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Terms of Use (Agreement)
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy
Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality
services with integrity in dealing with our website users and/or members.
The policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect,
use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist
you in making informed decisions when using our website and our online
service(s).
What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information,
“Active” and “Passive”. Active Information - personal information you
actively choose to disclose. Passive Information - use information collected,
in a way not visible to you, on an aggregate anonymous basis as you and
others who browse our website.
Active Information
You Choose to Provide
All
adults are encouraged to participate in viewing services the website has
to offer, however VirtUmatch does not provide
membership services for persons under the age of 21. Posting pornographic content is strictly
prohibited on the website, members caught abusing
the Terms of Use will be terminated without notification. Additionally,
submission of pornographic materials and/or submission of photographs
and/or information of persons under the age of 21 may be reported to law
or government agencies.
By becoming a VirtUmatch
member, you represent and warrant that you are over 20 years of age and
that the information you submit is current and accurate. You also warrant
that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this membership
services agreement. VirtUmatch offers an introductory Full Membership
at no cost which may require payment terms after the introductory period.
This introductory Full Membership offer may expire at any time and without
notice. VirtUmatch reserves the right to terminate any membership for
any reason.
Free Membership
In order to gain general use of the website or Contact Us through our
Contact Us form, we require you to disclose the following information:
Email Address, Gender, Birth Date, City, State, Zip Code, and Country.
If you choose to post information through our website or maintain email,
snail mail or telephone contact with us, we may retain such information
also.
Full Membership
In order to gain full use of the website (become a " full member")
we require you to disclose the following information for enrollment: Your
First and Last Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Country, Phone Number,
Gender, Birth Date, Email Address. Upon
the expiration of the introductory Full Membership period, the following
information may be required: Billing Address, Shipping Address, and Credit
Card Information. Optional information
disclosed includes: Hair Color, Eye Color, Body Type, Height, Languages
Spoken, Ethnicity, Religion, Occupation, Education, Income, Pictures,
Drinker, Smoker, and Parental Status. If you choose to post information
through our website or maintain email, snail mail or telephone contact
with us, we may retain such information also.
Full
Membership
Plans
- All prices in U.S. dollars
1 Month Membership - This type of membership will allow
you to use all the features of VirtUmatch for 1 full month. Only
$9.99/month
3 Month Membership - This type of membership will allow
you to use all the features of VirtUmatch for 3 full months. Only
$7.99/month
6 Month Membership - This type of membership will allow
you to use all the features of VirtUmatch for 6 full months. Only
$4.99/month
Profiles,
Message Boards and Chat Forums
Profiles, Message boards and Chat forums are provided to Free and Full
Membership users. Any information members provide in these areas becomes
publicly viewed information by other members. Members should exercise
caution when disclosing any personally identifying information in these
areas or direct to other members.
Passive Information
Collected
Our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies"
to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information
gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed,
time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our
site. Passive Information is collected on an aggregate basis without any
association to your personal information so that you remain anonymous.
If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself,
you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult
the "Help" section of your browser to correctly do so.
How Do We Use the
Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents
at our direction, use Active Information for
purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer
services such as support, and making available other products or services
we think may be of interest to our users. We may use the Active Information
or Passive Information you provide to us to contact you about changes
to our site, new services, features or products we offer, or other information
we think you shall find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive
such information, please follow the instructions at the bottom of our
emails to be removed from our electronic mailing list. We use Passive
Information to gather information about our users and to enhance and design
our site to make it easier, faster and friendlier to use. Additionally,
cookies help us know information about how many people visit our site,
when they visit and how they use our service. We do not connect any of
this information to your personal information or email address. However,
Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising
based on your user habits for your viewing on our site.
Use of Cookies
“Cookies” are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator,
etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used
to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's
web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that
site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's
transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move
from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies
should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
We use "cookies"
to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information
gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed,
time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our
site. Passive Information is collected on an aggregate basis without any
association to your personal information so that you remain anonymous.
