Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This privacy policy pertains to the use of the MingleFriend web site at http://www.MingleFriend.com
• This privacy policy covers how MingleFriend treats personal information that MingleFriend collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your email address, your date of birth, or your zipcode.
• Children under 13 are not permitted to use the MingleFriend service, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for children's use of the site.

General Information

• MingleFriend collects personal information when you register with MingleFriend to use MingleFriend services or to post content on MingleFriend.
• When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as your country of residence and possibly your zipcode.
• MingleFriend automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.
• MingleFriend uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
• MingleFriend may send you up to 3 newsletters a month, to provide you with updates on your account and MingleFriend news. You may unsubscribe to this mailing list at any time.

IP Addresses
IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with MingleFriend.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:

• To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers those are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
• To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
• To estimate the total number of users visiting MingleFriend from specific geographical regions.
• To make sure that people are not voting for themselves or friends during contests or promotions.

Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

• You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
• If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use MingleFriend products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the MingleFriend service.
• MingleFriend uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
• Access your information when you "sign in".
• Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using MingleFriend's services.
• Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on MingleFriend.
• Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
• Conduct research to improve MingleFriend's content and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• When you post a message, your MingleFriend ID or alias that you are posting under is visible to other users.
• If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
• MingleFriend may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the MingleFriend Terms of Service.
• MingleFriend may share demographic information with business partners, such as "53% of users who regularly user MingleFriend chat are between 18 and 24" or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial)
• MingleFriend 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 or when we have your permission.
• It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of MingleFriend's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We will transfer information about you if MingleFriend is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, MingleFriend will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the MingleFriend web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• MingleFriend displays targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

• You can change your MingleFriend Account Information, at any time.
• We may send you certain communications relating to the MingleFriend service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your MingleFriend account.
• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• Your MingleFriend Account Information is password-protected.
• In certain areas, MingleFriend uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy