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LoveAmericas.com, ModelAmericas.com, Friends and Lovers and
Love Americas/Face to Face Personal Introductions Services
(referred to herein as “the companies” and “the
site”)
This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities
in which you engage, and data gathered, on the companies’
web sites, double blind email communications between the companies’
members (collectively, the “Site”) but does not
apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between
the company or any other company, and consumers. Please review
this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from
time to time. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with
information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described
in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit the Site,
we automatically collect your IP address and the web page
from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the
Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use
your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic
information about you.
Cookies
Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of
your purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance
your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver
content specific to your interests, to save your password,
and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information
so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the
Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place cookies
on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the
“help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers
will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable
cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the
Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information
about products or services that may be of interest to you,
we may collect “personal information” (i.e. information
that could be used to contact you directly (without using
the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number
or email address), “financial information” (i.e.
credit card numbers or passwords) or “demographic information”
(i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that
is neither personal information nor financial information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal
code, hometown, gender, username, 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), subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic
information is divided into two categories: 1) “non-public
information”, which consists of purchase history information
and one-on-one communications between you and other users
of the Site; and 2) “public information”, which
consists of all other demographic information. We ask that
you do not enter personal information or financial information
into your “Profile” (for example, don’t
use your address or password as your user name, or include
your name or address in your “My Narratives” section),
because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site,
and the information will then be treated as “demographic
information” that is “public information.”
Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect
personal information from children under the age of 18, as
we require that all users represent to us that they are at
least 18 years old.
Information Other Web Sites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other web sites operated by
other parties. Some of these other web sites contain our brand
names and trademarks and other intellectual property that
we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit
these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain
our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property,
you need to be aware that we do not control these other web
sites or these other web sites’ business practices,
and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other
web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web
sites may collect different kinds of information about you,
and may use and disclose that information in different ways
than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage
you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we
will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information
to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in
connection with your transactions and other activities on
the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails
or important news that could affect your relationship with
the companies), and to forward messages to you from other
site users. These types of communications, are known as “Operational
Communications.” In some cases, Operational Communications
may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and
special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters,
information, offers and other promotional materials for the
companies or third parties’ goods or services. We attempt
to send you offers 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
the companies (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.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship
with another company in which we prominently display their
brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages
are known as “Co-Branded Pages” and these companies
are known as “Co-Branded Companies.” If the page
on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was
accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then
we may share your personal information with the associated
Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies 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 Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we
are entitled to use and disclose any other information you
submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an action
tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that
a third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may
use to read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed
on your browser at other (non-company) web sites before your
visit to the site. This technology is used to measure the
effectiveness of advertisements on such other web sites that
promote Co-Branded Pages. Further, Avenue A, or such other
third parties, may use the information collected through this
technology to learn more about your visits to this Site and
other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services of interest to you. We have been informed by
Avenue A that unless you are otherwise notified, they do not
use your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number,
and do not link your online actions to any information that
can be used to identify or contact you. However, as we may
not verify that this is the case, we ask that you seek Avenue
A’s assurances yourself and do not hold us accountable
for the accuracy of the above statement. If you would like
Avenue A to provide you with more information about their
practices, click here.
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.
Please read the information below under the heading “Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information”
to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications,
to bill you for products and services and 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 Site, you consent to our providing 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 Site, or by participating
in programs offered on the Site 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. Additionally,
if the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded
Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded
Page, then we may share your financial information with the
associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third
parties (including Co-Branded Companies) 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. Please read the information below under the heading
“Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial
Information” to learn more ways in which we may share
your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial
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
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.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic
Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public
information to enable other users to find your profile, to
determine whether they are a match for you and to communicate
with you. We may use demographic information to tailor the
Site and communications to your interests. We may also share
demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and
aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your
identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase
the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and services
will appeal to the companies and the sites’ users, so
that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups.
Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is
anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular
site users are members of which demographic groups), subject
to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an
advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that
ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide
to give the advertiser your personal information, then the
advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of
that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we
disclose your financial information or personal information
to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose
to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other
than the content of one-on-one communications between you
and other members. Please also be aware that we may disclose
your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described
above in the paragraph titled “Special Cases in which
we Share Personal and Financial Information
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against
the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control. Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry
standard and among the best software available today for secure
commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and
financial information as it travels over the Internet and
we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted
form. Your information may be transferred to and maintained
on computer networks which may be located outside of the state,
province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which
you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these
computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as
protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered
Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email
or by providing 30 days notice on the Site. Please note that
we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy
and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable
information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph
of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only
apply to information gathered on or after the date of the
change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences,
Personal Information and Public 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 “My Account”
or “My Profile” section 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 “My Account” or “My
Profile” section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications from the companies will
only change or delete the data in our database for purposes
of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications
from the companies. These changes and deletions will not change
or delete emails 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.
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