Netvillage.com, a division of InfiNetwork LLC, has created this Privacy Statement (Statement) to demonstrate our firm commitment to helping our users better understand what information we collect about them and what may happen to that information. This Privacy Statement applies to all Netvillage sites, including: Netvillage.com, demo.netvillage.com and community.netvillage.com.

1. Information We Collect.
The information we collect from Members and Users is obtained solely to assist us in providing customized services and features. These items include personal information, such as full name, postal address, telephone number, E-mail address, and passwords. This information is stored in a safe, confidential, and secure environment and may not be viewed by the public.

Information which may be viewed by the public is the information you provided in your Member profile, which includes a personal physical description, photos, likes and dislikes, and individual and other personal information about you. However, the profile as viewed by others does not include any identifying information about you other than the username you choose upon registering for the Service.

2. Information Other Websites Collect From You.
On the Website we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. When you click on these links and visit these other Websites, you need to be aware that we do not control these other Websites or these other Websites' business practices. In addition, our privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected by us. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.

3. Cookies.
We do not use data collection devices such as "cookies" to track or record your information for internal research or any other reason. We do use cookies to save your password, or if you choose, to save other personal and other financial information so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Website.  

4. Your IP Address.
Each time you visit the Website, your IP address and the web page from which you came are automatically collected. We use the IP address to help identify you and protect you from fraud.

5. Our Use of Your Information.
We use your E-mail address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Website, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Website, and to forward messages to you from other netvillage.com.com Members. We may also communicate with you to advise you of special membership offers and local social events. We do not use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers, or other promotional materials from or for any third parties' goods or services.

We may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors, and service providers so that they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, and order fulfillment. However, we require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.

6. Cases in Which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of netvillage.com or other visitors to the Website. We may also disclose your personal information to our parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal, financial, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.

7. How we Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information.
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to enable other users to find your profile, and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous basis to demonstrate the likelihood that the advertisers' goods and services will appeal to netvillage.com users. We emphasize that our sharing of this information is anonymous. However, when you respond to an advertisement, remember that if that advertisement is targeted to a particular demographic group, and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group.

8. Security Precautions.
This Website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Please be aware that your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.

9. Changing Our Privacy Policy.
If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an E-mail or by providing 30 days notice on the Website.

10. How You Can access and Update Your E-mail Preferences, Personal Information, and Public Information.
You may opt-out of certain communications and modify personal or demographic information you have provided to us. You may hide demographic information from, or make demographic visible to, the public users of the Website at any time by going to the Account Settings or My Profile section of the Website. Please be aware that any changes made to your Profile or your settings will be prospective only. It will not change or delete E-mails or other information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, as provided above in this Privacy Policy.

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