Privacy Policy
At Vtorial ("Vtorial") 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 Vtorial
and any personal information you provide remains subject to the terms of this
Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.
Information Vtorial collects
Information you provide: You provide certain personally identifiable
information (such as your name and email address) to Vtorial 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 Vtorial, 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. Vtorial
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 Vtorial.
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 Vtorial may not function
properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log Information: When you use Vtorial, 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 Vtorial, we
may retain those communications to process and respond to your requests and
improve our services.
Clear GIFs Information: We may employ a software technology called clear gifs
(aka Web Beacons), that help us better manage our services and or content by
tracking the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a
non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in
HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
Usage of information
If you submit personally identifiable information to us through Vtorial, 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 Vtorial 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 Vtorial
Website and other Users may chose to contact you through messages and comments.
Any videos that you submit to Vtorial 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 Vtorial 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 Vtorial;
(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. Vtorial 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).
Vtorial 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 Vtorial
our Users or others.
Your Choices
You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through Vtorial,
in which case Vtorial 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 Vtorial 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, Vtorial
does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or
non-personally-identifiable information on Vtorial 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 Vtorial in any manner.
If Vtorial learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13
years of age has been collected on Vtorial without verified parental consent,
then Vtorial will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that Vtorial 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
Vtorial is hosted in US and is governed by the laws of US. 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 US,
please note that through your continued use of Vtorial, this Privacy Notice,
and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal
information to US and you consent to that transfer.
Our Commitment To Data Security
Vtorial 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 Vtorial.
You do so at your own risk. If Vtorial learns of a security systems breach,
then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take
appropriate steps. Vtorial may post a notice on our Website if such a breach
happens.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
Vtorial allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks,
to serve advertisements to the Vtorial Website. These third-party ad servers or
ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the
advertisements and links that appear on Vtorial. 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.
Vtorial 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 Vtorial 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 Vtorial, 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. Vtorial'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 Vtorial 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 August 8, 2007.
For any questions or comments about this policy, please contact us at privacy@vtorial.com.