WatchMi Privacy Policy
WatchMi,
Inc.
("WatchMi") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and
others who use www.watchmi.com (the "WatchMi Site") (collectively
or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy
details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User
information collected on the WatchMi Site. WatchMi provides this Privacy Policy
to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using
the WatchMi Site.
This Privacy
Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the WatchMi Terms of Use. Your use of the
WatchMi Site and any personal information you provide on the WatchMi Site
remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Please note that
any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the
WatchMi Site becomes published content and is not considered personally
identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
The Information WatchMi Collects
- User Provided Information: You provide certain personally
identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to WatchMi
when choosing to participate in various activities on the WatchMi Site
such as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums or in the video
comments section, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of
promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other
mailing lists.
- Cookies Information: When you visit the WatchMi
Site, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a
string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely
identifies your browser. WatchMi uses both session cookies and persistent
cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the
site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help
file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you
close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies
or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the
WatchMi Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is
disabled.
- Log File Information: When you use the WatchMi Site,
our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser
sends whenever you visit any website. 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.
- Clear GIFs Information: When you use the WatchMi Site,
we may employ "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used
to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a
non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear
GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are
opened by recipients.
The Way WatchMi Uses Information
- If you submit personally identifiable information
to us through the WatchMi Site, then we use your personal information to
operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of
the WatchMi Site.
- Any personal information or 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 WatchMi Site and other Users can contact you
through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the WatchMi
Site 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 WatchMi 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, clickstream data,
etc.) to improve the quality and design of the WatchMi Site and to create
new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing,
tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
- We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file
information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to
re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the WatchMi Site;
(b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the
effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics
such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your
entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
When WatchMi Discloses Information
- We provide personally identifiable information
and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries,
affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of
processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties
agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy,
and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and
to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- 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 WatchMi Site.
- 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 state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond
to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
- WatchMi also reserves the right to disclose
personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable
information that WatchMi believes, in good faith, is appropriate or
necessary to enforce our Terms of
Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend
itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government
enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web
site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of WatchMi,
our Users or others.
Your Choices About Privacy
You may, of
course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the
WatchMi Site, in which case WatchMi may not be able to provide certain services
to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email
preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please
note that media files uploaded by Users to the WatchMi Site cannot be removed
and remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your
privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique
password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making
corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique
password and account information at all times.
Please contact
WatchMi with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal
information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices by ema
iling us at questions@watchmi.com.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other
Site
WatchMi allows
other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve
advertisements within the WatchMi Site. These third-party ad servers or ad
networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements
and links that appear on the WatchMi Site. They automatically receive your IP
address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as
cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their
advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
WatchMi does not
provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers
or ad networks 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. However,
please note that if an advertiser asks WatchMi to show an advertisement to a
certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for
example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you
respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that
you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The
advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the WatchMi Site,
such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally
identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should
consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad
networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for
instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. WatchMi's privacy policy
does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other
advertisers or web sites.
Our Commitment To Data Security
WatchMi uses
commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to
preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot,
however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to
WatchMi and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of
information, WatchMi makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the
security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that
such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by
breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If WatchMi
learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you
electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. WatchMi may
post a notice on the WatchMi Site if a security breach occurs. Depending on
where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach
in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to
withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us by
emailing us at questions@watchmi.com.
Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy
Protecting the
privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, WatchMi
does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or
non-personally-identifiable information on the WatchMi Site from persons under
13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If
you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the WatchMi
Site at any time or in any manner. If WatchMi learns that personally
identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on
the WatchMi Site without verified parental consent, then WatchMi will take the
appropriate steps to delete this information.
Special Note to International Users
By visiting our
web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the
international dimension of WatchMi may use the data collected in the course of
our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other
communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your
resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such data may be
stored on servers located in the United States. By providing us with
your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event
that WatchMi is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the
right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we
have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or
other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or
the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights
generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is
treated, transferred, or used.
Changes and updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy
Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the
"effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any
changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner
described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we received the personal
information you provided. Your continued use of the WatchMi Site constitutes your
agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.
For revisions to
this Privacy Policy that may be materially less restrictive on our use or
disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will
attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect
to such information.
Contact
Information:
Please contact WatchMi with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy
by emailing us at questions@watchmi.com.
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