Brazilian Mates has provided this statement of our Privacy Policy as a way to express our commitment to helping our users understand completely what information we collect about them, why we collect it, and what may happen with that information. This policy covers treatment of personal information that Brazilian Mates collects from its members at any point during use.

OUR SECURITY PRECAUTIONS
Brazilian Mates.com has security measures in place to protect its members against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted form.
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.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION
The primary need in collecting personal information about you is to provide you with an effective, functional, and customized experience when using our Site. In this way we are able to provide services and features that most closely meet your needs and to customize our service to make using the Site as easy as possible.
Your email address and your other personal information are used in such a way as to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Site, and to forward messages to you with pertinent information regarding your account. We refer to this type of communication as “Administrative Communication”. We may also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, special offers, and other promotional materials associated with your membership. In some instances these Administrative Communications may also contain commercial messages such as special offers or banner ads.
Some personal information submitted to Brazilian Mates for the purpose of registrations, such as your real name, address, and telephone number is confidential and will never be posted by us in your profile. We DO NOT DISCLOSE your email address, NOR DO WE SELL IT or make it available to any third party other than as outlined here. We ask that when creating your visible profile you not include such identifying information. For example, never include any identifying information when creating a user name. Never include identifying information in the essay portion, or any portion, of your public profile. We reserve the right to remove any profiles containing identifying information such as address, email address, or telephone numbers. This is done to PROTECT AND ENSURE THE PRIVACY AND SAFETY of our members.
Please note that we will never knowingly collect or display personal information from children under the age of 18. All members are required to be at least 18 years of age, and represent through the registration process that they are as such.

USE OF INFORMATION
You agree that we may use your information when analyzing our Site for the purpose of improving our marketing and promotional activities, improving our Site’s services, layout, and content.
Information gathered about you through your use of Brazilian Mates may be examined to identify problems and identify member multiple Member Ids or aliases.
We use the information collected on you based on your current and past activities on our Site, if the need arises, to diagnose problems within the Site, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms and Conditions of usage. It should be noted that in some instances personal information might need to be disclosed in ways not described in this privacy policy. For example, in cases where it is deemed necessary in order to comply with applicable law, we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies, or other third parties.
As is true when using any site on the World Wide Web, it is also possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Site. We use industry standard practices to protect your privacy. But we do not promise, nor should you expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
Brazilian Mates does on occasion gather information compiled by reviewing the accounts and personal data of all our members as a whole. Such information may be passed along to advertisers or other third parties in the form of non-personally identifiable data for other marketing and promotional purposes. In such instances, we do not disclose to these parties any information that could be used to identify you personally. Personal information about you such as your name, email address, password, and any financial information are never given out to advertisers or marketers.

OUTSIDE SERVICE PROVIDERS
Brazilian Mates.com may place links to other websites operated by third parties. These external sites may or may not contain our brand names, trademarks, or intellectual property. Please be advised that should you visit a site outside Brazilian Mates.com via a link on our Site, regardless of whether they contain our names, trademarks, or intellectual property, we have no influence over these external sites or their actions, and that our Privacy Policy no longer applies. If you choose to use these external service providers, and/or allow them to collect personal information about you, then such use of your information will be governed by their own privacy policy. Please review the respective privacy policies provided by any outside service provider or website, as we can not be responsible for their practices.

IP ADDRESS/COOKIES
As is the case with most commercial websites, Brazilian Mates automatically collects your IP address and the web page from which you came. This is done in order that we may administer and optimize the Site while we gather broad demographic information about you. And like most websites, Brazilian Mates.com uses cookies to keep track or your purchases and other activities on the Site. This provides us with a tool to use as reference when making operational changes. These cookies are also used to deliver material of specific interest to you, to save your password, and to save other personal information relating to your account on your computer, if you should choose to do so. This can be controlled by you as a preference. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION
If at any time financial information is collected, we will use this information to check your qualifications and to bill you for any services authorized by you. By agreeing to and engaging in a financial transaction, or any activity that uses financial information, with Brazilian Mates, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine 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. Any of these various third parties may be authorized to use your financial 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. 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.

Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to info@brazilianmates.com