We at
KoreanFriendSeach.com ("KoreanFriendSeach.com") have
created this Privacy
Policy for the protection of its Members. This policy outlines
the policy purpose, audience and parameters in which personal
privacy is protected. This Privacy Policy
only applies to transactions and activities within the online
services in which Members subscribe. Online services to be
all inclusive of the following elements:
·
KoreanFriendSeach Website,
KoreanFriendSeach.com Network Partner sites created at
www.AllDatingNetwork.com (collectively, the "Site") but does not
apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between
KoreanFriendSeach.com or any other company, and consumers.
We reserve the
right to modify this Privacy Policy
periodically. This Privacy Policy was
last revised on March 31, 2004. Each time you visit the
internet site, use the online services or provide us with
information, you are accepting the practices described in this
Privacy Policy at
that time.
YOUR IP
ADDRESS
Like most
e-commerce internet sites, each time you visit the site,
KoreanFriendSeach.com captures and stores origination
information. In
order to administer and optimize the site and perform
diagnostics with the site, KoreanFriendSeach.com uses
origination IP addresses. Origination data is
also used to manage demographic data.
COOKIES
Similar to
other internet sites, this site uses cookies to keep track of
purchases and other online transactions on this site and to
enhance user experience for online transactions. Cookies are also used
to deliver content specific of user interests, save and store
passwords, and cookies can store personal and financial
information so to prevent multiple entries containing the same
data. Third party
advertisers on the internet site may also place or read
cookies on the user’s browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "Help" portion of
the toolbar on most browsers will instruct the user to modify
settings. However, browser
modifications may inhibit access to links and other online
services.
COLLECTED
INFORMATION
In
customizing online services to meet user and Member demands,
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
submitted or collected that is neither personal information
nor financial information; this may include, but is not
limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, marital status,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, username, age/birth
date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration
history information, and the content of communications between
individual Members 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 Members and other users
of the Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of
all other demographic information. Personal information or
financial information should not be entered into the user
“Profile” (for example, do not use your address or pass code
as your username, or include your name or address in written
responses). If
this info is used, that information may likely be considered
"demographic information" that is "public information." Please note that
nowhere on the internet site, we knowingly collect personal
information from children under the age of eighteen (18), as
we require that all users represent to us that they are at
least 18 years old.
OTHER
SOURCES
In addition, KoreanFriendSeach.com might receive
information about you from outside sources and add it to your
KoreanFriendSeach.com membership information. We do this to improve
personalization of our services (for example, providing better
web and newsletter content, advertising or special offers that
we think will interest you).
INFORMATION COLLECTED
FROM OTHER INTERNET SITES
On the
KoreanFriendSeach.com site, links to other internet sites
are operated by other companies. Some of these sites
contain KoreanFriendSeach.com brand names, trademarks, and
other intellectual property that KoreanFriendSeach.com owns.
When users click
on additional hyperlinks and visit these other sites,
regardless of whether or not they contain
KoreanFriendSeach.com brand names, trademarks, and other
intellectual property, users need to be aware that
KoreanFriendSeach.com does not control other website
management and business practices. This Privacy Policy
does not apply to internet site companies. Consequently, the
operators of these other internet sites may store and forward
information about users and may disclose personal
information.
KoreanFriendSeach.com encourages users to review all
Privacy Policies
for all hyperlinks used and accept the parameters of the
KoreanFriendSeach.com Privacy
Policy.
This Policy does not
cover activity on other internet sites.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION USE FOR KOREANFRIENDSEARCH.COM
MEMBERS
KoreanFriendSeach.com uses
email addresses and other personal information to help
efficiently operate the site and the online services. Specifically,
addresses are needed to maintain a connection with the user
and ensure transactions and other activities on the site
(including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or
important news that could affect your relationship with
KoreanFriendSeach.com) are properly administered. Forward messages are
also transmitted to ensure adequate communication with other
KoreanFriendSeach.com users. This type of
communication is known as "Operational
Communications." In some cases, Operational
Communications may also contain commercial messages,
banner ads and special offers.
