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Privacy Policy of PinoyFriends.com

PinoyFriends.com is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. PinoyFriends.com members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. PinoyFriends.com members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

PinoyFriends.com cares deeply about online privacy If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Information Collection and Use by PinoyFriends.com
PinoyFriends.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the PinoyFriends.com.com service. PinoyFriends.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

PinoyFriends.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes
User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the PinoyFriends.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join PinoyFriends.com, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on PinoyFriends.com.com with each other through the PinoyFriends.com.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, PinoyFriends.com.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings"

From time to time, PinoyFriends.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on PinoyFriends.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.