World Wide Mates Privacy Policy

We at World Wide Mates Inc. have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. The protection of your privacy being very important, we have adopted the following practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. We will notify all registered users via email of any material change to this Privacy Policy, unless you have opted-out of receiving email from us. From time to time, changes to this Privacy Policy will also be communicated on this site.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practice for this web site:

Your IP Address

We use IP addresses to analyze trend, administer the site, monitor spammers and gather broad demographic for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Each time you visit the site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came, in order to identify you, optimize the site for you and to diagnose problems within our site.

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. Like on most web sites, we use Cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the site in order to 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. Cookies are placed on the registration and login pages.

If a user rejects the Cookie, or if you have your browser set to "Disable Cookies", you may not be able to access certain areas of the site.

Some of our Business Partners use Cookies on our site (for example our merchant account provider) however, we have no access to or control over these Cookies.

Information we Collect from you and it's Use

World Wide Mates Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We collect information from our users at several different points on our site such as registration forms, Membership purchase and product and services purchases. We do not sell, share or rent this information in any way other than what is disclosed in this statement.

In order to operate this site, a user must first complete the registration form. During the registration process a user is required to give their contact information such as your name, email address, age, gender, postal address, phone number, "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords in order to purchase membership or products and services) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but not limited to, postal/zip codes, 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). Please note that nowhere on the site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 or 21 in some jurisdictions, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 or 21 years of age.

Information collected is used to contact the user about their Membership, send cupid matches, or to contact users about services on our site for which they have expressed interest. Users have the choice of either receiving cupid matches in their World Wide Mates mailbox, their registered email address or may request not to receive date emails. We also use your personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for Worldwidemates.com's or third parties' goods and services. By posting a profile on the site you are opting-in to receiving these emails from Worldwidemates.com. To opt-out from receiving these emails, you may change your "email options" in your account settings section of the user's control panel.

In order to operate the site, including processing your transactions and your activities on the site, we may share your personal information with third parties, agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so that 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, sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. By purchasing, 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 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.

How we Use Financial Information

We use your financial information for validation and to check your qualifications in order 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. When purchasing Membership, credits or other products and services or engaging in any other activity or transactions that use financial information, on the site, you consent to our providing you financial information to our service providers (i.e. credit card processors) 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 your transaction or activity. By purchasing, registering or making reservations for, products and 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 you require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties.

Information that is gathered by the credit card processing company is gathered under secure servers and is not shared by anyone other than the credit card processing company.

Special Circumstances in which we Share Personal and Financial Information

Your personal or financial information may be passed on in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal 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 Worldwidemates.com or other visitors to the site. We may also disclose your personal or financial information to our subsidiary, parent companies and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal 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 business that receive your personal, financial 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.

Security Precautions

This web site has Security measures in place against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control and we take every precaution necessary to protect our users' information when users submit sensitive information via the web site. Your information is protected both online and offline.

Our secure server software is the industry standard. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked or open, when you are just "surfing".

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information offline. 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 certain tasks (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. Once they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. 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 these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.

Links

The web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that World Wide Mates Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We strongly 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 Policy applies solely to information collected on this web site

Chat Rooms, Message Boards and Public Forums

Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online for example on message boards, through email or in chat areas - please keep in mind that that information can be collected and used by others. By posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. World Wide Mates does not disclose any of our Members' personal information to the forum.

Legal Disclaimer

We will disclose personal information about our Members if and when is required by law where in 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

Contacting us for Privacy Issues Only

Attn: Privacy Officer

Email: privacy@worldwidemates.com

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, the practices of the World Wide Mates web site system, or your dealing with us, you may contact a representative of our company by email at: csr@worldwidemates.com or by Clicking Here