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

1. What This Privacy Policy Covers

   This policy covers how VideoReady treats personal information that VideoReady collects and receives, including information related to your past use of VideoReady 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 VideoReady does not own or control, or to people that VideoReady does not employ or manage.

2. Information Collection and Use

   1. General

      VideoReady collects personal information when you register with VideoReady, when you use VideoReady products or services, when you visit VideoReady pages or the pages of certain VideoReady partners. VideoReady may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

      • When you register we may ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with VideoReady and sign-in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
      • VideoReady collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners. VideoReady may also ask you for credit card information to process your transactions with us, or to verify your identity or age.
      • VideoReady automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, VideoReady cookie information, and the page/s and products you request.
      • VideoReady 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.

   2. Children

      When a child under age 13 attempts to register with VideoReady, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a VideoReady Family Account to obtain parental permission. VideoReady will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission. VideoReady does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion. Please see our Notice to Parents Regarding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 below for more details.

   3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

      VideoReady does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you have 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 VideoReady under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help VideoReady communicate with you about offers from VideoReady and our marketing partners. However, unless you have granted permission, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
      • We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing VideoReady to collect and use their child's information without consenting to VideoReady sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
      • 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 VideoReady's Terms and Conditions of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
      • We will transfer information about you if VideoReady is acquired by or merged with another company. We will post a notice on our site before this occurs and/or if a new privacy policy will be applicable as a result.
      • VideoReady works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers. In order to bring you the products and services you have requested, we may share your personal information with them. We will not authorize these service providers to share your information other than as necessary to provide the services you have requested or beyond the extent to which you have granted us permission to do so.
      • VideoReady may display targeted advertisements based on personal information.

   4. Credit Card security

      • VideoReady does not store your credit card number in our database.
      • Credit card transactions are handled through our payment solution partner, BBS, for maximum security, but VideoReady is fully responsible for all transactions performed by VideoReady.
      • Credit card transactions are protected with 3D-secure or MasterCard securecode.

3. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Shared Objects.

   VideoReady may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer so that the site administrator may identify your computer and passively track its activities on the website. This unique number identifies your web browser to our computer system. A cookie will not allow a website to learn any personally identifiable information (such as your real name and address) that you have not otherwise disclosed. Cookies allow us to automatically remember your web browser when you visit our site/s or Service. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on most major websites. It is possible to adjust your Web browser preferences to alert you when a cookie is sent to your hard drive, or to refuse cookies altogether. While we do not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain sites and services will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies.

   Web beacons, also known as clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs, are small image files that we may place on Web pages and within certain email. Working in conjunction with cookies, Web beacons allow us to accurately count the number of unique users who have visited a specific page and the number of times those pages are displayed. We can also use Web beacons to let us know how many people opened certain types of email. This information is only collected in aggregate form and will not be linked to your personally identifiable information. Keep in mind that any image file on a Web page can act as a Web beacon. Third-party advertisers may use Web beacons in their advertisements.

   Shared Objects are used to store data on your computer in much the same way that data is stored in a cookie created through a web browser. Various uses of Shared Objects include remembering a user's favorite color, or the last frame of a movie watched. The data can only be read by movies originating from the same domain that created the Shared Object. Shared Objects can not remember a user's e-mail address or other personal information unless they willingly provide such information.

   Without cookies, Web beacons, and Shared Objects, it would be difficult for us to know which services have a larger audience than others, or to offer you all the services and functionality that we do. Tracking audience size helps us to better understand when to launch new services and enhance the current offerings.

   VideoReady lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages or offer you products and services in connection with the VideoReady Service 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 VideoReady's cookies.

   We use a third-party ad serving technology to help us deliver ads with some of the videos you watch. This technology may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visit to the website where you selected the video in order to identify and display advertisements that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving these advertisements, a unique cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used to serve ads to you, please click here: http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/.

4. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

   1. General

      You can edit your VideoReady Account 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 VideoReady service, such as service announcements or administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

      You can delete your VideoReady account by visiting our Account Deletion page.

   2. Children

      Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child's VideoReady account using tools offered by VideoReady Family Accounts.
      If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in VideoReady Family Accounts can delete their child's account by signing into that child's account and then visiting our Account Deletion page.

   3. Confidentiality and Security at VideoReady

      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.

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      We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that protect personal information about you.

   4. Changes to this Privacy Policy

      VideoReady 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 VideoReady account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Last update: September 01, 2009