We at FriendSearch.com ("FriendSearch.com")
have created this Privacy Policy for
the protection of its Members. This
policy outlines the policy purpose, audience and parameters in which personal
privacy is protected. This Privacy
Policy only applies to transactions and activities within the online
services in which Members subscribe. Online
services to be all inclusive of the following elements:
·
FriendSearch Website, FriendSearch.com Network Partner sites created at
www.AllDatingNetwork.com (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or offline
point of contact between FriendSearch.com or any other company, and
consumers. We reserve the right to
modify this Privacy Policy
periodically. This Privacy Policy was last revised on March 31, 2004. Each time you visit the internet site, use
the online services or provide us with information, you are accepting the
practices described in this Privacy
Policy at that time.
YOUR IP ADDRESS
Like most e-commerce internet sites, each time you visit
the site, FriendSearch.com captures and stores origination information. In order to administer and optimize the site
and perform diagnostics with the site, FriendSearch.com uses origination
IP addresses. Origination data is also
used to manage demographic data.
COOKIES
Similar to other internet sites, this site uses cookies to
keep track of purchases and other online transactions on this site and to
enhance user experience for online transactions. Cookies are also used to deliver content specific of user
interests, save and store passwords, and cookies can store personal and
financial information so to prevent multiple entries containing the same data. Third party advertisers on the internet site
may also place or read cookies on the user’s browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the
"Help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
instruct the user to modify settings. However,
browser modifications may inhibit access to links and other online services.
COLLECTED
INFORMATION
In customizing online services to meet user and Member
demands, we may collect "personal information" (i.e. information that
could be used to contact you directly (without using the site) such as full
name, postal address, phone number or email address), "financial
information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic
information" (i.e. information submitted or collected that is neither
personal information nor financial information; this may include, but is not
limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, marital status, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information,
browsing history information, searching history information, registration
history information, and the content of communications between individual Members
and other Members over the site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1)
"non-public information", which consists of purchase history
information and one-on-one communications between Members and other users of
the Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of all other
demographic information. Personal
information or financial information should not be entered into the user
“Profile” (for example, do not use your address or pass code as your username,
or include your name or address in written responses). If this info is used, that information may
likely be considered "demographic information" that is "public
information." Please note that
nowhere on the internet site, we knowingly collect personal information from
children under the age of eighteen (18), as we require that all users represent
to us that they are at least 18 years old.
OTHER SOURCES
In addition, FriendSearch.com might receive information
about you from outside sources and add it to your FriendSearch.com membership
information. We do this to improve personalization of our services (for
example, providing better web and newsletter content, advertising or special
offers that we think will interest you).
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER INTERNET SITES
On the FriendSearch.com site, links to other
internet sites are operated by other companies. Some of these sites contain FriendSearch.com brand names,
trademarks, and other intellectual property that FriendSearch.com owns. When users click on additional hyperlinks and
visit these other sites, regardless of whether or not they contain FriendSearch.com
brand names, trademarks, and other intellectual property, users need to be aware
that FriendSearch.com does not control other website management and
business practices. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to internet site companies. Consequently, the operators of these other
internet sites may store and forward information about users and may disclose
personal information. FriendSearch.com
encourages users to review all Privacy Policies for all hyperlinks
used and accept the parameters of the FriendSearch.com Privacy
Policy. This Policy
does not cover activity on other internet sites.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION USE FOR FRIENDSEARCH.COM MEMBERS
FriendSearch.com uses email addresses and other personal information to
help efficiently operate the site and the online services. Specifically, addresses are needed to
maintain a connection with the user and ensure transactions and other
activities on the site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or
important news that could affect your relationship with FriendSearch.com)
are properly administered. Forward
messages are also transmitted to ensure adequate communication with other FriendSearch.com
users. This type of communication is
known as "Operational Communications." In some cases, Operational Communications may also
contain commercial messages, banner ads and special offers.
Personal information is also needed to send newsletters,
information, offers and other promotional materials for FriendSearch.com’s
or third parties’ goods or online services. Caution is exercised to ensure online offers are of value to
users. For example, discounts,
exclusive offers or special event information is considered valuable to users. The site provides Members with options to
decline to receive communications from FriendSearch.com (other than
those contained in Operational Communications). These options may only be for a certain category of communications
and others may be more general. By
posting a profile on the internet site, Members are opting in to receive the FriendSearch.com
by information via email. To stop
receiving FriendSearch.com by email, go to your Account
Settings and change Email Communications Preferences.
In operating the site, including processing transactions
and online activities on the site, FriendSearch.com may share Member
personal information with extended partners.
Namely, these partners are associates, agents, representatives,
contractors and service providers. This
information exchange is required to provide support services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or
support services, customer relationship, management services, order
fulfillment, sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. These extended partners have been instructed
not to use Member personal information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, registering or making reservations for
products or services offered or sponsored by extended partners on the site, or
electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions)
or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as
discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by extended partners
through online services, Members are consenting to submission of personal
information to those extended partners.
