Terms Conditions  Privacy Statement & GDPR

Access to and use of this web site is provided by Simply Good Friends and subject to the following Terms of Use.

Use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms which take effect on the date which you first use the site. Simply Good Friends, reserves the right to update the Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. Users are responsible for reviewing regularly information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.

The details and content of this web site are provided for information purposes only. Simply Good Friends does not endorse, license or recommend any of the listings, individuals, products or advertisements on the site. Persons accessing the content of the website are advised to seek specific legal advice in relation to any decision or course of action that they wish to take.

It is the responsibility of the user/advertiser to ensure that their listing and or advertisement does not break or breach any local or international law or agreements within their particular jurisdiction.

This website contains links to other websites , Simply Good Friends is not responsible for the content of such websites. To the extent that it is legally permitted, Simply Good Friends disclaims all liability in respect of all such content. Linking of whatever kind to this website is prohibited without the prior consent of simplygoodfriends.com

If the Fee has not been received by the due date, then Simply Good Friends may cease the service provided. Simply Good Friends reserves the right to remove, change or delete listings at it discretion.

Names, Images & Logos

The names, images and logos identifying Simply Good Friends or third parties and their products and services are proprietary marks of Simply Good Friends and/or third parties.

Age

You must be over the age of consent in your juristiciton to register and advertise with Simply Good Friends. A miminum age of 18 is required to either register or advertise/list with Simpy Good Friends.

Privacy

Simply Good Friends is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. However we collect the personal and demographic information you choose to provide us. In addition we acquire information about how you use our site and the areas of the site you visit. Cookies and web beacons are also used on the site. The information obtained is used to improve our service and your use of the site.

Services

In order to register, you are required to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Simply Good Friends immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Simply Good Friends will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Simply Good Friends or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else’s account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

Unlawful & Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of the services, you will not use the services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms of use. You may not use the services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Simply Good Friends server. You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Simply Good Friends server or to any of the services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the services.

Save as herein provided, you are prohibited from using or removing any content from the site Simply Good Friends by any means for commercial purposes and from using the site for commercial purposes. Where such use of materials is desired the source must first be identified and written consent provided.

Links to Other Websites

While using this web site you may access third party web sites though links. Such third party web sites are not under our control and we are not responsible for the availability of such sites or their contents. Any links provided on the web site are provided for your interest or convenience only and do not represent or imply any endorsement by us of such linked site and we cannot be held liable for any loss or damage which may arise from use of such third party web site or contracts entered into resulting from the use of such third party web sites. You acknowledge that the use of such third party web sites is governed by the terms and conditions of use applicable to such sites.

Exclusion of Liability

In no event will Simply Good Friends and or simplygoodfriends.com be liable for any damages including, without limitation indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in action of contract or negligence, arising out of or in connection with the use of the site.

No warranty is given that this web site shall be available on an uninterrupted basis, and no liability can be accepted in respect of losses or damages arising out of such unavailability.

We accept no liability in respect of losses or damages arising out of changes made to the content of this web site by any third parties. Access to and use of this web site is at the users own risk.

If these Terms of Use are not accepted in full, the use of this site must be terminated immediately.

Vacancy Advertising & Database Access Clients

Vacancy Advertising and Database Access Clients must abide by the Simply Good Friends Terms and Conditions

Ensuring Quality Of Content

The following terms of use are in place to protect the quality of the content on site. Quality content ensures that members and advertisers have ease of use of the site.

Do no post duplicates of the same listing or details in one specific category as it gives unrealistic search results and is deeply frustrating for users.

Please note the following ;

Listing which are entered into the incorrect category will be moved.
Duplicate listings in the same category will be deleted.
Listings deemed unsuitable by Simply Good Friends will be removed and or not published.
No refund will be given for unsuitable listings or content.

 

PRIVACY & UPDATED GDPR POLICY

 

Welcome to Simply Good Friends updated Privacy & GDPP Policy . Thank you for taking the time to read it.

 

We appreciate that you trust us with your information and we intend to always keep that trust. This starts with making sure you understand the information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used and your choices regarding your information.  This Policy describes our privacy practices in plain language, keeping legal and technical jargon to a minimum.

 

This Updated Privacy Policy applies beginning May 25, 2018.  This GDPR policy extension is in addition to our original policy as above.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 25, 2018

 

1. WHO WE ARE

If you live in the European Union, the company that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy (the “data controller”) is:  Simply Good Friends

 

2. WHERE THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events and other services operated by Simply Good Friends. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our “services” in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable services.

 

Some services may require their own unique privacy policy. If a particular service has its own privacy policy, then that policy — not this Privacy Policy — applies.

