Privacy Notice

Updated as of October 18, 2007

The following describes privacy practices specific to Blackpublicmedia.Org. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use Blackpublicmedia.org, you should read this policy.

Personal Information

• Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on Blackpublicmedia.Org without having a Blackpublicmedia.Org Account.
• Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Blackpublicmedia.Org -- like commenting on videos, downloading videos, or purchasing DVDs -- may require you to have a Blackpublicmedia.Org Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Blackpublicmedia.Org Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
• Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use Blackpublicmedia.Org, the channels, downloads, and DVDs you purchase, the comments you contribute, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Blackpublicmedia.Org (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.

Uses

• If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites, as well as provide special personalized features to you.
• Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you post messages through the Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites.
• 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 YouTube 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 Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
• We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (b) track your comments, purchases, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Your Choices

• You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites, in which case you can still view videos and explore the Blackpublicmedia.Org Sites, but Blackpublicmedia.Org may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced Blackpublicmedia.Org features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up for an account.
• You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.

Additional Information

Blackpublicmedia.Org 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.

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