Chunnel, Inc., (“the Chunnel”) operates www.chunnel.tv and related services, applications,domains and networks offered by the Chunnel (“Chunnel Service”). The Chunnel Service allows you to view, comment on, and share audiovisual content with other users of the Chunnel Service community on the Internet. The Chunnel’s Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using the Chunnel Service.
By using or accessing the Chunnel Service, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Children Under 13:
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE CHUNNEL SERVICE AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.
The Chunnel complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on the Chunnel Service. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Chunnel Service, then please contact the Chunnel at privacy@chunnel.tv to have that child’s account terminated and information deleted.
What information does The Chunnel collect?
For visitors to our website and registered users, we log standard technical information, such as your IP address. If you choose to register with us, The Chunnel requires you to provide your name, email address, and each user has a user ID and password that they choose. To maintain privacy it is important not to share your password with anyone. Selecting a longer password with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols makes it more difficult for others to guess your password. It is also helpful to change passwords on a regular basis. In addition, for registered users, The Chunnel may require you to provide geographical information such as your physical address. The Chunnel may ask you to provide other demographic information, such as age, gender, interests or occupation. We may collect other personal information when you provide feedback or comments, or communicate with others through our systems. The Chunnel also uses “cookies” – small files containing a string of characters sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser – in addition to web beacons – one‐pixel, GIF images used for gathering and sharing information used to administer the Chunnel Service website and provide a more tailored and user‐friendly service to you. For example, we may use cookies or web beacons to count the number of unique computers accessing our website. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from the Chunnel Service if you choose. When you access the Chunnel Service or open one of our HTML emails, or newsletters for registered users, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using different types of tracking technology. This “automatically collected” information may include IP Address, a unique device or user ID, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Chunnel Service, and the dates and times that you visit the Chunnel Service.
Our commitment to secure the personal information we have collected.
While the Chunnel takes precautions against possible breaches in its web sites and customer databases, no web site or Internet transmission is completely secure. Consequently, the Chunnel cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. Your use of the Chunnel sites and services is at your own risk. The Chunnel urges you to take steps to keep your personal information safe by memorizing your password or keeping it in a safe place (separate from your account information), logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser.
How does the Chunnel use your information?
The information we collect about you in the course of our relationship is used to provide the Chunnel Service to you. For example, as we endeavor to protect your identity, we may use your demographic information to create a database of user profiles, select advertisements based on your information and for marketing analysis. In addition, we look at technical information to diagnose problems with our systems, to administer the Chunnel, and to enhance the services we provide to you. We may use your information to track user‐submitted content and users to the extent necessary to comply as a service provider with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you have registered with the Chunnel Service, we may use your email address, without further consent, for administrative communications such as notifying you of major updates, for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement, Terms of Use violations, or defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content on the Chunnel.
The Chunnel uses all of the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the way the Chunnel Service works and looks, and to create new features and functionality. The Chunnel may use “automatically collected” information, “cookies”, and web beacons to: (a) automatically update the Chunnel service;(b) remember your information so that you will not have to re‐enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Chunnel Service; (c) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (d) track your entries, submissions, participation and status in any promotions or other activities, and usage of the Chunnel Service.
When does the Chunnel disclose information?
The Chunnel does not share your personally identifiable information, including any of your user profile data that you create, with other organizations for their marketing or promotional uses without your consent. Please be aware, however, that any personally identifiable information that you voluntarily choose to display on the Chunnel Service becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others without restriction.
The Chunnel may share personally identifiable information about our users with third parties, including: (a) with your consent or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy; (b) when we have a good faith belief it is necessary pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order; (c) where required by law; or (d) at our sole discretion, where we deem necessary to respond to claims, to protect the safety of any individual or the public, or to protect the rights or property of the Chunnel or any third party.
We may disclose personally identifiable information to affiliated companies, sub‐contractors, other agents or businesses or persons to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; and assist the Chunnel in improving the Chunnel Service and creating new service features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy, we authorize only a limited use of such information, and we require these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures to keep your information secure. The Chunnel may also disclose to third parties anonymous aggregated user information that is not personally identifiable.
How to change or delete your information?
You have the ability and control to remove or alter your account‐specific information, including any user profile data that you provide to the Chunnel Service at any time. Access and control over most user‐provided personal information on the Chunnel Service is readily available through the edit function on your profile. As a user of the Chunnel Service, you may modify or remove any of your profile information at any time by logging into your account. Information will be updated promptly. If you wish to deactivate your Chunnel Service account, you may do so by emailing info@chunnel.tv. Removed information such as your user ID, geographical information connected to your user ID, and any content that you have uploaded to the Chunnel
Service may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time, but will not be generally accessible by the Chunnel or users of the Chunnel service.
How does the Chunnel keep your information secure?
The Chunnel will take appropriate security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. The Chunnel processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service‐specific privacy Policy. The Chunnel takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
We endeavor to restrict access to personal information to The Chunnel employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and are required to meet these obligations.
What do I need to know about third party sites, co‐branded sites, and the Chunnel’s business partners?
The Chunnel may establish relationships that allow visitors to the Chunnel Service to go directly to sites operated by third parties. Some of these sites may be co‐branded with our logos; however, they are not operated or maintained by the Chunnel. We are not responsible for the content or practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to the Chunnel Service. These links are meant for the user’s convenience only. Links to third party sites do not constitute our sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the content, policies or practices of such third party sites. Once you have left the Chunnel service via such a link, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party site. We may use third parties to manage contests, content, chats or other features, and these parties may have access to contact information submitted by visitors who participate in those activities.
Does the Chunnel use third party ad servers?
Yes. The Chunnel may use third party advertising companies and advertising networks to deliver advertisements on the Chunnel Service. These companies may use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these companies is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
In the Event of Merger or Sale
In the event that the Chunnel is acquired by or merged with a third‐party entity, or undergoes a change of control or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of its stock or assets, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
Information for persons outside the United States
By consenting to this Policy, you confirm that your command and knowledge of English is sufficient to understand the terms and conditions set forth herein. For persons in European Union countries, as used herein, terms such as "personal information" refer to "personal data" as defined by the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data ("Directive"). We will not collect any personal data from you unless you provide it voluntarily by providing us with your freely given specific and informed consent. By using the Chunnel websites or services, you agree that we may transfer your personal information outside the European Union in connection with the purposes stated in this Policy.Your personal data may be transferred to the United States (and/or other non‐EU jurisdictions, as applicable).
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy currently in effect. Your continued use of the Chunnel Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Policy that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of personal information you have provided to us, we may make reasonable efforts to notify you and obtain your consent before implementing revisions with respect to such information.
Contacting The Chunnel
Please contact The Chunnel with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, and our third‐party disclosure practices or your consent choices at: Chunnel.tv c/o Berlin Cameron United 100 6th Ave., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012 or by email: privacy@chunnel.tv. We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days of its receipt.
