Privacy Statement
for www.AFGsingles.com
AFGsingles.com has created this Privacy
Statement (Policy) in order to demonstrate
our firm commitment to helping our users
better understand what information we
collect about them and what may happen
to that information.
The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices.
Overview
As part of the normal operation of
our services we collect and, in some
cases, may disclose information about
you. This Privacy Policy describes the
information we collect about you and
what may happen to that information.
By accepting this Privacy Policy and
our Terms and Conditions, you expressly
consent to our use and disclosure of
your personal information in the manner
prescribed in this Privacy Policy.
1. A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our
services, and we ask that minors (under
the age of 18) do not submit any personal
information to us. If you are a minor,
you can use this service only in conjunction
with your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal
information is to provide you with a
smooth, efficient, and customized experience.
This allows us to provide services and
features that most likely meet your
needs and to customize our service to
make your experience easier. You agree
that in order to assist our members
to meet each other we may feature members'
profiles in our editorials and newsletters
that we send out from time to time to
our members via email. Your name, address
and telephone number are confidential
and will not be posted in your profile.
Your profile is available for other
members to view. Members' profiles include
a description and photos, likes and
dislikes, individual essays and other
information helpful in determining matches.
Your viewable profile does not include
any identifying information about you,
except the username you chose upon registering.
We do not disclose your email address
nor do we sell it or make it available
to any third party other than as outlined
in more detail in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that your personally identifiable
information will be stored and processed
on our computers in the United States.
AFGsingles.com will hold and transmit
your information in a safe, confidential
and secure environment.
We automatically track certain information
based upon your behavior on our Websites
using cookies and other devices. We
use this information for internal research
on our members' demographics, interests,
and behavior to better understand and
serve you and our community. This information
may include the URL that you just came
from (whether this URL is on our site
or not). Which URL you next go to (whether
this URL is on our site or not), what
browser you are using, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such
as "cookies" on certain pages
of our Websites. "Cookies"
are small files placed on your hard
drive that assist us in providing customized
services. We also offer certain features
that are only available through the
use of a "cookie". Cookies
can also help us provide information
which is targeted to your interests.
Most cookies are "session cookies",
meaning that they are automatically
deleted from your hard drive at the
end of a session. You are always free
to decline our cookies if your browser
permits.
We may use several third party advertising
companies, to serve ads on our behalf
across the Internet. The third party
may also collect anonymous information
about your visits to our Web site. This
is primarily accomplished through the
use of a technology device, commonly
referred to as a Web beacon or an action
tag, which we place on various Web pages
within our Web site or in a html e-mail.
3. Our Use
of Your Information.
We use information in the files we
maintain about you, and the other information
we obtain from your current and past
activities on the Websites to resolve
disputes, troubleshoot problems and
enforce our Terms and Conditions. At
times, we may look across multiple members
to identify problems or resolve disputes,
and in particular we may examine your
information to identify members multiple
Member ID No. or aliases.
You agree that we may use personally
identifiable information about you to
improve our marketing and promotional
efforts, to analyze site usage, improve
our content and product offerings, and
customize our Site's content, layout,
and services. These uses improve our
site and better tailor it to meet your
needs.
You agree that we may use your information
to contact you and deliver information
to you that, in some cases, are targeted
to your interests, such as targeted
banner advertisements, administrative
notices, product offerings, and communications
relevant to your use on the Websites.
By accepting this Privacy Policy, you
expressly agree to receive this information.
If you do not wish to receive these
communications, we encourage you to
opt out of the receipt of certain communications
by visiting the Membership
Services section of our website
or send us an email at Contact
Us.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Due to the existing regulatory environment,
we cannot ensure that all of your private
communications and other personally
identifiable information will never
be disclosed in ways not otherwise described
in this Privacy Policy. By way of example
(without limiting and foregoing), we
may be forced to disclose information
to the government, law enforcement agencies
or third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications,
or members may abuse or misuse your
information that they collect from our
Websites. Therefore, although we use
industry standard practices to protect
your privacy, we do not promise, and
you should not expect, that your personally
identifiable information or private
communications will always remain private.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell
or rent any personally identifiable
information about you to any third party.
However, the following describes some
of the ways that your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed.
Financial Information.
Under some circumstances we may require
some additional information, such as,
but not limited to credit card details.
We use this financial information, including
your name, address, and other information,
as well as to bill you for use of our
services. We use your financial information
to check your qualifications, to bill
you for services and/or products, to
enable you to participate in discount,
rebate and similar programs in which
you may elect to participate. By making
a purchase, or engaging in any other
kind of activity or transaction that
uses financial information, on the Websites,
you consent to our providing of your
financial information to our service
providers and to such third parties
as we determine are necessary to support
and process your activities and transactions,
as well as to your credit card issuer
for their purposes. These third parties
may include the credit card companies
and banking institutions used to process
and support the transaction or activity.
By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services
of third parties offered on the Websites,
or by participating in programs offered
on the Websites that are administered
by third parties and that require you
to submit financial information in order
to use them, you also consent to our
providing your financial information
to those third parties. Any of these
various third parties may be authorized
to use your financial information in
accordance with our contractual arrangements
with such third parties and in accordance
with their own privacy policies, over
which we have no control, and you agree
that we are not responsible or liable
for any of their actions or omissions.
