Athens GA Privacy Notice

Athens GA Privacy Policy Updated as of January 22, 2010

The Athens GA privacy policy describes how Athens-GA.com by Americana Ventures, LLC and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use Athens-GA.com’s services, including information provided when you use the Athens GA Social Network. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to Athens-GA.com.

Personal Information and Browsing Athens-GA.com

You can watch videos and read content on Athens-GA.com without having an Account or a Athens GA Social Network profile. You also can contact us through the Help Center or by emailing us directly without having to register for an account.

Your Athens GA Account

For some activities on Athens-GA.com, like uploading videos, posting comments, posting your status, or gaining access to restricted members only areas, you need a Athens GA Socail Network Account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Athens GA Usage Information

When you use Athens-GA.com, we may record information about your usage of the site, such as pages visited, most popular posts, subscriptions, which other users you communicate with, the videos you watch, the frequency and size of data transfers, and information you display about yourself as well as information you click on in the Athens-GA.com web site (including UI elements, settings). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your Athens GA Socail Network Account. In order to ensure the quality of our service to you, we may place a tag or read receipt (also called a “web beacon”) in HTML-based customer support emails or other communications with you in order to confirm delivery.

Content Uploaded to Site

Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (e.g., video comments, your profile page, status, etc.) may be collected and used by others. If you submit personal information or requests to Athens-GA.com, we may use that information to operate, maintain, and improve the features and functionality of Athens-GA.com, and to process any activity or other communication you send to us. We may use your email address or other personal information to send commercial or marketing messages directly from our company to you that contains local product and service offers, coupons and specials by local companies. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Athens-GA.com changes or for customer service purposes). We use cookies, web beacons, 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 Athens-GA.com; (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 and pages viewed; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests. Information That is Publicly AvailableWhen you create a Athens-GA.com Account, some information about your Athens-GA.com Account and your account activity will be provided to other users of Athens-GA.com. This may include the date you opened your Athens-GA.com Account, the date you last logged into your Athens-GA.com Account, your age, sex, profile picuure and the country and the number of videos you have watched. Your Athens-GA.com Account name, not your email address, is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on Athens-GA.com, such as when you upload content or send messages through Athens-GA.com. Other users can contact you by leaving a message or comment on the site. You may also choose to add personal information which may include your name, gender, profile picture or other details, that will be visible to other users on your Athens-GA.com Socail Network profile page. If you choose to add certain features to your Athens-GA.com Account, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your friends or other users. Such shared activity may include your favorite videos, videos you rated and videos that you have uploaded. Your may change who can view your personal profile information, email preferences and privacy settings at any time by visiting your account profile page. You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your Athens-GA.com Account.

You may, of course, decline to submit personal information or create an Athens GA Social Network profile, in which case you can still view videos and explore Athens-GA.com, but Athens-GA.com may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced Athens-GA.com components may use other services and custom features.

Advertising on Athens-GA.com strives to provide you with relevant and useful advertising through the use of DoubleClick cookie, as well as other third party ad serving systems, to do so. We may use a range of information including cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, usage data and other non-personal information about your computer or device (such as browser type and operating system) to provide you with relevant advertising. If you are logged into your Athens-GA.com Account, we may also show you advertising based on the information you have provided to us in your Athens-GA.com Account. We use the DoubleClick cookie on Athens-GA.com to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads on this site and other partner websites. Advertisers may serve ads based on interests associated with non-personally identifiable online activity, such as videos viewed, frequency of uploading or activity on other AdSense partner sites. Advertisers may also serve ads to you based on previous activity on that advertiser’s website. This non-personally identifiable information is held separately from your Athens-GA.com Account data, or other personally identifying information in our possession. Athens-GA.com does not provide any personal information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Athens-GA.com’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 Athens-GA.com is maintained and dealt with by Athens-GA.com in accordance with this privacy policy.

More Information

For questions concerning the Athens-GA.com web site or your account, please check visit the Athens GA contact page.