Friends You Know LLC Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Friends You Know LLC's ("Friends You Know") Internet web site ("Site") located at the URL FriendsYouKnow.com. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout Friends You Know governing Friends You Know's use of personally identifiable information about users of our Site and users of services (the "Services").

Privacy Policy Updates

Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, Friends You Know may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, Friends You Know will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at FriendsYouKnow.com and if you are a registered user of the Site, we will send you an email, so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using this Site and the Services. If you do not cease using this Site and the Services, you will be conclusively deemed to have accepted the change.

Information Collection and Use

You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site and when you use our Services, we may invite you to contact us with questions or comments or request information, provide us with feedback, participate in surveys, questionnaires or contests, participate in chat or message boards or complete a registration form. Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, contact data such as your address, email address, phone number, username, age or date of birth, gender, employment, income level, password, instant messenger account names, credit card number or other financial account information, and other personally identifiable information that you voluntarily post in your profile or blog or transmit with your communication to us.

Other registered Site users may search for friends on this Site by name, location, interests, gender and orientation and the search results may reveal your name and location. They can then send you a message and/or ask to be your friend on this Site.

In your privacy settings for the Site, you can set who (e.g. no one, only your friends, your friends and groups or your friends, groups and networks) can view your profile information, including your birthday, email address, address, phone number, instant messenger account, groups to which you belong, interests, posts, blogs, photos, work and education. Based on your privacy settings, other registered Site users may post comments on your photos, invite you to join groups or attend an event, tag you in a photo and write on your profile postings.

We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use our Services, deliver certain services, provide notices regarding services you have purchased, and verify your authority to enter our Site, and improve the content and general administration of the Site and our Services.

Children's Privacy

Friends You Know recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. Friends You Know does not target its Services or this Site to children under 13. Friends You Know does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

Cookies

We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.

Aggregate Information

The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, and IP addresses, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Disclosure

We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our Services to you. For example, we may provide your personally identifiable information to a credit card processing company to process your payment. Such third party entities may be restricted from further distributing your personally identifiable information and from using your personally identifiable information for commercial purposes and may be obligated to a written confidentiality agreement that is at least as protective of your personally identifiable information as the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which Friends You Know participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of Friends You Know's assets to which this Site relates.

Links to Third Party Sites

The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which Friends You Know does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Friends You Know of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that Friends You Know is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Friends You Know is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

Security

We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Friends You Know may use encryption, secure socket layer, password protection, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

Correction/Updating Personally Identifiable Information

Friends You Know provides you with the ability to review, correct and delete any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us. If you wish to review or correct any information you have provided to us, you may submit a request to us as the contact information below or access your account online.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at privacy@friendsyouknow.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated: April 25, 2008

This Privacy Policy is effective as of: July 25, 2007