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The
African American Channel ("TheAAC",
"we", "us") can be reached via:
Fax at (419) 818-9919, Attn: Privacy Policy Feedback, or via email at info@africanamericanchannel.com.
AACtv supports a general policy of openness about personal data
collection and use. We have adopted and implemented this privacy policy
(the "Privacy Policy") as part of our commitment to protecting your
personally identifiable information from misuse.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to our information-gathering and
dissemination practices for the following site(s):
www.africanamericanchannel.com and www.aactv.tv, and any web sites
operated and made available to the general public by AACtv or which is
linked to this Policy through a site-wide "Privacy Policy" link or
similar link (collectively, the "Website(s)," which include any
successor site(s) to any of the foregoing). This Privacy Policy does
not cover information that we collect from and about customers of our
other businesses entities, or through means other than through the
Website(s) (except as expressly set forth above), or information
collected by any affiliated entities through any means.
By providing us with personally identifiable information about yourself
through the Website(s), you consent and agree to the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy. |
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| What information does AACtv gather on its Website(s)? |
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| AACtv
gathers two basic types of information through the Website(s):
personally identifiable information, which you provide to AACtv, and
aggregated information, which AACtv gathers through your use of the
Website(s). Collection and our use of these different kinds of
information are below. |
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| Personally Identifiable Information |
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AACtv
uses the personally identifiable information it gathers through the
Websites for several purposes, such as to understand more about our
audience's interests, to communicate with you, and to give you a better
experience when visiting the Websites by personalizing tools, content,
and services. AACtv also uses this information to build new services
and develop offers that AACtv believes are more relevant and valuable
to you.
You do not have to provide
personally identifiable information to use most of our Website(s) or
services. However, certain of our Websites and Website-based services
(for example, AACtv 's "Channels") may require that you furnish
personally identifiable information. We collect such personally
identifiable information only when you voluntarily provide it to us -
for example, subscription services, in taking surveys and/or polls;
entering contests, registering to receive electronic newsletters and
other materials; participating in quizzes; registering to interact
with, and interacting with, message boards, blogs and clubs and other
forums (collectively, the "Community"); purchasing items from our
stores; and taking part in other promotional opportunities. You may be
asked to provide your contact information (such as your name, postal
address, telephone numbers and/or email address), financial information
(such as credit card numbers), demographic information (such as your
Zip code, age, gender or income level) and information about your movie
interests and online viewing habits in connection with your use of such
services.
Contact information is used to respond to your inquiries; to notify you
if you have won a sweepstakes, contest, or quiz and to send you the
prize, and to send products and services ordered from our Websites. We
also reserve the right to use your contact information to send you
periodic mailings with information on new products and services,
updates to our Websites, and/or upcoming events.
We may share our user mailing list (including your personally
identifiable information) with reputable third parties for marketing or
promotional purposes. We may also forward information to you regarding
third party products or services, without disclosing your personally
identifiable information to such third parties. You may opt-out of
having your personally identifiable information as part of our mailing
list at any time (see "Opt In and Opt-Out," below).
We use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to calculate Website usage
levels, to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer
our Websites. Your Internet Protocol (IP) address is an identifying
number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet
Service Provider (ISP). This number is identified and logged
automatically in our server log files whenever you visit our Websites,
along with the time(s) of your visit(s) and the page(s) that you
visited. Collecting IP addresses is a standard practice on the
Internet, and is done automatically by many websites.
We may share demographic information, movie interests, online viewing
habits, results of surveys, as well as usage data calculated from
logging IP addresses, with advertisers and third parties only on an
aggregated basis (see "Aggregated Information," below).
Whenever we request your personally identifiable information on our
Website(s), to the extent that we intend to use it in a manner not
disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we will try to explain to you how we
intend to use it, and to provide you with a choice to decline certain
uses. In addition, if we plan to post any of your personally
identifiable information on our Website(s), we will notify you of this
possibility either when you provide the information to us or prior to
posting such information. Please note that by entering any sweepstakes,
contest or quiz, you consent to our announcing your name and home town
as part of any list of winners.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe
that we are required to do so (i) by law, (ii) to comply with legal
process or governmental requests, (iii) to enforce our Terms of
Service, (iv) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of
AACtv, our affiliated entities, you or others; and (v) to permit us to
pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. As
an example, we may, to the fullest extent the law allows, disclose
personally identifiable information about you to law enforcement
agencies to assist them in identifying individuals who have been or may
be engaged in unlawful activities. |
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| Service Providers |
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| We
work with third parties who provide services including but not limited
to website hosting, order processing and fulfillment, credit card
clearance, message board and blog services, data analysis, data and
database management, the provision and facilitation of email and
newsletter services, and other services of an administrative nature. We
may share your personally identifiable information, including financial
information, with such third parties for the purpose of providing such
services. |
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| Aggregated Information |
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We
collect and analyze aggregated information through our Website(s)
relating to traffic levels on our Website(s) — for example, the total
number of users visiting particular pages. We also collect and analyze
aggregate demographic information, IP address information, and
information relating to the search functionality on the Websites.
