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Last Updated: January 8, 2020
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine quality products and services with integrity in dealing with our members. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do We Collect?
We collect your personally identifiable information when you sign up to receive products and/or services at the Website. We may also collect your personally identifiable information when you otherwise agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy at this Website, but do not complete the full registration process. The types of personally identifiable information that we collect at this Website, during registration and when you make a purchase include, without limitation, your name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number and credit card information. In addition, we may request information about your use of, or interest in, the types of products and services offered by the third-party advertisers with whom we have partnered to offer you the products and services available at this Website.

Any personal information that you submit at the Website remains your property. However, by submitting that information to us, you grant to us the right to use your personal information for any legal purpose including, without limitation: a) effectuating a purchase from us that you make at the Website; b) transferring your personal information to a third party to effectuate a purchase from a third party advertiser at the Website; c) marketing purposes such as sharing your information with third party advertisers; d) providing promotional offers to you by means of e-mail advertising, telemarketing, direct mail marketing, pop-ups, pop-unders and/or online banner advertising; and e) for validation, suppression, content improvement and feedback purposes.

You agree that we may contact you at any time with updates and/or any other information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in connection with your continued use of the Website. We also reserve the right to release current or past member information in the event that we believe that this Website is being or has been used to commit unlawful acts, if the information is subpoenaed, if we are sold or acquired or when we deem it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when we, in our sole discretion, determine the disclosure to be appropriate, including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time.

In connection with the products and services available for purchase at the Website, we will collect your credit card information. We will use your credit card information to bill you for your purchases and we may share your credit card information with third parties for the sole purpose of effectuating any transactions that you enter into at the Website. In addition, by submitting your credit card information to us, you authorize us to periodically verify that your credit card account continues to be a valid and active one by charging and, thereafter immediately crediting, a small sum to the card. Such verification may be conducted through a third party service provider and, in that case, we will share your specific credit card information with this third party for verification purposes. Apart from the foregoing uses, we reserve the right to share with other third parties the fact that we have credit card information on file for specific individuals, but we will not share the actual credit card information with other third parties without the applicable individual's prior informed consent.

In addition, you agree that by submitting your personal information at the Website, such act constitutes a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR 310 et seq. (the "ATSR"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, we retain the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the ATSR. Moreover, by registering with, making a purchase from, or requesting information from, a third party advertiser at or through the Website, such action shall constitute a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application with the respective third party advertiser for purposes of the ATSR and you may be contacted via e-mail, direct mail and/or telephone by such third party advertiser.

We may share with third party advertisers certain Website usage information of individuals that have received targeted promotional campaigns for the purpose of formatting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we may track some of the pages that you visit on our Website through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). By submitting information at and/or registering at this Website, you agree to allow us to share such Website usage information with third parties. Furthermore, your submission of personally identifiable information by registering with this Website shall be considered as your providing affirmative consent to become a member of our list(s), an opt-in, and as such you expressly waive any privacy protection or other benefit(s) afforded by any national or state Do Not Call or other similar lists or registries. Such waiver is void in jurisdictions that expressly do not allow such waiver of rights.

No Use of Our Site by Persons Under 18
No person under 18 should disclose information on this site or participate in any of our programs.

Active Information You Choose to Provide
In order to participate in some of our programs or Website (become a member), we may require you to disclose the following information: Your name, valid address, phone number, age, email address. You must be a U.S. resident and over 18 to participate unless otherwise expressly indicated on the site.

What is a Cookie?
You must allow cookies and pop-up windows to be active on your system to participate in our programs. Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

Our site utilizes cookies to collect information about how our site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our site. If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult the "Help" section of your browser to correctly do so.

Our site's servers also automatically identify your computer by its Internet Protocol address which is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server or administer our site or to gather broad demographic information about our members.

How Do We Use the Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our direction, use Active Information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer services such as support, and distributing information about products and services we think may be of interest to our members from our advertiser merchants. We may use the Active Information or Passive Information you provide to us to contact you about changes to our site, new services, features or products we offer, or other information we think you shall find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may "opt-out" by clicking here.

We use Passive Information to gather information about our members and to enhance and design our site to make it easier, faster and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help us know information about how many people visit our site, when they visit and how they use our service. Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising based on your user habits for your viewing on our site and a shopping experience customized to you in content, services and goods.

Your Information In Relation to Our Advertiser's Offers
You are able to access other merchant's sites through our site. When you opt to receive information or sign up for a trial offer, you may be doing so through third party sites and with other companies over which we have no control. You should read those sites' privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before using such sites. If you wish to opt out of their mailings, you must do so through those sites.

Sharing Information in Other Scenarios
We may be required by subpoena, law or government agency to disclose both Active and Passive Information you have provided to us. Should we buy or sell assets of our company, another company may need to review our company's assets, including your information, to make business decisions as to whether to acquire such assets. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant bank, our Internet Service Provider) may also have access to your information in performing such services.

