At America's Next Hip Hop Stars we take your privacy seriously, which
is why we developed this privacy policy to explain our online
information collection and use practices. Unless otherwise noted, the
information and descriptions in this online Privacy Policy are limited
strictly to online transactions and do not apply to the off line
privacy, data collection and data transfer policies of America's Next
Hip Hop Stars. We may occasionally change the features and content
found on this site. Consequently, our privacy policy may be modified to
reflect any revisions to the site. We suggest you revisit our privacy
policy from time to time to be sure that you are familiar with our
practices.
ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY By completing and submitting a
registration and entry form at America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com you
signify your agreement to the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com privacy
policy. If you do not accept this privacy policy, please do not use the
America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com site. We reserve the right, at our
discretion to change, modify, add or remove portions of this privacy
policy. You should check this page periodically for any changes and to
insure you are familiar with our practices. This policy and all of our
legal obligations under this policy are subject to the laws of New York
and the USA regardless of the location of the user. Policy last
updated: January 2008.
1. Why does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect personal information?
2. How and what information does America's Next Hip Hop Stars .com gather or track?
3. What are Cookies and Pixels?
4. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com disclose user information to third parties?
5. Can I opt-out of America's Next Hip Hop Stars .com's data collection and/or distribution?
6. What about external web sites?
7. Does pch.com allow users access to their information for review and updating?
8. What does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com do to keep their site secure?
9. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect information from users outside of the United States?
10. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect personal information from children?
11. Your California Privacy Rights
12. What about America's Next Hip Hop Stars off-line information and privacy practices?
13. Further Questions?
1. Why does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect personal
information? We need to collect certain personal information from our
visitors primarily to process and fulfill online sweepstakes entries
and online orders for the products and services we offer. For example,
we need your full name and address to enter you in the sweepstakes,
notify you if you've won a prize and to send you any magazine
subscription or product you may purchase. We may also use the personal
data we collect for systems administration and troubleshooting
purposes, and to report aggregate information to our marketing partners
and others.
To provide our users with a more personalized and relevant web service,
we also collect and use personal data to identify users' specific
interests and needs. If given permission, we may notify our users of
offers and information we feel may be of interest to them available
from America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com and our marketing partners. If
given permission, we may also share information with select marketing
partners who may directly contact our users regarding their own offers
of interest. If you do not want to receive such offers you may follow
the simple unsubscribe procedure located at the permission notice box
appearing on the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com registration and
entry page. Our online registration and entry page contains a clearly
identified checked box indicating that by submitting the form you wish
to receive offers from America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com and our
marketing partners. Users may unsubscribe from such offers by clicking
to remove the check in the permission notice box before submitting the
registration and entry form. We may share our unsubscribe list with
select marketing partners for the sole purpose of insuring that
individuals on this list do not receive electronic commercial mail
messages containing Publishers Clearing House advertisements that may
be sent by such partners.
If you are currently receiving commercial e-mail messages from
America's Next Hip Hop Stars messages after previously providing
permission and no longer wish to receive such offers you may always
follow the unsubscribe procedures which will be found within the
commercial e-mails received from America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com, our
affiliates and marketing partners.
2. How and what information does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
gather or track? We collect personal data from our users mainly during
the initial registration process for sweepstakes entry, game play, or
order processing. Although some of the personal identifying information
is necessary to deliver these services (e.g., an address is required to
buy goods and services from America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com), in some
cases some of the information is optional. Users can determine to some
extent what information they wish to submit. In addition to the initial
registration process, we may, from time to time, ask users to answer
optional questions about products and services. We gather this data in
order to better understand our users' interests and provide them with
relevant offers and information.
Through the use of "cookies" and "pixel tags" (both described
below) and online survey and registration forms, we may collect
personal data on, among other things, the following information:
3. What are Cookies? "Cookies" are small pieces of
information that are stored by your web browser software on your
computer's hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory. The use
of cookies is now an industry standard, and users will find them on
most major web sites. America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com may place and
store Internet cookies on a user's hard drive. Cookies can save any of
the types of information noted above. Cookies enable us to recognize
you and personalize your viewing experience on the America's Next Hip
Hop Stars.com site. For example, we use cookies to recognize user
access privileges to America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com, track site usage
and traffic patterns, add advertisements for goods or services that we
think may interest you, and estimate our audience size. We also use
cookies to store user names and information that are supplied at
registration. Although most web browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies, if you prefer, you can decline the placement of a cookie on
your hard drive by using the appropriate feature(s) of your web browser
software (if available) to delete the cookie. Please note, however,
that certain areas on the site will not function properly if your web
browser does not accept cookies.
