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| Thefacebook Privacy Policy | [ Privacy Policy ]
This privacy statement covers the site www.thefacebook.com. Because we want to
demonstrate our commitment to our users' privacy, we will disclose our information
and privacy practices below.
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| About Thefacebook and the Information We Collect |
Thefacebook is an online directory and social networking community that helps
people find friends and other people. To accomplish this, our users create their
own profiles and privacy settings, and some personal information we ask for is
displayed to people in the groups specified in the users' privacy settings.
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| Information Collected by Thefacebook |
| Thefacebook collects user-submitted account information such as name and email
address to identify users and send notifications related to use of the site.
Thefacebook also collects user-submitted profile information such as gender,
field, location, courses, etc.
Thefacebook also collects information that is not personally identifiable and
not submitted directly by users, such as browser type and IP address. This
information is gathered for all users to the site.
Thefacebook collects information from other sources, such as newspapers and
instant messaging services. This information is gathered regardless of use of
the site.
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| Use of Information Obtained by Thefacebook |
| Profile information, as well as name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the
groups specified in a user's privacy settings to support the function of the
site. Except when inviting a friend to join the site, a user's name and email will
never be given to anyone outside the site. No information submitted to Thefacebook
will be available to any user of the site who does not belong to at least one of the
groups specified in a user's privacy settings.
We use server, IP and browser type for site administration. We also use information
not directly submitted to Thefacebook by users to supplement users' profiles unless
they specify that they do not want this done in their privacy settings.
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Email addresses will never be sold to anyone, and they will not be used for spam or
any other purpose outside of the site itself.
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This site may contain links to other websites. Thefacebook is not responsible for
the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by this web site.
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A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about
the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies
terminate once the users close the browser. We do not and will not use cookies to collect
private information from any user.
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| Advertisements that appear on this web site are delivered to users by our advertising
partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the advertising
network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this
way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer,
saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information
allows an advertising network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be
of most interest to you. Thefacebook does not have access to or control of the cookies
that may be placed by the third party advertising servers of ad networks.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Thefacebook and does not cover
the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
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| Changing or Removing Information |
Thefacebook users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time
by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately and old
information will never be displayed to any user of the site.
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Thefacebook accounts are password-protected. This web site takes every precaution to
protect our users' information. Passwords are stored in hashed form in our database,
and different sections of users' profiles are stored in different parts of our database
to separate access to all of the information and make it more difficult to piece
everything together. If you have any questions about the security of our web site,
please contact us.
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| Changes in Our Privacy Policy |
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time. If we do this, we will post
the changes on our web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to
use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time of collection, we will notify users via email.
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If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or
your dealings with this web site, please contact us.
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