Russian Christian Singles website PRIVACY POLICY

	PRIVACY POLICY Russian Christian Singles website is owned and operated by Patriot Infosec Services. We at Patriot Infosec Services respect your privacy. This statement is our privacy policy, which discloses our information practices. It describes: What personally identifiable information of yours (information from which someone may personally identify you) is collected from you through our website What personally identifiable information of a third party (such as your Internet Service Provider) is collected from you through our Web site The organization or company that is collecting the information How the information is used With whom the information may be shared What choices you have regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
	If you believe that we are not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you should contact our Privacy Patrol by e-mailing your concern to privacy@russianchristiansingles.com.
	Information Collection Patriot Infosec Services collects information from our users in several areas of our website as described in this privacy policy. Free Registration This website includes a free registration form for you to provide information to us. You are required to give us minimum information so that we may contact you (such as your name and e-mail address), and to identify you by gender, location, and to create an account for you. We use this information to contact you about the services on our website for which you have expressed an interest. To make your use of this service more effective you may choose to provide more information about yourself. Some members may request that we verify your identity and perform basic background investigation of you. If you choose not to provide any reference(s) information, we will not attempt to verify your identity and perform basic background investigation of you. Background investigation is based on publicaly available information only, and not on any kind of spying. Order Forms If you choose to upgrade your membership to full membership level, you may be requested to provide additional information on our order form. You may need to provide contact information (such as name and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information is used to fill your orders and for billing purposes. If we have trouble processing your order, we use this contact information to get in touch with you.
	Surveys & Contests From time to time you may be requested to provide additional information in order to participate in surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary. Therefore, you have a choice whether or not to disclose this later requested information. This information may include contact information (such as name and address) and demographic information. Unless otherwise stated near the information form, we use survey information to monitor or improve our site and contest information to notify the winners and award prizes. Tell a Friend If you elect to use our referral service to inform a friend about our site, we ask your friend for his or her name and e-mail address. We automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to visit our site. We will not store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time e-mail. Cookies A cookie is a message that the server for our website gives to your Web browser. Your browser stores the message in a cookie file. You must enable cookie use in your Web browser in order to use our website.Each time the browser requests a page from the server, a message is sent back to the server. Purposes for cookies include identifying users and preparing customized Web pages for them. Log Files We use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to analyze trends, administer the website (including its security), track a user's movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Your Password When you complete our registration form, we send you a welcoming e-mail containing your password and username. Your password was generated by a computer using special algorithm. You may use your password for your own use only. We prohibit sharing passwords, or sharing of accounts in any other ways. If you decide to change your password later on, you may do so on the profile modification page. Special Offers If during the registration you agreed to receive any offers and/or promotions, you may occasionally receive information on products, services and special deals. We offer you the option to limit to offers and/or promotions from Christian business only, or to discontinue receiving these communications by "opting out" of receiving promotional offers and material on the profile modification page. Site and Service Updates We send you update announcements that contain important information about our site and services. If you register on our site, you may not discontinue receiving these announcements unless you choose to delete your registration information and discontinue using our site. We will communicate with your regarding your account through e-mail or the telephone. Supplemental Information In order for us to tailor our site to your individual tastes and preferences, we combine information about the interests and purchasing habits of users with similar information from our partners to create a personalized user profile. When you make a purchase from any of our partners, they may collect and share that purchase information with us so we may tailor our site to your preferences. Information Use Patriot Infosec Services is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not share, sell or rent this information to others in any way other than as disclosed in this policy or stated at the point where the information is collected. Sharing We may share impersonal aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. We use a credit card processing company to bill for goods and services. These companies do not use, share, retain or store personally identifiable information for any purposes other than to process the transaction. We may partner with other companies and individuals to provide specific services. If you choose to sign up for these services, we will share your name or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. Your Choice to Opt-Out You have the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask you for the information. If you no longer wish to receive promotional material from our partners, you may opt-out of this group by modifying your profile on the profile modification page. You do not need to fill all fileds on the form. Just select "No" to receive any offers and/or promotions, and submit that form. The request will be processed momentarily. Correcting and Updating Personal Information If any of your personally identifiable information changes, you can modify it at any time using our profile modification page. To delete your account, please submit your request by e-mailing us at support@russianchristiansingles.com. Security We want to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information on our website, your information is protected online and off-line. When you provide sensitive information on our site (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and protected with encryption software. While you are on a secure page, such as our order form page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked. While we use encryption software to protect sensitive information online, we also use our best efforts to protect your information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (such as our billing clerk or customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen savers when they leave their desk. If you have any questions about the security for our Web site, please e-mail us at security@russianchristiansingles.com. Links This website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Web site. Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post modification date next to the link to this file so you will always be aware of any changes. If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by e-mail. You will have the choice to allow us to use the information in this different manner. We will use information according to the privacy policy posted at the time the information was collected.
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