"Pixel tracking", a common process which may be used in
connection with advertisements on other sites, involves the use of
pixel tags that are not visible to the user of the site and consist of
a few lines of computer coding. Pixel tracking measures the
effectiveness of these advertisements and compiles aggregate and
specific usage statistics. A "pixel tag" is an invisible tag placed on
certain pages of websites you may visit and is used to track an
individual user's activity. We may access these pixel tags to identify
activity and interests that may allow us to better match our offers
with your interests. For example, if you visit our Web site from an
advertisement on another site, the pixel tag will allow the advertiser
to track that their advertisement brought you to the America's Next Hip
Hop Stars site. If you visit our website and we link you to another
site we may also be able to determine that you were sent to and/or
transacted with a third party web site. This data is collected for use
in our marketing and research. Personally identifiable information
about you is not collected by the third party advertising company, nor
is any tracking information generated from the pixel tag allowed to be
used by them for any other purpose other than to report web site
activity to us.
4. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com disclose user information to
third parties? Except as otherwise noted in this policy, America's Next
Hip Hop Stars.com only discloses user information in aggregate form to
marketing partners. For example, we might tell a marketing partner how
many users visited America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com over a period of
time, but we will never tell them who it was that saw or clicked on
their offer, unless that user has given us permission to do so.
America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com believes that consumers should be able
to control the use of their data. We will not share personally
identifiable information with marketing partners if you follow the
simple unsubscribe procedure of removing the check mark located at the
permission notice box appearing on the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
registration and entry page. If an opt out is not submitted, we will
notify users of exciting offers of interest from America's Next Hip Hop
Stars.com and our marketing partners. We may also share your name, land
address and e-mail address with marketing partners so that they can
send you offers directly for products and services that may be of
interest to you. The personal information our users provide to us may
be combined with other personally identifiable information (such as
demographic information and past purchase information) available from
our records and other sources. This allows us and our marketing
partners , with permission, to present our users with offers and
information geared towards their interests. We require each permission
based e-mail our partners send to include a description of a simple
opt-out process that will enable you to stop receiving promotional
e-mail from them in the future. We will only deal with marketing
partners who offer products or services that we believe may be of
interest to our users. Nevertheless, America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
is not and cannot be responsible for the activities or privacy policies
of these third parties. We may share our unsubscribe list with select
marketing partners for the sole purpose of insuring that individuals on
this list do not receive electronic commercial mail messages containing
Publishers Clearing House advertisements that may be sent by such
partners.
We do not rent, license, or sell personal data to third
parties unless permission is granted through user submission of the
checked permission notice box appearing at the registration and entry
page of America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com. In the event of a merger,
acquisition, or change of control of America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com,
customer data would be considered a business asset and would be
transferred. We will disclose information we maintain when required to
do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.
We may also disclose personal information as required by law or to
protect the safety and security of our users.
5. Can I opt-out of America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com's data collection and/or distribution?
Receiving email messages from America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com, our
affiliates and partners is optional. As noted earlier, the collection,
use, and distribution of personal data helps us create a more
personalized, relevant, and intelligent web service for our users.
While some basic data is necessary to provide certain services, such as
entry into the sweepstakes and fulfillment of products and services
ordered through America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com, there are some cases
where the submission of information is optional.
We will not contact you with e-mail offers or share personally
identifiable information with marketing partners if you follow the
simple opt-out procedure of removing the check mark located at the
permission notice box appearing on the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
registration and entry page. If you are already receiving America's
Next Hip Hop Stars.com emails and no longer wish to receive such
communications, simply follow the "unsubscribe" instructions that
appear in every America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com e-mail
If you have provided personal information directly to our
third party marketing partners and are receiving email communications
directly from these third parties America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
cannot, in most instances, unsubscribe users from these third parties.
