NOTE: In our previous Privacy Policy, we agreed that we would notify you, and provide you the opportunity to opt out, if we decided in the future to share personal information collected on our Web site with our affiliates, including our parent company, CSC Holdings, Inc. and other entities that may control us, be controlled by us, or are under common control with us. We would now like to share information you may have provided through this Website, such as your name, address, telephone number, and/or email address, with our affiliated companies in order to better serve you. Our affiliates may use that information to contact you about their products and services and those of their advertisers, to market products that may be of interest to you, to improve their services and offerings, and for other reasons consistent with their privacy policies and ours. To see a representative list of affiliates, please click here.
If you have submitted personal information through our Website prior to November 24, 2009, and would like to opt out of this information sharing, you may do so by sending an email to privacy@amctv.com from the email address that we have on file for you. Please note that Company may still use your information in other ways permitted by our Privacy Policy, and that any information collected subsequent to this notice is subject to our new Privacy Policy. Our new Privacy Policy is set forth below. It takes effect on December 24, 2009 (30 days from now).
AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS COMPANY LLC
Privacy Policy
Updated November 24, 2009
Thank you for visiting this website (the "Website"). Your patronage
means a lot to us. At American Movie Classics Company LLC
("Company"), we understand that privacy is an important issue for
visitors to our websites and we are committed to providing you clear
information about how we treat information provided to us. This Privacy
Policy ("Policy") describes the information we collect, what we do with
it and the safeguards we have in place to protect it.
Your use of any part of the Website indicates your acceptance of this
Policy and of the collection, use and disclosure of your personal
information in accordance with this Policy. Please note that this
Policy applies only to personal information collected on the Website. It
does not apply to any other information collected or obtained by any
other means by Company, its parents, affiliates, or subsidiaries.
As we update and expand our services, we reserve the right to modify
this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted here so that
you are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used
and when, if ever, it is disclosed. Please check this page periodically
for changes. Your continued use of this site after changes to the
Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of any revisions
to this Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
When you register for an account or visit certain portions of the
Website, you may be prompted to provide, on a voluntary basis, certain
information about yourself such as: (i) name; (ii) email address; (iii)
date of birth; (iv) mailing address; (v) telephone numbers; and (vi)
interests and hobbies. You are not required to provide any information
to use our Website, although certain areas may require registration.
Certain third parties may join with us to offer website activities,
features or promotions, such as contests or special events. By
submitting personal information in conjunction with these joint
activities, you are providing that information to both parties
simultaneously. The co-sponsor or partner may maintain a separate
privacy policy governing the collection, use, and disclosure of your
personal information, and this Policy does not cover their collection,
use, and/or disclosure. For example, during your visit to our Website,
you may link to or view as part of a frame on a page of this Website,
certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party.
Also, through this Website you may be introduced to, or be able to
access, information, websites, advertisements, features, contests or
sweepstakes offered by other parties. Company is not responsible for the
actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the
applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing
information on a feature page or page operated by a third party.
The Website may link to certain third parties who offer services on our
behalf. Information collected on those sites is subject to the third
party's own privacy policy. However, in some circumstances, those third
parties may provide us with the information you provide to the third
party. If so, we will treat that information in accordance with this
Policy.
We may also use cookies and other technologies to learn about how you
interact with our site to provide you with better service, to improve
your customer experience, and for internal research and reporting
purposes. We also may collect anonymous data on Website activity, such
as how many people visit the site, what pages they visit, where they
come from, how long they stay, what items they purchase, etc. Such
data is collected on an aggregate, anonymous basis, through the use of
Internet server logs and cookies. We may also take non-anonymous data
and de-identify it so that it becomes anonymous either by itself or when
aggregated. We may use any anonymous or aggregated data for any
purpose, including for research and marketing purposes, and may also
share such data with any third parties, such as advertisers.
INFORMATION USE
By providing information on the Website, you agree that personal
information that you provide may be used by Company, its parents,
affiliates, and subsidiaries to communicate with you for the purposes
of: offering discounts, promoting services and products, informing you
about new services and products, providing news on upcoming sporting and
entertainment events, providing programming schedules, conducting
surveys, marketing special gift or discount offerings, offering ticket
discounts, conducting contests and sweepstakes, and similar purposes.
For a current list of Company's affiliates, please click here.
From time to time, we may provide access to information to select third
parties to assist us in providing services or for other legitimate
business purposes. For example, we may provide access to companies
providing services to us, including billing, sales and marketing, market
research, fulfillment, data storage, analysis and processing, and legal
services. We may also provide access to third parties who assist us in
providing targeted advertising. Third parties who have such access may
not use the information for any other purpose, including their own
marketing.
