Welcome to AthleticMeet.com, a new and unique online community offering people with active lifestyles a forum to meet and interact for a wide variety of purposes. Whether you are looking for someone to date or to work out, AthleticMeet.com offers you the network and tools to make your search easy and fun.

To use any of the features of the Website, you must first register as a Member. Once you are a registered Member, you may post your Profile for other Members to view, search for other Members, or take advantage of the numerous other features and functions of AthleticMeet.com's user experience.

Memberships

AthleticMeet.com offers three levels of membership. Public Members can post profiles and search but cannot contact other members; there is no charge for Public Membership. General Members are paying members who are not members of an affiliated sports organization; General Members have all the privileges of Public Members plus the ability to contact other members using our anonymous email system, Ping, and by open email. Club Members are paying members whose membership in an affiliated sports organization has been verified; they enjoy all the privileges of Public and General members plus discounted fees and participation in special offers and opportunities.

General and Club Memberships are offered in one, three, six, and twelve month terms. They are automatically renewed at the end of each subscription term for another subscription of the same term at prices in effect at each time of renewal. For example, if you initially select a six month membership, you will be automatically renewed for another six month term at the end of your initial six month term. You may resign your membership or change the subscription term any time prior to renewal. Membership fees are, however, not refundable even if you resign prior to the end of your subscription; resignation merely stops your subscription from renewing at the end of your current subscription term.

If you are a member of an affiliated sports organization (club, team, league, special event, etc.), you are eligible for the Club Membership which offers all of the features of General Membership (and more) at a significantly lower rate. All applications for Club Memberships require that we confirm your membership in the affiliated club. If you are a member of a club that is not yet affiliated with AthleticMeet.com, we encourage you to suggest clubs.

Protective Measures

AthleticMeet.com offers state-of-the-art features that empower you to protect your identity. You determine who sees your Profile and who can contact you. You have control over your personal contact information so that you decide if and when to share such information with other Members. And you choose which email lists you want to be subscribed to.

Display Options. You can check off which membership levels you will allow to view your Profile. Default is to allow all Public, General, and Club Members, but simply uncheck the box of a group you want to exclude. Of course, the more members you allow, the more responses and potential matches you will enjoy. But also keep in mind that Public Membership is free and open to everyone, but these members cannot contact you.

Blocking. You can further limit which members can view your Profile and/or contact you by blocking individual members or every member of an affiliated club. You can block and unblock any member or club at any time, and a list of your block members and clubs is provided on the Blocking page. We encourage you to notify us if a member is abusing the Website or violating the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

Auto Sign In. Access to your Profile and other Account information is protected by your password. You must be signed in to make changes to any of your submitted information. You may elect to disable Auto Sign In if you are concerned that other people may have access to your computer. Enabling Auto Sign In keeps you logged into the Website continuously; disabling it means that you will automatically be signed out after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Email Preferences. AthleticMeet.com maintains several email lists that periodically send out emails about News (new features, new services, etc.), Hints (help on using the Website, interacting with other Members, etc.), Special Offers (discounts, special opportunities from Sponsors), and Clubs (info on clubs, events, leagues in your area). You can elect to subscribe to any of these email lists by checking the boxes on the Preferences page; by unchecking all of the boxes, you can avoid getting any emails from these lists. Please be aware that we maintain the ability and right to send you email outside of these elective lists to contact you with important information regarding your membership or the Website.

Other Account Info

Online Activities, Contests. If you are willing, we encourage you to opt be a candidate for our online contests and spotlights (default is that you are not a candidate). These contests vary from time to time so keep checking back to see if your interests change.

Contact Info. Please keep your contact information updated. This will enable us to contact you with any important issues regarding your membership.

Account Status. You can view your account status, subscription expiration date, payment history, and credit card information at any time.

Profile Help
All Members can build their own Profile to post for other Members to view. Most of the questions are optional, and you can return at any time to review and change your answers. Just click on Profile in the menu.

Building your profile consists of six easy steps:

1. Your Physical: your physical characteristics
2. Sports Profile: your sports interests and history
3. Rank & Serial Number: your work, family, and your personal habits
4. Lift the Hood: your personality, background, and values
5. First Impression: a headline about your posting as well as an brief description of you and what you are looking for
6. Upload Photos: upload photos of yourself including a head shot, sports photos, and other casual photos of you (optional)

The questions in each step are straightforward and intended to give others a better understanding of you and what you are about. Answers should be honest for your best interest and the interest of others seeking a match.

Profiles with Photos are around 75% more likely to get viewed. You may upload as many as five photos including one headshot, up to two photos of you in participating ins sports, and up to two other photos of you. Photos should be fairly current or noted if otherwise. Photos MUST in JPG, PNG, or GIF format - no others will display properly and will not be accepted. We reserve the right to edit any photos including cropping to create a head shot, to remove other people, or to remove offensive or inappropriate material. No nudity, sex portrayals, or images of minors will be allowed.

All Profile submissions (including photos) are subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and may not include material that is copyrighted or otherwise does not belong to you.

Search Types

AthleticMeet.com offers a wide array of search methods to assist you. You can always search to find people for any purpose, Dating, Friendship, Workout Partner, Roommate, etc.

1. Sprint: Quick search based on gender, age, location, and purpose. you can opt to receive search results with photos only.
2. Detailed: For most of the questions in the Profile questionnaire, mark what is important to you and search using those criteria.
3. By Sport: Sprint search plus check off the sports you in which want them to have an interested.
4. Username/Keyword: Input all or a portion of a Member's username and find all Members that match; or do a Sprint Search and add a keyword.

The results of any search will be summaries of all Members that match the criteria you selected as well as the preferences you selected in My Account. For each search result, you may click on the Member's username to view their full Profile.

If your search results in Members that interest you, you may save them as Favorites by clicking on the Favorites icon. You may view and edit your list of Favorites at any time.

Mutual Match. Similar to the Detailed Search, you can go through the Profile questionnaire and indicate what qualities and characteristics are important to you. Mutual Match will then compare your preferences with the Mutual Match preferences of other Members to come up with a powerful search result of people who meet your criteria and for whom you meet their criteria.

You may save any of the searches you undertake and re-use them in the future. Simply check the box "Save Search" and input a name for the search to be saved under. All of your Saved Searches can be run, edited, or deleted at any time.

Contacting Other Members: Anonymous Email, Pinging

You may contact individual Members at any time (in accordance with the Terms of Use) either through our Anonymous Email or by sending a Ping.

Flirting is a great tradition and works well online as well. To Ping another Member, click on the Ping icon on their Profile. A pop-up window will confirm the recipient's username and offer you the chance to attach a very brief message. Receiving a Ping is easy - you will get a notice in the header of each page, to the left of the Menus, indicating how many new Pings you have. Click on that link to go to Favorites/Pings/Emails for a listing of all your Ping activity.

To email another Member (in accordance with the Terms of Use), click on the Email icon on their Profile. You will taken to a page where you can compose an email that will get sent by our systems to the other Member. To protect your identity, AthleticMeet.com offers Anonymous Email. Your email address will not be revealed to the recipient unless you decide to disclose it in the text of your email; likewise, you will not know the email address of the recipient unless they provide it in a response email back to you.

The recipient of Anonymous Email , including you if another Member emails you through our Website, will receive an email addressed to their email address of record in their regular email software (Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, etc.). Each Anonymous Email contains a link back to our Website to enable an Anonymous Email response; to respond, just click on that link and you will be taken to a page to compose an Anonymous Email back to the sender.

We strongly recommend that you take precautions before revealing your email address or any other identifying or contact information to anyone; for helpful safety tips, please consult the Online Dating Precautions page.

Clubs Info

We develop relationships with various sports organizations to enhance the quality and quantity of our membership; clubs, teams, leagues, sporting events, gyms, etc. are natural sources for AthleticMeet.com users, and current active membership in such organizations indicates that these members are current active athletes and part of the fitness community. Of course not all active people are members of a club, but it is one way to verify a person's interests and lifestyle. If you belong to an organization that is not yet a member of the AthleticMeet.com community, please suggest the club to us (and to the leaders of that organization as well!) - it can save you money.

If you are a member of an affiliated club, then you are eligible to be Club Member. If you join an affiliated club during the term of your subscription, you can convert your membership to Club Membership to enjoy the features available to Club Members, and, at the date of your next renewal, you will also save money by renewing at the lower Club Membership rates. You can indicate that you are a member of an affiliated club on the Basic Data page. We must verify your membership in an affiliated club before you can be confirmed as a Club Member; in the event that we are not able to verify your membership in a club, then you will be notified by email that your membership was not verified and that your AthleticMeet.com Membership will be automatically restated to be a General Membership with a term, in months, equal to the amount you paid in applying for the Club Membership divided by the General Membership rate for the term.

You may search the listings of affiliated clubs at any time. these listing provide additional information about each affiliated club as well as contact information and links to their websites for further information.