 

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

It goes without saying, we can’t help you develop meaningful connections without some information about you, such as basic profile details and the types of people you’d like to meet. We also collect information generated as you use our services, for example access logs, as well as information from third parties, like when you access our services through a social media account. If you want additional info, we go into more detail below.

 

Information you give us

 

You choose to give us certain information when using our services. This includes:

 

When you create an account, you provide us with at least your login credentials, you may also provide some basic details necessary for the service to work, such as your gender and interests.

When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such as details on your personality, lifestyle, interests and other details about you, as well as content such as photos and videos. To add certain content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation and religious beliefs. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information.

When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us via paypal, (rather than through a platform such as iOS or Android), you provide us or our payment service provider with information, such as your debit or credit card number or other financial information.

If and when you choose to participate in surveys or focus groups, you give us your insights into our products and services, responses to our questions and testimonials.

When you choose to participate in our promotions, events or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter.

If you contact our customer care team, we collect the information you give us during the interaction. Sometimes, we monitor or record these interactions for training purposes and to ensure a high quality of service.

If you ask us to communicate with or otherwise process information of other people (for example, if you ask us to send an email on your behalf to one of your friends), we collect the information about others that you give us in order to complete your request.

Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services.

Information we receive from others

 

In addition to the information you provide us directly, we receive information about you from others, including:

 

Other Users

Other users may provide information about you as they use our services. For instance, we may collect information about you from other users if they contact us about you. Also, if a user asks us to access contacts from his/her phonebook and you happen to be one of those, we may use it to reach out to you on behalf of the user.

 

Social Media

You may be able to use your social media login (such as Facebook Login) to create and log into your Simply Good Friends account.  This saves you from having to remember yet another user name and password and allows you to share some information from your social media account with us.

 

Other Partners

We may receive info about you from our partners, for instance when Simply Good Friends accounts can be created through a partner’s websites (in which case they pass along registration information to us) or where Simply Good Friends ads are published on a partner’s websites and platforms (in which case they may pass along details on a campaign’s success).

 

Information collected when you use our services

 

When you use our services, we collect information about which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to access our services.  See below for more details:

 

Usage Information

We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g., date and time you logged in, features you’ve been using, searches, clicks and pages which have been shown to you, referring webpage address, advertising that you click on) and how you interact with other users (e.g., users you connect and interact with, time and date of your exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).

 

Device information

We may collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including:

 

hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, device-specific and apps settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs (such as Google’s AAID and Apple’s IDFA, both of which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device’ settings), browser type, version and language, operating system, time zones, identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (e.g., IMEI/UDID and MAC address);

information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like your service provider and signal strength;

information on device sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses.

Other information with your consent

We can collect your precise geolocation (latitude and longitude) through various means, depending on the service and device you’re using, including GPS, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections.  The collection of your geolocation may occur in the background even when you aren’t using the services if the permission you gave us expressly permits such collection.  If you decline permission for us to collect your geolocation, we will not collect it.

 

Similarly, if you consent, we may collect your photos and videos (for instance, if you want to publish a photo, video or streaming on the services). We may also collect your phonebook (for instance, if you want us to reach out to your friends on your behalf).

 

4. COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to recognize you and/or your device(s). You may read our Cookie Policy link for more information on why we use them (such as authenticating you, remembering your preferences and settings, analyzing site traffic and trends, delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, allowing you to use social features) and how you can better control their use, through your browser settings and other tools.

 

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) have a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) feature that tells a website that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked.  If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s user.  Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform.  For this reason, many businesses, do not currently respond to DNT signals.

 

5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services.  Additionally, we use your info to help keep you safe and to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you.  Read on for a more detailed explanation of the various reasons we use your information, together with practical examples.

 

To administer your account and provide our services to you

 

Create and manage your account

Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests

Complete your transactions

Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing

To help you connect with other users

 

Analyze your profile and that of other users to recommend meaningful connections

Show users’ profiles to one another

To ensure a consistent experience across your devices

 

Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a consistent experience of our services on all of them. We do this by linking devices and browser data, such as when you log into your account on different devices or by using partial or full IP address, browser version and similar data about your devices to help identify and link them.

To serve you relevant offers and ads

 

Administer sweepstakes, contests, discounts or other offers

Develop, display and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on our services and other sites

Communicate with you by email, phone, social media or mobile device about products or services that we think may interest you

To improve our services and develop new ones

 

Administer focus groups and surveys

Conduct research and analysis of users’ behavior to improve our services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on users’ behavior)

Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from users).

To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities

 

Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform

Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures against these activities

Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent against recurrences

To ensure legal compliance

 

Comply with legal requirements

Assist law enforcement

Enforce or exercise our rights, for example our Terms

To process your information as described above, we rely on the following legal bases:

 

Provide our service to you: Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have with us. For instance, as you go about using our service to build meaningful connections, we use your information to maintain your account and your profile, to make it viewable to other users and recommend other users to you.

