SchoolsTube Privacy
Notice
Updated as of 26 November, 2008
This policy describes how we treat your personal information when you
use our services, including information provided when you use SchoolsTube.
In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to SchoolsTube.
To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use SchoolsTube,
you should read this policy.
Personal Information
1) Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on SchoolsTube without
having a SchoolsTube Account. You can also contact us about a particular
video without having a SchoolsTube Account.
2) Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on SchoolsTube-like
uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching private
videos-require you to have a SchoolsTube Account. We ask for some personal
information when you create a SchoolsTube Account, including your email
address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorised
access.
3) Usage Information. We may record information about your usage,
such as when you use SchoolsTube, the channels, groups, and favourites
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 SchoolsTube (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.
4) 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. This
also applies to content that you upload as private and not public.
SchoolsTube will not be held liable if private content is made
public through website error, glitch, force majeure, hacking or
otherwise. Please remember in this respect content uploaded as private
should be treated in the same way as content that is uploaded as public
which is freely available to view over the Internet using the SchoolsTube
system. If your content, contatins material of a highly secure
nature and should through the means outlined above be exposed to a public
viewing audience, and this would be classed as not acceptable to either
yourself as the uploader or to those that have helped create your
content, we would rather it was not uploaded and stored on the SchoolsTube
system to enusre that your security is upheld.
Uses
1) If you submit personally identifiable information to us through
the SchoolsTube Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain,
and provide to you the general and personalised features and functionality
of the SchoolsTube Sites, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence
you send to us.
2) Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other
Users when you upload videos or send messages through the SchoolsTube
Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any
videos that you submit to the SchoolsTube Sites may be redistributed through
the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general
public. If you have enabled Sharing, other users may see that you, as
identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching
the same video.
3) 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 program 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 SchoolsTube Site changes or for customer
service purposes).
4) 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 SchoolsTube Sites 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.
5) 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 SchoolsTube 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.
Your Choices
1) You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable
information through the SchoolsTube Sites, in which case you can still
view videos and explore the SchoolsTube Sites, but SchoolsTube may not
be able to provide certain services to you.
2) You may update or correct your personal profile information
and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
SchoolsTube allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad
networks, to serve advertisements within the SchoolsTube 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 SchoolsTube
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.
SchoolsTube 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 program or feature for which you will have the ability
to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks
SchoolsTube to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example,
men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 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 SchoolsTube 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.
SchoolsTubes privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the
activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Currently, SchoolsTube has relationships with the following third-party
ad servers or ad networks:
1) Commission Junction
http://www.cj.com
More Information
For questions concerning the product or your account, please check out
the Help
page.
For more information about us or our privacy practices and policies, write
to us at:
SchoolsTube Privacy
Schools Tube Ltd
Dudley
West Midlands
England
