Online Privacy Policy for ScoobyEnthusiast.com

Effective: June 1, 2011

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for Scoobyenthusiast.com.

In this Privacy Policy, you will find answers to the following questions:

WHICH SITES ARE COVERED BY THIS POLICY?

This Privacy Policy applies to the following Digital Media Deployment Web sites:

Scoobyenthusiast.com

Please note, our Web sites may contain links to other Web sites for your convenience and information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal information.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?

The information we gather falls into two categories: 1) Personally identifiable information, which includes personal information you voluntarily supply when you subscribe, order, complete a survey, register for an online discussion, enter a contest or provide your e-mail address and 2) Non-personally identifiable information, which includes tracking information collected as you navigate through our sites.

Personally Identifiable Information

Registration for our Web sites

Anyone can view our sites, but a free registration process is required to access the full range of information and services offered on the site.

Scoobyenthusiast.com requires that you supply certain personally identifiable information, including a unique e-mail address register. By using Scoobyenthusiast.com, you are agreeing to our Terms of Service.

Registration for our Web sites via Third-Party Tools

To help facilitate Scoobyenthusiast.com registration, we offer a single sign-on service(s) that allows you to sign into Scoobyenthusiast.com by using your third party login credentials, such as from your Facebook account. This allows you to associate your existing third party profile with a Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account. Scoobyenthusiast.com may also access certain profile information contained within your third party profile such as your screen name and your profile picture. In order to complete your Scoobyenthusiast.com registration in this manner, you may be required to temporarily leave Scoobyenthusiast.com.

Contests, Sweepstakes and Special Offers

On occasion, Scoobyenthusiast.com collects personal information from readers in connection with optional sweepstakes, contests or special offers. If this information is to be shared with a third party other than Scoobyenthusiast.com, we will notify you at the time of collection. If you do not want any personal information shared, you may always decline to participate in the sweepstakes, contest or special offer.

Reader Surveys, Reader Panels and Market Research

Scoobyenthusiast.com may collect personal information from readers in connection with voluntary surveys. Data may be collected on our Web sites, on the phone or through the mail. The information you provide in answer to optional survey questions may be shared, but only in the aggregate, with advertisers and partners unless we notify you otherwise at the time of collection.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

In addition to personally identifiable information, we also collect certain non-personally identifiable information through technology and tools, including cookies, Web Beacons and log data. We aggregate and analyze this information in order to learn more about how our Web sites are used.

Cookies from Us

As is standard practice on many Web sites, we use "cookies" and other technologies to recognize you and provide personalization, as well as to help us understand, where our visitors are going and how much time they spend there. You will not be able to access certain areas of our Site if your computer does not accept cookies from us.

Cookies from Third Parties

Some of the services and/or advertisements on certain our Site are served by third-party companies that may place or recognize cookies to track certain non-personally identifiable information about our Web site users, in the aggregate. For example, in the course of serving certain advertisements, some advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser, in order to collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Site and other Web sites.

We do not have access to, nor control over, advertisers' or service providers' cookies or how they may be used. 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/managing/opt_out.asp

Please click here to see a list of third parties that may be using cookies to serve advertising on our Web sites. For example, Google is one of the companies that serves advertisements onto Scoobyenthusiast.com. It uses the DART cookie to serve ads based on your visit to Scoobyenthusiast.com and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

This site utilizes the eBay Partner Network (ePN), which uses third party cookies and collects data automatically, including IP address, computer and connection information, tracking code data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, referring and following URLs, and cookie data. You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser (consult your browser help menu to find out how), but doing so may prevent us from delivering certain services to you. You can view the ePN privacy policy at https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/PublisherRegPP.

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

Analytics Technologies

This Site uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. To learn more about Google Analytics, including information to opt-out, please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

We reserve the right to change the vendors who provide us with usage data.

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons)

Advertisers on Scoobyenthusiast.com may elect to use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our Web site, and in these instances may use a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/action tags/pixel tags), alone or in conjunction with cookies, to better manage their advertising on our site. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. Clear gifs may alert the advertiser's server about the online movements of Web users. For instance, advertisers may place a clear gif allowing them to recognize an existing cookie on your browser if from the same service. The main difference between cookies and clear gifs is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Please keep in mind that we do not have access to any information collected by these clear gifs nor any additional related information. Please click here to see a list of third parties that may be using cookies to serve advertising on our Web sites.

IP Addresses

Scoobyenthusiast.com logs Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to our Web sites.

Anti-spam and Quality Monitoring

We use a third party, the Mollom Web Service, to reduce spam posts and monitor the quality of posts. User Generated Content such as in forums, message boards, discussions, classified ads, and comments, a message, are analyzed and stored for anti-spam and quality monitoring purposes, in accordance with Mollom's privacy policy (for more information on Mollom's privacy policy see http://mollom.com/web-service-privacy-policy.

Log Files

We use log file data in the aggregate to analyze usage of our Web site.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?

Statistical Analysis

Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment may perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of subscribers, and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base. We also use such information to allow advertising to be targeted, in aggregate, to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent. Scoobyenthusiast.com may share personal information with Digital Media Deployment for analysis purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships.

Banner Advertising

We may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising on our Web sites to be targeted, in aggregate, 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 will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form.

User Generated Content and Public Activities (Including Comments, Forums and Classifieds)

We offer opportunities for you to engage in public activities on Scoobyenthusiast.com, including submitting comments, recommendations, reader reviews and ratings in a number of areas throughout Scoobyenthusiast.com. "Public activities" are any actions you take on Scoobyenthusiast.com that are designed to be visible to other users, including comments, recommendations, reader reviews, forum posts, classified posts, ratings or any other items that you submit. "Public activities" also includes sharing via select third-party tools and/or services on Scoobyenthusiast.com. You must register for a Scoobyenthusiast.com account in order to engage in public activities. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public and may be used by Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment for online and offline promotional or commercial uses in any and all media. If you chose to engage in public activities, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these areas, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums and Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment has no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or any of your submissions that are a result of your public activities. For more information, see the User Generated Content section of the Terms of Service.

If you have signed up for a Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account, we will track and aggregate your public activities on Scoobyenthusiast.com. If you choose to participate in public activities, you are electing to share and display such public activities via Scoobyenthusiast.com. Also, public activities may be included in RSS feeds, APIs and made available to other Web sites via other formats. As a result, your public activities may appear on other Web sites, blogs, or feeds. Keep in mind that we are not responsible for any personally identifiable information you choose make public via your public activities.

E-Mail Newsletters

If you choose to receive them, Scoobyenthusiast.com will periodically send you e-mail newsletters or promotional e-mail about services offered by Scoobyenthusiast.com and its advertisers. For details about Scoobyenthusiast.com e-mail, please see the next section, "What Is Our E-mail Policy?".

WHAT IS OUR E-MAIL POLICY?

Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment comply fully with the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your e-mail address without your permission. If you feel you have received an e-mail from us in error, please contact us.

Account and Service-Related E-mail: Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment reserves the right to send you e-mail relating to your account status. This includes order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, other transactional e-mails and notifications about major changes to our Web sites and/or to our Privacy Policy. If you have registered for online discussions, forums, classifieds or other services, you may receive e-mail specific to your participation in those activities.

E-mail Newsletters: Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment offers several e-mail newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter. To manage your Scoobyenthusiast.com e-mail preferences, please log in to your account.

Promotional E-mail: If you choose to receive them, Scoobyenthusiast.com or Digital Media Deployment may periodically e-mail you messages about products and services that we think may be of interest to you. You can choose not to receive messages in the future by either (1) following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each e-mail, or (2) you can opt-out.

