FlyFriends is operated by SilBrand, a Russian company whose registered office is Chechulina str. 11-2-1, Moscow.
We know that other people’s use of your personal data is a big concern for social network users, so we at FlyFriends have developed this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to let you know how we use personal information (‘personal data’ or ‘personal information’).
Our Policy applies to your use of the FlyFriends website at www.FlyFriends.com (“FlyFriends” or the “site” which includes the mobile apps). We suggest you read it in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms”). When you access or use FlyFriends, you agree to our Privacy Policy and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as we’ve set out in this Policy.
FlyFriends reserves the right to change our Policy at any time and without notice, so be sure to check this Policy regularly to understand how we use your information.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY THEN YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.
FlyFriends is a meeting place for flying people, and we provide that service by operating a social network site offering users the opportunity to connect to our global community of users.
To join the FlyFriends network you will have to complete our online registration form, where we ask you to provide us with information about you such as your name, your email address, your gender, your date of birth, your location details. You also have the opportunity to provide other details about yourself. Because you control your user profile, these details are available to you at any time by accessing your “Profile” page, which gives you the chance to correct or update (other than gender and email address) your information at any time by just logging in to FlyFriends.
Once you have created a Profile, we will automatically track certain information such as your IP and email addresses.
For safety and security and to ensure you have the best possible user experience, we require users to verify their accounts.
FlyFriends offers you the opportunity to stay in touch with the friends and contacts you’ve made no matter where you are. You can do this by using your mobile phone or by downloading an application to your desktop that allows you to share your location with other users.
When you use your mobile or the desktop application, we will collect information about WiFi access points as well as other location information about your longitude and latitude. That information helps us identify your physical location so that it can be displayed and shared with other members choosing to view “who is near” posts.
If you do not want your location to be known, then please do not download the desktop application or use your mobile device when you are on FlyFriends. If you have enabled location services, but wish to turn it off, you can do so by the following methods:
When you take advantage of FlyFriends’s premium features, we collect financial information necessary to process your payments as per your chosen payment method. Please note that we do not store any credit card or other payment card details. However, our payment service providers do (and are approved to do so by all applicable regulatory bodies).
We collect information by placing cookies on your computer or mobile. A cookie is a piece of text stored on your computer or mobile by your web browser. They are basically a tool that stores information about website visits, recognises you and your preferences each time you visit FlyFriends, and ensures site functionality and enables us to provide the services our members request.
When you visit the publicly available sections of FlyFriends, a session ID cookie is placed on your computer that only lasts while you’re visiting. We also place persistent cookies (also known an local storage devices) on members’ computers, so that FlyFriends remembers them and makes their login experience faster and easier. We may use persistent tracking cookies on your mobile device, mainly for security protection purposes, such as to prevent phishers, scammers, unauthorised log in attempts, and to help you access your hacked account. We do not use any information whilst you are logged off.
You may set your browser and your mobile settings to block cookies and local storage devices, but if you do so, you may not be able to access the features that FlyFriends offers.
To ensure you get to meet as many people as possible on FlyFriends, other members get to see your user name and any information you post on your Profile, including photos if you select the full access setting. Any information you choose to provide should reflect how much you want other FlyFriends members to know about you. You can also choose to limit the information that other users see by adjusting your privacy settings in the “Settings” page.
Use it to meet new friends and make new contacts. Beware that you may not use other users' information for commercial purposes, to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats. FlyFriends reserves the right to terminate the accounts of those who misuse other users' information or who otherwise violate the Terms and Conditions of Use.
We do not sell or rent out any personal information about you to any third party. FlyFriends discloses aggregated non-personal data for marketing and promotional purposes. That means we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you.
We may share aggregated information that includes your personal information (but which doesn’t identify you directly), together with other information including log data with third parties for industry analysis and demographic profiling and to deliver targeted advertising about other products and services.
In particular, in relation to targeted advertising, we use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
FlyFriends is a global website operating through servers located in a number of countries around the world. If you live in a country with data protection laws, the storage of your personal data may not provide you with the same protections as you enjoy in your country of residence. By submitting your personal information, or by choosing to upgrade the services you use, or by making use of the applications available on FlyFriends, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to, and storage and processing of your personal information in, any such countries and destinations.
FlyFriends has implemented reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, including your personal information. FlyFriends uses reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls. Our technical experts at FlyFriends work hard to ensure your secure use of our site.
While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our website, member database and records no website or Internet transmission is completely secure and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe (including your password) and to log out of your account after use.
We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data while it is being transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information we have procedures and security features in place to try to prevent unauthorised access.
You can review and revise your profile information at any time. Once you register, you will be able to review and change much of your personal information including:
Please promptly update your information if it changes by signing-in to your account and following the screen prompts. We strongly urge you to periodically change your password to help reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your account information.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 30 December 2014.