WoodenBoat Videos Privacy Notice
This section describes how WoodenBoat Publications, Inc. treats personal information when you use WoodenBoat’s services, including information provided when you use WoodenBoat Videos. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to WoodenBoat. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use WoodenBoat Videos, you should read this policy.
Personal Information
- Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on WoodenBoat Videos without having a WoodenBoat Videos Account. You can also contact us about a particular video without having a WoodenBoat Videos Account.
- Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on WoodenBoat Videos?such as uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos?require you to have a WoodenBoat Videos Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a WoodenBoat Videos Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
- Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use WoodenBoat Videos, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in WoodenBoat Videos (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account.
- Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or 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 WoodenBoat Videos Site, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the WoodenBoat Videos Site, 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 videos or send messages through the WoodenBoat Videos Site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the WoodenBoat Videos Site 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.
- We will never sell or rent your personal information to outside parties. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major WoodenBoat Video 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 WoodenBoat Videos Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, 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 WoodenBoat Site; (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, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
Your Choices
- You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the WoodenBoat Videos Site, in which case you can still view videos and explore the WoodenBoat Videos Site, but WoodenBoat 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 account profile page.
- You may clear your viewing history at any time through the “Viewing History” feature.
Please enjoy the WoodenBoat Videos site, and send us your comments on additional features you would like to see us include in the future. Thank you.
WoodenBoat
P.O. Box 78
Brooklin, ME 04616
Tel. 207-359-4651
carl@woodenboat.com