Privacy
Policy -
(updated
April 2009)
We respect your privacy! Any and all information
collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential
and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned,
or otherwise disclosed. Any information you give
to Movie Vine will be held with the utmost care,
and will not be used in ways that you have not
consented to. A more detailed explanation about
how we safeguard your personal information is
described below. If you have any questions, please
don't hesitate to let us know.
Movie Vine has created this privacy statement
in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to
privacy. The following discloses the information
gathering and dissemination practices for this
Web site: Movie Vine
Information
Automatically Logged
Information used, IP address, ISP, Browser Type,
and Date to gather broad demographic information
like most websites on the internet. We use this
information to see where are visitors originate
from. It is only used for statistics information.
Advertisers
We use outside ad companies to display ads on
our site to help support the costs of running
the website. These ads may contain cookies from
the advertising companies. Cookies received with
banner ads are collected by our ad companies.
These ad companies may use cookies and/or web
beacons when they advertise on our site, which
sends the advertisers (like Google from the Google
Adsense program) information including your IP
address, ISP, and browser type you use when visiting
our website. In some cases it may check to see
if you have flash installed to be able to display
flash ads. This information is collected by the
advertising companies to generally check for geotargeting
purposes. For example, if you live in Los Angeles,
restaurant ads in your area may show up. Or if
you are used to visiting a jewelry site, shops
that carry jewelry may show up in the ads.
DoubleClick DART cookies
DART cookies may also be used for ad serving through
Google’s DoubleClick. This will place a
cookie on your computer when you are browsing
the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising
(including some Google AdSense advertisements).
Information gained from your browsing habits and
interested may cause ads to be served that are
targeted to your interests by this cookie. (”interest
based targeting”). The ads served will be
targeted based on your previous browsing history
(For example, if you have been viewing sites about
visiting Las Angeles, you may see Las Angeles
hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related
site, such as on a site about soccer). DART uses
“non personally identifiable information”.
It does NOT track personal information about you,
such as your name, email address, physical address,
telephone number, social security numbers, bank
account numbers or credit card numbers. You can
opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using
this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
Registration Forms
Our site's registration form requires users to
give us contact information (like their name,
email, and postal address).
Contact information from the registration form
is used to get in touch with the person when
necessary. Other contact information for updates
are used only to add persons to the update emailing
lists or for contacting contest winners of the
update list. Contact information sent with tips/ideas
is used for giving credit for the tips/crafts
ideas that are sent in.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Movie Vine is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such Web sites.
A link may take you to a non-family oriented
website, if another website has been changed
since Movie Vine first linked to it. This does
happen often on the internet. Sites come and
go over time. If you find a link that is not
directed to where we intentioned it to go, please
contact us.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message
boards, and/or news groups available to its
users. Please remember that any information
that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should exercise caution
when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Choice/Opt-Out
You can contact us to opt-out of newsletters
that you have subscribed to.
Use of Cookies
We only use cookies in instances to keep adveritising
from being shown too often. An example is a
30 day cookie, which will allow you to only
see a certain ad once and not again for 30 days.
These are placed in different areas of our site
at MovieVine.com
You can chose to disable or selectively turn
off our cookies or third-party cookies in your
browser settings, or by managing preferences
in programs such as Norton Internet Security.
However, this can affect how you are able to
interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to
services or programs, such as logging into forums
or accounts.
Data Quality/Access
This site gives users the following options
for changing and modifying information previously
provided directly through our website:
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with
this Web site, you can contact us.
