Canceling auto-renewal

Cancel auto-renewal: allows you to cancel automatic billing of your credit card at the end of your membership subscription period. To cancel subscription, click the link, "cancel auto-renewal" on the ACCOUNTS page. Your membership will continue for the remainder of your paid period, after which, you may manually renew.

Groups

Before creating a profile, you have "guest" status which does not allow full access to the site. After creating a profile, you will have "Complimentary member" status which allows full priveliges. At some time in the future, you will be required to purchase a Full membership for communication privileges, and for extra features, such as IM, BLOG, CHAT, and PHOTO GALLERY privileges.

Options

Modify password: allows you to choose a new password; Subscribe: links to a page allowing you to purchase a membership of your choice; Renew my membership: takes you directly to the credit card transaction page to reinstate your current or last membership; Cancel auto-renewal: allows you to cancel automatic billing of your credit card at the end of your membership subscription period. Alerts/newsletters: allows you to control what is sent to your email address.

Subscription

To subscribe, go to HOME page, and find the ACCOUNT column; click on "Subscribe/choose plan." Subscription periods are (1), (2), and (3) month and are automatically renewed unless cancelled. To cancel subscription, click the link, "cancel auto-renewal." Your membership will continue for the remainder of your paid period, after which, you may manually renew.

All blogs

A calendar must be clicked to see blogs of a specific date. The dark shaded date is the current date, and the lighter shaded dates are dates containing blogs.

Comments

Comments should not be critical of other members, should not contain any identifying information, and should not contain anything offensive.

Dates

A calendar must be clicked to see blogs of a specific date. The dark shaded date is the current date, and the lighter shaded dates are dates containing blogs.

Most commented

Blogs are sorted by user according to the total amount of text written by that individual. Note that the ten profiles containing the most blog text are listed under "Most commented"

My Blog

This choice allows you to view and edit your own blogs, and upload photos.

Conditions of use

Please read the "Conditions of use" by clicking on the footer navigation bar link. You agree that you are of legal age to form a contract and are not barred from receiving these services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. NeverMarried.Net is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, parents of children must agree to actively prohibit their children under the age of 18 from participating in this service or any other services associated with this site. You agree not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, offensive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. You also agree not to harm minors in any way. Nevermarried.Net reserves the right to suspend membership privileges for any reason.

Conduct

There shall be no harassing, threatening, abusive, or offensive content permitted. Obscene content of any type is prohibited. You must be 18 years of age or older to use any services. It is recommended that you discuss the topic in progress rather than switching to something unrelated. You may not use the chat for promotional or advertising purposes. You may not discuss other members, or disclose any knowledge or personal information you may have about them. Information disclosure, or identification of other members will result in suspension of chat privileges. Complaints may be addressed to the administrator.

How to

Click CHAT on the toolbar and the chat room will load. Use the controls to create your own personalized window. You may customize your text, and save text that is in your window. You may change your status as you wish, depending on your immediate availability. Note: there is a large selection of fun-to use icons located on the toolbar.

Rooms

Choose a room that fits your preferences: Lounge, Health and Tech, Current events, and Travel.

Admin

Simply click on the link, "Contact," on the lower toolbar and use the form to send a message to the administrator.

Limits of control

NeverMarried.Net seeks to protect your privacy to the greatest extent possible. However, we cannot be responsible for any actions of users, particularly if contact information is exchanged. NeverMarried reserves the right to issue warnings or suspend membership privileges of users or members who receive complaints. We strive to protect users' privacy and safety, however use of this service requires your agreement to hold NeverMarried.Net harmless, regardless of circumstances. It is a condition of use, that you shall not hold NeverMarried.Net responsible in any way for any damages or harm related to use of this site by you or any other person.

Alerts

Alerts may be enabled or disabled from the ACCOUNT page. There are several alerts you may be interested in receiving. Your choices are as follows. On every new registration: you receive notice every time someone of the opposite sex registers. Send me current lists of "My top matches by email: A list of your matches will be sent regularly by email. If someone views my profile: an email is sent if someone clicks on your profile. New email: An email is sent to you if you receive a message in your NeverMarried.Net mailbox.

Newsletters

Newsletter emails may be enabled or disabled from the ACCOUNT page. This will contain site news and information that may be of interest to you.

