PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy sets out how we and our related companies
use any personal information that you give to us or we collect
from you, such as your name, address, telephone number or email
address. Personal information also includes anything else that
can identify you as an individual, such as photos or videos of
you and any information regarding your interests, hobbies,
preferences or other similar information which we link to your
personal information. We refer to this as "your information" in
this privacy policy.
We may give certain words that are used in this privacy policy
a particular meaning which will be set out where these words
are featured in bold within inverted commas like this: "words".
1. OUR DETAILS
"We", "us" and "our" means Viacom International Media Networks Middle East FZ-LLC, with
registered address at the 3rd floor, DMC, Dubai Media City. .
If you have any questions or concerns please refer to our
frequently answered questions (
FAQ's). If
the FAQs do not adequately address your questions or concerns
you may contact us by
email provided.
2. Parent(s)'/Guardian(s)' Consent and Checks
If you are under 21, you will ALWAYS need to get your
parent(s)/guardian(s) permission before contacting and
interacting with the online service - whether it's entering one
of the online service 's competitions, sending the online
service a letter or accessing our websites, especially if you
are providing us with personal information.
We may need to check that your parent(s)/guardian(s) are happy
for you to provide your information to us. Where we do need to
check with your parent(s)/guardian(s), we will ask you for your
parent's/guardian's contact details (usually an email address
or telephone number) so we can then contact them.
We will always ask for your parent(s)'/guardian(s)' permission
where we want to use your personal information for marketing or
research purposes; to send you newsletter or whether you are
allowed to receive the prize and can comply with the
competition terms and conditions, if you're lucky enough to be
selected to win a competition.
3. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
For whatever reason, we may need to make changes to this
privacy policy in future. For example to reflect changes in the
law, changes in the type of services or information we provide
to you or to correct any errors. We will try to keep all such
changes to a minimum. We recommend that you check this policy
from time to time to see if it has changed. We will always
state at the bottom of this policy the date on which it was
last updated.
If you continue to use our services after our privacy policy
changes you will be bound by those changes as and when we make
them.
4. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We collect your information in the following ways:
- When you give it to us, for example when you:
o provide information about yourself to enter one of our
competitions or promotions;
o order products or services from us such as video clips from
our WAP site (where available);
o register on our site (see our Website
Terms of Use
for more information on this registration process);
o opt in to receive any of our newsletters or other marketing
information (where available); or
o rate or post any comments regarding content cast a vote on
anything within our online services.
- If it passed to us by our affiliates, partners or other third
parties with your consent; or
- Automatically using "cookies", web beacons and other tracking
systems (see the "
Automatic Information" section below for more details on how we use cookies and how
you can disable them if you choose to do so).
5. HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your information operationally to:
• process any requests or orders for goods or services that you
have or may purchase (where such service is available);
• to enter you for the competitions or promotions which you
have indicated you wish to enter;
• identify your personal preferences for any communications to
you such as newsletters;
• allow you to post comments, rate content or cast your vote;
and
• to respond to or deal with any queries or complaints that you
may have.
In addition and with your consent we (and if applicable, our
partners or other trusted third parties) use your information
for certain marketing, market research, analysis and related
purposes. It is up to you how much or how little information
you allow us to use for these purposes. Our on screen notices
will ask for your explicit permission (often by way of a tick
box) for such additional purposes. These purposes include:
• to communicate with you from time to time by email, by mobile
(using SMS or, if your mobile device permits, MMS messages or
similar technologies) and occasionally by post with our
newsletters, information, offers and other material which may
interest you (such communications may be sent by third party
service providers on our behalf);
• to make your information available from time to time to
trusted partners and third parties, for the same purposes as
above (which will be in accordance with the privacy policies of
such trusted partners and third parties);
• to conduct market research, for example by asking you to
participate in a survey about topical issues conducted by us or
trusted partners or third parties. We will always try to tell
you before you participate in the survey how any information
you provide in the survey will be used; and
• to enable us and third parties acting on our behalf to
analyse your information, in a non-identifying form, (generally
in the form of statistics), so that we can identify trends
about usage of our online or other services and improve them.
