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VIZU PRIVACY PRINCIPLES:
- Our business is predicated on trust and privacy.
- Accurate, truthful information from our users is the foundation of our business.
- We respect our users' privacy.
- We will strive to earn our users' trust and to maintain their privacy every day.
VIZU PRIVACY SUMMARY:
- Much of Vizu is available for anonymous use by the general public.
- The Vizu experience is enhanced for registered users proportionately to the information they choose to share about
themselves during registration and in their user preferences.
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Vizu deeply respects the privacy of this information and does not make it available on the site, other than in
aggregate form, unless requested or allowed by the user.
- Vizu does use the information collected via interaction with its service to continually improve its service and
offerings and those of its partners.
- Vizu respects the fact the various people may have different wishes with respect to the degree that they are
contacted by Vizu or any of its partners. Vizu and its partners will only contact users to the degree they specify.
- Users are free to update or delete their information and preferences or to opt out of the Vizu community at any
time.
- Users are advised to read Vizu's entire Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
VIZU PRIVACY POLICY
We at Vizu, Inc. ("Vizu", "we", or "us") recognize
the importance of protecting the privacy rights of our users. We have created
this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain our privacy
practices so you will understand when and how personally identifiable
information is collected, used, disclosed and protected with respect to our web
site located at www.Vizu.com (the "Site"). BY ACCESSING OUR SITE, YOU
CONSENT TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY AS DESCRIBED HEREIN.
POLICY DATE:
This policy was last updated on July 1, 2005.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, Vizu may need to change our Privacy Policy because of changes in the law, in technology, in Vizu's business, or in our attempts to serve your needs better. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post a new statement on our Site and update the effective date set forth above. Therefore, we encourage you to check the date of our Privacy Policy whenever you visit this Site to see if it has been updated since your last visit. Below we explain how we may collect personal information, what we do with it, and how we protect it.
USE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE PROHIBITED
Our Site is intended solely for use by persons 13 years of age or older. All persons under 13 years of age are prohibited from registering on our Site. All persons between the ages of 13 and 18 must have a parent assist in the completion of registration on our Site.
WHAT INFORMATION DOES VIZU GATHER?
The choice of how much personally identifiable information you disclose to us is
completely at your discretion. Some areas of our Site are accessible without
registration of any kind. This is true of many of the basic content areas on our
Site. Other areas of our Site require registration in order for you to
participate in the services offered. It is not mandatory for you to register and
provide information to us, but please realize that in order for us to serve you
better, you will need to provide certain information to access some areas of our
Site, to obtain or register for the specialized services we provide, or to
complete transactions that you initiate on our Site. If you choose not to
provide information, we may not be able to permit access to such areas, provide
those specialized services, or complete such transactions. A user's email
address and other personally identifiable information collected are used only as
described in this Privacy Policy and, unless opted-out, for the purposes of
offering you goods and services that, in the sole discretion of Vizu and its
affiliates, you may find interesting or of use. By providing such information,
you consent to Vizu's Privacy Policy, including the collection and uses of the
information described in this policy.
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Information gathered through registration, login, and participation in Vizu polls or
other services:
Registration is required to enable access to some features, functionality,
and information on the Site, to send you specific information related to
your service, to allow you to access stored information, and in the event
that you do not opt-out, to provide third party access to you. When
registering on Vizu you may need to provide your full name and email address,
along with other personally identifiable information that may be voluntarily
provided. You will also need to select a username and password for your
account. Also, we may collect
information that identifies you personally when you send us comments,
questions or suggestions. From time-to-time we may post contests or
sweepstakes on our Site, which may request demographic information and
customer feedback. Participation in these requests is completely voluntary
and with each request you will have the choice of whether or not to
participate and disclose information.
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Communication Features:
Our users also have the option of forwarding some of our content to friends,
colleagues or acquaintances (Contacts) through such features as our email
and IM capabilities. If a user
elects to use our communication features, we ask them for the required
contact information (e.g. email address or IM address).
Vizu stores this information for the sole purpose of sending these
messages only; we will not use this information for other purposes unless
the Contacts registers on our Site. Contacts may contact Vizu to request the removal of this information from our database.
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Information gathered through traffic monitoring
Like many other Web sites, our Site is equipped with a program that monitors
traffic by automatically logging information such as visitor's host, domain
name, pages visited, length of user sessions, browser type and/or IP address.
This program tracks the number of times the Site is hit, how many visitors
come to the Site, which parts of the Site they frequent, and the length of
time of each visit. Please note that if you have registered with us, this
information may contain personally identifiable information, and is used to
evaluate areas of interest and to improve the Vizu site and may be provided
to third parties by Vizu or its affiliates. In addition to log information,
we may use a variety of technologies to create a more personalized
experience for our users. A cookie is a small text file placed on a user's
computer when a user visits a Web site. The cookie gives the user a unique,
random ID, and this ID enables our Site to readily recognize each visitor on
a subsequent visit to the Site. For example, a cookie may indicate the
preferences selected by a visitor on a prior visit, and facilitate more
efficient browsing on subsequent visits by using such preferences to
customize the content and/or layout of our Site for the visitor. Vizu may
use cookies. Users are free to change their web browsers to prevent the
acceptance of cookies. However, subscribers of Vizu must enable cookies to
access member areas. Vizu's cookies may contain personally identifiable
information collected by Vizu. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that are
included in HTML-encoded e-mail messages. We may use pixel tags to gather
information about the e-mails we send to our registered users and to
recipients of referral messages. When such a message is opened in an
HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to
retrieve the pixel tag file, and allows us to record and store the date and
time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information.
