PRIVACY POLICY
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
There are many places at our sites where you can share your personal information
with us, and where you can communicate with others.
Our registration forms may request your contact information (such
as your name, email address, mailing address, etc.), demographic information
(such as your country, gender, etc.), and profile data (such as your music
preferences, entertainment practices, etc). You may be assigned a site username
and/or password. For our internal purposes, we use this information to communicate
with you and provide the services you have requested, and to provide a more
personalized experience on our sites. For example, your registration may allow
you to use and post to site message boards, create site profiles, etc. We use
aggregate demographic and profile information about our audience in order to
improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes
and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others. By visiting our sites,
you affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data.
Newsletters and Other Communications from Us. Our registered users and customers
may receive newsletters, email communications, or communications through other
channels for, among other purposes, the promotion and marketing of a product
or service from our family of sites and record labels, as well as other Vivendi
Universal companies, and business partners, and we may also offer other visitors
to our sites the opportunity to sign up to receive such information. When there
is a separate sign-up for newsletters, we ask for contact information such
as name and email address, and, sometimes, demographic and profile information.
By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use
of your data. We use this information in the same manner as we use the contact
information in the Registration process described above. We may offer our users
the choice whether to receive mailings from others that we think will be of
interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions
that may appear at the end of email communications. Note that in order to keep
our registered users informed about the operation of our services, we may send
emails and announcements that are needed for the proper functioning and administration
of our sites and service.
Communications with Us
We have features where you can submit information
to us (such as when contacting us with a question or feedback). We may retain
your emails and other information you submit to us for our internal purposes,
and to help us to serve you better.
Communications with Friends. We may offer features where you can send information
to others, such as e-cards or "Tell A Friend" features. We will use
the contact information you enter for your friends to send the email or e-card.
Interactive and Community Features. Our sites may offer interactive and community
features, such as message boards, chat, email accounts, short message service
(SMS), instant messaging, profiles, personal homepages, etc. All information
posted or sent through these features may be publicly available, and you should
be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user
name, email address, phone number) through these features, that information
can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited communications
from other people. By accessing these features and disclosing personal information,
you affirmatively consent to the distribution of your personal information
as described above. Users' posts may be publicly and/or internally associated
with their profiles/screen-names. Users are solely responsible for the content
of messages they post or send on public forums.
Contests, Sweepstakes and Surveys. We may also have contests, sweepstakes
and surveys at our sites. When you enter or participate in them, we request
contact information from you (such as your full name, email address, mailing
address, and telephone number) and may also request demographic or profile
information. We will use the information you provide for the purpose of conducting
the promotion (for example, to contact you if you have won). We may also use
the information to send you newsletters and other information we think may
be of interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions
that may appear at the end of the email communication. Any personal information
we collect may be associated with registration information. We may share aggregate
information with others. We may sometimes partner with sponsors in offering
contests, sweepstakes or surveys, and may share (provide and receive) information
with them. By entering or participating in such contests, sweepstakes, and
surveys, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data.
AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION
Our web sites have features that automatically collect information from users
to assist us in creating sites that honor our users' preferences and serve
their interests and needs.
Some of our sites use cookies, which are small data files containing information
about the user that are stored on the user's hard drive. Some cookies are used
to make login to our sites easier (such as by remembering usernames and passwords).
If users reject cookies, they may be limited in using some areas of our sites.
Cookies can also enable us to track users' movements and target their interests
to enhance their experience at our sites. We may also collect clickstream data
and assign unique identifiers to our users for the same purposes. Information
obtained with these technologies may be associated with your personal information.
We or a third-party advertisement server may also use cookies in connection
with targeting advertisements or promotions to users. Our advertisers and other
third parties whose products or services are promoted on our sites may also
use cookies or other technology, and we advise you to check their privacy policies
for information about their privacy practices.
We may also gather information such as the date, time, browser type, navigation
history, and IP address of all visitors to our site(s). We use this information
for our internal security audit log, trend analysis, and system administration,
and to gather broad demographic information about our user base. We may associate
this information with your personal information. By visiting our sites, you
affirmatively consent to our collection, use, and distribution of your data.
WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
Information provided at sites that we host or manage may be shared. As with other third parties, we are not responsible for how
the Artists handle the data once they receive it. When we have co-branded or
sponsored services, when we host a site, or when we join with other parties
to provide specific services, we may share (provide and receive) your personal
information with them. By visiting these sites, you affirmatively consent to
our collection, use and distribution of your data.
We may share your information with other third parties with whom we have business
relationships and, in some cases, we cannot control or know their privacy practices.
By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our collection, use, and
distribution of your data.
Other than as set forth in this policy, we do not share your personally identifiable
information with other companies, apart from those acting as our agents in
providing our service to you, and which agree to use it only for that purpose
and to keep the information secure and confidential.
We will also disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law,
for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation,
in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when
we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our
rights or property. You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as
U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain circumstances
to permit your information to be shared or transferred to third parties without
your permission.
We may share (provide and receive) aggregate information, which is not personally
identifiable, with others. This information may include demographic data such
as the gender and/or geographic location of groups of users, but it will not
include personal information (such as your name or email address). We use aggregate
demographic information about our audience in order to improve our service,
for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting
purposes, among others.
CHOICE
By accepting this privacy policy, you expressly choose to receive certain communications
from us and third parties, and you expressly agree to the privacy practices
described herein. Our sites may also provide you with additional specific opportunities
to select communications you wish to receive. You may change your privacy preferences,
e.g. choose to cease receiving certain communications, by informing us of your
new preferences. We will be able to honor your new preferences most quickly
if you inform us of them by following the appropriate instructions in any communication
you receive from us. Please be aware that messages you receive from us through
SMS and instant messaging systems (and other systems apart from email) may
not include an option to cease receiving communications; to change your privacy
preferences with respect to those communications, please go to the profile
page at the site where you provided your personal information or direct your
instructions to the Contact identified at the end of this policy.
ACCESS
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code),
we endeavor to provide a way to correct or update that user's personal data.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding making changes
to your data.
DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
We strive to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
We do not knowingly collect personal information from U.S. children under 13
without appropriate parental notice and consent. Sites that are directed to
children where personal information is collected should have a Children's Privacy
Policy setting forth our COPPA-compliant practices. At many sites, we actively
screen-out children from data collection and/or use of interactive or community
features. We are committed to protecting children's privacy.
NOTICE: Visit www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy for information from the Federal Trade
Commission about protecting children's privacy online.
SECURITY
Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely important
to us. We store your personal information securely, and use special procedures
designed to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized
access or disclosure, alteration or destruction.
MERCHANT/E-COMMERCE AREAS
We do not generally make e-commerce offerings at our sites. Some of our sites
do have merchant/e-commerce areas, where users can purchase merchandise. At each of those areas, we endeavor to provide a privacy policy link
where users can review the privacy policies that apply to data collection and
use at those areas, and we urge our users to review them.
LINKS
We may provide links to non-Omegabuck.com sites. We are not responsible
for those other sites, their privacy policies or how they treat information
about their users, and we advise you to check their privacy policies.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy
at any time, so we encourage you to review this policy from time to time. Changes
to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted and your continued
use of our sites after posting will constitute acceptance of, and agreement
to be bound by, those changes.
CONTACT
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please feel free to
contact us at:
407 W. Imperial Hwy, H333
Brea, CA 92821