This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of bpdvideo.com and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
1. About Our Privacy Policy and Using bpdvideo.com
This Privacy Policy applies to bpdvideo.com. including the mobile optimized version. This Privacy Policy also applies to the bpdvideo.com Mobile Device Application (or “App”) for the iPhone, the iPad and mobile devices operating with the Android operating system. Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to our Web site also apply to our bpdvideo.com Mobile Device App. Reference to “bpdvideo.com” means bpdvideo.com, a website owned and operated by Dawkins Productions, Inc.
Bpdvideo.com contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that bpdvideo.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on bpdvideo.com.
While you may use some of the functionality of bpdvideo.com without registration, many of the specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use bpdvideo.com without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Web site for certain Tools and/or by purchasing products or other services on bpdvideo.com, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. Depending on the tool produce, or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Information you submit to bpdvideo.com. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.
2. Non-Personal Information We Collect About You
Even if you do not register with bpdvideo.com, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.
A. Cookies
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer that accesses a bpdvideo.com Web site is assigned a different Cookie by bpdvideo.com. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to deliver certain advertisements to your browser on our owned or operated Web sites based on areas of the Site that you have visited or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. In connection with our sale of advertising we may allow third parties to place a cookie on your browser or a beacon on our site in order to enable advertisers to recognize your browser in order to deliver an advertisement based on non-personally identifiable information. Importantly, we do not allow these advertisers to collect any information based on your visits to bpdvideo.com. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users that these or other third parties have access to and we may use that information for the purpose of content development, marketing purposes or the delivery of advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user’s log-in, as navigation aids and as session timers. Cookies used by bpdvideo.com are also used to restrict underage use of the tools. We also use cookies in order to enable us to conduct survey’s for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions.
Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. Additionally bpdvideo.com may geographically target advertising based on your IP address. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, please visit the Macromedia Site.
B. Mobile Device Applications (Apps)
When you download and install our bpdvideo.com Mobile App onto your mobile device we assign a random number to your App installation. This number cannot be used to identify you personally, and we cannot identify you personally unless you choose to become a registered user of the App. We use this random number in a manner similar to our use of Cookies as described in this Privacy Policy. Unlike Cookies the random number is assigned to your installation of the App itself and not a browser, because the App does not work through your browser. Therefore the random number cannot be removed through settings. If you do not want us to use the random number for the purposes for which we use Cookies, please do not use the Mobile Device App and please use your mobile device browser to access our Web sites or our mobile optimized sites. We do not obtain any information about your mobile device, other than the brand, make and model and type of operating software your device uses. Bpdvideo.com obtains your consent (via an opt-in) before using information from pin-pointing technology like GPS or cell tower information. You can withdraw your consent (opt-out) for the use of “location” by bpdvideo.com at any time by changing your location services in the “Settings” function on your mobile device.
C. Web Beacons
We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Also we may use web beacons and Cookies to deliver advertisements on any of the Web sites owned or operated by bpdvideo.com based on areas of our Web sites that you have visited. In connection with our sale of advertising we may allow third parties to place a beacon on our site in order to enable advertisers to recognize your browser in order to deliver an advertisement based on non-personally identifiable information.
D. Third Parties Collecting Non-Personal Information on pdvideo.com’s Behalf
Third parties under contract with bpdvideo.com may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of bpdvideo.com’s sites. These third parties may use this information, on our behalf, to help bpdvideo.com deliver our advertising on other sites on the Internet based on your browsing activity on our sites. bpdvideo.com may further tailor the advertising on these third party sites based on other Non-Personal Information such as your geographic location (zip code), gender and/or age range to the extent known by bpdvideo.com or these third parties. These third parties have agreed not to use Non-Personal Information they collect from our sites except to deliver advertisements on our behalf. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Non-Personal Information from our sites will not be sent to these third parties and will not be used to deliver ads on third party sites. Please read Part 3.A for more information on rejecting cookies.
3. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You
We collect Personally Identifiable Information, like your name, email address, date of birth, and zip code, you provide to us when you register as a member of bpdvideo.com and/or when you purchase a product or service on bpdvideo.com and/or when you update your member profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates.
