AFAR Interactive, Inc. ("AFAR Interactive, Inc.") operates several websites and mobile applications including afarinteractive.com, CrossCourse.co ("AFAR Interactive, Inc. Apps") and their websites. It is AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our services.
Like most websites and mobile applications operators, AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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. AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s visitors use its website. From time to time, AFAR Interactive, Inc. may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
AFAR Interactive, Inc. also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on AFAR Interactive, Inc..com posts. AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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 are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the post where the comment was left.
Certain visitors to AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s websites and mobile applications choose to interact with AFAR Interactive, Inc. in ways that require AFAR Interactive, Inc. to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AFAR Interactive, Inc. gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at AFAR Interactive, Inc..com to provide a username and email address. In each case, AFAR Interactive, Inc. collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with AFAR Interactive, Inc.. AFAR Interactive, Inc. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
AFAR Interactive, Inc. may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites and mobile applications. For instance, AFAR Interactive, Inc. may monitor the most popular information on the AFAR Interactive, Inc..com site or use spam filter service to help identify spam. AFAR Interactive, Inc. may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, AFAR Interactive, Inc. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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 AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s behalf or to provide services available at AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s websites, 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 AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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, AFAR Interactive, Inc. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when AFAR Interactive, Inc. believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of AFAR Interactive, Inc., third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an AFAR Interactive, Inc. website and have supplied your email address, AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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 AFAR Interactive, Inc. and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support 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. AFAR Interactive, Inc. takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. AFAR Interactive, Inc. uses cookies to help AFAR Interactive, Inc. identify and track visitors, their usage of AFAR Interactive, Inc. website, and their website access preferences. AFAR Interactive, Inc. visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s websites, with the drawback that certain features of AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If AFAR Interactive, Inc., or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that AFAR Interactive, Inc. 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 AFAR Interactive, Inc. may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by AFAR Interactive, Inc. and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
AFAR Interactive, Inc. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in AFAR Interactive, Inc.'s sole discretion. AFAR Interactive, Inc. encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a AFAR Interactive, Inc..com account, you should also check this page for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.