This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for ProfessionalSingles.com.

ProfessionalSingles.com has created this privacy statement in order to show that we are firmly committed to protecting your personal privacy and advising you about how we handle it. This privacy statement only applies to data gathered on this website, www.ProfessionalSingles.com, and does not apply to any other web site.

Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us.

Overview
As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Statement describes the information we collect about you and how we handle that information.

By accepting this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the ProfessionalSingles, Inc. Terms of Use.

The privacy practices of this statement apply to the ProfessionalSingles.com web site (the 'Site').

Information we collect
ProfessionalSingles.com collects information from our users at several different points on our website, and is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

ProfessionalSingles.com registration form asks users to provide "personal contact information" that could be used to contact users directly. This "personal contact information" includes but is not limited to, full name, postal address, phone number or email address, "financial information" such as credit card numbers, or "demographic information" that is neither personal or financial information; this includes but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, state, gender, and age/birth date. We may also collect browsing history information, searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications between you and other members over the Site.

We ask that you do not enter personal or financial information into your "Profile" (for example, don't use your address as your username, or include your name or address in your "About Me" section), because then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will then be treated as 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 sites collect
ProfessionalSingles.com contains links to other sites. Please be aware that ProfessionalSingles.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other 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 directly by ProfessionalSingles.com.

How we use Your 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 are relevant to your relationship with ProfessionalSingles.com), and to alert you that you have messages from other ProfessionalSingles.com users in your private mail box.

We may also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers, and other promotional materials for ProfessionalSingles.com's 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. ProfessionalSingles.com provides you with options to decline to receive promotional communications.

To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your information with our service providers so they can provide us with services such as authorization of credit card transactions, support services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these parties to agree not to use your information for any other purpose.

By purchasing products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive products or communications or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other 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.

We use your financial information to bill you for products and services. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the Site, you agree to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we consider are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. By purchasing, or registering 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 agree to our providing your financial information to those third parties.

Your personal or financial information may be furnished 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 ProfessionalSingles.com or other visitors to the Site.

We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We use a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services, and we use an outside shipping company to fulfill and ship orders. These companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes and are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

IP Address
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Use of Cookies
Akin to most websites, ProfessionalSingles.com uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other action on the Site and augment your experience on the Site. 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. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. 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 the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site.

Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information to eliminate your having to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. Please note that third party advertisers on the ProfessionalSingles.com Site may send cookies to users of the site and ProfessionalSingles.com does not control or have access to this information.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time ProfessionalSingles.com 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, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Got Friends
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. ProfessionalSingles.com will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to visit the site. The friend may contact ProfessionalSingles.com at: customerservice@ProfessionalSingles.com to request the removal of this information from the database.

Security
ProfessionalSingles.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, the information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as personally identifiable information, credit card number, etc.), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. We store personally identifiable information on servers that are kept in a secure environment, on a tier 1 global Internet service providing the highest of security levels.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. ProfessionalSingles.com employees will ask questions to verify your identity, but will never ask you for your credit card/social security numbers. Our employees must use password-protected screens when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and whey they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to: security@ProfessionalSingles.com

Supplementation of Information
In order for ProfessionalSingles.com to enhance its ability to tailor the site to an individual's preference, we combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar information from our partners to create a personalized user profile. When a user makes a purchase from either of these two companies, the companies collect and share that purchase information with us so we can tailor the site to our users' preferences.

Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done at the member home page.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by selecting their preferences in the 'mail options' section of their home page.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use 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. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.