Aggregated information is helpful to us for improving the services we
offer and for marketing purposes. Aggregated information is not
personally identifiable information, and we may share aggregated
information with our advertisers, business partners, or other third
parties for any purposes whatsoever. |
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| Use of Cookies by AACtv |
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Cookies
are data that a web server transfers to an individual's computer for
record keeping purposes. Cookies, which are an industry standard used
by most websites, can facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of
a site. Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files.
We use a temporary or "session" cookie to track the products you have
chosen to purchase while shopping on our Websites. The cookie saves you
the trouble of repeatedly entering the same information during a single
visit. We also use cookies in the Interactive Community to eliminate
the need to log in every time you use clubs and other message boards on
our Websites. Depending on the type of cookie used, the cookie may
expire at the end of a browser session, or may persist across sessions
(for example, a cookie that "remembers" your login information between
Website visits).
In addition, from time to time, we may use cookies and other
technologies to gather non-personally identifiable information to track
the popularity of certain pages of our Websites; the success of our
email notifications, and our ad campaigns on third-party sites, based
on click-through rates; and other similar information, all of which
assists us in seeking to improve our Websites and related services.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies,
there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to
automatically decline cookies, or to be given the choice of declining
or accepting the transfer of a cookie, or of cookies from a particular
website, to your computer. You should note, however, that declining the
cookies may make it difficult for you to make purchases on our
Website(s) and will make entering and using the Community areas more
cumbersome. |
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| Public Forums |
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Please
keep in mind and remember that any information you disclose in the
Community/Forum becomes public information, and may be available to not
only registered Community users, but to visitors of the Websites and to
the general public. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when
deciding to disclose your personally identifiable information, or any
other information, in any part of the Community.
To register to use the Communit/Forum areas, you will need to select a
screen name and provide your email address. A password is required to
log into the Community. Depending on the Website, you will either
select your own password at the time of registration or will be sent an
email notification from us with a randomly generated initial password.
When you log in to the Community, you will be able to set up your AACtv
profile (your "Profile"), which you may edit at any time through the
Community. You will also have the ability to change your password from
within your Profile. Providing information as part of your Profile is
entirely optional. Portions of your Profile are accessible to the
public, but the password, name, and email address fields of your
Profile are not accessible to the public. Note, however, that whenever
you contribute to the Community, your screen name, linking to your
Profile, will automatically appear with your post, and other
information you provide as part of your Profile will be accessible to
other Community members, Website visitors, and the general public, by
clicking on your screen name associated with any of your postings. |
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| Children |
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| Our
Website is a general audience site. We do not direct any of our content
specifically at children under thirteen (13) years of age. We run
classroom sites as educational tools for teachers, where contests
encouraging submissions of children's essays and video related to the
subject matter are occasionally announced. We announce and post
personally identifiable information (such as name and home town) of
contest winners who are children under thirteen (13) only after
receiving parental or guardian consent. We will not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from children under the age of
thirteen (13) without first gaining consent from a parent or guardian.
In the event that we obtain such consent, we will not knowingly use
such personally identifiable information to contact the child for any
marketing purposes, distribute the child's personally identifiable
information to third parties for marketing purposes, or give the child
the ability to post publicly or otherwise distribute personally
identifiable information on the Website(s), in each case without a
parent's or guardian's consent. |
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| Contests and Promotions |
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| We
regularly operate contests and/or similar promotions throughout the
Website(s). In order to participate in such a contest or similar
promotions, you will need to read and agree to be bound by the official
rules therefore. To the extent that the terms and conditions of such
rules concerning the treatment of your personally identifiable
information conflict with this Privacy Policy, the terms and conditions
of such rules shall control. |
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| Security |
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We
have security measures and tools in place to help protect against the
loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Any
time we ask for a credit card number to be transmitted to us through
one of our Website(s), that credit card number is transmitted to us in
an encrypted format using industry-standard encryption. Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally
identifiable information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of
any information you transmit to us through or in connection with any
Website. Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that any information
you transmit through or in connection with any Website is so
transmitted at your own risk.
