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This statement discloses the privacy practices for the
PositiveChristians.com website. The purpose of this statement is to
notify you of what personally identifiable information of yours will
be collected and/or tracked by the PositiveChristians.com site, how
it will be used, and what options are available to you regarding the
collection, correction and/or deletion of information.
About PositiveChristians.com and the Information We Collect
PositiveChristians.com is a membership-based online matchmaking
service designed to provide an easy way for our members to meet each
other on the Web. To accomplish this, our members create their own
unique profiles and our matching technology provides them matches
based on their pre-selected criteria. In order to do this, we must
ask for certain personal information, which may or may not include:
customer-specified PositiveChristians.com Nickname, gender, age,
ethnic background, appearance, religion, occupation,
preference/lifestyle information and general geographic location.
This information is used by visitors for searching and matching
purposes. Much of this information is optional, and meant to be seen
by members. Public information supplied by the user is intended to
be viewed by visitors to the site. Public information cannot be used
to identify a specific member by name, address, etc.
To process subscriptions, we may require information that includes,
but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, birth
date, credit card number or checking account information for
payment, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and
telephone number. You will be notified of subscription renewal
transactions when they occur. We primarily use email addresses
submitted by members to verify enrollment and when forwarding
anonymous e-mails from ad responders. Respondees' email addresses
are not disclosed to the responder. We may also use a user's email
address to send news regarding our site, but the user may choose not
to receive email of this type by contacting us. Email addresses may
also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer
service issues. 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 PositiveChristians.com. All private
information can be updated or deleted by the user at any time.
Aggregate information not directly submitted by users to
PositiveChristians.com
This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable,
such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered
for all users to the site. PositiveChristians.com also logs IP
addresses for systems administration purposes. IP addresses are
logged to track a user's session. This gives PositiveChristians.com
an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We do not
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means
that a user's session will be tracked, but the user will be
anonymous.
Except where you are expressly informed otherwise, we do not sell,
rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information
except to the financial institution that processes your credit card
or check transaction unless required by law or for the protection of
your membership.
We have contracted with Overture services, Inc. ("Overture") to
monitor certain pages of our Web site for the purpose of reporting
web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or
other activities on our site. Where authorized by us, Overture may
use cookies, Web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to
compile anonymous statistics on our Web site visitors. No personally
identifiable data is collected by or transferred to Overture. For
more information about how the information collected by Overture is
used, please see Overture's privacy policy at http://www.overture.com/d/USm/about/company/ccprivacypolicy.jhtml.
Surveys and Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or
not to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code, and age). Contact and
other information collected for contests will be used to notify the
winners and award prizes. Survey information collected will be used
for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of
this site.
Public Forums
PositiveChristians.com makes message boards available to its users,
in the form of a Private forum and Chat rooms. Please remember that
any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should exercise caution when deciding to
disclose any personally identifying information.
Refer a Friend
PositiveChristians.com encourages you to refer a friend to our
service. In this section you are able to send us a friend's name and
email address. We simply send a one-time email to that person which
contains your name and invites them to visit our site. We ask that
you do not abuse this feature by entering names and addresses of
those who would not be interested in PositiveChristians.com.
Links
This site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that
PositiveChristians.com is not responsible for the privacy practices
of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
web site that collects personally identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this
Web site.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no
way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our
site. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would
not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time
while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they will not be able
to use our site. We do not and will not use cookies to collect
private information from any user.
Security
PositiveChristians.com has security measures in place to protect
the loss, misuse and alteration of the information stored in our
database. These measures include the use of Secure Server technology
during credit card transactions and administrative access to site
data, as well as other proprietary security measures which are
applied to all repositories and transfers of user information.
If you have any questions about the security of our site, please
contact
us.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
PositiveChristians.com provides users the following options for
modifying information previously submitted.
1. Users may change their credit card, password and other
information by going to View/Edit Profile page.
2. Send email via the
contact
form on the site.
3. You can send mail to the following postal address:
Positive Christians.com
P.O. Box 541262
Lake Worth, FL 33454-1262
Email Choice/Opt-out
PositiveChristians.com users may use the following options if they
do not wish to receive future communications.
1. Users may change their email options by going to My
Profile and simply changing this information.
2. Send email via the
contact
form on the site.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to
disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a
current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served
on our Web site.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a
manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will
notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we
use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we
make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not
affect user information already stored in our database, we will post
a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In
some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who
have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the
changes in our privacy practices.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with the
PositiveChristians.com website, you can contact:
Positive Christians.com
P.O. Box 541262
Lake Worth, FL 33454-1262
Or, send us an email via the
contact
form on our site. |
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