Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights

Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights

TeenNick.com is a site where people can come to play games, answer polls, and have their opinions heard. It's also the spot to find out more about the shows on TeenNick, and about the stuff that happens in those shows.

At TeenNick.com, your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personally identifiable information we collect at our site. This privacy notice applies only to personally identifiable information collected at www.TeenNick.com and does not cover, unless otherwise specifically stated, any information collected by any other website or offline.

Information Collection

To fulfill your requests for information, enable you to participate in our site offerings, and to provide you with opportunities to learn about other products and services in which we think you might be interested, we may ask that you provide us with certain personally identifiable information during the registration process. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at this site include: name, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card or other payment information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. TeenNick.com is committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. We urge kids and teens to check with their parents before entering information on any website.

Non-personally identifiable information
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Internet Explorer, FireFox), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows or Mac OS), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online or Earthlink).

Use of Collected Information

We use your personally identifiable information to provide the information or content you have requested (e.g., newsletters, show updates, entering you into a contest, sweepstakes or promotion, registration for our message boards), to contact you about programs, products, features or services in which we believe you may be interested, or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection. We also may use your personally identifiable information to contact you regarding your use of our Web site or changes to our privacy notice, Terms of Use, or other policies or terms that affect you and your use of our Web site. In addition, we may use information collected about our users to improve the content and navigation of our Web site, or for other internal purposes.

From time to time, we may combine the information we collect online with information available from other sources, including information received from promotional partners or other third parties.

Agents and contractors of TeenNick.com who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

In addition, with your permission, we may share personally identifiable information with unrelated third parties to enable them to provide you with opportunities to learn of products or services in which you may be interested.

We may disclose anonymous, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes. For example, we may disclose how many individuals visited certain areas of our Web site, or demographic information about our users. In addition, we may disclose personally identifiable information collected about you at this site in the following instances:

• Legal Action: We may disclose information about our users, including personally identifiable information, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Web site and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web site. We also may disclose user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability; to protect or defend our rights or property; or protect the safety, rights, or property of our users.
• Corporate Change: We may sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose user information, including personally identifiable information, to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other corporate change respecting the Web site.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities. In addition, when you post a message on our message boards, you have the ability to post a message that may include personally identifiable information about yourself. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. If you choose to submit content for publication we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us.

Your Choices

As noted above, we may use the personally identifiable information we collect from you online to provide you with opportunities to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you. You can express your preferences regarding marketing communications from us when you register. If, at any time in the future, you wish to opt out of future promotional materials from us log back into your profile using your user name and password and edit your preferences accordingly or you may follow the unsubscribe instructions that appear at the end of our communications.

With your permission, we also may, from time to time, share personally identifiable information with unrelated third parties whose practices are not covered by this notice to enable them to provide you with additional opportunities to learn about products or services in which we believe you may be interested. If you would like to request that we not share your information with these third parties, please log back into your profile using your user name and password and edit your preferences accordingly.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

Some of our Web pages contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We may sometimes offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties' use of this information. We will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

We use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at our Web pages. Our privacy notice does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected from you. For more information on this site's use of such third-party ad servers, please click here.

Cookies & Log Data

Unique identifiers such as cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies are used to help tailor our content and allow websites to "remember" users' activities on a website as well as users' visits to a site. Cookies are small text files that help store user preferences. "Web beacons" or "clear gifs" are small pieces of code used to collect advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses.

We may use cookies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content, offerings or advertisements on our website. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to a site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts. We also may use cookies to help us offer you products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you and to deliver relevant advertising. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to the use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies as set forth in this Policy. Please note that you may adjust your browser to reject cookies, however, certain areas of our site only can be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.

Log data collected on web servers both within our control and under the control of our third party ad service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies us with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. TeenNick.com uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the "log data" collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities. TeenNick.com may contain advertisements, references and links to other websites and organizations. We may also use third parties to display or serve advertising on the website and our web-based newsletters or other communications which you may choose to receive. Often these third party advertisers employ cookie and web bug technologies to measure advertising effectiveness. You should be aware that different rules might apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by third parties in connection with their advertisements, promotions and other websites you encounter on the Internet. The use of such technology by these third parties is within their control and not ours. Even if we have a relationship with the third party, we do not control those sites or their policies and practices regarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of personal information that a third party advertiser or ad server may collect from you. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions directly of them in this regard. Use of advertisers' tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. For more information about these third party servers and how to "opt out" of the ad-serving cookie, please click here.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

Reviewing and Correcting Your Information:

To access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected about you online, or to correct factual errors in such information, please log into your profile and edit your information accordingly.

Children's Privacy

Visitors to this site may participate in many activities without providing any personally identifiable information. However, if a user wants to participate in certain of our interactive features, we may ask the user to register and provide us with the following types of information: name, e-mail address and age information. All such registered users must be at least thirteen (13) years old.

If you would like to review any personally identifiable information that we have collected online from your child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of your child's information or if you have questions about these information practices, you may contact us at: Privacy Coordinator, TeenNick.com, 1515 Broadway, 33-64, New York, NY 10036, (212) 846-2543 or viewer.services@TeenNick.com.

Children should check with their parent or guardian before entering any information on any website, and we urge parents and guardians to discuss with their kids restrictions regarding the online release of personally identifiable information to anyone they don't know.

Changes to Privacy Notice

We may, from time to time, update this privacy notice. We will post any material changes here, so be sure to check back from time to time.

Questions/Concerns?

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding TeenNick's privacy notice, please contact us at:

Privacy Coordinator
TeenNick.com
1633 Broadway, 7th floor
New York, NY 10019
(212) 846-2543
viewer.services@TeenNick.com

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of TeenNick who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to CAprivacy@TeenNick.com or write us:

TeenNick Privacy Rights
1515 Broadway, 33-64
New York, NY 10036

Effective Date:
This notice was updated on or about August 10, 2010