TheBachelor.com Privacy Policy
This privacy policy covers how we treat personal
information that we collect and receive. We do not intend to collect any
personal information from children under 13 unless we believe such collection
to be permitted by law. Please see below for our policy with respect to
children under 13.
General
We gather user
information to provide you with a customized experience on our site. Your user
information helps us tailor the content, services, goods and advertising to
your current and future needs. For this reason, we may ask you to register or
to provide personal information when you post comments, enter a contest, order
products, subscribe to a newsletter and/or visit certain areas of our site. If
you choose not to register you may not have access to areas that require
personal identification.
If you register with our site or purchase products from us, from time to time
we may e-mail you with messages about our services or third party products and
services we believe may be of interest to you, such as new products, features,
services, special offers and updated information. The newsletters may contain
code that enables our database to track your usage of the newsletters,
including whether the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were
clicked. We will combine that information with other information we have about
you and may use that information to improve your site experience and/or provide
customized e-mail communications to you. In addition, if you register with our
site or purchase products you may automatically receive e-mails confirming your
registration and/or purchase and providing you with necessary information
relating to the access or use of your registration and/or purchase. With the
exception of the e-mails described in the preceding sentence which are
necessary to provide customer support and deliver products and services to you,
you may opt-out of receiving e-mail from us as described below.
Use of Information
When you
register, we ask for your e-mail address, a unique nickname selected by you and
other information. Once you are a registered user you can update your profile
and may be able to provide additional preferential information.
For challenges and/or contests, we may collect information from users in order
to register them for the challenge and/or contest and to provide for payment.
We may use an order form for users to request information, products and
services. For that order form, we collect a user’s contact information (e-mail
address) and necessary financial information to process the order (i.e. credit
card number). Contact information from the order (including e-mail) may be used
to deliver digital products and information. We may use third parties to accept
and process orders and credit card purchases for merchandise and products,
including software.
We may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by
another company. To qualify for entry in that contest or promotion, we may ask
you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with
the sponsor(s) or with others, we will provide a statement to that effect in
the contest or promotion terms.
All communication on the Internet takes place between pairs of IP Addresses.
Our Web servers will log the IP address that any connection is made from. We
may use these IP addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent abuse
of our systems or other site users. Your IP address may also be used to gather
aggregate demographic data and target advertisements accordingly.
Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a
cookie is sent. A “cookie” is a small line of text that is stored with your Web
browser for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide better service to
you. We use cookies to save your password (in an encrypted format) on your
machine so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and track your
downloads and purchases from our site.
We use companies [Tribal Fusion (www.tribalfusion.com),
Fastclick (www.fastclick.com),
24/7 Real Media (www.realmedia.com),
RightMedia (www.rightmedia.com),
BudsInc (www.budsinc.com)
ImpressionUp (www.impressionup.com)
and AdBrite (www.AdBrite.com)]
to serve the advertisements on some of our pages. These companies and
advertisers may place and access their cookies on your computer. Other
companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not
ours. We may use your information or allow advertisers or companies that serve
advertisements access to your information to determine which advertisements you
will see. This information may include your demographic information, geographic
location, what content you access on our site, how you rate various
content, language contained in your comments and other information.
Our site contains links, including banner and other ads, to other Websites. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites.
Our site may also link to Websites that feature our trademarks and names along
with trademarks and names of other companies. You should look at the privacy
policy on that co-branded Website, as the co-branded Website may not be under
our control.
Applications you use or download from our site may contain third party digital
rights management systems (“DRMS”) which may allow for communication between
your software and the third party and utilize security features (e.g.,
preventing distribution of or access to the applications in the event of
unauthorized use). These DRMS are subject to their own license agreements and
you agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort
relating to the use of the DRMS or your dealings with such third parties. The
applications may also contain DRMS produced by us which allow for communication
between the applications you use or download and our systems and which collect
information describing your computer system in order to prevent illegal or
unauthorized use of the applications.
For reasons such as improving member experience and providing customized
communications to our users, we may receive information about you from third
party sources and our web logs and add it to the information that we have
received from you. Web logs automatically record anything a web server sees,
which may include e-mail addresses you enter into a form or pages viewed by a
user at a particular IP address.
