Our Commitment to Privacy
Note - any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of users onto our websites ("Sites") becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this privacy policy.
Note - information you post publicly post to the Sites is available for indexing by search engines such as Google. We can take no responsibility for the information you choose to post onto these un-secure pages. Search results on your username could lump together hits from our Sites and hits from your employment, university, etc. Therefore we suggest that you use a different username on our Sites than what you use on other websites.
The Information We Collect
- Name
- Address
- Email address
- Phone number
We use cookies to enhance the functionality of our sites for you. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. When you use our Sites, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
The Way We Use Information
If you submit personally identifiable information to us through our Sites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Sites.
Any personal information or photo/video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you upload videos or send messages through the Sites and other users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the Sites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, click data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends.
We use cookies and log file information to:
- remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Sites;
- provide custom, personalized content and information;
- monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
- monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and
- track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
Our Commitment To Data Security
When We May Disclose Information
We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Sites.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws (such as copyright law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
We also reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our Sites, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ourselves, our users or others.