Additionally, you agree that we may
use and disclose all such information
so submitted to such third parties in
the same manner in which we are entitled
to use and disclose any other information
that you submit to us.
Advertisers. We aggregate
(gather up data across all our members'
accounts) personally identifiable information
and disclose such information in a non-personally
identifiable manner to advertisers and
other third parties for other marketing
and promotional purposes. However, in
these situations, we do not disclose
to these entities any information that
could be used to identify you personally.
Certain information, such as your name,
email address, password, credit card
number and bank account number, are
never disclosed to marketing advertisers.
We may use third-party advertising companies
to serve ads on our behalf. These companies
may employ cookies and action tags (also
known as single pixel gifs or web beacons)
to measure advertising effectiveness.
Any information that these third parties
collect via cookies and action tags
is completely anonymous.
External Service Providers.
There may be a number of services
offered by external service providers
that help you use our Websites. If you
choose to use these optional services,
and in the course of doing so, disclose
information to the external service
providers, and/or grant them permission
to collect information about you, then
their use of your information is governed
by their private policy.
Legal Requests. AFGsingles.com
cooperates with law enforcement inquiries,
as well as other third parties to enforce
laws, such as: intellectual property
rights, fraud and other rights. We can
(and you authorize us to) disclose any
information about you to law enforcement
and other government officials as we,
in our sole discretion, believe necessary
or appropriate, in connection with an
investigation of fraud, intellectual
property infringements, or other activity
that is illegal or may expose us or
you to legal liability.
5. Your Use
of other Members Information.
Our services also include access to
instant messaging and chat rooms. As
a member you have access to the Members
ID No., and you might gain access to
other contact information of the Member(s)
through the regular use of the chat rooms. By accepting
this Privacy Policy, you agree that,
with respect to other Members' personally
identifiable information that you obtain
through communication,
the chat rooms and email, AFGsingles.com
hereby grants to you a license to use
such information only for: (a) AFGsingles.com
related communications that are not
unsolicited commercial messages, and
(b) any other purpose that such member
expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure
of the purpose(s). In all cases, you
must give Members an opportunity to
remove themselves from your database
and a chance to review what information
you have collected about them. In addition,
under no circumstances, except as defined
in this Section, can you disclose personally
identifiable information about another
member to any third party without our
consent and the consent of such other
member after adequate disclosure. AFGsingles.com
and our members do not tolerate spam.
Therefore, without limiting the foregoing,
you are not licensed to add a AFGsingles.com
member, to your mail list (email or
physical mail) without their express
written consent after adequate disclosure.
To report spam from other AFGsingles.com
members, please Contact
Us .
6. Accessing,
Reviewing and Changing Your Profile.
Following registration, you can review
and change the information you submitted
during registration through the Member
Service Menu including: Your password
and e-mail address. If you change your
password and email we keep track of
your old password and email. You can
also change your registration information
such as: name, city, state,
zip code, country, profile,
desired date profile,
essays and saved search criteria.
Upon your written request, we will
suspend your membership, contact information,
and financial information from our active
databases. Such information will be
suspended as soon as reasonably possible
in accordance with our suspension policy
and applicable law.
We will retain our files information
you have requested to remove in order
in some circumstances, such as to resolve
disputes, troubleshoot problems and
enforce our terms and conditions. Further,
such prior information is never completely
removed from our databases due to technical
and legal constraints, including stored
'back up' systems. Therefore, you should
not expect that all of your personally
identifiable information will be completely
removed from our databases in response
to your requests.
7. Control
of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions
taken with your member ID No. and password,
including fees. Therefore we do not
recommend that you disclose your AFGsingles.com
password or member ID No. to any third
parties. If you choose to share your
member ID No and password or your information
with third parties to provide you additional
services, you are responsible for all
actions taken with your member ID No.
and password and therefore should review
that third party's privacy policy. If
you lose control of your password, you
may lose substantial control over your
personally identifiable information
and may be subject to legally binding
actions taken on your behalf. Therefore,
if your password has been compromised
for any reason, you should immediately
change your password.
8. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included
in this Privacy Policy, this document
only addresses the use and disclosure
of information we collect from you.
To the extent that you disclose your
information to other parties, or other
sites throughout the Internet, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure
of the information you disclose to them.
To the extent that we use third party
advertisers, they adhere to their own
privacy policies. Since AFGsingles.com
does not control the privacy policies
of the third parties, you are subject
to ask questions before you disclose
your personal information to others.
9. Security
AFGsingles.com uses industry standard
practices to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identifiable information,
including "firewalls" and
Secure Socket Layers. AFGsingles.com
treats data as an asset that must be
protected against loss and unauthorized
access. We employ many different security
techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by members inside
and outside the company. However, "perfect
security" does not exist on the
Internet.
10. Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from
time to time based on your comments
and our need to accurately reflect our
data collection and disclosure practices.
All changes to this policy are effective
after we provide you with at least (30)
days' notice of changes by sending email
to members. We provide you with (30)
days' notice to allow you the opportunity
to notify AFGsingles.com if you do not
agree to such changes. |
