This policy describes the information collection and use practices at vizeurope.com.
This policy applies only to information collected at this site, it does
not apply to information collected on sites linked from vizeurope.com,
nor to information VIZ Media S.A.R.L. may collect through other means, including
information provided through e-mail messages or information collected offline
or from other sources.
What We Do With Your Information
VIZ Media S.A.R.L. uses the information you give us to provide you with the services
you have requested. For example, if you request that we send an e-card
to your friend, we will use the information you provide to send the card.
We may also use your contact information, including your email address,
to send you news about VIZ Media S.A.R.L., regular email newsletters, inform
you about new features, products or services on our web sites, or other
changes to the services. From time to time, we may also conduct surveys
or other studies of our customer base and usage for marketing and planning
purposes. With respect to information collected from such surveys or studies
we will notify you of our practices with respect to a particular study
at the time of the study.
In some areas of our site, we may provide adults or children with prior
parental permission with the opportunity to publicly disclose personal
information, for example, a message in a public forum that contains your
personal information, or through your user profile display. Any such
postings are voluntary, and at the time of posting, you may be given the
opportunity to disguise your identity. Once disclosed publicly, your
information will be viewable by anyone who visits our site, and will not
be subject to the security or other representations made under this Privacy
Policy. Parents should carefully consider whether they want their
children to participate in these forums. Parents, to learn more about
your options in providing consent, please read the "Special Note About
Children and This Site" section below. At the time we request
permission, we will give you any additional information relevant to the
feature your child is seeking to join. Users of this site may also
have the opportunity to send electronic mail to another user or email list.
In such cases, a user's valid email address and real name will be included
with such messages.
VIZ Media S.A.R.L. is not in the business of selling or renting personal information.
We may, however, share information with carefully selected companies who
we think can offer you services and products of interest to you.
We may also share your information with third parties that provide support
for the internal operations of this website, such as technical maintenance
or forums software, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary
to provide those services. We execute agreements with these third
party vendors and require them to follow the terms set forth in this policy.
In addition, in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other
similar event, your personal information may be transferred to our successor
or assignee. We may also allow law enforcement personnel or other
government officials to access our database in order to cooperate with
an investigation of an activity that is illegal or may expose you or us
to legal liability, police investigations or other legal proceedings. In
those instances, some of your personal information may be disclosed to
those officials, but only for that purpose of the investigation.
We use “cookies” -- pieces of information that are placed
by a Web site on your computer -- to track your use of this site. If you
don't want cookies placed on your computer by the websites that you visit,
your Web browser likely includes an option that allows you not to accept
them. If you disable cookies, some of our site features will not be available.
We may also use other passive tracking technology to gather information
to determine site trends, such as tracking the domains from which people
visit our site.
Special Note About Children and This Site
This website has been designed for the pleasure and enjoyment of children
and adults alike. VIZ Media S.A.R.L. recognizes its obligation under the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act with respect to collecting personal information
from young kids. VIZ Media S.A.R.L. also recognizes that some younger children
may not understand some of the information contained on the web site or
how the site operates. We encourage parents and guardians to talk to their
children so that they will understand how to use the site and the information
they may be asked to provide. We also encourage parents and guardians to
spend time online with their children, and to teach children to never give
our their name, address, or phone number over the Internet without permission.
Parents, to the extent that your children's information is being collected
on our site, it will be done subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy,
including this Special Note. In general, we do not collect more information
from children than is necessary for the child to participate in a given
activity, we allow parents to review and have their children's information
deleted, we do not as a general rule disclose children's personal information
to unaffiliated third parties unless we otherwise disclose to this to you
as part of obtaining your verifiable consent, and parents, you can refuse
to have more information collected from your child if you so choose.
In most areas of our site, we currently collect information from children
under 13 to respond one time to a direct request. Information collected
for this purpose may include a first name and email address, is not used
to re-contact the child after their request has been answered, and is not
stored. If we use children's information to respond more than once
to a direct request, we notify parents immediately after we first respond
to the child, and provide parents with the opportunity to tell us not to
make any further use of their children's information.
