The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. 163friends.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the information we collect from members. You have our promise that we will not electronically process your personal information in any way that is incompatible with this policy. In our online registration form, we ask you to provide us with certain information such as your birth date, occupation, and the type of relationship you are looking for. However, none of the personal information can be accessed or used by the public to identify a specific individual.

Protecting Your Privacy
 - 163friends.com does not store credit card Information. Credit card transactions are transmitted via secure encrypted connections (SSL). 163friends.com does not sell or pass personal information to any third parties for commercial purposes. If we go out of business, we will not sell any personal information.

Disclosure and Information Sharing - The following describes some of the ways in which your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

- When required by law, we will co-operate with all law enforcement inquiries and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. Court orders or legal process 
- When your consent to share your personally identifiable information 
- When usage by advertisers or companies who work on behalf of 163friends.com to provide and promote a product or service to you, aggregating for advertising and for other marketing and promotional purposes, but we do not disclose any personal information that could be used to personally identify you.

Use of Your Information 
- We internally use personally identifiable information of our users to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and service as well as to customize our site's content and design. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor your online experience to meet your needs. We also send periodic informational updates to our members via email.

Use of Cookies - We use cookies on our website(s) to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize our services. One of the primary purposes of using cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

Use of Web Beacons 
- 163friends.com web pages contains electronic images known as Web Beacons, sometimes called 1x1 pixel gifs, that allow 163friends.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views.

Use of Other Users' Information 
- We and our users do not tolerate spam, harassment, or threats.

Control of Your Password - You may not disclose or share your password to any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you loose control of your password and your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Profile - Our Members can modify or delete their information from our database by logging in with their password. Once deleted, it is gone for good and cannot be retrieved by us. You have the ability to access to your account to edit your memberships information and preferences at any time. Upon your written request, we will delete, and/or suspend your membership, your contact information including your financial information from our active databases.

Employee Accountability - Only those 163friends.com employees that have a legitimate business purpose for accessing and handling personal information obtained by us are given authorization to do so. The unauthorized access or use of such information by a 163friends.com employee is prohibited and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.

Additionally, our information management systems are configured in such a way as to block or inhibit employees from accessing information that they have no authority to access.

Notification of Changes - We will post any changes to this policy from time to time.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us: info at 163friends.com.