Privacy Policy

TunedIn Media (“TunedIn,” “we,” or “us”), knows that you care how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours TunedIn will collect when you use TunedIn’s Service, how the information will be used, and how you can control the collection, correction and/or deletion of information. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources. We expect that Users will use TunedIn for harmless and fun social purposes. Please note, though, that by its nature, your shared social actions and User Content could be subject to abuse, misuse, and over-monitoring by others including, perhaps, by your friends, family, or acquaintances. Please manage your own mobile and profile privacy preferences on the Service, on an ongoing basis, accordingly.

  1. User-provided Information

    When you register as a member of our Service, you may provide to TunedIn what is generally called "personally identifiable" information (such as your name, password, gender, email address, mobile telephone number, etc.), and a picture. From time to time, TunedIn may also ask you optionally to provide other information. If you choose to provide such information, you are giving TunedIn the permission to use and store it consistent with this policy.

  2. Social Information

    TunedIn is designed to allow you to make connections with other users, communicate with them about your tastes, and help you share that information with the community and to the world. This includes your tune-ins, comments, reviews and ratings about content on the Site, when you tune-in, comment, review or rate content, and the metadata around those tune-ins, ratings or content. It also includes your Queue, your friends, participant television answers and interactions, and the content you mark as favorites and many other pieces of information. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide public but we provide you settings to make the information private if you prefer. This public information can be broadly and instantly disseminated, and can be immediately delivered via our Application Programming Interfaces ("API"s) to a wide range of users and services.

    The Site also allows you to connect with certain third party services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Netflix, and other similar services). When you broadcast information to such third party services, such information is no longer under the control of TunedIn and is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third parties. In order to enhance and personalize your use of TunedIn, some of those third party services may also provide TunedIn with information from your accounts on their platforms. You can adjust your TunedIn account settings to block this feature, in which case we will delete the information that we receive from your accounts with those other services. Additionally, certain information may be made available to third party developers using our API. Use of third party services developed using our API are subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third party developers

  3. How We Use Your Information

    We use the personal information you submit to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service becomes available to the public. TunedIn is not responsible for the personally identifiable, profile, or User Content that you choose to disclose publicly on the Service. If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users have copied or saved that information.
    By providing TunedIn with your email address, you consent to our using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address or mobile phone number to send you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features of the Service, or special offers. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out or change your preferences in your settings page. Opting out may prevent you from receiving messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages and our responses.

    If you choose to use our invitation service to invite friends to the Service, we will ask you for that person’s email address and automatically send an email invitation. TunedIn stores this information to send this email, to register your friends if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our invitation service. TunedIn may use certain information about you and/or your User Content without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as analyzing how the Service is used, diagnosing service or technical problems, maintaining security, and personalizing content.
    TunedIn reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the User Content you post on the site. We reserve the right to remove any such information or material for any reason or no reason, including without limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or our Terms of Service Agreement, or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. TunedIn also reserves the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.
    We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our Service; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and traffic; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with certain IP addresses; and (f) help you efficiently access your information after you sign in.

  4. Personally Identifiable Information

    TunedIn may share your personally identifiable information with third parties solely for the purpose of providing services to you. If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of TunedIn (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).
    TunedIn does not share your personally identifiable information with others, third- party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your express consent or unless you have opted-in to be part of a specific program or feature. We cannot control third parties’ use of your information. If you do not want your information to be collected by or shared with such a third party, you can choose not to participate in such programs or features. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
    Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, TunedIn will not disclose personal information to any third party unless required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TunedIn, our Users or others.

  5. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

    We may share non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to help them understand the usage patterns for certain TunedIn services. TunedIn may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the TunedIn’s site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser or application, the advertisements and links that appear on TunedIn. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. TunedIn does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks TunedIn to show an advertisement to a certain audience and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The TunedIn Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such advertisers for more information.

  6. Anonymous Aggregated Data

    Anonymous data is information (originally personally identifiable or non-personally identifiable) that subsequently is used in aggregate form. We may collect anonymous data whether or not you are a registered member of the Site. We may use anonymous data for purposes of market research or analysis. We may conduct research on our customer demographics, Internet usage, and interests and behavior based on personal data we gather. Although anonymous data may be based in part on personal data, it does not identify you personally.
    TunedIn may share this type of anonymous data with a variety of third parties, including its affiliates, advertisers and other current and prospective business partners. TunedIn may use anonymous data collected for website administration, advertising and promotional purposes, and we may share such information with various affiliated and unaffiliated entities for such purposes. We may also enter into agreements with outside companies that possess technology that allows us to customize the advertising and marketing messages you receive while using the Site. Your non-personally identifiable information and click stream data about your activities may be shared with these companies so this customization can be accomplished. Our agreement with these companies prohibits them from sharing your information with any third party or using it for any other purpose. Anonymous click stream and demographic information may also be shared with our advertisers and business partners.

  7. How We Protect Your Information

    TunedIn uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to TunedIn and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, TunedIn makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
    To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from TunedIn, at all times.

  8. Compromise of Personal Information

    In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, TunedIn will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

  9. Your Choices About Your Information

    You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Service, in which case TunedIn may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account and by making any necessary adjustments within your user account settings page.

  10. Children’s Privacy

    Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, TunedIn does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register as Members. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on TunedIn. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

  11. Links to Other Web Sites

    We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website and/or applications to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website and/or applications, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

  12. Notification Procedures

    It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our website, as determined by TunedIn in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

  13. Newsletter

    If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.

  14. International Users

    If you are a User accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States and German law, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. and German law, and this Privacy Policy as incorporated in our Terms of Service, you will be transferring your Personal Information into the United States, and Germany, and you consent to that transfer.

  15. Notice to European Users

    The information you enter on these Sites or otherwise provide to TunedIn may be transferred outside of the European Union to the United States of America. In particular, you are advised that the United States of America uses a sectorial model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. Article 26 of the European Union's Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC, 1995 O.J. (L 281) 31) allows for transfer of personal data from the European Union to a third country if the individual has unambiguously given his consent to the transfer of personal information, regardless of the third country's level of protection. By agreeing to the terms of use and this privacy policy, you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States of America and to the processing of that information by TunedIn on its servers located in the United States of America as described in this Privacy Policy.