Providing downloadable software and access to online as well as locally resident databases via computers and mobile and hand-held electronic devices which allows the secure compilation, transmission and sharing of information and data via a global computer network and other computer and communications networks for establishing desired commercial and non-commercial relationships; providing temporary use of nondownloadable software for use in establishing commercial and non-commercial relationships via a global computer network and other computer and communications networks; providing temporary use of nondownloadable software for electronic transmission of data, message, graphics, images, audio, video and information via a global computer network and other computer and communications networks for the purposes of establishing commercial and non-commercial relationships; providing secure online social introduction, networking and dating services via a global computer network and other computer and communications networks; providing social services for establishing desired commercial and non-commercial relationships and providing for secure interaction between parties for the purposes of establishing commercial and non-commercial relationships via a global computer network and other computer and communications networks; providing advertising, marketing and promotion services via a global computer network and other computer and communications; providing the promotion of goods and services of others via a global computer network and other computer and communications; facilitating the connection between buyers and sellers of goods and services via a global computer network and other computer and communications; providing relationship-based market research services to promote goods and services of others