PersonalQuest - Privacy Policy

PersonalQuest works diligently to keep our site, located at http://www.PersonalQuest.com, secure for its members. As a matter of course, we collect information from our members in order to create their online profiles. This policy allows us to deliver a range of products and services to help those members in their searches on the site. PersonalQuest does not sell any information to third parties, and any data that is shared is purely to enhance the site experience for all involved. PersonalQuest will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those described in this policy.

Please take a moment to read our detailed Privacy Policy below. Protecting our members and keeping their personal information private is of paramount importance to us.

PersonalQuest may use third-party companies to provide various services (including but not limited to instant messaging and advertising) when you use this website. If you use those services, the internet protocol address (IP address) of the computer you are using to access the website may be disclosed to those third-party companies, and we may use attributes (including but not limited to age and gender) that you provide in your public profile to display relevant ads to you. PersonalQuest is not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party companies or any other external websites linked to this site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these other websites when you leave our website.

This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the PersonalQuest Terms Of Use Agreement.

If we change our privacy policy, we will notify you either by email or by posting a revised version of this privacy policy on our website. If you have any questions with respect to our policies concerning the handling of your personal information, or if you wish to request access to, or correction of, your personal information under our care and control, please contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies to the PersonalQuest website.

1) Information We Collect

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that we may feature members' profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to time to our members. Your name, address and telephone number are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other members to view. Members' profiles include a description and photos, likes and dislikes, individual essays and other information helpful in determining personal compatibility. Your viewable profile does not include any identifying information about you, except the username you choose upon registering and any other information or photographs you submit for inclusion in your profile.

Please note that your personally identifiable information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may differ from the laws of other jurisdictions but, as we explain below, PersonalQuest will hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.

We automatically track certain information and collect data based upon your behavior on our Website using "cookies" and other devices. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. Cookies also make it possible to log on more quickly so that you can access new contacts more efficiently.

We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie" but you are always free to decline our "cookies" if your browser permits. "Cookies" can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. We use this information for internal research on our members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include, without limitation, which URL you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and what your IP address is.

We may use a third party advertising company to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Website. This is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device, commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an action tag, which we place on various Web pages within our Website or in an html e-mail that allows the third party advertising company to collect anonymous information. The third party advertising company may use information about your visits to our Website to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you.

2) A Special Note About Minors

Minors 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.

3) Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration including, among other things, your password and email address. You can also change your registration information such as: name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays, search criteria and other information.

Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership, contact information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our suspension policy, applicable Terms Of Use, and applicable law.

We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms Of Use. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Please note that we provide privacy keys for certain questions. The purpose of these keys is to allow you to be truthful in an area of importance to you, but to hide the answer from public view. We use the answers to these items for background searches, to allow you to "be yourself" with the recognition that your honest answer to these questions are not ones you want exposed to public view.

Please use these privacy keys whenever indicated. The more questions you answer, either with or without privacy keys, the better your matches will be.

4) Our Use of Your Information

In addition, we use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Website, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms Of Use. At times, we may look across multiple member profiles or activities to identify problems or resolve disputes and, in particular, we may examine your information to identify members with multiple profiles or aliases.

You also agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Website usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Website's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our Website and better tailor them to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that may be targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Website.

In order for us to continue to offer a free user experience, we reserve the right to contact you directly via the email address you have furnished with special offers we believe would be of special interest to you. We have the right to terminate service to you in the event that you do not access such messages from time to time, or change or invalidate your email address. Our ability to contact you with the email address you have provided is an important part of our service model.

By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications by visiting the membership services section of our Website or send us an email at Contact Us.

5) Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your PersonalQuest password or login information to any third parties. If you choose to share this information with third parties, you are fully responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password and therefore should review each third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

6) Our Disclosure of Your Information

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example, but without limiting the foregoing, we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies or third parties. Under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Website. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, unless we otherwise notify you, and receive your permission, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed under this Privacy Policy without additional notice to you.

7) Advertisers

We aggregate (gather data across our members' accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. In these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number and bank account number, are never disclosed to marketing advertisers without your permission. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ "cookies" and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via "cookies" and action tags is anonymous.

