This web site ("Web Site") is sponsored by Elites TV ("ETV"
or "we" or "us"). ETV respects the privacy of its users,
and this Privacy Policy explains what information we collect on our Web Site
and how we use such information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. In
addition, please review our Terms of Use, which governs your use of this Web
Site. (Click here for terms of use). Your use of
our Web Site indicates to us that you have read and accept our privacy
practices, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy Only Applies to This Web Site
Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to this Web Site. While on
our Web Site, you may encounter links to other web sites or online material. If
you "click" on a link to such a third party, the "click"
takes you off our Web Site and to a third party’s web site, which is
beyond ETV’s control. These other web sites may set their own cookies,
collect data, and/or have their own privacy policies. This Privacy Policy only
covers information collected at this Web Site, and does not cover any
information collected by any other Web Site or offline by ETV (unless
specifically stated), its affiliates or any other company, and we encourage you
to review the privacy policy of any other web site you visit.
In addition, please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any
information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or
similar web pages. You should keep in mind that whenever you publicly disclose
information about yourself online, for example, via message boards or chat
rooms, that information could be collected and used by people that you do not
know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display
IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. ETV bears
no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect
any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other
user forums, if any, on this Web Site.
Information ETV Collects
Personally Identifiable Information: Generally, you may browse our Web Site
without providing us with personally identifiable information about yourself,
which is information that could reasonably be used to identify you personally
(such as your name, address, birth date or e-mail address), which we refer to
as "PII." However, there may be times when we ask you to provide us
with certain PII, such as when you choose to register with our Web Site and/or
for newsletters or choose to participate in an online contest, sweepstakes or
survey. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information or
information regarding your interests, hobbies or similar information. ETV
reserves the right, at any time, to add features to our Web Site that require
you to register or otherwise provide PII, including credit card information, or
to require registration to access our Web Site. You can choose not to provide
certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of or
participate in many of the Web Site’s features. We may combine the
information we collect with information available from other sources, including
information received from promotional partners or other third parties.
We may provide you the opportunity to e-mail a friend an article, electronic
greeting card or other special feature from our Web Site. The e-mail addresses
you supply us for those activities will be used to send the requested e-mail
and will not be used to send you or your friend any other e-mail
communications.
This Web Site does not knowingly collect PII from children under thirteen (13)
years of age: This is not a web site directed to children under the age of 13,
and ETV does not knowingly collect any information from children under 13 years
of age at this Web Site. If you are under 13 years of age, do not send any
information about yourself to ETV. If ETV discovers that a child under the age
of 13 has provided this Web Site with PII, ETV will delete that child’s
PII from its system.
Anonymous Information: When you visit this Web Site, our web servers
automatically collect web site usage information. Web site usage information is
anonymous information that describes how our visitors use and navigate our Web
Site, and it includes the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and
the length of their stays. We collect the anonymous information automatically
sent to us by your web browser, such as browser type, referrer data that
identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our Web Site,
and IP address. We also may determine what technology is available through your
browser in order to serve you the most appropriate version of a web page. For
example, we may determine that you have installed a version of Flash, and we
will then send you the appropriate Flash version of the web page rather than an
HTML page.
IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer or
network when you are on the Internet. When visitors request pages from our Web
Site, our servers log the visitor’s IP address. We may collect IP
addresses for a variety of internal purposes, such as system administration, to
report aggregate information to our business partners or to audit the number of
visits to different pages on our Web Site. Please note that some services
within our Web Site, such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses
along with the message poster’s name and message.
Cookies: Cookies are information files that our Web Site may place on your
computer to provide extended functionality and to personalize your experience
at our Web Site. We may use cookies for a number of purposes. For example, we
may use cookies to track usage patterns on the Web Site and we may use cookies
when we conduct polls and sweepstakes to limit multiple responses and
registrations. Or, we may use cookies to record registration and
personalization information, enabling you to save your user name and password.
We do not store any PII in cookies, but we may link the cookie to any
information we collect. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by
indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. However,
it is possible that some parts of the Web Site will not operate correctly if
you disable cookies. You should consult with your browser’s
provider/manufacturer if you have any questions regarding disabling cookies.
ETV’s Use and Disclosure of Collected Information
ETV: ETV may use your PII to provide the information or content you have
requested, to contact you or to fulfill prizes in connection with a contest or
sweepstakes, to contact you about ETV programs, products, features or services,
or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection. We may also use your
PII to contact you regarding your use of our Web Site or changes to our Privacy
Policy, Terms of Use or other policy or terms that affect you and your use of
our Web Site. If you e-mail someone else an article, electronic greeting card
or other special feature from our Web Site, we will use the information you
provide about someone else to send that person the requested e-mail. ETV may
use information collected about our users to improve the content and navigation
of our Web Site, or for other internal purposes.
Third parties providing services on our behalf: ETV may employ other companies
and individuals to perform functions on its behalf. Examples may include
hosting this Web Site, sending communications on our behalf, hosting message
boards or other user forums, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance,
creating, hosting and/or running contests/sweepstakes/games and providing
customer service. These third parties may have access to our users’ PII in
order to provide these services to us or on our behalf, but they may not use it
for other purposes.
Other Third Parties: ETV may disclose anonymous, aggregated user statistics to
third parties for a variety of purposes. For example, we may disclose how many
individuals visited certain areas of our Web Site, or how many men or women
receive our newsletter.
ETV does not rent, sell or otherwise disclose your PII to third parties unless
disclosed to you at the time such information is collected or unless you
otherwise give consent, other than in the following limited circumstances:
Legal action. ETV may disclose information about its users, including PII, when
legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities
conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies
governing our Web Site and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or
unauthorized use of our Web Site. ETV may also disclose user information
whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability, to
protect or defend our rights or property or protect the safety, rights or
property of our users.
Corporate change. ETV may sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user
information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger,
consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental
corporate change.
Security
ETV takes steps to secure the data you submit to us, including limiting the
number of people who have physical access to our user data. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Therefore, ETV cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to ETV and you do so at your own risk. <4>Consent to Transfer
This Web Site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the
European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that
any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By
using our Web Site, participating in any of our services and/or providing us
with your information, you consent to this transfer.
Acceptance
By using this Web Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. ETV
reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at
any time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back from time to
time. However, we will only use the PII you provide to this Web Site in a
manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, unless you give us your consent.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy,
please contact us at admin@elitestv.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 1, 2002.