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
We will disclose personally identifiable information to non-affiliated
third parties (a) as set forth in this Policy; (b) where it is necessary
for us to render our services or conduct a legitimate business activity
related to our services; or (c) with appropriate consent. We may
disclose personally identifiable information to affiliated third
parties, including parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and joint venture
partners at any time, subject to the use restrictions set forth in this
Policy.
You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve and
disclose your account information and content if required to do so by
law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or
disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process;
(b) enforce our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, or other contracts
with you; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of
third parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e)
protect our rights, property or personal safety as well as those of our
users and the public. We may also disclose information to law
enforcement agencies in emergency circumstances, where the disclosure of
such information is consistent with the types of emergency disclosures
permitted or required by law.
Finally, we also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all of the
information collected at our sites, including personally identifiable
information, to a successor company in connection with a merger,
acquisition or sale of all, or components, of our business.
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
This Website is controlled, operated and administered entirely within
the United States. If you visit one of our sites from a location outside
the United States, please be advised that any information you provide
may be processed in and transferred to the United States, where privacy
protections may not be as comprehensive as those in the European Union
or other locations. By using this Website, you consent to this transfer
and to the use of the personal identifiable data as described herein.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING MARKETING AND OPTING OUT
If you have provided personally identifiable information on one of our
Websites and later decide that you would rather not have us use such
data for marketing purposes in accordance with the Policy as provided
herein, you can opt-out of this use at any time by: (i) going to the
link provided at the bottom of any email you receive from us and opting
out of receiving information from us and/or our parents, affiliates, and
subsidiaries; (ii) by sending us an email at Privacy@amctv.com; or
(iii) writing us at American Movie Classics Company LLC, 11 Penn Plaza,
New York, NY 10001. Attention: John Frankfurt.
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
To keep information that you provide via this Website accurate, current
and complete, visit your Website subscription page(s) or email
info@amctv.com If a member name and password were required to access the
feature, you will need to provide such information to update your
registration information.
LINKS
You should note that the Website has business relationships with (and
may provide hyperlinks to) unaffiliated third parties (e.g. sites that
offer discounts for certain products, sell tickets, sell branded
merchandise, etc.) ("Partners") and may provide links to the websites of
such Partners so that they can offer you products and services. If you
visit a third party site by clicking on such hyperlink found on our
webpage, any information you provide is subject to that third party
site's privacy policy; and we encourage you to review that website's
privacy policy before providing any personally identifiable information.
The entities controlling these third party websites are responsible for
ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and rules.
COOKIES
Data is gathered through the use of Internet server logs and cookies. A
web server log is a file where website activity is stored. A cookie is a
small piece of information that a website sends to a visitor's
computer, which is stored on his or her hard drive. Company uses cookies
to track repeat visits to our website. These cookies do not store
personally identifiable information, although information in cookies may
be combined with other identifiable information that we maintain. You
can disable cookies within your browser, although some portions of the
Website may not function properly if you do so.
Company and its advertisers may use third party ad servers and ad
networks, including without limitation, DoubleClick, to serve or
present the ads that appear on our site and to conduct research about
the advertisements. Our Privacy Policy does not cover their use of
information. For more information about third-party ad servers
generally and to express your preferences regarding these activities,
including opting out of ad targeting, you may find more information at
the website of the individual ad network, or click
here to link to Network Advertising Initiative.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY
Company does not target this Website to children under the age of thirteen and we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under the age of thirteen except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of thirteen in violation of this Policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe Company has any information from or about anyone under the age of thirteen, please contact us at the address listed below.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning January 1, 2005, California law permits visitors who are
California residents to request certain information regarding our
disclosure of Personally Identifiable information to third parties for
their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an
email to the contact information below.
CONTACTING US ABOUT THIS POLICY
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns,
requests or comments by:
Writing to us at:
American Movie Classics Company LLC
11Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
Attention: AMCC Privacy Coordinator
Or by email: Privacy@amctv.com
SECURITY
We use reasonable commercial efforts to protect the security of personal
information that we collect online and store. However, the
transmission of data over the Internet and our storage of data are not
guaranteed to be completely secure.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are on line. Should you
choose to voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information on
our Website, such as in message boards, chat areas or in advertising or
notices you post, that information can be viewed publicly and can be
collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result
in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such
activities are beyond the control of Company and this Policy.
GOVERNING LAW
This Policy and the use of this Website are governed by New York law.
Any claim related to this Policy shall be brought in a federal or state
court in New York counties, New York, within one year after the claim
arises. You agree that no such claim may be brought as a class action.
Users of this Website consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such
court as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of
disputes concerning this Policy.
Copyright © 2009 American Movie Classics Company LLC
Version: October 2009
