Privacy Policy

Introduction

F-Nation Foundation. (“F-Nation”) takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously.

Please read this notice very carefully.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, F-Nation collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. F-Nation’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how F-Nation’s visitors use its website.

From time to time, F-Nation may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

F-Nation also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. F-Nation does not use such information to identify its visitors and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to F-Nation’s websites choose to interact with F-Nation in ways that require F-Nation to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that F-Nation gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for F-Nation.com to provide a username and email address.

In each case, F-Nation collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with F-Nation. F-Nation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

F-Nation may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, F-Nation may monitor the most popular articles on F-Nation.com. F-Nation may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, F-Nation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

F-Nation discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on F-Nation’s behalf or to provide services available at F-Nation’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using F-Nation’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. In addition, in some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if F-Nation or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that F-Nation goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of F-Nation may continue to use your personal and non-personal information only as set forth in this policy. Otherwise, F-Nation will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, F-Nation discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when F-Nation believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of F-Nation, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an F-Nation website and have supplied your email address, F-Nation may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with F-Nation and its products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. F-Nation takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

You should also be aware that if you submit information to “chat rooms,” “forums” or “message boards” such information becomes public information, meaning that you lose any privacy rights you might have with regards to that information. Such disclosures may also increase your chances of receiving unwanted communications.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. F-Nation uses cookies to help F-Nation identify and track visitors, their usage of F-Nation websites, and their website access preferences. F-Nation visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using F-Nation’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of F-Nation’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any F-Nation website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by F-Nation and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links to Third Party Sites

This privacy policy only applies to information collected by F-Nation. This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of companies that F-Nation does not own or control, or employees that F-Nation does not manage. An F-Nation website may contain links to third-party websites. Any information you provide to, or that is collected by, third-party sites may be subject to the privacy policies of those sites if any. We encourage you to read such privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. It is the sole responsibility of such third parties to adhere to any applicable restrictions on the disclosure of your personally-identifying information, and F-Nation and its affiliates shall not be liable for wrongful use or disclosure of your personally-identifying information by any third party.

Choice/Opt-out

If we ever send you information by email concerning new products, services, or information that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an email address by which you may request no further notices.
F-Nation may share personal information, such as email address, with a third party if the consumer submitted such information to us.

Third parties will use such information to identify specific individuals on unaffiliated websites, apps, or online services for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes, including sending marketing emails based on the fact that a user visited a particular website.

Address Book Data

Any external address book data (email contacts, etc.) that a user voluntarily gives F-Nation access to will only be used for the described feature (looking up friends, etc.), and will not be stored or repurposed.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, F-Nation may change its privacy policy from time to time, and at F-Nation’s sole discretion. F-Nation encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its privacy policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our sites in general, please contact us // info@F-Nation.com