Privacy policy
Collection and Use of Information
Through Quaker Singles.com, our members may take advantage of the many services and features available online. In order to provide you with our services, you must provide us with certain necessary information. Quaker Singles treats all of your information with the utmost care for your privacy and security. Quaker Singles does not sell, trade, or otherwise disclose customer lists or information to unaffiliated third parties without your permission. In the event that Quaker Singles should be acquired or substantially all of its assets transferred, customer information would be considered a transferable asset. Quaker Singles will give registered members notice prior to transferring their information, and an opportunity to opt-out of having their information transferred to the new entity. Further, in the event we make a material change in the way we collect your personal information, use your personal information, or change our email policies, you will be notified by email or through a prominent notice on our website. For your information, below is a detailed list of the services available through Quaker Singles.com, an outline of the information collected from you to provide such services, and a description of what we do with such information.
Sign Up
Certain features of our website, require the client or website user to sign up before accessing those services. During sign-up, Quaker Singles.com collects the following information: name, address, birth date, and email address, along with other information about you and the type of people and relationships you are seeking through our website (e.g., hobbies, interests, personal preferences, personality traits). This information may then be imported into the website programs to simplify the amount of information you will be required to enter when using the features available on Quaker Singles.com. In the event there is a change or update to the services available on our website, Quaker Singles may use your information to contact you regarding such a change or update. Your demographic data is used to show you content that may be of interest to you, and to help us display the content of our website according to your preferences.
Email Communication
We use your email address to help us operate the website by sending appropriate communication to you related to billing and website changes. We also use your email address to forward communications from other Quaker Singles.com members.Quaker Singles uses our unique triple-blind technology to protect our members' privacy. Any time a member communicates with another member on our website, we implement a three-step process to ensure that the member's email address is undetectable:
1. The member's personal “from” address is stripped and replaced with their Quaker Singles Userid.
2. The member that is being emailed has their Quaker Singles email address replaced with their personal Userid.
3. All original email headers are stripped and re-created to show that they originated from Quaker Singles. This stops a member from tracing the message of origin back to the sender's actual physical location. No other relationship website goes this extra step.
These features allow members on Quaker Singles to communicate with their email package of choice without fear of losing anonymity through our website.
Members may make changes to their email address by clicking on My Account underneath the Tools section in the left navigation. If Quaker Singles makes changes to its email practices, you will be notified by email or through a prominent notice on our website.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. It is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding, if at all, to reveal personal information in these areas. Users who violate chat room rules, our Terms of Use, our Code of Ethics, or any other policy may be temporarily or permanently banned from accessing our chat rooms and/or our website at any time in our sole discretion.Your Financial Information
When you initially provide your financial information on Quaker Singles.com, we use that data to bill you for products and services you use, as well as check your qualifications. If you choose to participate in any discount, rebate or other incentive programs, your financial information disclosure enables your participation as well. By making a purchase on the website, or accessing any financial transaction or activity on the website, you automatically consent to allowing us to provide your financial information to our service providers, as well as your credit card issuer for their assistance in processing your transaction. Your financial activity on the website also allows us to contact any other third parties we determine as necessary to process your transactions. These third parties may include banking facilities and/or credit card institutions used to process and verify your financial transaction. It is also important to note that occasionally separate third parties offer products and services on the website, and/or administer programs offered on the website. In those cases, if you purchase, register or make reservations for these products or services offered by the third parties, or participate in programs that are administered by third parties, any financial information you submit is passed by us through the website to those third parties with your full consent, implied by your consent and participation.Sweepstakes and Contests
Occasionally, Quaker Singles may offer users of Quaker Singles.com the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes or other such contests. In order to enter the sweepstakes, users will be asked to provide their name and contact information through an online or mail-in registration process. This information may be used by Quaker Singles.com to initiate a one-time communication with the registrant. Moreover, the information may be shared with a third-party sweepstakes administrator only for purpose of selecting winners and notifying winners about the prizes they have won. Quaker Singles will not enter the user in a sweepstakes or contest without his or her consent. For more information, please see the Official Sweepstakes Rules in place for current contests. Quaker Singles will not use the information provided by users in a manner inconsistent with the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time such information was provided to Quaker Singles.com without first obtaining the written or email consent of the registered users.Corporate Information
