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The Personal Avatar (aka Pavatar) is a personal picture hosted on your webspace which is then used by websites to display whenever referring to content provided by YOU, the user. An example would be if you made a comment or a site posting where an avatar is required. This way, delivering your Personal Avatar is peripheral and can be (nearly) anonymous. This option inhibits companies from collecting personal information about your habits on the web.

A favatar is a small icon ("favicon") associated with a web server, used as a visual representation ("avatar") of a person associated with the server. The name is derived from "favicon" (itself a contraction of "favorites icon") and "avatar". (It is also a play on name of the free avatar service known as Gravatar.)