Privacy Policy
Chat with Santa is a wholly owned subsidiary of Interactive Netcasting Systems Inc. ("INSINC") INSINC respects the privacy of all of its users and is committed to protecting such privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy. INSINC further respects that children are primary users of this site and, accordingly, dutiful care is afforded their protection. This Privacy Policy explains INSINC's treatment of personally identifiable information collected in connection with activities on or related to all data collection associated with the Chat with Santa website.
We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change form time to time. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies or websites which are not owned or controlled by INSINC that may link to our site, or be linked from our site.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
In the course of operating the Chat with Santa website (the "Site"), we may collect two types of information about visitors: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information.
"Personal Information" is personally identifiable information, such as your name, city, email address, birth year and gender. Personal Information is collected by us when you choose to provide it to us during registration for the Chat with Santa webcasts.
Business contact information such as the name, title, business address, email address or telephone number of a business or professional person or an employee of an organization is not considered Personal Information.
"Non-Personal Information" is information of an anonymous nature, such as your Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), the domain you may have used to access the Chat with Santa webcasts, the type and version of browser or operating system you may be using, and the website you may have come from and visit next. Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics of our users (e.g. average age or geographical allocation of our users), number of visitors and average time spent on visiting Chat with Santa or viewing Chat with Santa videos, is also considered Non-Personal Information.
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating the Chat with Santa website. For example, our Web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie or through a Web Beacon when you choose to visit the Chat with Santa website and/or view Chat with Santa videos. Non-Personal Information is used by INSINC as described here.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information may be used by us for the following purposes:
a. Providing you with the Chat with Santa webcasts and information you have requested from us, including your use of the Site. We may from time to time use your Personal Information to contact you about changes, enhancements or similar notices related to Chat with Santa announcements;
b. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from INSINC or certain of our selected sponsors or advertisers, INSINC may send you email materials and other mailings about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. If at any time you would like to end your subscription to any such email materials, follow the directions posted at the bottom of the email material;
c. If you enter a contest or other promotion offered on the Site, we may, under the rules of the promotion, use your name and certain other information to administer the promotion, such as contacting, announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion;
d. INSINC may also use Personal Information if it has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful when investigating a contravention of a federal, provincial or foreign law or in order to protect or defend a legal interest.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will not sell or rent your Personal Information
to anyone.
We will only disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
a. Where you have specifically given us your consent to disclose your Personal Information for a designated purpose;
b. Who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers, solely to enable us to more efficiently provide you with the Chat with Sanata webcast services. Such entities act under strict contractual controls, requiring them to maintain the confidentiality of all such Personal Information and to use such information solely for purposes related to the provision of the Chat with Santa services;
c. As may be set out in the Terms and Conditions applicable to as INSINC service, to facilitate the provision of such INSINC Service, such as fulfilling legal requirements;
d. As required by law, including by an order of any court, institution or body with jurisdiction or authority to compel the production of information, or in order to protect or defend a legal interest; or
e. In connection with an INSINC corporate re-organization, merger or amalgamation with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion of the assets of INSINC provided that the Personal Information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND ADVERTISEMENTS
The Site may contain links to other websites and services. While we try to link only to sites and services that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices employed by, other companies or websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Chat with Santa services referencing this Privacy Policy.
All advertisements which are displayed in connection with the Site are served through INSINC servers. We use the services of a third-party marketing company to assist us in collecting data, managing data, and distributing e-mail. If you would like to know more about our partner or about its "opt-out" procedures, please click here.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. INSINC takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect Personal Information that you provide to us. We instruct our employees with access to your Personal Information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.
In certain areas, such as when you may provide credit card information to us, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
You can help protect the security of your Personal Information as well. For instance, never give out your password, since this is what is used to access your Account or Registration Information. Also remember to log out of your account and close your browser window when you finish using the Chat with Santa website or surfing the Web, so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
Chat with Santa may from time to time change its Privacy Policy as new services are added or old ones changed. Changes will be effective when notice of such change is posted at the Site. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly for updates by checking the date of "Last Update" at the top of this document.
ACCESSING AND CHANGING ACCOUNT/ REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Chat with Santa provides you with the means to access, update, edit or delete any Registration Information you may have provided to us at any time by e-mailing info@chatwithsanta.com to change or delete such information as desired.
If you are unsure whether we have a record containing any of your Personal Information and would like to confirm whether or not we do, please send an e-mail to privacy@chatwithsanta.com, indicating all e-mail addresses that you may have given us.
If you decide at any time that you do not want to receive any e-mail materials to which you have subscribed, you may choose to unsubscribe to these e-mails by following the instructions at the end of the message.
USE OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating the Site. For example, our Web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie or through a Web Beacon when you choose to visit the Chat with Santa website.
In addition to INSINC's practices related to IP Addresses, Cookies or Web Beacons, Non-Personal Information is used generally by INSINC to monitor and improve the operation of the INSINC services, to perform statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, to measure user demographics and interests regarding specific INSNIC services, to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and to analyze how and where best to use our resources. No Personal Information will be disclosed during these activities.
INSINC may also use Non-Personal Information to inform our sponsors and advertisers as to the performance of a particular sponsorship (such as a contest) or advertisement. In such case we may disclose to those third-party sponsors and advertisers the overall aggregate demographics available regarding, for example who participated in a contest or who saw and "clicked" on an advertisement. No Personal Information will be disclosed to these sponsors and advertisers as part of this process; only information in an anonymous, aggregate form will be disclosed.
IP ADDRESSES
An IP Address is the unique number which is assigned to every direct Internet access point. Many IP Addresses can generally be associated with certain Internet service providers or large organizations. IP Addresses do not contain any Personal Information. When you, through your browser, request a web page or similar Internet information from another computer on the Internet, your browser automatically provides that computer with an IP address to which it will send the requested information.
INSINC and IP Addresses:
a. Whenever you request a Chat with Santa web page or video content, your browser automatically provides our computers with your IP Address, to which our computers will send the requested information. Each such request is logged by our computers with information including the IP Address of the computer that requested the page and is stored by our computers as needed for the purposes described in this policy;
b.Chat with Santa may use your IP Address to display more appropriate and relevant content and advertising, such as content and advertising based on your geographic area. Aggregate information derived from IP Addresses may be reported by Chat with Santa to its advertisers and partners. For example, Chat with Santa may report to its advertisers the estimated total number of users accessing the Site from a specific state or country;
c.INSINC may use your IP Address to facilitate the diagnoses and remedy of a technical problem reported by you or our technical team.
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a web site to the hard drive of your computer. The cookie identifies your browser and will NOT let a web site know any personal information about you, such as your name or address. Cookies are not programs and, therefore, cannot run on your computer, search your computer for other information or transmit any information to anyone.
INSINC may use cookies to:
a. Monitor website usage and improve the operation and performance of the Site and to make our services easier and more convenient to use. For example, cookies allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so that you will not have to re-enter them the next time you visit the Site;
b. Measure aggregate user traffic and demographic statistics related to the Site and advertisements (e.g. number of users, average time spent, average age and similar statistics). This information helps us to better understand when to update, change or offer new content and services and provides us with details as to the performance of third party advertisements. This information may be reported, in aggregate form only, to our current and prospective sponsors, advertisers and business partners. No Personal Information will be disclosed in such reports;