If you wish to unsubscribe from one of our marketing partner's e-mail
programs, please follow their unsubscribe procedures which will be
found within their e-mails or in their privacy policy.
6. What about external web sites? To the extent
hyperlinks or banner advertisements incorporating hyperlinks are
utilized on this Site to access third party sites, users should be
aware that these third party web sites are not controlled by America's
Next Hip Hop Stars.com and, therefore, are not subject to this privacy
policy. We recommend that users check the privacy policies of these
individual sites to see how their personal information will be
utilized.
7. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com allow users
access to their information for review and updating? Users can access
the personal information they have provided to America's Next Hip Hop
Stars.com for the purposes of reviewing and updating such information
by following instructions in the "Your Account" section of the Site.
8. What does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com do to
keep their site secure? We have implemented a number of security
features throughout the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com site that are
intended to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to the user
information we collect online. For example, database information is
firewall protected. Also, only authorized America's Next Hip Hop
Stars.com personnel have access to any stored personal information we
collect from our users. Moreover, password and credit card information
you submit to America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com is always encrypted
during transmission. Users should be aware that e-mail is not encrypted
and is not considered a secure means of transmitting credit card
numbers.
While we strive to create a secure and reliable site for our
users, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted
over the Internet cannot be 100% guaranteed. Users should keep in mind
that any information submitted through an Internet transaction is
potentially accessible to the public, and consequently, can be
collected and used by others without their consent. America's Next Hip
Hop Stars.com is not responsible or liable for illegal interception of
personal data via any Internet transaction.
9. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect
information from users outside of the United States? The America's Next
Hip Hop Stars.com site is not directed to visitors residing outside of
the United States and such users are not eligible to submit online
sweepstakes entries. However, as indicated in the Official Rules on the
site, some sweepstakes promoted on the America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com
Site are open to residents of the U.K. and Canada. Residents from these
countries can participate in these sweepstakes by sending a write-in
entry to the address provided in the Official Rules. We regret that as
a result of system limitations at this time non-U.S. residents may not
order products through America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com. If America's
Next Hip Hop Stars.com becomes aware that a user who does not reside in
the United States has registered with the America's Next Hip Hop
Stars.com site, America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com will use reasonable
efforts to remove such information from its files.
10. Does America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com collect
personal information from children? The America's Next Hip Hop
Stars.com site is not targeted nor directed to children under the age
of thirteen. America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com does not intend to
collect personally identifiable information from individuals in this
age group. If America's Next Hip Hop Stars.com receives actual notice
that a child under the age of thirteen has provided personal
information to .com, pch.com will use reasonable efforts to remove such
information from its files.
11. Your California Privacy Rights: The following
information for California residents covers on-line (internet) and
off-line (direct mail) information sharing activities. Please review
the complete America's Next Hip Hop Stars Privacy Policy for full
details on our information sharing and privacy practices. As detailed
in our policy, from time to time we may share or exchange marketing
information about the consumers who respond to our offers with other
companies so they may contact you about products and services that may
interest you. If you do not want your name passed on to other companies
for the purpose of receiving marketing offers, just tell us by
contacting us at privacychoices@pchmail.com or by writing to
Christopher L. Irving, Sr. Director, Consumer & Privacy Affairs,
Publishers Clearing House, 382 Channel Drive, Port Washington, New York
11050 and we will be pleased to respect your wishes. Please make sure
to provide both your email address and full name, mailing address,
city, state and zip code information if you wish your request to apply
to both on-line and off-line marketing information sharing.
12. What about America's Next Hip Hop Stars' off-line information and
privacy practices? America's Next Hip Hop Stars collects certain
personal information from our direct mail customers and entrants
primarily to process sweepstakes entries and fulfill orders for the
products and services we offer. For example, we need your full name and
address to enter you in the sweepstakes, notify you if you've won a
prize or to send you any magazine subscription or product you may
purchase. We may also use the personal data we collect for systems
administration and troubleshooting purposes, and to report aggregate
information to our marketing partners and other third parties. From
time to time we may share or exchange marketing information about the
consumers who respond to our offers with other companies so they may
contact you about products and services that may interest you.
13. Further Questions? We welcome any questions or comments you may
have regarding this privacy policy or the use of personal data.
