Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to
Privacy
We at FantasyWorld.com
("FW") are dedicated to protecting your privacy and handling
any personal information we obtain from our registered users ("Registered
Users") with care and respect. The Privacy Policy (the "Policy ")
for our web site portal (the "Site ") was developed as an extension
of our commitment to combine the highest-quality service with the highest
level of integrity in dealing with our customers and partners. The Policy
is designed to answer your questions regarding our privacy policy and
principles. This statement will be continuously assessed against new
technologies, business practices and our customers " needs.
Q1. What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit our Site
you may provide us with several types of information: personally-identifiable
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis, web site use information collected as you browse our
Site, content you may choose to contribute to the Site through blogs,
chat and/or message boards, or anything else you may post, and your
email communications with us.
- Personal
Information. We will not collect any personally-identifiable information
about you (e.g., your name, address, telephone number, email address,
credit card information) through the Site unless you have provided it
to us voluntarily (e.g., Site registration, orders of goods and services).
- Web Site
Use Information. In some cases, we may automatically (i.e., not via
registration) collect technical information when you connect to our
Site that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information
include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer
operation system you are using and the domain name of the web site from
which you linked to our site. Additionally, when you view our Site,
we may store some information on your computer. This information will
be in the form of a "cookie " or similar file and can help us in
many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a web site to better
match your interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, you
can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or
receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser
instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
- User Created
Content. We promote and support active and open debate among our
Registered Users through blogs, chat and/or message boards, and other
portions of the Site permitting content posted by Registered Users ( "User
Content "). You are permitted to post User Content so long as all of
your postings are done in a lawful and civil manner. We do not claim
ownership of User Content; provided, however, you hereby grant us a
world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and
fully sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform,
and display your User Content and to incorporate User Content in other
works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
Moreover, if you submit photographs, videos, music, text or other content,
it may be published online or offline (including on-air, on a CD or
DVD, through wireless distribution, and transmission of soft copies,
or any other media or format currently existing or hereafter developed),
and we may publish your name, voice, likeness and other personal information
in connection with publishing the User Content or a portion of the User
Content, and we may use the User Content and any excerpt from the User
Content in connection with advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional
activities. You acknowledge and agree that User Content will be publicly
available and that, as a result, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties. We cannot ensure the security of any information
you choose to make public in a chat room, forum, or message board. Also,
we cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available
information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when
deciding to disclose personal information in these areas.
Email Communications.
If you open emails from us, we may receive a confirmation noting you
opened the email, if your computer supports such capabilities. We also
may keep track of what emails we send you and what emails you may be
receiving from our affiliates and partners. Additionally, we keep a
record of what communications you have opted to receive or not to receive.
The Site is a general
audience web site. We do not currently collect or maintain any personal
information from children under the age of thirteen. If in the future,
we collect personally identifiable information from children, we will
do so in compliance with the Children "s Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq.) including, without limitation,
obtaining necessary parental consent.
Q2. How Do We Use
the Information We Collect?
As applicable, the information
you provide to us may be used to:
- send you
newsletters and/or other email communications for which you have registered;
- contact you
about the Site via telemarketing, SMS text-messaging, e-mails or postal
mailings (e.g., Site updates, new products and services, and upcoming
events);
- contact you
relating to your registration status;
- confirm or
fulfill an order you have made;
- contact you
with regard to a sweepstakes, contest or promotion in which you have
participated or to inform you of a prize you have won;
- provide special
offers or promotional materials to you on behalf of us or third parties;
- to better
understand your needs and how we can improve and enhance our services;
- customize
the advertising and content you see;
- monitor compliance
with our Terms and Conditions of Use and other applicable agreements
and policies; and
- for other
purposes disclosed when you provide your information.
By using this Site,
you agree that you may be contacted in any manner contemplated in this
section even if your number is found on a do-not-call registry or similar
registry. Notwithstanding that your mobile number may be listed on state
and/or federal do-not-call registries, we retain the right to contact
you via text-message based marketing. In addition, by registering and/or
using the Site, you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or
application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16
CFR §310 et seq.), as amended from time to time (the "Rule").
Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed at the Federal
Trade Commission "s Do-Not-Call List, we retain the right to contact
you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule.
Q3. With Whom Do
We Share Your Information?
We may share your personal
information with others under the following circumstances:
- FW Affiliates
and Partners. We work closely with our affiliates and partners, with
whom we may share your personal information.
- Service
Providers. We may use other companies and individuals to perform
supporting functions for products and services offered through the Site
on our behalf. For example, from time to time, we may use a third-party
advertising company to serve ads when you visit the Site. Such a company
may use certain information (not including your name, address, email
address or telephone number) about your visit to the Site in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest
to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, a third-party
advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser as
discussed above.
- Products
Offered in Partnership with Third Parties. Certain products and/or
services available on the Site are provided to you in partnership with
third parties and may require you to disclose personally identifiable
information in order to register for and access such products and/or
services. Such products and/or services shall identify the third party
partners at the point of registration. If you elect to register for
such products and/or services your personally identifiable information
may be transferred to such third parties and will be subject to the
privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices and policies of such third parties and, therefore,
you should review the privacy practices and policies of such third parties
prior to providing your personally identifiable information in connection
with such products and/or services.
- Opt-In
to Receive Third Party Offers. If you have indicated that you want
to be contacted by third parties, we may use the personal information
we collect to select which names to provide to a particular third party
to present you with products and services that we believe will be of
interest to you. In such instances, only your contact information (information
that provides a means of contacting you), will be distributed to any
such third party.
- Protection
of Rights. We will release your personal information if we believe
such action is appropriate to: (i) comply with legal process, (ii) enforce
the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement or (iii) identify, contact
or bring legal action against persons who may be causing injury to you
or a third party, or to otherwise protect the rights, property or personal
safety of FW, its employees, other Site users or others.
- Asset
Transfers. We continue to develop our business and in doing so might
choose to buy other businesses or assets. Personal information is generally
one of the transferred assets acquired in such purchases. Also, if we
choose to sell some or all of our assets, personal information, including
the information collected from you through the Site, could be included
in the transferred assets.
- Additional
Functionality. We may link personal information collected from you
through various means, including information collected automatically
through the use of cookies and purchase information, or other personal
information you provide to help us (or our service providers and listing
providers, partners or affiliates) offer content, including, without
limitation, listing recommendations, advertisements, products and services
that we believe will be of interest to you and pre-populate certain
data-fields (to assist in your registration or subsequent use of the
tools and/or services available on the Site).
- Aggregate
Data. In all other circumstances, we may use certain anonymous data
automatically generated by our servers so that we can understand how
to make the Site more convenient and useful to our audience. In addition,
we may share this information, in aggregate form with our current and
potential advertisers, service providers and listing providers, partners,
affiliates and/or marketing allies so they can try to present advertisements
in content more effectively. We may also aggregate information to share
information with the public regarding products, services, content or
tools that may be of interest to them.
- Third
Parties. We may provide other third parties with aggregate - but
not individual - information about visitors to our Site. We do not now
and do not intend to sell, rent or market personal information about
you to third parties.
California Civil Code
Section 1798.83 permits customers of FW who are California residents
to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal
information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To
make such a request, please send an email to customerservice@fantasyworld.com.
Q4. How Do We Protect
Your Information?
- Information
Security. You understand and agree that "perfect" security
does not exist anywhere, including the Internet. As a result, FW cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to FW
via its Site, and you do so at your own risk. Notwithstanding this fact,
we use encryption/security software in our efforts to safeguard the
confidentiality of the information we display and collect from unauthorized
access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Your information is kept on servers that are located behind a firewall.
- Evaluation
of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations
and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies
and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of
our information.
Q5. What About Other
Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible
for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our Site nor
the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when
you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, or if you
click on a banner advertisement that takes you off of our Site and onto
a different web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your
browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web sites
that have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site "s own
rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before
proceeding.
Q6. How Can You Change
Your Information?
To revise or remove
personal information you submitted on the Site during registration,
the purchase of a product or service, or elsewhere you may contact us
at customerservice@fantasyworld.com to make such changes, you expressly
authorize us to access your data for purposes of completing your requested
modifications and/or deletions. If you would like us to no longer use
your personal information, please e-mail us at customerservice@fantasyworld.com
with your request.
Q7. How Do I "Unsubscribe"?
You also have the ability
to terminate e-mail correspondence from us at any time. You may be given
the chance to opt out of direct mailings when you disclose your e-mail
address to us. Further, all of our e-mail correspondence contains an
"Unsubscribe" link at the conclusion of the message. To opt
out, simply click the link, or, in the case of text messages, send an
e-mail to the "Unsubscribe" URL listed in the e-mail, and
you will be opted-out of future messages from that particular email
service. To opt-out or request that we not use your personal information
to market information to you, you also may e-mail customerservice@fantasyworld.com
with your request.
Q8. How Am I Notified
of Material Changes to This Policy?
We reserve the right
to change our privacy policies and procedures in any manner at any time
in our sole discretion. If we make material changes to our privacy policies
and procedures, we will post those changes on our Site to keep you aware
of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances
we may disclose it.
Your Consent
By using the Site, you
signify your agreement to the terms of this Policy. If material changes
are made to this Policy, you will signify your agreement with the new
Policy by continuing to use the Site thirty days after a notice of material
change is posted.
The Site is operated
in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States,
please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred
to the United States. By using the Site or providing us with your information,
you consent to this transfer.
Questions about this
Privacy Policy
If you have any questions
about this privacy policy or the privacy practices of this Site, contact
us via email at customerservice@fantasyworld.com
Effective Date
This Privacy Policy
is effective as of August 17, 2009.
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