We have drafted this policy statement because we believe privacy is one of the most important features of our service.  It is important for us to not only provide the highest levels of privacy available, but also to insure that our members understand how we will protect their privacy.

Each time that you visit our site you are agreeing to all of the terms and information contained in the statement as it reads at the time you visit the site.

This policy statement only applies to electronic transactions, communications, and data gathered through BridgingSingles.com.  This does not include any offline point of contact with any other company and members or consumers and any transaction arising out of or related to such contact.

This statement may be modified at anytime without notice.  As such, we recommend that our members review this statement periodically to check for
updates.

Your IP Address

Each time you visit the Site, we collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we  also use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.  We will take all reasonable precautions in insuring that this information remains private.

Cookies

The Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and 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 reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser.

Information We Collect From You

In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect information that could be used to contact you directly such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address, credit card numbers or passwords or zip code, postal code, 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. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial information into your profile, because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will then be treated as demographic information that is public information.  We will take all reasonable precautions in insuring that this information remains private. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Site and to forward messages to you from other BridgingSingles.com users. These types of communications, are known as Operational Communications. Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.

We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for BridgingSingles.com or third parties’ goods or services. We send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information.

How We Use Financial Information

We use your financial information to check your qualifications, 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. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers 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 the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or 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 require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties.

Our Security Precautions

The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial information on our 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, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective.