The Privacy Policy for Candidates, Contractors, Vendors, and Other Third-Parties

Welcome to our Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
Do you live in California? Check out our California Privacy Statement for Candidates, Contractors, Vendors and other Third-Parties , which supplements this Privacy Policy.
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.

1. Who We Are

The company responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy (the “data controller”) depends on your location, the Site you used or the purpose of processing. To get details on the specific data controller please refer to the Appendix to this Privacy Policy.

2. Where This Privacy Policy Applies

This Privacy Policy applies to this website / service and the other corporate websites and services we operate and where the Policy is being published. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our “Sites” in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable Sites.
This Privacy Policy only applies to corporate websites and services and does not apply to websites or applications we use to provide dating or social discovery services. We refer you to each of these website’s / applications’ respective privacy policies.

3. Information We Collect and How We Use It

We collect data:

Directly from you when you provide us with information or use a functionality on our Sites, for instance when you complete a contact form, subscribe to our newsletter or when you apply to a job posting;
Automatically when you navigate and use functionalities on our Sites (e.g., IP address, interactions with our content, cookies information etc.);
When you interact with us or our tools and systems in a different capacity (e.g., by visiting our premises, using our visitor registration tools, joining our meetings).

We can also receive information from partners (e.g., headhunting agency, agency running our social media pages, etc.). For instance, when you apply to our posts or vacancies published on a partner’s service or via a headhunting agency, they may pass along application details. Where legally allowed, we can also receive information about suspected or convicted bad actors from third parties as part of our efforts to ensure safety and security on our Sites and premises or background checks information in the context of a hiring process to the extent allowed under applicable law. We can also receive information from other Match Group companies, for example, if your inquiry concerns multiple Match Group companies, for safety and anti-fraud purposes.

The main reason we use your data is for the purposes of candidate recruitment (in the case of our career Sites), as well as to review and answer your requests. Additionally, we use your info to improve our Sites and to help keep you and our community safe. Read on for a more detailed explanation of the various categories of data we may collect, for which reason we use it and on which grounds, together with practical examples.

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4. How We Share Information

We share some of the data with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the Sites, with other Match Group companies for specified reasons as laid out below and, in some cases, legal authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is shared with others.

With our service providers and partners We use vendors to help us operate and improve our Sites, such as data hosting and maintenance, analytics, marketing, advertising, corporate reporting, investor relations, distribution of surveys, and security operations. We share the data listed above only as necessary to allow them to provide us with their services. Further, we follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any vendor or working with any partner. Our vendors and partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.
With our affiliates
We are part of the Match Group family of businesses. We share your information with affiliates for limited legitimate purposes as laid out below:
As necessary to respond to your queries concerning another Match Group affiliate;
For them to assist us in data processing operations, as processors / service providers, upon our instructions and on our behalf. Their assistance may include technical processing operations, such as recruitment and management of employees, contractors or vendors, data hosting and maintenance, analytics, finance and accounting assistance, improving our Sites, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings;
We can also share information with other Match Group companies for other legitimate business purposes including corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting, in connection with a corporate transaction, where and as allowed under applicable law.
With law enforcement or partners and when required by law We can 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.
With other third-parties such as law, audit firms or consultancy agencies
To enforce legal rights, we can 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 employees, contractors, 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. In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels, SDKs) on our Sites to recognize you and/or your device(s). You can read the Cookie Policy on our Site for more information on why we use them and how you can better control their use.

6. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Sharing of information laid out in Section 5 involves cross-border data transfers to the United States of America and other jurisdictions that may have different laws about data processing. When we transfer personal information outside of the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or other countries which data protection laws have been deemed adequate by the European Commission or other competent governmental body, we use standard contract clauses (standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data) or other appropriate transfer mechanism. If you wish to obtain further information, contact us (link to Section 10).

7. Your Rights and Choices

We want you to be in control of your data, so we want to remind you of the following rights, options and tools available to you. Depending on where you live, you may not have the same rights or they may be named differently. If you have any questions on your rights and how to exercise them, please contact your Match Group representative—this may be your recruiting liaison, if you are a job applicant, or it may be your business representative, if you are a vendor. Of course, if applicable in your jurisdiction, you can also reach out to the applicable Data Protection Officer (“DPO”).

