Privacy Policy

The website of ANIPEDIA is www.anipedia.org and may operate other websites. It is ANIPEDIA's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while using our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, ANIPEDIA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. ANIPEDIA's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how ANIPEDIA's visitors use its website. From time to time, ANIPEDIA may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

ANIPEDIA also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on www.anipedia.org site. ANIPEDIA only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to ANIPEDIA's website choose to interact with ANIPEDIA in ways that require ANIPEDIA to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that ANIPEDIA gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up to www.anipedia.org to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with ANIPEDIA are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, ANIPEDIA collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction with ANIPEDIA. ANIPEDIA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

ANIPEDIA may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. ANIPEDIA may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, ANIPEDIA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

ANIPEDIA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on ANIPEDIA's behalf or to provide services available at ANIPEDIA's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using ANIPEDIA's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. ANIPEDIA will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, ANIPEDIA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when ANIPEDIA believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ANIPEDIA, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an ANIPEDIA website and have supplied your email address, ANIPEDIA may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with ANIPEDIA and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. ANIPEDIA takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. ANIPEDIA uses cookies to help ANIPEDIA identify and track visitors, their usage of ANIPEDIA website, and their website access preferences. ANIPEDIA visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using ANIPEDIA's website, with the drawback that certain features of ANIPEDIA's website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If ANIPEDIA, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that ANIPEDIA goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of ANIPEDIA may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, ANIPEDIA may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in ANIPEDIA's sole discretion. ANIPEDIA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a www.anipedia.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.