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SPOTLIGHT PRANKS, LLC “GOTCHA GIRLS” PRIVACY POLICY Spotlight Pranks, LLC or www.gotchagirls.com (the “Company,” “we,” “our” or words of similar import)privacy procedures include the following: We disclose our privacy policies and procedures in this document. We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes without providing you with a choice to opt out from such disclosure, which you can exercise at the My profile page page. We allow all users to opt out at any time from receiving e-mail messages and other electronic communications from the Company and third parties including selected the Company partners or from having information shared for marketing purposes with third parties including selected the Company sponsors or business partners. We allow users to access their profiles and change information as they deem necessary. Since this policy may change over time as we modify or expand our service, we suggest that you check back from time to time in order to understand how we treat your information. Your use of the Company constitutes your agreement to the terms of the Company's privacy policy. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will prominently post those changes on this page 30 days prior to the change and provide you an opportunity to opt-out, so that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of the Company constitutes your agreement to any such changes. This document is rather long because we want to give our users all the facts about our privacy policy. The items below provide an index to the information that follows: • What personally identifiable information does the Company collect? • How does the Company use the personal information? • What choices are available to you regarding the collection, disclosure and distribution of personal information and how you can opt out? • What are cookies and how they are used by the Company? • What is the Company's relationship with Doubleclick and other Advertising Networks? • What happens when you leave the Company.com to go to other sites? • Who has access to your personally identifiable information? • How and when is personal information disclosed to 3rd parties? • How can you correct inaccuracies in your personal information? • What is the Company's policy regarding children's privacy? • Who can you contact with questions regarding this policy? What personally identifiable information does the Company collect? Registration Data During registration, the Company collects personal information including your name, address, email address, birth date, gender, zip code and phone number. After providing the Company with this information, you are no longer anonymous. You do not have to provide any personal information to use the Company service. However, if you choose to withhold registration information, you will not be registered and you will not earn entries into the Company Sweepstakes when using the www.gotchagirls.com website. In addition, we may not be able to provide you with some of the other services dependent upon the collection of such information, such as a personalized home page, which is now in development. The Company Software Applications If you elect to install certain software products that may become available in the future (the "Company Software Products") provided by the Company to its users, the Company may collect additional information about you. Importantly, the Company Software Products are spy-ware and ad-ware free. The Company Software Products do not collect or report information about your activity on websites other than www.gotchagirls.com website. In addition, the Company Software products do not present you with ads, such as pop-up or so-called "contextual marketing". the Company Software products include software that allow us to distribute updates and fixes, but such updates will occur only upon prior notice to you, except for the limited case where notice is not possible due to technical problems or an emergency that requires us to update the application in order to maintain existing functionality or to comply with the law. All such updates shall be governed by and made in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any applicable end user license agreements. Other data collected From time to time, the Company may collect additional personal and non-personal information about you. This may include: • Credit card information to process your request for products, programs, or services. • Information you provide when registering to receive goods or services from one or more of our partners. • Information you provide when entering into a contest, sweepstakes or promotion sponsored by the Company and/or one of our partners. • Information you provide when filling out a user survey. • Information you provide if you contact our customer service center. • Data related to the areas of the Company that you visit and how often you visit those areas. This includes co-branded sections of the Company that are part of our overall service. • Publicly available information that we obtain from third parties. The Company will make an effort to include a link to the Privacy Policy whenever we ask you for additional personal information or offer you an the Company Software Product. How does the Company use personal information? We plan to use the personal information you supply us, including your registration data, to enhance the Company service, fulfill your requests for products, programs, or services, personalize your experience and provide you or permit others to provide you with special offers we think you will find valuable. We plan to use other information obtained from user site traffic patterns to better provide you with a personalized experience which may include special advertising offers and promotions. We view personalized advertising as beneficial to our users. We also use your registration data information in connection with the Company Sweepstakes and other promotions in order to track your progress, to notify you if you are a winner and to ensure that we comply with applicable laws. The Company plans to use the information described above to do, among other things, the following: • Personalize and enhance the Company site and service such as providing you with your personalized weather, horoscope, and advertisements we believe will be of interest to you. • Send personalized information about the Company and its site features, prizes and special offers, unless you have opted out of receiving these types of communications. • Send you advertising from third parties including selected and trusted the Company partners, unless you have opted out of receiving these types of communications. • Provide your personal information to selected 3rd parties unless you have opted not to permit such sharing. • Provide you with advertising and other promotional offers that we believe will be of interest to you. • Contact users for feedback regarding the Company and the Company's partners via email surveys. We may also use the information we collect to develop summary reports for our advertisers, if we begin to offer advertising on the Company’s site. An example of a summary report might be "100,000 people clicked on this link and of those people, 35% were registered users above the age of 25." We provide this information to assist our advertisers in determining how to promote their products. We do not tell our advertisers who it was that saw or clicked on their advertisements unless you have specifically told us this is acceptable. Unless you have opted out of receiving special offers, emails or other communications from selected third parties, we also may provide a report to our advertiser which tells them who responded to a particular offer. For example, we might send you an email, launch a new window within your internet browser, or send you other advertisements in electronic form which offer you a discount on a particular good or service. If you click on that e-mail or advertisement or accept an offer or discount contained therein, we may provide the advertiser with the information necessary to provide you with that discount or offer. Refer-a-Friend feature If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. The Company does store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to request that we remove this information from our database. Information that you may provide while using products that may soon become available, such as the Company Message Boards and the Company Chat is available for all to see. Discretion should be used in entering Personally Identifiable Information within such forums, as it may be collected by third parties, without our knowledge or consent. The Company does not plan to actively associate the message content entered by our users in the Company Message Boards, or the Company Chat products with those users' registration information. Our server computers will retain this information, however; and it is potentially available for distribution to third parties - most obviously law-enforcement agencies acting under subpoena power, per the terms of this section of our Privacy Policy. We do not use this information to target any advertising to our users, nor is it ever willingly distributed to any third party, such as an advertiser, except if subpoenaed. What choices are available to you regarding the collection, disclosure and distribution of personal information and how can you opt-out? You can choose at anytime after registration, to opt out of receiving emails from the Company or from having your personally identifiable information shared with selected companies. If you want to opt out, you can do so by going to the My profile page and editing your preferences with respect to email or the sharing of information. If you elect to "opt out" we will not, as applicable, share your personal information with third parties or send you emails. However, the Company may continue to use your personal information for internal purposes, to conduct sweepstakes and promotions, to enhance your user experience or as necessary to administer the site or comply with applicable law. For more on this see Administering the Site below. If you have installed a Company Software Product, as and when offered, you may choose to remove that product from your computer at any time in your sole discretion. You may terminate the collection of information due to the installation of the Company Software Applications at any time by removing all the Company Software Applications from your computer. All information collected up to the date on which you remove all the Company Software Applications from your computer will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy in effect at the time of any subsequent use and your preferences as indicated in your profile. What are cookies are and how they are used by the Company? A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. As a standard practice, the Company assigns a cookie with an anonymous identifier to each end user. The Company may use its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: • Track entries in the Company Sweepstakes, as well as other contests and promotions. • Access your information when you "sign in," so that we can provide you with customized content, such as My.gotchagirls.com. • Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the Company's services -- for example, the local zip code you want to use for shipping. • Display relevant advertising banners based on your interests and activity on the Company. • Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic. • Conduct research to improve the Company's content and services. • Require you to re-enter your the Company password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents. The Company does not require users to accept cookies in order to enter or view the site. However, if you reject cookies, you will not be able to participate in the the Company Sweepstakes or to access other features. You can set your browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when the Company or another company sends you a cookie. If you have questions about how to change your browser's "cookie" settings, please contact the software manufacturer. Please note that some areas or features of the Company will be significantly slower, or may not function at all, if cookies are disabled. What is the Company's relationship with various Advertising Networks? Some of the ads appearing on the Company site are delivered to you by third party web advertising providers. In the course of delivering an ad to you, these advertising providers may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other Web sites through the use of cookies or similar