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Privacy Statement
Your privacy is important to us. We want you to relax
and enjoy the site, and to feel comfortable with the practices we use to
protect your personal information. This Privacy Statement covers
DatingInWashingtonDC.com's treatment of your personal information. This Statement
does not apply to the practices of companies that DatingInWashingtonDC.com does
not own or control, or to people we do not employ.
DatingInWashingtonDC.com is an online dating service that provides a pleasant,
convenient place for single adults to meet each other. We collect and use your
personal information to operate the DatingInWashingtonDC.com website and deliver
the services you have requested. DatingInWashingtonDC.com does not sell or rent
your personally identifiable information (email address, IP address, or birth
date). We do not collect your first and last name, street address, telephone
Information Collection
In order to use this website, you must be an adult at least 18 years of age (or
older if the lawful age in your state, nation, or locality, is higher than 18);
you must read and agree to the
Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement;
and you must complete a registration form. When you register with
DatingInWashingtonDC.com, you are required to provide contact information (such as
email address), unique identifiers (such as username and password), and
demographic information (such as birth date, gender, zip code, income level,
occupation, ethnicity, etc.). You also tell us something about your personal
preferences and interests. You may change your registration information by
using the Edit My Profile link on your top navigation bar or
by contacting us. You may cancel your membership at any
time by using our cancel page.
Information Use
We use information you submit to help you create a personal profile and to help
connect you with members with attributes identified by you as being important.
Your profile and optional photo are displayed on the site for public viewing
and search by other members.
Public Information
Public information you submit (such as gender, age, height, location, photo,
etc.) is displayed in your profile and is meant to be viewed by the public.
Photos and profiles must be approved by DatingInWashingtonDC.com to maintain the
quality of the site. We monitor submissions to public areas by approving photos
and profiles and reserve the right to monitor private areas if we suspect
violation of the
Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.
We reserve the right to remove, edit, delete or refuse any submission to a
public or private area of the site.
We reserve the right to post reports of scam or deception received
about those who have violated the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement or the law or misused this website or
other dating services for illegal or unethical purpose or monetary gain.
Profiles, forums, public chat, and blogs (and all public areas of the site) are public postings, publicly viewed, and may be spidered and indexed by search engines.
DatingInWashingtonDC.com is not responsible for search engine listings.
Members must protect their anonymity and not enter personal or business information in their username,
headline, narratives, forum or blog posting, chat entries, etc. which are for public viewing.
Private Information
Private information (such as email address, IP address, zip code, birth date
and time zone) is not displayed on the public areas of the site and is not
available to other members. Email addresses are used to email account
information and for internal marketing purposes. Zip codes are used to
calculate distance between members. Birth dates are used to calculate age and
zodiac sign. (Age and zodiac signs are displayed to other members.)
Information Automatically Collected
DatingInWashingtonDC.com automatically receives and records information from your
browser including your IP address, browser type and cookie information. Your IP
address is a series of numbers which identify your computer. We use it to help
maintain our site. It does not provide personally revealing information about
you.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer while you visit
our site. We use cookies to improve our site and make it easier to use. Cookies
permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same
information when you change pages on the site. We use session cookies that are
automatically deleted after each visit. Most browsers will accept cookies until
you change browser settings to refuse them.
Third Party Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you are on the
website. The companies use non-personally identifiable information about your
visits to this and other websites to provide ads about goods and services of
potential interest to you. DatingInWashingtonDC.com does not have access to or
control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers.
Non-personally identifiable demographic information may also be shared for
survey purposes.
Security
DatingInWashingtonDC.com follows reasonable technical and management practices to
protect the confidentiality of information stored on our system. Your
DatingInWashingtonDC.com account is password-protected for your privacy and
security. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure,
you must promptly change your password by clicking on the Change Password
link on the left side of your My Profile page.
User Submissions
Be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to disclose on
this site, in public on your profile or foum, public chat or blog entries, or in private through email or private chat (IM) to other
members, is done at your own risk and that it may be collected or used by
others. Caution and good sense should always be used in disclosing your
personal identity to others and in selecting the type of information that you
post on the website or release to others. DatingInWashingtonDC.com is not
responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to
disclose while on or off the website.
Jurisdiction
This website may be viewed from many locations. Nonetheless, you agree that
Connecting Singles, Inc. is a Minnesota Corporation and as such complies only
with US, Federal and Minnesota state laws.
Legal Disclaimer
DatingInWashingtonDC.com will disclose your personal information, without notice,
if required to do so by law, if necessary to protect the personal safety of
users or the public, to protect and defend the rights or property of
DatingInWashingtonDC.com, or if we find that your actions on our website violate
the DatingInWashingtonDC.com
Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.
We are not responsible for death, personal injury, pain and suffering, loss of
work or any other loss suffered by your use of this site.
General
By using the DatingInWashingtonDC.com site, you agree to this Statement and the
Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.
We may change this Statement by posting a new version on our site and a notice
of the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement in order
to be informed of how DatingInWashingtonDC.com is protecting your information. You
agree to sign a non-electronic version of this document upon our request.
If you have a privacy question about our site, please contact us. or write to us at:
ConnectingSingles.com
PO Box 10743
St. Paul, MN 55110 USA
USA
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