Privacy Policy

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2024

Welcome! We're thrilled that you've chosen to use our platform.

Privacy matters to us. We're committed to respecting your privacy for any information we collect across our website, Escort-Ads, and any services we own and operate.

This document outlines what information we collect, how we use it, how we store it, and who we share it with.

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please reach out to us. However, please note that any information we provide cannot be considered legal advice.

By using Escort-Ads, you agree to our Terms & Conditions of Use, Advertisement Agreement, Privacy Policy.

I. General

A. Parties:

1. Company: ESCORT-ADS operates this website and is collectively referred to as "Company" throughout this policy.
2. User: Refers to you, the user of this site. "You" or any second-person pronouns such as "yours" may be used to address the user.
3. Potential Advertisers: Individuals accessing the site to apply as advertisers are considered "Users."
4. Advertiser: Once a Potential Advertiser agrees to our advertiser agreement and establishes an advertising account, they are deemed an Advertiser, regardless of whether they've published an advertisement. Advertisers are governed by the advertiser agreement and are not considered "Users" under this policy.

B. Privacy Policy Scope: This Privacy Policy outlines how we use information received when you visit our site or use our online services. It does not cover information received through channels other than the site.

II. Revisions To This Policy

We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Please check this web page periodically for any updates by using the "refresh" button on your browser. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this Policy indicates the date of the last revision. If the "Last Updated" date remains unchanged after you refresh the page, no changes have been made since your last review. A changed "Last Updated" date means that this Policy has been updated, and the revised version supersedes any prior versions immediately upon posting.

III. Personal Information We Collect

Users interact with our site and services in various ways. Currently, users are not required to provide active data on collection pages, except for Potential Advertisers or Advertisers on "escort-ads.com" and potentially other applicable sites. Information gathered is limited to cookies, IP Addresses, Referral URLs, and other passive data collection methods, as explained below.

We collect essential information such as name, email, phone number, age, and IP addresses from Potential Advertisers and/or Advertisers. Information collected from Advertisers is governed by a separate advertiser agreement.

We reserve the right to use information collected from Potential Advertisers during the registration process and from Users who voluntarily provide us with information such as comments, feedback, and DMCA notices ("Voluntary Users"), as outlined in Sections V and VI below.

What Information Do We Collect?

We will process your personal information lawfully, fairly, and transparently. We collect and process information about you only where we have a legal basis for doing so.

There are three basic ways we collect information:

• Information you choose to give us.
• Information we get automatically when you use our services.
• Information we get from third parties.

Where you consent to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time (but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place).

We don’t keep personal information for longer than is necessary. While we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. That said, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and cannot guarantee absolute data security.

When necessary, we will retain your personal information to comply with legal obligations (such as payment processor compliance, financial record-keeping, etc.) or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

IV. How We Collect Information From You

A. Passive Collection: We use cookies to collect information about you to enhance your site experience. These cookies help improve site navigation, track visitor preferences, generate internal and user web analytics reports, conduct research, and identify potential fraudulent activities. Information collected through cookies includes, but is not limited to, your user IP address, browser information, geographic location, and other session data.

B. Active Collection: With the exception of the methods outlined in Section III, the Site does not currently engage in any active collection of user data. Information mentioned in Section III is collected from Potential Advertisers during the registration process, from Advertisers during their interactions with us, including the ad preparation/submission process, and from Voluntary Users.

Information You Choose to Give Us: When you interact with our services, we collect the information that you choose to share with us. You can find more details about how we keep your data safe in our guide on how we handle data.

Most of our services require you to create an account, so we may need to collect information for compliance purposes and to enable features, such as but not limited to; Unique username, email address, verification data, payment information, your date of birth, your password, phone number, social media handles, photos, and profile content.

Credit Card Information: We do not store any Credit Card numbers on our servers, we simply transmit them over to our trusted payment provider via encrypted means, following the industry standards, including 3DSecure2 where available from the card issuer.

Information We Automatically Get When You Use Our Services

When you use our services, we automatically collect information about which services you've used and how you've used them. For example, we track if you've searched for specific terms, viewed content, or posted a comment. Below, we provide a detailed explanation of the types of information we collect during your use of our services:

1. Usage Information: We gather data about your activity within our services, including:

• How you interact with the services, such as the pages you visit and the categories you browse.
• Your communication with other users, including the time, date, sender, recipient of messages, and the volume of messages exchanged.

2. Device Information: We collect device-specific details, such as:

• Hardware model.
• Operating system version.
• Unique device identifiers.
• Browser type and language.
• Wireless and mobile network information.

This information helps us diagnose and troubleshoot any issues you may encounter while using our services.

3. Location Information: When you use our services, we may collect your location data.

4. Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Technologies: Similar to many online services and mobile applications, we use technologies like cookies, web beacons, and web storage to gather information about your activity, browser, and device.

5. Log Information: We collect log file details, including:

• How you've used our services.
• Device information like your web browser type and language.
• Access times and pages viewed.
• Your IP address.
• Pages visited before accessing our services.
• Cookies that may uniquely identify your device or browser.

V. How We Use Your Information

The primary purpose of collecting any information is to provide you with Site services. Additionally, we utilize your information to:

1. Deliver customized services to you.
2. Provide user support.
3. Monitor and prevent fraud, harassment, and spamming.

Non-personal and aggregate information, collected passively, is used to:

• Customize marketing efforts based on geographic location.
• Customize site usage for aggregate groups of customers.

Information gathered from Potential Advertisers may be used for:

• Assisting in the registration process.
• Sending promotional communications.
• Conducting marketing and/or research.

Information obtained from Voluntary Users may be utilized at our sole discretion, including but not limited to, as described in Section VI.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, ensuring that personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

• To enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our website.
• To enable you to access and use our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms.
• To contact and communicate with you.
• For internal record-keeping and administrative purposes, including billing, analytics, market research, and business development, to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms.
• For advertising and marketing purposes, including sending you promotional information about our products and services, as well as information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you.
• To verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
• To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that may arise.

Additionally, we may store some information locally on your device, such as local cache, to enhance your browsing experience by enabling faster content loading while consuming less bandwidth. If you wish to delete this information, please refer to your web browser documentation.

VI. Special Cases

It is our policy not to use or share passive information about Users in ways unrelated to those described in this Policy without providing the User with an opportunity to opt out or otherwise object to such unrelated uses. However, we may disclose passively-collected information about Users, or information regarding your use of the Services or websites accessible through our Services, under the following circumstances:

1. Legal Compliance: To satisfy laws, regulations, governmental, or legal requests for such information, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

2. Enforcement: To disclose information necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms & Conditions and other policies and procedures.

3. Service Operation: To operate our Services properly.

4. Protection: To protect ourselves, our Users, and the general public.

5. Law Enforcement Cooperation: We reserve the right to disclose any and all information to law enforcement in the event of a crime, such as fraud-related offenses, or if compelled to do so by lawful criminal, civil, or administrative process, discovery requests, subpoenas, court orders, warrants, or reasonable requests of authorities or persons with the reasonable power to obtain such process. We may also cooperate with law enforcement authorities, governmental, administrative, or regulatory agencies as required by applicable law.

We do not presently intend to cooperate with private-party litigants and others seeking information unless compelled to do so through lawful court or administrative process, such as subpoenas, court orders, warrants, or writs.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to the following:

• Third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators.

• Our employees, contractors, and/or related entities.

• Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.

• Third parties to collect and process data.

This disclosure ensures the proper functioning of our services and compliance with legal obligations.