Extended partners may use Member personal information as stated within
each respective partner Privacy Policy. Without specific instructions otherwise,
these extended partners will continue to operate within their privacy
guidelines. Additionally, Members agree
that FriendSearch.com may use and disclose all such information as it is
submitted to extended partners in the same manner in which FriendSearch.com
is entitled to use and disclose any other information Members voluntarily
submit.
In some cases, FriendSearch.com may enter into a
promotional relationship with another company in which FriendSearch.com
prominently displays brand names or trademarks on pages of the internet site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded
Pages" and these companies are known as “Co-Branded Companies.” If the page on which Members submit
information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded
Page, personal information may be transmitted to the associated Co-Branded
Company. Co-Branded Companies are
authorized to use membership information in accordance with respective internal
Privacy
Policies. Members need to
contact Co-Branded Companies directly regarding personal preferences relating
to transmitting personal information within online transactions. Additionally, Members agree that FriendSearch.com
may use and disclose all such information as electronically submitted to such Co-Branded
Companies in the same manner in which FriendSearch.com is
entitled to use and disclose any other membership information submitted
electronically. Some Co-Branded
Pages may contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1
pixel .gif file) that an extended partner may use to read cookies that it, or
its clients, may have placed on Member browsers at other (non- FriendSearch.com)
internet sites. This technology is used
to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on internet sites that promote Co-Branded
Pages. Furthermore, extended
partners may use the information collected through this technology to learn
more about visits to this internet site and other sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to respective Members. FriendSearch.com has been informed by
some extended partners membership information is used unless otherwise
notified. Extended partners do not use
the Member name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, and do not link
your online actions to any information that can be used to identify or contact Members.
However, as a separate entity from
extended partners, Members need to pursue validation of Privacy Policies for
extended partners. Likewise, Members
will not hold FriendSearch.com accountable for the accuracy of the above
statement. If Members would like
extended partners to provide more information about their policy practices, please contact them directly.
Any extended party with whom FriendSearch.com
is allowed to share Member personal information is
authorized to use Member personal information in accordance with contractual
arrangements with extended partners and in accordance with their own Privacy Policies. Moreover, FriendSearch.com has no
control of this usage and all Members agree that FriendSearch.com is not
responsible or liable for any of extended partner actions or omissions. Members contacted will need to be instructed
directly by Members regarding personal preferences for the use of Member
personal information by extended partners.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special Circumstances for the Provision of
Personal and Financial Information” to learn more ways in which we may share your personal
information.
FINALCIAL
INFORMATION USAGE
FriendSearch.com uses financial information to check Member
qualifications, bill for products and services and to enable Members to
participate in discounts, rebates and similar programs in which Members may
elect to participate. By making a
purchase or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses
financial information on the internet site, Members consent to the provision of
FriendSearch.com transmitting Member financial information to extended
partners and service providers as FriendSearch.com deems necessary to
support and process online activities, transactions, and meet credit card
issuer requirements. These extended
partners may include credit card companies and banking institutions used to
process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, registering or making reservations for products or
services from extended partners offered on the site, or by participating in
programs offered on the internet site that are administered by extended parties
that require you to submit financial information in order to obtain services is
authorized by Members. Members all
consent to FriendSearch.com sharing Member financial information to
extended partners. Additionally, if the
page on which information was submitted is a Co-Branded Page or was
accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then Member
financial information may be shared with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various extended partners
(including Co-Branded Companies) may be authorized to use Member financial
information in accordance with contractual arrangements with extended partners
and in accordance with respective Privacy Policies. FriendSearch.com has no control over
extended parties and all Members fully agree that FriendSearch.com is
not responsible or liable for any of extended partner actions or omissions. Additionally, all Members agree that FriendSearch.com
may use and disclose all such information as submitted to such extended
partners in the same manner in which FriendSearch.com is entitled to use
and disclose any other information submitted. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Circumstances for the Provision of
Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we
may share your financial information.
SPECIAL
CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE PROVISOIN OF PERSONAL AND FINALCIAL INFORMATION
Member personal information or financial information may
be passed on to a extended partner in the event of a transfer of ownership,
assets or a bankruptcy proceeding. FriendSearch.com
may also disclose personal information or financial information for instances
requiring disclosure for compliance with applicable laws and to cooperate with
law enforcement and/or to protect the interests or safety of FriendSearch.com
or other visitors to the internet site.
FriendSearch.com may also disclose personal information or
financial information to subsidiaries, parent companies or businesses, and
other affiliated legal entities in which FriendSearch.com are under
common corporate control. Whenever Member
personal information or financial information is disclosed under this
paragraph, FriendSearch.com may also disclose Member demographic
information on a non-anonymous basis. All
parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic
information from FriendSearch.com will comply with the terms of this Privacy
Policy with respect to use and disclosure of such information may also
disclose personal information or financial information for instances requiring
disclosure for compliance with applicable laws and to cooperate with law
enforcement and/or to protect the interests or safety of FriendSearch.com
or other visitors to the internet site.