A. Emails You Send to bpdvideo.com
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to bpdvideo.com by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to bpdvideo.com. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.
B. Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither bpdvideo.com nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.
C. Market Research
From time to time the bpdvideo.com market research department, or our operations contractors acting on our behalf, conducts online research surveys through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to enter Personally Identifiable Information. Bpdvideo.com may combine your Personally Identifiable Information you submit in a survey with information about you from other sources. The information from other sources may include financial, health or other identifiable information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used by bpdvideo.com for research purposes. Aggregate Information from the survey results may be reported to our clients. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by bpdvideo.com and our service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to any other third party without your consent or as otherwise allowed by this Privacy Policy. For general market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 13.
Some surveys may provide remuneration (payment of some kind) to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize and may contain opt-in permission for additional email follow-up surveys. We will tell you when you agree to participate in a survey if it is a paid survey. When our market research surveys collect Personally Identifiable Information like name, email address or contain additional opt in permissions for follow up or re-contact, or if a survey offers to provide remuneration of any kind, we will not knowingly accept participants in these instances under the age of 18.
Bpdvideo.com is not responsible for unauthorized market research surveys that are conducted on third party sites. It is possible that when you click on certain banner advertisements on the bpdvideo.com site to visit an advertiser’s site that you may receive invitations to participate in market research surveys from the advertiser or other third party site. These surveys are not subject to bpdvideo.com’s Privacy Policy and are not related to bpdvideo.com. You should always read the privacy policy and or terms and conditions of use so you can understand how these third parties use your information and what rights you have regarding its use.
In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with bpdvideo.com site usage characteristics. In connection with surveys on our behalf and on behalf of our advertisers we may use cookies to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions.
D. Aggregate Data
Bpdvideo.com may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Personally Identifiable Information and/or the personal information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, bpdvideo.com may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site. These third party Web sites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. Bpdvideo.com will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information and/or the personal information to any third party without your prior permission, except as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.
F. Secure Message Center
Bpdvideo.com has the ability to use Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to send you personalized emails or secure electronic messages. During registration or at anytime, you have the option of choosing whether or not you wish to receive emails. If you decide that you would prefer not to receive personalized email or secure electronic messages from the bpdvideo.com
Bpdvideo.com does not knowingly engage in business with a company that uses Spyware. We do not provide Users with downloadable software that collects or uses any PII or PI without full disclosure and Opt-in consent.
5. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on Bpdvideo.com’s Behalf
Sponsors or advertisers on bpdvideo.com may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on bpdvideo.com and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than bpdvideo.com to serve their ads and to monitor users’ responses to ads, and these companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Web site. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Web site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to bpdvideo.com to show the ad, or to the advertiser’s website); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie or web beacon information through our Web site to agree that they will not collect any Personally Identifiable Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our site to Personally Identifiable Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites except as may be described in connection with a particular program. For example, in connection with “Ad links” furnished by Yahoo, non-personal information sent by your browser to Yahoo when you click on a sponsored link or submit a query may be used by Yahoo as described in its privacy policy. In addition, bpdvideo.com’s Advertising Policy is posted on our Web site and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. Certain Ad Servers allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site. Currently, you can Opt-out of Cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway Opt-out site. This website will also allow you to review the Ad Server’s privacy policies. You can find additional information and resources about how to opt out of advertising and related cookies by visiting the World Privacy Forum’s Site. Bpdvideo.com does not knowingly engage in business with any company that uses Spyware or Maleware. We do not provide users with downloadable software that collects or uses any PII or PHI without full disclosure and Opt-in consent.
6. Disclosure of Your Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, bpdvideo.com will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.
A. Disclosure to Bpdvideo.com Operations and Maintenance Contractor
Bpdvideo.com operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to bpdvideo.com. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Web site. These contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for bpdvideo.com. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.
B. Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Websites
Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on Web sites hosted and operated by a company other than bpdvideo.com (“Third Party Contractor Web sites”). bpdvideo.com does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Contractor Web sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other Web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. bpdvideo.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Web sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other Web site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. bpdvideo.com makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Web site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as “Powered by” or “in association with” followed by the name of a company other than bpdvideo.com, then you are on a Web site hosted by a company other than bpdvideo.com. Bpdvideo.com also provides links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with bpdvideo.com to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through bpdvideo.com. An example of this would be “Ad links” from Yahoo on our Search pages.
