Image Player Privacy Statement This statement discloses the privacy practices for the Image Player web site. In this statement, we will explain what personally identifiable information of yours is collected; What organization is collecting the information; How the information is used; With whom the information may be shared; What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information; What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the company's control; and How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. Image Player is a trademark of Virtual Portal Corp. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the Customer Support at Image Player / Virtual Portal at 1137 Pearl Street, Suite 203, Boulder, Colorado 80302. Virtual Portal will never willfully disclose individually identifiable information about its customers to any third party without first receiving that customer's permission. The Virtual Portal Corporation has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Virtual Portal family of websites. Virtual Portal believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. To this end, unless you designate otherwise, the information you enter here will be known to only two parties: you and Virtual Portal. We pledge that Virtual Portal will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent. You may change the status of whether you wish to receive Virtual Portal offers and communications at any time. When we do present information to our advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise, it is in the form of aggregate statistics compiled among all of our visitors' answers to survey questions as well as grouped on-site behavior. Remember that Virtual Portal is trying to always provide you with compelling reasons to come back and visit our site again. All information collected is used to benefit you as a consumer.   Security This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is for our accounting and registration purposes only. Only authorized employees of the Virtual Portal Corporation will have access to this information.   What information does Virtual Portal gather/track and how is it used? Use of traffic data Each time a visitor comes to the Virtual Portal website, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. We collect the visitor's domain name, their IP address (a unique number that identifies a computer), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a Virtual Portal website), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform). In addition to collecting these types of information, Virtual Portal collects visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within Virtual Portal, etc). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but Virtual Portal will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When Virtual Portal does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you. Use of cookies Virtual Portal websites use cookies for internal reporting. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allow us to both store and retrieve login information on a user's system. That means you don't have to "login" each time you come to Virtual Portal to get your daily image. Other companies which place advertising on our site also have the ability to assign their own cookies to you in a process that Virtual Portal does not control. However, cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines, so these advertisers will not know who you are - and Virtual Portal will not tell them without your consent. Cookies also allow us to track which images are popular, the number of images that are downloaded by each user, as well as which images are being used for postcards. Once again, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines. Use of email addresses collected from newsletter subscriptions After signing up to receive a Virtual Portal weekly image newsletter or new images announcements by email, users will start receiving a Virtual Portal content newsletter delivered on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, as well as occasional product-related announcements. We collect subscribers' email addresses in order to distribute those newsletters and product- related announcements. When appropriate, an option will be made available for users to choose to receive information from third-party organizations during the registration process. This option may be made available to events Virtual Portal sponsors on behalf of its own properties, and/or through registration processes maintained by an event's other co-sponsors. Use of demographic information In order to use the custom features of the Virtual Portal website you must complete the sign up form. For example, we may ask for your birth date, your zip code, your gender and household income to be able to offer you information that you might find useful. By choosing and filling out basic information like your birthday, zip code, we can do some basic customization. Household income, gender and level of annual income data can also collected to gather general statistics for our internal usage and for advertising purposes.   With whom does Virtual Portal share the information it gathers/tracks? When we do present information to our advertisers, it is in the form of grouped statistics compiled from questions and on-site behavior. Virtual Portal will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual user to advertisers or any other outside organization without the express permission of the individual. If a user wants to receive information from other reputable organizations whose products or services Virtual Portal thinks he or she might find interesting, users can choose the appropriate option when registering for newsletters, sweepstakes, contests, or other events that Virtual Portal sponsors. In this case, user information will be shared with the partner organization. Virtual Portal will never disclose individual contact or demographic information without user consent. If you do choose to allow Virtual Portal to share your personally identifiable information with reputable outside organizations, and you later decide to unsubscribe, Virtual Portal will make every effort to remove your information from the list we share with other sources promptly following your unsubscribe request. However, Virtual Portal is not responsible for the removal of your personal information from third-party lists if you have previously authorized Virtual Portal to distribute it.   What is Virtual Portal unsubscribe and data-removal policy? Virtual Portal puts control over communications directed to you where it belongs: In your hands. Every time we collect information about you: You can tell us if you don't want to receive communication from Virtual Portal such as email newsletters announcing contests or new features. You can tell us if you don't want to receive communication from third-party companies who offer a product or service that we think would be of value to you. And, of course, you can always decline to provide the personal information to us in the first place. Updating or changing your personal information You may update or change your information at any time. Simply visit: http://www.imageplayer.net/register.php3. You are now free to change or update any of the information that you provided to us, such as your birth date, your email address, etc. The changes will take place immediately.   Who can I ask if I have any additional questions? You can direct all questions regarding customer support by clicking here. If you have any other questions, please check out our Image Player Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.