Privacy
Policy
Introduction:
Sling
Media, Inc. (¡°Sling¡±) respects your privacy. This Privacy Statement applies to
all of our web sites and our other products and services (collectively, ¡°Sling
Products¡±). This Privacy Statement explains what information we collect through
the Sling Products, how we use that information, and what choices you have.
The
Sling Products may contain links to other web sites. This Privacy Statement
does not apply to the practices of any company or individual that Sling does
not control, or any web sites or services that you link to from the Sling
Products. You should use caution and review the privacy policies of any web
sites or services that you visit from ours to learn more about their
information practices.
Please
take a few moments to read this Privacy Statement. By accessing the Sling
Products, you agree to accept the terms and conditions of this Privacy
Statement and are aware that our policies may evolve in the future as indicated
below. In the event of a conflict between this Privacy Statement and our Terms
of Use, our Terms of Use will control.
What
information we collect:
In
various places in connection with Sling Products, we collect ¡°Personally
Identifiable Information,¡± such as your name, postal address, telephone number,
email address, or other information that can be used to identify you or contact
you. For example, we collect this information when you sign up for our email
newsletter, purchase or register a SlingBox product, register for a ¡°Sling Account¡±,
enter a sweepstakes or participate in promotions and give-aways. From time to
time in the future we may offer additional features, services and promotional
opportunities that would require you to submit Personally Identifiable
Information to participate.
We
also collect ¡°Anonymous Information¡± such as your IP address, your ZIP code,
your Media Access Control (MAC) address, your SlingFinder ID, the name you
assigned to your SlingBox, the hardware and firmware version of your SlingBox,
the type of browser you use, the pages on our websites that you visit, the
identity of your broadcast television provider, the search terms that you
enter, the advertisements that you click and the number and frequency of users
of Sling Products. Anonymous Information will not be associated with Personally
Identifiable Information.
Like
many Internet sites, we also use ¡°cookies¡± to collect information when you
visit our website. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your
computer and is stored on your hard drive. When you visit our websites the
cookie identifies your computer to us so that you do not have to re-register
each time you visit. We also use cookies to measure the traffic to our site and
its different services and features, and other miscellaneous uses.
We
do not intend that children will use the Sling Products. We do not solicit or
knowingly collect information from children under 13 years old, nor will we
knowingly accept registration from them.
How
we use the information we collect:
We
use Personally Identifiable Information that you provide us for such purposes
as responding to your requests for information, products or services,
customizing the advertising and content you see, and communicating with you
about our offerings. For example, if you sign up for our email newsletter, we
will send the newsletter to the email address you provided. If you so choose,
we will also use Personally Identifiable Information to send you information
about products and services that may be of interest to you. Later on in this
Privacy Statement, we provide you with more information on what choices you
have.
We
use Anonymous Information to determine how people use the Sling Products. For
example this data tells us information including how often users click on our
advertisements, which files are downloaded most frequently, and which
components or areas of Sling Products are the most popular. Analyzing this data
allows us to improve the offerings on and performance of Sling Products.
How
we share information:
We
sometimes use third parties to help with some aspects of the Sling Products,
such as delivering content, processing payments and providing marketing
assistance. When we supply Personally Identifiable Information to these third
parties, we require them to use it only for the function they are helping us
with.
We
aggregate the Anonymous Information that we collect and exchange it with
advertisers and other partners who are interested in the use and performance of
the Sling Products. We share this type of data so that our partners also
may provide you with an optimal user experience and better understand how users
access the Sling Products.
We
will disclose Personally Identifiable Information as required by law, or if in
our judgment it is necessary to protect Sling or our employees or users from
harm, loss or liability. If we merge with or are acquired by another company or
we sell substantially all of our assets, the acquiror or resulting company will
receive and may continue to use the information you have provided as described
in this policy. In the unlikely event we cease operation or enter bankruptcy,
your information may be transferred to and used by another company that
acquires our assets or offers similar or related products or services.
You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any such acquiror or
successor may continue to use your information as set forth in this policy.
Personally
Identifiable Information you can access:
We
allow you to access the following information about you for the purpose of
viewing, and in certain situations, updating that information. This list will
change as Sling Products change. You may currently access the following
information:
- user
profile, and
- user
preferences.
What
choices you have:
When
you register for the Sling Products, you have the option of checking a box to
tell us that you do not want us to send you any information about our products
and services, or that you do not want to receive information from our partners
and others about products and services that might interest you. We will keep
track of your decision in our database. Even if you choose not to receive
information from us, we reserve the right to communicate with you on matters we
consider especially important. Further, please note that if you do not
want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Statement, those
legal notices will still govern your use of the Sling Products, and you are
responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes.
You
are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in
the ¡°Personally Identifiable Information you can access¡± section above. When
you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised
information in our records.
You
delete your account by calling Sling¡¯s customer support line at (877)
467.5464. Please note that some information may remain in our records
after deletion of your account.
Postings:
If
you use our bulletin boards, post user comments regarding content available
through the Sling Products, or engage in similar activity, please remember that
anything you post is publicly available. Portions of your user profile will
also be available to other users of our websites.
Security:
During
sessions in which you give us information such as credit card numbers, we
encrypt your transmissions using SSL (¡°Secure Sockets Layer¡±), and other
security technology. This guards against interception of the information while
it is on the Internet. We keep the Personally Identifiable Information you
provide on servers that are protected by firewalls and other technological
means against intrusion or unauthorized access. They are located in a
physically secure facility, however, there is no such thing as ¡°perfect security¡±
on the Internet. We rely on you to select passwords that cannot be guessed
easily and to safeguard those passwords from disclosure. Please contact us if
you have any information regarding unauthorized use of the Sling Products.
Changes
to this Privacy Statement:
We
may make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time for any reason.
Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Statement in effect
at the time such information is used (though you always have the option to
delete your account as described above). If we make changes in the way we use
Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify you via e-mail or by
posting an announcement on our website. The latest version will be available at
http://www.slingmedia.com/get/privacy-policy. You will be bound by any changes
to the Privacy Statement when you use Sling Products after receiving notice of
such changes.
Effective
Date: The Effective Date of this Privacy Statement is December 17, 2007