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| It's easy to get your password recovered. Just click on this link:
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| The online dating services provided by MyPartner.com are very different from regular online dating. With a typical dating site, you can spend endless hours searching for the right person.
With our customized and comprehensive Partner Perfect Compatibility™ Search Engine, we do the work for you--recommending potential matches without you having to do any of the work! You are also given several search options if you want to conduct your own searches within our database.
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Online Dating: Online dating begins with an extensive profile outlining the detailed wants and needs of each user as well as a critique of personality and lifestyle. The profile explores far beyond typical personal and physical compatibility issues and uniquely identifies key interests and concerns among the gay male dating scene. This level of service allows you to search profiles on your own and receive Partner Perfect matches automatically.
Private Matchmaking: Our comprehensive matchmaking services are 100% private and we do all the work for you: saving you time, energy, and hope! As your private matchmaker, we work with you one-on-one and present you with potential matches. Also enjoy our Premium Online Dating Services for FREE when you outsource your love life to myPartner.com!
A tried and true step-by-step process is at the heart of myPartner's matchmaking experience. "The Magic 7" outlines a unique progression for effectively and efficiently identifying the perfect match for clients. Each step represents a thorough period of discovery in which the matchmaker learns about the client and the client about himself on the path to meeting his life partner. myPartner's core strength is private matchmaking. Clients experience a distinctly thorough and efficient process including an assessment of wants and needs as in-depth as analyzing past relationships, as well as a comprehensive debriefing after each date, and matchmaker counseling throughout.
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We don't allow any text that is a reference to:
-any web site, including youtube, myspace, dlist, or other profiles, etc.
-internet messaging, including AOL, Yahoo, etc.
-email addresses
We approve all changes to your profile and scan for this content. We will remove these without notification.
Premium members may include two outbound links to websites on their profiles, but not in their "about me" or other text fields in their profile.
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Having an active profile with our services is FREE! There are many useful features designed to help you find your potential life partner on MyPartner.com.
Once you are ready to take the next step, CLICK HERE to review the endless benefits of a MyPartner.com subscription and our Private Matchmaking Services Offering: Confidential one-on-one consultations, relationship coaching, arranged introductions and dating analysis based on their individualized Partner Perfect Compatibility™ profile.
For information about pricing see, http://www.mypartner.com/membership.html |
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Using a relationship/dating site or a private matchmaker is not right for everyone, but neither is typical online dating.
We recommend that if you are interested in our Private Matchmaking services and have a feeling that they might be right for you, to give us a call at 415-546-5670 or send us an email with your questions. |
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myPartner.com strictly prohibits certain types of photography and reserves the right to reject, or crop any photograph without warning or notification. You can also make any photo private, if you don’t want the whole world to see your face.
1. Default photos must feature your face clearly. (Sunglasses are OK!)
2. In addition, default photos must be photographs, not drawings or any other graphic rendering. Drawings and graphics of yourself can be used as secondary photos.
3. Photographs with websites, emails, instant message addresses, etc. will be edited or rejected.
4. Sexually provocative or suggestive will be rejected or cropped.
5. Specifically photographs cannot picture genitals, pubic hair, or buttocks.
6. Photographs that simulate sexual acts will be rejected or cropped.
7. No photographs with underwear, overly revealing swimsuits, sex toys, “fetish gear”.
8. You must appear in all the photographs. For instance, we will not publish a picture of your dog, unless you are in the photo with your dog.
9. myPartner is a gay male website. If you are dressed as a woman, then you must indicate that you are a man in your profile and include a male oriented photograph as your default photo.
Please refer to the FAQs for other details on myPartner photography issues.
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To ensure that you receive uninterrupted services, autorenewal is available for all of our Premium online dating plans.
Our prices and options for all of our plans may be viewed at:
http://www.mypartner.com/membership.html
Autorenewal payments are NOT refundable. Requests for cancellation of autorenewal must be made in advance of the autorenewal.
FuturePay is the recurring payment program by WorldPay. |
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| It's easy to delete your account on myPartner.com. Just log in, click on Profile Management, and click Delete My Profile. We'll ask you why you are resigning your profile and then you are all done!
