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PRIVACY POLICY AND
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This is the official privacy policy
("Privacy Policy") for dewcircuitbreakout.mtv2.com ("Site,"
"we," "us," or "our"),
an Internet website offered in cooperation with the MTV2 television
channel or programming service ("MTV2 Channel"). The
MTV2 Channel and the Site (together, "MTV2") are provided by MTV
Networks ("MTVN"), a division of Viacom International
Inc. (collectively, the "Parent Companies"). This Privacy
Policy governs only the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information")
collected by the Site and does not cover any such information collected
in any other manner or for any other purpose, or for or by any other
MTVN programming channel, MTVN's "Jobhunt" website, the Parent
Companies and any subsidiaries and affiliates of MTV2 and the Parent
Companies (collectively, "Affiliates"), or any other company,
unless specifically stated.
Overview: This Privacy Policy
is intended to explain our privacy practices and inform you as to:
- The kinds of Personal Information
we collect from users of the Site and how that information is collected;
- How we use your Personal
Information;
- The circumstances under
which we disclose Personal Information to third parties;
- How you can access, update
or delete any Personal Information collected about you by us; and
- The mechanisms we have
implemented to protect your Personal Information.
This
Site is offered and made available only to users 14 years of age or
older who reside in the United States of America, its territories and
possessions ("U.S."). If you are not yet
14 years old, or do not reside in the U.S., please discontinue using
the Site immediately, or if, for any reason, you do not agree with this
Privacy Policy, please do
not participate in the features, activities and services that require
you to provide your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy
is a part of the terms and conditions which are set forth in our Terms of Use Agreement. Any terms that are not defined in
this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use
Agreement. Both the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Agreement
are legally binding on all users.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may require stricter age requirements
to access, use and/or participate in certain features or functions of
the site pursuant to site-specific rules and guidelines.
We reserve the right to revise this
Privacy Policy at any time by updating this posting without advance
notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective to you immediately
upon posting. Notice of material changes to either document will
be posted on the Site's homepage. However, we encourage you
to check this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Agreement often for updates.
We may also e-mail you, at our discretion, about these changes.
We are committed to protecting users'
privacy. Keeping the Personal Information you share with us on
the Site secure and ensuring your understanding of how we collect, use,
disclose and maintain your Personal Information is important to us.
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
to protect your Personal Information and while no data transmission
over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion, we have used and will
continue to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the protection
of your Personal Information.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY
RIGHTS
If you are a resident of the State
of California, under the California Civil Code, you have the right to
request from companies conducting business in California a list of all
third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal Information
during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively,
the law provides that if a company has a Privacy Policy that gives either
an opt-out (which we may sometimes refer to as "unsubscribe")
or opt-in choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties
(such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes,
the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise
your disclosure choice options.
NTV qualifies for the alternative option; it has a comprehensive Privacy
Policy and provides you with details on how you may either opt-out or
opt-in to the use of your Personal Information by third parties for
direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain
or disclose a list of the third parties that received your Personal
Information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to
exercise your third party disclosure choices you must send a request
to the following address with a preference on how our response to your
request should be sent (email or postal mail). Send an email to the
Privacy Administrator at privacy-admin@mtv.com, or you may contact us via regular mail at:
MTV
dewcircuitbreakout.mtv2.com
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Attn: Your California Privacy Rights
c/o Privacy Administrator
All requests sent via regular mail must be labeled "Your California
Privacy Rights" on the envelope or post card and clearly stated
on the actual request. For all requests, please include your name,
street address, city, state, and zip code (your street address is optional
if you wish to receive a response to your request via email. Please
include your zip code for our own recordkeeping). We will not
accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile.
We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly,
or do not have complete information.
To all other users of this Site, if you have other questions about this
Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator at privacy-admin@mtv.com or:
MTV
dewcircuitbreakout.mtv2.com
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
c/o Privacy Administrator
GENERAL PRIVACY INFORMATION
The Site is designed and targeted to
U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with the
laws of the U.S. We make no representation that this Site is operated
in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other
nations. By your participation in our Site activities, you certify that
you are at least 14 years of age and a resident of the U.S.
