Privacy Policy

Last Updated: [May 24, 2026]

This Privacy Policy explains how HerpesDatingSites.com (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “the Website”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit or interact with https://www.herpesdatingsites.com/ and related pages, including our reviews, comparisons, guides, articles, contact forms, comments, affiliate links, and advertising-related tracking.

By using this Website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.

1. About Our Website

HerpesDatingSites.com provides informational content, reviews, comparisons, and recommendations about herpes dating sites, HSV dating communities, STD dating platforms, and related dating topics.

Our Website is an informational and affiliate review website. We do not operate a dating platform, provide user dating profiles, process dating memberships, provide medical advice, diagnose medical conditions, or offer healthcare services.

The content on this Website is for informational purposes only and should not be treated as medical, legal, or professional advice.

2. Sensitive Health and Dating-Related Topics

Our Website discusses topics related to herpes, HSV-1, HSV-2, STDs, sexual health, dating, and relationships. Visiting pages on this Website or interacting with our content may reveal interests related to health, sexual health, dating, or relationships.

We do not require visitors to disclose medical diagnoses, STD status, test results, treatment history, dating history, sexual orientation, or other sensitive personal information in order to browse this Website.

Please do not submit sensitive medical, sexual health, or highly personal information through comments, contact forms, emails, or other public or non-secure channels unless you choose to do so voluntarily. If you voluntarily provide such information, we may process it only as necessary to respond to your request, operate the Website, prevent abuse, or comply with applicable law.

3. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information:

3.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

  • Contact us through a contact form or email;
  • Leave a comment on the Website;
  • Subscribe to updates, if available;
  • Report an issue or request support;
  • Communicate with us for business, advertising, or partnership purposes.

This information may include your name, email address, website URL, message content, IP address, and any other information you choose to provide.

3.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address;
  • Browser type and version;
  • Device type;
  • Operating system;
  • Referring URL;
  • Pages viewed;
  • Time and date of visit;
  • Clicks, scrolls, and interactions with the Website;
  • Approximate geographic location derived from IP address;
  • Cookie identifiers or similar tracking technologies.

This information helps us operate, secure, analyze, and improve the Website.

3.3 Comments

If you leave comments on the Website, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam and prevent abuse.

An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. After approval of your comment, your profile image, if any, may be visible to the public in connection with your comment.

3.4 Contact Forms and Emails

If you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, message content, and any additional information you provide. We use this information to respond to your inquiry, maintain records, prevent spam or abuse, and manage business communications.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies to:

  • Operate and secure the Website;
  • Remember preferences;
  • Analyze Website traffic and performance;
  • Understand how users interact with our pages;
  • Measure advertising performance;
  • Track affiliate link clicks;
  • Detect fraud, spam, or abuse;
  • Improve content and user experience.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. If you disable cookies, some parts of the Website may not function properly.

5. Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Advertising Measurement

We may use Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, conversion tracking, and similar tools to understand Website traffic, measure ad performance, and analyze user interactions.

These tools may collect information such as your IP address, device information, browser information, pages visited, referral URLs, interactions with the Website, cookie identifiers, and conversion events such as clicks on affiliate links or visits to certain pages.

We may use advertising and analytics data to:

  • Measure Website traffic;
  • Understand which pages users visit;
  • Improve content and Website performance;
  • Measure Google Ads campaign performance;
  • Track conversions and outbound affiliate clicks;
  • Prevent fraudulent or invalid activity.

Because our Website discusses health and dating-related topics, we do not intend to use sensitive health-related interests, herpes status, STD status, or similar sensitive information to create remarketing audiences, Customer Match lists, or other personalized advertising audiences based on sensitive health or dating interests.

We do not knowingly use advertising tools to target users based on herpes status, STD status, medical diagnosis, sexual health condition, or other sensitive health information.

You can manage your Google advertising preferences through Google’s ad settings and browser-level cookie controls.

6. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Dating Websites

Our Website contains affiliate links and outbound links to third-party dating websites, including dating platforms, herpes dating communities, STD dating websites, and related services.

When you click an affiliate link, “Try Now” button, comparison link, banner, or other outbound link, you may be redirected to a third-party website. These third-party websites may collect information directly from you, including account information, profile details, dating preferences, payment information, health-related information, messages, photos, or other personal information.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security practices, content, terms, or data handling of third-party websites. Your use of third-party websites is governed by their own privacy policies and terms of service.