We also reserve the right to access and disclose your personal
information in order to comply with applicable laws, to comply
with lawful requests from governments, law enforcement agencies
or parties whose request we reasonably consider to be justified
in connection with any allegations by any party about your
abuse of our services, to operate our systems properly or to
protect ourselves or our users.
6. International Use Of Your Information
As we and our associated companies operate throughout the
world, it may be necessary to transfer your information outside
UAE. If we need to do this, any of our associated companies
will comply with the terms of this policy.
7. Links To Other Websites
When you're on one of our websites, you may be directed to
other sites where your information may be collected and this
will be outside of our control. For example, if you click on a
banner advertisement on one of our websites, it may take you
from our website to a third party's website. We cannot be
responsible for or control the content on another party's
website and don't forget that once you've left our website, if
you provide any information to the third party, you will need
to check their privacy policy as this policy only applies to
our websites.
8. UNSUBSCRIBING/ AMENDING YOUR INFORMATION / NEWSLETTERS
You can amend or remove information you give us via our online
services at any time as follows:
• to amend any information you have given us when registering
on the website contact us by
email provided
and let us know what information you would like to amend or,
where this function is available on our website, click on the
"Account" tab and you can amend your basic information,
nickname and personal preferences (which will affect what
content we include in our newsletters and marketing information
which we may send to you);
• to deactivate your registered account you will need to
contact us by
email provided;
• if we offer any newsletters or other email distribution, and
you have subscribed to receive those newsletters or other email
distribution, then you may unsubscribe by contacting us by
email provided
and letting us know which newsletter or email distribution you
wish to unsubscribe from or you may click on the relevant link,
if one is available, on the newsletter/other email distribution
(which, if this link is available, it can normally be found at
the bottom of the communication);
• to withdraw from a subscription service you requested via
SMS/MMS (as opposed to online) by following the instructions
you receive in the message confirming your request and sending
the message "STOP" to the appropriate short code.
If you want to remove all of your information from our database
or have any questions about privacy issues, you can contact us
by
email provided
specifying your name, nickname, email address and telephone
number and asking for your information to be removed or
specifying any questions you may have.
9. AUTOMATIC INFORMATION
Like many websites, we use "cookies". Cookies are small text
files that websites automatically save to the cookie file of
the browser on your computer when you enter the website. We do
not use cookies that access any information stored on your hard
drive or damage or otherwise endanger your computer. We use
cookies to identify your computer when you use our online
services and to track and assist your navigation around our
online services.
Examples of the information that may be analysed using cookies
are user-name, nickname, email address and password, the
internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to
the internet, browser type and version, operating system and
platform you use to connect, areas of our online services that
you viewed or searched for, the Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs) from or through which you entered and exited our online
services and the date and time of such activity.
You can use the "Help" section of the tool bar on most browsers
to change the settings on your computer, for example to notify
you when you receive a cookie, or to refuse all cookies.
However, some of the features of our online services may not
work or may be more difficult to access if you refuse all
cookies.
We use third party advertising companies to serve
advertisements on our online services. The ads you receive are
influenced by various factors, including your browsing history
prior to visiting this website. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address or
telephone number) about your use of our online services in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services that
may be of interest to you. In the course of serving
advertisements, our third party serving network may place or
recognise a unique "cookie" on your browser. This is a
"persistent" cookie, which means that it is stored on your
computer and will remain there until it expires or you remove
it. The ad serving networks may also make use of other
technologies, such as "web beacons", in order to improve the
relevance of the ads you receive.
For more information please read our Cookie Policy.
10. SECURITY
We have taken steps to ensure that your personal information is secure, including limiting the number of people who have
physical access to our database servers, as well as electronic
security systems and password protections that guard against
unauthorised access.
This policy is governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of England and if there are any disputes the courts of
England shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
This Privacy policy was last updated on 10 June 2015.