If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the
U.S. and you participate in activities on this Site contrary to our
policy that only U.S. residents are eligible for certain activities,
you do so at your own risk and initiative, and you, not us, are responsible
for compliance with any applicable local and national laws. Please
be aware that any Personal Information you provide to us or we obtain
as a result of your use of this Site will be transferred to the U.S.
and subject to U.S. law. By using this Site, participating in
any Site activities, and/or providing us with your Personal Information,
you consent to this transfer and processing of Personal Information
to and in the U.S., and in other countries that may not have an equivalent
level of protection or a level of data protection considered adequate
in the European Union or European Economic Area. Consequently,
you hereby waive any claims that may arise under the laws and regulations
that apply to you in or of any other country or jurisdiction.
All users of the Site are required to provide true, current, complete
and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we will reject and
delete any entry that we believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent,
or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Your continued use of the Site indicates
your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure,
management and storage of your Personal Information as described below.
We may from time to time, transfer or merge any Personal Information
collected off-line to our online databases or store off-line information
in an electronic format. We may also combine Personal Information
we collect online with information available from other sources, including
information received from our Affiliates, marketing companies, or Advertisers
(as defined in the Terms
of Use Agreement).
This Privacy Policy covers all such Personal Information and will remain
in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site, even
if your use of or participation in any particular service, feature,
function or promotional activity terminates, expires, ceases, is suspended
or deactivated for any reason.
1. Collection and Use of Personal
Information: When we use the term "Personal Information"
we mean information such as your first/middle initial or name and last
name, street address, town or city, state, zip code, telephone number,
instant-messenger nickname, blog or other personal website URL, date
of birth, e-mail address and any other information that would allow
someone to identify you or contact you. Personal Information also
includes information about your personal preferences, survey responses
and your transactions or relationship with us, if you have been a user
of the Site or you have provided this type of information to any of
the MTVN family of companies. For example, to the extent we offer
such services, if you order any of our various Products (as defined
in the Terms
of Use Agreement),
in addition to your name and contact information, we will also collect
and maintain your billing address, shipping address, Product selections,
your credit card or other payment instrument information, your order
number, and information about your computer's internet address and website
which may have referred or directed you to the Site (e.g., the
referring URL). Your credit card or debit card number is classified
as "Sensitive Personal Information" and is collected via
a secure transmission.
We collect Personal Information about you when you visit the Site and
input information, whether you are registering to use any services,
features or functions of the Site, participating in Promotions (as defined
in the Terms
of Use Agreement),
ordering or purchasing Products or in the course of any other exchanges
of information, transactions and activities. We may use the information
we obtain from you, including Personal Information, to tailor your experience
on the Site, to display content we think may be of interest to you,
or to let us customize what you see when you visit the Site according
to your preferences.
a. Collection of Personal
Information During Registration. To the extent we offer user
registration on the Site, to register as a member of the Site, you are
required to select a user name and password (together, your "User
ID"), and may be required to also provide other Personal Information,
such as your email address, first and last name, gender, date of birth,
country and zip code. Additional Personal Information may be requested
during the registration process (but not required), such as cable/satellite
provider, ethnic information, and annual income. We will allow
you to change the password portion of your User ID, as well as certain
other Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information you have
given us in order to keep your information current, but once you select
a user name you will not be able to change that user name provided to
us during registration and which is associated with your User ID.
Among other things, these kinds of information help us securely identify
you as a registered or permitted user of the Site and our features and
functions. You will not be able to change your date of birth without
sufficient verification.
All member benefits are free.
As a registered user of the Site, from time to time, we may also provide
you with certain options to subscribe to a selection of free email newsletters
and other periodic information. You may select such options by
opting-in at the time of registration or by responding to an offer or
invitation at a later date. You will also have the right to opt-out
(unsubscribe) or change your preferences at any time by logging in with
your User ID and changing the settings in your account. You may
also opt-out to particular email communications by responding to that
email and using the "unsubscribe" or opt-out procedure included
in that communication.
