FictionPress.com Privacy Policy

Version 02/10/2005

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use FictionPress.com's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, or email address.

Data collection

• FictionPress.com may collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information may include your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
• Some of our services require you to register for an account. FictionPress.com asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service.

Cookies

• A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. FictionPress.com does this by storing user preferences in cookies. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some FictionPress.com features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

• We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
  • We have your consent.
  • We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of FictionPress.com, its users or the public.

Information security

• We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
• We restrict access to your personally identifying information to site staffs who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.

Updating your information

• We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services. For more information, please see the help pages for each service.

Links

• The sites may displayed links external to FictionPress.com's network as result of user customized profiles of which FictionPress.com exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.