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We are unique because MyPartner.com specializes and limits its matchmaking services to gay men. Other services that provide matchmaking for gay men do not focus solely on gay male styles of dating and courting. These site often use cookie cutter approaches more appropriate for heterosexual singles. We fully understand the distinctive culture and experience of the gay community, as we are designed by gay men for gay men.
Patrick Perrine, the founder of MyPartner.com has a graduate degree in human sexuality and has spent the majority of his life counseling with individual gay men on their relationships as well as in LGBT community service organizations. He knows what you are looking for and understands how hard it can be to find. To learn more about what makes myPartner different, check out our Competitive Advantages.
Additionally, MyPartner.com is different from many other dating services in that we do not simply set our Private Matchmaking Clients up with other Matchmaking clients. We set our clients up with eligible bachelors who we believe are compatible match or and potential life partners. This affords our clients a much larger pool of potential matches.
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It is easy to search on myPartner!
Just log into your account, scroll down to "search" on your My Home page. Here you can see how many members are near a specific zip code.
Premium members have enhanced browsing options. Premium members can click the Browse link from the top of your My Home page to go directly to the Browse page.
Our Premium members have five additional search options:
Quick Match,
Partner Perfect,
Custom,
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| Members who wish to close their accounts may do so at any time. It’s easy to delete your account on myPartner.com. Just log in, click on Profile Management, and click Delete My Profile.
Autorenewal payments are NOT refundable. Requests for cancellation of autorenewal must be made in advance of the autorenewal.
FuturePay is the recurring payment program by WorldPay.
Requests for refunds must be made by the third business day after purchase. Refunds will be issued only via Paypal or Worldpay. To request a refund send an email to admin@mypartner.com or use the customer service contact form (http://www.mypartner.com/contact.html).
For more information, please refer to the terms and conditions, located at the bottom of mypartner.com.
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Premium Online Memberships
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover and use either Paypal or Worldpay as credit card processors.
Credit cards may be used for all of our services.
We do not process premium online membership payments over the telephone. If you are having difficulty paying online we will walk you through the payment process.
Checks are accepted as payment for all membership services EXCEPT for one and three month memberships. Sale prices are limited to online payment only.
Private Matchmaking Services
Either credit card or checks may be used for the purchase of Private Matchmaking Services.
A 3 percent credit card fee will be charged for Private Matchmaking Services paid by credit card.
Checks should be payable to Zamor Inc.
Please send to:
myPartner.com (Zamor Inc.)
300 Brannan Street, Suite 406
San Francisco, CA 94107-1183
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Many of our clients are referred by former and current clients or people with whom we know through social and community networks. We are tapped into many different arenas in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California in which we personally find matches for our clients. Others are directed toward the website through advertisements in national and local magazines, press, and internet search engines. We have also partnered with organizations like Atlantis Cruises and Bigmuscle.com.
Additionally, we attend charity events, art openings, fashion events, sporting and club events, and cocktail parties in an effort to find appropriate dates for our clients. We also approach interesting people that we see in everyday life; like at the health club, in the dentist's office or in a coffeehouse in an effort to locate the right potential matches for our clients. |
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Having an active profile with our services is FREE!
The Introductory Plan (free) allows you to see how many members of myPartner in your area. Introductory members can fill out myPartner's Partner Perfect Compatibility™ profile, and receive matches. This way you can see if myPartner is a good fit for you.
There are many useful features designed to help you find your potential life partner on MyPartner.com. Introductory Plan members also receive the following features:
matches,
upload up to three photos,
browse for quick matches,
participate in surveys, and
receive "Partnering" our montly eNewsletter.
Once you are ready to take the next step, CLICK HERE to review the numerous benefits of a MyPartner.com Ppremium membership or our Private Matchmaking Services Offering: Confidential one-on-one consultations, relationship coaching, arranged introductions and dating analysis based on their individualized Partner Perfect Compatibility™ profile.
