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Privacy Notice
Official Privacy Statement of Votisodes ™.
Votisodes Privacy Notice
BallotEntertainment, LLC dba Votisodes ("Votisodes") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.votisodes.com or other web sites owned or operated by Votisodes (the "Votisodes
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 Votisodes Sites. Votisodes
provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about
whether to use or continue using the Votisodes Sites.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Votisodes Terms
of Use. Your use of the Votisodes Sites and any personal information you provide
on the Votisodes 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 Votisodes Sites becomes published content and is not considered
personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.
The Information
Votisodes Collects
- User Provided
Information: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as
your name and email address) to Votisodes when choosing to participate in
various activities on the Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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. Votisodes 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 Votisodes Sites may
not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
- Log File Information:
When you use the Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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 Votisodes
Uses Information
- If you submit personally
identifiable information to us through the Votisodes Sites, then we use your
personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and
functionality of the Votisodes Sites.
- Any personal information
or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in
messages, through voting 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 Votisodes Sites and other Users can
contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the
Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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
Votisodes 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
Votisodes 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 Votisodes
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 Votisodes 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.
- Votisodes also reserves
the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or
non-personally-identifiable information that Votisodes 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 Votisodes, our Users or others.
Your Choices
You may, of course,
decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Votisodes
Sites, in which case Votisodes 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 Votisodes Sites may be removed from the
Votisodes Sites, but cannot be removed from our back-up copies and shall remain
subject to our Term 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 Votisodes with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out
choices using this contact form.
Third-party
Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
Votisodes allows
other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve
advertisements within the Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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.
Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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 Votisodes
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.
Votisodes privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the
activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Our Commitment To
Data Security
Votisodes 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
Votisodes and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of
information, Votisodes 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 Votisodes learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify
you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Votisodes
may post a notice on the Votisodes 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, Votisodes
does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or
non-personally-identifiable information on the Votisodes 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
Votisodes Sites at any time or in any manner. If Votisodes learns that
personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been
collected on the Votisodes Sites without verified parental consent, then
Votisodes will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
Special Note to
International Users
The Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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 Votisodes 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, Conversion to Corporation or Bankruptcy
In the event that
Votisodes is acquired by or merged with a third party entity or converted into
a corporation, 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, conversion to corporation 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
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 Votisodes 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 February 14, 2007.
Contact Information:
Please contact Votisodes with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice at info@votisodes.com
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