If you are a registered user, you
acknowledge, understand and hereby agree that you are giving us your
consent to track your activities and your use of the Site in connection
with your registration. You also agree to this Privacy Policy and the
Terms of Use Agreement.
b. Collection of Personal Information
During Registration or In Connection with Certain Features and Functions. During registration (and possibly
at certain other times to enable your use of other features or functions
or for security purposes), you will be required to provide us with certain
information about you in order for us to allow you to use the features
and functions that we may offer on the Site, such as chat rooms, message
boards, electronic mail services, messaging services, auctions, shopping,
registration and member profile pages.
c . Collection of Personal Information
in Connection with Promotions such as Contests and Sweepstakes.
To the extent we offer user registration on the Site, registration as
a member of the Site
is not always required to enter Promotions such as contests and sweepstakes.
There may be a separate registration process which will require the
submission of your first and last name, street address, city, state and
zip code, email address, telephone number and date of birth. Additional
Personal Information may be requested depending on the specific Promotion,
but submission of such information may be optional. The Promotion's
entry page and/or Rules will provide the specific requirements.
You may also have the opportunity to opt-in to special Promotions or
offers from our Advertisers in connection with many of these types of
Promotions.
d. Use of Personal Information
in Connection with Promotions and Offers; Opt-out Procedures.
We, or our Affiliates, may contact the Site's registered users or
other users that have registered for or participated in various Site
events, Promotions, or transactions, or we may send offers for the purchase
of goods and/or services that may be of interest to users.
You may "opt out" of
receiving marketing and promotional e-mails or text messages from us
at any time by emailing us at dcb@mtv2.com.
However, we, or our Affiliates, may continue to contact you via
email for administrative or informational purposes, including follow-up
messages regarding the administration of your account, any services,
features or functions you have enrolled in or registered to use, any
Promotions you have participated in or have entered, goods and/or services
or Products you have ordered, or other transactions you have undertaken
with the Site.
In the event that we, or our Affiliates,
unknowingly sends an email or text message to a child (a person under
the age of 14) who has registered with the Site in violation of the
Site's Terms
of Use Agreement, the
child or the child's parent or legal guardian always have the right
to unsubscribe (opt-out) from receiving future emails or text messages
via the unsubscribe mechanism contained in the email or message, or
to request termination of the child's registration and status as a
registered user with the Site. The same unsubscribe process is
available to a parent or legal guardian of a minor (a person under the
age of 18, or the age of majority in your state). Please see the "Review, Update, or
Delete Your Personal Information" Section below for details.
e.
Sharing of Aggregate Information with Third Parties. Some
of the aggregate user data we collect may be shared with Advertisers,
our Affiliates, and other business partners of the Site, its Parent
Companies, and/or its Affiliates, but we do not give any Personal Information
to them as part of the relationship except as described in this Privacy
Policy. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own
privacy policies.
f. Use of Communities.
If you use any of the Communities features and functions made available
on or through the Site, please remember that any information disclosed
in these venues is automatically made public. You should exercise caution
when disclosing any Personal Information in the Communities, as you
do not know who will access and use your Personal Information or for
what purposes. MTV2 is in no way responsible for the accuracy, use,
or misuse of any information, including Personal Information, that you
disclose or receive through these venues and you should assume that
any disclosure you do make in these venues will be available publicly,
even without your knowledge or authorization.
2.
Wireless Marketing Services and Promotional Opportunities:
MTV2 may provide users and viewers with the opportunity to register
for special Promotions, services, news, programming and information
delivered via text messaging and other wireless devices such as mobile
phones and, in the event we do so, users are required to provide their
consent to receive such information from MTV2, either by registering
on the Site or via their wireless device. Such services and promotional
opportunities are provided by Affiliates for MTV2. The
Personal Information requested as part of the online registration process
may include a user's telephone number or a wireless email address,
but only if specifically requested, and the carrier's name.
Optional information may be requested for specific Promotions, such
as a user's preferences regarding goods or services, choices of music
or artists, or other similar survey information. Depending on
the Promotion, we may also collect an Internet email address or other
information and, depending on the information collected, the user may
also be required to confirm his or her agreement to this Privacy Policy
and the Terms of Use Agreement.
