Privacy Policy

WACKK.COM’ S PRIVACY NOTICE

Updated as of Wednesday July 21st 2010

The Privacy Policy describes how HTV Media Inc. (“HTV Media”) and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use the WACKK.com website (the “Website”). To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use the Website, you should read this policy. The Website expressly and strictly limits its Account membership and/or viewing privileges to adults 18 years of age and over or having attained the age of majority in their community. All persons who do not meet its criteria are strictly forbidden from accessing or viewing the contents of the Website. We do not knowingly seek or collect any personal information or data from persons who have not attained the age of majority.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on the Website without having an Account and without any information being collected and processed. However, your IP address will be recorded in the event that there is any misappropriation of information and/or content.
• Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on the Website —like uploading videos, posting comments, or flagging videos — require you to have an Account. We ask for some personal information when you create an Account, including an account/username and your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
• Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use the Website, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in the Website (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
• Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

USES

• If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Website, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Website, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.
• Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the Website and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the Website may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
• We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Website changes or for customer service purposes).
• We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
• We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

INFORMATION THAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

• When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, and any other personal information you choose to make public by indicating during the sign-up process.
• Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos or send messages through the Website. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments.
• You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your channel page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, you name, year of birth, gender, relationship status, sexual orientation, or other details.
• If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include what videos you favorite, what videos you rated and what videos you have uploaded.
• Any videos that you submit to the Website may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same video.

YOUR CHOICES

• You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Website, in which case you can still view videos and explore the Website, but certain services may not be provided to you.
• You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
• You may control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your channel page.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

• If under duty to do so HTV Media may release data to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce our Terms of Service and other agreement; or to protect the rights, property or safety of HTV Media or our subscribers or others. This includes the exchanging of information with other companies and organizations including the police and governmental authorities for the purposes of protection against fraud or any other kind of illegal activity whether or not identified in the Terms of Service. It is HTV Media’s policy, whenever possible and legally permissible, to promptly notify you upon an obligation to supply data to a third party.
• Should HTV Media become aware that you have uploaded any illegal material, HTV Media reserves the right to forward all available information to all relevant authorities without notice to you.

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MORE INFORMATION

• If you choose to visit the Website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the province of British Columbia. If you have any concern about privacy at WACKK. Com, please contact us and we’ll try to resolve it.