Below is their response to me regarding a request to remove my debit card information on a suspended account.
Dear Finn:
Thank you for your inquiry regarding the removal of your personal information from eHarmony. I regret to hear of your concern regarding the storage of your credit card and personal information. Please be assured your information is completely secure and will not be shared with any outside parties. [This is false. eHarmony sends and shares our CC info to a payment processor. Guess what: Last week a payment processor was hacked.]
Please know that eHarmony follows all applicable laws and regulations involving the storage and use of personal data, including payment information. [That's for a judge to decide, not yours. I know for sure this is illegal in Canada.] Also, before an account is established, eHarmony requires that each user read and consent to our Terms and Conditions of Service, which includes granting eHarmony an irrevocable license to any information and content that you provide to eHarmony. By agreeing to our Terms and Conditions, you have authorized us to retain your information in our records. For your convenience, a link to our Terms and Conditions is provided below.
Our South American reader Fernando Ardenghi has posted an early review of the site during this pre-launch. He corrected us: they do offer 3 months to initial registrants to seed their database.
As before in Australia and the United Kingdom site versions, registrants can give a Brazil address first then migrate later to their original country. It has been two years since they opened a country site.
Registrants cannot buy subscriptions yet, so Brazil pricing is still unknown at this point.
Sorry, You can not use that trick.
eHarmony and eDarling use normative instruments to assess variables (normative Big5 test to assess personality).
If you are from U.S, Canada, U.K. or Australia and you use eHarmony Brazil your assessment will be distorted, your variables will underscore or over …
ScottK invited us to watch this video earlier this evening:
Hahaha. That’s probably the look of the Canadians’ faces last May.
To its credit, eHarmony seems to have learned lessons from the infuriating Canada event and has made it clear on their home page what trialling visitors get during the promotional event. At least a bit. Have a look at the US home page now: Continue Reading »
(Here’s site feedback from someone who was drawn to try eHarmony during the last FCW. eHarmony, listen! Republished in entirety with permission from Lessons of Love from a Laptop Dancer, dated 5 July 2010. Thanks, Yvette!)
Dating guru that I am, I feel it’s my responsibility to check out the various alternatives available to singles. I’ve tried many of the online dating sites and, as everything, each has it’s ups and downs. I’d heard a lot about eHarmony and it’s famed “29 points of compatibility” but, before spending their relatively high monthly fee, I wanted to check out one of the “Free Communication Weekends” to see how it all worked.
I filled out the VERY LONG questionnaire and after getting accepted was sent some matches. Most of the matches lived much farther from me than I wanted and most were much older than me… one was even 15 years older than me! I couldn’t see photos and I couldn’t search on my own.
A good idea. But, it would be only fair if it was an "opt in", that is someone who wanted to share their picture had to turn this feature on.
I would be even okay with extending this to the e-mails . . .
The fasttrack will never happen for free members. That cuts eH's potential membership down …
“I’m guessing that this content was written up by someone who has had very little exposure to people of different orientations. You don’t need to reword anything to cater to people of different orientations. People are people, and in as much as relationships go, we all go about it the same way.”
– Julien McArdle, software developer, researcher, film-maker, author, web designer and Ottawan.
The site recommended that I date older women or Native Americans–pretty much the only two categories I excluded in my criteria. What am I, homeless?
No pictures, every single one out of state, and to top it all off, you can’t actually even contact them; it wants you to select 5 of their multiple choice questions. Lame, lame, lame.
Around 43051 marriages (and counting) were matched through eHarmony since March 2, 2005. Around 1337 members married today. - Harris Interactive (Caveat)
Sorry, You can not use that trick. eHarmony and eDarling use normative instruments to assess variables (normative Big5 test to assess personality). If you are from U.S, Canada, U.K. or Australia and you use eHarmony Brazil your assessment will be distorted, your variables will underscore or over …
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