Sections: Privacy | Digital Privacy Practices | Security
This Privacy & Security Policy applies to all visitors to this website.
MainstreamMedia Studios is committed to safeguarding customer information. Since your privacy is a priority to us, MainstreamMedia Studios will not share nonpublic information about you with third parties outside of MainstreamMedia Studios without your consent, except as explained in this Policy. From time to time, we may communicate to you special offers for products or services of third parties outside of MainstreamMedia Studios, which we believe may be of interest to you, as explained in our Privacy Policy. However, we will not provide these third parties with any nonpublic information about you without your consent or sell/transfer your contact information to third party mailing lists or mass email services. We have created this Privacy Policy to communicate our privacy commitment to you, and to serve your privacy needs.
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About this Privacy Policy...
We want you to understand what information we may gather and how we may share it. This Privacy Policy explains MainstreamMedia Studios's collection, use, retention and security of information about you.
How We Gather Information
As part of providing you with products or services, we may obtain information about you from the following sources:
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applications, forms, and other information that you provide to us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone, electronically or by any other means. This information may include your name, address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses;
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your transactions with us or others. This information may include your name, address, phone number, e-mail addresses, and consumer preferences;
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public sources. This information may include addresses and telephone numbers.
Sharing Information Outside of MainstreamMedia Studios
We are required to or we may provide information about you to third parties outside of MainstreamMedia Studios without your consent, as permitted by law, such as,
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to respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process or regulatory authorities;
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to consumer reporting agencies;
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in connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of a business or an operating unit;
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to protect against fraud.
We do not provide information about you to any party outside of MainstreamMedia Studios unless you authorize us to do so.
Sharing Information Within MainstreamMedia Studios
We may share information about you within our family of websites --- for example, MainstreamMedia.com and other websites owned and maintained by MainstreamMedia Studios, such as VivaPDA.com. All of the categories of information we gather about you, including identification information (such as your name and address), website usage information, and information from other third parties may be shared among MainstreamMedia Studios’s family of websites. By sharing this information, MainstreamMedia Studios can better understand your consumer needs. We can then send you notification of new products and special promotional offers that you might not otherwise know about.
Our Former Customers
Even if you are no longer a MainstreamMedia Studios customer, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.
Our Security Practices and Information Accuracy
We also take steps to safeguard customer information. We restrict access to the personal and account information of our customers to those employees who need to know that information in the course of their job responsibilities. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect customer information. We also have internal controls to keep customer information as accurate and complete as we can. If you believe that any information about you is not accurate, please let us know.
Other Information
This Privacy Policy applies to products or services provided by MainstreamMedia Studios in the United States. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy, and any of the policies described above, at any time. The examples contained within this Privacy Policy are illustrations; they are not intended to be exclusive.
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MainstreamMedia Studios is committed to safeguarding information about customers and visitors to our Web sites. These Digital Privacy Practices were last updated May 2004. They are for general guidance, and are subject to change. Please review periodically. As technology evolves, so will MainstreamMedia Studios's ability to provide you with better online products and services.
Collection of Information
MainstreamMedia Studios's Privacy Policy explains our collection, use, retention and security of consumer information and applies to MainstreamMedia Studios’s products and services offered within the United States.
MainstreamMedia Studios's Digital Privacy Practices explain our privacy practices regarding the information we collect about you when you visit or transact business on our Web sites. They do not constitute a contract or create legal rights or modify or amend any agreements MainstreamMedia Studios has with customers.
Technology Used in the Online Collection of Information/Cookies
We may collect and store information about your visit to our Web sites. To collect this information, our web server may write a "cookie," which is a small file, to your hard drive. We may use cookies to enhance your online experience, to facilitate your use of our Web sites and to collect anonymous, aggregated site-visitation statistics which we can use to measure the effectiveness of, and to improve, not only our Web sites but our products and services. If you register for certain personalized services, or choose to save personal information on our Web site, such information may be stored in a cookie. This allows us to greet you by name the next time you visit our Web sites. This also makes your repeated online interactions with us easier by allowing you to avoid re-entering your log-in or other information each time you visit our Web sites. In the event we store any vital information in a cookie, such as passwords, MainstreamMedia Studios will encrypt the data to help further safeguard your information. The cookies also allow MainstreamMedia Studios to monitor, on an anonymous, collective basis, information such as:
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The Internet service providers that our customers and visitors use.
