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CThaiNEWS Privacy Notice
Updated as of October 17, 2007
The CThaiNews Privacy Policy describes
how CThaiNews and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use CThaiNews services,
including information provided when you use CThaiNEWS. In addition, the following
describes privacy practices specific to CThaiNEWS. To understand how we treat the
information you give us as you use CThaiNEWS, you should read this policy and the
CThaiNews Privacy Policy.
Personal Information
- Non-Account Activity. You can watch
videos on CThaiNEWS without having a CThaiNEWS Account or a CThaiNews Account. You
can also contact us about a particular video without having a CThaiNEWS Account
or a CThaiNews Account.
- Account-Related Activity. Certain other
activities on CThaiNEWS—like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos,
or watching restricted videos—require you to have a CThaiNEWS Account or a CThaiNews
Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a CThaiNEWS Account
or a CThaiNews Account, including your email address and a password, which is used
to protect your account from unauthorized access. A CThaiNews Account allows you to
access many of our services that require registration.
- Usage Information. We may record information
about your usage, such as when you use CThaiNEWS, the channels, groups, and favorites
you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the
frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click
on in CThaiNEWS (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you
are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear
GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which
emails are opened by recipients.
- Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal
information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion
boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.)
becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
Uses
- If you submit personally identifiable information to
us through the CThaiNEWS Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain,
and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the
CThaiNEWS Sites, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send
to us.
- Your account name (not your email address) is displayed
to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the CThaiNEWS Sites
and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you
submit to the CThaiNEWS Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other
media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active
Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your
email address), are watching the same video.
- We do not use your email address or other personally
identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent
or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability
to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent
for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major CThaiNEWS
Site changes or for customer service purposes).
- We use both your personally identifiable information
and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage
data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the
quality and design of the CThaiNEWS Sites and to create new features, promotions,
functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user
preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
- We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information
to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit
or the next time you visit the CThaiNEWS Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized
content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
(d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.;
and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes,
and contests. If you download the CThaiNEWS Uploader, your copy of the of the Uploader
includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information
about your installation of the Uploader (e.g. version number, language) will be
sent to CThaiNEWS when the Uploader automatically checks for updates.
Your Choices
- You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable
information through the CThaiNEWS Sites, in which case you can still view videos
and explore the CThaiNEWS Sites, but CThaiNEWS may not be able to provide certain
services to you. Some advanced CThaiNEWS features may, for authentication purposes,
require you to sign up for other CThaiNews services like CThaiNews Checkout or AdSense.
The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information
associated with them.
- You may update or correct your personal profile information
and email preferences at any time by visiting your
account profile page.
- You may clear your viewing history at any time through
the “Viewing History” feature.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
CThaiNEWS allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks,
to serve advertisements within the CThaiNEWS Sites. These third-party ad servers
or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements
and links that appear on the CThaiNEWS Sites. They automatically receive your IP
address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies,
JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements
and to personalize the advertising content you see.
CThaiNEWS does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party
ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program
or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please
note that if an advertiser asks CThaiNEWS to show an advertisement to a certain
audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages
18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement,
the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience
they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your
use of the CThaiNEWS Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not
any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers
or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for
instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. CThaiNEWS's privacy policy
does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers
or web sites.
Currently, CThaiNEWS has relationships with the following third-party ad servers
or ad networks:
- CThaiNews, Inc.
http://www.CThaiNews.com/Privacy.html
More Information
CThaiNews adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about
the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the
Department of Commerce's web site.
For more information about our privacy practices, go to
CThaiNews's full privacy policy. If you have additional questions, please contact
us any time. Or write to us at:
CThaiNEWS Privacy
1000 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
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