technology. This information is used, among other reasons, to deliver tailored ads to you. When you are on the Company website, advertisers and/or our partners may place their own cookies on your computer, even if you remain solely on the Company site. the Company does not control the use that these parties make of the information obtained through the cookies they send. If you have questions or concerns regarding cookies sent to you by companies other than the Company, we encourage you to contact those companies directly. What happens when you leave the Company site to go to other sites? When you are on the Company site, you may be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or an the Company search result, the "click" may take you off the Company site. These other sites may independently collect data, solicit personal information, or send their own cookies to you. the Company is not responsible for any use of the information including click-stream data that you may create when using such 3rd party sites. The Company may also offer its users access to "co-branded" services that are jointly provided by the Company and selected companies. In many cases, these co-branded services will contain the Company branding, but may not be hosted by the Company. You may notice that you are on a co-branded site if the pages say "provided by", or if you are asked to subscribe for any service or provide additional information. In such cases, if you use the co-branded service, the Company may be entitled to receive information about what you do when using that service. If you elect to provide additional personal information using a co-branded service, the information you provide may be shared or jointly retained by the provider of that service in accordance with that provider's privacy policies and terms of service. Again, we encourage you to read the privacy polices of these other companies and to contact these companies directly if you have any questions about their use of this information. When you are using a co-branded service, we will attempt to make sure that there is a link to the service provider's applicable privacy policies and terms of service. Who has access to your personally identifiable information? Your registration data is password-protected so that only you and the Company have access to this personal information. You may edit your registration data by using your password. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. the Company will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also, if you share your computer or use a computer that is accessed by the general public (a university, library, etc...), remember to "sign out" of your the Company account and close your browser window when you have finished your session. This will help to ensure that others cannot access your personal information. The Company takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you use these services at your own risk. How and when is information disclosed to 3rd parties? In general, the Company does not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party without first providing you with an opportunity to opt out except in special situations described below, such as to comply with the law or administer the site. Unless you have opted out after registration, the Company may make your personally identifiable information available to selected companies. You can elect to opt-out at anytime by going to the My profile page. page. You can also elect not to use certain services or participate in certain promotions if you do not want your information shared with the third parties who are sponsoring or administering such promotions. In the event that all or substantially all of the Company's stock and/or assets are transferred or sold to another entity, the Company may transfer personally identifiable information to the acquiring entity. the Company will post all changes to company information in the About the Company section located on the website. Sweepstakes, Promotions and sponsorships: The Company may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors of promotions or sweepstakes available through the Company. Special sponsor promotions may often involve a request for information or a grant of permission to share personally identifiable information. By submitting this information or participating in the promotion, you give the Company permission to transfer this information to the sponsor or as otherwise stipulated in connection with the rules or privacy policy applicable to the promotion. You should review any applicable sweepstakes and promotions rules or user agreement to see what is being shared. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will disclose this to you before we collect or transfer the data. Administering the Site and Compliance with Law: The Company may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, or other legal process. the Company may also disclose personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service or to protect the safety of our users and the public. In addition, we may share your personal information under confidentiality agreements with certain third parties which assist us in developing, operating and maintaining the Company or for determining whether or not to provide you with new services or special offers. The Company also may disclose or access personally identifiable information for administrative and other purposes that we believe are necessary to develop, maintain and improve our products and services. This may include delivery services, fulfillment houses, and other similar entities. How can you correct inaccuracies in your personal information? You may update your personal information as necessary by going to the the My profile page, which allows you to access and edit your registration account information. In addition, you may contact the Company Customer Service to update your profile. What is the Company's policy regarding children's privacy? The Company is committed to the safety of our children. Children under 18 may not register or participate in the Company Sweepstakes. The Company does not knowingly collect any personal information from such children at this site. Who can you contact with questions regarding this policy? Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the Company Customer Service. Last Updated: March 1, 2005. |