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The type of browsers, such as Microsoft Explorer or Netscape, that our customers and visitors use.
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The Internet Protocol addresses of our customers and visitors.
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The traffic on our Web pages, and the average time spent on each page.
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The number of first-time visitors and return customers to our Web site.
This information helps us monitor our Web sites and ensures that it is accessible to customers and visitors. This information also helps us develop content and services that offer the best value and most benefits to our customers and visitors. If you are uncomfortable with our use of cookie technology, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when and by whom cookies are being written to your hard drive. Certain services are dependent on cookies, and you may disable those applications by refusing cookies.
Technology Used in the Online Collection of Information/Tracer Technologies
Tracer, or spotlighting, technologies may also be used by MainstreamMedia Studios. Tracers are tiny, invisible graphics that tag content to collect anonymous site-visitation statistics and track the effectiveness of certain marketing campaigns like banner advertisements and e-mail. We review the collected information on an anonymous aggregated, or group, basis without any personally identifiable consumer information. Tracers may be used by MainstreamMedia Studios to:
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Provide usage measurements for some portions of our Web site.
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Track the number of times our Web site is accessed from a MainstreamMedia Studios advertisement placed on a third party's Web site.
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Trace a hyperlink to our Web site provided in an e-mail message distributed by us or on our behalf revealing whether such visitors subsequently apply online for, are approved for and/or use a MainstreamMedia Studios product or service.
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Monitor the number of our customers who open particular e-mail messages that they choose to receive.
Information Storage
If you submit an application or form to us online, or request an online transaction, MainstreamMedia Studios may store the information you send in an electronic database. MainstreamMedia Studios uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data stored in our systems.
Third-Party Web Sites
Our Web sites contains links to third-party sites that you may find useful. These sites may have their own privacy policies. You should review the privacy policy of any Web site before you provide personal or confidential information.
Privacy and Children
MainstreamMedia Studios respects the privacy of children. When MainstreamMedia Studios offers online educational opportunities to children through any of our sites, we will not collect names or any other personally identifiable information from children. We do not knowingly market to children.
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Security is a priority at MainstreamMedia Studios. We are committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of your information. We use a combination of state-of-the-art technology and methods to help ensure that your online sessions are secure.
Internet Security Measures
Any personal information you send us is encrypted (scrambled). This technology, called Secure Socket Layers (SSL), protects information you submit or receive through any of our sites. In addition, any sensitive personal information that you send to our web sites (such as credit account number) is held in a secured environment, protected by tools such as firewalls and/or database field encryption. No representation is made, however, regarding the unconditional security of such submissions.
Protect Yourself from Fraudulent Web Sites
Personal information shared over the Internet can be used to commit fraud. One common method is for thieves to create a web site using a name that is similar to that of a reputable business, for instance by using a common misspelling of the company's name. The intent is to lure you into clicking onto the copycat web site and giving your personal information, including your account number and password. We caution you to make sure of whom you are dealing with over the Internet and to understand what will be done with your information. Always check that you have typed the correct web site address before entering personal information onto a site.
MainstreamMedia Studios - Approved Browsers
MainstreamMedia Studios's standards are among the highest of companies on the Internet. For accessing our secure applications, MainstreamMedia Studios requires that your browser support SSL, and does not allow information to be stored on your hard drive unless you specifically download it and save it on your computer.
Firewall
MainstreamMedia Studios uses firewalls to help limit entry by anyone without proper authorization. A firewall is a security mechanism that regulates the data going in and out of a network. It is a commonly used, specialized computer or network device which acts as a shield against data going in or out of a network. It checks to make sure that communications only occur between approved individuals and that the communication is in the proper protocol.
Sections: Privacy | Digital Privacy Practices | Security