We designed CupidLies to enable you to share your information. As you willingly provide us with certain information, we are committed to your privacy.

This policy covers how CupidLies treats personal information that we collect and receive, including information related to your past use of our products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

REGISTRATION
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account, you are required to provide certain contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including CupidLies, to identify you. The required information you need to supply may include the following: username, email address and a password chosen by you.

PROFILE INFORMATION
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the profile section such as your name, location, age, zodiac sign and personal information about yourself such as your interests, hobbies, and networking objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better portray yourself and allow others to get a sense of who you are. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service

CONTACTS INFORMATION
In order to invite others to connect with you directly on CupidLies, you may use the CupidLies services to invite them if they are a User, or enter their names and e-mail addresses if they are not yet part of the CupidLies community. This information will be used by CupidLies to send your invitation. The names and e-mail addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.

LOG FILES, IP ADDRESSES AND INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the CupidLies website we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave CupidLies. We also receive the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the CupidLies service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

COOKIES
CupidLies, like many websites, uses cookies to prepare customized Web pages for you. A cookie is a file containing a string of code that we transfer to your computer's hard drive, to be kept there for later use. With cookies in place, whenever you use your Web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome or Safari) to connect to CupidLies, our systems are able to recognize you. This enables CupidLies to present you with custom Web pages. For example, instead of seeing a generic welcome page, you might see a welcome page with your name on it and information about products or services that reflect your interests.

You can set up your browser to reject cookies or tell you when a cookie has been sent. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of CupidLies interactive features.

In addition to our cookies, CupidLies may allow third parties that show advertisements on our site and set and access their own cookies on your computer. The cookies inserted by those third parties are not covered by CupidLies Privacy Policy, but rather, by the policies of those third parties. However, these third parties do not have access to CupidLies cookies.

CupidLies also uses Web beacons (also known as action tags or single pixel gifs) to allow us to count how many people have visited a certain page. This enables us to assess the popularity and effectiveness of the content provided on the CupidLies website. Additionally, we sometimes use Web beacons to access CupidLies cookies inside and outside our Web pages and in connection with CupidLies products and services. A Web beacon is a transparent image placed on a Web page that sends a signal when a person visits that page. We may also use Web beacons in connection with e-mails sent to CupidLies users to let us know whether and when the e-mail was opened.

We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING

Advertisements that appear on CupidLies are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. CupidLies does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on CupidLies unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by CupidLies and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

OPTING OUT OF THIRD-PARTY AD SERVERS

If you want to prevent a third-party ad server from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you must visit each ad network's website individually and opt out. To inquire about the relationships we currently maintain with third-party ad networks please contact us via e-mail at privacy@cupidlies.com.

EDITING AND/OR DELETING ACCOUNT INFORMATION PREFERENCES

You can edit the information contained in your account at any time by clicking on Settings after logging on to CupidLies. You can delete your CupidLies account by visiting the Deactivate Account page within your account. Although your account will be deactivated immediately, information provided to us while you were a registered user may remain in back-up storage on our servers indefinitely. Nevertheless, once you delete your account, this information will be inaccessible to the public.

CHILDEN UNDER AGE 18

CupidLies is not intended for, nor do we knowingly collect information from, children under the age of 18. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us via e-mail at privacy@cupidlies.com.

We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

CONFIDENTIALITY & SECURITY

CupidLies limits access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need such information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. In addition, CupidLies maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

CupidLies takes your privacy seriously and will take every reasonable and customary measure to protect your personal information; however, we cannot guarantee that there will be no unauthorized use of your personal information.

If you register for the site and services and create a User Account, you will be provided a username and password for such User Account. You acknowledge that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password as well as any and all activity that occur under your User Account and password. You agree that at the end of each session using the Site and Services, you will exit your User Account. In the event of any unauthorized use of your password and/or User Account, you agree that you will immediately notify CupidLies by sending an e-mail to privacy@cupidlies.com. CupidLies cannot and will not be liable for any and all losses or damages arising from your failure to comply with this Section.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

When you register with CupidLies, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, e-mail and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on CupidLies. We may occasionally use your name and e-mail address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by CupidLies that we think you may find valuable. We may also use this information to notify you when you have been contacted by a CupidLies user.

Profile information is used by CupidLies primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it, other CupidLies users may be able to make additions to your profile.

Profile information you submit to CupidLies will be available to users who you allow to access the information through your privacy settings. Your name and/or username, location, age and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the CupidLies network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your people can find you and your contacts can find you and request to be added to your network. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they are in your network or your privacy settings allow them to do so, e.g. by making your profile public.

CupidLies may send you service-related announcements to the e-mail address you provided when creating your account. For instance, if a contact sends you a new message, or someone posts your profile page, you may receive an e-mail alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such e-mails, by stating so on the Settings page, although CupidLies reserves the right to send you notices about essential information regarding the account or changes to your account, even if you opt out of all voluntary e-mail notifications.

CupidLies may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you CupidLies. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

CupidLies is about sharing information with others while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to contacts and networks through CupidLies. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is reasonably necessary to offer the service, required under the law or permitted by you.

Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out e-mail updates about CupidLies, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application and posting process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the CupidLies-specified purposes.

It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, such as responses to civil or criminal subpoenas, or other requests by law enforcement personnel. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena, or other legal process or request to CupidLies brought in any country throughout the world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

We may also disclose your personal and other information you provide, to another third party as part of a reorganization or a sale of the assets of a CupidLies corporation division or company. Any third party to which we transfer or sell CupidLies's assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.

When you use CupidLies, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, status updates, articles, answers, messages, photos, videos or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items, this information may become publicly available and can be accessed by anybody on the world wide web.

LINKS

CupidLies may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by CupidLies.

ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

If at any time you would like to review the personal information we collect about you, just ask. You should send an e-mail to privacy@cupidlies.com from the e-mail account you used to create your account and we will provide you with a summary, as well as an opportunity to correct and update this information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your CupidLies account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to how we use Personal Information collected from children under age 18, we will notify parents by e-mail in order to obtain verifiable parental consent for the new uses of the child's Personal Information.

COMMENTS

If you have questions or suggestions, send an e-mail to privacy@cupidlies.com.

Last updated October 28, 2009

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