C. Disclosure to Linked Sites
In addition to the Third Party Contractor Web sites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to Third Party Web sites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the bpdvideo.com Web site and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the bpdvideo.com Web site. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. Bpdvideo.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. Bpdvideo.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Web sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other website to understand how that Third Party Web site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
D. Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Bpdvideo.com may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
7. How Bpdvideo.com Handles Privacy and Security Internally
Here are some of the security procedures that bpdvideo.com uses to protect your privacy:
* Uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
* Utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting Personally Identifiable Information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
* Closely monitors the limited number of bpdvideo.com employees who have potential access to your Personally Identifiable Information.
* Requires all bpdvideo.com employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
* Backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of your Personally Identifiable Information.
Despite bpdvideo.com’s efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.
8 Updating Your Information and Contacting bpdvideo.com
A. Updating Your Personally Identifiable Information
bpdvideo.com tools that collect and store self-reported data allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes.
B. Removing your Personal Information
If you have a complaint or problem, please use our Customer Support Form (Contact Us.) Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal bpdvideo.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but may not always be able to do so. If you want to (1) delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our systems, (2) update the Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us, or (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, select the privacy option on our Contact Us form.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We will inform you here if a material change is made to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the bpdvideo.com Web site will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the bpdvideo.com Web site. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.
Personal Information – We will inform you if a material change in the Privacy Policy is made that involves the use of your Personal Information, and your express Opt-in authorization will be requested. If you choose to not accept the new privacy policy, then the current privacy policy conditions will remain in effect, so long as bpdvideo.com continues to make the functionality available. bpdvideo.com reserves the right to discontinue or limit functionality in all its products.
Non-Significant Changes – bpdvideo.com may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do not affect Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Information. For these instances, bpdvideo.com may not notify you of such non-significant changes.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement 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 statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, and by means of a notice on our home page.
10. Glossary
aggregate information or data: As a website gathers individual pieces of Non-Personal Information (see definition below) from its users, it may combine similar data from many or all the users of the website into one big “batch”. For example, the site may add up the total number of people in Peoria, Illinois, (but not their names) who are seeking information about weight loss and compare that to the number of people in Petaluma, California seeking the same information.
This sort of statistical information is called aggregate data because it reflects the habits and characteristics of a large group of anonymous people. Web sites may use aggregate data or share it with their business partners so that the information and services they provide best meet the needs of the users. Aggregate data also helps advertisers and sponsors on the Web know how effectively they are reaching and meeting the needs of their target audience.
browser: Short for web browser, a browser is a software application used to locate and display web (Internet) pages. The most popular browsers are AOL, FireFox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape Navigator. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats.
cache (also called cache memory): Once your Web browser accesses a web page, it references that page and the graphics on it within your computer’s “cache” (or more simply, your computer takes a “snapshot” of every page you visit and stores it in the “cache”.) The next time you visit that same page, your download time will be quicker as the images and much of the page is already available on your computer for your browser to reference instantly instead of waiting for the page and images to download again.
channel partner web site: A third party Web site to whom bpdvideo.com provides content and services.
click stream information: A record of all the pages you have visited during your visit to a particular Web site or the services you accessed from the site or from an email. Click Stream Information is associated with your browser and not with you personally. It records the archives of your browser.
cookie: A small data file that is stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a Web site. Cookies are placed by that site or by a third party with a presence on the site, such as an advertiser using a Web Beacon (see definition below) and are accessible only by the party or site that placed the Cookie (i.e. a Cookie placed on your computer by bpdvideo.com isn’t accessed by any other site you visit but a Cookie placed on your computer by an advertiser may be accessed by any site on which that same advertiser has a presence). Cookies can contain pieces of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). bpdvideo.com encrypts any PII it stores in its Cookies. These Cookies often are used to make the site easier to use. For example, if you check a box to ask that we store your user name on your computer so that you don’t have to enter it each time you visit the site, it’s stored in a Cookie on your computer.
encryption: The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. This is typically done by secure computer systems.
firewall: A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a public or private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private portions of public networks. All messages entering or leaving the network pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.
non-personal information: Information that is not traceable back to any individual and cannot be used to identify an individual. For example, Click Stream Information is Non-Personal Information, as is information such as gender, age, city and state when not linked with other Personally Identifiable Information.
