We at MuslimaMatch.com ("we" or "MuslimaMatch.com") have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our strong commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we do so. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the MuslimaMatch.com Website, but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between MuslimaMatch.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on August 20, 2004. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.

Your IP Address

As is the practice of most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the MuslimaMatch.com site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Cookies

The Site uses cookies, as most Websites do, to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit MuslimaMatch.com. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, since cookies allow the Site to function at its optimum, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain features on the Site.

Information We Collect From You

In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history information, and registration history information), as set out in this agreement. Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of purchase history and financial information and 2) "public information", which consists of all other demographic information. Please note that 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 old.

Information Other Websites Collect From You

On the Site, 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, and that this 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 on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with MuslimaMatch.com). These types of commuications with you, known as “Operational Communcations”, may be accomplished via telephone, e-mail or postal mail. In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.

We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for MuslimaMatch.com’s or third parties’ goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from MuslimaMatch.com (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general. By registering for a Site account, purchasing contact information from MuslimaMatch.com and/or posting a profile on the Site, you are agreeing to receive some form of communication from the Site.

To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, and order fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.

By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.

Any third party with whom we share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

We do not sell or share information that has been given to us or that we collect with other organizations for the purposes of solicitation.

To our female clients: As part of our service and goal of connecting Muslim men and women for marriage, male visitors to our site may choose to pay a fee to access your contact information for the purposes of marriage. When you create a profile you specify the information you want to make available to paying male users of the site. This is the way in which our service works.

We give male users access to your contact information with the understanding that they will use it to contact you solely for the purposes of marriage – we do not condone and are not responsible for any other use of your contact information.

Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.

How We Use Financial Information

We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services of third parties offered on the Site, or by participating in programs offered on the Site that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties.

Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases In Which We Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your financial information.

Special Cases In Which We Share Personal and Financial Information

Your personal information or financial 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 MuslimaMatch.com or other visitors to the Site.

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 to tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to MuslimaMatch.com’s users, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups.

Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular MuslimaMatch.com users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information."

If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email or by providing notice on the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the change.

How You Can Opt-out of Future Communications

If you do not want to receive non-essential/promotional e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an email at optout@muslimamatch.com in which you state that you do not want to receive e-mail from MuslimaMatch.com.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at policies@muslimamatch.com. You may also send us mail at: Box 201, 2666 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4C