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PRIVACY POLICY for www.americashottestpeople.com
Effective Date: May 5, 2009
This statement discloses the information gathering process and the privacy and dissemination practices for the www.americashottestpeople.com web site (the "Website"). Americas Hottest Entertainment Inc. has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protect your personal privacy.
If you have any concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Privacy Manager at abuse22@americashottestpeople.com.
This is a legal agreement (the "Agreement") between you and America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. Please read the Agreement carefully before registering for the www.americashottestpeople.com service (the "Service"). By registering for www.americashottestpeople.com, you become a participant of the Service ("Participant") and you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms") for as long as you continue to be a Participant. If you do not agree to the Terms, you are not permitted to use www.americashottestpeople.com's Service.
www.americashottestpeople.com is an Internet portal designed to allow people to nominate and vote for themselves or people that the believe would be considered America's Hottest, to acquire merchandise and follow the process of selecting America's Hottest people to enter contests, acquire merchandise, meet and communicate with other people on line and to advertise other products, services and sponsors.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed on the Website becomes public information.
QUICK CONDUCT REMINDERS
- You will ensure that all information shared on www.americashottestpeople.com is public domain and that nothing of a confidential nature or revealing an individual's activities will be discussed on the Website.
- You are solely responsible for your own good governance concerning the content or information you publish or display and how you interact with other Participants.
- You will not use the Website to engage in any form of harassment or offensive behavior, including but not limited to the posting of communications, pictures or recordings which contain libelous, slanderous, abusive, defamatory statement, or racist, pornographic, obscene or offensive language.
- You will not use the Website to distribute, promote or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation for funds, advertising or solicitation for goods and services.
- You agree not to impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or misrepresent your credentials or entity to the membership.
- You will not disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than that of other users of the Website or otherwise act in any manner which negatively affects other Participant's ability to engage in real time exchanges.
- You will not stalk or otherwise intentionally collect or store data about any another Participant.
www.americashottestpeople.com is a membership-based service that collects personal information for the purposes of authenticating one's status and ensuring that the terms and by-laws of the Service are upheld. www.americashottestpeople.com's registration form requires users to provide contact information (such as an email address) and demographic information (such as zip or postal code, age, etc.). Participation requires that you are at least 18 years of age to be a Participant of www.americashottestpeople.com. www.americashottestpeople.com may also run contests and/or conduct online surveys that ask Participants for contact information such as name and email address and demographic information such as zip or postal code, age or income level.
www.americashottestpeople.com may contain links to other websites and www.americashottestpeople.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
Your membership with www.americashottestpeople.com is for your sole, personal use. You may not authorize others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity.
PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND AGGREGATE INFORMATION OBTAINED BY America's Hottest Entertainment Inc.
Private information is any information that allows others to contact a user other than through www.americashottestpeople.com or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site. Private information is gathered from members and site visitors. This information may include, but is not limited to email addresses, first name and last name and address unless in the public domain.
Public Information is personal information that may be displayed on the site such as title but cannot be linked to a particular Participant. Public information is also personal information such as gender, age, ethnic background and more but is meant to be read by members and visitors to the website but cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, title, company, address, or any other profiled information. Members are not permitted to post images of themselves or anyone else of any nature on the Website without the consent of America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. Please note that images posted can be used by America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. in media releases about our Services. Individuals attending www.americashottestpeople.com events can be included in photos and images taken of such events and used in media campaigns or press releases about www.americashottestpeople.com. Posting images or attending America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. and/or the Website's events constitutes agreement with the fair use of the images involved.
Aggregate information is collected for www.americashottestpeople.com that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered from all visitors to the Website.
USE OF INFORMATION OBTAINED BY America's Hottest Entertainment Inc.
Private Information - we may use a Participant's email or street address to send news regarding our Website or offers we feel appropriate to our members but the Participant may chose not to receive information of this nature by indicating upon registration to not receive such mail or may unsubscribe at any time by modifying their account information. Any sharing of email or street address information with third party marketers or site sponsors is done only with the permission of the Participant by giving consent upon registration or by modifying their account information at a later date. Your preferences can be changed by logging onto your account, going to "My Account" setting within your Personal Profile and selecting 'Settings'. To remove yourself regarding postal third party or sponsor offers, please write to the company address at the bottom of this document.
Email and street addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the Participant for Customer Service issues. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the Participant for services. America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. utilizes a third party service provider for credit card processing to facilitate Participant's transactions and the service provider does not use personal information provided by the Website for its own promotional purposes. All other private information submitted by the Participant is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect any Participant of www.americashottestpeople.com. All private information can be updated or deleted by the Participant at any time.
www.americashottestpeople.com may also use personal information in connection with newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials sent to you for America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. or third party or sponsor based goods or services. We attempt to have offers sent to you that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. This Website provides you with options to decline to receive communications from www.americashottestpeople.com (other than those contained in operational communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications others may be a more general nature.
To operate the Website, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Website, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so that they can provide us with support services such as authorizations of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt of support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and contests and promotional fulfillment. We require that these entities not use your information for any other purpose. By purchasing or registering or making reservations for products, or services offered or sponsored by third parties or sponsors on the Website, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discounts or rewards programs) offered or sponsored by third parties or sponsors on the Website, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties or sponsors. Those third parties or sponsors may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties or sponsors to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties and sponsors in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.
Any third party or sponsor with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangement with such third party or sponsor and in accordance with their privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information.
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third party or sponsor in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets of America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. or other Participants and/or visitors to the Website. We may also disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
Public Information supplied by the Participant is intended to be viewed by other Participants, visitors and sponsors to the site. This information is used by Participants for searching, voting and responding purposes.
Aggregate use of your server, IP address and browser-type related information is for the general administration of our Website only. It is not personally identifiable information and is not released to third parties or sponsors other than through the request of law enforcement.
Email-A-Friend features will invite you to refer a friend to our Website and we will ask for your friend's name, title and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one time email inviting him or her to visit the site. America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. does not store this information.
USE OF COOKIES
We currently use both permanent and session cookies in the public areas of our Website. Session cookies are only active during the period you are logged on to the site. This technology uses information about your visits to this Website (not including your name, address or other personal information). In the course of your use of the site, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we use web beacons, inserted in the source of the designated website pages. These web beacons may be later used to connect the recipient with subsequent activity. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable. To learn more about or delete our third party advertisement serving partner, cookies, and how to "opt out", please click here.
MEMBERSHIP CHANGES
America's Hottest Entertainment Inc. gives Participants an option for modifying or removing their information from our website. Your privacy is one of our highest priorities. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure however. Therefore, while we strive to use the finest commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our right and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our Website and/or America's Hottest Entertaiment Inc.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the homepage and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email or by means of notice on our homepage.
If you have any questions about the privacy policy of America's Hottest Entertainment Inc., please email them to abuse22@americashottestpeople.com or write to:
Americas Hottest Entertainment Inc.
Suite 113
77 McMurrich Street,
Toronto, Ontario
M5R 3V3 Canada
