GLOBAL PENFRIENDS PRIVACY POLICY

At Global Penfriends, we strongly believe in protecting the privacy of our Members' personal information. The below legal document indicates how Global Penfriends handles the information you provide to us. You should read it in conjunction with the Global Penfriends Terms and Conditions, of which this Privacy Policy forms part. 1.

Emails from Global Penfriends.
Most users are interested in how we will use their email address to communicate with them, so here's our email promise in plain English: The team at Global Penfriends hate spam and maintain a strong Anti-Spam policy. We will NEVER ever send you unsolicited emails. There will be some emails that we will need to send you to provide you with a good Penpal service. These mails include notifications that you have received a message from a penpal, Virtual Smile notifications, reminders about your membership expiring and a quarterly newsletter. A full list of the types of emails you will receive to help you use the service most effectively (which we call Service Emails) are shown below:

Service Mails Explained
• Validation email – Used to verify your email address when you first register.
• Welcome emails - These explain how to use the site when you first join.
• Payment receipt – This is sent if you Upgrade your account.
• Renewal notices – A reminder for you to renew your membership.
• Service messages – Notification if website will be unavailable for a period.
• New mail notification – Notice of new messages waiting in your GP inbox.
• Approval/decline messages - Sent after you edit or resubmit your profile.
• Penpal Match Finder mails - Notice of new members (Only if you have it activated)
• Suspension notices – In the event of you breaking any Club rules.

Newsletter
As well as these Service Emails, you will also receive Occassional Newsletters (Sent Quarterly at most) These newsletters are usually sent when new functionality is added to the site We only send a newsletter when there is something worthwhile to tell you about, so your inbox will never be overflowing with Global Penfriend mails.

Credit Details
We use Paypal for all credit card processing. Paypal is a respected and trusted Internet Credit card merchant and is designed to protect both buyer and seller. We have used Paypal for many years and have never had a problem with the service they provide. They are so secure that we don't even see or have access to your credit card details when submitted - Only Paypal sees this information.

General Privacy of Contact Details
We guarantee that we will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation - thus, you can rest assured that the information you supply in your profile is only going to be used by Global Penfriends.

We will never sell the lists of our Members' email addresses to any third party. It is impossible for your email address to be given out to another user of our Club unless you yourself give the address willingly through the Internal messaging system on our website.

Members who willingly submit their postal addresses for distribution to other penpals must realise that their postal addresses are assessible by any Premium (paying) member of the Global Penfriend Club. It is completely optional whether you display your postal address and we ask any member concerned with privacy should simply not provide this information where asked.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the Global Penfriends Terms and Conditions.