Adequate Network is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to all of our Web sites (unless a different privacy statement is specifically made applicable). By using a Adequate Network Web site, you consent to the policies and practices described in this Statement.
Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in the United States. If you access a Adequate Network Web site outside the United States, your usage of that site constitutes consent to the transfer of your data out of your country and to the United States.
Our sites contain links to other Web sites over which we have no control. Adequate Network is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from a Adequate Network Web site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information we collect on a Adequate Network Web site, and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Collection and Retention of Information
In some areas of our Web sites, Adequate Network requests or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, contact information, billing information and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, Adequate Network collects or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, gender, interests and favorites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on Adequate Network Web sites where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can open an AnimeCons.com account, sign up to use a the forums, post a review, or enter a contest.
AnimeCons.com requires users 13 years and older to provide a first and last name, valid e-mail address, birth date, gender, and postal code. Although they have the option to voluntarily enter additional information, it's not a requirement to activate their account. For some of our online activities--such as polls or surveys--we may ask users to provide additional information that is not personally identifiable, such as city or state of residence or a visitor's favorite anime character.
When a child under 13 enters a contest, we will ask for a parent's e-mail address so that we can notify the parent that we have received personal information from the child. We do not knowingly collect names and e-mail addresses from children under 13 without notifying the parent via e-mail and giving them the opportunity to remove their child's name from the list of entries. Winners of our contests or sweepstakes are notified by e-mail, and are required to send us by fax or regular mail a form containing their street address. Winners who are minors must have the form signed by a parent in order to receive their prizes.
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by Adequate Network. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.
Adequate Network may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services.
Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of AnimeCons.com, such as in online forums, such information may be collected and used by others over whom Adequate Network has no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of AnimeCons.com.
We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use with us more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can correct or update your AnimeCons.com account profile and resume at any time. Moreover, you can delete your information from our online database or close your AnimeCons.com account at any time, in which event we will remove all our copies of your account information except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet.
Cookies
AnimeCons.com uses a software technology called "cookies." Cookies are small text files that we place in visitors' computer browsers to store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information. Although cookies could enable us to relate a visitor's use of this Web site to personal information that a visitor has provided, such as an e-mail address, we do not use them for this purpose. We do use "cookies" to allow for faster logins, store user preferences, determine how many visitors we have and how often they visit various sections of our site.
Parental Review of Information
Parents, please send a letter or postcard to our Privacy Manager at the mailing address provided below if you would like to do any of the following:
- access the personally identifiable information that the Neopets.com site has collected on-line from your child,
- correct factual errors in such information,
- request to have this information deleted, or
- request that we no longer collect or maintain such information.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our Privacy Statement for AnimeCons.com, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about AnimeCons.com's Privacy Statement, please feel free to e-mail us at privacy@animecons.com.
Contact Information
AnimeCons.com is a name under which Adequate Network does business. ("Affiliated companies" means entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with Adequate Network.) Adequate Network is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered at the Adequate Network Web sites. The information we gather on any Adequate Network Web site may be shared within Adequate Network and its affiliated companies.
We welcome your comments concerning this Privacy Statement. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by e-mailing us at privacy@animecons.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Thank you for using AnimeCons.com.