privacy
At helfulvideo.com we recognize that users, visitors, customers of our website and related services ("Services") highly value their privacy. This Privacy Notice describes important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on our Services. We provide this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use our website and related services. Please note that any video or other content Users post and or upload to our Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice. Your use of helfulvideo.com and any personal information you provide remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.
Information helfulvideo.com collects
Information you provide: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to helfulvideo.com when deciding to participate in various activities on our Website such as uploading videos, posting messages and or comments, entering contests, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
Cookies: When you visit helfulvideo.com, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies the browser you employ to visit and or use our Website. helfulvideo.com uses both persistent and session cookies. A persistent cookie stays after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to helfulvideo.com. You can remove persistent cookies by following the help file directions of your browser. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can set your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of helfulvideo.com may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log Information: When you use helfulvideo.com, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications: When you send email or other communication to helfulvideo.com, we may retain those communications to process and respond to your requests and improve our services.
Usage of information
If you submit personally identifiable information to us through helfulvideo.com, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide you with the features, services and functionality of our Website.
We use 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 of the helfulvideo.com Website and Services and to create new features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and behaviour.
We do not spam! To be more specific, we do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send any commercial messages without your consent. For messages that you provided consent for, you have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may only use your email address without further consent for administrative purposes (like for example for customer service purposes).
Any personal information or video content that you post online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name and your public profile, but not your email address, is displayed to other Users when you post videos or send messages through the helfulvideo.com Website and other Users may chose to contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to helfulvideo.com may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We may analyze your information and the content you submit and/or post to our Website (such as videos, comments, etc.) for market research. This research is as treated strictly confidential and provided to third parties, such as product manufacturers and/or service firms, only in an anonymous form. User IDs are replaced with individual identifying codes, and only helfulvideo.com has access to the associated user information. This research aims to improve the products and service our affiliated product manufacturers and/or service firms provide to you.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so you do not have to re-enter it during your next visit to helfulvideo.com; (b) provide personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor metrics such as pages viewed, number of visitors, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, and contests.
Disclosure of information
We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other companies for their commercial use 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 provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons to process such information on our behalf. These parties explicitly agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy.
We provide third parties with the results from market research in anonymous form only. helfulvideo.com does not publish any of your personal information without your express and written consent.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with laws (such as Copyright Laws).
helfulvideo.com reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use and to take precautions against any liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to protect the security or integrity of our website, and to protect the rights of helfulvideo.com our Users or others.
Your Choices
You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through helfulvideo.com, in which case helfulvideo.com may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to helfulvideo.com cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making changes. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, helfulvideo.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on helfulvideo.com from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access helfulvideo.com in any manner. If helfulvideo.com learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on helfulvideo.com without verified parental consent, then helfulvideo.com will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that helfulvideo.com is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
Special Note to International Users
helfulvideo.com is hosted in Canada and is governed by the laws of Canada. If you are a User accessing our Website from other regions with laws or regulations ruling personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from those of Canada, please note that through your continued use of helfulvideo.com, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to Canada and you consent to that transfer.
Our Commitment To Data Security
helfulvideo.com uses reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot warrant or ensure the security of any information you transmit to helfulvideo.com. You do so at your own risk. If helfulvideo.com learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate steps. helfulvideo.com may post a notice on our Website if such a breach happens.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
helfulvideo.com allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements to the helfulvideo.com Website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on helfulvideo.com. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
helfulvideo.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks helfulvideo.com to show an advertisement to a certain audience segment and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser may conclude that you fit the characteristics of the audience they are attempting to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of helfulvideo.com, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
We recommend you consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. helfulvideo.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we have received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of helfulvideo.com constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.
This Privacy Notice was last modified December 7, 2006.
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