(Updated July 13, 2009)

ThrillNetwork is committed to safeguarding your privacy. In order to educate our user community, we have created this Privacy Policy to inform you about the information we gather and use when you visit our web site, who has access to it, what happens to it, and what control you have over its use.

What information does ThrillNetwork collect from you?

ThrillNetwork collects two types of information from its members, software users, and visitors: Personal Information and Anonymous Information.

What is Personal Information?

“Personal Information” includes (1) personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number, mailing address, e-mail address, etc., (2) demographic information, such as your age, gender, income level, household size, etc., and (3) psychographic information, such as your hobbies, interests, type of use on the Internet, reason for using particular software, etc.

What is Anonymous Information?

“Anonymous Information” means information that cannot be traced back specifically to you as an individual. While you are on our web sites, we collect Anonymous Information such as what web site you came from, what web pages you go to on our web site, the time of your visit, the type of web browser you use (the software you use to connect to the Internet and visit web sites) and the type of computer system you use. Such information is gathered on an aggregated basis (meaning you are not personally identified) to study the demographics, interests and behavior of different types of consumers. For example, we look at broad demographic statistics to determine what percentage of users have Netscape browsers versus Internet Explorer.

What do certain Internet terms mean?

A “URL” (Uniform Resource Locator) is the global address of web sites and web pages on the World Wide Web.

An “IP address” (Internet Protocol address) is a number that identifies your computer so that data (such as the web site you want to go to) can be sent to you.

A “referrer ID” is information from your web browser showing us what URL you linked from so we can see what web sites linked to our web site.

A “cookie” is a small data file that is sent from our web server and stored on your computer hard drive while you are visiting our web site. Cookies store and retrieve information on your computer about your web browsing activities, such as what web site you came from and what pages you go to on our web site. This type of information can help us improve our products and services. Cookie technology is fairly commonplace on the Internet, and most web browsers are initially set to accept cookies; however, you can set your web browser to refuse cookies, or have it notify you when you receive a cookie so that you can decide whether or not to accept it.

A “GUID” is a Globally Unique Identifier, or an unambiguously unique number assigned to your computer, which is downloaded to your computer’s hard drive if you download software from the world wide web.

How does ThrillNetwork collect Personal and Anonymous Information?

We collect Personal Information from you: (1) when you register through the ThrillNetwork website, or (2) if you contact us with questions or requests for help (i.e. technical support). We keep this latter, contact information confidential, as a record of correspondence, and use it strictly to respond to such requests.

We collect Anonymous Information from your web browser which sends information to our web server in the form of URLs, cookies, referral IDs, IP addresses, computer system information, and logs of web browsing activities (”web logs”). We use cookies to keep track of visitors to our website. The cookies help us by reminding us who you are through your registered information when you enter the Site, estimating the number of Site users, tracking surveys we send out to registrants, sending out newsletters to those who request them and measuring certain traffic patterns of our web site users and visitors.

What information is collected from you as a visitor of a ThrillNetwork web site?

If you are just visiting one of our web sites and do not register, then we collect Anonymous Information from you to determine what URL you came to us from and to calculate the number of visitors to our Site.

What information is collected from you if you register with ThrillNetwork?

At ThrillNetwork, we collect Personal Information when you register with our community. During the registration process, we ask our users to provide their e-mail address, user name, and other information. We also give registrants the option to volunteer personal information such as their name, occupation, gender, etc. You can see a copy of our Registration Form by clicking here [link]. Any information that you provide during the registration process is only accessible by our employees who are directly involved with the operation of the web site. We also use your Personal Information to get a better sense of our users’ interests in order to improve our content and our service offerings. Other than the two uses described here and unless you give us your prior express written consent, we do not share, rent, or sell any of your Personal Information to any other outside parties, and we do not link this information to any anonymous usage statistics.

How will my Personal Information be used?

By registering with the ThrillNetwork website, we will use your Personal Information as follows: (a) we will use your e-mail address to send you our periodic newsletter, and (b) ….. Instructions on how to un-subscribe from our e-mail mailing list are included in every newsletter. From time to time, we may also request that you complete our surveys. Like our newsletters, however, instructions on how to un-subscribe from survey requests are included in those surveys and you are never obligated to complete them.

What about the privacy of children?

Safeguarding the personal information of children is extremely important. If you are a parent or guardian of anyone under the age of 18, we encourage you to participate in your child’s experience on the Internet and discuss with them the importance of informing you when their personal information is requested from any web site.

In order to comply with the new COPPA ruling, if you are younger than 13 years of age, you are forbidden from becoming a member of ThrillNetwork or posting information on ThrillNetwork message boards. However, if you at least 13, but younger than 18, before entering any area of the web site, please read and review the following policy carefully.

We strongly recommend that you protect yourself by telling your parent or guardian about your participation here on the ThrillNetwork Site, and get your parent’s or guardian’s permission before disclosing any information about yourself to anyone on the Internet, including through our Site.

If you are under the age of 13 (12 years old or younger) and knowingly register an account with ThrillNetwork under false pretenses, we will immediately suspend your account upon finding of such action.

