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Hollywood Stock Exchange® Our Privacy Policy
The www.hsx.com Web Site (the "Web Site" or "HSX.com") is provided by Hollywood Stock Exchange, LLC ("HSX"). This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.hsx.com.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Customer Support by e-mail at support@hsx.com.
This statement reflects the privacy policy of Hollywood Stock Exchange, LLC ("HSX"), the owner and operator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange, with respect to the Web site located at www.hsx.com (the "Site"). This statement is intended to inform casual visitors of the Site, and visitors who participate in the Hollywood Stock Exchange, of the data collection and use practices of the Site. Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of any amendment, modification, or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof, except if your personally identifiable information will be used in a materially different manner. See our Notification of Changes section below.
Personally Identifiable Information
We only collect personally identifiable information, such as names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers, from our visitors when such information is voluntarily provided. For example, when registering to participate in the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a visitor will be required to provide first and last name, date of birth, gender, zip code, and e-mail address.
The personally identifiable information that HSX® collects is used to provide services to participants of the Hollywood Stock Exchange, to customize content, product offerings and/or layout of our Site for each individual visitor, to notify visitors about updates to and activities on the Site, and to contact visitors for information verification purposes. Personally identifiable information collected on the Site is NOT shared with third parties without your prior express consent. While HSX uses personally identifiable information to learn more about how visitors use the Site and to provide visitors with information about goods and services that we feel may be of interest to you, we will not release any personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent.
In order to participate in our community talk boards, users must be registered member of our Web site. Upon participating in our talk board, members will be asked for their user name and password. In addition, members have the option to allow other members to view their email address, add them to their Movies League and/or add them to their Music League. Always remember that in order to protect your privacy users should not post any personal information, such as their home address or credit card information, as this information is made available to all visitors.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Enhancement of Personal Information
We enhance our user database information with third party data to better target our advertising and provide pertinent offers we think our users would be interested in. Certain summary demographics are also used in our research product offerings. Individual information is never used in our research product offering and is never tied back to the individual or resold for any purposes
Visitors that provide us with their postal address will be automatically eligible to receive special offers concerning new products and services or learn of upcoming events via postal mail. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please notify us by e-mail at support@hsx.com. Please provide us with your exact user name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the lists we use for these purposes.
Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. These communications are not promotional in nature.
Special Offers and Updates
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a weekly newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out section.
Choice and Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at support@hsx.com. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications in your Account Management page, or you may write to: Hollywood Stock Exchange, LLC 1925 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067, attn: Support, to opt-out.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Customer Service
We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regard to issues relating to their account we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the users' wishes.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Contact information will be shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Anonymous Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Users' personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, these intermediaries will not use the users' personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Our server automatically recognizes visitors' domain name and Internet Protocol addresses (where possible). Our server does not collect any personal information about our visitors unless such information is voluntarily provided by the visitor. We also collect information about how visitors use the Site (for example what terms are searched for). This information, which is collected and maintained in anonymous, non-personal, aggregate form, allows us to improve the content of the Site and facilitate market research. Sometimes, we utilize the services of a third party to help us understand this information better, though the information that is disclosed to these entities remains at all times in anonymous, non-personal form. Other than improving the Site and providing our visitors with the best experience possible, we make no other use of this information.
From time to time we also ask our visitors for certain information about themselves, such as buying preferences, street address, marital status, income, education level, occupation, industry, and country. We request this information to provide visitors with notices of special offers from HSX and others that may be of interest to such visitors. This information is kept in a database at HSX and not distributed to 3rd parties.
Cookies
"Cookies" are commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on an individual's computer hard drive to enable the individual to more easily communicate and interact with the Site. We use cookies to save certain information about users of the Hollywood Stock Exchange and others who visit the Site, in order to facilitate and enhance future activities with the Hollywood Stock Exchange and/or Site. HSX does not use cookies to retrieve information from a computer that is unrelated to HSX or the Site.
We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We currently use an outside advertisement serving company to display advertisements on the Site. The advertisement serving company may place and collect cookies when it displays an advertisement on the Site. We do not have access to information that would confirm the use of cookies by the advertisement serving company.
Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
Access, Review, Update
Visitors who have registered with the Site may access, review, and update the personal information that was previously provided to us by clicking on "Account Information" after logging into your portfolio, or emailing us at support@hsx.com, or by writing us at Customer Support, HSX, 1925 Century Park East, Century City, CA 90067.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. HSX.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. HSX does store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact HSX.com at http://talk.hsx.com/support/ to request the removal of this information from our database.
Other Web Sites; Links
Our Site contains links to other Web sites. HSX is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other Web sites.
Consent to Processing
By visiting this Site, all visitors consent to the collection, maintenance, and processing of their personal and non-personal information in the United States.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post material changes on HSX.com so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and if we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify users by way of an e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. However, if you deleted/deactivated your personal account information you will not be contacted, nor will your information be used in this new manner.
Security
Our Site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, we will take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
HSX Contact Info
All inquiries concerning this statement and the Site in general may be sent to Customer Support, HSX, 1925 Century Park East, Century City, CA 90067 or support@hsx.com.
Thank you for visiting the Hollywood Stock Exchange®
Last Updated on 1/31/2008.
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