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Privacy Statement
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Website Membership and Participation Eligibility
Parts of our website may require that you be thirteen (13) years of age or older to participate and/or be a member and receive membership benefits, and you must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to participate in our citizen selection. We may conduct other contests and/or special events over our site. To participate in these events, you must meet the designated minimum age requirements for the specific event. Please see our Terms of Usage Agreement for additional information on membership and/or participation on our website.
Collection of Personal Information
We provide various informative, educational, and entertaining features as part of this website. To operate these features, we collect certain non-personal and personal information from our visitors for specific purposes. For website activities that request personal information, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself. Your membership and/or participation in our website activities will be canceled without notice if at any time we discover that you provide false information, or violate any term of our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Usage Agreement. We may retain personal information for an indefinite amount of time to preserve our database and to comply with various federal and state laws.
Use and Collection of Information by Purplestates.tv
To participate as a member of our website, or in online activities, special events, or Interactive Areas ("Interactive Areas" include chat rooms, bulletin boards, message boards or internetworking groups, article, vlog or blog comment areas, SMS text messaging, mobile alerts, and mobile e-mail updates), you may be required to provide personally identifiable information such as your name, home and e-mail addresses, telephone number, birth date and gender ("personal information"). We may also survey visitors about various topics, including opinions and experiences and how we can improve our website and services. Response to our surveys is entirely voluntary.
We collect personal information for several important purposes, including to operate our membership base, protect the security of our visitors and the site, improve our service and website, distribute our newsletters, and to allow participation in specified activities or Interactive. We may also offer an "Email ThisÓ feature that allows visitors to e-mail a link to another person to inform them about the Purplestates.tv site and our features.
The only personal information this website obtains about you is information voluntarily provided by you through our website. This means that a person can visit our website and navigate through the site without giving us personal information. To gauge the effectiveness of our website, we may collect non-personal information about our members and visitors, such as Internet server and browser identification, the Internet service provider, clickstream information, the web page from which a person enters our site, webpages visited, duration of visit and domain type. This information does not reveal a visitor's personal identity.
We may produce certain contests and special events with the support of affiliated or non-affiliated sponsors and/or promotional partners. Depending on the event, visitors will be able to either grant their approval on how their personal information will be used before it is collected ("opt-in"), or choose to deny use of their information for additional purposes ("opt-out"). For each contest, sweepstakes, and/or special event, we will post on the website applicable rules for the event, and if necessary, post any supplemental terms and conditions or privacy provisions. To the extent there is a conflict between those privacy provisions and this policy, the privacy provisions for the specific event will govern.
Our Policy on Disclosing Your Information to Parties Other than Purple States, LLC
We only share or disclose your personal information with companies other than Purplestates.tv when it is required by law, disclosure is necessary to operate the website or certain website services, to protect the safety of our visitors, employees or property and/or when disclosure is consistent with Purplestates.tv's practices for services that are similarly provided offline. The website may offer you the opportunity to participate in Interactive Areas. Your member name may appear next to your user comments or opinions, ratings, comments or other postings or participation in Interactive Areas on the website. Your member name may also appear on a member profile section of the website. We may also use and disclose your member name and comments or opinions and ratings in any other manner in accordance with the Terms of Usage Agreement.
Purplestates.tv is a division of Purple States LLC, doing business in the State of Connecticut as Purple States LLC. We may in the future share personal information with our partners, affiliates or other entities for other purposes. If we decide to enter into such sharing arrangements, we will disclose to our registered members and in this Privacy Policy the name of the entity(s) that we will share information with, what type of personal information will be shared, how the information will be used, and how to contact us if you do not want us to share your personal information ("opt-out").
When visitors send an e-mail to us, we will protect your e-mail address and other personal contact information. However, we may disclose the content of your e-mail to other persons. Please see our Terms of Usage Agreement. We may share your personal information with our operational providers or those persons, companies or agents who provide support for the internal operations of the website, such as contest fulfillment services, maintenance and technical services, and e-commerce and auction contractors.
