable measures to secure it on our systems. If Ownmates.com learns of a security systems breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using Ownmates or providing personal information to us you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of those sites, products and services.
Personal Data Processing and Deletion (GDPR Compliance)
Ownmates collects personal user data when a user creates or edits an account. This information includes name, birthday, gender, country, state, email address and other data voluntarily supplied by the user including photographs and description text. This data is stored on Ownmates servers and a subset of it is made public to other users on the site via a user's public profile. Non-public data including email and passwords are used for authentication purposes and for notifications.
In compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), at a user's request, Ownmates will delete all user data from its servers. To request data deletion, a user must send an email to support@ownmates.com requesting "Permanent data deletion" and including the username of the profile in question. If the email is received from an email address other than the one used to register the account, supplemental identity verification will be required.
International Users
The Ownmates web site is hosted in the US and is intended for and directed to users around the world. If you are accessing this web site from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from US laws, please be advised that through your continued use of this web site, which is governed by US law, this privacy policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to US and you consent to that transfer.
Contacting Ownmates.com
If you have a privacy concern regarding Ownmates, or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of those sites, products or services, you should complete a feedback form or you can write to us by email at support@ownmates.com.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.