We caution that most wireless transmissions
are not secured and there is a greater risk of an unknown third party's
interception of messages or a user's Personal Information when using
a wireless communications device.
Users that register for MTV2's
wireless marketing services acknowledge, understand and agree that they
will be charged by the user's wireless carrier for all messages
sent to the user from MTV2. Standard messaging rates will
apply, unless noted otherwise. Under no circumstances will
the Site, MTV2, its Parent Companies, or Affiliates be responsible for
any wireless email or text messaging charges incurred by a user or by
a person that has access to a user's wireless device, telephone number,
or email address.
a. Registration.
To the extent we provide wireless marketing services, there are two
registration methods provided for MTV2's wireless marketing
services. Standard rate Promotions will be subject to either
the "single opt-in" or the "double-opt-in" (Site/SMS) method,
at the discretion of MTV2 depending on the type of Promotion.
Premium rate services will require the "double opt-in" (Site/SMS
or SMS/SMS) method.
- Single Opt-in Method:
In response to print, radio, television, Internet, or other promotional
messages, users will be directed to send a specific word or code via
a text message to a designated telephone number to register for the
service promoted. The user's voluntary submission of the designated
word or code to MTV2 will mean that the user has freely and affirmatively
granted permission to MTV2 to send text messages to him or her.
MTV2 will thank the user for his or her registration by sending
a "Thank you" message. The user may terminate the service
at any time by using the unsubscribe command in any text message from
MTV2 or by sending a text message to MTV2 that says "STOP",
"END", "CANCEL", "REMOVE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" or "QUIT".
- Double Opt-in (Site/SMS)
Method: In response to print, radio, television, Internet,
or other promotional messages, users will be directed to this Site to
start the registration process. The user must affirmatively consent
to MTV2's sending of wireless messages to his or her designated
wireless device by submitting a telephone number (or wireless email
address, only if requested by MTV2 and by clicking the consent
statement on the Site's registration page. The user must also
agree to the Site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Agreement before the online registration process is
completed. MTV2 will then send a "Confirmation" message to
the user's designated wireless device and will request that the user
confirm that he or she has agreed to receive messages from MTV2
to that particular telephone number (or wireless domain name when appropriate).
The user must respond to the "Confirmation" message with a text
message that states "YES" or "Y" that will indicate the user's
acceptance of MTV2's wireless marketing service. Until
the user responds to the "Confirmation" message, the user is not
registered for the specific wireless marketing service subject to the
Promotion. A user may respond to the "Confirmation" message
at any time provided that MTV2 may choose to terminate
offering wireless marketing service at any time and the user's response
to the "Confirmation" is only valid if the response is received
while MTV2 continues to offer the specific wireless marketing
service.
- Double Opt-in (SMS/SMS)
Method: In response to print, radio, television, Internet,
or other promotional messages, users will be directed to send a specific
word or code via a text message to a designated telephone number to
register for the service promoted. MTV2
will then send a "Confirmation" message to the user's designated
wireless device and will request that the user confirm that he or she
has agreed to receive messages from MTV2 to that particular telephone
number (or wireless domain name when appropriate).
The user must respond to the "Confirmation" message with a text
message that states "YES" or "Y" that will indicate the user's
acceptance of MTV2's wireless marketing service. Until
the user responds to the "Confirmation" message, the user is not
registered for the specific wireless marketing service subject to the
Promotion. A user may respond to the "Confirmation" message
at any time provided that MTV2 may choose to terminate offering
wireless marketing service at any time and the user's response to
the "Confirmation" is only valid if the response is received while
MTV2 continues to offer the specific wireless marketing service.
b. Termination of Wireless
Services by User. Regardless of which one of the above opt-in
methods was used to register, users may revoke their consent to receive
messages from MTV2 by the following procedure:
A user may cancel one or more services
via his or her wireless device at any time by using the unsubscribe
mechanism provided by MTV2 at the time the message is sent, or
by sending a text message that says "STOP", "END", "CANCEL",
"REMOVE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" or "QUIT". MTV2 will
terminate the user's registration for the most recent wireless service
sent to the user. Any of these words followed by the word "ALL"
in the user's termination request will cancel all of the user's
registered wireless services with MTV2. If the user unsubscribes
from one or all of MTV2 service(s) via his or her wireless device,
the service(s) will be terminated immediately and will cancel the user's
previous opt-in.
