This is a privacy policy for Conscious Singles.
Conscious Singles is operated by Professional Connections, Inc.
Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.conscioussingles.com.


Contacting the Web Site

You may contact us by mail at the following address:

Conscious Singles
1776 Century Boulevard
Atlanta, GA 30345

You may contact us by e-mail at contactus@conscioussingles.com


The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address may be used to gather broad demographic information.
This site contains links to other sites. ConsciousSingles.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

The Information We Collect:

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the ConsciousSingles.com website. None of the information we gather can be used by the public (visitors, other members, or the financial institutions used to process membership charges) to identify specific individuals. On some pages, you can subscribe for full membership, make requests, and contact us at the helpdesk. In the near future, you may be able to purchase products and register to receive materials.

This information is gathered from members who apply for the various services our site offers. This information includes, but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, birthdate, credit card number or checking account information for payment, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number.
In the near future, some pages may allow you to submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. This information includes, but is not limited to: first name, last name, shipping address and phone number.

The Way We Use Information:

We use return email addresses to alert you when there is another member who has contacted you on our website. Your email address is never given to other members in the Community, we have an anonymous system that allows you to never divulge your identity. We also use your email to answer the helpdesk and contactus email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas on our site. We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site or for advertising tracking purposes. In addition, cookies may be used on our site to allow enhanced capabilities such as chat. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user!
Security
ConsciousSingles.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order process asks users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example a billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information..

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information:
ConsciousSingles.com gives users several options for modifying or removing their information from our database please visit the Member Services page or contact us. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy:
If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age).

Affiliate Partners:

The Affiliate Partner program is a vehicle for other like-minded sites to link to the ConsciousSingles.com site. No personal member information is exchanged with the Affiliate Partner.
Links
This site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Conscioussingles.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.


 We will guard your privacy with the same care we do our own.

We will never sell your personal information to others, or make our mailing list available to other interests.

We have a need as an organization to contact our member community as a whole via email, and will do so for announcements and items of community-wide importance.

For those who would like to receive conscious news and product information from our affiliates, an opt-in system will always be used. This gives you the freedom to decide how much information you would like to receive, and what type.

We pay attention to our server's security and take every step feasible to guard against intrusions by criminally minded hackers.

Your Credit Card information is safely encrypted and passed securely to our merchant vendor over an industry-standard proprietary system to protect your safety. It cannot be stolen from our system, because we do not keep a record of your card number in any form.