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 نام کا صارف 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 پروفائل page (this information is not required سے طرف کی Fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s پروفائل page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as لنکس 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: میل ای address. میل ای address is not published on the user پروفائل but used for ورڈ پاس recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). میل ای information is not sold یا دیا to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
Fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, کرائیں جمع content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to دوستوں and more. Such content is کیا پیش at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s پروفائل page.
Some information collected سے طرف کی Fanpop is not explicitly کیا پیش سے طرف کی the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
Fanpop does not collect any financial یا payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, رپورٹ 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 مزید information about how the information is collected and used سے طرف کی Lotame یا 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 مزید 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, پروفائل تصویر and any personally identifiable information آپ have included in your پروفائل may be shown to دوستوں یا other users primarily in conjunction with content آپ have contributed. Your full name and میل ای address may also be used when آپ send an میل ای notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your میل ای address to send آپ ڈیٹس اپ یا news regarding our site, but آپ may choose not to receive میل ای of this type سے طرف کی editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your میل ای address to contact آپ on behalf of your دوستوں (such as when someone sends آپ a personal message).
Fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when آپ visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, میل ای address یا 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 آپ would like مزید information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used سے طرف کی 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, یا clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade یا give away any of your personal information. Fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental یا judicial authorities یا law enforcement agencies, یا to other individuals یا entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, یا other legal processes. Further, Fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, یا take action regarding illegal activities یا suspected fraud, یا to enforce یا 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 سے طرف کی یا merger with another company. In such an event, Fanpop will notify آپ before information about آپ is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Fanpop will notify آپ when information about آپ may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and آپ will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
آپ should be aware that when آپ voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, یا 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 سے طرف کی third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters یا third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the Fanpop site یا in other areas that آپ expect to keep private.
As a registered Fanpop user, آپ can modify your personal information at any time سے طرف کی editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, Fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove آپ and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained سے طرف کی Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain لنکس 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 آپ read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of کوکیز and Beacons
Like most websites, Fanpop requires کوکیز to function properly. کوکیز are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify آپ as a unique user. We use کوکیز to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of کوکیز allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their میل ای address and ورڈ پاس every time.
آپ should be aware that Fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash کوکیز سے طرف کی 3rd party advertisers یا any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons یا flash cookies. If آپ do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows آپ to deny یا accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help آپ manage کوکیز and beacons while web browsing; however, آپ should note that کوکیز may be necessary to provide آپ 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 آپ have any سوالات about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure آپ that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
آپ hereby acknowledge that Fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and آپ hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of یا related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated سے طرف کی دوستوں and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated سے طرف کی Fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your پروفائل settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications سے طرف کی following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
سے طرف کی using the website, آپ signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If آپ do not agree with these terms, آپ should not use the site. Fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. آپ are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that آپ 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 آپ have any سوالات about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, یا if آپ want to exercise any of the rights that آپ are دیا under this Privacy Policy, آپ 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 نام کا صارف 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 پروفائل page (this information is not required سے طرف کی Fanpop and is provided at the sole discretion of the user):
Personally identifiable information for display on the user’s پروفائل page. This information includes: first name, last name, birthdate, gender, im username, city, state and postal code as well as لنکس 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: میل ای address. میل ای address is not published on the user پروفائل but used for ورڈ پاس recovery, activity alerts and periodic announcements from Fanpop.com (all of which the user can disable at any time). میل ای information is not sold یا دیا to any 3rd parties and is used solely to improve the Fanpop.com experience.
Fanpop also allows users to post photos, participate in polls, کرائیں جمع content and articles, post on their wall, send private messages to دوستوں and more. Such content is کیا پیش at the sole discretion of the user. Personal information contained in this content may be archived and linked to the user’s پروفائل page.
Some information collected سے طرف کی Fanpop is not explicitly کیا پیش سے طرف کی the user; we log your browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp.
Fanpop does not collect any financial یا payment data from its users.
We have contracted with Lotame Solutions, Inc. (“Lotame”) to better help us operate the web site, رپورٹ 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 مزید information about how the information is collected and used سے طرف کی Lotame یا 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 مزید 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, پروفائل تصویر and any personally identifiable information آپ have included in your پروفائل may be shown to دوستوں یا other users primarily in conjunction with content آپ have contributed. Your full name and میل ای address may also be used when آپ send an میل ای notification to a friend (such as in an invitation). We may also use your میل ای address to send آپ ڈیٹس اپ یا news regarding our site, but آپ may choose not to receive میل ای of this type سے طرف کی editing your preferences in your profile. Additionally, we use your میل ای address to contact آپ on behalf of your دوستوں (such as when someone sends آپ a personal message).
Fanpop uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when آپ visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, میل ای address یا 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 آپ would like مزید information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used سے طرف کی 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, یا clicked on, their advertising banners.
Transfer of Information
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade یا give away any of your personal information. Fanpop will disclose information about individual users to governmental یا judicial authorities یا law enforcement agencies, یا to other individuals یا entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, یا other legal processes. Further, Fanpop may share information in order to investigate, prevent, یا take action regarding illegal activities یا suspected fraud, یا to enforce یا 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 سے طرف کی یا merger with another company. In such an event, Fanpop will notify آپ before information about آپ is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Fanpop will notify آپ when information about آپ may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and آپ will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
Controlling Your Personal Information
آپ should be aware that when آپ voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via comments, messages, forums, postings, یا 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 سے طرف کی third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters یا third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Fanpop. Please do not post any personal information on the Fanpop site یا in other areas that آپ expect to keep private.
As a registered Fanpop user, آپ can modify your personal information at any time سے طرف کی editing your “Profile”. Also, upon your request, Fanpop will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove آپ and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained سے طرف کی Fanpop. Registered users who wish to close their account should contact admin@Fanpop.com.
Links
Our website may contain لنکس 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 آپ read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
User Contact and Security
Use of کوکیز and Beacons
Like most websites, Fanpop requires کوکیز to function properly. کوکیز are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify آپ as a unique user. We use کوکیز to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of کوکیز allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their میل ای address and ورڈ پاس every time.
آپ should be aware that Fanpop cannot control the use of cookies, beacons and flash کوکیز سے طرف کی 3rd party advertisers یا any of the information advertisers may gather from their use of their cookies, beacons یا flash cookies. If آپ do not want information collected through the use of the aforementioned methos, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows آپ to deny یا accept the cookie feature as well as browser add-ons that can help آپ manage کوکیز and beacons while web browsing; however, آپ should note that کوکیز may be necessary to provide آپ 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 آپ have any سوالات about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure آپ that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
آپ hereby acknowledge that Fanpop is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and آپ hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of یا related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Emails and Opt-out
Registered members can opt-out of personal messages initiated سے طرف کی دوستوں and users, as well as opt-out of receiving notifications initiated سے طرف کی Fanpop (note: notification settings can be found under the your پروفائل settings). Unregistered users that do not wish to receive emails may opt-out of receiving any communications سے طرف کی following the instructions contained in all emails.
Terms and Contact
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
سے طرف کی using the website, آپ signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If آپ do not agree with these terms, آپ should not use the site. Fanpop may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. آپ are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that آپ 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 آپ have any سوالات about this Privacy Policy, the privacy practices of this website, یا if آپ want to exercise any of the rights that آپ are دیا under this Privacy Policy, آپ can contact privacy@fanpop.com.
Im on Fanpop everyday now, (like loads of other user's....im addicted!) I feel i have made a load of new friends, some a lot younger than me, some my own age and some slightly older. I would really like it if we could all use our own pictures as our icon's for a week یا so as i would love to put a face to all the username's. I know a lot of آپ do use your own picture so this is just for the people like me who don't.
While im here i would like to say a huge thank آپ to Dave, Papa, Micheal and Cliff for all your hard work and giving us an amazing website to visit everyday!
Will also thank all آپ user's.....Cressida, Kathiria, Megloveskyle, Harold, DrDevience, Benji and so many مزید of you! آپ guys rock and make Fanpop such a good place to be! :)
While im here i would like to say a huge thank آپ to Dave, Papa, Micheal and Cliff for all your hard work and giving us an amazing website to visit everyday!
Will also thank all آپ user's.....Cressida, Kathiria, Megloveskyle, Harold, DrDevience, Benji and so many مزید of you! آپ guys rock and make Fanpop such a good place to be! :)
I'm human, and it's part of the human condition to avoid change. So I admit I get a little irritated when stuff on Fanpop changes. I still haven't got used to the differences between the تلاش bars on the site, for instance - every دن I scratch my head, wondering why I get no results when I look for "Fanpop Users", until I realize that I was looking within the link instead of through the whole site (someday I'll get used to this. 
Someday soon, I hope, as I was one of the users who requested the feature!). Similarly, back in August 2008, I found myself...
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I hate it when this crap happens
