Privacy Policy
- This privacy policy pertains to the use of the Big Picture TV web site at http://www.bigpicture.tv/ (also http://www.big-picture.tv).
- This privacy policy covers how Big Picture TV treats personal information that Big Picture TV collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, or email address.
Information collection, and how it is used
General Information
- Big Picture TV collects personal information when you register.
- When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as your name, gender, and country of residence.
- If you would like to obtain a paid account (as a "home" or "institutional" member), PayPal will record your address/credit card information, but under normal circumstances, we will not have access to this.
- Big Picture TV automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.
- Big Picture TV uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
IP Addresses
IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:
- To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
- To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
- To estimate the total number of users visiting Big Picture TV from specific geographical regions.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
- You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
- If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Big Picture TV products or services that require you to "sign in", and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Big Picture TV service.
- Big Picture TV uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
- Access your information when you "sign in".
- Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Big Picture TV's services.
- Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
- Big Picture TV lets other companies (such as Amazon) [that show advertisements on some of our pages] set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to Big Picture TV's cookies.
Editing and deleting account information
- You can change your account information at any time.
- We may send you certain communications relating to the Big Picture TV service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your Big Picture TV account.
- You can delete your account at any time from your account page. This process is irreversible, and all of your account information will be deleted from our servers.
- Your account information is password protected, and your account password is encrypted before it is stored on our servers — nobody at Big Picture TV will know your password.
Changes to this policy
Big Picture TV may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have questions or suggestions please use you the help form or you can contact us at info@bigpicture.tv
Effective Date: February 5, 2007.