The pixel tag also may read cookies. Our web pages may also contain similar
pixel tags that allow us to count users who have visited those pages, to
compile aggregated statistics about Site usage, and to deliver co-branded
services as they become available. Our pixel tags collect only a limited set
of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and
a description of the page on which the pixel tag resides. Our web pages may
also contain pixel tags placed there by third party ad servers, to monitor
the effectiveness of their advertising.
HOW DOES VIZU USE COLLECTED INFORMATION?
Vizu uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of our Site and
the services offered on our Site. By registering on our Site, you provide
permission for Vizu to contact you via email, or other automated means of
communication, and to share your information with third parties to offer goods
and services to you, to facilitate the process of applying to college. All users
have the ability to opt-out of receiving advertising emails or other advertising
communications from Vizu. Users may also opt-out of sharing this information
with our partners and third parties. If you have not opted out from being
contacted by a third party, then your personal information could be used by our
partners and third parties to direct targeted messages to you. In addition, once
we have provided information to our suppliers or selected vendors or third
parties due to registration, requests for services, or transactions initiated by
you, we are not responsible for their use of the information, and you should
consult their respective privacy and information use policies.
In all cases, we strive to work only with other entities that understand
the sensitivity of personal information and have and uphold strict privacy
policies.
Listed below are some of the ways in which your information may be used:
- To compile the results of our Vizu polls;
- To improve Vizu's and its affiliates' products and services;
- To customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor;
- To ask for your participation in surveys, contests or sweepstakes;
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To notify visitors about updates, products, services, and/or special offers from Vizu
or its affiliates, selected vendors, or suppliers;
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To assist our suppliers and selected vendors in targeting updates, new products,
services, and/or special offers to you through Vizu.
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To generate aggregate statistical studies and conduct and report research
related to our polls;
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To complete any purchases or other transactions you may do at the Site (which
will include providing your information to the relevant supplier or selected
vendor so that they can complete your purchase or transaction);
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To identify, develop, and offer polling or market research related products and
services or to obtain such products and services from suppliers and selected
vendors;
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To share with contractors who assist Vizu with programming and technical aspects of
hosting and Web site operation. All contractors subscribe to Vizu's
confidentiality and privacy conditions.
VIZU SUPPLIERS AND SELECTED VENDORS; LINKED SITES
Vizu provides, for the convenience of our users, the opportunity to link to Web
sites of organizations not related to Vizu, Inc. If you click on a hypertext
link that takes you to a Web site outside of Vizu, we are not responsible for
their privacy policies or information collection practices and uses. In addition,
when you initiate a transaction with one of our suppliers or selected vendors
through Vizu, the information that you and we submit to the supplier or selected
vendor for the transaction becomes subject to the supplier or selected vendor's
privacy or information use policies. Vizu is not responsible for the privacy or
information use policies of its suppliers and selected vendors. We encourage you
to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any website you
visit. Our Site may provide links to third party websites, which may, or may not,
use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. We also may allow other companies, called
third-party ad servers, to display advertisements on our Site. Ad servers may
also use these tools to compile information about where users saw particular
advertisements, and to determine which ads were clicked on. We are not
responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third
party websites and ad servers, and encourage all users to read the privacy
policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from our Site.
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HOW CAN USERS UPDATE THEIR INFORMATION OR OPT-OUT?
If you would like to change any of the personally identifiable information that
you completed when you registered, you can: login using your username and
password, go to MY Vizu / Profile / Edit Profile and make any necessary changes.
If you would like to change any of your preferences (opt-out or opt-ins) for
receiving emails or other communications, login using your username and password,
go to MY Vizu / Profile / Edit Profile / Manage Services. You indicate your
option whether or not to receive this information by checking or unchecking a
box as provided on a form; based on your preferences, information will or will
not be shared with third parties. To opt-out of or unsubscribe from any online
service on Vizu, simply sign-in to your personal account and click My Vizu /
Preferences / Manage Services and opt-out of any service you wish. Again, please
remember, once we have provided information to our suppliers or selected vendors
due to transactions initiated by you, we are not responsible for their use of
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SECURITY
The importance of security for all personal information associated with our
users is important to us. We strongly recommend that you employ a secure browser
- one that supports secure transmission of data across the Internet. For more
information, use your browser's help feature. We implement commercially
reasonable measures in providing secure transmission of your information from
your computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note, if you do not logout
once registered for services that require registration, your personal
information could be viewed by other users with access to your computer. Once we
receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our
systems. Your Vizu password is protected so that only you can access it and view
the member information relevant to the account. We recommend that you do not
divulge your password to anyone. Vizu will never ask you for your password in an
unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your passwords and any account information. Please note, if you
choose to participate in our online discussion forums, your posts will be
publicly accessible, as will your username.
Unless you choose to reveal more about yourself to other users of Vizu,
you will be known only by your User Name / User ID, which need not reflect your
true identity in any way.
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CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
In the event of a change in ownership, merger or acquisition with another entity, sale or pledge of company assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, we reserve the right to transfer all of Vizu's user information, including email addresses, postal addresses, and other personally identifiable information, to third parties as one of our business assets.
PROTECTION OF VIZU AND OTHERS
Vizu may disclose any user information, including personally identifiable information, pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order, where required by law, or, at our sole discretion, where we deem necessary to protect the safety of any individual or the public or to prevent the violation of our Terms of Service Agreement or of the rights of Vizu or any third party.
WHO CAN I CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION?
If you have questions or would like to be deactivated from Vizu's lists, you may contact us or write us at Vizu, Inc., CORPORATE ADRESS. Vizu will use reasonable efforts to assist you.
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