VeggieRomance.com

[Exitof99]

Gah! WTH? I just realized that signing up with them was a bad idea... they have copied my profile to 4 other 'dating' services without my concent or knowledge!

Stay away, bad news!

Thanks to them, I now have a listing at:

matrix.screenromance.com
music.songflirt.com
startrek.screenromance.com
gay.perfect-match.co.uk

Although I think the StarTrek dating service is really hilarious, I don't need the extra attention of more gay mens hitting on me.

[grain_girl]

LOL!

You have not known bliss until you have felt the touch of a Treki. :D

The same thing happened to me when I signed up! I have met a lot of interesting people.. not too many veg*ns though.

[April]

EEK! How did you find out about your other profiles?!? I signed up with them. Where else might my info be?

[Michael]

I temporarily de-activated the ad and I'm going to contact them about it.

[vegan_hottie07]

:lol: I was going to sign up then realized most of...well all of the people were older than me (i'm 15)

[Michael]

You have to be 18+ on almost all of those sites.

[Kiz]

Do they think all vegans are Gay Sci-Fi fans? What an odd choice of sites to on-sell your details too.

[Michael]

Well their terms pretty much state that they can do whatever they want with your information...


Agree and acknowledge that Your Material will not be treated as confidential or proprietary.

So I'm guessing not everyone listed on the veg site is veg.

[veggieromance]

Hi Chris from Veggieromance.com here

veggieromance.com is part of an international network of free sites for singles - among other sites we also have yogaromance.com thelovematch.com and around 55 other sites.

When you run a search on veggieromance we start by displaying matches from veggieromance and then matches from other sites. Profiles which are not from veggieromance have their source site clearly highlighted. We do this to ensure we can provide you with the widest scope of matches and recently surveys of our membership show them to favor this decision.

Each user has the option to limit contact from other sites in our network by setting their personal options to ensure only veggieromance members may contact them.

Any users who does not wish to be contacted by singles from other sites in our network should update their settings here :

my profile -> profile settings -> Only allow users of this site to contact you.

or login and then visit this link :

http://www.veggieromance.com/update.php

It has always been our intention to make veggieromance an entirely standalone site and will do so when our membership base hits 5000.

Veggieromance is a relatively new service and entirely free, if you or your members have any ideas, concerns or questions please don't hesitate to contact me and we welcome all feedback.

many thanks,

chris@veggieromance.com

[veggieromance]

Sorry two other minor points :

(a) you must be 18 or older to joins any of our sites.

(b) your details are never sold or given to any third party, the sites mentioned above are all part of our network, the earlier post should explain how to stop people from other sites in our network contacting you.

[Exitof99]

EEK! How did you find out about your other profiles?!? I signed up with them. Where else might my info be?

Try googling (should be a word if it isn't already registered in Webster's) your username. That is what I did, and got those sites!

[Exitof99]

Each user has the option to limit contact from other sites in our network by setting their personal options to ensure only veggieromance members may contact them.

I think the point is that I am not interested in having my identity used in ways that don't represent me, which without consulting a lawyer, sounds to be a shifty practice.

[QUOTE=veggieromance]It has always been our intention to make veggieromance an entirely standalone site and will do so when our membership base hits 5000.

I doubt you will reach that number even in 10 years time with the policies you have in place.

I'm motivated by this to maybe make my own site. Why not?

At least a real vegetarian would be running the site with similar concerns as the people who visit.

[kpickell]

I don't think policies in place sound bad, but it might be good if they were more obvious to the people joining the site. eg, A question asking people if they want their information shared with partner sites or just with veggieromance users.

[Kiz]

That would be good. One would assume that a person looking at a veg*n-only romance board, is looking for a veg*n, unless they said otherwise. Same with the Trekkies and the gays. It kind of defeats the purpose in having a type-specific dating board, if it isn't going to be type-specific.

[siveggiromance]

Hi there,

VeggieRomance.com is run by Chris and myself (a vegetarian of 17 years). I've been away for a few days and have been reading the thread with interest.

Thanks to those who've posted - it's great to get your feedback, as we're keen to provide a good, free service and bring vegetarians and vegans together (we recently had our first marriage through the site, which we were delighted about!) . We certainly don't intend to put anyone's back up - far from it. If you have questions about the site or suggestions please contact us directly: info@veggieromance.com .

