What-is-Flan.com Privacy, Copyright, & Terms of Use Policies

Scope

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information submitted to our website. It applies generally to the What-is-Flan.com site where this policy appears in the footer of the page. The policy that applies on any of our subdomains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and Terms, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, and use of any personal information submitted, as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new members and those acknowledging consent, and is otherwise effective on March 24, 2012.

Collection

You can browse our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

• Name and email address;

• Community discussions, comments, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us;

• Other information from your interaction with our site, content and advertising, including device ID, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;

• Information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data; and

Marketing

We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our site content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us you may unsubscribe to our mailing list at anytime by logging into your account and navigating to the subscription screen or by sending a request to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Use

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

• provide the services and member support you request;

• resolve disputes, and troubleshoot problems;

• prevent, detect, and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Agreements;

• customize, measure and improve our content and advertising;

• tell you about our content enhancements, deliver targeted marketing and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; and

• compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties;

• and other uses as described when we collect the information.

Registration and sharing through third-party services.

We may offer single sign-on services that allow you to use third party login credentials to sign into What-is-Flan.com. With your permission, we may also transfer to our system profile information contained in your third-party profile, if needed. We may also, for your use, enable you to import information about who you are connected to, as well as enable you to share information with those third-party sites.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

We may also share your personal information with:

• Service providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as site administrators).

• Other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information (or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service).

• Law enforcement, governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other site user to legal liability. In such events, we will disclose information relevant to the investigation, such as name, email address, User ID history, IP address, posted comments, and anything else we may deem relevant to the investigation.

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from miscreants, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

Information You Share

Your User ID is displayed when posting comments (and so available to the public), and is connected to all of your site activity. Notices sent to other community members about suspicious activity and policy violations on our sites refer to User IDs and specific items. So if you associate your name with your User ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to personally identify your site activities.

If you access our sites from a shared computer or a computer in an internet café, certain information about you, such as your User ID, activity or comments, may also be visible to other individuals who use the computer after you. Be sure to logout and properly close your browser when finished using a shared computer.

Using Information on Linked Sites

What-is-Flan.com is linked to sponsors, advertisers, and affiliates. Once you leave our website domain (what-is-flan.com) the privacy policy will be dependent on the provider of the linked site. We encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of the linked site before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your information.

Cookies

We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services, content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We may offer features that are available only through the use of cookies.

• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.

• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of our site.

• You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)

No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing

We and our members do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your communication preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. To report spam or spoof emails to us, please forward the email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You may not use our comment tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our Terms and Conditions. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content.

Account Protection

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and characters, and do not disclose your password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

You can see, review and change your User information by signing on to What-is-flan.com and selecting the User Details area of the Account Menu. Generally, we do not manually modify your information. We can only remove an account upon request to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. Note however, that once you make a public posting, if your account is removed or closed you may not be able to change or remove the post.

Security

Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, on our sites or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. We do not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Use by Children

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) severely restricts what information can be collected from children under the age of 13. Accordingly, children under the age of 13 in the United States are prohibited from registering for a What-is-Flan.com account, posting or editing any content on our site or providing any of their personal information but are otherwise permitted to access and view the information provided on site with the permission and supervision of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly solicit information from any child under the age of 13. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 in the United States send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or a parent or guardian) to inform him or her that he or she cannot hold a membership on our site.

Dispute Resolution Policy

As part of enforcing these policies and maintaining the What-is-Flan.com website, site administrators may take action in response to violation of our policies. These actions may include:

• Removal of content previously posted
• Suspension of deletion of an account
• Removal from a mailing or discussion list
• Removal of permissions on a site, as they related to posting, commenting, receiving or sending messages, creating documents, and any other feature as applicable.
• Forwarding of an issue to authorities

An Appeal may be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it however, once an appeal is reviewed, decisions made by our administrators are final.

Copyright

You acknowledge that the web page contains information and/ or photographs, audio and video clips, graphics, links and other material that are protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights of What-is-Flan.com or third parties, including but not limited to product names, logos, designs, titles, and words or phrases which may be registered in certain jurisdictions (collectively, the "Content"). You agree to comply with any additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content available on or accessed through this website. If you intend to use any content for any reason, you must obtain prior express written permission of What-is-Flan.com.

Submissions

You agree that any submissions of comments, recipes, or other content provided to What-is-Flan.com by web form, email, or any other means of communication becomes the exclusive rights and property of What-is-Flan.com.

Redistribution

In addition, any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

• you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
• you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content or transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system. If you wish to republish the content express written permission is REQUIRED. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Terms of Use

The following types of content is inappropriate for posting to the What-is-Flan.com site:

• commercial; self-promotional; prurient; abusive; discriminatory speech, including but not limited to, hate speech based on race, gender, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, religion or disability.

If content is determined to be inappropriate, such content either will not be posted or will be removed from the website. Such action will be taken in order to maintain the effective operation of our comments and forum tools. If a site participant notices that his or her content is not posted within 7 days of submission, and he or she wishes to dispute the determination, such participant may request an explanation of rejection by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Participants should note the following prior to posting or sending content:

(a) Regarding community-moderated content, a participant may flag content he or she believes to be in violation of this Terms of Use. He or she may not flag content due to disagreement with opinions stated.  If five or more flags are noted by administrators, such we may remove the content pending review for appropriateness.

(b) Any comments submitted for posting by a site participant may be rated and/or otherwise commented upon by other members of the public.

(c) By creating a user account or making any submission to What-is-Flan.com, a participant hereby acknowledges that he or she has read, understands and agrees to be bound by the terms as outlined herein, as well as with any applicable laws and regulations relating hereto.

General

We may amend this Privacy Policy & Copyright at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the site. If your questions are not answered online, you may write to us at: What-is-Flan.com Attn: Legal - Privacy Practices, 5482 Wilshire Blvd Unit 1927-00 Los Angeles, CA 90036 - emailing us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .