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Privacy Policy

WheelsTV IPTV Privacy Policy

Updated May 4th, 2009

The WheelsTV IPTV Privacy Policy describes how Automotive Networks Corporation and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use WheelsTV IPTV services, including information provided when you use WheelsTV IPTV. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to WheelsTV IPTV. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use WheelsTV IPTV, you should read this policy and the WheelsTV IPTV Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

  • Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on WheelsTV IPTV without having a WheelsTV IPTV Account. You can also contact us about a particular video without having a WheelsTV IPTV Account.

  • Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on WheelsTV IPTV like uploading videos, uploading photos, posting blogs, posting forum topics, creating profiles, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos require you to have a WheelsTV IPTV Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a WheelsTV IPTV Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A WheelsTV IPTV 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 WheelsTV IPTV, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in WheelsTV IPTV (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account.

  • Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on forums, 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 WheelsTV IPTV Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the WheelsTV IPTV 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 WheelsTV IPTV Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the WheelsTV IPTV 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 video.

  • 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 program 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 WheelsTV IPTV 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 WheelsTV IPTV Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

  • We use cookies, clear gifs and pngs, 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 WheelsTV IPTV Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized 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. If you download the WheelsTV IPTV Uploader, your copy of the Uploader includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information about your installation of the Uploader (e.g. version number, language) will be sent to WheelsTV IPTV when the Uploader automatically checks for updates.

Information That is Publicly Available

  • When you create an account on the site, some information about 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 into your account, your vehicle details (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of videos you have watched, your blogs, your photos, your forum posts, and information about you or your vehicle.

  • Your account user name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos or send messages through the WheelsTV IPTV Sites. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments.

  • You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your garage profile page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, you name, gender, about you, or other details.

  • If you choose to add certain features to your garage profile page, then 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 what videos you favorite, what videos you rated and what videos you have uploaded.

  • Any videos that you submit to the WheelsTV IPTV Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

Your Choices

  • You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the WheelsTV IPTV Sites, in which case you can still view videos and explore the WheelsTV IPTV Sites, but WheelsTV IPTV may not be able to provide certain services to you.

  • You may update or correct your personal garage profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your My Account page.

  • You may clear your viewing history at any time through the "Viewing History" feature.

  • You may control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your garage profile page.

More Information
For questions concerning the product or your account, please email us for help.

For more information about our privacy practices, write to us at:
Automotive Networks Corporation
Attn: WheelsTV IPTV Privacy Policy
289 Great Road
Acton, MA 01720
USA