Fark is committed to user privacy in our products and services.
This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give
us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy.
Fark encourages you to read this privacy policy and those of all web sites you visit.
Below is a summary of Fark's online privacy policy.
Types and uses of personal information.
Your personal information is used in the following ways:
- User IDs and Passwords. Provides you with access to your profile areas and to protected content.
- Account Information. These tell us more about who you
are, how to contact you, and your shipping and billing
information.
- Customer Feedback and Support. Provides a
mechanism for requesting information from Fark. Also
used to tell us how we can improve our products,
services and site designs.
- Email Correspondence. Used to raise and respond to
issues and inquiries of all types. Also used to distribute
information about Fark, our products, and services.
- Transactions. Shows which products and services you have requested.
We will only use your personal information in the ways specified
when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way
in which we use your personal information, unless you consent to
the new usage.
Security measures.
We protect the personal information you share with us.
Authorized third party agents may also need access to some of your personal information. For
example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a
shipping company. We only provide third party agents with the minimum amount of information
needed to complete the requested service or transaction. We do not otherwise share your
personal information with third parties, unless you have granted us permission to do so.
Data Retention.
Fark will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary for the purposes for which
it was collected.
Linked web sites.
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control these Web sites, we encourage
you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) third party sites.
Children's privacy.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn
that we have personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information
from our systems.
Fark encourages parents to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a child's
online experience safer:
- Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or
responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
- Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
- Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.
Check out the Comparitech site(1)
for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.
We may display advertisements from third parties. Third party ad-serving companies control
which ads are shown. These ad-serving companies may use cookies to collect non-personally
identifiable information from you. Advertisers use this information to target the ads and measure
their impact.
Third Party Advertising.
We use DoubleClick and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.
Third Party Cookies.
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
Policy updates:
All updates to this policy will be posted here. Last update: March 5, 2002
Note: This policy also covers the personal information you provide to Fark Customer Support.
