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Effective Date: May 30, 2004

At Language-Connect^TM we are committed to protecting the privacy of our members and guests. We only ask for personal information that is necessary to provide the services of this site to our members. Your email address will be used only to communicate club information to you such as sending a regular newsletter and to inform you of new features at Language-Connect^TM (both are optional). Personal information regarding any individual will never be given to outside parties. However, we may give aggregate information such as demographic statistics, used languages, looked for languages to potential advertisers or partners.

Information Collected

We gather four types of information: public, private and automatic.

• Public:

Public information will include that information available for registered members to view, or demographic information. This includes your demographic information such as gender, user name, age, geographical location, practicing and native languages, description you have written. You are also able to share additional information like "Language learning ways" articles between the others.

• Private:

Private information is information that can personally identify you such as your real name, password and email address.

• Automatic:

Automatic information is information that we collect that is not personally identifiable such as your IP address, site usage, browser type, browser activity, and browser settings. None of this information discloses any of your personal information.

We use your IP and/or Mac address to avoid fraudulent registrations, and monitor site usage demographics and dynamics. Information that we may obtain regarding your browser and browser settings may be used to ensure that our site`s technical features are available to you. Except as permitted herein, the specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party without your explicit consent and is only ever disclosed in situations where required by law.

Except as permitted herein, the Language-Connect^TM does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with any third party. However, we may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to your interests, and we may share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis such that individual private information or behavior may not be determined (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement and give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group.

Changing/Suspending/Removing your Information

To make changes to your profile, suspend your account, or remove your account completely, you may do so at any time by logging in to your account and editing your settings in the "My Profile" section of the site.

Security

The Language-Connect^TM reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor all services used on the Site. This includes but is not limited to the materials posted in the public areas as well as the contents of communications transmitted while engaging in email, or other means of communication. We limit the access to your personal information to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or to do their jobs.

The Language-Connect^TM shall have the right to remove any material that violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or our terms of usage. Information may be released when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to: 1. comply with applicable law or to assist governmental or legal requests; 2. operate the service properly or enforce or apply the terms of any of our user terms, conditions and agreements; or 3. protect the rights, property or safety of our users and/or any third parties.

Cookies

The Language-Connect^TM may use cookies on our Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from the site you are visiting and stored on your computer`s hard drive. Cookies are very common and completely normal throughout the Internet. Cookies do not harm your computer nor can they access information stored on your computer. The primary purpose of cookies is to maintain your customized settings on a site. Members that do not accept cookies will not be able to log on to the site.

Single-Pixel Gifs

The Language-Connect^TM and its advertisers may use single-pixel gifs on the Site. The purpose of these single-pixel gifs is to verify and count web page accesses and gather some statistical information. These single-pixel gifs gather usage and demographic information, but do not gather any personal information.

E-Mail

To enhance your experience as a Site member, we send out match and message notifications, newsletters and site announcements, and from time to time third party offers from companies that we feel may have something that will benefit you. Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving different types of communications (except system communications, or communications required for account maintenance), and each email that we send out has a method for opting-out located at the bottom of the message.

Links

The Language-Connect^TM may have links to other websites on our Site. Some of these other websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, 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. However, we are not responsible for the content, privacy practices nor the collection, usage and distribution of private information by third party sites.

Associates

When you register to become an associate of our site, you will be asked for contact information and information related to your site. Except as permitted herein, it will not be shared with any third party without your explicit consent except in situations where required by law. Your information will be used to secure your approval as an associate, to facilitate communication between our two sites and to send you payment, based on your site`s performance.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. We will notify all registered members of any change to this privacy policy either by posting a notification on the site or via email, unless you have opted-out of receiving email from us. Continued use of the Services or non-termination of your membership after changes are posted or emailed constitutes your acceptance or deemed acceptance of the terms as modified, regardless of whether the notice or email was successfully received, read, or lost during transmission. 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. Contact us with your questions or suggestions.