Legitimate interests: We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyze users’ behavior on our services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you, and we process information for administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.

Consent: From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

 

6. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, the main sharing of users’ information is, of course, with other users. We also share some users’ information with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services, with other Simply Good Friends Group companies and, in some cases, legal authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is shared with others.

 

With other users

You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is stuff that you’re comfortable being publically viewable since neither you nor we can control what others do with your information once you share it.

 

If you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile or for certain content or information about you, then it will be visible according to your settings.

 

With our service providers and partners

We use third parties to help us operate and improve our services.  These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing and security operations.

 

We may also share information with partners who distribute and assist us in advertising our services. For instance, we may share limited information on you in hashed, non-human readable form to advertising partners.

 

We may share your information with other  companies to benefit you in two respects:

 

for other third party companies for example Paypal  to assist us in processing your information, as service providers, upon our instructions and on our behalf. Assistance provided by other companies may include technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing and targeted advertising, finance and accounting assistance, better understanding how our service is used and users’ behavior to improve our service, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings.

In order to improve your chances at building significant connections with others, we may give you opportunities to be visible on other services or to benefit from cross-platform functionalities. We will of course comply with applicable law and, where relevant, notify you of any such opportunity and allow you to agree or to refuse.

We may also share information with other companies and government bodies for legitimate business purposes such as corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting as well as compliance with applicable laws.  We may also share user information with other companies and government bodies to remove users who violate our terms of service, or have been reported for criminal activity and/or bad behavior. In some instances, we may remove that user from all platforms.

 

For corporate transactions

We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.

 

When required by law

We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person.

 

To enforce legal rights

We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

 

With your consent or at your request

We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.

 

We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances.  We may also share this information with other companies and third parties (notably advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on websites or applications of third parties, and to analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other sources. More information on our use of cookies and similar technologies can be found in our Cookie Policy link.

 

7. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

Sharing of information laid out in Section 6 sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, for instance to the United States of America and other jurisdictions. As an example, where the service allows for users to be located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), their personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA. We use standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission or other suitable safeguard to permit data transfers from the EEA to other countries.  Standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data.

 

8. YOUR RIGHTS

We want you to be in control of your information, so we have provided you with the following tools:

 

Access / Update tools in the service. Tools and account settings that help you to access, rectify or delete information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the service. If you have any question on those tools and settings, please contact our customer care team for help here.

Device permissions. Mobile platforms have permission systems for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone book and location services as well as push notifications. You can change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.

Deletion. You can delete your account by using the corresponding functionality directly on the service.

We want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points to remember:

 

Reviewing your information. Applicable privacy laws may give you the right to review the personal information we keep about you (depending on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability or variations of those terms). You can request a copy of your personal information by putting in such a request here.

Updating your information. If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion or object to its processing, please contact us here.

For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.

 

Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user.  If you wish to receive information relating to another user, such as a copy of any messages you received from him or her through our service, the other user will have to contact our Privacy Officer to provide their written consent before the information is released.

 

Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.  For instance, we cannot provide our service if we do not have your date of birth.

 

Uninstall. You can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling it using the standard uninstall process for your device. If you uninstall the app from your mobile device, the unique identifier associated with your device will continue to be stored. If you re-install the application on the same mobile device, we will be able to re-associate this identifier to your previous transactions and activities.

Accountability. In certain countries, including in the European Union, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with notably may be that of your habitual residence, where you work or where we are established.

 

9. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information.  As with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always remain secure.

 

We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and organizational security measures.

 

We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security.  If you believe that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately here.

 

10. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes (as laid out in Section 5) and as permitted by applicable law. To protect the safety and security of our users on and off our services, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account deletion. During this period, account information will be retained although the account will of course not be visible on the services anymore.

 

In practice, we delete or anonymize your information upon deletion of your account (following the safety retention window) or after two years of continuous inactivity, unless:

 

we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, some “traffic data” is kept for one year to comply with statutory data retention obligations);

we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for five years);

there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or

the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing users’ safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening a new account.

Keep in mind that even though our systems are designed to carry out data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot promise that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to technical constraints.

 

11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our services are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or older.  We do not permit users under the age of 18 on our platform and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18.  If you suspect that a user is under the age of 18, please use the reporting mechanism available through the service.

 

12. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Because we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to help you build meaningful connections, this policy may change over time.  We will notify you before any material changes take effect so that you have time to review the changes.

 

13. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, here’s how you can reach us:

 

Online: Here