If
you have reason to believe that any account with us is no longer
secure, you must immediately notify AACtv of the problem by contacting
us in accordance with "Contacting," below (note that physical mail
notification will delay the time it takes for us to respond to the
problem). |
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| Third Party Sites |
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Our
Websites may contain links to third party websites. These links to
third party sites are not under the control of AACtv, and we are not
responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any linked
site, or any link contained in a linked site. We are providing these
links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on our
Websites does not imply endorsement of the linked site by AACtv.
When you provide personal financial and other personally identifiable
information to one of AACtv's e-commerce partners, your transaction
with such e-commerce partner will occur on the e-commerce partner's
site, not the Website, and as such the financial and personally
identifiable information you provide is collected by and controlled by
the privacy policy of that e-commerce partner. It is important
therefore that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policy of any
third party e-commerce site with which you transact business. |
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| Assignment |
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| We
reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect
from users of the Websites to a third party in the event of a sale,
merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a
portion or all of the assets (including without limitation any Website)
of AACtv or any of its affiliated entities (including, without
limitation, in connection with any dissolution, bankruptcy, or similar
proceedings). |
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| Opt-In and Opt-Out |
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Upon
registration with certain Website services, or otherwise from time to
time, we may ask you whether you want to "opt-in" to receive
information from us about special offers, or newsletters and other
promotional communications regarding AACtv, the Websites, and/or third
parties' products or services. If, by opting-in, you choose to receive
these communications, we will occasionally send you email messages that
seek to reflect your request(s). You may later choose to stop receiving
these promotional communications from us by following an "UNSUBSCRIBE"
or similar link provided in the applicable promotional communication
(excluding e-commerce confirmation emails, which you may not opt-out of
receiving).
We may also ask you whether you want to opt-in to receive promotional
offers directly from select third parties other than AACtv. If, by
opting-in, you choose to receive these offers, such third parties may
occasionally send you email messages that seek to reflect your
request(s).
You may wish to remove your personally identifiable information from
our database in order to stop receiving future marketing communications
from us and/or from third parties to whom we have not already provided
your personally identifiable information. If so, we provide you with
the following options for removing your personally identifiable
information from our database for marketing purposes:
You can send an email to info@africanamericanchannel.com; or
You can send mail to the following address:
The African American Channel
8306 Wilshire Blvd. #351
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
In each event, you must clearly indicate that you wish to have your
personally identifiable information removed from our database. We will
endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible.
We note that you may continue to receive non-marketing messages from us
(for example, messages regarding Website technical and security
issues). You cannot opt-out of receiving these messages.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record
keeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will
remain within our databases and other records. We also reserve the
right, from time to time, to re-contact former users of our Websites.
Finally, please note that notwithstanding any other provision of this
Privacy Policy, we are not responsible for removing information from
lists of third party entities with which we have shared your
information pursuant to this Privacy Policy or otherwise with your
consent. |
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| Correct/Update |
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We
give you the following options for informing us of changes to the
personally identifiable information you have previously provided:
You can send an email to info@africanamericanchannel.com
You can send mail to the following address:
The African American Channel
8306 Wilshire Blvd. #351
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
In each event, you must clearly indicate the information that you wish
to have changed. We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon
as reasonably possible.
Additionally, AACtv provides you with the ability to access, correct or
change certain of the information in your Profile at any time. To
review or modify your Profile, log in to the Interactive Community
using the means we provide on the Websites.
Please note that even if you elect to change your information in our
database, there may be residual, outdated information that will remain
within our databases and other records, which will not be removed
therefrom. Also note that we are not responsible for informing third
parties of any changes requested pursuant to this Section. |
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| Contacting Us |
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our Websites, or your dealings with us,
Please feel free to contact us at:
The African American Channel, Inc.
8306 Wilshire Blvd. #351
Beverly Hills, CA 90211 |
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| Revisions to the Privacy Policy |
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| Any
of the policies or procedures above, and any of our policies or
procedures concerning the treatment of information collected through
the Website(s), may be changed by us at any time without prior notice.
Use of any Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of our
Privacy Policy then in effect. We encourage you to periodically review
it to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy
Policy. |
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