Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: June 1, 2006

maniaTV takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

  • This policy covers how maniaTV treats personal information that maniaTV collects and receives, including information related to your past use of maniaTV products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that maniaTV does not own or control, or to people that maniaTV does not employ or manage. In addition, most maniaTV partners companies have their own privacy statements which can be viewed on their sites.

Information Collection and Use

General

  • maniaTV collects personal information when you register with maniaTV, when you use maniaTV products or services, when you visit maniaTV pages or the pages of certain maniaTV partners, and when you enter contests, promotions or sweepstakes. maniaTV may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, income, and personal interests. Once you register with maniaTV and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  • maniaTV collects information about your interactions and transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
  • maniaTV automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, maniaTV cookie information, the page you request and how long and often you watch our show.
  • maniaTV uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

  • When a child under age 13 attempts to register with maniaTV, we reject that registration.
  • If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to maniaTV, he or she can contact us via e-mail listed below. maniaTV will promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. maniaTV believes 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.
  • maniaTV is a general audience site and is not directed to children under the age of 13. maniaTV respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • maniaTV does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with maniaTV under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help maniaTV communicate with you about offers from maniaTV and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of maniaTV's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • We transfer information about you if maniaTV is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, maniaTV will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • maniaTV displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, men ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
    • maniaTV does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    • maniaTV advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks and insurance agents) and non-financial companies (such as retailers, fast food, and consumer electronics companies).
  • maniaTV works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Cookies

  • maniaTV may set and access maniaTV cookies on your computer.
  • maniaTV lets some partner companies that show advertisements on maniaTV products set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to maniaTV's cookies.
  • maniaTV uses web beacons to access maniaTV cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Websidestory products and services.

Your Ability to Edit Your Account Information and Preferences General

  • You can edit your maniaTV Maniac Registration Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
  • New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
  • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the maniaTV service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the maniaTV newsletter, that are considered part of your maniaTV account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Confidentiality and Security

  • maniaTV may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your maniaTV account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

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