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Privacy Policy At Filming Direct.com.com ("Filming Direct.com" or "we" or "us" or "our"), we appreciate your use of and contributions to our Web site and features (known as the "services"). Filming Direct.com respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This is our privacy policy and we will comply with it, as well as applicable U.S. privacy law, when we gather and use information from users of our services. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to understand what we do with the information we collect from you. Advertising-Supported Business Model We strive to make advertisements relevant and useful to you. Therefore, we may serve advertisements to you based on the information we collect from you or in relation to your interaction on our site. We pledge to be transparent about the information we monitor and collect from you. We keep information private between you and Filming Direct.com, except as explained below. Collection of Information When you use Filming Direct.com, we collect a variety of information. - Information you provide. When using our site and services, you may provide information about yourself, such as name, address, and e-mail. This may occur when you register on Filming Direct.com, claim a home, or complete other forms, such as a loan request. We may combine this information with other information we collect from your activity on our Web site or from other companies.
- Cookies and Web beacons. Cookies are bits of electronic information that can be transferred to a computer to uniquely identify that computer's browser. When you visit Filming Direct.com and use our services, we may place one or more cookies on your computer. The use of cookies helps us improve the quality of our services to you, by identifying information which is most interesting to you, tracking trends, or storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis, such as your favorite homes. At any time, you may adjust settings on your browser to refuse cookies. However, if you choose to disable cookies, many of the free features and services on Filming Direct.com will not operate properly. Also, the pages of our service may include Web beacons, which are electronic files to count users who have visited that page or to identify certain cookies on the computer accessing that page.
- Third-party cookies. We work with service providers and advertising networks to track and manage cookie information and your activities while you're on Filming Direct.com or using our services. You may opt-out of cookie tracking and analysis from any of these ad networks by Opting Out of Collection of Information, which is explained further below.
- Usage logs. When you use Filming Direct.com, your computer communicates a variety of information to computer servers, including the existence of cookies, your Internet Protocol address, and information about your browser program. We also create a record of what information you are requesting, such as the page or subject areas you're visiting.
- Calls. Calls to Filming Direct.com or to third parties through Filming Direct.com may be recorded or monitored for quality assurance and customer service purposes. If a call is recorded between you and a third party, it will be deemed private information of both you and the third party, and may be released to either of you.
Usage and Disclosure In general, Filming Direct.com uses the information collected from you to communicate with you and operate our features and services. Filming Direct.com also uses this information to present you with advertising that we believe will be of interest or useful to you. Your privacy is important and we are committed to protecting information that identifies you personally, where you have chosen to keep it private. We will only share personal information that you provide outside the public areas of our services in the following circumstances: - Consent. When you consent or direct Filming Direct.com to share the information. For example, if you choose to contact a advertiser through Filming Direct.com, your name and e-mail address will appear to the recipient of the message.
- Service providers to Filming Direct.com. When Filming Direct.com hires a service provider to help operate the services or our business, Filming Direct.com may give access to personal data only as necessary to perform the service for Filming Direct.com, and subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
- Legal obligation or protection from harm. When Filming Direct.com has a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the personal information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, or (d) protect the rights, property, or safety of Filming Direct.com, its users, or the public against harm.
- Merger or sale. When and if Filming Direct.com is involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its business, personal information may be transferred along with the business
When you provide public information without identifying yourself, we will protect your personal identity as described above. If your account profile does not identify you personally, Filming Direct.com won't reveal your identity to third parties except in accordance with this policy. When we deliver ads based on that data about your use of Filming Direct.com, we keep your identity anonymous. We won't identify you personally to third parties, except in accordance with this privacy policy. Of course, if you choose to respond to an advertised offer with your name and contact information, you will no longer be anonymous to the advertiser. Some Things are Not Covered This privacy policy will not apply to the following: - Public posting. You should keep in mind that the information that you choose to provide in a public area of Filming Direct.com and our services (such as your profile page or the discussion forums) will not be protected by this privacy policy because you have made an active choice to make that information public.
- Property information. Filming Direct.com strives to provide open and transparent information about filming locations and properties. As a result, we make available past sales prices for homes, and allow any user to post a question or answer about a given home.
- Aggregated non-personal information and other information without personal identification. While we do not share your personal information with third parties unless permitted above, Filming Direct.com may share aggregate anonymous information with third-parties. This information does not personally identify individuals, but instead provides a helpful understanding of the groups of people who prefer certain types of information and services.
E-mail Management You may receive e-mail from Filming Direct.com for a variety of reasons - for example, if you took an action on the Filming Direct.com Web site, you signed up for a regular report, or you posted your home for sale and a buyer sent you a message. We respect your desire to manage e-mail correspondence. If you have an account with Filming Direct.com, you can select your preferences through your account tools. Also, you can manage your receipt of some types of communication by following the instructions included in the e-mail we send you. Opting Out of Collection of Information Filming Direct.com, its third-party ad network providers, and third-party advertisers (the "Filming Direct.com.com Ad Providers") may provide you with advertisements that you may see at Filming Direct.com or other affiliated Web sites. To improve the relevancy and help measure the effectiveness of such advertisements, the Filming Direct.com Ad Providers may use cookies, Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies. These are used to record users' online activity, such as the pages visited, and to learn what types of information are of most interest to the users. Third-party ad servers and ad networks. Use of these technologies by third-party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our privacy policy. Learn more about Filming Direct.com Ad Providers participating in the Network Advertising Initiative, and the choices you have about these technologies (such as opting-out). Email us to see a list of such services with links to their Web sites. The Network Advertising Initiative offers some centralized opt-out tools; otherwise you must visit each provider's Web site individually and opt out. Filming Direct.com has relationships with the following services: Third-Party Web Sites Throughout Filming Direct.com, we may link to the Web sites of other companies and/or individuals. These third-party Web sites may collect personal information about users on those Web sites, and Filming Direct.com's privacy policy does not extend to these external Web sites and third parties. Please refer directly to these third parties and Web sites regarding their privacy policies. Children Under the Age of 13 Filming Direct.com will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any person under the age of 13. Our services are not designed to attract the attention of persons under the age of 13. Storage and Security of Information Personal information will be processed and stored by Filming Direct.com in databases hosted in the United States. Filming Direct.com has taken reasonable steps to protect the information users share with us, including, but not limited to, setup of processes, equipment and software to avoid unauthorized access or disclosure of this information. Contacting Filming Direct.com If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the privacy practices of Filming Direct.com, please e-mail us at info@FilmingDirect.com. Please note that this policy may be amended from time to time. You should check back for the most current version before relying on any of the provisions in this privacy policy. — Updated April 2009
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