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Privacy Policy
Last updated 10/15/03
Your privacy is out top
priority! Your information is SAFE with us. It will never be sold to
anyone, ever. If you subscribe to one of our products or services, it will
be easy to unsubscribe, or to cancel, if you wish.
Our goal is to build long term relationships with our customers. We
are not used car sales people. We're business professionals wanting to
provide you with the best possible adult entertainment and information.
We listen to your comments and suggestions. No kidding. You're the
only one who can tell us if we're doing something right or wrong. Email us
at comments@lapdancetv.com. We answer all our
email. What a concept! Listen to the customer.
The web site you have entered is operated by, or on behalf of, Bachelor
Media or its subsidiaries.
Introduction
Bachelor Media wants to help you make the most of your visit to our web
sites, and that includes helping to protect your personal privacy. Most of
the features on our web sites are offered without collecting any Personal
Information from you. You can surf Bachelor Media’s web sites and view
much of our content anonymously. For those areas of our web sites and
services that do require us to collect Personal Information, this Privacy
Policy will tell you what you need to know to make good decisions for
yourself and your family.
This Privacy Policy discloses when and how we collect, use, share, and
safeguard information from this web site. The Personal Information we
collect depends on what you do when you visit our sites or use the various
products or services we offer. This Privacy Policy also explains what to
do if you do not want to provide Personal Information when you visit our
web sites, and how to correct or change information you have already
provided to us.
By using this web site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, as posted in this area of the site. If you do not agree with any
terms or practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our
web sites.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means personally
identifiable information, such as your name, street address, telephone
number, date of birth and e-mail address. When Personal Information is
collected, you will know because you will have to fill out a form on the
web site. When you make a purchase, or sign up for a paid service, we will
also collect your credit card information as additional Personal
Information. We will use credit card information only to complete the
transactions you have requested.
Minors under the age of 18
Bachelor Media is committed to providing special protection for the
privacy of children who may visit our web sites. Bachelor Media is also
committed to fully complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act (“COPPA”).
- All Bachelor Media websites are intended for those 18 and over.
- We do not knowingly collect, use or retain any Personal Information, for
any purpose whatsoever (including internal or external marketing or
promotional purposes), from visitors to this web site who are age 18 or
younger. In addition, we will delete any records of such Personal
Information that come to our attention.
- Since we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from visitors
to this web site who are age 18 or younger, we do not disclose or transfer
any such information to third parties.
- We do not request any visitor to provide any information about their
family members, friends or other persons.
- We do not allow visitors who are age 18 or younger to be listed in any
directory of registered users, to participate in any of our chat services,
to register for contests, sweepstakes, promotions, or newsletters, or to
receive direct marketing from Bachelor Media or from our third-party
affiliates or service or product providers.
Special Note to Parents
If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal
Information at one of our web sites, we invite you to notify us so that we
may delete the information from our records and discontinue any related
features or services (see Opt-Out below). We appreciate your cooperation
in assisting us to provide a safe and enjoyable online experience for your
children.
Collection of Personal Information
Bachelor Media collects Personal Information from visitors to our web
sites in the following ways:
- Applications for auditions, casting calls, etc.
- Subscriptions to our newsletters, e-mail newsletters, etc.
- Participation in contests and sweepstakes.
- Registrations to receive free downloadable desktop applications (e.g.,
screensavers).
- Registrations to participate in chat services, message boards, etc.
- Registrations to send electronic greeting cards.
- Purchases of merchandise (including magazine subscriptions), Streaming
Pay Per View events, and transactions where home delivery is required.
- E-mail transmitted via various links on our web sites.
The use of any of these services is entirely optional and voluntary;
however, if you do not provide the Personal Information requested, we may
elect to not make the related services available for your use. If you send
us an e-mail in which you disclose Personal Information, we will use it to
discuss the subject of your correspondence and, if appropriate, share it
with other interested parties (such as manufacturers of merchandise you
have purchased from a web site).
If you send us an e-mail, you should know that e-mail is not necessarily
secure against interception. So, if your communication needs to include
sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or social
security number, please contact us by postal mail or telephone (see
Contact Us, below) rather than e-mail.
Cookies
In order to track your use of the site, "cookies" may be employed. Cookies
are pieces of information that are sent by web sites and stored in your
computer's hard drive, which provide you a service by allowing us to
recognize your computer to save you from having to re-enter the same data
every time you visit our web sites. They also allow us to learn how
visitors use our web sites. This user data is aggregated for tracking
purposes primarily by tallying pages viewed throughout our web sites and
logging Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and browser types.
