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fubar Privacy Policy

Updated March 27, 2023

Thank you for visiting fubar, a Social Concepts, Inc. company ("fubar" or "we" or "us"). This Privacy Policy describes the personal data handling policies of fubar, including the following:

• About fubar;
• What personal data we collect, including from fubar’s online and mobile applications and services, including our website at fubar.com (collectively, the "Services"), and how we use the information;
• With whom we may share the personal data;
• Legal basis for processing the data;
• Storage and security of your data;
• Your Privacy Rights, Choices and Disclosures, including those for Europe and California;
• Users outside the United States;
• Linked Sites;
• Privacy Policy updates; and
• Contact Information.

1. About fubar

fubar.com is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. fubar members can view each others' profiles, play online games with each other, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. fubar members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

2. Personal Data We Collect or Process and How We Use It

• Information Automatically Collected.

  The Services capture some information about visitors to our Services automatically utilizing background local storage and session storage technologies such as cookies and pixels (collectively, "Cookies"). Cookies are small files or other pieces of data which are downloaded or stored on your computer or other device, that can be tied to information about your use of the Services. Examples of information of this type are your IP address, the browser you are using, the operating system you are using, the pages on the website that you visit and details of your transaction activity, including if you have opened up our emails or if you completed a registration. When we use Cookies, we may use "session" Cookies that last until you close your browser or "persistent" Cookies that last until you or your browser delete them. You may change your browser setting to decline the use of Cookies.

  We use Cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information.
  
  Our Services may include advertisements, and ads appearing on the Services may be delivered to users by fubar or one of our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies, which would allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by fubar and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the fubar Privacy Policy.

  We use Google Analytics, which use Cookies to identify the frequency of use of certain areas of our website and to identify preferences. For more information regarding how Google collects, uses, and shares your information please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. Google will use this information to analyze your use of the Services, compile reports on activity for us, and perform further services associated with website use and Internet use. Google may also transmit this information to third parties where required by law or to the extent that third parties process these data on behalf of Google. While you can deactivate Google Analytics using a browser add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en if you do not wish the analysis to take place, our website will not operate unless you accept cookies.

  You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from fubar in order to use the site.

• Information you provide to us voluntarily.

  In order for a user to register and become a fubar member, we collect (and require) an email, password, screen name (or nickname), date of birth and gender.

  We use email address and password to authenticate members and to communicate with our users, including to send updates, a newsletter, or news regarding the Services. Members may choose not to receive emails of this type, or change the number and frequency of emails, by changing their "notification" setting in their profile settings. Members within a personal network communicate on fubar with each other through the fubar service, without disclosing their email addresses.

  We collect age information to ensure our members are 18 years of age or older.  We collect gender information to assist members in finding and communicating with each other and to group our players according to gender, as game play on the Services is divided between men and women.

  fubar also collects other, optional profile data including but not limited to first and last name, location (city, state and country or postal code) and relationship status. Members may upload a profile picture, which may be displayed along with the member’s screen name to other members in order to facilitate user interaction in the fubar social networking community. Members’ full names are not directly revealed to other members, although fubar users are able to search members by their screen name or email address. You may indicate in your profile settings who can view your profile and whether members can be notified when you view their profiles.

  From time to time, fubar or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on fubar. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate.

  Some features on the Services require the payment of a fee, such as the purchase of coins and subscriptions and to advance in games, in which case we work with a payment processor and collect your name, billing address and payment card information. You have the option of allowing fubar to save your payment information via a token (which is not complete payment card information) for your convenience in connection with future purchases.

  We collect game play information from our users and provide a leaderboard that shows how everyone did, so your game play will be available for viewing by other users.

• Information collected from our members and social media accounts.

  fubar members may store email addresses of people they know in their internal fubar address book and may choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses via the Services’ automated invitation system. If you are an invitee, your information may be provided to us by a registered user. Recipients of invitations from fubar may contact fubar to request the removal of their information from our database.

  Members may also invite friends to fubar using their social media accounts. When you visit or link to social media pages, data is processed both by us and the applicable social media provider. Social media providers are unaffiliated with us, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of social media providers. Social media providers have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit their websites or interact with their platforms.

• No users under 18.

  We do not knowingly collect information from users of our website under the age of 18 and/or their internet usage, and such persons are not authorized to use the Services. If we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 18, we will take steps to remove that user's personal information from our databases. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 years old. You also represent, by accessing or using the Services, that you are of legal age to enter into legal agreements, or if you are not, that you have obtained your parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to accept the terms in this Privacy Policy.

• Other uses of the data.

  We use the personal data we collect to administer the Services and the game play for our users, manage user accounts, respond to your inquiries, complete transactions you initiate, enhance the Services, perform our contractual obligations, provide updates and other important information related to your activity on and with the Services (e.g., service announcements and transactional notices), inform you of new services or changes in Services (e.g., marketing communications and notices of special offers), process payments, fulfill legal obligations we have to governmental authorities or other third parties, and for other legitimate business purposes.