Thank you for visiting starscine.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 way your information is collected and used at this STARSCINE
site.
The Information We Collect
At starscine.com, you can subscribe to one of our services. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various services.
You can also submit information about other people. For example,
you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to subscribe
them to starscine.com as a gift and want it sent directly to the
recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The
types of personally identifiable information that may be collected
about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address,
e-mail address, and telephone number.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide
us with the requested personally identifiable information will be
able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate
in the site's activities and offerings.
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., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating
system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain
name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill
your requests for our services, to respond to your inquiries about
our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services
that we believe may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such
as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we
make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request
by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account
with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable
us to send them your gifts or emails. From time to time, we also
may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services
to them.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that
we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to
enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use
this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well
as to offer you products, programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response
to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a
subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a
law enforcement agency's request.
Agents and contractors of STARSCINE 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 STARSCINE.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally
identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed
in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.
Finally, the STARSCINE sites covered by this Privacy Notice will
not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided
to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also
providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated
uses.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
Some of our sites 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.
The STARSCINE sites covered by this Privacy Notice sometimes may
offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that
is sponsored by or cobranded 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. STARSCINE has no control over these third
parties' use of this information. The STARSCINE site will notify
you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information
if these third parties will obtain such information.
Some of the STARSCINE sites covered by this Privacy Notice may
use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements
that you may see at its Web pages. Our privacy policy does not cover
any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected
from you.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages
use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's
browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not
tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information
unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example,
registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish
the site with personally identifiable information, this information
may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content
and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize
your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name
when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected
areas, and enable you to use personalized features on our sites.
We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
Our Commitment to 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.
How You can Access or Correct Information
To access the personally identifiable information that this STARSCINE
site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors
in such information, please click
here.
To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps
to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
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