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Fat Muffin Privacy Policy
Fat Muffin recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others (known collectively or individually as "Users") who use www.Fatmuffin.com (the "Website") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and Websites offered by Fat Muffin, or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Website.
• Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Fat Muffin Terms of Use.
• Please note that any comment or other content you post or send to the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other information you make available in public areas of the Fat Muffin website will be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by Fat Muffin, and may be used by others to contact you.
• Fat Muffin Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned and operated by Fat Muffin. While other Websites may be displayed as links from within Fat Muffin, those sites are owned and operated by others, and they may have different privacy policies. When linking from Fat Muffin to other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy policies of those sites.
1. Information Collection and Use
General
A) Fat Muffin does not require that you register in order to view its products or User comments. Registration is required to use certain interactive features such as posting comments, participating in the blog forums, and in order to submit ideas and participate in competitions.
B) Fat Muffin collects personal information when you register with Fat Muffin, when you visit the Website or any time you provide information to Fat Muffin about yourself. Fat Muffin may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
C) When you register, we ask for information such as your name, email address, and other personally-identifying information ("Personal Information"). When you register with Fat Muffin and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
D) Fat Muffin automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying information ("Non-Personal Information") on our server logs from your browser even if you do not register with Fat Muffin, for example, your IP address, Fat Muffin cookie information, and the pages you visit.
E) Fat Muffin uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children Under 13
A) Fat Muffin is committed to protecting the privacy of children. Fat Muffin does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information online from children under the age of 13.
B) If Fat Muffin learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on Fat Muffin without verified parental consent, then Fat Muffin will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
2. Information Sharing and Disclosure
A) Fat Muffin does not rent, sell, or share Personal Information with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
1 We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Fat Muffin under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your Personal Information to help Fat Muffin communicate with you about offers from Fat Muffin and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
2 We provide Non-Personal Information to interested third-parties for purposes of understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website.
3 We use both your Personal Information and certain Non-Personal Information to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
4 We may share Personal Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other forms of legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
5 We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Fat Muffin’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
6 We may transmit Personal Information if Fat Muffin is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Fat Muffin will notify active known users if there is a need to change this Privacy Policy based on an Fat Muffin acquisition or merger.
7 In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
B) Keep in mind that any personal information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose on the Website, for example on comment pages, or on the blog forums, becomes publicly available. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post messages through the Website.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
A) Fat Muffin may set and access Fat Muffin cookies on your computer. You may disable these cookies within your browser, but some portions of the Website may require that your Fat Muffin cookies be enabled.
B) Fat Muffin lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies" use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Fat Muffin’s cookies.
C) Fat Muffin may use web beacons in connection with e-mails sent to Fat Muffin users, to let us know whether and when the email was opened. No personal information is transmitted through web beacons.
4. Confidentiality and Security
A) Fat Muffin uses commercially reasonable technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to Fat Muffin and you do so at your own risk.
B) We limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
5. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information
A) You can edit your Fat Muffin account information at any time by visiting your account profile page.
B) We reserve the right to use your Personal Information in order to send you certain communications relating to the Fat Muffin service, such as service announcements, and administrative messages, that are considered part of your Fat Muffin account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
C) You can deactivate your Fat Muffin account at any time by canceling your account on the account profile page.
6. International Users
If you are a User accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy as incorporated in our Terms of Use, you will be transferring your Personal Information into the United States and you consent to that transfer.
7. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
Fat Muffin may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice. We will strive to notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Fat Muffin account and/or by placing a notice on the Website.
8. Effective Date
This Privacy Policy was last modified January 7, 2008.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
Privacy Policy
Fat Muffin Labs
187 Hester Street
Suite 4R
New York, NY 10013
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