How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable technical efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Efforts we may take to ensure the security include but are not limited to: maintaining our own servers under our private control, data encryption and/or monitoring of our network and data for intrusions. Communications you may have with us via email or snailmail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us, We collect your personally identifiable information when you sign up to receive products and/or services at the Website. We may also collect your personally identifiable information when you otherwise agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy at this Website, but do not complete the full registration process. The types of personally identifiable information that we collect at this Website, during registration and when you make a purchase include, without limitation, your name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number and credit card information. In addition, we may request information about your use of, or interest in, the types of products and services offered by the third-party advertisers with whom we have partnered to offer you the products and services available at this Website.

SPECIAL OFFER SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION AND EXPRESS CONSENT TO RECEIVE MESSAGES

By accepting of the terms and conditions of this website (and any associated offers, contests, giveaways or other programs), and providing your telephone number, you are subscribing to WherePeopleMeet.net powered by EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com offers as well as those of referenced 3rd party advertisers. WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com subscribers receive pre-recorded telephone messages regarding various special product offers and purchase incentives, and are also automatically entered into various contests and sweepstakes whenever they receive such calls. The service is free of charge. For more information regarding WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com and its associated sweepstakes and contests, including applicable rules, please visit our marketing partners page.

By subscribing, such act constitutes your express written consent to be contacted by WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com and certain 3rd party advertisers referenced at the time of express opt in via prerecorded telephone message for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR 310 et seq.), and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 USC 96), as amended from time to time. The calls you are agreeing to receive describe goods and services offered by third parties through the SOS, and any goods or services described in the call are not sold by or through WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com.

You are subscribing to receive calls from WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com, and specifically referenced 3rd party advertisers and only at the specific number(s) you have provided to us. Your consent will be effective if the number you have provided is a home, business, or cell phone line, or if the number is registered on any state or federal Do-Not-Call (DNC) list as of the date of this consent. WherePeopleMeet.net, EliteMate.com, EliteCashWire.com, & MindBody-Soul.com reserves the right to refrain from calling any number registered on a DNC list in connection with any promotions. This consent shall remain in effect until you revoke your consent and cancel your subscription.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when users visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on our site, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, check them out here.

Third Party Cookies
Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, we or a data provider we have engaged may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads or content. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information. The cookies may reflect de-identified demographic or other data linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, e.g., your email address, that we may share with a data provider solely in hashed, non-human readable form. To opt-out of these cookies, please go to https://www.aboutads.info/choices. To learn more about cookies visit https://cookiesandyou.com

Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various technologies to collect information from your device and about your activities on our site or application.

Information collected automatically. We automatically collect information from your browser or device when you visit our website or application. This information could include your IP address, device ID, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies" below), and the referring website address.
Cookies and Use of Cookie Data. When you visit our website or application, we may assign your device one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the pages you visit, the time and date of your visits, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. During your visits to other websites or applications where we advertise, we (or third parties) may use certain data collected on our site to show you EliteMate.com advertisements. Although you may not opt out of receiving online advertisements generally, you may control the collection of data on our site used for targeted EliteMate.com advertising during your visits to other websites. To opt-out of EliteMate.com data collection for targeted advertising on other sites, click here. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on EliteMate.com and it's other dating properties..
Other Technologies. We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site. We also may include web beacons in advertisements or email messages to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our website or application visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities. Information collected by third-parties. We may allow service providers, EliteMate.com related companies, advertising companies and ad networks, and other third parties to display advertisements on our site. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements.

Special Information for California Residents

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 entitles California users to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed certain information about you to any third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. California users who wish to request further information in compliance with this law or have questions or concerns about WherePeopleMeet.net powered by EliteMate.com privacy practices may contact us at customer service subject line 'WherePeopleMeet.net's - CA Privacy Disclosures'.

Online Tracking Policy for California Residents: As of the effective date of this Privacy Statement, there is no commonly accepted response for Do Not Track signals initiated by browsers, therefore we do not respond to them.

How does WherePeopleMeet.net and EliteMate handle Do Not Track requests?

WherePeopleMeet.net and EliteMate do not honor Do Not Track requests by its visitors or members on any browsers, web or mobile.

Opt Out Here. Please note that unsubscribing from this email list does not automatically unsubscribe you from any other email lists on which you may be on. Please read the email carefully to find out which list from which you are unsubscribing.

You may unsubscribe from this service at any time by visiting here or by emailing us at customer service or send a postal mail to EliteMate.com, 138-07 82nd Drive, Briarwood, NY 11435, USA

We may take a reasonable period of time (up to seven days) to process cancellation requests. If you request the cancellation or modification of your subscription, such information may be retained for a period of time in our backup systems as a precaution against system failures. Some information may be retained for longer periods as required by law, contract or auditing requirements

YOUR USE OF OUR SITE AND/OR PARTICIPATION IN OUR PROGRAMS MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THE PRACTICES SET FORTH IN THIS POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE POLICY BY POSTING THE NEW VERSION WITH A NEW EFFECTIVE DATE. YOUR CONTINUED USE INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE CHANGES.