DREAM MAKER FILMS LLC
Privacy Notice
Effective: November 5, 2008
Dream Maker Films LLC (“Dream Maker” and also referred to as “we,” “us” or “our”) takes great pride in inviting you to become a Dream Maker Member or Premium Member. Dream Maker operates www.dreammakerfilms.com, which is a social and professional networking service that allows Members to create unique personal and professional profiles online in order to find, network and communicate with others in the film, motion picture and entertainment industry (the "Dream Maker Website"). The services offered by Dream Maker include the Dream Maker web site and associated URLs (the "Dream Maker Website"), the Dream Maker instant messaging service, the Dream Maker application developer service and other features, Dream Maker classifieds, Dream Maker locator services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from time-to-time by Dream Maker in connection with our business (which we collectively refer to as, the "Dream Maker Services").
Dream Maker is dedicated to protecting your privacy and handling any personal information we obtain from you with care and respect. This Privacy Notice is designed to answer your questions regarding our privacy policies and principles.
Q1. What information is covered by this Privacy Notice?
A1. This Privacy Notice applies only to personally identifiable information collected on the Dream Maker Website where this Privacy Notice is posted and does not apply to any other information collected by Dream Maker through any other means.
At Dream Maker, we refer to individuals who visit our website, purchase or use Dream Maker Services as “guests” and “Members” (which includes Premier Members). When this Privacy Notice uses the term “personally identifiable information,” we mean information that identifies a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. When other information (such as, for example, consumer product preferences or number of children) is directly associated with personally identifiable information, this other information also is treated as personally identifiable information for purposes of this Privacy Notice. Personally identifiable information does not include screen names (also known as member names, usernames or other online aliases) provided by our guests in the course of registering with or using the Dream Maker Website, except in circumstances in which we request that guests provide their e-mail addresses as their screen names. Personally identifiable information is sometimes referred to in this Privacy Notice as “personal information.” Finally, the terms of this Privacy Notice are subject to all applicable laws.
Q2. What type of information does Dream Maker collect about its guests?
A2. We collect several types of information about our guests.
Information You Provide
Much of the personally identifiable information we receive comes directly from guests who are interested in obtaining various products and services from Dream Maker. Typically, this information includes the guest’s name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. We may also collect other types of information such as gender, age, number of children, and personal interests, which we may associate with personally identifiable information. If you purchase products or services from Dream Maker, we’ll note, for example, credit card information, the type of services or products ordered or purchased, and the date of the order or purchase. You may also provide us photographs or other video materials, which may contain personal information. We may collect personal information when you register on, log on, or visit the Dream Maker Website, including when you participate in activities on the Dream Maker Website, such as sweepstakes, contests, games, and informational and promotional offers, and when you provide information to our customer service representatives. Finally, our Dream Maker Website may offer message boards, conversation pages, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other Public Forums (as defined in the Terms of Use governing our Dream Maker Website, and incorporated here by reference (the “Terms of Use”)), as well as other features in which you may provide us with User Submissions (as defined in the Terms of Use). If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by a third party. Our rules regarding User Submissions and User-Generated Content are described in the Terms of Use.
Information Collected Through Technology
We collect information through technology designed to make our sites more interesting and useful to you and for various purposes related to our business. For instance, when you come to one of our sites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our sites, and we may combine IP addresses with personally identifiable information.
Our Dream Maker Website collects information through a variety of technical methods, including not necessarily limited to cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a Dream Maker Website sends to your computer while you are viewing the Dream Maker Website. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of Dream Maker Website. Cookies, web beacons and other technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. The Company is not currently using web beacons to collect information but may do so in the future.
We may use the information collected through these technical methods for many purposes, including delivering content, tracking and enhancing our guests’ experience on our Dream Maker Website. For example, when you return to one of our Dream Maker Website after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. We also may use technical methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our Dream Maker Website, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our Dream Maker Website, and third party Dream Maker Websites, such as the frequency with which our users visit other Dream Maker Websites. In HTML e-mails that we send our guests, we may use technical methods for a number of purposes, including: to determine whether our guests have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails, to customize the display of banner advertisements and other messages after a guest has closed the e-mail, and to determine whether a guest has made an inquiry or purchase in response to a particular e-mail. These technical methods may enable us to collect and use information in a form that is personally identifiable.
Information That We Collect from Others
We may update and supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from our guests with other information that we obtain from third parties and other members of Dream Maker. In addition, we may obtain personally identifiable information about individuals who are not yet users of our Dream Maker Website or guests of Dream Maker. In addition, when we associate information that we obtain from third parties or other members of Dream Maker with personally identifiable information that we have collected under this Privacy Notice, we will treat the acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves and, except as permitted by this Privacy Notice, the information will not be shared with third parties.
Q3. How is your personally identifiable information used and shared?
A3. As described in detail below, Dream Maker may use your personally identifiable information in many ways, including sending you promotional materials, and sharing your information with third parties so that these third parties can send you promotional materials. (By “promotional materials,” we mean communications that directly promote the use of our Dream Maker Website, or the purchase of products or services.) As outlined below in A4, you may “opt out” of certain uses of your personal information.
