Effective as of October 1, 2009

GND-Seattle, LLC (“GND”) respects the privacy concerns of the users of its website, hosted under the second-level domain “guysandgirlsnextdoor.com” (the “website,” or “site”), and has created this privacy policy to explain (1) what information we gather from you when you visit our site; (2) how we may use such information; (3) your choices concerning how we may use such information; and (4) the security measures we take to protect such information. Some information is collected on this site automatically through our technology; other information is collected only when you choose to give it to us (e.g., when you sign up for a membership, subscribe to our waiting or mailing lists, request specific information via our website, or conduct online transactions with us or third-parties).

Information We Gather Automatically

When you visit this site, certain non-personally identifying information is recorded automatically by the standard operation of our Internet servers. Information such as the type of browser being used, its operating system, and your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address (a number that your Internet service provider assigns to your computer whenever you surf the Internet) is gathered in order to facilitate our online operations and to assure an efficient online experience for you. We may use or share this information for security purposes, to generate group statistics about our user community, or as required by law.

Among the purposes for which we may use such generally non-personally identifying information is for identification purposes in the event of an emergency threatening personal safety or property, or where proper legal process allows using such information. For instance, we may use your IP address or other automatically recorded information, in cooperation with your Internet provider, to attempt to identify you if it is necessary to contact you or to bring legal action against you because you are violating the Terms of Service for use for this site, may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with our company's rights or property, or may be adversely affecting other users of this site or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities.

Personal Information You Provide To Us

We may request personally identifying information from you in a variety of contexts. For example, you may provide such data to us if you: (1) complete an online membership application form (e.g., registering for an account, various sign-up forms for receiving email newsletters, registering for special offers, entering a contest/sweepstakes or responding to a survey); (2) fill out an order form to request information; (3) register to participate in message boards and chat rooms (if any) and other community features; or (4) purchase or pay for any products or services from GND.

In such cases, the personally identifying information we request may include your name, email address, mailing address and zip code, phone number, and, where appropriate, a valid credit card number with expiration date (collectively, "Personal Information"). In addition, we may collect other non-personally identifying information such as your date of birth, gender, place of residence, occupation, average income, hobbies and other information regarding your interaction with our site,

GND’s collection of your Personal Information is required in order to determine your membership eligibility, provide you the full-service matchmaking and socializing services which we offer, process your online payments for such services, enable you to access third-party services required for the GND assessment process, and to create an internal member profile that GND staff will utilize to determine and arrange your best available matches and social services.  Your Personal Information will be held in a database using reasonable security measures to protect the data from unauthorized access. Only GND staff and administrators will have full access to the full content of your Personal Information, and it will not be disclosed to any third-parties except as described below.

How Can Your Personal Information Be Used?

• Within GND.

When you purchase products or services from GND we will use your Personal Information to process and evaluate your membership application, process your online payments for such memberships and related services, and to make available to you and to in turn receive back personality and match-making assessment information pursuant to the GND matchmaking process. 

We may have links to third party-operated sites that sell or license certain music, videos, or other goods mentioned, provided, or promoted on GND. Unless a site is within the GND domain (as generally indicated by a web address beginning with www.guysandgirlsnextdoor), it is not operated or controlled by GND, and any transactions that you may enter into with such sites will be subject to the privacy and security practices of the merchant with which you are transacting. GND is not responsible for the privacy and security practices of sites not in our immediate control.

We may use your Personal Information and other non-personally identifying information we collect to update you about our products or services or to contact you about exciting offers of GND services, events, announcements, or special offers and discounts with GND’s affiliates that we believe may be of interest to you. You always have the option to receive fewer or no communications in the future from us by opting out. You may opt out by following the instructions included in the specific communication you no longer wish to receive or by sending an email to ContactUs@GND-Seattle.com and explaining how you would like to modify your preferences.

• Credit Card Information.

GND utilizes the services of PayPal to process members’ online payments for memberships and related events and services.  Your credit card information will be collected and stored for this purpose and by this means exclusively,  We will not share your credit card information with any other GND company or third party unless that company needs the number for the fulfillment or processing of your membership or related third-party services necessary to the GND match-making process. We do not rent, sell or share credit card information with promotional partners or other third parties.

• With GND-Related Third-Parties.