Opt-In: Means you are actively indicating your preference to participate in a program, email, feature, tool, or enhancement on a Web site. Typically, if you “Opt-in” you must provide certain information, usually Personally Identifiable Information, to the Web site or otherwise actively indicate your choice or preference to participate in the Web site program. For example, if you wish to receive a diabetes newsletter by email from bpdvideo.com, you must enter your email address and choose the type of newsletter by checking a box next to a statement such as: “Yes, I’d like to receive a free subscription to bpdvideo.com’s Diabetes Newsletter.”
Opt-Out: Means that if you do not take some action you are indicating your preference to participate in a program, email, feature, tool or enhancement on a Web site. Typically, if you “Opt-out” you must uncheck a box next to a stated preference or otherwise take some indicate action to indicate your preference not to participate in a program. For example, if you do not wish to receive promotional emails from bpdvideo.com or its sponsors, you must uncheck the box in your email preference center that states: “Please send me special offers and communications from bpdvideo.com and/or its partners that would interest me.”
password: A secret series of characters, typically alphanumeric (meaning it consists of both letters and numbers) that enables you to access a file, computer, or program. You must enter your password before the computer or system will respond to commands. The password helps ensure that unauthorized users do not access the system. In addition, data files and programs may require a password. Ideally, the password should be something that nobody could guess. In practice, many people choose a password that is easy to remember, such as their name or their initials. This is one reason it is relatively easy to break into many computer systems.
personally identifiable information (PII): (also called Personal Information): Information that can be traced back to an individual (contrast with Non-Personal Information and Aggregate Information). Examples of PII include your name, home address, telephone number, email address, and Social Security number. If other pieces of information are linked to PII, they also become PII. For example, if you use a nickname to chat online and give out your real name while chatting, your nickname becomes PII when linked with other PII.
security questions: bpdvideo.com requires you to answer two security questions, usually called Challenge-Response questions. We will use the answers you provide to these questions to help you in the event you forget your username or password. In order to help maintain your privacy, we require an EXACT match against what you submitted during your registration process. Correct spelling and short answers can help ensure that you will succeed with retrieving your username or resetting your password.
server: A computer that provides services to other computers. A “web server” stores web site files and “serves” them to people who request them.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer): A security protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private information via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that’s transferred over the SSL connection. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Internet_Explorer.htm) and Netscape Navigator (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Navigator.htm) support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that utilize an SSL connection start with https: instead of http.
username: A name used to gain access to a computer system or program. Usernames, and often passwords, are required in shared systems, such as the Internet. In most such systems, users can choose their own usernames and passwords
virus: A program or piece of code that is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes. Viruses can also “replicate” themselves by copying their code to other computers. All computer viruses are manmade. A simple virus that can make a copy of itself over and over again is relatively easy to produce. Even such a simple virus is dangerous because it will quickly use all available memory and bring the system to a halt. An even more dangerous type of virus is one capable of transmitting itself across networks and bypassing security systems. There are numerous virus protection programs available. See the “How You Can Protect Yourself” section.
web beacons: (also often referenced as “clear GIFs”, “web bugs”, “1-by-1 GIFs”, “Single-Pixel GIFs”, “1 x 1 Pixels”, or “clear Pixels”): Tiny graphic image files, imbedded in a web page in GIF, jpeg or HTML format, typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the type browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server. Web Beacons can also be used to place a Cookie on your computer.
Privacy
This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of bpdvideo.com and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
1. About Our Privacy Policy and Using bpdvideo.com
This Privacy Policy applies to bpdvideo.com. including the mobile optimized version. This Privacy Policy also applies to the bpdvideo.com Mobile Device Application (or “App”) for the iPhone, the iPad and mobile devices operating with the Android operating system. Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to our Web site also apply to our bpdvideo.com Mobile Device App. Reference to “bpdvideo.com” means bpdvideo.com, a website owned and operated by Dawkins Productions, Inc.