c. Termination
of Wireless Services by MTV2. A user understands, acknowledges
and agrees that MTV2 may, in its sole discretion and without
liability to any user, terminate its offer of any specific wireless
marketing service or all wireless marketing services at any time without
advance notice. MTV2 may provide notice of terminations
or changes in services on this Site.
d. Use of Information.
MTV2 will not use a wireless telephone number, wireless or conventional
Internet email address, or other Personal Information submitted for
its wireless marketing services for any other purpose but to provide
the service requested, unless we provide advance notice of any other
use. We will not share such Personal Information with Advertisers
or other third party marketers unless you opt-in to such disclosure.
We will share such Personal Information with the operational service
providers that assist us in delivering these wireless services to you
and with the Parent Companies and Affiliates.
3. Accuracy and Confidentiality:
It is your responsibility to give us current, complete, truthful and
accurate information, including Personal Information, and to keep such
information up to date. We cannot and will not be responsible
for any problems or liability that may arise if you do not give us accurate,
truthful or complete information or Personal Information or you
fail to update such information or Personal Information.
You are solely
responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your User
ID, if applicable, and for any charges, costs, expenses, damages, liabilities
and losses we incur or may suffer as a result of your failure to do
so. You, and not us, are solely responsible and liable for your activity,
behavior, use and conduct on the Site and for any use of the Site or
any other activity or conduct in connection with the Site, by any others
who use your User ID, unless and until you notify us that your User
ID may have been compromised, misappropriated or improperly taken or
used by another party.
Bear in mind that when you submit information
to us, it does not guarantee that we will permit you to use any or all
of the features or functions of the Site.
4. Cookies and Other Aggregate Data: We use 'cookie'
technology to collect data regarding your visits to the Site. This data
is stored in aggregate form and is not used to identify any particular
user or individual. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies
in a variety of ways, including:
- Keeping count of your return
visits to the Site or our Parent Companies', Affiliates', Advertisers'
or partners' sites;
- Accumulating and reporting
aggregate, statistical information in connection with the Site;
- Determining which features
users like best; and
- Saving your User ID or other
information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the
Site.
This
Site may contain advertisements, references and links to other websites
and organizations. We may also use third parties to display or
serve advertising on the Site and our web-based newsletters or other
communications which you may choose to receive. Often these third party
Advertisers employ cookie and web bug technologies to measure advertising
effectiveness. You should be aware that different rules might
apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information
by third parties in connection with their advertisements, promotions
and other websites you encounter on the Internet. The use of such
technology by these third parties is within their control and not ours.
Even if we have a relationship with the third party, we do not control
those sites or their policies and practices regarding your Personal
Information. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use
of Personal Information that a third party Advertiser or ad server
may collect from you.
We encourage you to investigate and ask questions directly of them in
this regard. Use of Advertisers' tracking technology is subject
to their own privacy policies. For more information about these
third party servers and how to "opt out" of the ad-serving
cookie, please click
here.
Although we may track the numbers of
users to inform us on how best to update the Site and enhance the experience
for all users, Personal Information is not extracted in this process.
We use tracking information on an aggregated basis to help us operate
the Site, enhance and improve our services, improve the look of the
Site and display advertising and marketing information. You can
choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag
is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices.
This is done through your browser. If you turn cookies off, you
may not have access to many features of the Site that make your Internet
experience more efficient and enjoyable - like the features mentioned
above - and some of our other services will not function properly.
5. Privacy of Your
Postings: We respect the privacy of the contents of any Personal
Information related to or contained in a Posting, unless the information
is intended to be disclosed (such Personal Information, except as intended
to be disclosed, is called "Confidential Personal Information").
