Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

Privacy Policy for Friendme.ca

Effective Date: June 09, 2026

Welcome to Friendme.ca. Your privacy and data safety are our top priorities. This Privacy Policy outlines how Friendme.ca (collectively, “the Service,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects your personal information.

This policy is designed to ensure strict compliance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). By creating an account or using Friendme.ca, you explicitly consent to the data practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

To provide our intentional matchmaking and connection services, we collect the following categories of information:

• Registration Data: Your name, email address, date of birth, gender, and location.

• Profile Data: Photos, interests, biography details, and relationship or friendship preferences that you choose to display publicly.

• Technical Data: Your IP address, device type, operating system, and “cookies” used strictly to maintain your active login session, improve site performance, and optimize user experience.

• Sensitive Data: Information regarding your orientation, personal beliefs, background, or religion. This information is provided entirely voluntarily by you for the sole purpose of enhancing your matchmaking compatibility.

2. How We Use Your Information & Our Communication Policy

Friendme.ca operates under a strict minimal-communication model. We deeply respect your digital boundaries; consequently, we do not engage in email marketing, promotional campaigns, tracker-based advertising, or newsletter distribution. We will never contact you with non-essential or low-priority information.

We use your collected data strictly to:

• Create, maintain, secure, and manage your account.

• Display your profile safely to compatible matches within the platform.

• Ensure the safety, security, and operational integrity of our users and platform.

• Communicate with you strictly for necessary, account-specific administrative purposes. This includes vital communications regarding your account status, safety or security alerts, fraud prevention, password resets, direct administrative inquiries related to your profile, or system issues directly impacting your user experience. By creating an account, you consent to receive these essential, transaction-based administrative communications.

3. Data Storage, Residency, and Third-Party Disclosure

• Data Residency: Your data is stored on secure servers. If these servers are located outside of Canada, your information may safely process through those networks and may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions, including local government access laws.

• Third Parties: We do not sell, rent, trade, or distribute your personal data to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes. We only share information with trusted third-party technical service providers (such as web hosting, database security, or baseline analytics companies) who are contractually and legally bound to protect your privacy to the same standards outlined here.

4. Data Retention, Deletion, and Privacy Protocol

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• User-Initiated Deletion: You may request the permanent closure and deletion of your account at any time through your account settings panel. Upon submitting a deletion request, your profile will be immediately removed from public view.

• Permanent Purging: Your personal data will be permanently purged or irreversibly anonymized from our active databases.

• Absence of Email Confirmation: To maximize data security and ensure that no further electronic footprint or communication is tied to a closed account, Friendme.ca does not issue an automated email confirmation upon the completion of your account deletion. The successful execution of the deletion command inside your dashboard is final.

5. Your Legal Rights (Alberta PIPA & Canada PIPEDA)

Under Canadian privacy legislation, you possess distinct rights regarding your personal information. You may request to:

• Access the specific personal information we hold about you.

• Request a correction to any inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete data on your profile.

• Withdraw your consent for data processing at any time. Please note that because our service relies on data processing to function, withdrawing consent will result in the immediate closure and deletion of your account.

6. Security and Statutory Breach Notification

We implement robust technical, physical, and organizational security measures to shield your data from unauthorized access, loss, or alteration. In the highly unlikely event of a data breach that poses a real risk of significant harm to our users, Friendme.ca will notify the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, federal authorities where applicable, and all affected users without unreasonable delay, in strict accordance with statutory law.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy Friendme.ca reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time entirely at our discretion. Any routine modifications will be made public by updating the “Effective Date” prominently displayed at the top of this page. It is the user’s responsibility to periodically review this document. Your continued maintenance of an active account following an update constitutes explicit acceptance of the revised privacy practices.

7. Contact Our Privacy Officer If you have any questions about this document, wish to report a privacy or data concern, or want to formally exercise your data access or correction rights under PIPA/PIPEDA, please reach out directly to our Privacy Officer. You can contact them through the Contact form link located in the footer of our website.