Updated as of 25 June 2009
The Snoovel Privacy Policy describes how Snoovel and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use Snoovel services, including information provided when you use Snoovel. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to Snoovel. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use Snoovel, you should read this policy.
Personal Information
Non-Account Activity. You can watch Guided Tours on Snoovel without having a Snoovel Account.
Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Snoovel—like uploading images and videos, posting comments, flagging Guided Tours or watching restricted Guided Tours—require you to have a Snoovel Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Snoovel Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorised access. A Snoovel Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use Snoovel, the channels, groups and favourites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the guided tours you watch and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Snoovel (including UI elements, settings and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others
Uses
If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Snoovel Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain and provide to you the general and personalised features and functionality of the Snoovel Sites and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you upload videos or send messages through the Snoovel Sites and other users can contact you through messages and comments. Any content that you submit to the Snoovel Sites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same content.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific programme or feature for which you will have the ability to opt in or opt out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Snoovel Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Snoovel Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality and services by storing, tracking, analysing and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
We use cookies, clear gifs and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Snoovel Sites; (b) provide custom, personalised content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions and status in promotions, sweepstakes and contests.
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Snoovel Sites.
Information That is Publicly Available
When you create an account on the site, some information regarding your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged in to your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), your country and the number of videos you have watched.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as uploading content or sending messages via the Snoovel Sites. Other Users can contact you via messages and comments.
- If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include Guided Tours you add as favourites, Guided Tours you rate and content you have uploaded.
Any content that you submit to the Snoovel Sites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same content.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
- Snoovel allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Snoovel Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Snoovel Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalise the advertising content you see.
- Snoovel does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific programme or feature for which you will have the ability to opt in or opt out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Snoovel to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men aged 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men aged 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Snoovel Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
- We use third-party advertising companies, in particular Google Inc. with their AdSense service, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google Inc., click here. (http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html)
