Privacy Policy
At IAMessenger.com, accessible from https://IAMessenger.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the types of information that is collected and recorded by IAMessenger.com and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or need more information about our Privacy Policy, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Log Files
IAMessenger.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of their hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic information. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like other websites, IAMessenger.com uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
For more general information about cookies, please read related articles on the internet.
Privacy Principles
You can refer to this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of IAMessenger.com's advertising partners.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on IAMessenger.com, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Please note that IAMessenger.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
In this regard, email, Subscription Name and Surname information is never shared with any 3rd Party software or organization. Only Google Analytics keeps logs based on operating system and IP address for the purpose of site analysis, and this data is also never shared with any other organization.
Third Party Privacy Policies
IAMessenger.com's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. For more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
As IAMessenger.com has no advertising applications, no Third Party Privacy Policy data sharing occurs.
Principle of Protection of Personal Rights of Underage Users
IAMessenger.com is always open to users under 18 years of age, but there are special conditions for users in this status. Parental permission is required for underage users (under 18) during their activities on our site, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and any platform, chat, and applications to benefit from IAMessenger.com's services. According to the Laws of the Republic of Turkey, no information or material related to our services will be sent to any user under the age of 18 without parental permission. This includes using chat platforms.
For those under 18 to receive our publications, consent must be given by their parents or court-appointed guardian if applicable. Consent, which means 'permission, approval' in terms of words, means 'permission given by parents or guardians to receive our publications'.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they share and/or collect in IAMessenger.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.
A. Introduction
1. The privacy of our website visitors at IAMessenger.com is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Source
This document was created using a template provided by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and has been modified by IAMessenger.com with necessary additions.
C. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your email address that you provide when registering with our website;
Information that you provide when creating a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment details;
Information such as your name and email address that you provide when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information that you enter while using the services on our website;
Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how frequently, and under what circumstances you use it;
Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
D. Using Your Personal Information
First, we must emphasize that User personal data (name, surname, email address, and all other personal data) will not be shared with any third-party company, organization, institution, or application.
Other information mentioned above (IP address, operating system, logs, redirected links, and navigation logs) is provided to site management by Google Analytics. You can find more details about this in Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
administering our website and business;
personalizing our website for you;
enabling your use of the services available on our website;
sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and
other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Your privacy settings can restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.
E. Disclosing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
1. Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in Section F.
G. Retaining Personal Information
This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Without prejudice to article G-2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:
personal data type will be deleted at {ENTER DATE/TIME}; and
will be deleted {ENTER ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME}.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
H. Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our website).
I. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
J. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity ({INSERT TEXT REFLECTING YOUR POLICY we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third Party Websites
Our website includes links to and details of third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
General Principles, Privacy Rules and Membership Agreement
I hereby declare that I have provided my personal information, including but not limited to my name, surname, mobile phone number, email address and similar information, to IAMessenger.com voluntarily, and I consent to the use and retention of this information by IAMessenger.com for any kind of informational purposes, including but not limited to advertisements, promotions, organizational news, various campaigns, to be made to me by the institutions that IAMessenger.com shares with its specification, and I agree that this information may be maintained by IAMessenger.com.