Privacy Policy—our website
Thank you for visiting the www.vitormedia.com website (the "Website"). Your privacy and the integrity of any information you provide are important to us at Vitor Media and/or its affiliates (“Company”), the operator of this website.
The terms “we”, “us” and “our” means Vitor Media and/or its affiliates or Company as designated herein, or an employee or independent contractor of the company.
“You”, “your” and “user” means the individual who is a customer by virtue of viewing our materials, site or apps (Services).
We are accountable for our Privacy Policy and our practices on our Website and Applications, including the Privacy Policy as set out below. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please address them via e-mail to us via our “Contact Us” page.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) informs You of Vitor Media’s policies and practices regarding the collection and use of information You submit directly to us, or to a third party with which we associate, or which we collect about You through our Services, and to inform You of options that You may choose to control or restrict the availability and use of Your information. Wherever You reside or from whichever country You submit your information, You consent to our use of your information, consistent with this Privacy Policy, whether in the United States or in other territories where Vitor Media may provide its Services.
We provide users, fans and creators (“You”, “Your”) access to videos, editorial content and other programming and services via the Vitor Media web site and applications, and/or any other platform or media through which we make such services available from time to time (collectively, the “Services”).
This Website may be connected by "hyperlinks" to other third party sites. We are not responsible in any way for the privacy practices on other third party sites and suggest that you review the privacy policies on those linked sites before using them.
For additional information about interest–based advertising, as well as instructions on how to manage advertising settings and opt out of interest-based advertising on a number of platforms and devices, visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer opt-out page.
(1) What is Personal Information?
Personal information is any piece of information about an identifiable individual. Personal information also includes the name, title, business address, or business telephone number of an employee of an organization (“Personal Information”).
Company is committed to use the highest standards in data security and privacy policies. We believe that genetic information is personal and private and highly confidential. You should have total control over access to your personal information and be the only one who decides who can view or share your information.
(2) Privacy and Usage of User’s Personal Information
Our primary goals in collecting information are to improve our features and content, to connect You with creators that You may enjoy, and to deliver content, promotions and other material that may be of interest to You.
Company will use the public or private user characteristics only to analyze and gather statistical aggregate information about the users of its Website and Applications. Such statistical analysis may include, but is not limited to: users by IP, age, gender or any other user characteristic. User’s identities will never be revealed. We use this non-identifiable and aggregate information to better design our website and apps for the purpose of optimizing our services and/or business. We also may share this general non-identifiable information with our affiliates, suppliers, sponsors, partners and advertisers.
Data Disclosure: In the events of legal processes served upon Company or in situations where Company rights and and/or properties need to be defended in relation to your agreement with us and as and only when the law requires us, Company may disclose your information to the relevant authorities as required.
Except for the above, Company will under no circumstances provide any third party, access to any of your personal data, unless you grant us an explicit authorization.
(3) The Use of email Addresses
Your email address will only be used for the purposes of contacting you and other users in order to fulfill the services offered by Company. This may include Company newsletters, friend’s invitations, notes about your results, etc. Email addresses will never be provided to any third party, without a written approval, or an electronic consent from you. Users can opt out from Company newsletters and from other email related activities by providing the company with a written notice (email is sufficient).
(4) Use or Disclosure for Marketing Purposes
Unless you have requested not to receive any marketing materials, we may also use (but will not disclose) your personal information to promote and market additional goods, services and special offers from us. You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to our Privacy Policy. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at http://www.vitormedia.com/contact/. We will inform you of the implications of withdrawing consent.
What Information is Collected?
We collect three kinds of information from our Website and/or apps:
your voluntarily provided Personal Information;
anonymous information about your visit; and;
"cookie" based information to help us track which pages on our Website you're most interested in.
(a) Your Personal Information:
During normal Website usage, you can visit our site without communicating any personal information. However, to make use of certain features on our site, such as personalized services, or newsletters, users may be asked to register with us.
As part of this voluntary registration, we may request contact information (such as name, mailing address, email address, etc.) and other data required for operating these services. We may only collect personal information from You if you voluntarily provide it. By voluntarily providing this personal information to us, by sending us a comment or suggestion, You will be consenting to the collection, use and distribution of your personal information by us for the purposes set out herein. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information, and may access and enjoy many parts of our website without providing us any personal information.
If You register for Our Services via one of Vitor Media’s connected social networking communities (such as Facebook or YouTube) (individually, “Partner Community” and collectively, “Partner Communities”), then We may obtain both Personal Information and Non-Identifying Information You provided to the Partner Community. The information we obtain may depend on the privacy settings You have with the Partner Community. “Personal Information” is information about You that can be used to contact or identify You, such as Your full name, address, e-mail address or phone number. “Non-Identifying Information” means information that does not permit the identification of an individual person, such as age or sex.
Among other things, the following is a representative list of reasons we may ask for your personal information:
To run our promotions;
To respond to your questions or the comments that you email to us;
To provide you with newsletters or other subscription information;
To gather aggregate information on website use and to provide services to the public of a general or specific nature, paid or unpaid.
(b) Log Data and Anonymous Information About Your Visit and use of our apps:
When You visit our site or apps, our servers may automatically record certain “Log Data” (defined below) that your browser or device sends whenever You visit our site or apps. “Log Data” is derived by our servers automatically as You interact with our site and apps, which record information that Your browser or device sends whenever You visit a website or app. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information. This Log Data may include information such as Your computer’s or app's IP (Internet Protocol) address, your unique device identifier, the geographic location of the IP address You are using to access the Internet, your browser type, your operating system (including whether You are connecting via a mobile device), device type/model, the time of day of your access, your general physical location, your pattern of activity on the website and app. We use this non-identifiable and aggregate information to better design our website and apps for the purpose of optimizing our services and/or business. We also may share this general non-identifiable information with our affiliates, suppliers, sponsors, partners and advertisers.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site and apps. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you when you visit our site and apps. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
(5) Web beacons and Cookies
To tailor our Website to the needs and interests of our visitors and users, we keep track of the pages, and videos accessed by our users by placing a small entry-in text file, called a "cookie", on your hard drive. A cookie is transferred to your browser by a web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. Cookies do not reveal personal information. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself such as email address, purchases and preferences. Cookies cannot read data from your hard drive. They are used by web developers to help users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions. We, or associated advertisers, may use both session cookies (which expire once You close Your browser) or persistent cookies (which remain for a certain period of time unless deleted) to collect certain Non-Identifying Information so that We may deliver to You content, including advertising content, We think may be of interest to You; to remember choices You make in order to improve user experience; and for analytics purposes, to monitor usage of Our website, to reengage users through marketing efforts, and improve user experience. We may collect information using Web beacons. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on Our Services or in Our emails. We use Web beacons, for example, to deliver cookies, understand Your usage and our campaigns and identify if You open and interact with an email. We may collect this information through third party tracking services like Google Analytics.
Please Note: You may visit the Website with your cookies turned off. However, you may not be able to access some of the areas of our site, which require cookies for customization and personalization.
(6) What if you do not agree with our Privacy Policy?
By visiting our Website and voluntarily providing personal information to the Website, You agree to the terms of the online Terms of Use Agreement and this Privacy Policy. However, we welcome your comments and/or suggestions on improving our website and policies. If you do not agree to these terms, or wish to limit the use of any of your personal information that we may have, You may contact us via email at our “Contact Us” page. In the case of promotions or sponsors, we will occasionally ask if You consent to the forwarding of Personal Information to our promotional, sponsors and advertising partners. You may confirm or decline your consent.
(7) Data storage and archival
Company uses a hosting provider that conforms to all necessary data security and availability. Company has no intention to delete your data at anytime unless so requested by You.
While Company will protect Personal Information with appropriate safeguards and security measures, we are not able to fully eliminate all security risks or potential breaches.
(8) Information Sharing
Personal Information. If You enter any information (including Personal Information), into postings or comments on our website (vitormedia.com) or apps, then this information will be visible by other users and may be discoverable through search engines.
Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information. We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and We may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, and other purposes relating to our site and apps.
Service Providers. We may work with third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, to provide parts of the Services on our behalf, to perform support services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Services are used. If these third parties have access to Your Personal Information, then it will be only to perform these tasks on our behalf and they will be obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Business Transfers. If Vitor Media or the assets of Vitor Media are acquired by another company, then we may transfer your information in connection with that acquisition or sale and the acquiring company will possess the information (including Your Personal Information) collected by Vitor Media and it will assume the rights and obligations described in this Privacy Policy.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement. We will access and disclose your Personal Information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with relevant laws, to respond to valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order, to protect the property and rights of Vitor Media or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable.
Retaining Information. Unless there is a specific legal or regulatory requirement for Us to keep information, we will retain it for no longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which the data was collected or for which it is to be further processed.
(9) Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and You are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. Under 16 viewers must use the Vitor Media site and apps under adult supervision.
(10) Editing or Deleting Your Information
When You receive newsletters or promotional communications from Vitor Media, You may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and You will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in the e-mail You receive. We may, however, still send You administrative e-mails regarding the apps and site. If You want to review, update, or correct the Personal Information You have provided to us, then You may update it through the designated link in the communication You receive from us, and if You wish to delete all your information, then You may email Vitor Media at info@vitormedia.com with a request that We delete Your Personal Information from our database. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor Your request in a timely fashion. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
(11) Changes to this Privacy Policy
By accessing the Services, You agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and review, improve, modify or discontinue, temporarily and/or permanently, the Services or any content or information through the Services, at any time. We shall endeavor to notify You of these changes by email or by making available the revised version of this Privacy Policy through or in connection with the Services. If any future changes to this Privacy Policy are unacceptable to You or cause You to no longer be in compliance with this Privacy Policy, then You must terminate, and immediately stop using the Services. Your access to or use of the Services following changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute Your acceptance of those changes and Your consent to our use of Your information consistent with this Privacy Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any changes to this Privacy Policy shall not apply to any dispute between You and Vitor Media prior to the date on which We posted the revised version of this Privacy Policy incorporating such changes or otherwise notified You of such changes.