In some instances, we may allow children to become registered users of
our site or a feature at our site, and with these children we will
have an ongoing relationship. Before children can become registered
users, parents or the children's legal guardians must provide prior written
permission. To provide consent, the child’s parent or legal
guardian will be provided with a consent form, a copy of this privacy policy,
and a more fulsome notice describing that we wish to collect information
from your child, what types of information we will collect, how we will
use the information, whether it will be disclosed to third parties, and
that further collection from the child is conditioned on consent. The
consent form must be returned to VIZ Media S.A.R.L. by fax at 33(0)1 56 43 50 33
or by regular mail to VIZ Media S.A.R.L., 90 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris, FRANCE.
Once we receive the signed consent form, we
will ask the child for information that is reasonably necessary for the
child to participate in our online activities.
A parent or guardian can, at any time: (1) obtain a description of
the types of information collected from his or her child, (2) a means of
reviewing the child's personal information; (3) the ability to direct us
to delete information collected from the child, to the extent that we have
stored that information (whether we store your child's information is described
in this policy); (4) the ability to tell us not to collect any more information;
and, (5) if consent was given, the ability to revoke this earlier
consent. To do any of the foregoing, please contact us at the above address, and
be sure to include your child's name and e-mail address and your name and
e-mail address, and we will review and update your children's information
as appropriate. We will use appropriate security measures to ensure
that the person contacting us is the child's parent or legal guardian.
In the event that VIZ Media S.A.R.L. collects personal information from children
over 12 and under 18, VIZ Media S.A.R.L. may request a parental e-mail address
to notify the parent or guardian by e-mail of the child's activity.
Security Measures Used at This Site
If we collect sensitive information, such as payment information -- credit
card number, name, address, and so on -- we use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
to secure that the data you transfer online to us. SSL encrypts your data
before it is transmitted. If someone "listens in" on the wire,
they'll only get encrypted information. Although encryption can be
broken, it's not easy. The best encryption available requires that
your browser use a 128-bit key or better. Most modern commercial web browsers
handle encrypted communication, but some browsers don't. If your browser
cannot support secure transmissions, you may want to obtain a new browser,
such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. In addition
to online encryption of sensitive information, we also use reasonable internal
security measures in treating sensitive data, including conducting security
audits.
No site can offer you complete protection, however, and we encourage you
to take measures to protect your own information. For example, consider
only using credit cards to make online purchases, not debit cards. In
most cases, your credit card company won't charge you for a charge you
didn't make. At most, you typically will not be liable for more than $50
on any charge made fraudulently on your card, as long as you notify your
credit card company in a timely fashion. If you're interested in
finding out more about encryption issues and the politics of encryption,
take a look at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Changes to this Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 1, 2006, but it may be
modified from time to time. Notice of changes will appear on this
page. In the event of a material change to this website’s
privacy policy, however, VIZ Media S.A.R.L. will send you notice of the new
policy by email, or, if you have provided us with other contact information,
VIZ Media S.A.R.L. may send the updated policy through alternate means.
Links to Third Party Sites
This site provides, as a service to you, links to third party websites.
These sites are not under our ownership or control, and we cannot be responsible
for the privacy policies and practices of any linked website. We
encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website prior to providing
your personal information.
Choices and Contacting VIZ Media S.A.R.L.
Users may receive site notifications, newsletters or other information
via email. At the time you are sent an advertising or promotional email,
or a newsletter or other alert, you will be given the opportunity to ask
not to receive similar such mailings in the future. At the time you receive
the email, you will be given directions on how to "opt out," and
the effect that your opt-out request will have on the communications you
receive from us. Notwithstanding any opt-out request you submit,
we will still send you notices, including by email, pertaining to any business
relationship we might have (for example, telling you the status of a purchase
you have made, or confirming that you are still a registered member of
our site).
If you have concerns or questions about any aspect of this policy, please
email us at europe@viz.com.
We welcome your feedback. You can also send us regular mail at the following
address:
Privacy Policy Administrator
c/o Online
VIZ Media S.A.R.L.
90 avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris, FRANCE
Tel: +33(0)1 56 43 50 33
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