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| Introductions are initially based on the criteria the clients have set forth through their Partner Perfect CompatibilityT™, much like an executive search process. We conduct an in-depth interview and analysis with each client to personalize and further define the client's search. We have based the questionnaire and analysis process on the founder's internationally recognized research on Human Mating Preferences, and address areas of interest specific to the gay population. We also use professional photo portraits and digital photos taken at the time of interview. A further explanation of the process can be found at Magic 7. |
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Although we can present you with potentially perfect matches, it is up to you to begin communicating with other members! We all need a little help getting the conversation stated from time to time.
We have developed several communication tools to help you with this process. From your My Home page you can learn about the following communication options by clicking on the left side "communication" link:
1. Conversation Starters
2. Short Messaging
When you view a member's profile, Premium members will be able to select one or all of the options above to begin communicating with a potential match. All of our communication tools are safe, anonymous, and easy to use.
These features are available to Premium members only. |
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You can access your account by logging at http://www.mypartner.com/user-home.html
You can enter either your username or your email in the first field, and your password in the second.
If you have forgotten your password, you can request a temporary password at
http://www.mypartner.com/user-forgot_password.html
and a new password will be sent to you. If you don't receive the email, you can also send a message to our Concierge on our Customer Service page:
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| We describe each potential match as thoroughly as possible and, if they both agree, contact information is exchanged and an introduction arranged. Unlike other dating services and matchmakers, we also make the arrangement for the first meeting (usually a lunch date or a happy hour cocktail), unless the client prefers otherwise. After the initial date, we request that the clients and the potential match give as much feedback as possible to help with future matches. A further explanation of the process can be found at Magic 7. |
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From our Homepage, follow these steps to become a Private Matchmaking Client (If you are already an online member, complete steps 3 and 4 to become a Private Matchmaking Client.):
1. Select the "Looking for Private Matchmaking" button
2. Enter your contact information and complete your Partner Perfect Compatibility™ profile
3. From your personalized My Home page, select the My Membership link at the top of the page and register for our Private Matchmaking Services
4. Once we have received your information, we will contact you to arrange an informational meeting and private consultation. We will discuss the services from there based on your needs and wants.
*You can also contact us directly at Matchmaker@myPartner.com.
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| You can contact myPartner via email or phone.
The best method is via email at info@myPartner.com. We will respond to you as soon as possible and address any questions or concerns that you may have. You can also complete our Contact Us form by clicking here.
If you prefer to contact me via phone, dial 415.546.5670. |
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The services provided by MyPartner.com are very different from the blind dates your friends arrange for you because we strategically choose the people who you will be dating after screening the many single people whom we know and are in our database. Additionally, you will be made well aware of the potential matches profile and photos before you ever meet. Your friends, on the other hand, tend to introduce you to people who are simply single and available, regardless of your core commonalities and intimate needs.
We work as your personal 'headhunter' to find you the life-partner of your dreams. Since we serve as an intermediary between you and the people with whom you will be matched, we provide accurate and verified information about each match. Based on the needs and wants analysis that we conduct together, we choose the people for you think will be the best and appropriate matches. |
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| Matchmaking has become a very acceptable and "in vogue" way of meeting people. Our clients are very "normal," they are attractive, intelligent, successful, interesting, and social. They may date a lot or a little, but almost across the board, they are very busy with work and/or hobbies and choose to maximize their time by hiring a professional to help them locate their life-partner. |
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| Although are company is based in California, we have clients from all across the United States (from Hawaii to D.C.) and would be happy to talk with you about customizing your private matchmaking plan. |
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| The short answer is no. We make sure that when we meet with a potential client that we are able to provide that client with the type of people that they are interested in meeting. Therefore, we do in fact turn down prospective clients if we think that their expectations are not reasonable. |
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| There are numerous criteria that affect the number of automatically updated matches. To ensure that you receive the most amounts of qualified matches, review our relationship expert services, e-newsletter tips, and our profile assistance program. You also want to make sure that you have not defined your search criteria too narrowly. Example, if you enter that you are only looking for guys between 5' 9"and 5'10" you will have fewer results than if you expanded your search criteria to 5'8" and 6'0". |
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You can contact us by clicking on the Contact link from the bottom of any webpage.
