About AmericanLoveZone.com Privacy Policy
We at AmericanLoveZone.com, Inc. understand that your privacy is very important to
you. Thats why weve developed this policy to ensure that your privacy is
protected while using AmericanLoveZone.com.
This privacy policy only applies to transactions, activity and data gathered
that you engage through AmericanLoveZone.coms website. Please review this privacy
policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy
was last revised on 13th Aug, 2007. Each time you visit this site or provide us
with information you are accepting the practices described herein.
Participation and Eligibility
AmericanLoveZone.com is an Internet site based in providing useful tools and
communities used to build relationships online. Our basic service is Free to all
qualified members.
Age Restrictions
Those individuals who are under eighteen years of age are not eligible to use
AmericanLoveZone.coms services. We ask that children not submit information to us.
Information Collected and How its Used
AmericanLoveZone.com collects a variety of information. This information should
only be used in order to find matches that offer the highest possible chance for
a successful long-term friendship, romance and/or marriage. Information
collected during the profile set, which may be shared with other users of
AmericanLoveZone.com, will be displayed in a strictly anonymous manner with no
personally identifiable details. Such details will only be shown to potential
AmericanLoveZone.com candidates. Non-subscribing visitors to AmericanLoveZone.com are
not allowed access to this information.
In our online membership form, we ask you to provide us with certain
information, such as your birth date and type of relationship you are looking
for, etc. We dont collect credit card, and bank information from those who wish
to acquire Gold membership privileges since PayPal is our authorized Payment
processor. For PayPal privacy policy, please visit
http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/privacy-outside
At your discretion, you may choose to post additional facts about yourself in
your profile, such as your occupation, level of education, religious
denomination, marital status, etc. While some members freely elect to include
their names in their profile, it is not requested or required, and the
AmericanLoveZone.com Terms of Use forbids posting personal contact information
for any reason.
If you choose to post messages in our chat rooms or other message areas, we will
only display such information about you as you choose to reveal. If you use a
bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or
used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited
messages. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in
our chat rooms or other message areas. We are not responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We reserve the
right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner
inconsistent with our Terms of Use.
Letters, emails or other forms of correspondence from you, a third party, or
another subscriber from our website relating to activity or inappropriate
conduct will be held on file. This information will be accessible to authorized
individuals within the company or an appropriate party designated to deal with
any specific violation. We may also collect other users comments about you in
our complaints department.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we
may ask you for your friends name and email address. We may automatically send
your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.
AmericanLoveZone.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this
one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may
contact us at Customer Service to request that we remove this information from
our database.
Information We Collect From You
In an effort to improve operations associated with the AmericanLoveZone.com
website, we may choose to collect information in the future that will help in
providing better service to its customers. The information could include, but
not be limited to, personal, demographic, and financial information.
Personal
Real full name, address, phone number, email address, etc.
Demographic
Zip code, province/postal code, hometown, gender, user name, age/birth date,
purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history
information, registration history information, and the content of communications
between you and other members over the site.
Information Supplied by your Browser
Cookies
The AmericanLoveZone.com website uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the site. Our intension is to enhance your experience on the
site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific information related to
your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal
and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit
the Site. If you wish to disable these cookies you may wish to use the help
item on your browsers menu for specific instructions on how to disable cookies.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas on the site.
How we use Personal Information
By providing a matching service and information about products or services that
are of interest to you, we may collect personal information that could be used
to contact you directly. This information may be your full name, postal address,
phone number or email address. With collection of financial information this may
consist of your credit card numbers or passwords. Demographic information
submitted by you, that is not personal or financial information may include zip
code, postal code, hometown, gender, user name, age/birth date, purchase
history, browsing history, searching history, registration history, and the
content of communications between you and other members over this website.
Please beware when entering personal or financial information into your
Profile such as your address, password or your user name, to include your name
or address in your written responses. This may be posted publicly on the Site,
and the information will then be treated as demographic information that is
public information.
Please note that we do not knowingly collect personal information from
individuals under the age of 18. Users who enter their information on the
AmericanLoveZone.com website need to comply with our Terms of Use and are in
compliance with the age requirements contained in this Privacy Policy. As a
user of this site we require that all users represent to us that they are at
least 18 years old.
Your email address and other personal information help us to contact you in
connection with your transactions and other activity on the site. This
includes, but is not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that
could affect your relationship with AmericanLoveZone.com. Additionally, in the case
messages are forwarded to you from other AmericanLoveZone.com users. These types of
communications are known as operational communications. Operational
communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and
special offers.
We may use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and
other promotional materials for AmericanLoveZone.com or third parties, to include
goods or services. You are provided with options to decline to receive
communications from AmericanLoveZone.com other than those contained in operational
communications. Some of these options may only be for a certain category of
communication; others might be general. By posting your profile on our website
you are opting in to receive the AmericanLoveZone.com email. To stop receiving
AmericanLoveZone.com email go to the Edit Profile section and select Do Not
Notify Me in the Notify me about news and tips item.
With the processing of your transactions in support of your activity on
AmericanLoveZone.coms website we may share your personal information with our
agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they are able to
provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card
transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer
relationship management services or order fulfillment. We require these entities
not use your information for any other purpose.
Your use of other Users Information
You may not use other users information for commercial purposes, to spam, to
harass, or to make unlawful threats. AmericanLoveZone.com reserves the right to
terminate those who misuse other users information or who otherwise violate the
AmericanLoveZone.com Terms of Use.
What You Are Responsible For
Control of Your Password
You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share it with any
third parties. If, despite the foregoing, 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.
Security
AmericanLoveZone.com has security measures in place to protect and prevent the
loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
AmericanLoveZone.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personally identifiable information such as firewalls.
While perfect security does not exist on the Internet, our technical experts at
AmericanLoveZone.com work hard to ensure your secure use of our services.
To help make your experience on the AmericanLoveZone.com website as beneficial as
possible, we provide links that direct users outside of the Site to resources
that might be useful to them. AmericanLoveZone.com is not liable for problems or
damages that might result in the use of these links outside of our site.
Special Cases - Disclosure of Your Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, 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 AmericanLoveZone.com
or other visitors to our website. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our other affiliated legal entities and businesses
which are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or
financial information is disclosed, we may also disclose your demographic
information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our affiliated legal
entities and businesses that receive your personal 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.
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to
hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to,
the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the Profile or Control
Panel sections of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the site. We thank
you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information
through the Profile or Control Panel sections of the site, or otherwise
opting-out of receipt of email communications from AmericanLoveZone.com, will only
change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activity on
the Site and for managing future communications from AmericanLoveZone.com. These
changes and deletions will not change or delete e-mails or information that we
may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other
third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy. |