FriendSearch.com may also disclose personal information or
financial information to subsidiaries, parent companies or businesses, and
other affiliated legal entities in which FriendSearch.com are under
common corporate control. Whenever Member
personal information or financial information is disclosed under this
paragraph, FriendSearch.com may also disclose Member demographic
information on a non-anonymous basis. All
parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic
information from FriendSearch.com will comply with the terms of this Privacy
Policy with respect to use and disclosure of such information.
PUBLIC
INFORMATION AND OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION USAGE
Demographic information may be reviewed at length. FriendSearch.com may use public
information to enable other users to locate Member profile information to
determine potential business opportunities.
FriendSearch.com may use demographic information to customize the
internet site and communications to specifically targeted, at known Member
interests. FriendSearch.com may
also share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and
aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers Member identity). The professional intentions are to increase
the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to FriendSearch.com’s
users. Similarly, FriendSearch.com
may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Sharing demographic information with
advertisers is anonymous (i.e., advertisers are informed of which particular FriendSearch.com
users are Members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this Privacy
Policy. When Members respond to
an advertisement, however, FriendSearch.com asks you to remember ads
targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser personal
information, advertisers may be able to identify subscribers as being a Member
of a demographic group. Please also be
aware that when FriendSearch.com discloses financial information or
personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described
above, FriendSearch.com may also disclose demographic information to the
Co-Branded
Company. Information beyond the
content of one-on-one communications between Members via the online services
may also be disclosed. Please also be
aware that FriendSearch.com may disclose Member demographic information
on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Circumstances for the Provision of
Personal and Financial Information." Additionally, to read further details about how we may use Member
public information, see our Terms of Use.
SECURITY PRECAUTIONS
The internet site has security measures in place to
protect against loss, misuse and alteration of the information under FriendSearch.com
control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. Encryption
is applied to all personal and financial information during transmission across
the internet. Member financial
information is stored on reliable servers in encrypted form. Your information may be transferred to and
maintained on computer networks, which may be located outside of the state,
province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside. The country or jurisdiction in which these
computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the
laws other countries or jurisdictions.
REPORTS
FriendSearch.com periodically prepare analyses and reports
reflecting visitor and member use of the FriendSearch.com Web Site and
FriendSearch.com Service for our internal use as well as for a limited number
of our business partners. These reports include aggregate (non-personal) information
about FriendSearch.com members, and in certain instances, visitors to the
FriendSearch.com Web Site. The information in these reports will not identify
you individually. Our business partners who have access to these reports will
not be able to contact you from the information contained in the reports.
REFERRAL PROGRAM
As part of our referral program, you can provide contact
information (such as the name and e-mail address) of your friends and family
whom you think would like to receive FriendSearch.com e-mails and use the
FriendSearch.com Service. All
information provided by you concerning your referrals is handled in accordance
with this policy.
AGENTS
FriendSearch.com may employ other companies and individuals
to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include sending direct and
electronic mail, removing duplicate information from customer lists, analyzing
data, and providing marketing analysis. These agents have access to member
personal information as needed to perform their functions for FriendSearch.com,
but we do not permit them to use it for other purposes.
PRIVACY POLICY
FOR PREVIOUSLY GATHERED INFORMATINO CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Without warning, FriendSearch.com may decide to use
particular personally identifiable information in a manner different from
statements at the time it was collected.
FriendSearch.com will notify users by way of an email or by
providing 30 days notice on the internet site. Please note that FriendSearch.com will continue to have the
right to change Privacy Policies and practices. FriendSearch.com may also change the use of personally
identifiable information without notice. As described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, personal
information provided is subject to changes only applicable to information
gathered on or after the date of the change.
ACCESSING AND
UPDATING EMAIL PREFERENCES, PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND PUBLIC INFORMATION
FriendSearch.com provides the opportunity to opt-out of certain
communications, modify personal information or demographic information provided
to FriendSearch.com. Removing
demographic information from or make demographic information visible to the
public users of the site can be administered at anytime by going to the Account
Settings or My
Profile section of the internet site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes to
take effect on the public areas of the internet site. FriendSearch.com expresses
appreciation for Member patience. Please
note that changing or deleting personal information through the "Account
Settings" or "My Profile" section of the site,
or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from FriendSearch.com,
will only change or delete the data in company database for purposes of future
activities on the site and for managing future communications from FriendSearch.com. These changes and deletions will not change
or delete emails or information already captured or forwarded to other users or
credit card companies or any other extended partners. All statements, here within, provided above in this Privacy
Policy are included.
If Members have any questions or concerns about this Privacy
Policy, the practices of the site, or dealings with the site, please
contact us by using our customer support form.