However, we reserve the right to monitor, edit, and disclose your use
of the Site or Confidential Personal Information to a third party, if
we believe such action is required by law or is necessary to protect
and defend our rights, to enforce this Privacy Policy or the terms of
the Terms of Use Agreement, or to protect the interests of our users,
Advertisers, Parent Companies, Affiliates, licensors, suppliers, operational
service providers, and others. Please see the Terms of Use Agreement
for details regarding Postings.
6. Disclosure to Third Parties: We do not sell, rent,
lease or disclose your Personal Information to unaffiliated entities
or entities that are not our Advertisers, except in the limited circumstances
listed below. As stated above, we will disclose Personal Information
related to or contained in a Posting in connection with the display
of and other services relating to such Posting as such Personal Information
is intended to be disclosed. When we plan to disclose your Personal
Information to Advertisers, we ask for you to opt in to do so, in which
case their use of your information is subject to the Advertisers'
own privacy policies. We may disclose Personal Information to
Affiliates for marketing and/or administrative purposes and you will
have the right to opt-out of such disclosure for marketing purpose.
(For opt-out procedures, please see the section of this Privacy Policy
above entitled "Use
of Personal Information in Connection with Promotions and Offers; Opt-Out
Procedures".
a. Co-Branded Services
and Features. The Site may also offer co-branded services and features,
such as events and Promotions that we put together with another company
or our Affiliates ("Co-Branded Partner"). Such
services and features may be hosted on the Site and/or our Co-Branded
Partner's website. We may share your Personal Information with our
Co-Branded Partner and your voluntary use of or participation in a co-branded
service or feature means that you opt-in and give your affirmative consent
to both the Site and our Co-Branded Partner to collect and use your Personal
Information provided during the registration process and/or in connection
with the specific co-branded feature or service for the fulfillment
of the feature or service and for marketing or administrative purposes.
If you wish to opt-out of a Co-Branded Partner's future use of your
Personal Information for marketing purposes, you will need to contact
the Co-Branded Partner directly. The Co-Branded Partner will be
identified on the co-branded feature or service. Registered
or other users that participate in certain services relating to Postings,
such as user video uploads, agree to have certain Personal Information
posted on the Site or Platforms (as defined in the User Content Submission Agreement that relates to user video uploads) or, if
such feature is offered in connection with a Co-Branded Partner, on
our Co-Branded partner's website in connection with the display of
the uploaded video and posted on any platform that the uploaded video
may be posted. Registered or other users that upload videos may
also be required to submit additional Personal Information.
b. Operational
Service Providers. We also have the right to disclose your Personal
Information to third parties for the purpose of administering and maintaining
the Site's services, features, functions and operations. We
will refer to these third parties as "operational service providers". We use operational service providers
to efficiently provide the full range of content, activities, services,
features and functions we bring you and we request that our operational
service providers also protect your privacy and not disclose your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information to third party marketers
that are not associated with the Site or the MTV2 Channel. Additionally,
such operational service providers are not permitted to use your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information for their own marketing
or promotional purposes.
c. Other Non-Affiliated
Third Parties. We will make your Personal Information and Sensitive
Personal Information available to non-affiliated third parties in the
following limited circumstances:
- When we are compelled to
do so by a governmental agency, court or other entity (e.g.,
to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process);
- If we believe your actions
violate any law, regulation, the Terms of Use Agreement, including, without limitation,
this Privacy Policy, or any of our other terms and conditions, Rules,
offerings or any other services, features or functions of the Site,
or if you threaten the rights, property or safety of the Site, the MTV2
Channel, the Parent Companies, the Affiliates, or any of its or their
operational service providers, licensors, suppliers, Advertisers, customers,
users, or any other party;
- If, in our sole discretion,
we believe such disclosure to be necessary or appropriate to investigate
or resolve possible problems or inquiries, to protect our business and
assets, to defend our interests and/or to comply with our legal and
regulatory obligations; or
- In the event of a bankruptcy,
merger, acquisition, transfer of control, joint venture or other business
combination involving us, or our Parent Companies or Affiliates.
