Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01/06/2018.

Site Russian Pen Pal (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates http://russianpenpal.com. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of our Site.

The essense of our site is in collection and display of the infromation provided by users via forms. By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Communications

If we have important news about your account, we can use your email address to contact you. When you receive a message from other users, it’s sent to your email address. We do not disclose your email address to anyone, including other users.

Information Collection And Use

When you register on our Site, we ask you to provide us with certain Personal Information. This Information is used to identify you as a user.

After you fill up your personal profile, the information you provided is shown to other users in order to establish contacts between you and other users. If you do not agree to display your information to all users of the site, uncheck the box “Make my profile public”. Please be aware that the users who receive your messages can see the information you provided in your presonal profile.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we use Google Analytics and Yandex Metrika, which collect, track and analyze the Site traffic.

All the information gathered by the analytics services and the Log Data are used by us to improve the work of the site and user experience.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site or even to login to your account.

Your rights to the data you provided

If you created an account on our site or sent us messages via the contact form you can request an archive (file) with your data stored on our Site. If you wish, you can delete your account and all related information (including messages that you sent to other users) from the menu “Account / Manage Account”.

However, please remember that other users receive notifications about your messages by email, same as you do, and we are not able to remove someone else’s email messages.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 01.06.2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.