Privacy Policy
The privacy of visitors to TVPicks.net is important to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information which is collected by TVPicks.net, how it is used, and how we safeguard your information. We would never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect some data in log files. The information inside the log files includes IP addresses, type of browser, date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks. This data may be used to analyze trends, administer the site, track movement around the site, and gather demographic information. To be honest, we rarely run reports on these log files or otherwise look at them, but we figure you ought to know that they exist.
Cookies
We do use cookies to store your personal preferences for when you visit our site. For instance, we use a cookie to tell us which timezone view you prefer on the front page. We may also track which routes people use to navigate this site in an effort to figure out ways to make the site more user-friendly.
We also use some third party advertisements on TVPicks.net to help support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies or web beacons when they advertise on our site, which can be used to obtain information including your IP address, the browser you used to visit our site, whether you have Flash installed, and which ads you’ve clicked on. This information is generally used by the advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see. TVPicks.net has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers and we cannot control how our third-party advertisers use this information. We do try to only work with reputable advertisers with reasonable privacy policies of their own.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or advertiser (third-party) cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in some security programs. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. For instance, if you turn off cookies, TVPicks.net won’t know which timezone view you prefer.
If you ever give us your email address, we promise we won’t use it for any purpose other than replying to you or adding you to one of our mailing lists (when you ask to be on one). We don’t add people to lists unless they ask to be on them and then you have to confirm that you really wanted to be on the list before you are added. We also don’t quote from emails without asking permission first. And we certainly would never publish your email address or pass it along to anyone without getting your permission.
Mailing Address
If you provide us with your mailing address as part of a contest entry, we won’t use that information unless you’ve won a prize– then we’ll only use it to mail you your prize.
If you provide your mailing address when you make a donation in support of this site, the only time it would be used would be if we send you a “thank you” note or a prize/present of some sort. We don’t hang onto this information and would never ever sell it to anyone or give it to anyone.
Full Names
We’re so crazy about privacy that we won’t even thank you by your full name after you make a donation or list your full name after you win a prize unless you tell us it’s okay first. Our default is to list you by first name only or first name and last initial.
Questions?
If you have an questions about any of this stuff, please get in touch with Laurel. Thanks!