8) Your Financial Information

Under some circumstances we may require some additional information, such as, but not limited to, credit card details (including your name, address, and other information). We use your financial information to check your qualifications (such as age appropriateness), to bill you for services and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information on the Website, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine 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, without limitation, the 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 of third parties offered on the Website, or by participating in programs offered on the Website that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of these various third parties may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. 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 that you submit to us.

9) Service Providers

There may be a number of services offered by external service providers that help you use our Website. If you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their private policies.

10) Other Potential Recipients

We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our parent, subsidiaries and/or affiliates that are committed to serving your online needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other members. Our parent, subsidiaries and/or affiliates will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that PersonalQuest and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that PersonalQuest would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service.

11) Co-Branding

In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as "Co-Branded Companies." If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies 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 Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may use "cookies" or may contain an action tag that a third party may use to read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other web sites before your visit to the Site. Further, such third parties may use the information collected through this technology to learn more about your visits to this Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. When we disclose your financial information or personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members.

12) Government And Other Legal Requests

PersonalQuest cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can, and you authorize us to, disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability. PersonalQuest complies with the Can-Spam Act of April, 2004 (the "Act"). To access information on the Act, please go to www.ftc.gov.

13) Usage Of Other Members' Information

Our services also include access to instant messaging, chat rooms, message boards, and other modes of communication. As a member you have access to the Members' profiles, and you might gain access to other contact information of Members through the use of instant messaging, chat rooms, message boards, and other modes of communication. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally identifiable information that you obtain through your use of the Website, you may only use such information for: (a) PersonalQuest related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. PersonalQuest and our Members do not tolerate Spamming. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add PersonalQuest Members to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report Spamming from other PersonalQuest Members, please contact us.

14) Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are on our Website or on other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since PersonalQuest does not control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are subject to those policies and should ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

15) Termination of Access to Service

We may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity, or that may otherwise affect the enjoyment of the Service or the Internet by others may be grounds for termination of your access to all or part of the Service at our sole discretion, and you may be referred to appropriate law enforcement agencies.

16) Proprietary Information

The Service contains information which is proprietary to us, our partners, and our users. We assert full copyright protection in the Service not only for the content and organization of our website, but to the information you choose to provide as part of your profile or search patterns. It is not permitted for third parties to access our site to obtain information we have obtained from you thru our site. Information posted by us, our partners or users of the Service may be protected whether or not it is identified as proprietary to us or to them. You agree not to modify, copy or distribute any such information in any manner whatsoever without having first received the express written permission of the owner of such information.

17) Security

Your account is private and should not be used by anyone other than you. You are responsible for all usage or activity on the Service by users using your password, including but not limited to use of your password by any third-party. PersonalQuest uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers ("SSL"). PersonalQuest treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by those inside and outside the company. However, absolute security does not exist on the Internet, and PersonalQuest is making no such representations.

18) No Responsibility

You acknowledge that we are not responsible for suspension of the Service, regardless of the cause of the interruption or suspension.

19) External Links

The Service may from time to time contain links to other Internet sites and resources ("External Links"). You acknowledge that we are not responsible for, and have no liability as a result of the availability of External Links or their contents. We suggest that you review the terms of use and privacy statements of such External Links prior to using them.

20) Notice

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices, which may also change from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER FOR THE SERVICE. THE PRIVACY POLICY IS SUBJECT TO CHANGES MADE BY US, AT ANY TIME, EFFECTIVE UPON NOTICE TO YOU, WHICH NOTICE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN PROVIDED UPON OUR POSTING OF THE CURRENT VERSION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON OUR WEBSITE.

21) Content and Accuracy.

Note that PersonalQuest does not review the information submitted by our users, and therefore we cannot guarantee or validate the accuracy of any personal information submitted by others thru out site. Please exercise prudence in meeting others.

PersonalQuest does offer the ability to use the latest technology to communicate by voice, either saved and stored messages, or online virtual meetings. We encourage you to use these resources prior to a physical meeting in order to discover more about your potential date than would be available thru email alone.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this Privacy Policy.

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