PRIVACY POLICY

 

 

Last Updated: October 31, 2013

 

TUBES AND COMPANY LIMITED, and its subsidiaries are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through the software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices ("Apps") and through websites that we own and/or control, all from or in connection with which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, including without limitation –

http://www.tubesandcompany.com  (the "Website") as well as through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Apps and Websites, the "Services"). By using the Services or providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Personal Information We May Collect

 

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual, including:

 

Name

Postal address

Telephone number

Email address

Profile picture

User name

 

If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

How We May Collect Personal Information

 

We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

 

Through the Services: We may collect Personal Information through the Services, e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter or provide your resume to us through the "CONTACT" section.

From Other Sources: We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases; joint marketing partners; our pages and promotions on social media platforms; social media platforms with which you interact when using the Services; people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected on social media platforms; and other third parties.

How We May Use Personal Information

 

We may use Personal Information:

 

To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters.

To provide you with services relating to the Services, to our motion pictures and to our television programs.

To send administrative and transactional information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

To send you marketing and other communications that we believe may be of interest to you, including through push notifications, if you are using an App.

To personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you.

To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these rules carefully.

To allow you to participate in online games and be included in leader boards.

To evaluate you for job opportunities if you submit a resume through our "CONTACT" section.

To facilitate social sharing functionality.

To allow you to send information or materials (such as articles, trailers or themed e-cards) to a friend through the Services. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend's name and email address.

For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.

As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How Personal Information May Be Disclosed

 

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

 

To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. TUBES AND COMPANY LIMITED, is the party responsible for the management of the jointly-used Personal Information.

To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, credit card processing, auditing and other similar services.

To third parties, to permit them to send you marketing communications, if you have agreed.

To third-party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions.

To identify you to anyone to whom you send information or materials through the Services.

To your friends associated with your social media account, to other users of the Services and to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity, such as if you connect your social media account to your Services account or log into your Services account from your social media account. By connecting your Services account and your social media account, you authorize us to share information with your social media account provider and you understand that the use of the information we share will be governed by the social media site's privacy policy. If you do not want your Personal Information shared with other users or with your social media account provider, please do not connect your social media account with your Services account and do not participate in social sharing on the Services.

By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to users of the Services and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Services.

To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER INFORMATION

 

Other Information We May Collect

 

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

 

Browser and device information

App usage data

Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies

Demographic information and other information provided by you

Aggregated information

How We May Collect Other Information

 

We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

 

Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.

Through your use of the App: When you download and use the App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.

Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation and your use of the Services, to display information more effectively, to personalize your experience while using the Services and to display advertisements or offers that we think are likely to appeal to you, while you are on the Services. We also use cookies to gather information about your use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality and to assist us with resolving questions regarding them.

 

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. However, if you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer and you may need to log in every time you visit the Services. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests.

Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our advertising and marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.

Using Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects ("Flash LSOs")) and other similar technologies: We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with the Services or our online content.

IP Address: Your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Services, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Services.

Physical Location: We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower, WiFi signals or IP address look-up. We may use your device's physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses of your device's location, but if you do so, we may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.

From you: Information such as your gender or preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide it. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you.

By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services. We may aggregate Personal Information, for example, to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code.

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

 

Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it as described in "How We May Collect Other Information" section above, as well as for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.

 

In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we do, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

 

THIRD PARTY SERVICES

 

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

 

We are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including for any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps.

 

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS

 

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Services and other websites, based on information relating to your use of the Services and other websites. To do so, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through use of pixel tags). If you would like more information or to learn about your choices in connection with these practices, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/.

SECURITY

 

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

 

Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information

 

We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:

 

Receiving electronic communications from us: If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out by: (1) sending us an email at tubesandco@mac.com; or (2) using the unsubscribe function in the marketing email.

Receiving push notifications: If you want to stop receiving push notifications from us, you may do so by changing the settings on your mobile device or through the applicable App.

Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with our affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by: (1) sending us an email at tubesandco@mac.com, Attention: On-Line Marketing.

Our sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by: (1) sending us an email at tubesandco@mac.com

In your email or mail message, please make clear which of the above options you are opting-out from. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please also note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt-out.

 

How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information

 

If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, or delete Personal Information that has been previously provided to us by you,  you may email support@tubesandcompany.com  Attention: On-Line Marketing.

 

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have the Personal Information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of the Personal Information that you have provided to us For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

 

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion). There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.

 

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

 

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals not provide Personal Information through the Services.

 

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

 

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the Canada, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any province, country or territory other than that of the Canada.  Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

 

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

 

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health or criminal background) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

 

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

 

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please take a look at the "LAST UPDATED" legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

 

CONTACTING US

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@tubesandcompany.com

Please note that email communications are not always secure, so please do not include credit card information or sensitive information in your emails to us.