Privacy Policy

Last updated on May 15 2019

This page describes the terms and conditions that govern your use of Vide Press digital properties, including Vide Press, mobile sites and applications, offered by Vide Press and certain of its subsidiaries (“VIDE”, “us” or “we”).

Information That We Gather

The information gathered when you use Vide Press falls into two categories: (i) Personal Information, which includes personal information you provide when you subscribe, order, complete a survey, register for an account, enter a contest or provide your email address and (ii) non-personal information collected through technology, which includes tracking information collected by Vide Press, third parties, vendors or advertisers.

Personal Information

Registration Information

Registration for Vide Press account requires you to provide personal information including e-mail address and demographic information (gender, age, occupation and denomination).

You may choose to link a Facebook or Twitter account with your Vide Press registration by signing in VIDE Website using your Facebook or Twitter credentials. By associating accounts, you are giving these third parties permission to send us certain information from your profile there. The information sent depends on your privacy settings with the third parties or their privacy policies. We will use the information they share with us in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can disassociate your registration with Vide Press from any third party accounts at any time.

Billing and Credit Card Information

To enable payment via Vide Press Website, we collect and store name, address, telephone number, email address, credit card information and other billing information. This information will only be shared with third parties who help to complete the purchase transaction.

Reader Surveys

Vide Press may collect personal information from you in connection with voluntary surveys conducted via the Website. The information you provide may be shared with advertisers and partners unless we notify you otherwise at the time of collection.

Non-Personal Information Collected Using Technology

Information Collected by Us Using Technology

We use various Internet technologies to manage our Website and track use of the Website. Non-personal information that we collect using these technologies may be combined with other information about you.

Device Information: We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access Vide Press website, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other transactional information.

Cookies, Beacons, Local Storage and Other Similar Technologies: We use "cookies," Web beacons, HTML5 local storage and other similar technologies. These technologies allow us to manage access to and use of the Website, recognize you and provide personalization, and help us understand how readers use the Website.

Vide Press may transmit non-personally identifiable website usage information about our visitors to a reputable third party in order to show you advertising for Vide Press when you visit other sites.

Analytics Technologies: Vide Press works with third parties to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage, browsing patterns of readers of our website.

IP Addresses: We may log your IP address. We use IP addresses for system administration and troubleshooting purposes, to customize content for specific regions, including currency display, recommendations and serving certain advertisements and to track access and use of our website.

Log Files and Your Reading History: We automatically log certain usage information about your use of Vide Press website, including a reading history of the pages you view. We use this information in order to provide you with customized Recommendations on videpress.com based on your reading history

Location Information: Some of our mobile applications can deliver content based on your current location if you choose to enable that feature of the app. If you enable the location-based feature, your current location will be stored locally on your device, which will then be used by the app. If you elect to have a location-based search saved to your history, we will store that information on our servers. If you do not enable the location-based service, or if an app does not have that feature, the app will not transmit to us, and we will not collect or store, location information.

Ads may be displayed within our mobile site and apps. The ads you see are not targeted to you based on your current GPS location, but they may be targeted to you based on your device's IP address or ZIP code.

Information Collected by Third Parties

Some of the services and advertisements included in Vide Press, including on videpress.com and within our mobile site and apps, are delivered or served by third-party companies. These companies may place or recognize cookies, Web beacons or other technology to track certain non-personal information about our website users. In the course of serving certain advertisements, an advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser in order to collect certain information about your use of Vide Press website. In many cases, this information could be used to show you ads on other websites based on your interests.

We do not have access to, nor control over, advertisers' or service providers' use of cookies or other tracking technologies or how they may be used.

You have choices about the collection of information by third parties on our website:

  1. If you would like more information about advertisers' use of cookies, and about your option not to accept these cookies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
  2. If you would like to opt-out of having interest-based information collected during your visits to this or other sites, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Your access to our websites should not be affected if you do not accept cookies served by third parties.

Our partners may place or recognize a cookie on your computer, device, or directly in our emails/communications, and we may share personal information with them if you have submitted such information to us, such as your name, postal address, email address, or device ID. Your data may be transferred outside of the country from which it was originally collected.”

Here Is How We Use Your Information

Customizing Your Experience: We use the information that we collect to allow advertising to be targeted to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent. We also use this information to customize certain features of the Website to provide you with an enhanced experienced based on the type of device you are using to access Vide Press. We may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising on the Website to be targeted to the users for whom they are most pertinent. This means users see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the effectiveness of the ads. We disclose information to third parties only in aggregate or de-identified form.

Statistical Analysis: We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of readers of Vide Press, and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our reader base. We use this information for analysis purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships.

Email Newsletters: We will periodically send you email newsletters or promotional email about services offered by Vide Press and its advertisers.

Here Is With Whom We Share Your Information

Within Vide Press: We may share your information with companies that are affiliated with us.

Third Parties: If you have used Vide Press, we will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address or any information that personally identifies you without your permission. We also share information about our audience in aggregate or de-identified form.

Vendors: We contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf, including credit-card and billing processing, ad serving, shipping, email distribution, list processing and analytics or promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information they need to perform their services. These vendors are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for Vide Press, and they may not share, resell or use the data for their own direct marketing purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose your opt-out information to third parties so they can suppress your name from future solicitations, in accordance with applicable laws. We may occasionally release personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena.

Email Policies

Account and Service-Related Email: Vide Press reserves the right to send you email relating to your account status. This includes order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, noti…