You can also send an email directly to: info@myPartner.com. |
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Although we encourage our users to update and modify their profiles regularly, we do not allow users to retake their compatibility profile. We believe a member's first assessment is the most honest assessment of your inner personality and life-partner search requirements and are thus very hesitant to allow any sort of changes to the compatibility questionnaire. We have found that the more one changes their search criteria and profile results, the more inaccurate the profile and matches becomes.
If there is something factual about your profile that was not correctly assessed, please email our Customer Care team (link to customercare@mypartner.com) and they will be glad to assist you.
Additionally, you can make changes and edits to several parts of your visible profile, which is the first information that any member sees about you, whether they were matched to you or searched for you. To make changes to your profile, please follow the steps below:
1. Log into your account from our homepage
2. Click the "Edit" option under your profile picture on your My Home page
3. Click the subheading link of the section/s that you would like to edit
4. After you have made all of the changes that you would like to make, click "Save and Continue".
*Note: Oftentimes this information is what sparks someone interest in you beyond your compatibility profile so make sure your responses are thoughtful and reveal your unique personality. If you would like help with this content, our unique myProfilePartner is designed just for that.
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Quick Matches are based on your 10 deal breakers, the components of your partner search that are required attributes. These 10 deal breakers have been established by our comprehensive compatibility system and set to your individual search parameters answered through your registration. You are always free to adjust and modify these search parameters.
One of our unique a la carte services is our uQuickPick; which allows a user to define their own 10 deal breakers based on the Partner Perfect Compatibility system.
Partner Perfect matches are based on your specific needs and wants identified through the compatibility system. These matches will be presented to you on a five star ranking with five stars being the most compatible. You will receive fewer Partner Perfect matches than you will Quick Matches, as these matches have been thoroughly filtered to meet your specific life-partner requirements.
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| An a la carter feature offering complete Profile Management Assistance for your online profile. The service includes: profile writing assistance, photo review and suggestion, Assisted Search and Quick Pick, and Personalized Consulting for taking your online dating to the next step. |
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One of the many unique features of myPartner is that we offer services for our users at a variety of levels, including free services, a la carte services, premium services, and private matchmaking services.
Our a la carte services allow our members to enjoy a single feature, a bundled feature, or an additional feature added to your profile membership. We offer:
Individualized Dating Advice,
and myProfilePartner
for our online members.
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| One of our unique a la carte matchmaking services, you are able to personally communicate with our relationship experts and receive personal guidance, dating coaching, and relationship advice. Simply add this feature to your membership and you will be able to email our relationship experts directly and receive a response within 48 hours. |
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We offer a variety of unique ways to communicate with a new match or with another member in our system. To initiate communication, follow these steps:
1. Log into your account
2. From your My Matches page, click the "View Match Details" or simply click on the
matches username or picture. (This may be done when searching for profiles, too.)
3. Review your match's profile
4. Click the "Start Communication" button on the left side toolbar
5. You can select one or more of the following ways to communicate:
Send a
Conversation Starter, or
Send a Short Message!
From there, follow the instructions to begin communicating with your match.
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Our general guidelines are to upload photos that show who you are as a unique individual without resorting to indecent or nude photos. That being said, here are some guidelines that may help you.
1. Make sure your photos are recent.
2. Make sure your photos are really you.
3. Make sure your photos are clear, not blurry or from a distance.
4. Make sure you include at least one headshot or close-up on your face.
5. Make sure you have at least one full length photo, again, that is not from a distance. The members looking at your pictures want to see you, not anything else in the photo.
6. It is common to post pictures with friends and family, but make sure that if you have pictures with other people in them that you have received their permission to post that picture and that you also have other pictures where you are alone.
7. You must be present in all pictures. So if you want to have a picture of a pet or something special to you, please make sure that you are also in the photo.
8. We want and encourage our members to discover some things on their own so absolutely no penis, nude, obscene, sexual, or otherwise offensive photos will be allowed on the site.
9. AND, DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE!
Remember, as this is an exclusively gay male dating service, your primary picture must include your face and must represent you as male!
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To edit your Profile information page (the information that other members see about you), please follow the steps below:
1. Log into your account from our homepage
2. Click the "Edit" option under your profile picture on your My Home page
3. Click the subheading link of the section/s that you would like to edit
4. After you have made all of the changes that you would like to make, click "Save and Continue".
*Note: Oftentimes this information is what sparks someone interest in you beyond your compatibility profile so make sure your responses are thoughtful and reveal your unique personality. If you would like help with this content, our unique myProfilePartner is designed just for that.
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We give you the option to share your complete Partner Perfect Compatibilityâ„¢ profile with other members on a selective basis. To share your complete profile with someone, follow the steps below:
1. Log into your account from our homepage
2. From your My Matches page, click the "View Match Details" or simply click on the matches username or picture. This can be done when searching for profiles too.
3. Review your match's profile
4. Click the "Start Communication" button on the left side toolbar
5. Select “Share Compatibility Profile†link to send your entire profile to their registered email
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| We believe it is important for both guys who are a potential match to have a similar investment into the development of a relationship, Introductory Plan members cannot communicate.
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Please follow the steps below to access your account privacy and opt-in settings:
1. Login with your username and password on the homepage
2. On your My Home page, select My Preferences
Your My Preferences page will have a variety of options to customize your profile settings. You will have to option to make certain sections of your profile private or public, including your photos, your About Me content, and your "like" lists. We also allow you to save your profile as private and grant limited access to those members that you choose when you choose. This feature allows you to continue to receive matches as discretely as possible.
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To redeem your gift membership, please follow these steps:
1. From the homepage, select either our Online Dating or Private Matchmaking Services
2. Continue to complete your profile and your registration
3. From your My Home page, select the My Membership link at the top of the page.
4. Select either the membership level that the gift membership was issued for or a premium level of service and the gift membership will be credited to your subscription.
*You will be required to enter your gift membership code that you received via email so make sure you have that on hand at time of registration.
If you have any problems, please email CustomerCare@myPartner.com with your gift membership code, email address, and the email address of the person who purchased the gift membership for you.
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Once you have completed your registration and become an active member, please follow the steps below to become a premium member:
1. From your My Home page, select the My Membership link at the top of the page.
2. Select the level of membership based on the services that you desire. We offer a variety of premium membership levels, a la carte services, and private matchmaking services to choose from.
*All private matchmaking clients also receive a lifetime premium membership online.
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In order to initiate contact with a Private Matchmaking Client you must be either a premium member or a Private Matchmaking Client. We believe it is important for both guys who are a potential match to have a similar investment into the development of a relationship. Our Private Matchmaking Clients have invested a considerable amount of money into this process and they have enlisted our services to facilitate all communications.
To contact a Private Matchmaking Client, please follow these steps:
1. Send a conversation starter, a short note, or a phone call request from the list of communications on the left side of the Private Matchmaking Client’s profile.
2. The communication request will be sent to the Private Matchmaking Client’s profile just as it would normal members.
3. If the Private Matchmaking Client has elected to have myPartner screen and facilitate all communications, as many do, our matchmakers will intercept the communication request and deliver it to the Private Matchmaking Client with a summary of your profile.
Note: If a private matchmaking client has contact you, you are able to respond to any and all communication whether you are a free member or a premium member.
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We developed Partner Perfect Compatibility™ as a new and enhanced profile search engine that delves into the characteristics of partner selection deeper than the typical gay dating site. Our unique compatibility system was created by leading relationship authority, Patrick H. Perrine.
Partner Perfect Compatibility™ has proven its effectiveness time and time again for our private matchmaking clients. Now this tool is available to our Premium Online Membership clients as well.
Utilize this comprehensive relationship based web service by identifying your relationship histories, your personal uniqueness, and your needs and wants for a life partner--the PPC will identify and present you with ideal matches.
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| Here's how to reduce the mail flow.
Log in, check Account Management. Srcoll down to "My Mail Settings" and uncheck the boxes for many system messages from myPartner.
You can also go into your mail box and deactivate the auto-notification of new mail.
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| In order to prevent spam and abuse, there is a limit to the number of message a member can send, as well as a maximum that can be sent to one other user.