Access, Portability or To Know

Rectification or Correction

Deletion or Erasure

Objection (Opt-out) or Restriction

Consent Withdrawal

For your protection and the protection of other third parties, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests. Keep in mind, we may reject requests, including if we are unable to authenticate you, if the request is unlawful or invalid, or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy or other rights of someone else. If you are a resident of Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Maryland, Tennessee, Minnesota, Virginia, Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Texas, Oregon, Montana or Connecticut, USA, if we deny your privacy request, you can appeal by contacting us (link to the Section 10), and explicitly referencing “Privacy Request Appeal.”

In certain countries, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, you have a right to a judicial remedy and to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information. You can find information about your data protection regulator in the European Economic Area here, in the United Kingdom here and in Switzerland here. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with may be that of your habitual residence, where you work or where an alleged infringement took place.

8. How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for specified and legitimate purposes and as permitted by applicable law. You can find more information on our data retention practices in section 3.

After the retention period mentioned in section 3, we delete the data unless its further retention is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Where legally permitted, we can retain and use data that, on its own, cannot identify or be linked specifically to you for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

9. No Children Allowed

Our Sites do not offer services directed to children. Should a child send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

10. Privacy Policy Changes

Because we strive to make sure explanations about our data practices remain up-to-date, this policy will change over time. We will notify you before any material changes take effect so that you have time to review the changes.

11. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you have different options to contact us. If you are an applicant, please contact the member of our recruitment team that you are working with. If you are a vendor, please contact your Match Group business representative. To get relevant contact details for our DPO, if applicable in your jurisdiction, please refer to the Appendix 1.

12. California Privacy Statement for Candidates, Contractors, Vendors and Other Third-Parties

For California Residents

This California section supplements the Privacy Policy and applies solely to Candidates, Contractors, Vendors and Other Third-Parties (excluding our personnel) in California. If the California Privacy Statement applies to you, the Table below describes how we process your personal information in connection with this website/service and the other corporate websites and services we may operate and where the Policy is being published (“Sites”), based on definitions laid out in the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”).

This California Privacy Statement applies only to the Sites and does not apply to websites or applications we may use to provide dating or social discovery services. We refer you to each of these website’s / applications’ respective privacy policies. Personal Information Processing Activities

Categories of personal information collected over the 12-month period prior to the effective date of our Privacy Policy Note: The categories of data below stem from a statutory list set forth under the CCPA.

Sources of collection over the 12-month period prior to the effective date of our Privacy Policy

Categories of third parties with whom we disclosed the personal information for a business purpose over the 12-month period prior to the effective date of our Privacy Policy

Business or commercial purposes for which the personal information was collected over the 12-month period prior to the effective date of our Privacy Policy (in addition to the purposes listed in the Privacy Policy)

Some of the information we collect also constitutes “sensitive personal information” under the CCPA, including information that reveals your social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number, racial or ethnic origin, sex life or sexual orientation, and religious or philosophical beliefs. We do not use sensitive personal information we collect for purposes other than providing and improving our services to you and protecting our services and our community, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

How Long We Retain Your Information

California Consumer Privacy Rights

We want you to be in control of your data, so we want to remind you of the following rights, options and tools available to you. If you have any questions on your rights and how to exercise them, please contact your Match Group representative—this may be your recruiting liaison, if you are a job applicant, or it may be your business representative, if you are a vendor. You can also submit a request to us online here.

Access / To Know

Correction

Deletion

Opt-out of “Sales” or “Sharing” of Personal Information

If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment.

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. You may also use an authorized agent to submit your request. If you do, we may ask for evidence that you have provided the agent valid power of attorney or other written permission to submit requests on your behalf, and we may also take steps to verify your identity. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make a request, please contact us as described above and include proof of your authorization.

13. Appendix 1. List of data controllers and DPO contacts

Meetic SAS

MTCH Technology Services Limited

Match.com International Limited

Friendscout24 GmbH

Massive Media Match NV

Match Group Europe Ltd

MG Spain Solutions S.L

MG France Services SAS

Affinity Apps LLC

Humor Rainbow, Inc.

Plentyoffish Media ULC

Tinder LLC

Match Group Americas, LLC

MG SGP Services Pte. Ltd.

Hyperconnect LLC

MG Korea Services

Eureka Inc

MG Japan Services GK

MoveFast Company KK

MTCH India Services Private Limited

Hinge, Inc.

People Media, Inc.

The League App, Inc.

Parperfeito Comunicacao S.A.

Match.com Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.