The majority of great products and services on our sites are offered without our collecting any personally identifiable information from you. You can surf The Weinstein Company Web sites and view much of our terrific content anonymously.
Information You Provide
There are a few activities on our sites where the collection
of personally identifiable information is necessary.
Those activities include things like entering a contest
or sweepstakes, signing up for a free e-mail account,
making a purchase, or contacting us. When personally
identifiable information is collected, you will know
because you will have to fill out a form. For most activities,
we collect only your name, e-mail address, birth date,
gender, and zip code. When you make a purchase, we also
collect your street and billing addresses, your phone
number, and credit card information. Depending on what
you purchase, we may also need to collect other personal
information, like your clothing size.
Information Collected from You with Technology
The Weinstein Company sites collect some information about you using
technology, so it may not be readily apparent to you
that it is being collected. For instance, when you come
to our site your IP address is collected so that we
know where to send information you are requesting. An
IP address is often associated with the place from which
you enter the Internet like your ISP (Internet Service
Provider), your company, or your university. This information
is not personally identifiable. The Weinstein Company sites use information
collected through technology to make our sites more
interesting and useful to you. This includes helping
advertisers on our site design advertisements our Guests
might like. We normally don't combine this type of information
with personally identifiable information. However, we
will combine this information with personally identifiable
information to identify a visitor in order to enforce
compliance with our house rules or terms of service
or to protect our service, site, Guests, or others.
What Are Cookies, and How Does The Weinstein Company Use Them?
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends
to your computer while you are viewing the Web site.
These pieces of information allow the Web site to remember
important information that will make your use of that
site more useful. The Weinstein Company and other Internet companies
use cookies for a variety of purposes.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many Weinstein Company features that make your Web experience more efficient -- like the features mentioned above -- and some of our services will not function properly.
Companies
That Are "Standing in the Shoes" of The Weinstein Company
Sometimes we hire companies to help us deliver products
or services, like a shipping company that delivers a
package. In those instances, we need to share your information
with them. These companies are basically "standing in
the shoes" of The Weinstein Company, and they are allowed to use the
information only to deliver the product or service.
Companies Offering Promotions, Products, or Services
On occasion, we offer promotions -- like sweepstakes
or free subscriptions -- in conjunction with a sponsor.
We will share your information with the sponsors if
they need it to send you a product, such as a magazine
subscription. We may share your information with those
sponsors so that they can send you other special promotions
they offer, but only if you give us your permission
to do so, and we will share it only with that specific
sponsor. In addition, The Weinstein Company occasionally sends e-mail
promotions out to our Guests on behalf of third-party
sponsors. In this instance, we don't share your name
with the third party -- we do the mailing for them.
Again, we only send these promotions to you if you've
given your permission.
Content Partners
On some of our sites, we provide content that is created
by a third-party partner Web site. In some instances
the third-party sites will collect information in order
to facilitate the transaction or to make the use of
their content more productive and efficient. In these
circumstances the information collected is shared between
The Weinstein Company and our third-party sponsors.
Third-Party Advertisers and Network Advertisers
To help increase privacy protections for our Guests,
The Weinstein Company allows advertising on our sites from only those
companies that have their own privacy policy. Once you've
clicked on an advertisement and have left The Weinstein Company sites,
our privacy policy no longer applies. You must read
the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your
personal information will be handled on their site.
In addition, many business advertisements are managed and placed on our site by third-party companies. These companies are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers collect non-personally identifiable information when you click on or scan one of their banner advertisements. The information is collected using technology, so you may not realize it's being collected. The network advertisers collect this information so that they can show you ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. If you would like to read more about network advertisers or do not want network advertisers to collect this non-personally identifiable information about you, click here.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
Online business is still in a very early stage and is
changing and evolving rapidly. As The Weinstein Company continually
looks for ways to improve our business, we may buy or
sell a company. If we buy or sell a business, the names
collected will likely be transferred as a part of the
sale. Information about registrants will be used in
the aggregate. However, if we buy a business, we will
honor the requests that customers made of that business
regarding e-mail communications. In the event that we
sell a business, we will do everything in our power
to ensure that the e-mail communications requests you
made of us are honored.
Organizations That Help Protect the Security and Safety of our Guests
and our Sites
We will give out personal information as required by law, for example,
to comply with a court order or subpoena; to enforce
our Terms of Service, or site or game rules; or to protect
the safety and security of Guests and our sites.

