SkyeCAST Privacy Notice
SkyeCAST.com ("SkyeCAST") recognizes that its
customers, visitors, users, and others who use
www.SkyeCAST.com or other web sites
owned or operated by SkyeCAST (the "SkyeCAST Sites") (collectively or
individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details
important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information
collected on the SkyeCAST Sites. SkyeCAST provides this Privacy Notice to
help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using
the SkyeCAST Sites.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the
SkyeCAST Terms of Use. Your use of
the SkyeCAST Sites and any personal information you provide on the SkyeCAST
Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our
Terms of Use.
Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the
direction of Users onto the SkyeCAST Sites becomes published content and is
not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy
Notice.
The Information SkyeCAST Collects
- User Provided Information: You provide certain
personally identifiable information (such as your name and email
address) to SkyeCAST when choosing to participate in various activities
on the SkyeCAST Sites 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 SkyeCAST
Sites, 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. SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST Sites may not function properly
if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
- Log File Information: When you use the SkyeCAST
Sites, 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 SkyeCAST
Sites, 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 SkyeCAST Uses Information
- If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the
SkyeCAST Sites, then we use your personal information to operate,
maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the
SkyeCAST Sites.
- 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 SkyeCAST Sites and other Users can contact you
through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the
SkyeCAST Sites 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 SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST Sites 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 SkyeCAST Sites; (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 SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST Sites.
- 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.
- SkyeCAST also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable
information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that SkyeCAST
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 SkyeCAST, our Users
or others.
Your Choices About Privacy
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information
through the SkyeCAST Sites, in which case SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST Sites 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.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
SkyeCAST allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad
networks, to serve advertisements within the SkyeCAST Sites. These
third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to
your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the SkyeCAST
Sites. 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.
SkyeCAST 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
SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST Sites, 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.
SkyeCAST's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the
activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Currently, SkyeCAST has relationships with the following third-party ad
servers or ad networks:
Our Commitment To Data Security
SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission of information, SkyeCAST 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 SkyeCAST learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to
notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps.
SkyeCAST may post a notice on the SkyeCAST Sites 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 using this
contact form.
Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For
that reason, SkyeCAST does not knowingly collect or maintain personally
identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the
SkyeCAST Sites 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 SkyeCAST Sites at any time or in any
manner. If SkyeCAST learns that personally identifiable information of
persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the SkyeCAST Sites
without verified parental consent, then SkyeCAST will take the appropriate
steps to delete this information.
Special Note to International Users
The SkyeCAST Sites are hosted in the United States and are intended for
and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the
SkyeCAST Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws
or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that
differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your
continued use of the SkyeCAST Sites, which are governed by U.S. law, this
Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use,
you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you
consent to that transfer.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that SkyeCAST 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 Notice
This Privacy Notice 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 Notice in effect when we received the
personal information you provided. Your continued use of the SkyeCAST Sites
constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Notice 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.
Date Last Modified:
This Privacy Notice was last modified January 20, 2006.
Contact Information:
Please contact SkyeCAST with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice using this
support@skyecast.com.