Other members

You may send and receive messages if you have 1) created a profile and 2) have a membership which includes communication privileges. Non-subscribed members will not be able to send and receive messages; to use this service, you must purchase a Full membership.

Pop-up blockers

If instant messaging does not work correctly for you, the problem may be that your computer has a pop-up blocker installed. The Google toolbar has a pop-up blocker, which can be disabled/enabled by first finding the menu arrow next to the word, "Google" and locating the "Options" choice. Uncheck the pop-up blocker to temporarily allow the instant messaging window to appear. Another method to allow a pop-up window is to hold the "Ctrl" key down at the same time the pop-up is attempted.

Premium

service

Instant messaging is a feature associated with Full membership; To upgrade, go to your HOME or ACCOUNT page and click "Subscribe/upgrade." Purchasing an upgrade will instantly enable Full membership features, which includes instant messaging.

Approximate matches

This category displays members who match some basic criteria. This category will only display after "Perfect matches" in the "top matches" category. Please note that the more your profile is completed, the better your match results will be.

Emailed me

This displays the number of messages you have received. If a number appears in parenthesis, this indicates the number of UNREAD emails that you have. As soon as you have viewed your new email, this number will disappear.

Perfect matches

This category displays members who match more closely to your criteria. The system generates a "Perfect match" if you match certain basic preferences plus a certain percentage of other preferences. The overall match is made up of several categories, which are weighted according to our customized formula.

Reversed matched you

This category displays similarly to "Approximate matches," except just the opposite. This displays members who would see you as an approximate match. Again, please note that your profile should be completed to generate better matches.

Sent an email

This category displays the number of emails sent by you to other members. Clicking on this link will take you to your MAILBOX page where you can view inbox and outbox messages.

Saved profiles

This link displays the number of profiles that you have set aside for viewing by clicking "Add to saved profiles." To remove profiles from this list, if you are viewing a profile in search results, simply click. "Delete from saved profiles," or go to SAVED PROFILES and click "Delete from list."

Sent me a kiss

These members are interested in you and have sent you a communication that we call a "kiss." You may respond by sending them a "kiss" or better yet, send them a personal message. To send a message, you must have a Full membership. To purchase, click the "Subscribe now" link on your HOME page or "Subscribe/upgrade" on your ACCOUNT page.

Viewed my profile

This category displays the number of members who have viewed your profile. By clicking this link, you can see the profiles of all members who have viewed you profile.

Lost password

The system encrypts passwords so that you cannot retrieve your actual password. This is done to make your password more secure. After clicking "Lost password" the system will give you the opportunity to generate a new random password that you have no control over. After using this new password to log in, you may change your password to a new one of your choice from the HOME page or ACCOUNT page. Just click "Change password" and follow the prompts.

Password

The password must be at least (6) characters. Although it is not required that you use a combination of letters and numbers, a combination will provide a greater degree of security.

Remember me

By checking this box on the LOGIN page, a "cookie" is generated that allows you to log in directly to the home page without typing your username and password. " Remember me" only remembers so long. The longest the system will remember is 30 days.

Username

Your username must be at least (2) characters. It may be letters or numbers, or a combination.

Approximate

This link is found on the HOME page in the "My matches" column. This category displays members who match some basic criteria. This category will only display after "Perfect matches" in the "top matches" category. Please note that the more your profile is completed, the better your match results will be.

Perfect

This link is found on the HOME page in the "My matches" column.This category displays members who match more closely to your criteria. The system generates a "Perfect match" if you match certain basic preferences plus a certain percentage of other preferences. The overall match is made up of several categories, which are weighted according to our customized formula.

Reverse

This link is found on the HOME page in the "My matches" column. This category displays similarly to "Approximate matches," except just the opposite. This displays members who would see me as an approximate match. Again, please note that your profile must be completed to generate the best matches.

Canceling

To cancel, simply go to the ACCOUNT page and click "Cancel auto-renewal." This will stop any further billing to your credit card, unless you re-subscribe. To re-subscribe, click one of these links on the HOME page: "Renew my subscription," "Subscribe now" or" Subscribe/upgrade."

Conditions

See the page, CONDITIONS OF USE. The link is located in the footer toolbar.

Deleting

Deleting a profile irreversibly deletes profile information.  You must send a request to cancel to the admin from the CONTACT US page to have your account completely deleted.  As an alternative, the option of "hiding" your profile allows you to come back later and reactivate.  Clicking" Hide my profile" on the (logged in)  HOME page removes your profile from being posted on the site and may be re-posted by clicking "Un-hide."

Periods

Subscriptions are sold by the following time periods: (1) month, (2) month, and (3) month.

Upgrade

You may upgrade your membership at any time. You may only upgrade from "Not subscribed or Complimentary member" to a "Full" member. Upgrading may be done by clicking "Subscribe/upgrade." After proceeding through checkout, you will immediately be granted Full member privileges as the credit card transaction completes.

Free

At the present time, all users are granted full privileges and may use all the features FREE of charge.

Guest

When a non-member uses the search on the INDEX page, he may view profiles, although he has no communication privileges. A new user must create a profile before becoming a FREE user, which then allows him/her to communicate.

Compli-mentary

Temporary free membership with full priveliges.

Full

Full memberships allows the user to access all the features including, IM, CHAT, and PHOTO GALLERY.

Changing

Changing your password may be done from the HOME page by clicking on "Change password" or from the ACCOUNT page, "My registration info" column, by clicking "modify" next to "Password."

Encryption

The system encrypts all passwords in the database to improve security.

Recovering

Because passwords are encrypted (for added security) it is impossible to retrieve them. Instead, a random password is issued and sent to your email. If you wish to have a password of your own choosing, simply log in with the new password, and then change your password to whatever you like, so long as it meets the minimum character requirements.

Requirement

Minimum character requirements for passwords will be (6) letters and/or numbers.

Credit cards

Currently, Mastercard and Visa are accepted.

Recurrent

As long as you are subscribed and under our automated recurrent billing, your monthly membership cost will remain the same. NeverMarried.net reserves the right to change membership subscription rates, however, existing recurrently billed membership rates should remain the same until the user clicks "Cancel auto-renewal." In that case, re-subscription would be at the new rate.

Questions

Contact NeverMarried.net either by email or phone. The email address is admin@nevermarried.net and the phone number is 563-386-6400. The link for the CONTACT page is on the footer toolbar.

Icons

Icons are the main photos of the profile. They are displayed anytime your profile comes up in a list or search result.  Icons must depict you, the user.  Uploads of ICON photos that do not depict the user will not be accepted.  Uploaded ICON photos may be cropped and contrast corrected by us prior to posting.  Sizes must be under 2 MB and 2000 x 2000px.  We reserve the right to change formats and size for any uploaded photos.  It is advisable to submit photos in the JPEG format and not BMP (bitmap) since the JPEG format allows for smaller file size and faster processing. 

Making smaller

To create an icon size photo, or shrink a photo, you can use the tools you already have on your computer if you have Windows. STEP 1: Find the picture in your computer and right click on it. STEP 2: Select "Open with." ...you should find "Paint"...click on it. STEP 3: On the toolbar, click on Image>Stretch/skew. STEP 4: Where you see Horizontal 100% and Vertical 100%, change BOTH to something less than 100%, such as 30%, 40% or 50%. Choose the SAME NUMBER for both horizontal and vertical. STEP 5: Check the dimensions by clicking Image>attributes and select the button that says, "pixels." Check to see if the horizontal and/or vertical is less than the maximum allowed pixel dimension. If you need to shrink it some more, go back to Image>Stretch/skew and again type in less than 100% for both vertical and horizontal. STEP 6: If your dimensions are less than( horizontal) 150 x (vertical) 250, then click File>Save as and you may want to change the name so that so that you keep your original picture for future use.

Multimedia album

In addition to your "Icon" photo, you have a multimedia album, which can hold up to (3) pictures, (1) audio, and (1) video file. At the top of your profile (2) of your (3) pictures will display as thumbnails. To view full size pictures, click on the Multimedia album and them click on the photo you wish to see at full size.

Photos (other than icons)

There are four places for you to upload pictures. First, there are Icons which are the first and main picture of the profile. These are small in order to load quickly. Second, there are Multimedia album pictures, of which (3) display alongside of the icon photo, and all display in the Multimedia section of the profile, which is at the bottom. Third, there are Photo gallery pictures, which display on a bulletin board. This feature is accessible only by users with Full memberships. Lastly there are Blog images, which you may upload as part of your blog. Again, this feature is only accessible through Full membership.

Photo gallery

By clicking PHOTO GALLERY on the main toolbar, users with Full memberships may view photos posted by other members. Each member is allowed to post up to (5) Photo gallery pictures.