Except for credit card information as explained above, when you give Personal Information to GND, we may share that data (together with non-personally identifying information you may provide) with special vendors GND related companies. As a result of this sharing, you may receive communications from GND restaurant, activities, or entertainment venues and providers that include offers of products or services tailored to your interests. These communications might include, for example, emails or mailed literature about new products or services, promotions, discounts, sales, openings of new facilities or websites or other similar information specially offered to GND members.  Such communications may be made by GND on our partnered third-parties’ behalf, or by those third-parties directly, pursuant to their privacy policies.

You have the option to receive fewer or no communications in the future from other GND-related companies that we may provide your information to by following the instructions included in the specific communication you no longer wish to receive, or by sending an email to ContactUs@GND-Seattle.com and explaining how you would like to modify your preferences.

• Non-Identifying Information.

Finally, without any specific approval from you, we may develop general aggregate data (i.e., data that cannot be used to identify specific individuals) about our user community that is partly based on information about you and your transactions with GND. For example, hypothetically, you might be one of 1,000,000 customers between the ages of 25 and 35. We may share such aggregate statistics with other GND-related companies, and for GND’s internal development and usage assessment, without your consent.

• Legal Enforcement and Liability Purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information, including credit card information, as required by law or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against you if you are violating the Terms of Service for this site, or may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with our company's rights or property, other users of this site or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities. In such circumstances, we will, where possible, require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality of any Personal Information so disclosed.

• As an Asset of GND

We thank you for entrusting us with your Personal Information, and also should inform you that for business purposes, the information that you provide and that we collect through your usage of the service is also an asset of GND and will become part of our normal business records. If GND or a substantial part of our business is sold or otherwise transferred to a third party, such as a legal successor in interest, your Personal Information may be transferred to that third party.

How Can You Correct or Review Your Personal Information?

You can access, review, update and correct Personal Information you have provided us by clicking on the My Profile tab at the top of this page. If you prefer, you can also contact us by sending an email to ContactUs@GNDSeattle.com and explaining how you would like to modify your preferences.

Safeguarding Your Personal Information

GND cares about the security of your Personal Information. We follow generally accepted industry security standards to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and correctly use such Personal Information. When you provide credit card information, we use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption for that data.

Despite many advances in information security technology and procedures, however, no commercially deployed method of information transfer over the Internet or electronic data storage is known to be 100% secure. As a result, while we do strive to use modern and commercially reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage in our systems.

Age Restrictions

We are a general audience site that does not knowingly collect data or accept registrations from children under 13 years of age. Only legal adults over the age of 21 and residing in the United States are eligible for membership, and no one under the age of 21 should submit their Personal Information via GND membership application or otherwise. 

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small text file that an Internet site can place on your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make using this site easier by, among other things, saving your passwords and preferences for you, keeping track of the status and identifying your membership application and related services, and to help identify you whenever you return to our site, so you do not need to reenter your identification information. Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. However, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being sent (note: you may need to consult your browser's "Help" area for instructions on how to do that). If you choose to disable your cookies setting or refuse to accept a cookie, some parts of this site will not function properly or may perform considerably slower.

Some of our web pages may contain electronic images (called "Clear GIFs", "Single-Pixel GIFs", or "Web Beacons") that allow us to count page views or to access cookies. We may also include Web Beacons in our email products in order to determine information about the opening and reading of such emails. In addition, some advertising networks that serve ads on our web site may occasionally use Web Beacons within banner advertisements. Web Beacons set by GND generally are not used to collect, gather, monitor, or share Personal Information about our users, though they can be used in conjunction with cookies to record particular actions. We use Web Beacons primarily to compile aggregated, anonymous statistics about web site or email product usage.

Links to Other Sites

We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content or practices of web sites operated by companies outside of GND that may be linked to this site. You should not assume that their privacy policies or practices are the same as those followed by our company or by other GND companies. Visitors to any such web sites should refer to their respective privacy policies and practices.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints about our Privacy Policy, you can contact our customer service department at ContactUs@GND-Seattle.com. When we receive such inquiries about our Privacy Policy, we will use the Personal Information (such as your email address) only to respond to your question or comment. However, if your question raises one or more issues that affect our promotional partners, we may also share your question with them in order to provide a response.

Changes in This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes that we consider material in our privacy practices, we will notify you in this space. We may also attempt to notify you of any such material changes to our privacy practices via email or by placing a notice on our home page (hosted at www.guysandgirlsnextdoor.com/ ).  It is your responsibility to reasonably and regularly review any such changes in the GND Privacy Policy and manage your privacy options in accordance with it.

Acceptance of This Privacy Policy

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information by GND in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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