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ThrillNetwork Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy
(Updated 4/8/2006)
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
without direct parental consent. You may have your parent or guardian
e-mail us using this contact form to verify that you have been
granted permission to use this site.
In general, ThrillNetwork collects, uses and discloses information
about all of its users and registrants in the same manner (i.e. no
different methods for collecting information from children). However,
ThrillNetwork Kids is a designated area of the web site dedicated to
those speaking with and to children effected by divorce. The
ThrillNetwork Kids area will not solicit or collect any personal
information from any user entering that area of the Site, however,
before entering any area of the web site, please read and review the
following policy carefully, especially if you are 17 or younger:
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), we are
required by law to get your parent's or guardian's written permission
which allows you to access our Site before you provide any information
to ThrillNetwork and before you access our Site.
If you are under the age of 13, this also means that we will need
your parent's or guardian's email address to send him/her an email to
(1) state that we have learned you are under 13, (2) describe the type
of Personal Information we would be collecting from you if he/she gave
us permission to collect that information from you, and (3) outline
what the process would be in getting his/her consent.
If you are under the age of 18, we will still need your parent's or
guardian's email address so that we can (1) tell him/her that we have
learned you are between the ages of 13 and 17, (2) describe the type
of Personal Information we would be collecting from you, and (3)
encourage him/her to participate in your experience on the Internet
and talk with you about the importance of protecting your Personal
Information over the Internet.
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. ThrillNetwork
will not send any direct e-mails or other correspondence to users who
indicate they are under the age of 18.
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:
24/7 Media, please click here
Burstmedia, please click here
ValueClick, please click here
Fastclick, please click here
Some of these third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1
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?
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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
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We use security measures to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our
system.
Sharing and Usage
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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?
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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.
Or if you wish you may write to us at:
ThrillNetwork
Attn: Privacy Policy Coordinator
532 LaGuardia Place. PMB 276
New York, NY 10012
All of these Terms of Service are subject to change without
notice.
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