Rejection

All uploaded pictures must be approved by admin before they are displayed. Sometimes a picture will not upload because of size. Be sure to check the top of the window after sending an upload to make sure there is not an error message telling you that your photo exceed size limits.

Size

limits

Icons: Size less than 2000 x 2000 pixels; total file size less than 5 MB.

Profile photos (Multimedia album: Size less than 2000 x 2000 pixels; total file size less than 5 MB.

Audio files: Size less than 500,000 kb.

Video files: Size less than 500,000 kb.

Photo gallery: Size less than 2000 x 2000 pixels, total file size less than 500 kb.

Blog images: Same as Multimedia album, size less than 2000 x 2000 pixels; total file size less than 2 MB.

Uploading

Upload links for profile pictures and multimedia can be found on the HOME page in the "Profile" column and at the top the PROFILE page in the profile header area. Photo gallery pictures may be uploaded from the bottom of the PHOTO GALLERY page and Blog photos may be uploaded from the BLOG page>My Blog>New message>Add a picture.

Completion

View your percentage of your profile completion in the information table in the left hand column. The more profile information you complete, the better your match results will be.

Editing

Go to the PROFILE page and click the edit buttons or click the link, "Edit your profile" in the "Profile" column of the HOME page.

Hiding

Click "Hide profile" in the "Profile" column of the HOME page.

Personal message

Type a personal message about yourself. Try to be open and honest and express your feelings. The most interesting writing comes "from the heart." If you have trouble uploading a message, there may be words that are prohibited. Do not give your real name, phone number or contact information or your profile will be rejected or modified. You may not use your profile for advertisements or promotions. Contact admin@nevermarried.net if you have questions or problems uploading your personal message.

Viewing

To view your profile in Edit mode, simply click "Profile" on the main toolbar. To see your profile as others see it, click "View profile" in the "Profile" column of the HOME page.

Uploads

For info on uploading files, see "Photos and multimedia."

Advanced

Click Advanced Search on the main toolbar

Birthday

Click Quick Search on the main toolbar and towards the bottom of the page is "Special search." Click "Members who have a birthday today" to see members whose birthday is today.

Saved my profile

Go to the HOME page under the column, "My lists." This link searches for all users who have saved your profile.

New members

Click the "New members" link in the left column, or click QUICK SEARCH on the main toolbar and look towards the bottom of the page to find "Special searches." Click "New and updated profiles within the last 90 days" to see all members who have recently created a profile. Note that if you are logged in, you will only see profiles of the opposite gender.

Online members

Click the "Online members" link in the left column, or click QUICK SEARCH on the main toolbar and look towards the bottom of the page to find "Special searches." Click "Online members" to see all members who are logged in. Note that if you are logged in, you will only see profiles of the opposite gender.

Quick

Quick Search may be performed from the (Un-logged in) Index page or the QUICK SEARCH page. If you are not logged in, the system will limit the number of profiles you can view. You must log in to use the QUICK SEARCH page, which remembers your preferences from the last search.

Username

To find an individual profile, click Quick Search on the main toolbar and in the middle of the page is "Quick search: by login" Type the username of the profile you wish to find and click "Search."

Billing

To subscribe, you must use a credit card and all transactions result in recurrent billing. At the end of your subscription period, your credit card will automatically be billed for a renewal of your present subscription. If you wish to cancel your subscription when it expires, simply click "Cancel auto-renewal" on the ACCOUNT page in the column entitled, "My account status."

Chat

After clicking Chat on the main toolbar, the CHAT room will load. Choose "Options" to set the theme, text, effects and sound. You can choose a variety of small icons to send from the "smiles" option. Choose from one of four chat rooms. Only users with Full memberships may use this option.

Email/alerts

To control email that you receive from this site, go to the ACCOUNT page and see the column entitled, "My alerts." These options allow you to be notified about new profiles, emails, and who is viewing your profile. It also offers you the option to receive newsletters by email.

Language

Select your language from the main (un-logged in) Index page by clicking on a flag.

IM popup blockers

Some pop-up blockers may interfere with the operation of instant messaging. If you have a problem receiving an instant message, try disabling your pop-up blocker.

Profile

You may choose to "Show" or "Hide" your profile. Go to the HOME page and see the column entitled, "profile" and click on the link near the bottom of the column to make your profile visible or hidden.