Daily number of messages from a sender to a receiver limit = 20
Daily number of receiver per sender limit = 15
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| 1. HIV status is not listed on the public portion of the user profile.
2. The only time HIV status is displayed is when one voluntarily shares their PPC (Partner Perfect Compatibility) with another user.
3. By sharing PPC one shares all of the information answered in the survey, including one's HIV status. HIV still can be made private on the PPC.
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| myPartner.com does not conduct criminal background screenings on our members.
This notice is required by State of New Jersey law.
For more information please visit
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4500/4304_I1.PDF
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| An Honesty Online certification allows you to assure others online that you are who you say you are, that your personal data is accurate and that you are trustworthy based on past behavior! The Honesty Online certification includes validating the existence of your identity, administering an identity quiz to confirm that the identity is truly yours, and then adds a background check and sex offender search. The background check and sex offender search is performed without requiring any further personal information. Once we validate your identity and check your past background, we will deliver an electronic credential reflecting the information we have verified. The electronic credential can be viewed in your myPartner.com profile. Honesty Online certification allows you to assure others online that you are legitimate, honest and trustworthy.
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| You can purchase an Honesty Online certification as a value-added service from myPartner.com. |
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| The entire certification process occurs within minutes. We know that anything you do online should be quick and the results even quicker, so we designed a technology that is not only accurate, but works fast. |
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| Once your Honesty Online certification has been completed, your user profile should be updated within an hour. |
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| Through special arrangement with myPartner.com, myPartner members are able to purchase Honesty Online certification for only $9.99. |
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| Your Honesty Online certification is valid for one year from the time you receive your electronic credential. |
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We know that you prefer to divulge as little personal information over the Internet as possible. Therefore, our proprietary technology is capable of authenticating your identity using only name, address and date-of-birth.
We know that for identity verification to be meaningful it has to be highly accurate, so we use the most comprehensive sources for public records available combined with our proprietary targeting technology that allows us to more accurately and rapidly sort through available records.
We know that you are concerned for the security of your personal information online. We strictly limit access of any Honesty Online inquiries to only those individuals granted access as identified in our Terms of Use.
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Honesty Online’s background check is the most thorough available based upon our proprietary technology. In addition, Honesty Online will perform not just a national level background search, but will also perform a state level search in those states which do not report up to the national level.
Honesty Online’s sex offender search is the most comprehensive available. We query not just the current National Sex Offender Registry, but also a database of sex offenders who have been listed on the National Sex Offender Registry in the past but are no longer required to be listed. We also query sex offenders who have committed sexual based offenses either before their state reported to the National Sex Offender Registry, or who committed an offense that does not require reporting to the National Sex Offender Registry.
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| You may myPartner.com at customercare@myPartner.com or contact Honesty Online customer care via email at customercare@honestyonline.com or live at 1.877.4.Honesty (1.877.446.6378) or 301.652.9033.
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In the Partner Perfect Questionnaire, members specify an age range for the partner they are looking for.
The remaining questions on the Partner Perfect Compatibility™ Matching System about age are answered to indicate that someone is actually looking for older or younger guys than the ages they had specified or that age is not a deal breaker for them. In those cases, the other elements of the compatibility profile are "weighed" heavier (such as: personality, relationship styling, other deal breakers, etc.) to produce the match.
Our experience has shown that most of the time gay men have created a box, a list if you will, of their hierarchy of needs and wants. What happens through our matching system and through answering the series of questions that we ask to create a users compatibility profile, that hierarchy changes and re-shapes itself where the conscious or unconscious search "criteria 1" become search "criteria 3", “criteria 2” becomes “criteria 1” and so forth.
So, in effect, even though a match is “outside" of the chronological age parameters these matches are in fact MUTUAL, even if not at first glance.
The matching system was designed by Patrick Patrick, myPartner's Founder and CEO. Patrick has an advanced degree in human sexuality and a gay man. Our PPC is based on over 10 years of research relating to gay male mating preferences. The system was tested and re-tested over the past 5 years through our work with our Executive Private Matchmaking clients (all gay men) and has proven to be very successful in helping to identify matches that otherwise would not be considered matches.
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