7. Security & Protection of Personal
Information: We maintain reasonable standards of security
and confidentiality. However, for most Internet sites, it is possible
that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions
or private communications over an unsecured transmission. We conduct
financial transactions via secured transmissions but may not always
secure other parts of the Site. We also limit access to the Site
by our own employees to those individuals who are authorized for the
proper handling of such information and any employee found violating
our standards of security and confidentiality will be subject to our
disciplinary processes. We request that our operational service
providers follow the same policy.
8. Phishing: Phishing attacks
attempt to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account
credentials. "Phishers" use €˜spoofed' e-mails to lead
consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into
divulging Personal Information such as credit card numbers, account
usernames, passwords, and social security numbers. WE DO NOT
SEND EMAILS ASKING YOU TO PROVIDE OR CONFIRM SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
OR YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD! If you receive such email communication,
please forward it immediately to the Site's Privacy Administrator
at privacy-admin@mtv.com, and then immediately delete the fraudulent
email from your computer.
9. Review,
or Delete Your Personal Information:
Generally, you may review, update or delete your Personal Information
or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Site. You may
also correct factual inaccuracies. However, Personal Information
that is necessary to check eligibility, such as date of birth or age
cannot be deleted, but may be modified with sufficient verification
of the correct information. Deletion or attempted deletion of
certain Personal Information, such as your user name, may not be permitted
and/or may result in suspension of your account or termination of any
registration you may have made. To review, update or delete your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Site,
[please click "MY ACCOUNT" on the homepage to sign in to your
Site account with your User ID. Then, click on "YOUR ACCOUNT
INFO" to change, update, or delete your Personal Information.
If you wish to review Personal Information
collected for Promotions such as contests and sweepstakes, you will
need to contact the Site's Privacy Administrator via email with a
request at privacy-admin@mtv.com and
be prepared to provide verification of your identity. Personal
Information collected for certain entries are subject to corporate and
regulatory recordkeeping requirements and will not be deleted upon the
user's request, unless the entrant is a child under the age of 14
years old.
Children under the
age of 14 that are unknowingly registered on the Site are in violation
of the Terms
of Use Agreement.
Parents (including legal guardians) of children that registered on the
Site in violation of the Terms of Use Agreement who wish to terminate
their child's membership must use their child's User ID to gain
direct access to the account, and select "EDIT ACCOUNT" or alternatively,
you can send us an email to the Site's Privacy Administrator and provide
us with your child's User ID and request to terminate your child's
account and registration. We will not allow direct access to a
user's account and Personal Information by any person without the
user's User ID (please see above for how to change your preferences
or the information associated with your account). If a parent
does not have his or her child's User ID, the parent will be required
to send an email to the Privacy Administrator that includes the parent's
name, address, telephone and email address, in addition to the child's
name and email address as registered on the Site, plus the child's
date of birth. The parent must also provide verifiable identification
that they are the parent of the ineligible child. MTV2 will send a confirming
email to the parent via the email address provided to verify that the
parent wishes to terminate his or her child's account and registration.
The parent must then confirm by sending a reply email to the designated
return address. MTV2 will then terminate the child's account
but will notify the child of the termination request via email and will
identify the name, address and email address of the person making the
request.
We reserve the right
to deny access, use and registration privileges to any user, including
without limitation, a registered user, of any services, features or
functions of the Site if we believe there is a question about the identity
of the person trying to access the user's account or any services,
features or functions. And if the burden or expense of providing access
to your Personal Information is disproportionate to the risks to your
privacy, or if the legitimate rights of others would be violated, we
may decide not to provide access to such information. In such cases,
we will provide to you an explanation of why access cannot be provided
and contact information for further inquiries.
10. Questions: If you have questions about this Privacy Policy
or if you do not understand any information about how we collect, maintain,
use or share your Personal Information, you may contact us directly
by sending an email to privacy-admin@mtv.com.
11. Sole Statement: This document is the sole statement of the
Site's Privacy Policy and no summary, restatement or other version
thereof, or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, including,
without limitation, machine-generated, is valid.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on September 4, 2007 and is effective
immediately.
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of Viacom International Inc. - All Rights Reserved.