Effective July 1, 2009
Mingles.com is an online service that gives our members the ability to create publically accessible profile pages about themselves and their friends. These pages may include photos, voice, and videos. Mingles members can view each others' profiles, communicate with friends and meet new friends on the service, send email and instant messages to other members, receive email and instant messages from other members, share photos, post blog entries and comments, participate in online chat rooms and forums, and describe their personalities and interests. To facilitate these features, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and meet new people. Mingles members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.
Mingles.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Mingles.com service. Mingles.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
Mingles.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
User Profile information including members' pictures and usernames are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Mingles.com site. Email addresses are used for the purposes of sending email from other members to users from the service, and to send notifications related to the service. A user's email address is not shared or displayed to other people on the service. Users within a personal network communicate on Mingles.com with each other through the Mingles.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the 'Account Settings' area of the web site.
From time to time, Mingles.com (or a partner) may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Mingles.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Profiles, Blogs, Chat Rooms, Message Boards, or any other publicly accessible area of this web site, that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Mingles.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as 'My Profile' and 'My Account'
Mingles.com contains links to other web sites. Mingles.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on Mingles.com.
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by unchecking the appropriate check box on the 'Email Preferences' page of this web site. Users who do not wish to receive newsletters may choose not to by unselecting the appropriate check box on the 'Email Preferences' page. All notification emails and newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.
Mingles.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from Mingles.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that Mingles allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Mingles.com Privacy Policy.
Ads appearing on Mingles are sometimes delivered to users by Mingles.com, and sometimes by one of our Web advertising network partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs"). These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Mingles.com and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
Mingles.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Mingles.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on Mingles.com, please contact us a privacy@mingles.com.
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Mingles.com will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Mingles.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Mingles.com User Terms of Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Mingles.com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Mingles.com or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at the email address: privacy@mingles.com,
or at PO Box 341, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA.
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