HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR OWN PERSONAL PHOTO-PROFILE

The best way to meet others is to start by placing your own personal profile! This service is totally free!!  Our online single board allows you to post information, in your own words, about yourself and the type of person you would most like to meet, as well as what kind of relationship or friendships you are looking for. Other single people who fit your criteria can then get in touch with you via a discreet online reply form. This form sends their reply directly to you, but keeps your email hidden. Whilst you are free to browse the other profiles and reply to any of the people you fancy, singles who also place a personal profile of their own are up to 300 times more likely to meet their perfect partner before those that don't place a profile. This is because advertisers can also receive replies from the thousands of suitable singles that browse the site every day looking for their perfect match. • Placing a Personal Profile is Easy! Most websites tend to ask dozens of invasive questions about your personal life before letting you place a profile on their board. We however hold a much different view and always leave it to you to offer information about yourself and to enter any special details regarding your preferred partner. When you add your profile, simply follow the instructions on screen to complete the required fields. Then use the large text box to personalise your profile in your own words: Information About Yourself: It is always a good idea to first offer a good description of yourself, your hobbies, lifestyle and anything else that you feel you want or need to share with potential partners. Above all, always be very honest with your description! It is far too easy to "lose" a few pounds, drop a couple of years or to make yourself a little less bald than you may really be, but this is not going to help when it comes time to meet face to face, and will very often lead to instant mistrust. Your Perfect Partner is going to want YOU just as you are, otherwise they would not be perfect! - So don't "change" a thing! About Your Perfect Partner: Once you have offered details about yourself, leave a line and continue by writing a description of the type of person you would ideally like to meet. Enter all the requirements that you expect or wish to find in your partner, ie. their age, build, character, geographic location, financial situation or whatever it is that you need to have in a partner. The more information you can offer here, the more accurate your matches will tend to be, so don't be shy about being overly specific - and don't feel you have to meet the first person who contacts you either. Take your time. There are plenty of nice single people out there and many of them will be well suited to you and your needs. You will encounter your Perfect Partner quite soon enough, so try not to rush things. • Using Your Home Language: Although the bulk of the profiles are in English, you are free to place your profile in your home language if you prefer. Obviously the two most widely spoken tongues are English and Spanish, so a profile in one of these will get you the best response. However if you are an Italian and you only wish to meet other Italian speakers, you are free to write your profile in Italian. The same goes for any other country, be it Swedish, Dutch, Russian, German, French, Taiwanese or whatever - subject to your alphabet being accepted. • Formatting Your Personal Profile: The large text box near the bottom of the "Place a Profile" page is where you get to enter all the important details about yourself, along with details on the type of person you would like to meet and why. We generally recommend that you firstly enter something about yourself, your looks, hobbies, education, musical tastes, dependants and whatever else you feel is important. Once you are done, leave two lines and enter details about the type of person you would ideally like to meet. You should be as specific as you can with your perfect partner's requirements, as this saves the hassle of rejecting unsuitable replies. Important: We like to keep our profile boards "tidy" for the convenience of all our readers. There's nothing worse than a website with scruffy boards, so messy or poorly formatted profiles will be deleted, along with anything that is typed in UPPERCASE lettering, lacks basic punctuation or holds little to no information of any value to singles looking for partners. We therefore ask for your help by adhering to the following:  1. When typing your text, please check your spelling and use comas, full-stops, etc as appropriate.  2. Please capitalise the start of all your sentences, as well as any place names and other proper nouns.  3. Please do not enter new lines (or hit Enter) unless you intend to create a new line or paragraph.  4. Always leave a space between your words. It's amazing how often people forget to hit their spacebar!  5. Ensure you always check the "Preview" of your profile. If it does not look right, go back and correct it. Naturally we forgive most minor literary sins. We don't expect everything to be spot-on, but what we don't want is a board full of profiles that look as if their author has blatantly made all the mistakes on purpose! This is a serious singles website. If you're accustomed to sending encoded phone-text messages, please do not do that here. Nor is it a chatroom, so please refrain from using any hippy tech-age abbreviations. Don't rush your profile. There is no time limit. A well created profile shows readers that you are nothing if not educated - and will therefore attract a much higher level of response from a more upmarket audience! • Picking the Correct Photo-Ads Section: This site has TWO very separate areas: One for single males and one for single females. When you submit your profile, please be very sure to enter it in the correct section. If you are a single lady looking for a partner, place your profile under "Single Ladies ...", if you are male, then naturally your categories will be just the opposite. (Profiles under the wrong gender headings will simply be deleted.) Also select your correct sub-categories, ie: Penpals, Friendship, Love, Romance, Marriage, etc with careful thought. This is quite important as these cannot be changed later. (If you every wish to change your categories, you will need to post a brand new photo-profile and then delete the old one.) You will always get a "preview" of your new profile before it gets added to the board. Please take this opportunity to double check what you have written and make any corrections if required. But remember, if you are not 100% happy with your profile, you can still modify (or even delete) these details at any time, so don't worry, if you change or add something to your message, you can. If in any doubt, contact us. Our office can help you change or modify anything you need, so you never need to feel stuck. • Your Photographs: The whole idea behind personal photo-ads is that you may place a recent photograph of yourself to enhance the response you get to your profile. Whilst adding your photo is not essential, it is most highly recommended as not only does it hugely increases your chances of meeting a suitable partner, but it also saves a lot of time and disappointment later down the line. Most people (if not everybody) will ask you to send them a photo at some stage or another, and most are generally good enough to send you their picture as soon as you respond to the reply they sent to your profile. To add a photograph you fist need to create your personal profile. Once you approve the preview, your profile