FRIENDS FIRST PRIVACY STATEMENT
Friends First have created
this Privacy Statement 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 for the Websites listed below.
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.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the terms of the Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Statement applies
to all related sites. All other worldwide
sites operate under similar privacy practices
as described in this Privacy Policy, and subject
to the requirements of applicable local law,
we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy
practices throughout the online personals
sites.
1. A Special Note
About Children
Children are not eligible
to use our services, and we ask that minors
(under the age of 19) 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. 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.
Please note that your personally
identifiable information will be stored and
processed on our computers in Canada. The
laws on holding personal data in the Canada
may differ from the other country's laws but
as we explain below, we 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 use a third party advertising
company, 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 an html e-mail that allows
Atlas DMT to collect anonymous information.
Atlas DMT may use information about your visits
to this and other Web sites in order to provide
ads about goods and services of interest to
you.
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.
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.
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 We 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 we 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) and we will require that the new
combined entity follow the practices disclosed
in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests. we 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 Member's
ID No., and you might gain access to other
contact information of the Member(s) through
the regular use of the instant messaging and
chat rooms. By accepting this Privacy Policy,
you agree that, with respect to other Members'
personally identifiable information that you
obtain through instant messaging communication,
the chat rooms and email, We hereby grants
to you a license to use such information only
for: (a) Your Company 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. [Your Company]
and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore,
without limiting the foregoing, you are not
licensed to add a [Your Company] member to
your mail list (email or physical mail) without
their express written consent after adequate
disclosure. To report spam from other [Your
Company], 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, address, city,
state, zip code, country, phone number, profile,
likes and dislikes, desired date profile,
essays and saves 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. To remove your profile so that others
cannot view it, visit the Remove Your Profile
section of Member Services.
We will retain in our files
information you have requested to remove for
certain 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 login information
and password, including fees. Therefore we
do not recommend that you disclose your [Your
Company] password or login information to
any third parties. If you choose to share
this information with third parties to provide
you additional services, 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 for
any reason, you should immediately change
your passwod
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,
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
[Your Company] 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
[Your Company] uses industry
standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identifiable information,
including "firewalls" and Secure
Socket Layers. [Your Company] 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 [Your Company] if you do not agree
to such changes.