Last Updated: August 2010
User Information
fanpop is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its audience. This Privacy Policy applies to solely to the information collected on Fanpop.com. fanpop may periodically update and revise this policy. Be sure to visit this page in order to review the most current Privacy Policy.
fanpop may be used without registering a user account. Users who wish to sign up for a free Fanpop.com account are only obligated to register a unique username and password. All other personal information is furnished optionally at the sole discretion of the end user to enhance their fanpop experience.
Information We Collect
fanpop collects the following personal information via the user profil page (this information is not required oleh fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s profil page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as link to other personal websites (note that birthdate itself is not displayed, but age is).
Personal information that is not displayed but used to enhance the user experience: email address. email address is not published on the user profil but used for password recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). email information is not sold atau diberikan to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, menyerahkan content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to friends and more. Such content is diserahkan at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s profil page.
Some information collected oleh fanpop is not explicitly diserahkan oleh the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
fanpop does not collect any financial atau payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, laporan website traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our web site. Lotame may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics and user data about our website visitors. Lotame does not collect personally identifiable information. For lebih information about how the information is collected and used oleh Lotame atau to opt-out, please see Lotame’s privacy policy at link.
fanpop also integrates several 3rd party services including facebook Connect, the facebook Like Button and Meebo Chat which may collect and archive personal information. Please refer to the privacy policies for these respective services to learn lebih about their privacy policies as fanpop has no control over the information they collect.
How We Use Your Information
Information such as your full name, profil foto and any personally identifiable information anda have included in your profil may be shown to friends atau other users primarily in conjunction with content anda have contributed. Your full name and email address may also be used when anda send an email notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your email address to send anda update atau news regarding our site, but anda may choose not to receive email of this type oleh editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your email address to contact anda on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends anda a personal message).
fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when anda visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address atau telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If anda would like lebih information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used oleh these companies, click here: (link).
Browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp data help us diagnose problems with our server, administer Fanpop, and otherwise provide the highest possible level of service to you. In addition, we use this information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to, atau clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade atau give away any of your personal information. fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental atau judicial authorities atau law enforcement agencies, atau to other individuals atau entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, atau other legal processes. Further, fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, atau take action regarding illegal activities atau suspected fraud, atau to enforce atau apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of Fanpop, such as an acquisition oleh atau merger with another company. In such an event, fanpop will notify anda before information about anda is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
fanpop will notify anda when information about anda may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and anda will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
anda should be aware that when anda voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, atau in other areas of the fanpop network, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used oleh third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters atau third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the fanpop site atau in other areas that anda expect to keep private.
As a registered fanpop user, anda can modify your personal information at any time oleh editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove anda and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained oleh Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain link to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. fanpop does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest anda read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of kue, cookie and Beacons
Like most websites, fanpop requires kue, cookie to function properly. kue, cookie are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify anda as a unique user. We use kue, cookie to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of kue, cookie allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and password every time.
anda should be aware that fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash kue, cookie oleh 3rd party advertisers atau any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons atau flash cookies. If anda do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows anda to deny atau accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help anda manage kue, cookie and beacons while web browsing; however, anda should note that kue, cookie may be necessary to provide anda certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the fanpop site.
Security
Your fanpop account is password-protected. fanpop tries very hard to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. If anda have any pertanyaan about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure anda that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
anda hereby acknowledge that fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and anda hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of atau related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated oleh friends and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated oleh fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your profil settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications oleh following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
oleh using the website, anda signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If anda do not agree with these terms, anda should not use the site. fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. anda are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that anda are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If anda have any pertanyaan about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, atau if anda want to exercise any of the rights that anda are diberikan under this Privacy Policy, anda can contact privacy@fanpop.com.
User Information
fanpop is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its audience. This Privacy Policy applies to solely to the information collected on Fanpop.com. fanpop may periodically update and revise this policy. Be sure to visit this page in order to review the most current Privacy Policy.
fanpop may be used without registering a user account. Users who wish to sign up for a free Fanpop.com account are only obligated to register a unique username and password. All other personal information is furnished optionally at the sole discretion of the end user to enhance their fanpop experience.
Information We Collect
fanpop collects the following personal information via the user profil page (this information is not required oleh fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s profil page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as link to other personal websites (note that birthdate itself is not displayed, but age is).
Personal information that is not displayed but used to enhance the user experience: email address. email address is not published on the user profil but used for password recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). email information is not sold atau diberikan to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, menyerahkan content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to friends and more. Such content is diserahkan at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s profil page.
Some information collected oleh fanpop is not explicitly diserahkan oleh the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
fanpop does not collect any financial atau payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, laporan website traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our web site. Lotame may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics and user data about our website visitors. Lotame does not collect personally identifiable information. For lebih information about how the information is collected and used oleh Lotame atau to opt-out, please see Lotame’s privacy policy at link.
fanpop also integrates several 3rd party services including facebook Connect, the facebook Like Button and Meebo Chat which may collect and archive personal information. Please refer to the privacy policies for these respective services to learn lebih about their privacy policies as fanpop has no control over the information they collect.
How We Use Your Information
Information such as your full name, profil foto and any personally identifiable information anda have included in your profil may be shown to friends atau other users primarily in conjunction with content anda have contributed. Your full name and email address may also be used when anda send an email notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your email address to send anda update atau news regarding our site, but anda may choose not to receive email of this type oleh editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your email address to contact anda on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends anda a personal message).
fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when anda visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address atau telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If anda would like lebih information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used oleh these companies, click here: (link).
Browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp data help us diagnose problems with our server, administer Fanpop, and otherwise provide the highest possible level of service to you. In addition, we use this information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to, atau clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade atau give away any of your personal information. fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental atau judicial authorities atau law enforcement agencies, atau to other individuals atau entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, atau other legal processes. Further, fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, atau take action regarding illegal activities atau suspected fraud, atau to enforce atau apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of Fanpop, such as an acquisition oleh atau merger with another company. In such an event, fanpop will notify anda before information about anda is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
fanpop will notify anda when information about anda may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and anda will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
anda should be aware that when anda voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, atau in other areas of the fanpop network, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used oleh third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters atau third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the fanpop site atau in other areas that anda expect to keep private.
As a registered fanpop user, anda can modify your personal information at any time oleh editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove anda and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained oleh Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain link to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. fanpop does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest anda read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of kue, cookie and Beacons
Like most websites, fanpop requires kue, cookie to function properly. kue, cookie are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify anda as a unique user. We use kue, cookie to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of kue, cookie allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and password every time.
anda should be aware that fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash kue, cookie oleh 3rd party advertisers atau any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons atau flash cookies. If anda do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows anda to deny atau accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help anda manage kue, cookie and beacons while web browsing; however, anda should note that kue, cookie may be necessary to provide anda certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the fanpop site.
Security
Your fanpop account is password-protected. fanpop tries very hard to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. If anda have any pertanyaan about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure anda that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
anda hereby acknowledge that fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and anda hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of atau related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated oleh friends and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated oleh fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your profil settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications oleh following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
oleh using the website, anda signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If anda do not agree with these terms, anda should not use the site. fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. anda are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that anda are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If anda have any pertanyaan about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, atau if anda want to exercise any of the rights that anda are diberikan under this Privacy Policy, anda can contact privacy@fanpop.com.
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