Reel69.Com Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Reel69.Com ("Reel69"). Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Reel69, we want
to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel
that you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION REEL69.COM GATHERS AND TRACKS
Reel69 gathers two types of information about users:
* Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive items
such as electronic newsletters, to participate in our message
boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in
polls and surveys:
* Information Reel69.Com gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout
our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our
content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and
sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because Reel69 derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships
and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is
essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no
circumstances does Reel69 divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Reel69.Com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of
voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Reel69.Com
gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following
the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the
subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the
newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register
separately for these services (both are free of charge) in
order to post messages, although they needn't register to
visit the site. During registration the user is required to
supply a username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users may be able to choose to electronically forward
a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail
this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as
well as that of the recipient. This information is used only
in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the
recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used
for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share
their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user.
Reel69.Com may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted,
so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is
not correlated with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
Reel69.Com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better
target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the
aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our
sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this
information about specific individuals with any third party.
Children
Children are not permitted to access Reel69.Com. Children are
not permitted to be present when an adult accesses Reel69.Com.
However, to be consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Reel69.Com will never
knowingly request personally identifiable information from
anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
Reel69.Com tracks user traffic patterns throughout the site.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Reel69.Com does break down overall usage
statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type,
and MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
Reel69.Com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms
that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking
is never associated with individual users. We use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We
do not track what individual users read, but rather how
well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to
build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser
files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will enable us to relate
your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. However, it is important
to note that the only personal information a cookie can
contain is information that you supply. A cookie can not read
data off of your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. Reel69.Com uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You may refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If
you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies,
you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not
need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do
need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums,
polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
Reel69.Com uses any information voluntarily given by our users
to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to
better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide
in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We may
send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special
editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. Reel69.Com never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers,
sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users like and do not like based on traffic to those areas. We
do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function
as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we do not
track which terms a particular user enters.
Reel69.Com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and
traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This
allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows
our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their
needs. Because we do not track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific
user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about
any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid
legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Reel69.Com uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better
understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to
keeping our service free. We will not share information about
individual users with any third party, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal
safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Reel69.Com operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security
and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as
necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the
information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such
choices include:
* Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
* Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas,
which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally
identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by Reel69.Com. If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances we disclose it.
Last Updated: 01/20/2008