In addition to the wide array of services offered through Quaker Singles.com, you may also find out more information about Quaker Singles and its affiliated companies through our website. If the information you are interested in is not available on the website, we encourage you to request further information by completing an information form that requires your name, address and email address. There is also a place for you to provide your daytime phone number if you wish to have someone from Quaker Singles call you, but this information is optional. We will use your contact information to reach you regarding your request for information, either by phone or by sending the data to your street address or email address. Your contact information will be used only for the specific purpose for which you provided it. Quaker Singles will not share this information with third parties who are not affiliated companies of Quaker Singles.Advertisers
Users of Quaker Singles.com should note that when you are on Quaker Singles.com, you may be directed to other websites that are beyond our control. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement, the click may take you off the Quaker Singles.com website. Banner advertisers on Quaker Singles.com do not have access to your personally identifiable information so long as you remain on our website. However, these other websites may independently collect data, solicit personal information or send their own cookies to you in accordance with their own policies. Quaker Singles, or its affiliates, is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We strongly encourage you to review the policies of any such third parties to whom you may give personally identifiable information. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. In order to make sure that the advertising you may see is relevant to you, these companies may employ cookies and action tags, also known as single-pixel gifs or Web beacons. Be assured that any information these third parties collect is completely anonymous. If you do not want these third-party advertisers collecting information about you, click here to opt out.Cookies
Cookies are used to deliver content specific to a user's potential interests and for the administration of passwords, among other purposes. For example, we also may use cookies to ensure users do not see the same advertisements and product offerings repeatedly. It is important to note that cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information. Since our website is specifically designed to your interests, disabling your browser from accepting cookies will prevent you from accessing many of the features on Quaker Singles.com.Your IP Address
A user’s IP address is used by most e-commerce websites to collect demographic data and improve service. We use your IP address, as well as the website you visited prior to our website for much the same purpose. We automatically gather this information after each visit and translate this information into a resource that we can use to identify and correct problems with our website and better understand our users, as well as continually update and expand our offerings.Limited Access to Information
Quaker Singles guards your personal information carefully. The individually identifiable information that you provide will be used by Quaker Singles to provide you with information about products and services available to you through Quaker Singles and select partners. Quaker Singles will not disclose individually identifiable information to non-affiliated third parties without your permission.Upon your request, Quaker Singles.com will share your information with its affiliated representatives. For example, if you need assistance in completing your profile, you may request that an affiliated relationship consultant contact you to review your profile or provide other assistance. Upon such a request, Quaker Singles.com will forward your name, phone number and other information you authorize to a relationship consultant. Quaker Singles will not, however, forward any information without your request to do so.
Quaker Singles will not disclose your personally identifiable information to non-affiliated third parties without your permission unless we need to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, or other legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Quaker Singles does not sell or rent individually identifiable information about its users to non-affiliated third parties. If Quaker Singles intends to share your personal information with a non-affiliated third party, we will do so only with your knowledge and consent.
Security Procedures
Quaker Singles recognizes how important and sensitive data is, and that is why we have implemented policies and procedures to preserve the security of your information. While Quaker Singles strives to protect the information you provide through Quaker Singles.com, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, Quaker Singles cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or receive from us through our website and online services. Quaker Singles.com operates secure data networks that are password-protected and are not available to the public. When transmitting information between you and Quaker Singles.com, data security is handled through a security protocol called Secured Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL is an Internet security standard using data encryption and Web server authentication.Data encryption is the process of transforming legible information into a complex arrangement of illegible information. The illegible data is made legible only by a process called "decryption." A mathematical formula known as a "key" is used to encrypt data when it is sent over the Internet, and then to decrypt the data when it is received. SSL uses a private/public key. Encryption strength is measured by the length of the key used to encrypt the data; i.e., the longer the key, the more effective the encryption. Using the SSL protocol, data transmission between you and the Quaker Singles.com server is performed at a standard level of encryption strength.
An SSL certificate is issued to ensure authentic and accurate identification of a secured Web server. This translates into a digital ID, or electronic fingerprint, that is included in the key used to encrypt the data. This ensures that only the intended recipient, Quaker Singles, is able to decrypt the data that you transmit.
Quaker Singles reviews its security policies regarding Quaker Singles.com on a regular basis, and changes are made as necessary. Only a select group of authorized individuals within Quaker Singles have access to user information.