Bpdvideo.com contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that bpdvideo.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on bpdvideo.com.
While you may use some of the functionality of bpdvideo.com without registration, many of the specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use bpdvideo.com without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register with our Web site for certain Tools and/or by purchasing products or other services on bpdvideo.com, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. Depending on the tool produce, or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Information you submit to bpdvideo.com. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.
2. Non-Personal Information We Collect About You
Even if you do not register with bpdvideo.com, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site, special promotions and newsletters.
A. Cookies
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every computer that accesses a bpdvideo.com Web site is assigned a different Cookie by bpdvideo.com. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to deliver certain advertisements to your browser on our owned or operated Web sites based on areas of the Site that you have visited or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. In connection with our sale of advertising we may allow third parties to place a cookie on your browser or a beacon on our site in order to enable advertisers to recognize your browser in order to deliver an advertisement based on non-personally identifiable information. Importantly, we do not allow these advertisers to collect any information based on your visits to bpdvideo.com. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users that these or other third parties have access to and we may use that information for the purpose of content development, marketing purposes or the delivery of advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user’s log-in, as navigation aids and as session timers. Cookies used by bpdvideo.com are also used to restrict underage use of the tools. We also use cookies in order to enable us to conduct survey’s for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions.
Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our Web site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. Additionally bpdvideo.com may geographically target advertising based on your IP address. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, please visit the Macromedia Site.
B. Mobile Device Applications (Apps)
When you download and install our bpdvideo.com Mobile App onto your mobile device we assign a random number to your App installation. This number cannot be used to identify you personally, and we cannot identify you personally unless you choose to become a registered user of the App. We use this random number in a manner similar to our use of Cookies as described in this Privacy Policy. Unlike Cookies the random number is assigned to your installation of the App itself and not a browser, because the App does not work through your browser. Therefore the random number cannot be removed through settings. If you do not want us to use the random number for the purposes for which we use Cookies, please do not use the Mobile Device App and please use your mobile device browser to access our Web sites or our mobile optimized sites. We do not obtain any information about your mobile device, other than the brand, make and model and type of operating software your device uses. Bpdvideo.com obtains your consent (via an opt-in) before using information from pin-pointing technology like GPS or cell tower information. You can withdraw your consent (opt-out) for the use of “location” by bpdvideo.com at any time by changing your location services in the “Settings” function on your mobile device.
C. Web Beacons
We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (ii) how many people open our emails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Also we may use web beacons and Cookies to deliver advertisements on any of the Web sites owned or operated by bpdvideo.com based on areas of our Web sites that you have visited. In connection with our sale of advertising we may allow third parties to place a beacon on our site in order to enable advertisers to recognize your browser in order to deliver an advertisement based on non-personally identifiable information.
D. Third Parties Collecting Non-Personal Information on pdvideo.com’s Behalf
Third parties under contract with bpdvideo.com may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of bpdvideo.com’s sites. These third parties may use this information, on our behalf, to help bpdvideo.com deliver our advertising on other sites on the Internet based on your browsing activity on our sites. bpdvideo.com may further tailor the advertising on these third party sites based on other Non-Personal Information such as your geographic location (zip code), gender and/or age range to the extent known by bpdvideo.com or these third parties. These third parties have agreed not to use Non-Personal Information they collect from our sites except to deliver advertisements on our behalf. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Non-Personal Information from our sites will not be sent to these third parties and will not be used to deliver ads on third party sites. Please read Part 3.A for more information on rejecting cookies.
3. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect About You
We collect Personally Identifiable Information, like your name, email address, date of birth, and zip code, you provide to us when you register as a member of bpdvideo.com and/or when you purchase a product or service on bpdvideo.com and/or when you update your member profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates.
A. Emails You Send to bpdvideo.com
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to bpdvideo.com by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to bpdvideo.com. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.
B. Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither bpdvideo.com nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.