Aggregated usage data enables us to tailor our content to our visitors’
interests and to help our advertisers better understand the preferences of
our audience. Providing such usage data to advertisers is essential to
keeping as many of our services free to visitors as is reasonably
possible. This information does not reveal your identity although, in some
cases, we may have to combine this non-identifiable information with
Personal Information to enforce compliance with our Terms of Service or to
protect our service, web sites, visitors or others.
In the course of serving advertisements to the site, our third-party
advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject
them. However, if you turn cookies off, you will not have access to some
Bachelor Media features and services.
Visitors From Outside the United States
All Personal Information collected at our web sites is collected and
stored in the United States. By submitting Personal Information to this
web site, you are consenting to the storage of your Personal Information
in the United States.
How We Use Your Information
We limit the manner in which your Personal Information is used. We use
Personal Information to provide you the products and services you want, to
better understand and serve the needs of the Bachelor Media community, and
to provide news and information to community members on new content,
products and features of the web sites via direct e-mail. If you have
registered with us and do not want to be contacted in the future by
Bachelor Media or our advertising partners, please see Opt-Out below.
If you order a product or service from us or register for one of our
contests, promotions, or interactive services, Bachelor Media may share
Personal Information with service providers, suppliers and other third
parties (for example, sweepstakes sponsors or delivery services) that
assist us in operating the web sites or providing the products or
services. When we share your Personal Information with third parties, they
may use your Personal Information to send you information on their
additional products or services, but Bachelor Media does not allow them to
sell or transfer your Personal Information to others. We do not otherwise
sell or provide your Personal Information to third parties.
Finally, please note that we will release your Personal Information if
required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or court order.
Links to Third Party Web Sites
Please be advised that this web site contains certain hyperlinks to other
web sites, some of which may display Bachelor Media logos or other
Bachelor Media content. These web sites may have privacy policies;
however, all of these web sites and their privacy policies are independent
of our web sites or this Privacy Policy. Bachelor Media is not responsible
for compliance with other web sites’ privacy policies or data collection
practices. You should review these privacy policies carefully before
providing any Personal Information to these web sites.
Third Party Ad Servers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by other third
party advertising companies, our Web advertising partners. Information
about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an
ad, date/time at which the ads were shown, the advertisers' cookies, and
IP address (but not your, address, or other personal information), is used
to serve ads to you on this site. In addition, we share web site usage
information about visitors to our sites with these companies for the
purposes of managing and targeting advertisements, measuring their
effectiveness, and for market research analysis on our site and other
sites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising company may
note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of 1x1 pixel
tags (also called clear gifs).
Limitations on Use of Personal Information
We will only use or retain your Personal Information in accordance with
the terms of this Privacy Policy, and only for so long as is needed to
fulfill your requests, support the services you have requested, process
your orders, or comply with the law.
Security of Personal Information
We take reasonable precautions to keep your Personal Information secure,
including the use of Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) technology to protect
credit card information and other Personal Information you provide in
connection with purchases, paid subscriptions or other similar
transactions.
Opt-Out
Any feature on our web sites requiring registration allows you to opt-out
from receiving any newsletters, product offers, or other correspondence
from either us or our business affiliates. In addition, if after
registering, you would no longer like to receive any such materials or
correspondence,send an e-mail. Indicate your preference to “unsubscribe,”
and we will promptly remove you from our list. Please be sure to include
your name and e-mail address in the e-mail. You will need to send separate
e-mails if you are registered for more than one of our features or
services.
If you believe your child, under the age of 18, has provided us with
Personal Information and/or is receiving access to certain features or
services, including marketing communications, we invite you to notify us
via e-mail. We will delete this Personal Information and/or discontinue
your child’s access to the related features or services.
Access/ Correct/ Update Personal Information
If you would like to know what Personal Information Bachelor Media has
concerning you, send an e-mail. We will contact you by mail to verify your
identity and provide you the information you request. If you would like to
correct or update your Personal Information, including providing a new
e-mail address, send an e-mail. Please be sure to include your old e-mail
address.
Changes in This Privacy Policy
Bachelor Media reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any
time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those
changes here and we will change the “Last Updated” date at the top of this
page. We encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed.
If you have any questions regarding this notice, please send an e-mail to
compliance@lapdancetv.com.
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