If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself,
you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult
the "Help" section of your browser to correctly do so.
Other websites
We Link To
You may be able to access other websites through
our site. When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding
privacy and data collection and you should read those sites' privacy policies
to make sure you agree to them before using such sites. When you choose
to shop at such sites, you should read their privacy policies to make
sure you agree to them before making purchases. VirtUmatch will not be
held liable for any damages experienced as a result of linked websites
or the content contained therein. If you would like to report a linked
website found on our site that may be considered as promoting pornography,
nudity, violence, rasicm, or profanity, please email us at notify@virtumatch.com.
Sharing of Information
We may disclose anonymous information about user
habits, characteristics and user patterns, based on aggregate user statistics
to advertisers on our site to Advertisers or Other Third Parties. We may
be required by a law or government agency to disclose both Active and
Passive Information you have provided to us.
No Use of Our Site
by Persons Under 13
No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. You may learn
more about protecting children's privacy online by visiting http://www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
How Do We Secure
Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable
efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss
or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Your postings
on this site and other communications you may have with us via email or
snail mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures
are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose
to communicate with us through these means, you are assuming the risk
of doing so and we request that you do not send or post sensitive information
through these means.
How Can You Choose
Not to Receive Information About Products or Services By Us or to Correct,
Delete or Access Your Information?
If you desire not to receive information about products or services we
think may be of interest to you or if you wish to cancel or correct your
information, please email us at notify@virtumatch.com.
Users and/or members
who no longer wish to receive our electronic newsletter or promotional
materials from VirtUmatch.com and/or our partners may “opt-out” of receiving
these communications by following the "unsubscribe" directions
included with each email notification, electronic newsletter and/or promotional
email.
Use of the website
Overview
We have developed these guidelines (“Conditions”)
to better serve VirtUmatch.com users and/or members. These guidelines
are provided to help you identify how we operate our website and how we
utilize any personally identifiable information that we may collect from
you. These guidelines are broken down into four main areas, including:
Terms of Use (Agreement), Content Policy, Privacy Policy, and Advertising
Policy.
Use Acceptance
By use of this website, including completing the membership registration
process, you as a user and/or member agree to its Terms of Use and Conditions
set forth in these guidelines. If you do not agree to the Terms or Conditions
set forth in these guidelines, do not use the website. Continued use of
the website indicates continuing acceptance and approval of the Terms
and Conditions as defined in these guidelines.
Member Disputes
VirtUmatch reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes
between you and other members. You are solely responsible for your interactions,
posting of Content and communications with other members. Members
are bound by the terms of use of this website, violators will be
terminated without warning. VirtUmatch
encourages members to report
violators to the webmaster.
Choice/Opt-in and Opt-out
The VirtUmatch.com website by default requires users to “opt-in” for their
personal information to be used and/or to receive email notifications,
electronic newsletters and/or promotional emails.
Our website users and/or members
are provided the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their personal
information used by third parties for purposes not directly related to
our website at the point where we ask for their information. Users and/or
members of our website are always notified when their information is
being collected by any outside party. This notification is provided so
our users and/or members can make an informed decision as to whether or
not they should request services associated with an outside party.
Users and/or members who no
longer wish to receive our electronic newsletter or promotional materials
from VirtUmatch.com and/or our partners may “opt-out” of receiving these
communications by following the "unsubscribe" directions included
with each email notification, electronic newsletter and/or promotional
email.
Copyright
All elements of the VirtUmatch.com website, such as text, graphics, images
and other material including software licensed by VirtUmatch
to permit users to access the website ("Content"),
are protected by copyright, trademark, and other federal, state and foreign
laws. None of the Content may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, de-compiled,
reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into
any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any
means (electronic, mechanical, photo-reproduction, recordation or otherwise),
resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of VirtUmatch,
except limited excerpts of the data for personal use may be reproduced,
provided that each such copy contains a copyright notice as follows:
© Copyright 2001-2011. Net Services by Design, Inc. All rights reserved.
Each website user and/or member is solely responsible for compliance with
any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights and restrictions
contained within Content provided by parties other than VirtUmatch.
Users are referred to the publication data appearing in bibliographic
citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original
publications. Users may not sell or modify the Content or reproduce, display,
publicly perform, distribute or otherwise use the Content in any way for
any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Content on any other
website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
Trademarks
Point.Click.Date.®
is a registered trademark of Net Services by Design, Inc.
VirtUmatch
and its affiliates have a no-tolerance policy regarding the use of our
trademarks or names in metatags and/or hidden
text. Specifically, the use of our trademarks or names in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of
trademarks or names in page text, metatags,
and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search
engines is unfair competition. Framing, inline linking or other association
of the VirtUmatch.com website or its Materials with links, advertisements
and/or other information not originating from the VirtUmatch.com website
is expressly prohibited.
Disclaimer
VirtUmatch does not guarantee that the website
will be error-free, uninterrupted, nor that it will provide specific results
from use of the website or any content, search or link on them. The website
and its content is delivered on an "as-is"
and "as-available" basis. We utilize anti-virus and security
tools in an attempt to ensure content within our website is error-free,
however we can not fully guarantee that files you download from the website
will be free of viruses or otherwise destructive features. VirtUmatch
disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including also any implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Indemnity
We will not be liable
for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the website, including
without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive and consequential
damages. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless VirtUmatch, its affiliates,
officers, agents, employees, representatives and partners from any loss,
liability, claim or demand, including reasonable lawyer's fees resulting
from use of the service in violation of these Conditions.
Content and Advertising Policies
Content
Policy
The information contained on the VirtUmatch.com website, including but
not limited to text, images, and information obtained from VirtUmatch
licensors, advertisers and other material ("Content"), is for
informational and entertainment purposes only. This Content is never intended
to be a substitute for professional advice. Always seek the advice of
your legal counsel, state and federal agency or local law enforcement
department with concerns you may have regarding an abusive relationship.
Do not disregard professional advice or delay in seeking it because of
Content you have viewed on the VirtUmatch.com website. This site does
not nor is intended to provide professional advice.
VirtUmatch
develops its own content and uses third party content providers, we may
license outside content and in doing so will indicate and credit the source
of the Content. Credit is normally indicated under the main title of the
content, e.g. "Source: Net Services by
Design, Inc.". VirtUmatch.com adheres to editorial processes for
the review and updating of Content posted on its website. This editorial
process consists of:
• All Content
is reviewed by designated editors prior to posting on the website
• The website
Content is reviewed by designated editors a minimum of once every three
months to ensure accuracy of the information
• An editorial
committee periodically reviews the members' Content in order to ensure consistency
with the mission of the website
• Efforts are
made to ensure the members’ and non-members' content areas are free of
pornographic nature and are removed from the website. Should you find
a link to prohibited content on our website and would like to report it,
please click here to report
a link for removal.
• By posting Content to any public or member area of VirtUmatch,
you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to VirtUmatch an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,
fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute
such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate
into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize
sublicenses of the foregoing Content
Prohibited Content
The following
is a partial list of Content prohibited on the VirtUmatch website.
• Content promoting information that you know is false, misleading
or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening,
obscene, defamatory or libelous
• Content involving
the submission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing
or "spamming".
• Inclusion of
hyperlinks (URLs) in member profiles including but not limited to promoting
pornography, nudity, violence, rasicm, profanity
• Content promoting
racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group
or individual
Advertising Policy
VirtUmatch may derive some of its income from
web-based advertising through alliances, partnerships, sponsorships and/or
agreements. Advertising on the VirtUmatch website
will contain clear and conspicuous disclosures where applicable.
We reserve the right to revise this policy at our discretion. Please
check back on this site as this policy may be revised from time to time
without notice to you.
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