ThemeParker.com Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy discloses the online privacy practices for
THEMEPARKER.COM LLC. ("ThemeParker") and applies to the information
we collect through www.themeparker.com (collectively, the "Site"). By
accessing and/or using the Site, you are consenting to the collection, storage,
and disclosure of data as described in this Privacy Policy.
Your IP Address
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number that is
automatically assigned to your computer every time you browse the Internet.
When a user requests a page from the Site, our servers will log the user's
current IP address. ThemeParker uses IP addresses to help diagnose problems
with our servers and to analyze traffic trends to better improve the Site. ThemeParker does not share your IP address
with any third-party and will not display your IP address to other users of the
site.
Cookies
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts
of data on your computer about your visit to the Site. You do not need to have
cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in
certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing
about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information,
in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways
described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not
to allow cookies to be collected.
We also use technologies, including electronic images known as Web bugs—sometimes
called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or beacons—that allow us
to track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and
record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP
address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about
pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or
services, the information we gather through the use of tracking technologies
cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.
We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:
- Keeping count of return
visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites;
- Accumulating and reporting
anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on
Web-site and advertisement usage;
- Determining which features
our overall user population likes best;
- Saving your password so you
don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites;
- Displaying the most
appropriate advertising or content based on your interests.
We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on our sites to use
tracking technology on your computer. We do not give any personally
identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Unless you visit
the Web site of these companies and provide them with personally identifiable
information about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers
nothing about who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is
subject to their own privacy policies.
Personal Information
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the
best and most useful content and services. Several of the services and features
that we offer on the Site require you to provide us with information as a
condition of usage. These include access to subscription-only areas, the
ability to post opinions or other content, participation in sweepstakes or
contests, subscriptions to email newsletters and participation in message
boards among other features.
We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email
address, postal address, phone number and credit card information when you
provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other sensitive
information such as your job title, gender, username and password. We may also
receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information
you provided to us.
Once you register with the Site you are no longer anonymous to us.
Personally identifiable information
We will make your personally identifiable information available to other
companies or people when:
- You have elected to allow us
to share that information at the time that you registered with us or
provided us the information, or through a subsequent affirmative election
through our website.
- You volunteer information or
create a public profile in the course of your participation in our
community features such as forums, user opinions and reviews, chat rooms,
photo sharing or other forms of public communication and interaction.
- You use cobranded services
(i.e., sites or services that we offer to you in connection with a
partner, who is identified on the site). When you use a cobranded service
within our network of sites, you grant us permission to pass your
registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your
information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
- We hire third-party vendors
to provide specialized services such as customer support; email message
deployment; suppression, merge and de-duplication services; data
processing; and special products or services that you have requested.
These companies are only allowed to use the information in order to help
us fulfill our services to you. We do not provide your information to
these companies for their own, permanent use.
- You unsubscribe for a mailing
that we send to you on behalf of a third party. We may share your removal
instruction with the third party so that it may be added to that person’s
list of people to whom they may not send emails.
- You are the winner of a
contest or a sweepstakes that is co-sponsored with a third party and that
third party needs your information in order to manage the prize
fulfillment process.
- When required by law, such as
when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.
- We believe that your actions
violate applicable laws, ThemeParker’s Terms of Use,
or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the
rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.
Aggregate information
We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information
in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties
for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these
entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.
Business transfers
We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and our business. In
accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or sell a company, or one or more of
the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another
company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information
as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may
continue or for other business purposes.
Anonymous Access
Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our
registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much
of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without
registering.
We also give users the following options:
- Opting not to provide certain
personal information when registering for a site, provided, however, that
you may not be able to use some of our products or services without
providing us with certain information.
Changing Information
You can review, correct, or change the information collected
during registration for any of our sites. The instructions for doing this can
be found in our member-services areas. Users may change information at any time
and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our
services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us at privacy@themeparker.com.
Privacy of children
The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13. ThemeParker operates the
Site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and does
not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally
identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age. This requirement
is clearly posted during the registration process.
Disclosures for Legal Reasons
ThemeParker will disclose Submission Information and
Personal Information when it believes, in its sole discretion, that the law
requires such disclosure or that such disclosure is necessary to comply with
the law; protect and defend the rights or property of ThemeParker or others; or
act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of the public or
the users of the Site.
Links
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected
by ThemeParker. Other Web sites (including those that we may link to) may have
their own policies. ThemeParker has no responsibility for or control over the
information-collection practices of such third party Web sites.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please
e-mail us at privacy@themeparker.com
Notification of Changes
If ThemeParker is going to use Personal Information in a
manner different from that stated at the time of collection through the Site, ThemeParker
will notify you via email if you have offered us your email address. You will
have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different
manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices
that do not affect user information already collected through the Site, we will
post a prominent notice on the Site notifying users of the change.
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