We may collect and provide aggregate information about our visitors to our advertisers, sponsors, promotional partners, and affiliates, such as how many persons visited a particular page or activity, the average age of our visitors on the site or page, or the likes and dislikes of our visitors, but this information does not include personal information about any individual visitor. We may obtain geographic information such as zip code clustering from other sources, but this aggregate information will not reveal any personal information about a specific visitor.
Use of Cookies and Tracking Devices
This site uses cookies or other tracking devices. A cookie is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that a website places on your hard drive when you visit a site. The "cookie" is able to store information such as data about your computer, the type of browser you use, and how many times your computer visits a certain site. Cookies do not allow the website to access personal information that you haven't already provided. Cookies enable us to track how often visitors are visiting our website and specific pages, the number of entries in specific events, the estimated audience size for sponsors and advertisers, and user preferences. You can refuse to use cookies by turning them off in your browser. Please contact your software manufacturer for questions on how to disable your cookies. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use most of this site. However, you may find that some areas on the website will be slower, or may not function at all, and you may not be able to participate in certain activities such as contests or sweepstakes if the cookies are disabled.
Use and Collection of Information by Advertisers and Sponsors
In addition to in-house advertising, we use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our site. This advertising company may collect and use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our site and other websites not owned and operated by Purplestates.tv, and may also combine this information with other data, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we may share non-personal website usage information about visitors to this site with this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our site and other sites. For these purposes, Purplestates.tv and our third party advertising company may note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of cookies. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your computer.
Our website may post banner ads and other forms of advertisements, and/or links to the websites of affiliate entities or of advertisers or sponsors which are companies that are not owned or operated by Purplestates.tv, its affiliates or subsidiaries. These entities may independently solicit and collect personal information, or send their own cookies to our visitors. Please be advised that when you link to or visit an advertiser's or sponsor's website, we may frame the site with our website logo; however, you will be subject to the privacy policy and terms of usage agreement of that website operator. Purplestates.tv, its affiliates or subsidiaries will not be responsible for advertiser or sponsor ads and/or links or the content, activities, information collection, use and disclosure practices of the websites of advertisers and sponsors.
We may also provide co-branded services or promotions with certain sponsors or other entities. As a part of these services or promotions, we may request the submission of your personal information over our website for participation and/or registration. We may also share your information with the sponsor or entity assisting with the service or promotion to fulfill your request. If the co-sponsor or other entity collects your personal information, they may also share your information with us.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by Blip.tv, our Web advertising partner. Information about your visits to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
Our Security Procedures
We require our employees to protect the privacy of all information collected over our website. Only employees and supervisors with specific authorization have access to databases containing visitors' personal information. The databases are protected in a secure facility. If we decide to share visitor information with other members of the Purplestates.tv family, the receiving entity will also maintain the security and integrity of personal information collected over our website. That said, it is not possible to guarantee the security or integrity of information you disclose online since a sufficiently powerful attack from an unauthorized third party, however unlikely, could compromise your data.
For the convenience of our visitors, we may offer a list of helpful website links provided by other entities and/or persons. Purplestates.tv does not endorse or recommend, nor is it liable for, the products or services of any websites not owned or operated by Purplestates.tv. When you visit other websites you will also be subject to the privacy policies and terms of usage agreements, if any, of that website operator.
Notification of Changes in the Privacy Policy
We will review our security measures and Privacy Policy on a periodic basis, and we may modify our policies as Purplestates.tv deems appropriate. We may also change or update our Privacy Policy if we add new services or features and will post these changes in this policy. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY
Purplestates.tv respects the privacy of your child and we want to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of thirteen (13). We have developed this site to appeal to visitors over the age of thirteen (13). Although visitors of all ages may navigate through our website, we do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under the age of thirteen (13). If upon notification by a parent or guardian, or discovery by other means, that a child under thirteen (13) has improperly registered on this site by using false information, we will immediately cancel the child's membership and/or participation, and delete the child's personally identifiable information, member name and password from our records.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.
Contact us at: P.O. Box 201329, New Haven, CT 06520
E-mail: Johnny@purplestates.tv
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