April 30, 2015
FantaStory.com is committed to protecting the privacy of users of this site. FantaStory.com intends to give users as much control as possible over user’s personally identifiable information, including registration data. This Privacy Statement applies to this site and describes the information FantaStory.com collects about users and how that information may be used.
FantaStory.com reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If FantaStory.com makes material changes to its privacy practices, a prominent notice will be posted on this web page. Each time a user uses this site, the current version of the Privacy Statement applies. Accordingly, a user should check the date of this Privacy Statement (which appears at the top) and review for any changes since the last version. If a user does not agree to the Privacy Statement, the user should not use the site.
FantaStory.com provides this Privacy Statement to make users aware of FantaStory.com privacy practices, and of the choices a user may make about the way the user’s information is collected and used.
Users represent they are of legal age to create binding and financial obligations for any liability users may incur as a result of their use of the site. The site is not directed to users under the age of 18, and FantaStory.com will never request personally identifiable information from anyone whom it knows to be under the age of 18 without verifiable parental or guardian consent. We do not knowingly collect, or wish to obtain, personally identifiable information from children. If we become aware that a user is under the age of 18 and has provided personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental or guardian consent, it will remove user’s personally identifiable information from its files.
What information FantaStory.com collects
FantaStory.com may collect two types of information from users of this site: “personally identifiable information” (such as name, email address, postal address, telephone, birth date) and “aggregate information” (such as frequency of visits to Sites, IP address, Site pages most frequently accessed, browser type). Personally identifiable information is any piece of information which can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a user of the site. Aggregate information is non-personally identifiable/anonymous information about users of the site. Aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by that compiled information.
On the site, users may order products or services, and register to receive materials. Personally identifiable information collected on the Sites includes community forum content, diaries, profiles, photographs, name, unique identifiers (e.g., passwords), contact and billing information (e.g., email address, postal address, telephone, fax), and transaction information. Information about financial transactions need to be kept even if a user deletes their profile. This information might be shared with appropriate government bodies in case of for example a tax audit.
In order to tailor FantaStory.com subsequent communications to users and continuously improve the sites’ products and services, FantaStory.com may also ask users to provide information regarding their interests, demographics, experience with its products, and detailed contact preferences.
Cookies
FantaStory.com uses cookies on the site. A cookie is a unique text file that may be used for data analysis, and enables a web site to tailor information presented to a user based on a user’s browsing program. FantaStory.com may use cookies to personalize a user’s pages at a site, to remember a user when the user registers for products or services, or to track visits to a site. If a user does not want FantaStory.com to deploy cookies in the user’s browser, the user may set the browser to reject cookies or to notify the user when a web site tries to place cookies in the browser program. Rejecting cookies may affect a user’s ability to use some of the products, features, functions, or services on this site. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.
The third party advertising technology that FantaStory.com uses on this site uses information derived from a user’s visits to the site to target advertising within the site. In addition, FantaStory.com advertisers may use other third party advertising technology to target advertising on the site. In the course of serving advertisements to the site, we or third party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on a user’s browser. Information about users’ visits to the site, such as the number of times users have viewed an ad (but not users’ names, addresses, or other personally identifiable information), are used to serve ads to visitors. Our use of cookies enables us it to serve ads to users based on such user’s visit to FantaStory.com. As with other cookies, the user may block or delete such cookies from the user’s drive or memory. However, doing so may inhibit the use of FantaStory.com.
Log files
FantaStory.com web servers may automatically log aggregate information, such as a user’s IP address, domain name, browser type, date and time of access, and other log file data. This information may be used to analyze trends or administer the site. Log files do not contain personally identifiable information. We use Google Analytics to monitor usage patterns and using this site you also agree that they store information about you in their system. As far as we know you can not be personally identifiable, but we have no control of the way they use the information.
FantaStory.com may contract with third party mirror providers, who deliver integrated communications services. This may include internet access services to deploy mirrors of downloads in order to make file downloading via FantaStory.com faster and more convenient. We have no control over the privacy or logging policies of mirror providers, or the implementation thereof, and such policies may differ from this Privacy Statement.
How FantaStory.com uses the information collected
FantaStory.com may use the personally identifiable information a user submits for any purposes related to FantaStory.com business, including, but not limited to:
To understand a user’s needs and create content that is relevant to the user; To generate statistical studies; To conduct market research and planning by sending user surveys; To notify user referrals of FantaStory.com services, information, or products when a user requests that FantaStory.com send such information to referrals; To improve services, information, and products; To help a user complete a transaction, or provide services or customer support; To communicate back to the user; To update the user on services, information, and products; To personalize the site for the user; To notify the user of any changes with a site which may affect the user; To enforce terms of use on the site; and To allow the user to purchase products, access services, or otherwise engage in activities the user selects.
User names, identifications (“IDs”), and email addresses (as well as any additional information that a user may choose to post) may be publicly available on a site when users voluntarily and publicly disclose personally identifiable information, such as when a user posts personally identifiable information in conjunction with content subject to an Open Source license, or as part of a message posted to a public forum or a publicly-released software application. Users may not be able to change or remove public postings once posted. Such personally identifiable information may be used by visitors of these pages to send unsolicited messages. FantaStory.com is not responsible for any consequences which may occur from the use of personally identifiable information that a user chooses to submit to public pages.
With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. FantaStory.com will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users, which as stated earlier is anonymous information that does not identify any specific individual. Circumstances under which FantaStory.com would publicly disclose such aggregate information include, but are not limited to, sharing survey results with the site population, providing data to FantaStory.com advertisers on user preferences and/or demographics, and publicizing overall usage data in press communications.
Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where FantaStory.com advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, FantaStory.com reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no personal information identifying a specific user is disclosed. Participation in surveys is at a user’s option; FantaStory.com does not conduct mandatory surveys.
CHOICE/OPT OUT
A user makes the decision whether to proceed with any activity that requests personally identifiable information. If a user does not provide requested information, the user may not be able to complete certain transactions.
Users who use the personally identifiable information of other users agree to use such information only for:
Emails
FantaStory.com will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to it online in ways unrelated to the items described above without first letting a user know and offering the user a choice. If a user no longer wishes to receive direct marketing materials, FantaStory.com will provide instructions in each of its emails on how to be removed from any lists. FantaStory.com will make commercially reasonable efforts to honor such requests. Disabling the ability to send you emails might of course impact FantaStory.com’s ability to provide certain services, for example email notifications when new content is added. If you want to get the full benefit of our services, please always opt-in to our emails. If you feel that we are sending too many emails, just let us know and we will hear you out. Don’t forget that we are not a big company and there are real people behind this site!
Profile or User ID Display
A user’s personally identifiable information may be publicly available through a user’s profile or user ID display. In such cases, users have the option and discretion to opt out of publicly displaying their real names at any time by changing their display name under the sites’ user preferences. Profile or user ID display may allow other users to see a user’s activities, including purchase and sales content, ratings, and comments.
Email Display
Users may have the opportunity to use a service to send electronic mail to another user or email list. In such cases, a user’s valid email address and real name will be included with such messages. In order to prevent abuse, users may not opt out of such a display, but may choose to refrain from using such service to transmit an email message.
FantaStory.com offers an email alias service that allows a user to create an email alias that forwards to the user’s personal email account. FantaStory.com does not publish a user’s personal email address, but does publicize email aliases which may allow an individual to identify or contact a user. A user who obtains an email alias may not opt out of such publication of the email alias. Photographs
Users may have the opportunity to submit photographs to the sites for product promotions, contests, and other purposes to be disclosed at the time of request. In these circumstances, the sites are designed to allow the public to view, download, save, and otherwise access the photographs posted. By submitting a photograph, users waive any privacy expectations users have with respect to the security of such photographs, and FantaStory.com use or exploitation of users’ likeness. All photographs submitted to FantaStory.com become the property of FantaStory.com and will not be returned. We transfer the full rights to such photos to FantaStory.com and it’s owners and FantaStory.com reserve the right to edit, adapt, change, modify and do whatever we want with such photos. Please understand that they may be used in promotional tasks to market the service or any other product we see fit to market with those photos.
With whom may FantaStory.com share information?
FantaStory.com will not sell, rent, or lease a user’s personally identifiable information to others, except as described in this Privacy Statement. Unless FantaStory.com has a user’s permission or as required by law, FantaStory.com will only share the personally identifiable information a user provides online with other entities that are part of the FantaStory.com family and/or outside service providers who may be used to ship products, process credit cards, provide technical support, handle order processing, or otherwise act on FantaStory.com behalf. These third parties are prohibited from using users’ information for any other purpose, including their own marketing.
When FantaStory.com uses third parties to assist in processing a site’s user personally identifiable information, FantaStory.com requests that they comply with FantaStory.com privacy practices, and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Please be advised that in certain instances, it may be necessary for FantaStory.com to disclose a user’s personally identifiable information without a user’s permission to government officials or otherwise as required by legal obligations. FantaStory.com may disclose such personally identifiable information when responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise legal rights or defend against claims, including fraud or infringement investigations.
Data collected online may be combined with information a user provides through other means of communication, such as postal mail or third parties to further carry out the purposes described above under the heading “NOTICE, How FantaStory.com uses the information collected regarding users”.
When users choose to provide FantaStory.com with personally identifiable information, users consent to the transfer and storage of such information by FantaStory.com servers in other countries and the United States.
In addition, FantaStory.com reserves the right to share aggregate information collected from users of the sites, without prior notice, with entities that are part of the FantaStory.com family and unrelated third parties. As stated earlier, aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by such compiled information.
To purchase services, users may be asked to be directed to a third party site, like PayPal, to pay for their purchases. If applicable, the third party site may collect payment information directly to facilitate a transaction. None of this information will be captured or stored by FantaStory.com.
Links to third party web sites on the site are provided solely as a convenience to the user. When a user uses these links, the user leaves the site. FantaStory.com has not reviewed all of these third party sites, does not control, and is not responsible for, any of the third party sites, their content or privacy practices. FantaStory.com does not endorse or make any representations about the third party sites, or any information, services, or products found on the sites. If a user decides to access any of the linked sites, FantaStory.com encourages the user to read their privacy statements. The user accesses such sites at user’s own risk.
FantaStory.com reserves the right to share or transfer personally identifiable information and aggregate information to a third party should FantaStory.com ever file for bankruptcy or in the event of a sale, merger or acquisition of FantaStory.com, provided such third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
Should a user find inaccuracies in such user’s information, or desire to close an account or view the personally identifiable information FantaStory.com may have regarding the user, the user may contact FantaStory.com through the communication methods available, or when technically feasible, directly on the site. FantaStory.com will make commercially reasonable efforts to respond to requests for access within thirty (30) days of receiving requests. FantaStory.com may decline to process users’ access or update requests to their personally identifiable information if the requests require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of other users, or are impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).
To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, FantaStory.com implements physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information FantaStory.com collects. FantaStory.com uses encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive personally identifiable information. However, FantaStory.com does not guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never defeat measures taken to prevent improper use of personally identifiable information. Internal FantaStory.com access to users’ nonpublic personally identifiable information is restricted to FantaStory.com administrators and individuals on a need-to-know basis. These individuals are bound by confidentiality agreements.
User passwords are keys to accounts. Use unique numbers, letters, and special characters for passwords and do not disclose passwords to other people in order to prevent loss of account control. Users are responsible for all actions taken in their accounts. Notify FantaStory.com of any password compromises, and change passwords periodically to maintain account protection. In addition to passwords, FantaStory.com users also obtain encryption keys for the release of files for download, development of web content, and other services. Users are responsible for all actions taken with encryption keys, and must promptly notify FantaStory.com of any security compromises involving such encryption keys.
In the event FantaStory.com becomes aware that the security of the site has been compromised or user’s personally identifiable information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to security attacks or fraud, FantaStory.com reserves the right to take reasonable appropriate measures, including but not limited to, investigation and reporting, and notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities.
If FantaStory.com becomes aware that a user’s personally identifiable information has been disclosed in a manner not permitted by this Privacy Statement, FantaStory.com will make reasonable efforts to notify the affected user, as soon as reasonably possible and as permitted by law, of what information has been disclosed, to the extent that FantaStory.com knows this information.
If a user has comments or questions about FantaStory.com privacy statement, please contact FantaStory.com per email.