Information Sharing
We will not
share your personally identifiable information with third parties, aside from
entities that perform services for us, such as fulfilling orders or processing
payment, that either are bound to comply with our privacy policy or have
privacy policies that protect your information unless you have “opted-in” to
such sharing. If you have previously opted-in to such sharing under a prior
privacy policy version, you are still considered to have opted-in under this
privacy policy. As stated, and whether or not you have opted-in, we may use
third parties to accept and process orders for merchandise and products,
including software, and such third parties may get access to your personal
information for the purposes of providing services or products to you on our
behalf. In addition, if you opt-out, we may share that information with third
parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do not e-mail you.
However, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or
if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with
the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights
or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety.
We may request demographic information from you (for example, your age,
education level or household income) from time to time. We will not share that
information in a manner that identifies you as an individual with any other
entity, unless we let you know that at the time of collection or we have your
permission. When we share demographic information with third parties, we will
give them aggregate information only.
In the event that we acquired by another company, your personal information may
be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.
Opt-Out
If you provide
us with your e-mail address, and do not opt-out of receiving e-mail from us, we
may e-mail you with information, including information about selected third
parties. If you do not want to receive information from us, you may decline to
receive it (or “Opt-Out”) either when you provide personal information to us or
you may update your profile. You may also choose to Opt-Out from certain types
of e-mail by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear on each
newsletter. You may also contact us as provided below. Please note that there
might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to opt-out and when
it is processed and reflected in our systems; accordingly you might continue to
receive e-mails from us for a few days after you unsubscribe. We maintain
records of those users who opt-out of specific e-mail options so that we do not
e-mail them with respect to those types of e-mails, and we may share this
information with third parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do
not e-mail you; this information may also be contained in web logs (see above).
Children Under 13
Our site is not directed to children
under the age of 13. We assume any products purchased through credit card means
are purchased by adults. We respect the privacy of parents and children and are
committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA). On those areas of the sites that ask for age, we do not collect
personal information from individuals who identify themselves as under the age
of 13 except in those limited circumstances where we believe that such
collection is permitted under COPPA.
If a parent
believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to we, he or she can contact us via e-mail or postal mail as
listed below. We will promptly delete the information upon learning that it
relates to a child under the age of 13. Please note that it is possible some of
this information may remain archived in web logs and back-up archives after we
delete the information from its active database (see above regarding web logs, and below regarding archived information).
We believe that parents should supervise their children’s online activities and
consider using parental control tools available from online services and
software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment.
These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their
name, address and other personal information without parental permission.
Other
We have security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. These include a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to
our systems and maintenance of registration information in a separate database.
Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of
information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we
accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. We will protect the transmission
of credit card information through industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer)
encryption.
We may offer chat, user reviews, multi-player games, bulletin board, or other
public functions and any posting by you is considered public information available
to other users. Any posting is governed by our Terms of Use. You should take
care to not use personal information in your screen name or other information
that might be publicly available to other users.
If a user elects to use our site for informing a friend about our site or
particular features or content, we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail
address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them
to visit our site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time e-mail.
Your personal information is password-protected, and you should take
appropriate measures to protect the secrecy of your password. If you use a
computer in a public place or share a computer with others, remember to sign
out and close your browser window when you finish a session with us in order to
prevent others from accessing your personal information.
We maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other systems and
information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may
remain archived after we delete the information from its active database (see
above regarding web logs). We maintain archives for disaster recovery, legal
and other non-marketing purposes.
Profile
You are
responsible for maintaining the accuracy of your profile by notifying us when
you change your address, title, phone number, or e-mail address. If at any time
you wish to update your information or stop receiving communication from us,
sign in and then select ‘update your profile’ to change your newsletter
preferences.
Contact
Please address
comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy to us as follows:
TheBachelor.com 10100 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 410 Los Angeles Ca 90067
or as to a successor address that we make available on the Site or through
other reasonable manner. You may also send us an e-mail at
support@thebachelor.com
Binding Agreement
Your use of our site, including any dispute concerning privacy, is
subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. By using our Site, you are
accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. We
reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the
changes on this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page
to determine if the statement has been modified since you last reviewed it.
Your continued use of any portion of our Site following posting of the updated
Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes. 01June07
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