Personal
information is also needed to send newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials for
KoreanFriendSeach.com’s or third parties’ goods or online
services. Caution
is exercised to ensure online offers are of value to
users. For
example, discounts, exclusive offers or special event
information is considered valuable to users. The site provides
Members with options to decline to receive communications from
KoreanFriendSeach.com (other than those contained in Operational
Communications). These options may only
be for a certain category of communications and others may be
more general. By
posting a profile on the internet site, Members are opting in
to receive the KoreanFriendSeach.com by information via
email. To stop
receiving KoreanFriendSeach.com by email, go to your Account
Settings and change Email Communications
Preferences.
In
operating the site, including processing transactions and
online activities on the site, KoreanFriendSeach.com may
share Member personal information with extended partners. Namely, these partners
are associates, agents, representatives, contractors and
service providers. This information
exchange is required to provide support services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, email origination,
receipt or support services, customer relationship, management
services, order fulfillment, sweepstakes and promotional
fulfillment. These extended partners
have been instructed not to use Member personal information
for any other purpose.
By
purchasing, registering or making reservations for products or
services offered or sponsored by extended partners 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 extended partners
through online services, Members are consenting to submission
of personal information to those extended partners. Extended partners may
use Member personal information as stated within each
respective partner Privacy Policy.
Without specific
instructions otherwise, these extended partners will continue
to operate within their privacy guidelines. Additionally, Members
agree that KoreanFriendSeach.com may use and disclose all
such information as it is submitted to extended partners in
the same manner in which KoreanFriendSeach.com is entitled
to use and disclose any other information Members voluntarily
submit.
In some
cases, KoreanFriendSeach.com may enter into a promotional
relationship with another company in which
KoreanFriendSeach.com prominently displays brand names or
trademarks on pages of the internet site. These pages are known
as "Co-Branded Pages"
and these companies are known as “Co-Branded
Companies.” If the page on which
Members submit information is a Co-Branded Page,
or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page,
personal information may be transmitted to the associated Co-Branded
Company. Co-Branded
Companies are authorized to use membership information
in accordance with respective internal Privacy Policies.
Members need to
contact Co-Branded
Companies directly regarding personal preferences
relating to transmitting personal information within online
transactions. Additionally, Members
agree that KoreanFriendSeach.com may use and disclose all
such information as electronically submitted to such Co-Branded
Companies in the same manner in which
KoreanFriendSeach.com is entitled to use and disclose any
other membership information submitted electronically. Some Co-Branded Pages
may contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1
pixel .gif file) that an extended partner may use to read
cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on Member
browsers at other (non- KoreanFriendSeach.com) internet
sites. This
technology is used to measure the effectiveness of
advertisements on internet sites that promote Co-Branded Pages.
Furthermore,
extended partners may use the information collected through
this technology to learn more about visits to this internet
site and other sites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to respective Members. KoreanFriendSeach.com
has been informed by some extended partners membership
information is used unless otherwise notified. Extended partners do
not use the Member 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 Members. However, as a separate
entity from extended partners, Members need to pursue
validation of Privacy Policies
for extended partners.
Likewise, Members will not hold KoreanFriendSeach.com
accountable for the accuracy of the above statement. If Members would like
extended partners to provide more information about their
policy practices, please contact them
directly.
Any extended party with
whom KoreanFriendSeach.com is allowed
to share Member personal
information is authorized to use Member personal information
in accordance with contractual arrangements with extended
partners and in accordance with their own Privacy
Policies.
Moreover, KoreanFriendSeach.com has no control of
this usage and all Members agree that KoreanFriendSeach.com
is not responsible or liable for any of extended partner
actions or omissions. Members contacted will
need to be instructed directly by Members regarding personal
preferences for the use of Member personal information by
extended partners.
Please
read the information below under the heading "Special Circumstances for
the Provision of Personal and Financial
Information”
to learn more ways in which we may share your personal
information.
