ABRC Privacy Notice

Updated as of November 5 2008

Personal Information

• Non-Account Activity. You can view content on ABRC without having a ABRC Account or a Google Account. You can also contact us about a particular content without having a ABRC Account or a Google Account.
• Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on ABRC —like uploading videos, posting comments, or uploading pictures—require you to have a ABRC Account or a Google Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a ABRC Account or a Google Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A Google Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
• Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use ABRC, the channels, groups and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the content you watch and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in ABRC (including UI elements, settings and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear cookies (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 ABRC Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the ABRC Sites 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 content or send messages through the ABRC Sites and other users can contact you through messages and comments. Any content that you submit to the ABRC Sites 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.
• 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 ABRC Site 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 ABRC Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality and services by storing, tracking, analysing 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 ABRC Sites; (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. If you download any ABRC materials.

Information That is Publicly Available

• When you create an account on the site, some information regarding 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 in to your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), your country and the number of content you viewed.
• Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as uploading content or sending messages via the ABRC Sites. Other Users can contact you via messages and comments.
• You can also choose to add personal information that will be visible to other Users on your channel page (the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, relationship status or other details.
• If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, 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 videos you add as favorites, videos you rate and videos you have uploaded.
• Any content that you submit to the ABRC Sites 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 ABRC Sites, in which case you can still view content and explore the ABRC Sites, but ABRC may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced ABRC features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up for other Google services like Google Checkout or AdSense. The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.
• You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by contacting us directly.
• You can control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time, by editing your account and the features included on your channel page.

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