About Samestatus and this privacy notice:
This privacy notice provides you with information about how Samestatus processes personal data. This includes personal data that you will provide about yourself when you register to use our website, or when you use or are a recipient of our services. Personal data is information which relates to an identifiable living person. This may be information such as your name, address, email address and other personal details. The data controller processing your personal data will be Samestatus Limited unless we specify otherwise. When you use or receive services from Samestatus, we will, where appropriate, provide further information about how that personal data will be used. This privacy notice should be read together with any other fair processing notice or additional information that we may provide. This privacy notice applies if you use any of our Services. This includes using the Samestatus website (Samestatus.com) or Sameststus App. This policy also applies if you contact us or we contact you about our services, whether by telephone, email, SMS, post, push notifications or via third party platforms (including websites or social media platforms).
Personal Data
Samestatus processes various types of personal data. This includes information you provide to us and information we create when providing services to you or other customers. The data we process includes:
Contact Information
This includes your name, location, age, sex, height and your email address. All of this information is provided by you when you register to use our website or when you contact us directly, or when you use our services. You may also provide this information when you complete the “Contact us” form or when you register on our website.
Financial Details
These are the records of your payments and your payment information, such as credit or debit card payment details. The source of this information is you. You provide this information yourself when you use our services or provide it to receive a payment.
Contact History
These are details of any enquiry, complaint or communication you have had with Samestatus may include copies of correspondence and call records. This is information is provided to us when you contact us to make an enquiry or complaint. We will also create records relating to this contact.
How we use personal data
SameStatus will only process your personal data where there is a legal basis for doing so under data protection for example, in short, the relevant legal bases are:
Consent: when you sign us to the website, you give consent for us to process your data for a specific purpose.
Contract: the processing is necessary for us to be able to effectively provide you with our dating services
Legal Obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with the law.
Legitimate Interests: the processing is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by SameStatus.
Marketing
SameStatus would like to keep in touch with you about our Online dating services and offers that might interest you. You have a choice whether you wish to receive these communications and may object at any time. We won’t send to you these communications if you opt out or otherwise ask us to stop direct marketing. Where we collect contact information from you, which may be used for marketing purposes, we will provide you with an opportunity to object to marketing. We may use your personal data to enable us to provide you with targeted marketing content through social media and online platforms.
Market Research
We would like to hear your views as this can help us to improve our products and services. So from time to time we may contact you for market research purposes. You always have the choice about whether to take part in our market research.
Data sharing - Who does SameStatus share data with?
Internal SameStatus staff
Relevant employees or agents within SameStatus may access your data for the purposes set out above. For example, if you contact us with an enquiry or complaint, your information will be seen by relevant employees within our Customer Services Teams in the process of providing to you a service or product.
Other subscribers
SameStatus will enable other subscribers to see your data only when you have connected with them through the online sign-up system. We will not share your data with other subscribers
Selected third Parties
SameStatus may share personal data with other organizations or public bodies for legal purposes, such as the police, law enforcement agencies, fraud prevention agencies, customs and revenue agencies, and other bodies where is necessary or appropriate for the prevention or detection of crime or to protect the rights, property or safety of any person.
Disclosures required by Law or for regulatory reasons
Personal data may be shared with regulators, such as the Communications Commission, where necessary or appropriate for regulatory purposes such as compliance with legal obligations.
Security and fraud prevention
Some of the personal information we have collected from you may be shared with fraud prevention agencies who will use it to prevent fraud and money-laundering and to verify your identity. If fraud is detected, your subscription may be terminated.
How long do we keep personal data
SameStatus policy is to retain information for as long as it is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which you subscribed to our services, and for as long as you maintain your subscription. We will determine how long to retain different data based on the following requirements:
• How long the information is needed for the purpose or purposes it is used for.
• Legal and regulatory requirements – such as where SameStatus needs to retain subscriber records for a period of time in order to comply with the law or in case of potential claims.
Your legal rights
SameStatus.com exercises fair processing of your personal rights;
You have the right to be informed.
SameStatus will provide you with ‘fair processing information’ where we collect personal data from you (for instance when you open an account or apply for a service online) and also through privacy notices such as this one.
Right of Access You have the right to access your personal data and details of how we process it. Proof of identification is required in order to protect your information. We also request that applicants state which information and processing activities their request relates to. An optional application form may be provided to assist us in confirming your identity and locating the information you require.
Right to Rectification You have the right to have personal data about you rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete. However, SameStatus Group relies on customers to ensure that some of the information it holds about them is accurate and up-to-date. We encourage customers to inform us of any changes to their information. (E.g., change of address or telephone contacts).
Right to Object You have the right to object to some uses of personal data, such as direct marketing
Right to Erasure You have the right to request that we delete or remove of personal data from our records where there is no legitimate reason for us to continue processing it. Where personal data is still needed for legitimate purposes, it will not be possible to delete that data and some requests may therefore be declined. Right to Withdraw Consent Where we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent.