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Privacy Policy
We, at Friendsviewer.com, take your privacy very seriously and abide by the following policy to ensure your satisfaction. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to write to us.
Friendsviewer respects the privacy of the visitors to its Sites. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Friendsviewer Terms of Service and which incorporate this Privacy Policy by reference.
"Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, email address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
"Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons. We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy. ?Your Personal Information may be processed by Friendsviewer in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States of America) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
General
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Sites.
When you register for the Friendsviewer network, we will collect your name, email address, your gender, date of birth, address and ZIP code.
When you save other Personal Information in your profile we will collect any such information you enter.
When you contact us by sending us an email, we will collect your email addresses and any information contained in the email you send us.
Once you register with Friendsviewer and sign in to our Services, you are not anonymous to us. If you are browsing the Sites without registering with Friendsviewer, you are anonymous to us, but we will collect the information listed below under Personal Information Collected Via Technology. If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. Your friend may contact us at info@friendsviewer.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Use of information
Any visitor of the Sites can view your profile information and photos that you have uploaded to the Friendsviewer community. You can control what part of your profile information and photos is visible to visitors of the Sites and which network of Friendsviewer members can see what information.
To provide you with some of the features that the Friendsviewer community offers to its members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile after you have requested such features, for example to send invitation emails to people that you specified as being interested in joining the Friendsviewer community. In order to provide useful information about social networks to people who might be interested in joining the Friendsviewer community, we may use your profile information and photos on the Sites and when we send emails, for example when we send birthday reminders to Friendsviewer members or when we send general newsletters to members of the Friendsviewer community. When you decide to view a Member's profile, we may show that Friendsviewer Member that you chose to view their profile. If you don't want us to show to other Friendsviewer members that you viewed their profile, you can change this in your privacy settings. When you provide us with your telephone number, we may use the telephone number to send you the communications that you have requested to receive. If you decide to use certain features of the Friendsviewer network (like journals, testimonials, groups, message boards, locations, and the like), some of the Personal Information you entered into your Friendsviewer profile and any information, including Personal Information, that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed.
Friendsviewer members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like location or gender. The Personal Information that Friendsviewer members enter into the Friendsviewer profile will be used for these searches. Please note that if you choose to show your location, as provided by you or by the Carrier of the mobile device you are using, the information that is provided to the Services by the Carrier about your location will be used within your Member profile and can be viewed and searched by other Members and visitors of the Sites.Please be aware that any information that is publicly posted throughout the Friendsviewer network can be accessed by every visitor of the Sites.
Friendsviewer may analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes. In addition, Friendsviewer may remove personally identifying information from collected information to render it anonymous. Friendsviewer may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Friendsviewer does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with Friendsviewer under confidentiality agreements to provide some of the services and features of the Friendsviewer community and to help us communicate with Friendsviewer Members. These service providers may use your personal information to communicate with you about offers and services from Friendsviewer and our marketing partners. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information.
If you decide to use one of the additional services that are offered by our partners, we may forward Personal Information to these partners to enable them to provide the services that you requested.
We also provide information to third-party advertising companies, as described in the next section.
Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours.
If you would like to know (1) the categories of Personal Information about you that we disclosed in the prior calendar year to third parties for the purposes of the third parties’ marketing and/or (2) the names and addresses of such third parties, please contact us.
We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of Friendsviewer's terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our Sites. These companies may use Personal Information, such as gender or age, and other information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to the Sites and other websites, such as time of day of the login, IP address or information about the internet service provider (ISP) or mobile device Carrier, in order to provide advertisements on the Sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
* Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
* Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
* Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Friendsviewer Newsletter, that are considered part of your Friendsviewer account. If you would like to opt out of certain messages, log into Friendsviewer and go to your edit your account by clicking the profile link. On that page you can edit your photo, personal information and password. If you would like to delete your account, log into Friendsviewer, go to your account settings page by clicking the account link. On that page, you will see a link to delete your account.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and third parties who we reasonably believe need access to that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you and your Friendsviewer account information is protected by a password that you select.
Regarding Children We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of 18.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Friendsviewer may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Friendsviewer account or by placing a prominent notice on our Sites. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using our Sites. Continued use of our Sites following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
Friendsviewer Privacy Policy
Friendsviewer offers an online place to meet friends. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of Friendsviewer's policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any Personal Information you submit to us through our Sites.Friendsviewer respects the privacy of the visitors to its Sites. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Friendsviewer Terms of Service and which incorporate this Privacy Policy by reference.
"Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, email address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
"Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons. We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy. ?Your Personal Information may be processed by Friendsviewer in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States of America) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
General
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Sites.
When you register for the Friendsviewer network, we will collect your name, email address, your gender, date of birth, address and ZIP code.
When you save other Personal Information in your profile we will collect any such information you enter.
When you contact us by sending us an email, we will collect your email addresses and any information contained in the email you send us.
Once you register with Friendsviewer and sign in to our Services, you are not anonymous to us. If you are browsing the Sites without registering with Friendsviewer, you are anonymous to us, but we will collect the information listed below under Personal Information Collected Via Technology. If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. Your friend may contact us at info@friendsviewer.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Use of information
Any visitor of the Sites can view your profile information and photos that you have uploaded to the Friendsviewer community. You can control what part of your profile information and photos is visible to visitors of the Sites and which network of Friendsviewer members can see what information.
To provide you with some of the features that the Friendsviewer community offers to its members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile after you have requested such features, for example to send invitation emails to people that you specified as being interested in joining the Friendsviewer community. In order to provide useful information about social networks to people who might be interested in joining the Friendsviewer community, we may use your profile information and photos on the Sites and when we send emails, for example when we send birthday reminders to Friendsviewer members or when we send general newsletters to members of the Friendsviewer community. When you decide to view a Member's profile, we may show that Friendsviewer Member that you chose to view their profile. If you don't want us to show to other Friendsviewer members that you viewed their profile, you can change this in your privacy settings. When you provide us with your telephone number, we may use the telephone number to send you the communications that you have requested to receive. If you decide to use certain features of the Friendsviewer network (like journals, testimonials, groups, message boards, locations, and the like), some of the Personal Information you entered into your Friendsviewer profile and any information, including Personal Information, that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed.
Friendsviewer members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like location or gender. The Personal Information that Friendsviewer members enter into the Friendsviewer profile will be used for these searches. Please note that if you choose to show your location, as provided by you or by the Carrier of the mobile device you are using, the information that is provided to the Services by the Carrier about your location will be used within your Member profile and can be viewed and searched by other Members and visitors of the Sites.Please be aware that any information that is publicly posted throughout the Friendsviewer network can be accessed by every visitor of the Sites.
Friendsviewer may analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes. In addition, Friendsviewer may remove personally identifying information from collected information to render it anonymous. Friendsviewer may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Friendsviewer does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with Friendsviewer under confidentiality agreements to provide some of the services and features of the Friendsviewer community and to help us communicate with Friendsviewer Members. These service providers may use your personal information to communicate with you about offers and services from Friendsviewer and our marketing partners. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information.
If you decide to use one of the additional services that are offered by our partners, we may forward Personal Information to these partners to enable them to provide the services that you requested.
We also provide information to third-party advertising companies, as described in the next section.
Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours.
If you would like to know (1) the categories of Personal Information about you that we disclosed in the prior calendar year to third parties for the purposes of the third parties’ marketing and/or (2) the names and addresses of such third parties, please contact us.
We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of Friendsviewer's terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our Sites. These companies may use Personal Information, such as gender or age, and other information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to the Sites and other websites, such as time of day of the login, IP address or information about the internet service provider (ISP) or mobile device Carrier, in order to provide advertisements on the Sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
* Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
* Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
* Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Friendsviewer Newsletter, that are considered part of your Friendsviewer account. If you would like to opt out of certain messages, log into Friendsviewer and go to your edit your account by clicking the profile link. On that page you can edit your photo, personal information and password. If you would like to delete your account, log into Friendsviewer, go to your account settings page by clicking the account link. On that page, you will see a link to delete your account.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and third parties who we reasonably believe need access to that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you and your Friendsviewer account information is protected by a password that you select.
Regarding Children We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of 18.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Friendsviewer may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Friendsviewer account or by placing a prominent notice on our Sites. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using our Sites. Continued use of our Sites following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
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