will be submitted. You will then be taken to a page where you can upload a photograph of your choosing from the digital photos and image files you have stored on your own computer. To change a photograph, simply go to your personal profile and click the "Change your Photo" button on the right-hand-side of the screen. You will be asked to enter your Profile or Ad number, followed by the security password you selected to protect your profile. Then click the "Browse ..." button and select the new image you wish to upload from your image files stored on your computer. You may change or replace your old photograph at any time. • Receiving Photographs from a Respondent: Because most respondents to your profile will be using the special online reply form, they do not have your actual email address. They will not therefore be able to send you their photo in the first instance. All non Gold Member replies will be sent to you as "text-only" emails, so you will need to request their photo by writing to them directly (should their letter be of sufficient interest to you). Another way to find out what they look like is to ask if they too have placed their own photo-profile, and if so, which profile number is it - and does it include a photograph that you can take a look at. • Keeping Your Email Address Secret: Our Personals also have a special "Reply Form" which other singles must use to get in touch with you. This form keeps your personal email address hidden and secret from general users, so all emails are routed to you via our website, giving you total discretion and peace of mind. Only Gold Club Members may contact singles directly, and only once they have logged-in to our secure pages area. If you receive a reply to your profile which may be of interest, but you don't feel that you are ready to let them them know your personal email address just yet, you can use our Anonymous Reply Form to write to the respondent using our automated response servers. This form will deliver your message to the person who replied to your profile, but it will not give them your email. Instead they will be asked to re-reply to you via your photo-personal's special reply form. (You may continue to make use of this free service until such time as you are comfortable with them having your directed address or phone number). • Rejecting Respondents - Anonymously: It is only natural that in your search for the Perfect Partner you will need to reject those respondents that do not quite measure up to your requirements. Nobody likes to have to reject anyone, but even a rejection letter is much better (and much more polite) than not sending respondents any kind of reply at all. To assist you with this delicate yet essential task, all our photo-profiles advertisers have access to a special Anonymous Rejection Form, which offers a polite and courteous rejection on your behalf. This rejection form has several preselected reasons, plus a text box for any extra comments you may wish to make. It is designed to let respondents know exactly where they stand, whilst (as with the Reply Form mentioned above) keeping your personal email address a secret from them. • Selecting Your Country: When placing your singles profile it is very important that select the correct country that you live in from the drop-down list of countries provided. Singles browsing the profiles often make searches based on the country they wish to find a partner in, so entering an incorrect country could easily lead to you missing a great opportunity to meet the person of your dreams! Do not select a country thinking that you would most like to meet other people living in that location! (If your country is not listed, simply select the largest country located nearest to where you live.) • Your Telephone Number: The personal ads board has a section where you can add your telephone number. This is always for our office use only, unless you tick the box to let Gold Club members view it too. If you offer your number for members, we strongly suggest that you only enter mobile or cell phone numbers, and not your landline! • Your Home Address: Your full address is for our office use only. Our singles profiles never show your full street address or postcode / zip to members of the public! Only your Country plus the state, province or town you live in is displayed in order to let other singles know if you are located more or less within their travelling range. • Updating Your Photo-Profile: You are free to update or modify the details of your photo-profile (and its photo) at any time. Simply go to the exact board where your profile is located and click on the "Modify" or "Add Photo" buttons. You will then be asked to enter your ad number and your personal password. This will reveal a current copy of your profile, underneath which will be the fields that you are able to amend. For your convenience, these fields will contain your currently recorded information. You may then make whatever changes you desire to your profile. Double check the data is correct (including any pull-down or tick boxes) and hit submit. • Deleting Your Photo-Profile: Once you have met your ideal match and no longer require our services, we strongly request that you return to this website to remove your profile from the singles board. This will tell other singles that you are "no longer available" and you will receive no further emails from potential partners. To delete, go to the board where your profile is located and click on the "Remove my Profile" button. You will then be asked to enter your ad number and your personal password. This will display a copy of your existing profile, underneath which will be the main delete button. One press and goodbye profile! (If required, you may always add a new photo-profile at any time). • Your Profile's Security: Your Personal Photo-Profile is protected by a password and a username of your choosing. This ensures that you are the only person who can amend or delete the information on your profile. You'll also need these codes should you wish to change your photo or add one at a later date. - If you ever forget your codes, just click here for a reminder. • Your Personal Security: This website is here to help you locate new friends and find lifetime partners. It is however essential that you remember that contact with people via the Internet is not without risk, and it should never be accepted at face-value that the person you are communicating with is who they claim to be. We therefore suggest that you never give out too many intimate details and never give out any personal information. Should you arrange a meeting, always pick a public place and inform a friend of where you are going - or at least leave a note telling of your pending meeting and full details of the person you are meeting with and where. Whilst 99.9% of meetings are genuine, it always pays to be safe rather than sorry! ... But use your common-sense and this singles dating website will provide you with many great rewards. Have fun ... and we wish you all the best of luck with your match-making!! Perfect4partners reserves all rights. This includes, but is not limited to, the right to change, amend or reject any profiles felt to be inaccurate, misleading or otherwise unsuitable. Profiles placed in incorrect categories will also be deleted. Profiles with little or no information will be deleted. Profiles placed by persons under the age of 16 will also be deleted. Your personal details are protected by law under the consumers protection acts of the United States, Great Britain and EEC communities directives. To view or place a profile, just click the appropriate heart shaped button to your left.