Sharing and Use of Information by Dream Maker, Licensees and Co-Branding Participants
Personally identifiable information collected under this Privacy Notice is shared among and used by Dream Maker for many purposes. For example, Dream Maker may use your personal information to send you promotional materials about goods and services (including special offers and promotions) either offered by Dream Maker or offered by third parties. These promotional materials may be sent to you by postal mail, e-mail or other means. You may opt out of receiving these communications as provided in A4 below. Please keep in mind, however, that when you purchase or request products or services (or information about products or services) from a particular member of Dream Maker, promotional materials about goods and services offered by another member of Dream Maker and/or by a third party may accompany delivery of the product, service or information that you have requested. We refer to sending you promotional materials in these circumstances as “Fulfillment Uses” of your personal information. Because these promotional materials accompany products, services or information that you have requested, your opt-outs for Dream Maker and Third Parties under A4 below will not apply to any of these Fulfillment Uses.
Dream Maker may also use your personal information for many purposes other than sending you promotional materials. (We refer to all of these types of uses of your personal information that do not involve the sending of promotional materials as “Operational Uses”) For example, we may use your information to complete transactions requested by you (such as your purchase of a product or service offered on our Dream Maker Website), or to send you administrative communications either about your account with us or about features of our Dream Maker Website, including any future changes to this Privacy Notice. Because these uses of your personal information do not involve sending you promotional materials, your opt-outs under A4 below will not apply to any of these Operational Uses.
In addition to using your personal information within Dream Maker, Dream Maker may share your personal information with companies that offer products and/or services under brand names or using characters or other intellectual property of Dream Maker. These companies are called “licensees.” Dream Maker may also share your personal information with companies that offer products and/or services that are co-branded using brand names of Dream Maker. These companies are called “co-branding participants.” When Dream Maker shares personal information with third parties acting as licensees and co-branding participants, these licensees and co-branding participants are restricted by contract from using the personal information for any marketing or promotional purpose that is not related to a licensed or co-branded product or service. Finally, to further protect your privacy, these licensees and co-branding participants’ use of personal information shared with them under this Privacy Notice is subject to the same opt-out rights (and limitations upon those rights) that apply to use of personal information by members of Dream Maker under A4 below.
Finally, Dream Maker may take your personally identifiable information and make it non-personally identifiable, either by combining it with information about other individuals (aggregating your information with information about other individuals), or by removing characteristics (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you (de-personalizing your information). Given the nature of this information, there are no restrictions under this Privacy Notice upon the right of Dream Maker to aggregate or de-personalize your personal information, and Dream Maker may use and/or share with third parties the resulting non-personally identifiable information in any way.
Dream Maker Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Regardless of any opt-out choices that you make under A4, Dream Maker will disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) facilitate compliance with laws, including, for example, compliance with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest, sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our Dream Maker Website, Dream Maker, and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property that belongs to Dream Maker or third parties.
Q4. Can a guest or visitor to the Dream Maker Website control the disclosure of information to Third Parties?
A4. With regard to personal information that you have provided under this Privacy Notice, there are opt-out choices available to you. These opt-out choices are the means by which you give us, or decline to give us, your consent to use your personal information for the purposes covered by these opt-out choices. There are several methods by which you can exercise your opt-out choices: (a) during the registration process on our Dream Maker Website; (b) after registration, by logging on our Dream Maker Website, clicking on our Privacy Notice links, going to the site Guest Services center, and following the opt-out directions; and (c) as described below in A6.
Q5. What kinds of security measures do we take to safeguard your personally identifiable information?
A5. The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect guest information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
Q6. How can you update your contact information and opt out choices?
A6. You can access and update the contact information you gave us during registration (that is, your postal address, e-mail address, or any other information that would directly enable us to contact you), or modify your opt-out choices, by going to your Update Profile page. We may also provide you an opportunity to update your contact information and/or modify your opt-out choices by sending you an e-mail or other communication that invites your response. Finally, you may unsubscribe from certain e-mail communications by clicking on unsubscribe links in those e-mails.
In some cases, your account may expire or be terminated under our Terms of Use. If so, you may contact Member Services by using the contact us form to update your information and opt-out choices (to the extent that we still retain them).
Q7. How can you ask questions, or send us comments, about this Privacy Notice?
A7. If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Notice, please contact us with your questions or comments.
Please be assured that any personal information that you provide in communications will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you so request.
Q8. How will you know if we amend this Privacy Notice?
A8. We may amend this Privacy Notice at any time. If we amend this Privacy Notice to permit material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will notify you of such amendment by sending you an e-mail at the last e-mail address that you provided us, and/or by prominently posting notice of such amendment on the Dream Maker Website. Any such amendment to this Privacy Notice will be effective thirty (30) calendar days following either our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or our posting of notice of the changes on the Dream Maker Website. Please note that, at all times, you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us your current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any other reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the amendment described in the notice. In any event, an amendment to this Privacy Notice may permit material changes in the way we use and share personal information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of such amendment. If you do not wish to allow such material changes, you must so notify us (in the manner we specify) prior to the effective date of the amendment. If you provide us this notice, we may choose to deactivate your account. Please be advised, however, that, regardless of whether you provide such notice to us, any such amendment to this Privacy Notice will apply to any personal information that you provide us on or after the effective date of such amendment.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of Dream Maker who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us.