This Privacy Policy was last update on Aug 08, 2008.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how Dimestore Media Inc. treats personal information that Dimestore Media Inc. collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Dimestore’s products and services and domains that Dimestore Media controls and manages.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Dimestore Media Inc. does not own or control, or to people that Dimestore Media Inc. does not employ or manage. In addition, certain companies associated with Dimestore Media Inc., particularly those that will display the player distributed by Dimestore Media Inc. may have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the links at their individual sites.
What Is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
PII is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Information Collection and Use
Dimestore Media Inc. may collect PII when you register, when you use Dimestore’s products or services, when you visit any of Dimestore Media’s web sites or pages of some of our partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Dimestore Media Inc. may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. At some time we may also ask for your address, Social Security number. Once you register with Dimestore Media Inc. and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
We collect information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of services that we offer.
We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Dimestore Media cookie information, and the page you request.
We may use this information we collect for the following general purposes: (a) to customize the advertising and content you see, (b) fulfill your requests for products and services, (c) improve our services, (d) contact you, (e) conduct research, and (e) provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Dimestore Media Inc. does not rent, sell, or share PII with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, or when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Dimestore Media’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Dimestore is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Dimestore Media will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Dimestore Media displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
Dimestore Media does not provide any PII to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Dimestore Media advertisers include, but are not limited to, financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
Cookies
Dimestore Media may set and access cookies on your computer. Advertisers do not have access to Dimestore Media’s cookies.
Dimestore Media uses web beacons to access Dimestore cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Dimestore Media’s products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
You can edit your Dimestore Media Account Information including your marketing preferences at any time.
New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Dimestore Media’s services , such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Video Challenge Newsletter, that are considered part of your Video Challenge account with us, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to PII about you only to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Dimestore Media may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Video Challenge account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:
Dimestore Media Inc.
c/o Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
386 Park Avenue South, Suite 1910
New York, NY 10016