FINALCIAL
INFORMATION USAGE
KoreanFriendSeach.com uses
financial information to check Member qualifications, bill for
products and services and to enable Members to participate in
discounts, rebates and similar programs in which Members may
elect to participate. By making a purchase or
engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that
uses financial information on the internet site, Members
consent to the provision of KoreanFriendSeach.com
transmitting Member financial information to extended partners
and service providers as KoreanFriendSeach.com deems
necessary to support and process online activities,
transactions, and meet credit card issuer requirements. These extended partners
may include credit card companies and banking institutions
used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing,
registering or making reservations for products or services
from extended partners offered on the site, or by
participating in programs offered on the internet site that
are administered by extended parties that require you to
submit financial information in order to obtain services is
authorized by Members.
Members all consent to KoreanFriendSeach.com sharing
Member financial information to extended partners. Additionally, if the
page on which information was submitted is a Co-Branded Page or
was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page,
then Member financial information may be shared with the
associated Co-Branded
Company. Any of these various
extended partners (including Co-Branded
Companies) may be authorized to use Member financial
information in accordance with contractual arrangements with
extended partners and in accordance with respective Privacy
Policies.
KoreanFriendSeach.com has no control over extended
parties and all Members fully agree that
KoreanFriendSeach.com is not responsible or liable for any
of extended partner actions or omissions. Additionally, all
Members agree that KoreanFriendSeach.com may use and
disclose all such information as submitted to such extended
partners in the same manner in which KoreanFriendSeach.com
is entitled to use and disclose any other information
submitted. Please
read the information below under the heading "Special Circumstances for
the Provision of Personal and Financial Information"
to learn more ways in which we may share your financial
information.
SPECIAL
CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE PROVISOIN OF PERSONAL AND FINALCIAL
INFORMATION
Member
personal information or financial information may be passed on
to a extended partner in the event of a transfer of ownership,
assets or a bankruptcy proceeding. KoreanFriendSeach.com
may also disclose personal information or financial
information for instances requiring disclosure for compliance
with applicable laws and to cooperate with law enforcement
and/or to protect the interests or safety of
KoreanFriendSeach.com or other visitors to the internet
site.
KoreanFriendSeach.com may also disclose personal
information or financial information to subsidiaries, parent
companies or businesses, and other affiliated legal entities
in which KoreanFriendSeach.com are under common corporate
control. Whenever
Member personal information or financial information is
disclosed under this paragraph, KoreanFriendSeach.com may
also disclose Member demographic information on a
non-anonymous basis. All parent, subsidiary
and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from KoreanFriendSeach.com will
comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy
with respect to use and disclosure of such information may
also disclose personal information or financial information
for instances requiring disclosure for compliance with
applicable laws and to cooperate with law enforcement and/or
to protect the interests or safety of KoreanFriendSeach.com
or other visitors to the internet site.
KoreanFriendSeach.com may also disclose personal
information or financial information to subsidiaries, parent
companies or businesses, and other affiliated legal entities
in which KoreanFriendSeach.com are under common corporate
control. Whenever
Member personal information or financial information is
disclosed under this paragraph, KoreanFriendSeach.com may
also disclose Member demographic information on a
non-anonymous basis. All parent, subsidiary
and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from KoreanFriendSeach.com will
comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy
with respect to use and disclosure of such
information.
PUBLIC
INFORMATION AND OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
USAGE
Demographic
information may be reviewed at length.
KoreanFriendSeach.com may use public information to
enable other users to locate Member profile information to
determine potential business opportunities.
KoreanFriendSeach.com may use demographic information
to customize the internet site and communications to
specifically targeted, at known Member interests. KoreanFriendSeach.com
may also share demographic information with advertisers on an
anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the
advertisers Member identity). The professional
intentions are to increase the likelihood that our
advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to
KoreanFriendSeach.com’s users. Similarly,
KoreanFriendSeach.com may target specific ads at specific
demographic groups. Sharing demographic
information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., advertisers
are informed of which particular KoreanFriendSeach.com users
are Members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest
of this Privacy Policy.
When Members
respond to an advertisement, however, KoreanFriendSeach.com
asks you to remember ads targeted to a demographic group and
you decide to give the advertiser personal information,
advertisers may be able to identify subscribers as being a
Member of a demographic group. Please also be aware
that when KoreanFriendSeach.com discloses financial
information or personal information to a Co-Branded
Company, as described above, KoreanFriendSeach.com
may also disclose demographic information to the Co-Branded
Company.
Information beyond the content of one-on-one
communications between Members via the online services may
also be disclosed. Please also be aware
that KoreanFriendSeach.com may disclose Member demographic
information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the
paragraph titled "Special Circumstances for
the Provision of Personal and Financial Information."
Additionally, to
read further details about how we may use Member public
information, see our Terms of Use
SECURITY
PRECAUTIONS
The
internet site has security measures in place to protect
against loss, misuse and alteration of the information under
KoreanFriendSeach.com control. Our secure server
software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best
software available today for secure commerce transactions.
Encryption is
applied to all personal and financial information during
transmission across the internet. Member financial
information is stored on reliable 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. The country or
jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may
not have privacy laws as protective as the laws other
countries or jurisdictions.
REPORTS
KoreanFriendSeach.com periodically prepare
analyses and reports reflecting visitor and member use of the
KoreanFriendSeach.com Web Site and KoreanFriendSeach.com Service for our
internal use as well as for a limited number of our business
partners. These reports include aggregate (non-personal)
information about KoreanFriendSeach.com members, and in certain
instances, visitors to the KoreanFriendSeach.com Web Site. The
information in these reports will not identify you
individually. Our business partners who have access to these
reports will not be able to contact you from the information
contained in the reports.
REFERRAL
PROGRAM
As part of our referral program, you can
provide contact information (such as the name and e-mail
address) of your friends and family whom you think would like
to receive KoreanFriendSeach.com e-mails and use the
KoreanFriendSeach.com Service. All information
provided by you concerning your referrals is handled in
accordance with this policy.
AGENTS
KoreanFriendSeach.com may employ other companies
and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf.
Examples include sending direct and electronic mail, removing
duplicate information from customer lists, analyzing data, and
providing marketing analysis. These agents have access to
member personal information as needed to perform their
functions for KoreanFriendSeach.com, but we do not permit them to
use it for other purposes.
PRIVACY
POLICY FOR PREVIOUSLY GATHERED INFORMATINO CHANGE
MANAGEMENT
Without
warning, KoreanFriendSeach.com may decide to use particular
personally identifiable information in a manner different from
statements at the time it was collected.
KoreanFriendSeach.com will notify users by way of an
email or by providing 30 days notice on the internet site.
Please note that
KoreanFriendSeach.com will continue to have the right to
change Privacy Policies
and practices. KoreanFriendSeach.com
may also change the use of personally identifiable information
without notice. As described in the
first paragraph of this Privacy Policy,
personal information provided is subject to changes only
applicable to information gathered on or after the date of the
change.
ACCESSING
AND UPDATING EMAIL PREFERENCES, PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND
PUBLIC INFORMATION
KoreanFriendSeach.com provides
the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications, modify
personal information or demographic information provided to
KoreanFriendSeach.com.
Removing demographic information from or make
demographic information visible to the public users of the
site can be administered at anytime by going to the Account
Settings or My
Profile section of the internet site. Please be aware that it
may take several hours for the changes to take effect on the
public areas of the internet site. KoreanFriendSeach.com
expresses appreciation for Member patience. Please note that
changing or deleting personal information through the "Account Settings"
or "My Profile"
section of the site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of
email communications from KoreanFriendSeach.com, will only
change or delete the data in company database for purposes of
future activities on the site and for managing future
communications from KoreanFriendSeach.com. These changes and
deletions will not change or delete emails or information
already captured or forwarded to other users or credit card
companies or any other extended partners. All statements, here
within, provided above in this Privacy Policy are
included.
If Members
have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy,
the practices of the site, or dealings with the site, please
contact us by using our customer support form.