Why do you need my Credit Card or payment information if registration is free?

As a responsible e-commerce-enabled communications platform, iFriends is available only to adults aged 18 years or older who our legally subject to the iFriends terms of service and rules of the road. Because chat services like iFriends can occasionally attract user misconduct such as identity theft, spam and other abuses, iFriends undertakes responsible measures to verify your identity, including matching your registration information against verification databases. Of course, your privacy is respected and protected at all times. iFriends never shares your personal information with any outside party, and iFriends never uses your financial information for any purpose, unless you specifically direct us to. (For example, such as directing us to use your payment information to purchase premium services available on IFN)

When I've given my credit-card information to similar sites in the past, they abused it. How do I know I can trust you?

According to Nielsen Net Ratings, iFriends is the largest and fastest-growing web-conferencing and videochat service on the internet, and is one of the top 200 internet services on the web. With seven million registered users and growing, and more than 300,000 registered video chathosts, and with participation from more than 100 different countries, iFriends is a blockbuster hit with consumers all around the world. No company online or offline could ever hope to achieve that degree of success by engaging in abusive practices or by taking advantage of its customers. At iFriends, the Customer is King. You are king.

Now in our ninth year on the web, we have a clean record with consumer protection agencies such as the Better Business Bureau. We are extremely proud of our record for excellence in customer service.

How do I know my personal information is safe on your servers? What about hackers?

Your registration information is always safe from hackers -- all elements of the registration form (including this very message) are SSL-encrypted via Verisign digital certificates for your complete and total safety (look for the "closed lock" icon in Internet Explorer/AOL, or the "unbroken key" icon in Netscape). Now in our ninth year of operation, our encrypted and firewall-protected systems have never suffered even a single serious security breach.

If I fill out the form, Am I going to get slammed with junk email from 3rd parties?

Perhaps with other internet services, but never with iFriends. iFriends never shares or sells your registration information -- including your email address -- with outside parties. Of course, if you contact any of iFriends 300,000+ video chathosts and exchange your contact information with a chathost, we can't prevent that chathost from sending you email, but that is your decision -- iFriends never makes that decision for you.