Fan Bash is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect from those interacting with our Web site. By accessing the Fan Bash Web sites, you acknowledge and fully understand Fan Bash’s Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy. Fan Bash reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time so you are encouraged to periodically check this Policy for any updates. Your continued use of the Web site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
"Personally Identifiable Information" or "Personal Information" means information that identifies a particular individual, such as the individual's name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. When other information (such as, for example, consumer product preferences) is directly associated with personally identifiable information, this other information also is treated as personally identifiable information for purposes of this Privacy Policy. Personally identifiable information does not include User Names (also known as member names, User Names or other online aliases) provided by visitors to the Fan Bash Web sites in the course of registering with or using any of our Web sites, except in circumstances in which we request that Users provide their e-mail addresses as their User Names.
The terms of this Privacy Policy are subject to all applicable laws.
A. Much of the personally identifiable information we receive comes directly from Users who are interested in our services. Typically, this information includes the User’s email address. We may also collect other types of information such as gender, age, and personal interests, which we may associate with personally identifiable information. You may also provide us photographs or other video materials, which may contain personal information. We may collect personal information when you register on, log on, or visit our Web sites, including when you participate in activities on our Web sites, such as sweepstakes, contests, games, and informational and promotional offers, and when you provide information to our customer service representatives. Finally, our Web sites may offer message boards, social community environments, profile pages, and other Public Forums (as defined in the Terms of Use governing our Web sites (the "Terms of Use")), as well as other features in which you may provide us with User Submissions (as defined in the Terms of Use). If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by a third party. Our rules regarding User Submissions are described in the Terms of Use, including in the "User Submissions," "Public Forums and Communication" and "User Guidelines" sections of the Terms of Use.
A. We collect information through technology to make our sites more interesting and useful to you and for various purposes related to our business. For instance, when you come to one of our sites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our Users visit various parts of our sites, and we may combine IP addresses with personally identifiable information.
B. Our Web sites collect information through a variety of technical methods, including cookies and Web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the Web site. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of Web sites. Cookies, web beacons and other technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf.
C. We may use the information collected through these technical methods for many purposes, including delivering content, tracking and enhancing our Users’' experience on our Web sites. For example, when you return to one of our Web sites after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. We also may use technical methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our Web sites, such as the frequency with which our Users visit various parts of our Web sites, and third party Web sites, such as the frequency with which our Users visit other Web sites. In HTML e-mails that we send our Users, we may use technical methods for a number of purposes, including: to determine whether our Users have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails, to customize the display of banner advertisements and other messages after a User has closed the e-mail, and to determine whether a User has made an inquiry or purchase in response to a particular e-mail. These technical methods may enable us to collect and use information in a form that is personally identifiable.
D. Many advertisements are managed and placed on our Web sites by third parties. These companies are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers who place advertisements on our Web sites may use cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Web sites and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like to obtain more information about the practices of some of these network advertisers and to make choices about their use of your information, please click here. Finally, please keep in mind that if you click on an advertisement on one of our Web sites and link to a third party's Web site, then our Privacy Policy will not apply to your personally identifiable information collected on that third party's Web site and you must read the privacy policy posted on that site to see how your personally identifiable information will be handled.
A. We may update and supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from our Users with other information that we obtain from third parties. In addition, we may obtain personally identifiable information about individuals who are not yet Users of our Web sites, when we associate information that we obtain from third parties or other members of Fan Bash Web sites with personally identifiable information that we have collected under this Privacy Policy, we will treat the acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves and, except as permitted by this Privacy Policy, the information will not be shared with third parties.
Fan Bash may use your personally identifiable information in many ways, including sending you promotional materials. (By "promotional materials," we mean communications that directly promote the use of Web sites, or the purchase of products or services.) As outlined below, you may make elections regarding certain uses of your personal information.
A. Sometimes Fan Bash may hire companies to help provide products or services, like a shipping company that delivers a package or a company that helps fulfill prizes for a sweepstakes. In those instances, there is a need to share your information with these companies. Sometimes Fan Bash also works with other companies who help either gather your information or communicate with you, such as a company that helps to provide customer service. Your election choices below will not apply to sharing by Fan Bash of your personal information with any of these companies. Nonetheless, except as separately permitted by other provisions of this Privacy Policy, these companies are allowed to gather, receive, and use your information only for the purposes described in this paragraph or to facilitate compliance with laws.
A. In certain circumstances, your dealings with a third party may have authorized that third party to obtain your personal information from Fan Bash and to use that information in accordance with the third party's own privacy practices and policies. For example, in using an online shopping service (such as the shopping services offered by Internet portals that refer the portal's Users to third-party merchants), you may have authorized that shopping service to obtain from the service's participating third-party merchants (including Fan Bash related companies) information about your purchases conducted through the shopping service. In such circumstances, your newsletter and watch-list elections under Section 5 below will not apply to sharing of your personal information by Fan Bash. Nonetheless, Fan Bash will provide such companies only the information that you authorized (except as separately permitted under other provisions of this Privacy Policy).
A. From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses (or portions thereof) and your personally identifiable information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. In the event that we purchase a business, the personally identifiable information received with that business would be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. In the event that we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable information in the same manner required by this Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this Privacy Policy). In light of this protection, your newsletter and watch-list elections under Section 5 will not affect our right to transfer your information to a purchaser in these circumstances. The provisions of this paragraph will also apply in the event that one or more businesses of any other member of Fan Bash are sold and personal information subject to this Privacy Policy is transferred to a purchaser of those businesses.
A. Regardless of any elections that you make under Section 5, Fan Bash will disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) facilitate compliance with laws, including, for example, compliance with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest, sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our Web sites, Fan Bash and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property that belongs to Fan Bash or third parties.
A. With regard to personal information that you have provided under this Privacy Policy, there are three separate two elections available to you. These elections are the means by which you give us, or decline to give us, your consent to use your personal information for the purposes of newsletters and watch-lists. You may subscribe and unsubscribe from various Fan Bash newsletters and watch-lists. Users may select and deselect if and how often they wish to receive watch-list notifications.
B. Make your election: After registration and following login, by clicking the "my settings" tab on your profile page.
The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect User information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
You can access and update the contact information you gave us during registration, as well as your newsletter and watch list prefernces by going logging in and clicking the “my settings” tab on your profile page.
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an email with your questions or comments to or write us: Fan Bash, LLC, 4430 Carver Woods Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45242.
Please be assured that any personal information that you provide in communications to the above email and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional materials.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we amend this Privacy Policy to permit material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will notify you of such amendment by sending you an e-mail at the last e-mail address that you provided us, and/or by prominently posting notice of such amendment on the Web sites covered by this Privacy Policy. Any such amendment to this Privacy Policy will be effective thirty (30) calendar days following either our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or our posting of notice of the changes on the Web sites covered by this Privacy Policy. Please note that, at all times, you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us your current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any other reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the amendment described in the notice. In any event, an amendment to this Privacy Policy may permit material changes in the way we use and share personal information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of such amendment. If you do not wish to allow such material changes, you must so notify us (in the manner we specify) prior to the effective date of the amendment. If you provide us this notice, we may choose to deactivate your account. Please be advised, however, that, regardless of whether you provide such notice to us, any such amendment to this Privacy Policy will apply to any personal information that you provide us on or after the effective date of such amendment.
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