World Friends Dating

Safety and privacy advice

WorldFriends provides a fun and secure environment in which to meet new friends, find language teachers or students, and exchange views. Its a great place to build great friendships online that translate into great relationships offline. But whether you are building that friendship online or meeting people offline, please exercise all due caution. Common sense is your best friend online and the following points must be kept in mind to ensure a healthy online experience.

GUARD YOUR ANONYMITY On WorldFriends your true identity is protected until you decide to reveal it. NEVER give out personal information until your cyber friend has earned your trust. That may take a long time. Please burn this point into your brain to prevent someone from misusing your personal information or details later on. Stop communicating with anyone who pressures you for personal information or attempts in any way to trick you into revealing it. Dont disclose your main email address. Use a service that forwards your email to another account or set up another account for use on the site.

KEEP IT REAL Recognize that many, many people lie online. The person who says hes 23 and going to Harvard may very well be a 50-year-old sexual predator. Or the man is a woman, or the woman is a man. The person you may think you know may not exist at all. So dont get too carried away, keep a sense of perspective at all times.

MEET IN A SAFE PLACE If you decide to arrange a face-to-face meeting, whether it is for friendship, language lessons, or to get to know each other better, there are important things to keep in mind. When you meet for the first time, meet with a group at a public place, such as a restaurant. Never meet a stranger alone. Make sure you have the persons name, address, and phone number before you meet. Confirm the information is real. Give your friends or family the information and tell them your plans.

Please be wary if the person you are corresponding with requests money from you
Even after a significant length of correspondence and exchanging photos, though you may feel very comfortable with your new friend, please be wary when, for example, he/she requests you to pay for his/her travelling fees for personal encounters, medical fees for his/her family members, etc. You should treat such occurences as a potential warning signal that the intentions of the person you are corresponding with may not be of a genuine nature. Therefore, we strongly urge you to be careful and take whatever necessary precautions you deem appropriate.

TAKE IT EASY, TIME IS ON YOUR SIDE Watch out for someone who seems just too good to be true. Look out for inconsistencies in what the person says and claims to be. The person at the other end may not be who he or she say they are. In that case, just walk away. If anything makes you the least bit uncomfortable, walk away for your own safety and protection. We at WorldFriends want you to have a pleasant and fun experience, making friends online.

USE THE PHONE Dont wait too long before you talk on the phone. Youll learn a lot from each others voices. Do not give out your telephone number if you are not comfortable and know enough about the person. Use a cell phone instead or if you must call, use local telephone facilities to prevent your number from appearing on somebodys caller ID.

ASK FOR PHOTOS When you meet for the first time, you should get to know each other, not be shocked out of your mind. Ask for photos, if somebody keeps giving you excuses for not sending a photo, then you can safely assume that the person has something to hide or is not being truthful about something. Looks may not be as important as the persons personality but a photo will help you in achieving a gut feeling about the person.

The web may abound with liars, and cheaters but that is also true in real life. The same kind of shady people are to be found everywhere from cocktail parties, at roadside cafes or offline dating services. Regardless of where you meet someone, dating is never a risk-free activity, but a little caution will help go a long way in ensuring your safety while looking for that true love, friend or soul mate.

Happy and safe searching!

PRIVACY POLICY and PERSONAL INFORMATION

It is our policy to completely respect the privacy of our users. Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in e-mail or forums, that information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited messages. Be smart about the information you provide online.

The online personals service (Personals or Personals Service(s)) that you are now accessing is powered, hosted and maintained by Meta4 Group (HK) Limited and made available through websites owned by M4 (M4 Site(s)), including WorldFriends , or through a network of online personals services developed, hosted and maintained by M4 (each a Network Partner Personals Service and, collectively, the Network Partner Personals Services), each of which is linked from websites owned or maintained by various third party affiliates (each a Partner and, collectively, the Partners). Collectively, the M4 Sites and Network Partner Personals Services controlled and operated by M4 are referred to as the WrodlFriends Networks (WFN).

This agreement (Terms of Use) governs your use of the Personals Services, the M4 Sites, and each past, present or future Network Partner Personals Service.

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