The following statement explains how MovieReviewIntelligence.com collects and uses your personally identifiable information.
In Principle
We will never intentionally disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party for their use without first receiving your express permission. We will not send you an e-mail unless you have requested it.
Free to use
You can access this Web site and use our services free of charge, but sometimes we may ask you to submit minimal personally identifiable information before accessing it.
Advertisers make it make it possible for us to provide free content. To enable advertisers to invest their media dollars appropriately, we may target advertising through cookies and other methods (described below) and provide advertisers with a general summary about the demographics of our readership and usage of our site. We never tell our advertisers your identity unless you expressly give us permission to do so.
When do we collect your personally identifiable information?
You must provide some personally identifiable information in order to use some features of our Web sites. Some examples:
1) Signing up for e-mail alerts
2) Participating in an online survey
3) Participating in online sweepstakes, contests and games
4) Purchasing tickets
What personally identifiable information do we collect?
The information we collect for services such as these will vary, but can include your name, address, zip code, gender, user name, password, e-mail address and phone number. We may also collect credit card information for purchases. Wherever we collect personally identifiable information, we will make an effort to link to our privacy statement.
How do we use your personally identifiable information?
We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we collect, such as names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers with our advertisers, without your express permission.
In the future we may have an online sweepstakes or contests sponsored by advertisers. In that case, aggregated, non-personally identifiable data about contest entries are collected and may be shared with these advertisers. In addition, you may choose to provide your personally identifiable information to these advertisers in exchange for the opportunity to receive future communication from them (such as coupons or special offers). If you do not wish to have your personally identifiable information shared or receive such communication, you will be given a clear choice to opt out of having your personally identifiable information sent to the advertiser, or you will be advised not to enter the contest.
We will not send you an e-mail unless you have requested it, or unless you have specifically given us permission to contact you in the future, or unless it is in the course of a transaction you have initiated.
When you submit a comment about a film or a post on this Web site, an editor may contact you for clarification or for permission to use your comments on the Web site.
Who else has access to your personally identifiable information?
Third-party technology providers: In some cases, the service you sign up for is provided by a third-party technology or content provider. When you use these third-party services offered on our sites, personally identifiable information you provide may be collected directly by these third parties solely in order to deliver the services you have requested. These third-party partners may not use or distribute our users' information in any capacity outside of the service for which we contracted and they must comply with our privacy policies.
Transactional partners: In some cases we partner with another company to co-promote their services within our Web site. In this case, you are transacting directly with the other party, and the personally identifiable information you enter on those services is shared both with that transactional partner and with us. On those pages requiring personally identifiable information, the transactional partner's brand is clearly visible, and their privacy statement is posted. We encourage you to read it.
How do we use site usage statistics?
MovieReviewIntelligence.com collects some information automatically via server logs and cookies. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring URLs. We use this information to prepare for peak usage times and ensure a fast-loading site, to help diagnose problems with our servers and to understand which features of our sites are being used and when.
How do we use cookies and web beacons?
A cookie is a small file that stores information in your browser on your computer. At some time, we may place cookies in your browser that contain some of the information you provide when you register with us. We do not store highly sensitive personal information such as your password, e-mail address or credit card number in cookies. Cookies enable us to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis. We also use cookies to provide a more useful online experience, such as allowing you to quickly enter a sweepstakes if you're already logged on. And it can allow us to limit users to only one entry for an online poll.
A web beacon is an invisible graphic on a web page that is programmed to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of a given site. Like cookies, web beacons allow us and our technology providers to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis and provide personalized services. We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we may collect, such as names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers with our advertisers without your express permission.
We work with third-party advertising companies who may utilize cookies or web beacons to better provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. These partners do not have access to or use your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or other personally identifiable information; they may, however, anonymously track your Web usage across other Web sites in their networks beyond MovieReviewIntelligence.com. For more information about these advertising companies' privacy policies, including how to opt out from their use of cookies and web beacons to track your use of our sites, see the following:
Disclosures Required by Law or for Security and Safety
Regardless of your choices with respect to your information, MovieReviewIntelligence.com will disclose personally identifiable information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures are (a) required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help enforce our terms of use, enforce contest and sweepstakes rules, protect your safety or security and/or protect the safety and security of MovieReviewIntelligence.com, Inc., our Web site, our property, or our employees; or (c) to protect the safety or security of third parties.
Children's guidelines
In general, this site is not intentionally targeted at children or teenagers under 18, but some movies covered on our site may be considered inappropriate for children or teenagers by their parents.
Children and teenagers: Be sure to ask your parents for permission before you use this Web site and before you send any personally identifiable information about yourself to us or anyone else over the Internet.
Parents and guardians: We encourage you to get involved with your children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating, including spending time on this Web site.
How to correct and update your personally identifiable information
MovieReviewIntelligence.com allows you to change your personally identifiable information by emailing us at editor@MovieReviewIntelligence.com.
Notification of policy changes
We retain the right, at our discretion, to change any of these policies in the future. Our current procedures are disclosed on this page.
How to contact MovieReviewIntelligence.com
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our Web site, or to resolve a dispute, you can contact us at:
MovieReviewIntelligence.com, Inc.
Post Office Box 251555
Los Angeles, California 90025
(310) 828-0976
By e-mail: editor@MovieReviewIntelligence.com