We may receive compensation if you click an affiliate link, sign up for a service, or make a purchase through certain links on our Website. Affiliate tracking may involve cookies, tracking links, referral identifiers, or similar technologies.

7. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve the Website;
  • Provide content, reviews, comparisons, and recommendations;
  • Respond to messages, comments, or inquiries;
  • Monitor Website performance and traffic;
  • Analyze user behavior and content engagement;
  • Measure advertising and affiliate campaign performance;
  • Detect, prevent, and address spam, fraud, abuse, or security issues;
  • Maintain business records;
  • Comply with legal obligations;
  • Protect our rights, users, Website, and business partners.

8. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.

We may share information with the following categories of third parties:

8.1 Service Providers

We may share information with service providers that help us operate the Website, including hosting providers, analytics providers, spam detection tools, security tools, email providers, advertising tools, and technical support providers.

8.2 Advertising and Analytics Partners

We may share or allow access to certain technical and usage information through cookies, tags, pixels, and similar technologies for analytics, advertising measurement, conversion tracking, fraud prevention, and performance analysis.

8.3 Affiliate Partners

When you click an affiliate link, tracking information may be shared with affiliate networks or third-party dating websites so they can attribute referrals, sign-ups, or purchases.

8.4 Legal and Safety Purposes

We may disclose information if required to do so by law, legal process, regulation, court order, or government request, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, safety, users, partners, or the public.

8.5 Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, restructuring, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

9. Legal Bases for Processing

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region requiring a legal basis for processing, we may process your information based on:

  • Your consent;
  • Our legitimate interests in operating, securing, analyzing, and improving the Website;
  • Performance of a contract or steps prior to entering into a contract;
  • Compliance with legal obligations;
  • Protection of rights, safety, and security.

Where required, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

10. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to operate the Website, respond to inquiries, maintain records, analyze performance, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, and resolve disputes.

Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely unless deleted, so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically and maintain discussion history.

Analytics, advertising, and server log data may be retained according to the settings and retention periods of our service providers.

11. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you;
  • Request correction of inaccurate information;
  • Request deletion of personal information;
  • Object to or restrict certain processing;
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
  • Opt out of certain cookies or tracking technologies;
  • Request a copy of your personal information;
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable.

To make a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: privacy[at]herpesdatingsites.com

We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

12. California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, including the right to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information.

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

  • Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, and cookie identifiers;
  • Internet or electronic network activity, such as pages viewed, referral URLs, and interactions with the Website;
  • Approximate geolocation information derived from IP address;
  • Inferences related to Website usage and content interests;
  • Information you voluntarily provide through comments, forms, or emails.

We may use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including Website operation, analytics, advertising measurement, affiliate tracking, security, fraud prevention, and communication.

We do not sell personal information for money. However, certain uses of cookies, analytics, advertising tags, affiliate tracking, or similar technologies may be considered “sharing” or “sale” under some privacy laws. You may control cookies through your browser settings or contact us to exercise applicable rights.

We do not knowingly use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those permitted by applicable law, such as providing requested services, maintaining security, preventing fraud, or complying with legal obligations.

To exercise California privacy rights, contact us at:

Email: privacy[at]herpesdatingsites.com

13. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls

Some browsers or devices may transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, we may not respond to all Do Not Track signals.

Where required by applicable law, we will honor recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, to the extent technically feasible and legally required.

14. Children’s Privacy

This Website is intended for adults and is not directed to children under the age of 18.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

15. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, internet transmission, database, or electronic storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

16. International Users

Our Website may be operated from or use service providers located in different countries. If you access the Website from outside the country where our servers or service providers are located, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in countries that may have different data protection laws than your country of residence.

By using the Website, you understand that your information may be transferred and processed internationally.

17. Third-Party Links

The Website may contain links to third-party websites, services, advertisements, social media platforms, affiliate partners, and dating platforms.

We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies, terms, content, security, or practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update it, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of the Website after any changes means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

Website: https://www.herpesdatingsites.com/
Email: privacy[at]herpesdatingsites.com
Owner/Operator: Ted