Cookies
Our main goal is to help you find the best matchmaking service. To that end, we have researched and created reviews of the most common dating services so that you know your options and which ones best suit your requirements.
What is a cookie?
Although a cookie may sound like a sweet treat, it is a technical term used when an online site places certain information on your device later to recall relevant data about you or your device. We may use both session and persistent cookies.
What are the types of cookies?
There is a slight difference between them. A session cookie disappears when you close your browser. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain and can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Cookies on our website may be created by third-party partners or by us and may be categorized as one of the following Third Party Services and Performance.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies help us to provide the carefully tailored service we strive for. The data collected through cookies enables us to develop and improve our various services. This data mainly consists of anonymous statistics about the number of people who have visited the website, their location, and the different pages they have visited.
Third-party cookies
- 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)
These cookies allow you to share content from our website on your favorite social media accounts.
Advertising
Some of these cookies allow us to track the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns. Others allow us to provide you with more personalized ads as you browse the web and to identify the content of interest to third parties. Provided by third parties
- 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
An affiliate link is usually a link from a dating service provider through which you visit our website. When you register with an online dating service, these affiliate links, along with the cookies, we place, ensure that you receive our commission and help keep our free website running.
The Affiliate Marketing Council, part of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for online and mobile advertising, has created a website to help you understand how affiliate marketing works.
Third-party cookies
Below is a list of the main cookies set by third-party services that we use to improve your experience of our website and a brief description of how they work.
_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 not to use cookies and delete any cookies you already have on your computer. if you do this, you may have to manually set your preferences each time you visit the website, and some services and features may not be available. For information on how to control and/or delete cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org.
Please see the resources below for more information about cookies and how to opt out.
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising