This privacy policy is an integral part of the overall service policy. To be completely aware of all conditions, please familiarize yourself with our Terms of Service, Disclaimer and Legal Terms as well.
Welcome to our privacy policy
It is FAP-Nation’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our service. This privacy policy applies to and only to “fap-nation.com” (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “our”, FAP-Nation, website, service or “fap-nation.com”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us, knowingly or unknowingly, through the website. We have adopted this privacy policy to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This privacy policy applies only to information we collect through the website and does not apply to collection of information from other sources and external services.
This privacy policy, together with the Terms of Service, Disclaimer and Legal Terms published on our website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our service. Depending on your activities when visiting fap-nation.com, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
I. Website visitors
- Like most website operators, FAP-Nation collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, device, language preference, referring website, operating system, screen resolution, internet service provider (ISP) name registrations, the date and time of each visitor request and other non-personally identifying information.
- FAP-Nation’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how FAP-Nation’s visitors use the website and maintain our security standards in order to protect our visitors from malice as well as provide smooth and pleasant experience.
- From time to time FAP-Nation may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website or share it with our partners and/or clients.
II. Gathering of personally identifying information
- Certain visitors on FAP-Nation may choose to interact with the website in ways that require FAP-Nation to gather personally identifying information.
- The amount and type of information that FAP-Nation gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Such use cases are covered further in this privacy policy.
- FAP-Nation also collects potentially personally identifying information like internet protocol (IP) addresses, geolocation, and other potentially personally identifying information.
- FAP-Nation does not discloses voluntarily such information under any circumstances.
III. Security
- The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage or digital encryption is 100% secure.
- While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
IV. Advertisements
- Advertisements appearing on our website may be delivered to users by partners who may set cookies.
- These cookies allow the advertisement delivery server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement and to compile information about you or others who use your computer.
- This information allows advertisement 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 FAP-Nation but does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other third-parties, therefore FAP-Nation is not responsible in any way for the use or misuse of cookies by advertisers and any other third-parties.
V. Links to external websites
- Our service contain links to external websites that are not operated by us.
- If you click on a third-party link you will be directed to that third-party’s website.
- We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy and terms and conditions of every website you visit.
- We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party websites, products or services.
VI. Comments, report forms, contact forms and submission forms
- When visitors leave comments on FAP-Nation or use one of our various contact forms we collect the data shown in the comments form or contact form like name, email address or any other kind of information the visitor choose to share along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string in order to help spam detection.
- For comments an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
- The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
- After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
VII. Embedded content from other websites
- Articles on FAP-Nation may include embedded content like videos, images, full articles, various web services and other content.
- Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
- These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
VIII. Protection of certain personally identifying information
- FAP-Nation discloses potentially personally identifying information only to those of its employees and team members that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on FAP-Nation’s behalf or to provide services available at FAP-Nation’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
- Some of those employees and team members may be located outside of your home country. By using FAP-Nation’s website you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
- FAP-Nation will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying information to anyone other than to its employees and team members as described above.
- FAP-Nation discloses potentially personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request issued by the officials of the website server’s local country or when FAP-Nation believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of FAP-Nation, third parties or the public at large.
- If you send us a request, via a support email or 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.
- FAP-Nation takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying information.
IX. Aggregated statistics
- FAP-Nation may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the website.
- FAP-Nation may display this information publicly or provide it to others.
- However, FAP-Nation does not disclose your potentially personally identifying information.
X. Cookies
- To enrich and perfect your online experience FAP-Nation uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
- 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.
- FAP-Nation use cookies to identify and track visitors, their usage of the website and their website preferences.
- FAP-Nation visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using FAP-Nation’s website with the drawback that certain features of FAP-Nation’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
- By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings you hereby acknowledge and agree to FAP-Nation’s use of cookies.
- Please, inform yourself more in depth about the use of cookies and the associated practices.
XI. Google web fonts
- For uniform representation of fonts FAP-Nation uses web fonts provided by Google.
- When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
- For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address.
- If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
- Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
XII. Privacy policy changes
- Although most changes are likely to be minor, FAP-Nation may change its privacy policy from time to time and in FAP-Nation’s sole discretion.
- FAP-Nation encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its privacy policy.
- Your continued use of the website after any change in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
XIII. User Accounts
Account and Profile Information
You don’t have to create an account to use FAP-Nation, such as searching and viewing public member profiles, forums, topics and posts. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a display name, nickname, a username, a password, and an email address. Your display name and nickname is always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. After the registration your account display name, nickname and username are the same. We recommend to change display name and nickname to keep the username private and secure. You can change those in your account editing page.
Once you registered and created an account, you also have the option of adding these public information:
- Avatar
- Biography (About Me)
- Website
- Occupation
- Signature
- Social Network Account addresses
- Location (Country)
- Timezon
- And other details to your profile information to be displayed in our community.
Additionally, whilst using FAP-Nation the following information may be collected (not public):
- Internet Protocol (IP) address (not public)
- Geographical location
- Browser type and version (not public)
- Operating system (not public)
- Referral source (not public)
- Length of visit, page views, website navigation and any other related browsing activity
Most activity on FAP-Nation is public, including your profile information mentioned above. You also may choose to publish your location in your profile. Information posted about you by other people who use our service may also be public.
You are responsible for your topics, posts, comments and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it is sensitive information.
Contact Information
We use your contact information, such as your email address, to authenticate your account and keep it – and our services – secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features for example, for login verification, reset password, to send you information about our community and notify on new replies to your subscribed forums and topics. You can also unsubscribe from any email notifications.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our community. Cookies are not required for many parts of our community such as searching and looking at public profiles. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our community features may not function properly if you disable cookies. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option.
We use cookies for the following purposes
Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our community. When you create a topic or post a reply as guest (not registered user) we store your name and email address in cookies. We use this information to detect current visitor content (topics, posts) and display it to you even if the content is under moderation (not approved by moderators). The name is used to display as topic/post author name. Also we store your name and email in cookies to keep filled these fields when you post a new reply or create a new topic (you don’t heave to fill these information every time you post a content). We recommend don’t use guest posting option on non-personal devices, or at least delete browser cookies when you leave it.
Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website.
Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally.
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ .
Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our community, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our community, interact with our email notifications, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you.
Information We Share and Disclose
How we share information we collect
You should be aware that any information you provide on our community – including profile information associated with the account you use to post the information – may be read, collected, and used by any member of the public who accesses these websites. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account. We urge you to consider the sensitivity of any information you input into these Services. To request removal of your information from publicly accessible websites operated by us, please contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to and why.
Sharing with third parties
Service Providers: We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize, support and market our services. We work with third-party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, payment processing, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to access or use information about you. If a service provider needs to access information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.
Our administrators may choose to add new functionality or change the behavior of the community by installing third party apps within the community. Doing so may give third-party apps access to your account and information about you like your name and email address, and any content you choose to use in connection with those apps. Third-party app policies and procedures are not controlled by us, and this privacy policy does not cover how third-party apps use your information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties before connecting to or using their applications or services to learn more about their privacy and information handling practices. If you object to information about you being shared with these third parties, please uninstall the contact us and let us know as soon as possible. Below are some of the third party services we use on our community:
- reCAPTCHA (by Google) – Protects internet users from spam and abuse wherever they go. Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Links to Third Party Sites: Our community may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit information to any of those third party sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
Social Media Widgets: The Services may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. Your use of and any information you submit to any of those third-party sites is governed by their privacy policies, not this one.
Third-Party Widgets: Some of our Services contain widgets and social media features, such as the Facebook “share” or X.com “tweet” buttons. These widgets and features collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Widgets and social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
Non-Personal Information
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the community statistic (online users, visitors, current viewers of a topic, etc…), the number of people who clicked on a particular link (number of topic views) or voted on a poll in a topic (even if only one did).
How to access and control your information
Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
You have the right to request a copy of your information, to object to our use of your information. If you have registered an account on our community, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account. You can request for downloading your account information, including your created content (posts). You also can request correction, deletion, or modification of your personal data.
Your request and choices may be limited in certain cases: for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal information about another person, or if you ask to delete information which we or your administrator are permitted by law or have compelling legitimate interests to keep. Where you have asked us to share data with third parties, for example, by installing third-party apps, you will need to contact those third-party service providers directly to have your information deleted or otherwise restricted.
Deletion Your Personal Data
You can request for your account deletion. This will include personal data, profile data, created content, logs, etc… Cookies should be deleted from your side. Almost all browsers have an option to delete cookies.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information, even after we/you have deleted the information from our community.
Restrict Processing
Request that we stop using your information: In some cases, you may ask us to stop accessing, storing, using and otherwise processing your information where you believe we don’t have the appropriate rights to do so. For example, if you believe a community account was created for you without your permission or you are no longer an active user, you can request that we delete your account (contact us). Where you gave us consent to use your information for a limited purpose, you can contact us to withdraw that consent, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place at the time. You can also opt-out of our use of your information for marketing purposes by contacting us. When you make such requests, we may need time to investigate and facilitate your request. If there is delay or dispute as to whether we have the right to continue using your information, we will restrict any further use of your information until the request is honored or the dispute is resolved, provided your administrator does not object (where applicable). If you object to information about you being shared with a third-party app, please disable the app or contact your administrator to do so.
Opt out of communications: You may opt out of receiving email notifications related to your subscribed forums and posts or promotional communications from us by using the unsubscribe link within each email, updating your subscription settings in My Profile > Subscription page, or by contacting us as provided below to have your contact information removed from our promotional email list or registration database.
Data portability
Data portability is the ability to obtain some of your information in a format you can keep in your devices or share with other communities. Depending on the context, this applies to some of your information, but not to all of your information. Should you request it, we will provide you with an electronic file of your basic account information and the information you create on the spaces you under your sole control, like your topics (only with your posts), your replies in other topics, private messages and conversations (only with your messages), etc…
How we store and secure information we collect
We use data hosting service providers to host the information we collect, and we use technical measures to secure your data. While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
Children and Our Community
Our community is not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 18. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent To This Policy
By using our site, you consent to our Privacy Policy.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
This privacy policy is an integral part of the overall service policy. To be completely aware of all conditions, please familiarize yourself with our Terms of Service, Disclaimer and Legal Terms as well.