Dear DatingWalk.com Users,

DatingWalk.com aims to provide you with a secure and safe environment in which you can search and find new friends from around the world and even your life partner!

How does DatingWalk.com work?

The DatingWalk.com customer relations team prove reads every profile and every photo. Irrelevant and/or inappropriate content will be disapproved and the member will be contacted.

We have strict abuse-prevention and control systems to identify misuse.
We permanently improve our service and invite our clients to keep close contact to our customer relations team.

The internet is part of our daily life and like everywhere it is good to follow some rules. Even though we have set measures to protect your safety and privacy; we're limited to actions that are within our control. Therefore, it is necessary for you to keep some simple precautions for your privacy and for a safe and secure experience.

Although we take steps to eliminate any suspect members, it is not possible to be 100% sure that all members will be honest and truthful in their dealings with other members.
DatingWalk.com works with partner agents in many places so that we have DatingWalk Points where you can receive personal advice and assistance.

In the following we want to give some simple guidelines that we suggest YOU follow to protect your privacy.

1. Guard your anonymity

To stay anonymous our website provides several features for your use i.e. expressing interest, use your own mailbox on our website and accepting and declining someone’s interest in you.

• Never include your personal contact information like name, email address, telephone numbers, home address, place of work or any other identifying information in your free profile or initial messages.
• Before you send your contact information, be sure that this is someone you can trust. 
• Our website allows you to stay anonymous until you decide to reveal your identity to someone.
• Remember that you are in control of your online experience at all times! You can remain completely anonymous until you choose not to.

2. Your E-Mail Address

Set up a separate E-Mail account for communicating before you share your usual E-Mail address. This makes it easy to quarantine any unwanted mail. Don’t use your official email id for communicating with a person you don't know well.

Do not use signature lines in your emails that include your addresses and phone numbers.

3. Start slowly

Ask a lot of questions when communicating (about personal life, hopes and dreams, about family and friends). If someone is not replying to your questions, be cautious, this is a sign that the other person has different motives. The person at the other end may not be who or what he or she says.

• Watch out for someone who seems too good to be true. Begin by communicating solely via email, then look for odd behaviour or inconsistencies. Trust your instincts. If anything makes you uncomfortable, walk away for your own safety and protection.
• Serious people will respect your space and allow you to take your time. Take all the time you need to find your perfect mate.
• Meet as many women or men as possible and correspond with many members. Make use of the advantages of our website and that we are constantly adding new members. Meet many new people, be patient, read carefully, and search thoughtfully. Than make lots of new friends and enjoy your time!
  

4. Exercise caution and use common sense

Trust your instincts, careful and thoughtful decisions generally gain better dating results. Guard against trusting the untrustworthy; take all the time you need to test for a trustworthy person and pay careful attention along the way.

• If you suspect someone is lying, he or she will act accordingly.
• Be conscientious about romance and don’t fall in love to easy at the click of a mouse! Don’t become intimate to soon with someone, even if that intimacy takes place online only. If you conscientiously decide to cross the point of just being pan pals, be smart and protect yourself.
  

5.  Ask for a photo

A photo can give you a good idea of the person's appearance, which may be helpful in achieving a good feeling.

• If someone does not show a photo in her or his profile, ask to upload photos. Be cautious if someone is promising to send photos when having your E-Mail address. Since DatingWalk.com offers free scanning services to its members, there’s no reason why someone shouldn’t be able to show a photo.
• In fact, it is best to view several images of someone in various settings: indoor and outdoors, formal and casual.

6.  Chat on the phone

A friendly phone conversation can reveal much about a person’s communication skills and social behavior.

• Only share your phone number, when you feel completely comfortable and have some background information on the other person. Consider your security and do not reveal your personal phone number to a stranger, consider if you would do this in real life. 
• Use a pre paid mobile phone number or use local telephone blocking techniques to prevent your phone number from being displayed.
• Check the country and area code before making a call, make sure it’s a real area code and not a charge number before you make a call.
  

7.  Meet when YOU are ready

The advantage of meeting and relating online is that you have time to collect information and get to know each other better and then to decide later whether to meet or not. You never are obligated to meet anyone, regardless of your level of online intimacy and you are always free to change your mind.

• When you decide to meet face to face, choose a public place. Do not invite your first date next to your place.
• Plan your first date for a limited time and prepare an excuse if things aren't going too well. A second meeting will wait if the first meeting appears to be the perfect date.
• Let a friend or your family know where you're going and when you will return from the date. When you choose to meet offline it is even a good idea to take a friend along (or if applies, take a translator with you). 
• In case you decide to meet that person alone leave the name, telephone number and address of the person you are going to meet with your family or a friend. It will always be good to take a mobile phone with you
• Never arrange for your online friend to pick you up or drop you at home.
• Trust yourself. Go with your instincts. Remember that you are in control when it comes to taking an online relationship offline. If you have doubts about somebody the obvious thing to do is not to meet - at least until your mind is at rest about it.
• If you are travelling to meet your prospective match, arrange for your own car and hotel room. Never allow your date to make the arrangements for you. Rent a car at the airport and drive directly to your hotel. If your prospective match has suggested for a meeting place, interview the hotel reception about that location. If the location you meet seems inappropriate or unsafe, go back to your hotel and than contact your date at that location or leave a message.
• Always let a friend know about your plans!
  

8.  Warning signs

Warning signs are a good way to avoid problems or an uncomfortable situation. Such warning signs could be:

• Someone provides wrong information about age, appearance, marital status, profession, employment, etc.
• Someone appears significantly different in person from what he / her pretended to be online.
• Someone never shares with you about friends, professional associates or family members
• Anger or intense frustration or someone is acting in a passive-aggressive manner
• Someone attempts to pressure or control you
• Someone is making disrespectful comments
• Physically inappropriate behaviour
• Someone fails to provide answers to direct questions
  

9.  Never send money!

Beware of money scams. Like in any other place in the world, also the internet is a place used by dishonest people. NEVER send money to anyone who you met online, but have not yet met in person.

• If someone asks you for money, use common sense and then report the situation to us by using the "Report Abuse" link that you find in every profile.
• If someone asks you for money while you already communicating through your personal E-Mail addresses or other personal contact data, please inform us immediately.
• Money Scam is considered a crime and against local and international law! DatingWalk.com is working together with authorities to protect our members and to sue any attempt of scam!  
• Be cautious of those who try to ask money from you for whatever reason. But it would be safer to end this communication. Always have in mind, a genuine person will not ask you for money in any circumstance. If someone asks you for money, use common sense and never give in to such requests!
  

Further Advice

For further advice, please also see our AntiScam Policy. To report a scam or if you are suspicious of any misuse please contact us. 

Please remember always, there are millions of singles out there that are honest and seriously searching for friendship, love and marriage! The above hints and tips are to assist this majority and provide a convenient and pleasant search! DatingWalk.com is committed to support you with a secure and safe environment in which you can search and find many new friends and even your life partner! Please see also our  Dating Tips and Hints.

Your DatingWalk Team