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Privacy Policy for STDSingles.com
Effective Date: 4/25/2006
This statement discloses the information gathering process and the privacy and
dissemination practices for the STDSingles.com Web site. Smart Semantics
Corporation has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to protect your personal privacy.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact
STDSingles.com's Privacy Manager at
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STDSingles.com is an Internet singles portal designed to provide an easy way to
meet other singles on the Internet. Members create a profile and are then paired
with a number of other members based on their pre-selected dating criteria.
STDSingles.com is a membership-based service that collects credit card numbers,
addresses, and bank information only from those who choose to sign up as paid
members. Any visitors to STDSingles.com may choose to browse the Site, search
the profiles and/or view any articles by signing up for a free membership.
STDSingles.com's registration form requires users to provide contact information
such as an email address and demographic information (such as zip code, age, or
income level). STDSingles.com also occasionally runs contests and conducts
online surveys that ask visitors for contact information such as name and email
address and demographic information such as zip code, age, or income level.
STDSingles.com contains links to other web sites and STDSingles.com is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
Private, Public and Aggregate Information obtained by STDSingles.com
PRIVATE INFORMATION is any information that allows others to contact a user
other than through STDSingles.com or allows the collection of information about
the user other than what is displayed on the site. Private information is
gathered from free members and regular members. This information includes, but
is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, credit card number, and
address.
PUBLIC INFORMATION is personal information that may be displayed on the site,
such as gender, age and height, but cannot be linked to a particular user.
Public information is personal information such as gender, age, ethnic
background, appearance, and more. This information is meant to be seen by
members and visitors to the site but cannot be used to identify a specific
member by name, address, or other profile information. Members can post images
of themselves but no identifying information is allowed to be posted with that
image. Please note that images posted can be used by STDSingles.com in ads or
press releases about our service. People attending STDSingles.com events can be
included in photos and images taken of such events and used in ads or press
releases about our service. Posting images or attending STDSingles.com events
constitutes agreement with the fair use of the images involved.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION is information we collect that is not personally
identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered
from all visitors to the site.
Use of Information Obtained by STDSingles.com
PRIVATE INFORMATION: We use email addresses submitted by members when forwarding
anonymous emails. Responders' email addresses are not disclosed to the original
sender nor is any other personally identifiable information. We may utilize a
user's email or street address to send news regarding our site or offers we feel
appropriate to our members but the user may choose not to receive email of this
type by indicating upon joining up to not receive such mail or letter at any
time through our unsubscribe methods or by modifying their account information.
Any sharing of email or street addresses with third party marketers is done only
with the permission of the user by giving consent on signup or by changing their
email setting preferences at a later date. Your preferences can be changed by
logging onto your account, going to the "My Profile" setting at the top of the
page. To remove yourself regarding postal third party offers, please write to
the company address at the bottom of this document.
Email and street addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the
user for customer service issues. Financial information that is collected is
used to bill the user for services. STDSingles.com utilizes a third party
service provider for credit card processing to facilitate the user's transaction
and the service provider does not use personal information provided by the site
for its own promotional purposes. All other private information submitted by the
user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to
protect members of STDSingles.com. All private information can be updated or
deleted by the user at any time.
We also use personal information in connection with newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials sent to you for STDSingles.com's or third
parties' goods or services. We attempt to have offers sent to you that are of
value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information.
The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from
STDSingles.com (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some
of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others
may be more general.
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents,
representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with
support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email
origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management
services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We
require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose. By
purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services
offered or sponsored by third parties 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 third parties on the Site, you
consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those
third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them
directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by
them. 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 you submit to us.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is
authorized to use your personal 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. Those who contact
you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets of STDSingles.com, or a
bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information
when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable
law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of
STDSingles.com or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal
information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and
businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are
under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial
information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your
demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our
parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic
information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with
respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
PUBLIC INFORMATION: Public information supplied by the user is intended to be
viewed by registrants and subscribers to the Site. This information is used by
registrants and subscribers for searching and matching purposes.
AGGREGATE: We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information
in the general administration of our website. It is not personally identifiable
information and is not released to third parties.
Email-A-Friend: If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about
our Site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will
automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the
site. STDSingles.com does not store this information.
Chat Rooms, Bulletin Boards, and Forums
STDSingles.com makes chat rooms available to its users. Please remember that any
information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you
should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information
online.
Use of Cookies
We currently use cookies in our Chat areas and for our own advertising purposes.
We use third-party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit our Web
site and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information about
your visits to this Web site and the sites upon which we advertise, (not
including your name, address, or other personal information), to serve our ads
to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party
cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we use web
identifiers, provided by our ad serving partner, to help manage our online
advertising. These web identifiers enable our ad server to recognize a browser's
cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users
to our Web site. The information we collect and share through this technology is
not personally identifiable.
Change/Delete
STDSingles.com gives trial members and paid members an option for modifying or
removing their information from our database. Your privacy is one of our highest
priorities. The security of your personal information is important to us. When
you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social
security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information
using secure socket layer technology (SSL). [To learn more about SSL, follow
this link
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html ]
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No
method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is
100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute
security.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process
served on our Web site.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this
privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that
you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this
privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make
material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means
of a notice on our homepage.
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy of STDSingles.com, please
email them to
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Or write to: STDSingles.com, 8362 Pines
Blvd #365; Pembroke Pines, FL 33024.
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