Last updated: September 1, 2011
Fanified knows that you care about how your personal information is used
and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn
more about our privacy policy. By visiting the Fanified website, you are
accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers Fanified's treatment of personal information that
Fanified gathers when you are on the Fanified website (the “Site”)
and when you use Fanified services (collectively the “Service”).
This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Fanified
does not own or control, or to individuals that Fanified does not employ
or manage.
What Personal Information About Users Does Fanified Collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly,
customized, and efficient experience. We collect the following types of information
from our users:
1. Information You Provide to Us:
We receive and may store any information you enter on our website or provide to
us in any other way (including by connecting to Fanified through a third-party
service). You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you
may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal
information we collect includes:
* Registration: In order for you to use certain Fanified services, such as
submitting new articles to the Site, you must complete a registration form including
your full name and email address, or connect with us through a third-party service,
which will provide us with information about you from your account with that service
as that service may permit.
* Member Profile: You have the option (but are not required) to enter your full
name and the URL of your blog into your member profile for public display on the
Site.
* User Content: You may post your own stories on the Service as well as edit
and comment on the stories of others (collectively your "User Content").
2. Automatic Information:
* We receive and store certain types of non-personally identifiable information
whenever you interact with us. Fanified automatically receives and records
certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address,
Fanified cookie information, and the page you requested.
* Fanified may display a counter on any page indicating the total number
of times that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
* Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and
tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Fanified
cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information
collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are
or what your screen name or email address is.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on
how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser
to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. You
may choose to disable or reject cookies when using the Service, but you may
not be able to access some of Fanified's most attractive features.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers).
Fanified has no access to or control over these cookies.
* If you choose to provide posts from your blog via Fanified, we may ask
you to paste a confirmation code into the external template of your blog that communicates
with us to authenticate the blog as an authorized feed and places a badge on your
blog identifying you as a Fanified Affiliate.
How Does Fanified Use My Information?
We use your information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and
functionality of the Service.
* Social sharing of User Content: Fanified allows other users to browse stories
that you have written, edited, or commented on. This information is made available
via your member profile, on the Fanified Play-by-Play, or within the article
or history page of the story in which you performed the action on. Fanified
may choose to post this data on other site features in the future.
* Profile information: Fanified allows other users to browse your full name,
and blog URL within your member profile should you provide this optional information.
* Syndication: Fanified allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public
content within the website.
* API: Fanified may allow third parties access to all Fanified data
that is already publicly available through Fanified.com through an application
program interface that allows other programs to interact with the Site. Fanified
will keep passwords and blog settings private.
* Traffic data: Fanified uses traffic data, including information gathered
from cookies, to help diagnose problems with our servers, analyze trends, research
the market for our services, and administer the website.
Will Fanified Share Any of the Information it Receives?
We will not rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. We share your personal
information only as described below.
* Providing the Fanified Service: Fanified personnel may have
access to user information while carrying out their duties in the normal course
of Fanified business. Fanified may share your personally identifiable
information with third parties solely for the purpose of providing services to you.
If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information will be bound by
this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside
the direct control of Fanified (for instance, on servers or databases co-located
with hosting providers).
* Third-Party Services: If you connect with Fanified through a third-party
service, that service may collect certain information about your connection to Fanified
as specified by the third-party service’s policies.
* Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets
or business offerings. In these types of transactions, user information is typically
one of the business assets that is transferred. We may also transfer such information
in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution. In any such
transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises
made in our Privacy Policy.
* Protection of Fanified and Others: We may release personal information
when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law;
to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights,
property, or safety of Fanified, our employees, our users, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
* With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal
information may be shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible
with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able
to prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.
Is Information About Me Secure?
* Your Fanified account information is protected by a password for your privacy
and security. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and
account information.
* Only Fanified employees who need personal information to perform a specific
job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All
of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
* Fanified uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical
safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information.
We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit
to Fanified and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission
of information, Fanified makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure
the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that
such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach
of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. This information
includes your User Content. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal,
copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other
users have copied or stored your User Content.
What Information Can I Access?
You can access your personal information on our website and correct, amend, or delete
information that is inaccurate by visiting your user profile setting page.
What Choices Do I Have?
* You can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to
use certain features on our website.
* You can choose to disable or reject cookies from the Service, but you may not
then be able to access many features of Fanified.
* You can add or update certain information on pages of the Site. When you update
information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our
records.
* You may request deletion of your Fanified account by emailing us at
admin@fanified.com.
Can Children Use Fanified's Services?
You must be at least 13 years or older to register to use the Fanified website.
Children between the age of 13 and 18 must have parental consent to register.
Fanified does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from
anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are
under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your
name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed
to provide any personal information to or on Fanified. In the event that
we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without
verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe
that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please
contact us at admin@fanified.com.
Third Party Links and Advertisers
The Site contains links to web sites or services of third parties. Fanified
is not responsible for the actions of these third parties, including their privacy
practices and any content posted on their web sites. We encourage you to review
their privacy policies to learn more about what, why and how they collect and use
personal information..
Fanified uses third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on the Site.
These third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gifs or web
beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do
so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website
and other websites, but will not collect any information which can personally identify
you or can be linked to you. This information can include: date/time of banner ad
shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, and the IP address. This information
can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently
you may either visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit
the NAI gateway opt-out site to view cookies installed on your browser by various
online ad networks and opt out of some or all of them. Click here for the NAI gateway
opt-out site. http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy
policies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Fanified may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion.
Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the
time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will
notify you by posting an announcement on the Fanified website so you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
if any, it is disclosed.
Questions?
Please e-mail admin@fanified.com.