(Last Updated October 10, 2005)

Dancing Partners does not send spam or sell email addresses.

Dancing Partners is committed to honouring the privacy of its members and visitors. This Privacy Policy, part of Dancing Partners overall Terms of Use, describes exactly how Dancing Partners uses your personally identifiable information (such as name, address, email addresses, and double blind email communications between Dancing Partners members) and other information, collected through the Dancing Partners website www.dancingpartners.net (the "Site") as part of the registration process or otherwise in connection with your use of the various services (the "Service") offered by Dancing Partners through the Site.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other website nor to any offline contact or communications, including offline contact between you and Dancing Partners or any other user of the Service.

The Service provided by Dancing Partners is an online service to match individuals wishing to find a dance partner. In order for you to participate in the Service, you must provide information about yourself.

Information Submitted to Dancing Partners
In order to register as a member of the Service (a "Member"), you must provide Dancing Partners certain account information about yourself, such as name, email address, gender, and location.

In addition, Dancing Partners also asks that you provide more complete profile information such as age, occupation, photos, interests, etc., by answering its questionnaire. Answering these additional questions is entirely voluntary. However, since answering the questionnaire facilitates finding matches which offer the highest possible chance of a successful dancing relationship, the more questions you answer, the better your chances.

Information Automatically Collected by Dancing Partners
Dancing Partners automatically collects from you (and any other visitor to the Site, whether or not a Member), non-personally identifiable information, such as server, browser type and IP address.

Information Members Submit to Dancing Partners
Your profile information and photos are publicly displayed to support the function of the Site as a dance partner matching site where Members and other visitors to the Site can meet and introduce others, including reviewing information posted by and about Members. In addition, if you participate in various optional services, such as user feedback or information for our Newsletter etc., the results of that information will be publicly displayed.

Dancing Partners will use your contact information to communicate with you regarding your use of the Service, including registration confirmation, renewal notices, responses to Customer Service inquiries, lists of potential partners, etc.

If you elect to receive from Dancing Partners periodic updates or news regarding the Site, special offers from partners, etc., Dancing Partners will use your contact information to provide this information. You may choose not to receive communications of this type at any time by changing your preferences on the Site.

Dancing Partners may aggregate your information and use it in connection with the management of the Site and Service, including for marketing or advertising purposes. However, such information will be displayed or provided in a strictly anonymous manner with no personally identifying details.

Information Automatically Collected by Dancing Partners
Dancing Partners uses your server, IP address, browser-type and other similar information in the general administration and management of the Site and Service. If Dancing Partners associates this information with your personally identifiable information, then it is treated the same as your other personally identifiable information.

Other Disclosure/Use of the Information Gathered/Tracked on the Site

Aside from the situations otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or where you are expressly informed otherwise, as a matter of policy Dancing Partners does not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed and used:

Other Users
The Service enables users to interact with other users including, but not limited to, sending and receiving electronic mail, participating in discussion groups, etc. via the Internet. The electronic mail service provided through the Service is double blind and so does not disclose your actual email address to the other party. Of course, if you elect to exchange messages and share your information with others through the Service, Dancing Partners has no control over what those third parties do with your information. For this reason, Dancing Partners strongly recommends that you use care when disclosing personally identifiable information to others.

External Service Providers
You may separately agree to provide information about yourself to other companies who provide services on the Site, in order to use their services, order their products, or receive offers from them. If you agree to provide information to these companies, that information will be subject to their privacy policies. Dancing Partners has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. You should, therefore, review their privacy policies carefully if you have concerns about what information is collected and how it may be used.

Internal Service Providers
Dancing Partners may use internal service providers to facilitate and evaluate the Service. This may require disclosure of some of your personal information to these service providers. In some instances, an internal service provider may collect information directly from you. In all cases, these internal service providers are obligated to conform to the terms of this Privacy Policy in connection with their use of your personal information.

Other Related Entities
From time to time Dancing Partners may provide information about you to its subsidiaries and other related entities in order to provide you the Service. Each of these entities will comply with the policies described in this Privacy Policy.

Acquisition
If the stock or assets of Dancing Partners , its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any combination of such, are acquired by another entity, then some or all of your personal information may be provided to such successor entity in connection with that transaction.

Legal Requests
Dancing Partners may disclose your personal information to law enforcement and such other government officials as Dancing Partners , in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation or prosecution of alleged illegal activity. Dancing Partners also may disclose information about you pursuant to a court order in a civil action or other lawsuit.

The Site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Dancing Partners is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. Dancing Partners encourages its users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Site.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. Dancing Partners uses both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following the directions in your Internet browser help file. Cookies are used to manage sessions on the Site. Also, you may use a cookie to remember your password in order to automatically log in to the Site.

The Site pages also may contain an electronic file called a web beacon. Web beacons allow Dancing Partners to count users who have visited a particular page or to access certain cookies.

Dancing Partners uses industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within its database as well as communications between users through the Service. Dancing Partners limits access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as Dancing Partners customer service personnel. However, due to technical limitations, Dancing Partners is unable to guarantee that your personal information and private communications will never be disclosed in ways not described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, Dancing Partners does not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

You may modify or remove any of your personal information at any time by logging in to your account. If you remove information which is the minimal information required to be a Member, then your membership in the Service will terminate.

If your membership with Dancing Partners is terminated for any reason, your personal information may continue to be maintained until you either remove it or Dancing Partners elects to remove that information. In addition, your information may be retained in Dancing Partners archives for the Site, created as part of its normal back-up and archive operations.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, Dancing Partners privacy practices, or your dealings with the Site, please contact us.