Friends Asia understands that privacy is very important to our members and customers. Therefore we have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to the FriendsAsia.com web site (the 'Site') and does not apply to any other website, or any other company.
Children Are Not Eligible
Children under the age of 18 years old are not eligible to use our services. We ask that these children do not submit any personal information to us. Nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years of age.
Information We Collect
In order to operate the Site and provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience, we may need to collect certain personal information. This allows us to provide services and features that are suited to your needs and preferences. Your name, address and telephone number are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your viewable profile does not include any identifying information about you, except the Username that you chose upon registering. We do not disclose your email address nor do we sell it or make it available to any third party other than as outlined in more detail in this privacy policy.
Under some circumstances, we may require some additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card details. We use this financial information, including your name, address, credit card details and other information to bill you for the use of our services.
In the course of using the Site, we automatically track certain information based upon your behaviour on the Site using cookies and other devices. We use this information for internal research on our member's demographics, interests, and behaviour to have a better understanding and to serve you and our community. Many other sites automatically collect such information.
Like most websites, the Site also uses cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and other information so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. You are always free to disable these cookies. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Site, and you may not be able to make full use of certain features on the Site.
Our Use of Your Information
We use information in the files we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use.
We use personally identifiable information of our users to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyse site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, as well as to customize the Site's content and layout. This is to improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
We may also use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banners, administrative notices and communications relevant to your use of our site.
Your Use of Other Users' Information
Friends Asia and our users do not tolerate unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming", harassment or threats.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any their party with your permission.
We do disclose information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number and bank account number, are not disclosed in aggregate at all.
Friends Asia cooperates with law enforcement enquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as fraud, intellectual property rights and other rights. We may also disclose your information when we determine that such a disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Friends Asia or other visitors to the Site.
Reviewing and Changing Your Profile
After you register, you will be able to review and change the information you submitted during registration, including your email address, password, city, state, zip code, country and your profile.
Upon your request, we will suspend your membership and your membership information from our active databases. We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use.
Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your password, including fees. You may not disclose or share your password to any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you lose control of you password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally bindings actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if you password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
Third Party Information Collection
Unless otherwise expressly stated in this privacy policy, this policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties on our system or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. These third parties have their own privacy policies that they adhere to. Since Friends Asia does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are encouraged to ask questions before you disclose your personal information others.
Security
Friends Asia uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. Even though "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, we have different security measures in place to prevent our systems from being compromised.
Notice
Friends Asia may amend its privacy policy at any time and from time to time. If Friends Asia makes any substantial changes regarding how Friends Asia uses your personal information, we will notify you by providing a notice on the Site.
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