GSpiritTV

GSpirit LLC Privacy Notice

Updated as of April 11, 2009

Personal Information

• Browsing GSpiritTV  
  You can watch videos on GSpirit without having a GSpirit Account.  You also, can contact us through the GSpirit Help Center or by emailing us directly without having to register for an account.
  
  
• Your GSpirit Account 
  For some activities on GSpiritTV, like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos, you need a GSpiritTV Account.  We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.  A GSpiritTV Account, additionally, allows you to access other GSpirit services that require registration.
  
  
• Usage Information
  When you use GSpirit, we may record information about your usage of the site, such as the channels, groups and favorites you subscribe to, which other users you communicate with, the videos you watch, the frequency and size of data transfers, and information you display about yourself as well as information you click on in GSpiritTV and GSpirit Shopping (including UI elements, settings). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your GSpirit Account.  In order to ensure the quality of our service to you, we may place a tag (also called a "web beacon") in HTML-based customer support emails or other communications with you in order to confirm delivery.
  
  
• Content Uploaded to Site
  Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily upload to GSpiritTV (e.g., video comments, your profile page) may be collected and used by others. 

Uses

• If you submit personal information to GSpirit, we may use that information to operate, maintain, and improve the features and functionality of GSpirit, and to process any flagging activity or other communication you send to us.
  
  
• We do not use your email address or other personal information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent.  We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major GSpirit changes or for customer service purposes).
  
  
• We use cookies, web beacons, 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 GSpirit;
  (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 and pages viewed; and
  (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Information That is Publicly Available

• When you create a GSpiritTV Account, some information about your GSpiritTV Account and your account activity will be provided to other users of GSpiritTV.  This may include the date you opened your GSpiritTV Account, the date you last logged into your GSpiritTV Account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of videos you have watched.
  
  
• Your GSpiritTV Account name, not your email address, is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on GSpiritTV, such as when you upload videos or send messages through GSpiritTV.  Other users can contact you by leaving a message or comment on the site.
  
  
• Any videos that you submit to GSpiritTV may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by other GSpiritTV users or the general public.
  
  
• You may also choose to add personal information which may include your name, gender, profile picture or other details, that will be visible to other users on your GSpiritTV Account channel page. If you choose to add certain features to your GSpiritTV Account channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your friends or other users. Such shared activity may include your favorite videos, videos you rated and videos that you have uploaded.

Your Choices

• If you have a GSpirit Account, you may update or correct your personal profile information, email preferences and privacy settings at any time by visiting your account profile page.
  
  
• You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your GSpirit Account.  Other users may see that you, as identified by your account name, not your email address, are watching the same video.
  
  
• You may, of course, decline to submit personal information through GSpirit, in which case you can still shop, view videos and explore GSpiritTV, but GSpirit may not be able to provide certain services to you.  The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.

Advertising on GSpirit

• GSpirit strives to provide you with relevant and useful advertising and we use third party ad serving systems, to do so. We may use a range of information including cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, usage data and other non-personal information about your computer or device (such as browser type and operating system) to provide you with relevant advertising. If you are logged into your GSpirit Account, we may also show you advertising based on the information you have provided to us in your GSpirit Account settings.
  
  
• We use cookies on GSpirit to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads on this site and other partner websites. Advertisers may serve ads based on interests associated with non-personally identifiable online activity, such as videos viewed or frequency of uploading.  Advertisers may also serve ads to you based on previous activity on that advertiser's website.  This non-personally identifiable information is held separately from your GSpirit Account data, or other personally identifying information in our possession.
  
  
• Other third-party ad serving companies may display ads on GSpirit, provided they comply with our ad serving requirements. GSpirit does not provide any personal information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. GSpirit privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.  Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with GSpirit is maintained and dealt with by GSpirit in accordance with this privacy policy.

More Information

GSpirit LLC 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 questions concerning the product or your account, please check out the GSpirit help page.