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 tên người dùng 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 thông tin các nhân page (this information is not required bởi fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s thông tin các nhân page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as đường dẫn 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 thông tin các nhân but used for mật khẩu recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). email information is not sold hoặc được trao to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, đệ trình content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to Những người bạn and more. Such content is đã đệ trình at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s thông tin các nhân page.
Some information collected bởi fanpop is not explicitly đã đệ trình bởi the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
fanpop does not collect any financial hoặc payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, báo cáo 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 thêm information about how the information is collected and used bởi Lotame hoặc 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 thêm 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, thông tin các nhân bức ảnh and any personally identifiable information bạn have included in your thông tin các nhân may be shown to Những người bạn hoặc other users primarily in conjunction with content bạn have contributed. Your full name and email address may also be used when bạn send an email notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your email address to send bạn những thông tin cập nhập hoặc news regarding our site, but bạn may choose not to receive email of this type bởi editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your email address to contact bạn on behalf of your Những người bạn (such as when someone sends bạn a personal message).
fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when bạn visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address hoặc 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 bạn would like thêm information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used bởi 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, hoặc clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade hoặc give away any of your personal information. fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental hoặc judicial authorities hoặc law enforcement agencies, hoặc to other individuals hoặc entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, hoặc other legal processes. Further, fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, hoặc take action regarding illegal activities hoặc suspected fraud, hoặc to enforce hoặc 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 bởi hoặc merger with another company. In such an event, fanpop will notify bạn before information about bạn is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
fanpop will notify bạn when information about bạn may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and bạn will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
bạn should be aware that when bạn voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, hoặc 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 bởi third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters hoặc third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the fanpop site hoặc in other areas that bạn expect to keep private.
As a registered fanpop user, bạn can modify your personal information at any time bởi editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove bạn and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained bởi Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain đường dẫn 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 bạn read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of bánh quy, cookie and Beacons
Like most websites, fanpop requires bánh quy, cookie to function properly. bánh quy, cookie are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify bạn as a unique user. We use bánh quy, cookie to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of bánh quy, cookie allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and mật khẩu every time.
bạn should be aware that fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash bánh quy, cookie bởi 3rd party advertisers hoặc any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons hoặc flash cookies. If bạn do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows bạn to deny hoặc accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help bạn manage bánh quy, cookie and beacons while web browsing; however, bạn should note that bánh quy, cookie may be necessary to provide bạn 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 bạn have any các câu hỏi about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure bạn that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
bạn hereby acknowledge that fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and bạn hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of hoặc related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated bởi Những người bạn and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated bởi fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your thông tin các nhân settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications bởi following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
bởi using the website, bạn signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If bạn do not agree with these terms, bạn should not use the site. fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. bạn are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that bạn 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 bạn have any các câu hỏi about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, hoặc if bạn want to exercise any of the rights that bạn are được trao under this Privacy Policy, bạn 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 tên người dùng 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 thông tin các nhân page (this information is not required bởi fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s thông tin các nhân page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as đường dẫn 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 thông tin các nhân but used for mật khẩu recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). email information is not sold hoặc được trao to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, đệ trình content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to Những người bạn and more. Such content is đã đệ trình at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s thông tin các nhân page.
Some information collected bởi fanpop is not explicitly đã đệ trình bởi the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
fanpop does not collect any financial hoặc payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, báo cáo 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 thêm information about how the information is collected and used bởi Lotame hoặc 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 thêm 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, thông tin các nhân bức ảnh and any personally identifiable information bạn have included in your thông tin các nhân may be shown to Những người bạn hoặc other users primarily in conjunction with content bạn have contributed. Your full name and email address may also be used when bạn send an email notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your email address to send bạn những thông tin cập nhập hoặc news regarding our site, but bạn may choose not to receive email of this type bởi editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your email address to contact bạn on behalf of your Những người bạn (such as when someone sends bạn a personal message).
fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when bạn visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address hoặc 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 bạn would like thêm information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used bởi 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, hoặc clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade hoặc give away any of your personal information. fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental hoặc judicial authorities hoặc law enforcement agencies, hoặc to other individuals hoặc entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, hoặc other legal processes. Further, fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, hoặc take action regarding illegal activities hoặc suspected fraud, hoặc to enforce hoặc 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 bởi hoặc merger with another company. In such an event, fanpop will notify bạn before information about bạn is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
fanpop will notify bạn when information about bạn may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and bạn will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
bạn should be aware that when bạn voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, hoặc 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 bởi third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters hoặc third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the fanpop site hoặc in other areas that bạn expect to keep private.
As a registered fanpop user, bạn can modify your personal information at any time bởi editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove bạn and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained bởi Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain đường dẫn 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 bạn read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of bánh quy, cookie and Beacons
Like most websites, fanpop requires bánh quy, cookie to function properly. bánh quy, cookie are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify bạn as a unique user. We use bánh quy, cookie to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of bánh quy, cookie allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and mật khẩu every time.
bạn should be aware that fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash bánh quy, cookie bởi 3rd party advertisers hoặc any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons hoặc flash cookies. If bạn do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows bạn to deny hoặc accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help bạn manage bánh quy, cookie and beacons while web browsing; however, bạn should note that bánh quy, cookie may be necessary to provide bạn 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 bạn have any các câu hỏi about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure bạn that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
bạn hereby acknowledge that fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and bạn hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of hoặc related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated bởi Những người bạn and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated bởi fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your thông tin các nhân settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications bởi following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
bởi using the website, bạn signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If bạn do not agree with these terms, bạn should not use the site. fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. bạn are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that bạn 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 bạn have any các câu hỏi about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, hoặc if bạn want to exercise any of the rights that bạn are được trao under this Privacy Policy, bạn can contact privacy@fanpop.com.
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Just scroll down to the little Internet section.
Boy, I can almost TASTE it- a big, beefy record of history about Fanpop's past, present, and future!
If bạn want to see proof, just click this link.
link
Just scroll down to the little Internet section.
