This Statement was last modified on 1 Jan 2015.

The Think Marketing privacy policy describes how Think Marketing and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use Think Marketing services. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to Think Marketing communities.

Personal Information

Non-Account Activity. You can access certain information on Think Marketing without having a a Think Marketing community account. You can also contact us about a particular content without having a Think Marketing Account.
Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Think Marketing —like uploading pictures, posting comments, flagging items or accessing priveleged informationm—require you to have a Think Marketing Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Think Marketing Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorised access.
Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use Think Marketing, communities, groups and favourites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the content you access and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Think Marketing (including UI elements, settings and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. “Web Beacons”) in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or other content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

Uses

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Think Marketing Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain and provide to you the general and personalised features and functionality of the Think Marketing Sites and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you upload content or send messages through the Think Marketing Sites and other users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the Think Marketing Sites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users have access to your Display Data.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific programme or feature for which you will have the ability to opt in or opt out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Think Marketing Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Think Marketing Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality and services by storing, tracking, analysing and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
We use cookies, clear gifs 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 the Think Marketing Sites; (b) provide custom, personalised content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions and status in promotions, sweepstakes and contests. If you download the Think Marketing Uploader, your copy of the Uploader includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information about your installation of the Uploader (e.g. version number, language) will be sent to Think Marketing when the Uploader automatically checks for updates.

Information That is Publicly Available

When you create an account on the site, some information regarding your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged in to your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), your country.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as uploading content or sending messages via the Think Marketing Sites. Other Users can contact you via messages and comments.
You can also choose to add personal information that will be visible to other Users on your channel page (the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, relationship status or other details.
If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include videos you add as favourites, videos you rate and videos you have uploaded.
Any content that you submit to the Think Marketing Sites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same video.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Think Marketing Sites, in which case you can still view content and explore the Think Marketing Sites, but Think Marketing may not be able to provide certain services to you.
You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your Think Marketing account profile page.
You may clear your viewing history at any time through the “Viewing History” feature on your browser.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Think Marketing allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Think Marketing Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Think Marketing Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalise the advertising content you see.

Think Marketing does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific programme or feature for which you will have the ability to opt in or opt out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Think Marketing to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men aged 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men aged 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Think Marketing Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt out of certain practices. Think Marketing’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers, which is subsequently shared with Think Marketing , is maintained and handled by Think Marketing in accordance with this privacy policy.

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