All the best, Simon

p.s. As Chris mentioned, as a member of VeggieRomance you can choose whether to allow only members of VeggieRomance to contact you, or members of our other sites too. (In 'Profile Settings')

[TreeManEarthSteward]

SIMON/admin of VR. :hi:

BUT if the VR user such as myself allows myself the choice of "other site members" to contact me, does this mean by doing that we VR users are listed on your other non-veg sites?...on the same network?... (I suppose incidently you have only one network if at all that makes any difference to anything).... but anyway regardless of number of networks, (I assume one) is this how it works or is allowing myself to be contacted by anyone not related to how you keep information on us?...

I mean I am straight and I personally would not want to be contacted by the gay site :no: FOR INSTANCE, but other sites on your network I might, so that would require a specific yes or no choice for each part of the network for the user to decide if you could implement such a thing as that?

If I need to make that clearer I will try but I am kinda confused, just the mood I am in I guess, oh well, nice site anyway and I respect you for coming on in here to answer our questions. :wayne:

[siveggiromance]

Hi there,

No - you could only be contacted by people who are looking for what you're looking for in terms of a gender relationship - e.g. female looking for a male. If you were a male seeking a female then a male seeking a male couldn't contact you. Also, the default setting when you join is to 'Only allow users of this site to contact you'. We give people the option for members of our other sites to contact them because, over the months we've been online, we have been asked to do so by members of VeggieRomance.

Have a look round the site, see what you think - it's free, we don't ask for your credit card details at any point. We're not trying to fleece or hoodwink anyone - that's really not what we're about. I've been a vegetarian all my adult life - I regularly contribute to our forum, am interested to see what people think about vegetarian lifestyle issues, and genuinely keen to bring people together. We're not some big corporation without soul, and we are keen to provide a good service - and I have to say (hand on heart) the feedback we get is very good. Any member of the site is very welcome to contact us, and any potential member too - info@veggieromance.com . Just drop us a line and we'll respond quickly. It's better to contact us there if you have questions about the site, as we're online all the time during the working day and pick up emails through the site immediately - and, of course, VeggieBoards might prefer it if feedback went straight to us rather than being directed through them :-)

But if you have any advice about how long to leave sprouts (something I've been trying out recently) - e.g. mung beans - please email simon@veggieromance.com !

All the best,

Simon

[DeeDee2012]

*shameless plug*
You could always try http://www.arfriends.com

We don't sell your info or even look at it ourselves! haha!
We still don't have many members though, I have to save up some $$ for ads soon.

For those who are veggie and not ar-oriented, I would suggest http://www.veggiedate.org, although they aren't free :(

[Exitof99]

I don't really care too much about dating sites, they never work for me. I work best in person. But, I've made a few friends from such sites, and making friends is always a good thing. But I'm discouraged from keeping my ad with VeggieRomance because of this unwanted nonsense.

I'm still considering making a 'safer' place for my fellow vegetarians. Besides the sites I've made for my clients, I've also have several of my own sites I maintain, why not another?

I just had a hard time deciding on a name. I've got a few I like, but not sold on any. I'm always busy, so it's my only reason for not going full force in to it. If anyone web/graphic/coder people are interested in doing something like this, you can PM me.

[kpickell]

But I'm discouraged from keeping my ad with VeggieRomance because of this unwanted nonsense.
Did you change your profile settings? It doesn't seem too hard from the descriptions they gave. I don't see what the problem is but I'm tempted to register just to see what the fuss is all about. : )

[TreeManEarthSteward]

Did you change your profile settings? It doesn't seem too hard from the descriptions they gave. I don't see what the problem is but I'm tempted to register just to see what the fuss is all about. : )

You should try Kpickell, its easy, its free, its all good :) at very least it was when I signed up and probably still is now and I am still a member using the
site quite regularly and I've had no problems. I certainly don't think we should knock it over some trivial detail, which seems afterall to be a non-issue.

[Exitof99]

Did you change your profile settings? It doesn't seem too hard from the descriptions they gave. I don't see what the problem is but I'm tempted to register just to see what the fuss is all about. : )

Ah! I see it now, I've changed it. I think the only true problem is that it should be absolutely clear what that option does, it's vague about the what it really means. It should say 'You will be displayed randomly on any of our sites from time to time.'

My question is now, with it off, that prevents people from the other sites from contacting me, but is my picture still appearing on the other 54 sites 'Show Men' gallery?