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AIRTRODUCTIONS PRIVACY POLICY

AirTroductions.com Privacy Policy

We at AirKarma, Ltd. d/b/a "AirTroductions™" ("we" or "AirTroductions™.com" or "AirTroductions™") have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the AirTroductions™.com Website, and double blind email communications between AirTroductions™.com members (collectively, the "AirTroductions™ Site"), but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between AirTroductions™.com, or any other company, and consumers.

Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on June 27, 2005. Each time you visit the AirTroductions™ Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time. This privacy policy is a part of, and should be read together with, our Terms of Use. Restrictions on your use of information. If you wish to participate in the AirTroductions™ site, you agree to take responsibility for protecting any personally identifiable information that you may obtain from other AirTroductions™ members. In all cases, you must give members an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what personally identifiable information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. We do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add an AirTroductions™ member to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. Lastly, you may not use personally identifiable information to defame, harass, intimidate or stalk another member.

HOW WE CONTROL USE OF YOUR INFORMATION Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. For example, in order to assist our members to meet each other, we may feature members' profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to time to our members. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information.

By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of our Terms of Use. Your IP Address Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the AirTroductions™ Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the AirTroductions™ Site for you and to diagnose problems with our AirTroductions™ Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you. Cookies Like most Websites, the AirTroductions™ Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the AirTroductions™ Site and enhance your experience on the AirTroductions™ Site. We may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password and, if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the AirTroductions™ Site.

Third party advertisers on the AirTroductions™ Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the AirTroductions™ Site. Information We Collect From You In order to operate the AirTroductions™ Site and to provide you with information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the AirTroductions™ Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications between you and other members over the AirTroductions™ Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.

Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the AirTroductions™ Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial information into your "Profile" (for example, don't use your address or passcode as your username, or include your name or address in your written responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the AirTroductions™ Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic information" that is "public information."

Please note that nowhere on the AirTroductions™ Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old. Information Other Websites Collect From You On the AirTroductions™ Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. 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 AirTroductions™ Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions. How We Use Personal Information We use your email address and your other personal information to help us match you with other users of the AirTroductions™ Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the AirTroductions™ Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with AirTroductions™.com), and to forward messages to you from other AirTroductions™.com users. These types of communications are known as "Operational Communications."

In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers. We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for AirTroductions™.com's. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The AirTroductions™ Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from AirTroductions™.com (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general. By posting your profile on the AirTroductions™ Site, you are opting in to receive the AirTroductions™.com email. To stop receiving AirTroductions™.com by Mail, go to the "Login Info" section of your profile and deselect "I want to receive occasional updates from AirTroductions™."

To operate the AirTroductions™ Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the AirTroductions™ Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the AirTroductions™ Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the AirTroductions™ Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

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 you submit to us. In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the AirTroductions™ Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as "Co-Branded Companies." If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal 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. Those third parties who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information. How We Control Use of Financial Information We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the AirTroductions™ Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are 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 AirTroductions™ Site, or by participating in programs offered on the AirTroductions™ 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. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded Companies) 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. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your financial information.

Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of AirTroductions™.com or other visitors to the AirTroductions™ Site. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control.

Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information. How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor the AirTroductions™ Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and services will appeal to AirTroductions™.com's users, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular AirTroductions™.com users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information."

Also, to read further details about how we may use your public information, see our Terms of Use. Our Security Precautions The AirTroductions™ Site has security measures in place to protect 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.

Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the AirTroductions™ Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the change.

A Note About Children Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (those under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public Information We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to, the public users of the AirTroductions™ Site, at anytime by going to the Account Settings or My Profile section of the AirTroductions™ Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the AirTroductions™ Site. We thank you for your patience.

Please note that changing or deleting your information through the "Account Settings" or "My Profile" section of the AirTroductions™ Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from AirTroductions™.com, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the AirTroductions™ Site and for managing future communications from AirTroductions™.com. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy. Upon your written request, we will cancel your membership, and we will remove contact information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our cancellation policy and applicable law.. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the AirTroductions™ Site, or your dealings with the AirTroductions™ Site, you can contact us at [email protected], or by mail to our counsel: Law Offices of Jerry S. Goldman & Associates, P.C., 111 Broadway, 13th Floor, N.Y., N.Y. 10006.


News
12/13/2005 Benvenuto, new AirTroductions members from Italy! We're glad to have you here! 12/2/2005 Have you made an AirTroduction? Do you want to be interviewed on NATIONAL TV? A major national TV show wants to do a story on AirTroductions, and wants to feature you! If you've made a match on AirTroductions, drop an email to
[email protected], and let us know! AirTroductions - Making your flights better, and making you famous at the same time!
11/29/2005 Welcome everyone from Washington, DC! Glad to have you here on AirTroductions! 11/24/2005 Two AirTroductions thoughts for the day - Profiles with photos tend to get looked at and contacted about 10x as much as those without. Also, add [email protected] to your address book to prevent our emails and your AirTroductions from winding up in your Spam file! Happier Travels!