We know that you care about how your personal information is used. We want to share with you our policies and practices to protect your privacy so that you feel confident about how we handle your personal information. This policy is governed by the laws of the State of California.

While we do not plan to modify our policies very often, it is always advisable to double-check when you visit our site to be sure that you have read and agree with our most current policy statement. Any change in our privacy policy will be prospective only. We will not make any changes that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.

MyLifeFuel.com provides an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. MyLifeFuel members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service to share photos, post journals and comments, find traveling partners, and research and purchase travel packages. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. MyLifeFuel members can change their profile information and will soon be able to control how other members and the service communicates with them.

If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us via our "Contact Us" page.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USAGE: MyLifeFuel.com collects all user submitted information obtained during the membership sign-up process, including name, birthday, email address, and location. In addition, MyLifeFuel.com also collects other data including but not limited to: travel interests, personal interests, gender, relationship status, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

MyLifeFuel.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the MyLifeFuel.com social networking and travel community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join MyLifeFuel, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network. Users within a personal network can communicate with each other through the MyLifeFuel.com website without disclosing their email addresses. Users' last names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, MyLifeFuel.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, destinations traveled, or travel experience or interest.

MyLifeFuel also uses a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. From time to time, MyLifeFuel.com or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on MyLifeFuel.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

INVITATIONS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION TO NON-MEMBERS: MyLifeFuel members will eventually be able invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. MyLifeFuel.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. MyLifeFuel.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from MyLifeFuel.com may contact MyLifeFuel.com to request the removal of their information from our database.

You may prevent MyLifeFuel.com email invitations and other messages from being sent by contacting us via the "Contact Us" page.

USE OF COOKIES: MyLifeFuel.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from MyLifeFuel.com in order to use most functions on the site Please note that MyLifeFuel allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the MyLifeFuel Privacy Policy.

LINKS: MyLifeFuel.com contains links to sites. MyLifeFuel.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. MyLifeFuel.com is not responsible for links generated by our members on their profile pages or their posts within our forums. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on MyLifeFuel.com.

CHAT ROOMS, JOURNALS AND WEBLOGS, MESSAGES BOARDS, AND PUBLIC FORUMS: Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, or any other Public Forums, that the information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

CORRECTION/UPDATING OR REMOVING INFORMATION: MLifeFuel.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

EMAIL CHOICE/OPT-OUT: Users who do not wish to receive MyLifeFuel.com newsletters may choose not to by selecting by contacting us via the "Contact Us" page on www.mylifefuel.com.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING: Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by MyLifeFuel.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by MyLifeFuel.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

SECURITY: MyLifeFuel.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords MyLifeFuel.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time For any additional information about the security measures we use on MyLifeFuel.com, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page.

SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION MYLIFEFUEL.COM COLLECTS: Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, MyLifeFuel will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by MyLifeFuel.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the MyLifeFuel.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. MyLifeFuel reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of MyLifeFuel or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.