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Privacy Policy LAST UPDATED: August 19, 2008
LakeStarTV.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What The LakeStarTV.com Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how LakeStarTV treats personal information that LakeStarTV collects and receives, including information related to your past use of LakeStarTV products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that LakeStarTV does not own or control, or to people that LakeStarTV does not employ or manage. In addition, most LakeStarTV partner companies have their own privacy statements which can be viewed on their sites.
Information Collection and Use in General
LakeStarTV collects personal information when you register with LakeStarTV, when you use LakeStarTV products or services, when you visit LakeStarTV pages or the pages of certain LakeStarTV partners, and when you enter contests, promotions or sweepstakes. LakeStarTV may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, income, and personal interests. Some questions are an optional answer which is displayed in the registration form. Once you register with LakeStarTV.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. LakeStarTV collects information about your interactions and transactions with us and with some of our business partners. LakeStarTV automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, LakeStarTV cookie information.
LakeStarTV uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
When a child under age 13 attempts to register with LakeStarTV, we reject that registration. If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to LakeStarTV, he or she can contact us via e-mail listed below. LakeStarTV will promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. We at LakeStarTV believe that parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission. LakeStarTV.com is a general audience site, and is not directed to children under the age of 13. LakeStarTV respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Information Sharing and Disclosure
LakeStarTV does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with LakeStarTV under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help LakeStarTV communicate with you about offers from LakeStarTV and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the LakeStarTV terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if LakeStarTV is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, LakeStarTV will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. LakeStarTV displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, men ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. LakeStarTV does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. LakeStarTV advertisers are registered businesses from all categories of the business sector.
LakeStarTV may set and access LakeStarTV cookies on your computer. LakeStarTV lets some partner companies that show advertisements on LakeStarTV set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to LakeStarTV's cookies.
You can edit your "Certified LakeStar Registration" Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the LakeStarTV service, such as service announcements, or administrative messages, or any other announcements that are considered part of your LakeStarTV account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you. Confidentiality and Security
LakeStarTV may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your LakeStarTV account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
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