IMDb knows that you care how information about you is
used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully
and sensibly. By visiting IMDb, you are accepting the practices described
in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Users Does IMDb Gather?
The information we learn from users helps us personalize
and continually improve your experience at IMDb. Here are the types of
information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any
information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way.
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to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide
certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of
many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such
purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future browsing for
you, improving our site, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain
types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like
many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types
of information when your Web browser accesses IMDb. Click
here to
see examples of the information we receive. A number of
companies
offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously.
Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized
experience at IMDb if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware
that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more
useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open
e-mail from IMDb if your computer supports such capabilities. We also
compare our user list to lists received from other companies, in an
effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our users. If you do not
want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please use our
User Administration pages to adjust your preferences.
- Information from Other Sources: For reasons such as
improving personalization of our service (for example, providing better
movie recommendations or special offers that we think will interest
you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add
it to our account information. We also sometimes receive updated
delivery and address information from other sources so that we can
correct our records and deliver your next communication more easily.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies
are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your
browser and to provide features such as My Movies, local show times, and
browsing preferences.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you
how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies
altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of
IMDb's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does IMDb Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our users is an important part of our
business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. Thus, for example, IMDb does not
sell, and will never sell, information about you to external marketers, list
brokers, or other third parties without user consent. Nor will we give such information to
affiliated businesses or companies that we team up with to provide co-branded
or jointly owned offerings unless you choose to take advantage of those
offerings, and even then, any sharing of information is limited to
information relating to the offering.
Further, whenever we deal with user information, we will always comply
with applicable laws and regulations in doing so.
We share user information with our parent corporation
(Amazon.com, Inc.), the subsidiaries it controls, and as described below.
- Affiliated
Businesses We Do Not Control: We work
closely with our affiliated businesses. In some cases, we will include
offerings from these businesses on IMDb. In other cases, we may include
joint offerings from IMDb and these businesses on IMDb. You can tell
when another business is involved in the offering, and we share user
information related to those offerings with that business.
- Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf. Examples include sending e-mail, removing
repetitive information from user lists, analyzing data, and providing
marketing assistance. They have access to personal information needed to
perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional
Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected
groups of IMDb users on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we
do not give that business your name and e-mail address. If you do not
want to receive such offers, please use our User Administration pages to
adjust your preferences.
- Business
Transfers: As we continue to develop our
business, we might sell or buy additional services or business units. In
such transactions, user information generally is transferred along with
the rest of the service or business unit. Also, in the event that The Internet Movie Database
Ltd., or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information
will of course be included in the transaction.
- Protection
of IMDb and Others: We release account and
other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to
comply with law; enforce or apply our
Terms and
Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the
rights, property, or safety of IMDb, our users, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection.
Other than as set out above, you will always receive notice when
information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an
opportunity to choose not to share the information.
What About Third-Party Advertisers?
Our site includes third-party
advertising, and some of our advertisers use third-party companies to serve
their advertisements that appear on our site.Often, these third-party advertising companies, called
"ad networks" or "network advertisers", employ cookie and other technologies to
measure the effectiveness of their ads and to show you ads that are more
relevant and interesting to you.
We do not provide any user information to them, and we do not have
access to or control cookies that may be placed by the ad networks. If you would like more information
about the ad networks, including information about how to opt-out of their
information collection, the National Advertising Initiative offers
useful information on its Web site.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
If you use our subscription service,
we work to protect the security of your subscription information during
transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts
information you input.
It is important for you to protect
against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to
sign off when finished using a shared computer.
What Choices and Access Do I Have?
- As
discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even
though it might be needed to take advantage of such IMDb features as My
Movies and local show times.
- You
can add or update certain information, such as your e-mail address, by
using our User Administration pages.
When you update information, we usually keep a copy
of the prior version for our records.
- If
you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please use our
User Administration
pages to adjust
your preferences. (If you do not want to receive legal notices from us,
such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of
IMDb, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
- The
"help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you
how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use such important
features as My Movies and local show times if you do not use cookies.
-
Click here
to explore products that offer anonymous browsing. In addition, the
Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online
privacy on its own Web site, Site
Seeing on the Internet.
Children
IMDb is not intended for use by children under the age of
13. If you are under 13, you may not submit information about yourself to IMDb.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit IMDb, your visit and any dispute
over privacy is subject to this Notice and our
Terms and
Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of
disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have
any concern about privacy at IMDb, please send us a thorough description to
our help desk,
and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice
and the Terms
and Conditions of Use will change also, and use of information that we
gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We
may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have
instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see
recent changes.
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