MyOctet Privacy Notice

Updated as of February 27, 2008

The MyOctet Privacy Policy describes how MyOctet and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use MyOctet services, including information provided when you use MyOctet. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to MyOctet. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use MyOctet, you should read this policy and the MyOctet Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on MyOctet without having a MyOctet Account or a MyOctet Account. You can also contact us about a particular video without having a MyOctet Account or a MyOctet Account.
Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on MyOctet—like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos—require you to have a MyOctet Account or a MyOctet Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a MyOctet Account or a MyOctet Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A MyOctet Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use MyOctet, 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 MyOctet (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.
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 MyOctet Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the MyOctet Sites, 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 MyOctet Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the MyOctet Sites 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 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 MyOctet 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 MyOctet 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.
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 MyOctet Sites; (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. If you download the MyOctet Uploader, your copy of the of the Uploader includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information about your installation of the Uploader (e.g. version number, language) will be sent to MyOctet when the Uploader automatically checks for updates.

Information That is Publicly Available

When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of videos you have watched.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos or send messages through the MyOctet Sites. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments.
You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your channel page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, you name, gender, relationship status, or other details.
If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include what videos you favorite, what videos you rated and what videos you have uploaded.
Any videos that you submit to the MyOctet Sites 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.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the MyOctet Sites, in which case you can still view videos and explore the MyOctet Sites, but MyOctet may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced MyOctet features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up for other MyOctet services like MyOctet Checkout or AdSense. The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.
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.
You may control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your channel page.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

MyOctet allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the MyOctet 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 MyOctet 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 personalize the advertising content you see.

MyOctet 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 MyOctet 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 MyOctet 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. MyOctet's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with MyOctet is maintained and dealt with by MyOctet in accordance with this privacy policy.