It is important for all users to note that requests for personally identifiable information may appear on the portions of the ThrillNetwork site or those of our partners, which are directed, to parents and other adults. ThrillNetwork has taken steps to alert users that certain areas of the site where personally identifiable information is collected are restricted to adults only. We provide “bumper pages” at certain points to let users of the ThrillNetwork Kids area know that they’re leaving the Kids area and entering an area that’s limited to parents and other adults. We include warnings that portions of the site are intended for adults only. And we’ve designed the content and language of those areas so that they’re clearly directed at adults, not children. If we were to discover that children submitted personally identifiable information, ThrillNetwork would delete the information promptly.

If you are under the age of 18, make sure you protect yourself by getting your parent or guardian’s permission before disclosing any information about yourself to anyone on the Internet.

Online Surveys

At times ThrillNetwork may run online surveys asking for specific contact or demographic information. These surveys are always optional. At times ThrillNetwork may share both the results of, and individual entries in, surveys with the sponsors of the survey.

Contests

At times ThrillNetwork may run contests on our site where we ask for contact or demographic information. These contests are always optional. At times ThrillNetwork may share both the results of, and individual entries in, surveys with the sponsors of the survey.

Member Feedback

ThrillNetwork stores feedback members send to us. This feedback is used to administer and refine the ThrillNetwork service and at times may be shared with ThrillNetwork partners either in aggregate form or with specific identifying characteristics (e.g., e-mail address, name) removed.

Message Boards, Polls, and Community Tools

ThrillNetwork provides many venues for member interaction and community, including message boards, online polls, and other tools. In some cases use of such tools (e.g. message boards) may reveal a user’s member name or e-mail address. The aggregate result of polls may be shared on ThrillNetwork sites. Use of ThrillNetwork’s message boards, and other community tools is typically governed by specific policies. Users may have the ability to publish certain personal information (e.g. Web page links, content ratings) on the ThrillNetwork service. In all cases, users create this information by opting in. Users who do not want this information to be publicly available should not use these optional features on ThrillNetwork.

Ad Server

Our Web site uses reputable third parties to serve the advertisements that you see on the pages of our Web site. If you would like to know more about the information gathering practices and procedures of our third party ad servers:

Burstmedia, please click here
ValueClick, please click here
Google Adsense, please click here

Some of these third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1×1 pixel .gif technology to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our Web site and other Web sites to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services of interest to you. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.

If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from setting and/or reading cookies on your computer, currently you may either visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies’ privacy policies.

Who is collecting your information?

ThrillNetwork is collecting either Personal or Anonymous Information from you when you are one of our members or a visitor to the Site. If we ask you for Personal Information, however, you are sharing that information with ThrillNetwork alone, unless we specifically obtain your prior written permission, through the registration process, to disclose such information to outside parties that we will describe.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

How does ThrillNetwork use your information?

ThrillNetwork researches our visitors’, members’, and users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on information provided to us from member registrations, newsletter mailings that have promotions, our web server log files, or surveys to members or users.

With whom and how is your information being shared?

As a general rule, ThrillNetwork does not disclose any of your Personal Information that could specifically identify you as an individual except when we have your specific written permission prior to making such a disclosure. If you do not want your Personal Information to be shared or used by an outside party, you can choose to prevent such use by telling us when you receive and respond to our notice of such a disclosure.

We may, however, convert Personal Information into Anonymous Information by using data related to demographics, interests, and behavior on an aggregated basis to better understand and serve our users and members. We may also share this aggregated data with our business partners. No outside party, however, will have access to any personally identifiable information about you except when we have your specific written permission prior to such access.

How does ThrillNetwork protect and keep your information secure?

Although no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure, we will use our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

What are your choices with regard to changing, deleting, and preventing disclosure of your information?

ThrillNetwork may, from time to time, send you e-mail (if you register with the Site and give us your consent to do so) regarding our content, services and the products and services offered by our partners. Also, if you indicated in your registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from ThrillNetwork and our business partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, then tell us when you give us your Personal Information during the registration process. Or, you can edit your account information at any time to state that you no longer wish to receive such offers and mailings.

You may edit your ThrillNetwork registrant information at any time by [describe the method]. You may also un-subscribe to any ThrillNetwork user services or communications by [describe the method and the required contents of the message]. If you un-subscribe to all services, we will then permanently delete all your Personal Information stored on our computers.

Email Privacy

We have created this email privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and the protection of your information.

Why did you receive an email from us?

• If you received a mailing from us, (a) your email address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future (”opt-in”), or (b) you have registered or purchased or otherwise have an existing relationship with us. We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

How we protect your privacy

• We use security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

Sharing and Usage

• We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission unless you have violated any local, state, federal law, any park rule (per a 2003 agreement with amusement and theme parks), or by order of a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.

How can you stop receiving email from us?

• Each email sent contains an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving email from us, or to change your expressed interests. If you wish to do this, simply follow the instructions at the end of any email.

What happens if ThrillNetwork changes this Privacy Policy?

Each time the terms of this Privacy Policy are changed, the date of the posting of the current version will be noted at the bottom of the policy. In the event that the terms of this Privacy Policy change to allow for the collection of more Personal Information or to allow for different uses of any information collected by the Site, a clear and conspicuous notice will be placed on the Site homepage a reasonable time before the change goes into effect, and all previously registered users of the Site will have the opportunity to modify their registrant information and their preferences for Site services and communications if they wish.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or other questions regarding the practices of this site, your dealings with this Web site you can contact ThrillNetwork.com.

All of these Terms of Service are subject to change without notice.