Soulfulencounters.com is firmly committed to privacy. In order to maintain the Site, we use your IP address (the series of numbers associated with your individual computer), and this IP address does not disclose any personal information about you. Registrants for the Site will be asked for general identifying information which will enable us to provide you with an individualized service. Contact information such as your e-mail address, and demographic information will be obtained when you register for the Site. Your non-personally identifying demographic information is used to personalize our services to you, to allow other members to find you through a search, and to compose your personal profile. Other than e-mails from other members of the Site, your contact information is never available to other members or to other organizations. Your personally identifiable information will never be released to any external organization without your prior consent except for the purposes of validating credit information and collecting payments owing to us. We may disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by operation of law, which may include, but is not limited to a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us. Soulfulencounters.com uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of personal identifiable information. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized use and we employ many different security techniques to protect such data from such unauthorized use. However, you must be aware that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.