Effective Date: May 1, 2007

Myfaithdate.com Inc. has created this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") in an effort to help our users better understand what information we collect about them, how such information is used and protected and how you can control its use.

Overview

As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy applies to all MyFaithdate.com Inc. sites, including, but not limited, to Faithmate.com (the "Websites"). While this Privacy Policy applies to the collection and use of information by us through the Websites, it does not apply to information that you may send to us by other means. By using the Websites, you expressly consent, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions. Please take time to read our Terms and Conditions.

1. A Note About Children

Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) not submit any personal information to us.

 

2. Information Collected

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 and to tailor our service to make your experience better. You agree that we may feature members' profiles, including your profile, in, among other places, editorials and newsletters that we may periodically send out to our members. Your name, postal address, telephone number and E-mail address are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other members to view. Members' profiles include a description, photos, likes and dislikes, individual essays, and other information helpful in determining matches.

We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our Websites. "Cookies" are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our site, and which may be correlated with your personally identifiable information in our log files. 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. We use this information to determine our members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL of the website that you visited prior to our Website (whether this is on our site or not), the URL of the website you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. If you wish to prevent us from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. However, disabling cookies set by us may, in fact, limit your ability to use or otherwise impair the effectiveness of our services.

We use a third party advertising company to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. That advertising company may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Websites. This is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device, commonly referred to as a Web beacon, cookie or an action tag, which is placed on various Web pages within our Websites or in an HTML E-mail that allows the third party advertising company to collect anonymous information. There may also 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 policies, if any.

3. Use of 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 review the data of multiple members to identify problems or resolve disputes.

You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Website usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Websites' content, layout, and services. These uses improve our Websites and may better tailor them to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you and to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Websites. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, you may opt out of the receipt of certain communications. To learn how to do so, visit the Help section of the Websites or send us an E-mail at support@faithmate.com.

4. When We May Disclose Your Information

Due to the regulatory environment in which we operate, 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 any of the foregoing), we may be required 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. Accordingly, although we use commercially reasonable efforts 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 used or disclosed.

Financial Information. Under some circumstances we may require certain additional information, including but not limited to your credit card billing information. We use this financial information, including your name, address, and other information to bill you for use of our Services and products. 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 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 your transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering for, 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 information 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 multiple members' accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for 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, E-mail 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.

Other Corporate Entities. We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our parent and/or subsidiaries that are committed to serving your online needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that Faithmate.com and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that Faithmate.com would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the Service. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs) pursuant to Section 12 below and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time.

Legal Requests. Faithmate.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 any 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 members' identification numbers and/or user names, and you might gain access to other contact information of other members through the regular use of the Services. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other members' personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Services, Faithmate.com hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) Faithmate.com related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose to which such member expressly agrees after complete disclosure of the purpose. In all cases, you must give members an opportunity to remove themselves from your database. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Privacy Policy, may 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. Faithmate.com and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Faithmate.com member to your mail list (E-mail or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure. If you use any feature of the Websites or our Services for the purpose of sending spam, we reserve the right to immediately terminate your access to the Websites and to seek appropriate legal recourse as necessary. To report spam from other Faithmate.com members, please E-mail us at support@faithmate.com.

6. Other Websites; Links

The Websites contain links to other websites. Please be aware that these third party websites may collect personally identifiable information about you, and operate according to their own privacy policy practices which likely differ from our own Privacy Policy and collection practices. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, nor do we make any warranties or representations about the contents, products or services offered on such websites or the security of any information you provide to them. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of any website you may visit before providing personal information to them.

7. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

Following registration, you can review and change your registration information such as: name, password, E-mail address, mailing address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays and saved search criteria. For instructions on how to do so, visit the Help section of the Websites. If you change your password and E-mail address, we will retain a record of your old password and E-mail address.

Upon your notification, we will remove your membership from our active databases as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our policy and applicable law. To learn how to hide or remove your profile so that others cannot view it, visit the Help section of the Websites.

We will retain in our files information you have requested be removed from our active databases for certain purposes, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information may never be 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 any request you may submit.

8. Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password, including fees. Therefore, we do not recommend that you disclose your Faithmate.com password or login information to any third party. If you choose to share this information with any third party, you are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password, and therefore should review each 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 in any way, you should immediately change your password.

9. Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly described 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, whether they are on our Websites or on 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 Faithmate.com does not control the privacy policies of any third parties, you should investigate their policies before you disclose your personal information to them.

10. Security

We have put reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures into place in order to help safeguard and prevent unauthorized access, use and/or disclosure or your personally identifiable information. Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard the security of your personally identifiable information, transmissions made on or through the Internet and personally identifiable information stored on our servers or the servers of third parties that we use are vulnerable to attack and cannot be guaranteed to be secure. In addition, submissions made via E-mail are not protected by encryption and are vulnerable to interception during transmission.

11. Protecting Yourself

You can learn more about internet privacy from government websites such as www.ftc.gov/privacy.

12. Changes to this Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date first set forth above. We reserve the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy from time to time based on changes in the law, your comments, or our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending you a notice via E-mail or by placing a prominent notice on our Websites.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices, please E-mail us at support@faithmate.com.