Privacy
Furaffinity takes your privacy seriously.
This privacy policy explains what information we collect and how we use that information, and applies to all services provided by FURAFFINITYthrough its websites, including furryaffinity.com, about.Furaffinity.com, support.Furaffinity.com, blog.Furaffinity.comand other subdomains of Furaffinity.com(collectively “FURAFFINITY” or “FA”).
The policy applies only to FURAFFINITY– we do not have control over external sites, even if they are linked to from FURAFFINITY. For external sites, including those we use to provide services to you (such as newsletters), please refer to the privacy policies of those individual and separate sites.
WHAT INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
In various places on FURAFFINITY, we may collect the following information:
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII) submitted to FURAFFINITY by you, such as:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your age
- Other information which can be used to contact you or identify you as an individual
- Non-Personally Identifiable Information submitted to FURAFFINITY by you, such as:
- Your IP address
- Your browser User-Agent
- The pages you visit, the URLs you request, and the actions you perform
- Search terms
- The Blacklist and Interests entered in on your Profile
- Other statistics about site activity
- You visit FURAFFINITY
- You sign up for an account on any of FURAFFINITY’s services
- You sign up for our newsletter, view an email, or click a link on an email from us
- You submit a comment on our blog
- You perform other actions on FURAFFINITY’s services
From time to time, we may offer additional features, services, competitions or promotions that would require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information to participate.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
This information is used in the following ways:
- To communicate with you
- To administer FURAFFINITY
- To improve FURAFFINITY through analysis (which we may engage third parties to analyze)
- To tailor the site to our users’ needs and preferences
- To make recommendations to you and other users
- To fight spam, malware, and identity theft
- To generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how FURAFFINITY is used
Cookies are small data files that we transfer to your computer and are stored in your browser. When you visit FURAFFINITY, the Cookie identifies your computer to us.
We use Cookies on FURAFFINITYto:
- Identify you on FURAFFINITY
- Save site preferences
- Keep you logged in
- Monitor your usage of FURAFFINITY
You can change your browser settings to prompt for or reject cookies – however, you may not be able to use FURAFFINITYif you do.
EMAILS
In some of our email messages, we may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on FURAFFINITY. When you click on one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to monitor the effectiveness of our user communications and to improve FURAFFINITY. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click on any text or graphic links in email messages from us.
Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to tailor, reduce, or eliminate messages sent to customers.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Except as noted, FURAFFINITYdoes not share your PII with third parties unless given your permission or requested by you to provide services that require sharing such information.
FURAFFINITYshares personal information with companies who provide services such as information processing, transactional email, email newsletters and user activity analysis. These companies are obligated to protect your information and may be located wherever FURAFFINITYoperates.
We may disclose PII when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to applicable law, comply with subpoenas, court orders or legal process served on FURAFFINITY, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, and to protect the property and interests of FURAFFINITY, its agents, employees and volunteers, personal safety, or the public. We may also disclose any information if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.
Under these circumstances, FURAFFINITYmay be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process from providing notice of the disclosure, and FURAFFINITYreserves the right to not provide notice at its sole discretion.
Information that we collect from our users, including PII, is considered to be a business asset. If we become part of another organization, including without limitation, by merger, change of control, sale of assets, or other acquisition, go out of business, or enter bankruptcy, your PII may be disclosed or transferred to a third-party acquirer in connection with the transaction.
We offer APIs for use by third parties to access various features and content on FURAFFINITY. Your PII will not be accessed and used by a third party API user without your consent.
CHILDREN AND FURAFFINITY
We do not intend for children to use FURAFFINITY. We do not solicit or knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age, nor will we accept registration from them. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected information from any individual(s) under 13 years of age, then we will remove the information from our records and databases as quickly as possible.
MAKING CHANGES
FURAFFINITYmakes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
You can help ensure your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by logging into your account at Furaffinity.com.
For other personal information, we make good-faith efforts to provide you with access so you can request changes to the data if it is inaccurate, or delete it entirely if FURAFFINITYis not required by law to retain it or using it for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made by contacting us at [email protected].
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
FURAFFINITYtakes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
FURAFFINITYuses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is collected. To use these web pages, you must use an SSL-enabled browser. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal information while it is transmitted over the internet.
When you use some FURAFFINITYservices, the personal information you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a comment, that information is public. Please take care when using the site and disclosing personal information through it.
Administrators and Moderators of FURAFFINITYmay have access to any information you submit to FURAFFINITY, including all communications such as Private Messages or the commission tool. No information or content submitted or uploaded through Private Messages or the commission tool is to be considered guaranteed confidential, or safe from access by individuals other than those you intend it for, even when the information or content is listed as “not public” or referred to as “private” or accessible only by certain people. FURAFFINITYis not to be considered a safe and secure private communications system, as “private content” services are provided as a courtesy for your convenience only.
UPDATES
Any information that we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is collected by us. However, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our services change and expand. When we change the policy in a meaningful way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
QUESTIONS
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our policies, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Furaffinity takes your privacy seriously.
This privacy policy explains what information we collect and how we use that information, and applies to all services provided by FURAFFINITYthrough its websites, including furryaffinity.com, about.Furaffinity.com, support.Furaffinity.com, blog.Furaffinity.comand other subdomains of Furaffinity.com(collectively “FURAFFINITY” or “FA”).
The policy applies only to FURAFFINITY– we do not have control over external sites, even if they are linked to from FURAFFINITY. For external sites, including those we use to provide services to you (such as newsletters), please refer to the privacy policies of those individual and separate sites.
WHAT INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
In various places on FURAFFINITY, we may collect the following information:
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII) submitted to FURAFFINITY by you, such as:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your age
- Other information which can be used to contact you or identify you as an individual
- Non-Personally Identifiable Information submitted to FURAFFINITY by you, such as:
- Your IP address
- Your browser User-Agent
- The pages you visit, the URLs you request, and the actions you perform
- Search terms
- The Blacklist and Interests entered in on your Profile
- Other statistics about site activity
- You visit FURAFFINITY
- You sign up for an account on any of FURAFFINITY’s services
- You sign up for our newsletter, view an email, or click a link on an email from us
- You submit a comment on our blog
- You perform other actions on FURAFFINITY’s services
From time to time, we may offer additional features, services, competitions or promotions that would require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information to participate.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
This information is used in the following ways:
- To communicate with you
- To administer FURAFFINITY
- To improve FURAFFINITY through analysis (which we may engage third parties to analyze)
- To tailor the site to our users’ needs and preferences
- To make recommendations to you and other users
- To fight spam, malware, and identity theft
- To generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how FURAFFINITY is used
Cookies are small data files that we transfer to your computer and are stored in your browser. When you visit FURAFFINITY, the Cookie identifies your computer to us.
We use Cookies on FURAFFINITYto:
- Identify you on FURAFFINITY
- Save site preferences
- Keep you logged in
- Monitor your usage of FURAFFINITY
You can change your browser settings to prompt for or reject cookies – however, you may not be able to use FURAFFINITYif you do.
EMAILS
In some of our email messages, we may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on FURAFFINITY. When you click on one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to monitor the effectiveness of our user communications and to improve FURAFFINITY. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click on any text or graphic links in email messages from us.
Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to tailor, reduce, or eliminate messages sent to customers.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Except as noted, FURAFFINITYdoes not share your PII with third parties unless given your permission or requested by you to provide services that require sharing such information.
FURAFFINITYshares personal information with companies who provide services such as information processing, transactional email, email newsletters and user activity analysis. These companies are obligated to protect your information and may be located wherever FURAFFINITYoperates.
We may disclose PII when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to applicable law, comply with subpoenas, court orders or legal process served on FURAFFINITY, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, and to protect the property and interests of FURAFFINITY, its agents, employees and volunteers, personal safety, or the public. We may also disclose any information if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.
Under these circumstances, FURAFFINITYmay be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process from providing notice of the disclosure, and FURAFFINITYreserves the right to not provide notice at its sole discretion.
Information that we collect from our users, including PII, is considered to be a business asset. If we become part of another organization, including without limitation, by merger, change of control, sale of assets, or other acquisition, go out of business, or enter bankruptcy, your PII may be disclosed or transferred to a third-party acquirer in connection with the transaction.
We offer APIs for use by third parties to access various features and content on FURAFFINITY. Your PII will not be accessed and used by a third party API user without your consent.
CHILDREN AND FURAFFINITY
We do not intend for children to use FURAFFINITY. We do not solicit or knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age, nor will we accept registration from them. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected information from any individual(s) under 13 years of age, then we will remove the information from our records and databases as quickly as possible.
MAKING CHANGES
FURAFFINITYmakes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
You can help ensure your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by logging into your account at Furaffinity.com.
For other personal information, we make good-faith efforts to provide you with access so you can request changes to the data if it is inaccurate, or delete it entirely if FURAFFINITYis not required by law to retain it or using it for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made by contacting us at [email protected].
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
FURAFFINITYtakes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
FURAFFINITYuses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is collected. To use these web pages, you must use an SSL-enabled browser. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal information while it is transmitted over the internet.
When you use some FURAFFINITYservices, the personal information you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a comment, that information is public. Please take care when using the site and disclosing personal information through it.
Administrators and Moderators of FURAFFINITYmay have access to any information you submit to FURAFFINITY, including all communications such as Private Messages or the commission tool. No information or content submitted or uploaded through Private Messages or the commission tool is to be considered guaranteed confidential, or safe from access by individuals other than those you intend it for, even when the information or content is listed as “not public” or referred to as “private” or accessible only by certain people. FURAFFINITYis not to be considered a safe and secure private communications system, as “private content” services are provided as a courtesy for your convenience only.
UPDATES
Any information that we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is collected by us. However, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our services change and expand. When we change the policy in a meaningful way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
QUESTIONS
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our policies, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