C. Market Research
From time to time the bpdvideo.com market research department, or our operations contractors acting on our behalf, conducts online research surveys through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to enter Personally Identifiable Information. Bpdvideo.com may combine your Personally Identifiable Information you submit in a survey with information about you from other sources. The information from other sources may include financial, health or other identifiable information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used by bpdvideo.com for research purposes. Aggregate Information from the survey results may be reported to our clients. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by bpdvideo.com and our service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to any other third party without your consent or as otherwise allowed by this Privacy Policy. For general market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 13.
Some surveys may provide remuneration (payment of some kind) to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize and may contain opt-in permission for additional email follow-up surveys. We will tell you when you agree to participate in a survey if it is a paid survey. When our market research surveys collect Personally Identifiable Information like name, email address or contain additional opt in permissions for follow up or re-contact, or if a survey offers to provide remuneration of any kind, we will not knowingly accept participants in these instances under the age of 18.
Bpdvideo.com is not responsible for unauthorized market research surveys that are conducted on third party sites. It is possible that when you click on certain banner advertisements on the bpdvideo.com site to visit an advertiser’s site that you may receive invitations to participate in market research surveys from the advertiser or other third party site. These surveys are not subject to bpdvideo.com’s Privacy Policy and are not related to bpdvideo.com. You should always read the privacy policy and or terms and conditions of use so you can understand how these third parties use your information and what rights you have regarding its use.
In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with bpdvideo.com site usage characteristics. In connection with surveys on our behalf and on behalf of our advertisers we may use cookies to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions.
D. Aggregate Data
Bpdvideo.com may combine, in a non-identifiable format, the Personally Identifiable Information and/or the personal information you provide with information from other users to create Aggregate Data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you. For example, bpdvideo.com may use information gathered to create a composite profile of all the users of a particular third party site. These third party Web sites may use this information to understand community needs and to design appropriate programs and activities on their site. Bpdvideo.com will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information and/or the personal information to any third party without your prior permission, except as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.
F. Secure Message Center
Bpdvideo.com has the ability to use Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to send you personalized emails or secure electronic messages. During registration or at anytime, you have the option of choosing whether or not you wish to receive emails. If you decide that you would prefer not to receive personalized email or secure electronic messages from the bpdvideo.com
Bpdvideo.com does not knowingly engage in business with a company that uses Spyware. We do not provide Users with downloadable software that collects or uses any PII or PI without full disclosure and Opt-in consent.
5. Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on Bpdvideo.com’s Behalf
Sponsors or advertisers on bpdvideo.com may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on bpdvideo.com and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than bpdvideo.com to serve their ads and to monitor users’ responses to ads, and these companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Web site. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Web site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to bpdvideo.com to show the ad, or to the advertiser’s website); this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or Web Beacons, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and Ad Servers who collect cookie or web beacon information through our Web site to agree that they will not collect any Personally Identifiable Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or web beacon information collected by them on our site to Personally Identifiable Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites except as may be described in connection with a particular program. For example, in connection with “Ad links” furnished by Yahoo, non-personal information sent by your browser to Yahoo when you click on a sponsored link or submit a query may be used by Yahoo as described in its privacy policy. In addition, bpdvideo.com’s Advertising Policy is posted on our Web site and will provide additional detail about our relationship with advertisers and the companies that serve ads. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or web beacons on their own sites. Certain Ad Servers allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site. Currently, you can Opt-out of Cookies for several Ad Servers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway Opt-out site. This website will also allow you to review the Ad Server’s privacy policies. You can find additional information and resources about how to opt out of advertising and related cookies by visiting the World Privacy Forum’s Site. Bpdvideo.com does not knowingly engage in business with any company that uses Spyware or Maleware. We do not provide users with downloadable software that collects or uses any PII or PHI without full disclosure and Opt-in consent.
6. Disclosure of Your Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, bpdvideo.com will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.
A. Disclosure to Bpdvideo.com Operations and Maintenance Contractor
Bpdvideo.com operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to bpdvideo.com. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Web site. These contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for bpdvideo.com. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.
B. Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Websites
Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on Web sites hosted and operated by a company other than bpdvideo.com (“Third Party Contractor Web sites”). bpdvideo.com does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Contractor Web sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other Web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. bpdvideo.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Web sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other Web site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. bpdvideo.com makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Web site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as “Powered by” or “in association with” followed by the name of a company other than bpdvideo.com, then you are on a Web site hosted by a company other than bpdvideo.com. Bpdvideo.com also provides links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with bpdvideo.com to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through bpdvideo.com. An example of this would be “Ad links” from Yahoo on our Search pages.
C. Disclosure to Linked Sites
In addition to the Third Party Contractor Web sites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there are links to Third Party Web sites operated by companies that are not affiliated with the bpdvideo.com Web site and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through the bpdvideo.com Web site. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. Bpdvideo.com does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without obtaining your consent. Bpdvideo.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Web sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on this other website to understand how that Third Party Web site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
D. Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Bpdvideo.com may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of users of our website and the activities they conduct while on our site. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
7. How Bpdvideo.com Handles Privacy and Security Internally
Here are some of the security procedures that bpdvideo.com uses to protect your privacy:
* Uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
* Utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting Personally Identifiable Information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
* Closely monitors the limited number of bpdvideo.com employees who have potential access to your Personally Identifiable Information.
* Requires all bpdvideo.com employees to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
* Backs-up our systems to protect the integrity of your Personally Identifiable Information.
Despite bpdvideo.com’s efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.
8 Updating Your Information and Contacting bpdvideo.com
A. Updating Your Personally Identifiable Information
bpdvideo.com tools that collect and store self-reported data allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes.
B. Removing your Personal Information
If you have a complaint or problem, please use our Customer Support Form (Contact Us.) Our customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal bpdvideo.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but may not always be able to do so. If you want to (1) delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our systems, (2) update the Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us, or (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, select the privacy option on our Contact Us form.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We will inform you here if a material change is made to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the bpdvideo.com Web site will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use the bpdvideo.com Web site. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.
Personal Information – We will inform you if a material change in the Privacy Policy is made that involves the use of your Personal Information, and your express Opt-in authorization will be requested. If you choose to not accept the new privacy policy, then the current privacy policy conditions will remain in effect, so long as bpdvideo.com continues to make the functionality available. bpdvideo.com reserves the right to discontinue or limit functionality in all its products.
Non-Significant Changes – bpdvideo.com may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do not affect Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Information. For these instances, bpdvideo.com may not notify you of such non-significant changes.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement 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 statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, and by means of a notice on our home page.
10. Glossary
aggregate information or data: As a website gathers individual pieces of Non-Personal Information (see definition below) from its users, it may combine similar data from many or all the users of the website into one big “batch”. For example, the site may add up the total number of people in Peoria, Illinois, (but not their names) who are seeking information about weight loss and compare that to the number of people in Petaluma, California seeking the same information.
This sort of statistical information is called aggregate data because it reflects the habits and characteristics of a large group of anonymous people. Web sites may use aggregate data or share it with their business partners so that the information and services they provide best meet the needs of the users. Aggregate data also helps advertisers and sponsors on the Web know how effectively they are reaching and meeting the needs of their target audience.
browser: Short for web browser, a browser is a software application used to locate and display web (Internet) pages. The most popular browsers are AOL, FireFox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape Navigator. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats.
cache (also called cache memory): Once your Web browser accesses a web page, it references that page and the graphics on it within your computer’s “cache” (or more simply, your computer takes a “snapshot” of every page you visit and stores it in the “cache”.) The next time you visit that same page, your download time will be quicker as the images and much of the page is already available on your computer for your browser to reference instantly instead of waiting for the page and images to download again.
channel partner web site: A third party Web site to whom bpdvideo.com provides content and services.
click stream information: A record of all the pages you have visited during your visit to a particular Web site or the services you accessed from the site or from an email. Click Stream Information is associated with your browser and not with you personally. It records the archives of your browser.
cookie: A small data file that is stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a Web site. Cookies are placed by that site or by a third party with a presence on the site, such as an advertiser using a Web Beacon (see definition below) and are accessible only by the party or site that placed the Cookie (i.e. a Cookie placed on your computer by bpdvideo.com isn’t accessed by any other site you visit but a Cookie placed on your computer by an advertiser may be accessed by any site on which that same advertiser has a presence). Cookies can contain pieces of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). bpdvideo.com encrypts any PII it stores in its Cookies. These Cookies often are used to make the site easier to use. For example, if you check a box to ask that we store your user name on your computer so that you don’t have to enter it each time you visit the site, it’s stored in a Cookie on your computer.
encryption: The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. This is typically done by secure computer systems.
firewall: A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a public or private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private portions of public networks. All messages entering or leaving the network pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.
non-personal information: Information that is not traceable back to any individual and cannot be used to identify an individual. For example, Click Stream Information is Non-Personal Information, as is information such as gender, age, city and state when not linked with other Personally Identifiable Information.
Opt-In: Means you are actively indicating your preference to participate in a program, email, feature, tool, or enhancement on a Web site. Typically, if you “Opt-in” you must provide certain information, usually Personally Identifiable Information, to the Web site or otherwise actively indicate your choice or preference to participate in the Web site program. For example, if you wish to receive a diabetes newsletter by email from bpdvideo.com, you must enter your email address and choose the type of newsletter by checking a box next to a statement such as: “Yes, I’d like to receive a free subscription to bpdvideo.com’s Diabetes Newsletter.”
Opt-Out: Means that if you do not take some action you are indicating your preference to participate in a program, email, feature, tool or enhancement on a Web site. Typically, if you “Opt-out” you must uncheck a box next to a stated preference or otherwise take some indicate action to indicate your preference not to participate in a program. For example, if you do not wish to receive promotional emails from bpdvideo.com or its sponsors, you must uncheck the box in your email preference center that states: “Please send me special offers and communications from bpdvideo.com and/or its partners that would interest me.”
password: A secret series of characters, typically alphanumeric (meaning it consists of both letters and numbers) that enables you to access a file, computer, or program. You must enter your password before the computer or system will respond to commands. The password helps ensure that unauthorized users do not access the system. In addition, data files and programs may require a password. Ideally, the password should be something that nobody could guess. In practice, many people choose a password that is easy to remember, such as their name or their initials. This is one reason it is relatively easy to break into many computer systems.
personally identifiable information (PII): (also called Personal Information): Information that can be traced back to an individual (contrast with Non-Personal Information and Aggregate Information). Examples of PII include your name, home address, telephone number, email address, and Social Security number. If other pieces of information are linked to PII, they also become PII. For example, if you use a nickname to chat online and give out your real name while chatting, your nickname becomes PII when linked with other PII.
security questions: bpdvideo.com requires you to answer two security questions, usually called Challenge-Response questions. We will use the answers you provide to these questions to help you in the event you forget your username or password. In order to help maintain your privacy, we require an EXACT match against what you submitted during your registration process. Correct spelling and short answers can help ensure that you will succeed with retrieving your username or resetting your password.
server: A computer that provides services to other computers. A “web server” stores web site files and “serves” them to people who request them.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer): A security protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private information via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that’s transferred over the SSL connection. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Internet_Explorer.htm) and Netscape Navigator (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Navigator.htm) support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that utilize an SSL connection start with https: instead of http.
username: A name used to gain access to a computer system or program. Usernames, and often passwords, are required in shared systems, such as the Internet. In most such systems, users can choose their own usernames and passwords
virus: A program or piece of code that is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes. Viruses can also “replicate” themselves by copying their code to other computers. All computer viruses are manmade. A simple virus that can make a copy of itself over and over again is relatively easy to produce. Even such a simple virus is dangerous because it will quickly use all available memory and bring the system to a halt. An even more dangerous type of virus is one capable of transmitting itself across networks and bypassing security systems. There are numerous virus protection programs available. See the “How You Can Protect Yourself” section.
web beacons: (also often referenced as “clear GIFs”, “web bugs”, “1-by-1 GIFs”, “Single-Pixel GIFs”, “1 x 1 Pixels”, or “clear Pixels”): Tiny graphic image files, imbedded in a web page in GIF, jpeg or HTML format, typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the type browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server. Web Beacons can also be used to place a Cookie on your computer.
Last Updated: April 24, 2012
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