From time to time, Digital Media Deployment may obtain e-mail addresses from third party sources to be used for promotional e-mails. You can choose not to receive messages in the future by either (1) following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each e-mail, or (2) you can opt-out.

Survey E-mail: We may send you an e-mail inviting you to participate in user surveys, asking for feedback on Scoobyenthusiast.com and existing or prospective products and services, as well as information to better understand our users. User surveys greatly help us to improve our Web site, and any information we obtain in such surveys will not be shared with third parties, except in aggregate form.

HTML E-mail: When you sign up to receive e-mail from us, you can select either plain text or HTML (with images) format. If you select the HTML format, we may place a one-pixel gif to determine whether or not readers viewed the e-mail. This process does not leave any information on your computer, nor does it collect information from your computer. Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment may share this data with others in aggregate only.

E-mails From You: If you send us e-mails, you should be aware that information disclosed in e-mails may not be secure or encrypted and thus may be available to others. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal or confidential information in e-mails. We will use your e-mail address to respond directly to your questions or comments.

E-mail This Article Feature: Scoobyenthusiast.com readers may use this feature to e-mail links to articles (or other content such as slideshows). The e-mail addresses that you supply to this service are saved for your convenience for future articles you may wish to e-mail; these addressses are not used for any other purpose, and will not be shared with any third parties.

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT WE GATHER?

Digital Media Deployment

If you have registered to one of our sites, Digital Media Deployment will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your e-mail address or any information that personally identifies you without your permission. We do, however, share information about our audience in aggregate form.

Service Providers

We contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf, including credit-card and billing processing, shipping, e-mail distribution, list processing and analytics or promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information they need to perform their services.

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. (For more information, see the "Compliance with legal process" section of this policy.)

HOW DO I CHANGE OR UPDATE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Manage your Scoobyenthusiast.com account at My Account: You may review and update your Scoobyenthusiast.com membership or account information.

There are a number of things you can do in My Account to ensure your personal information is accurate and up to date. For one, you can update the information you provided during the free registration process. You can sign up for our e-mail newsletters and manage your delivery options. If you do not remember your password, you can reset your password. If you need further assistance, please contact us.

HOW DO I OPT-OUT FROM RECEIVING PROMOTIONAL OFFERS?

E-mail Promotions

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive e-mail marketing information from us, simply follow the unsubscribe options at the bottom of each e-mail. Or you can manage your e-mail settings in My Account.

If you experience difficulty with the unsubscribe process, feel free to contact us and provide your e-mail address along with the name of the newsletter or communication from which you would like to unsubscribe.

Offline Promotions

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive traditional mail or telephone solicitations originated by Digital Media Deployment and its third party affiliates, please contact us or write to us at the address at the given at the end this Policy.

HOW DO I DISASSOCIATE MY SCOOBYENTHUSIAST.COM REGISTRATION ACCOUNT FROM THIRD PARTY ACCOUNTS?

You can disassociate your Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account from a third-party registration account at any time.

Facebook

To disassociate your Facebook account from your Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account, click the "Disconnect" button. You must be logged into your Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account to make this change.

Twitter

To disassociate your Twitter account from your Scoobyenthusiast.com registration account, log in to https://twitter.com. Click "Settings," and then click the "Connections" tab. Locate "Scoobyenthusiast.com" in the list of approved connections and click "Revoke Access."

IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?

Data Security: To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we use security measures including but not limited to electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online. Physical security is handled through the server host provider.

OTHER INFORMATION: Compliance with Legal Process

We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web sites; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

OTHER INFORMATION: Children's Guidelines

COPPA Compliance: Scoobyenthusiast.com and Digital Media Deployment do not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13.

OTHER INFORMATION: Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use your personal information, the change will be posted on this page thirty (30) days prior to taking effect and registered users will be notified via e-mail.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at by e-mail at support@scoobyenthusiast.com or by mail at Digital Media Deployment, 2885 Sanford Ave SW # 12167, Grandville, Michigan 49418-1342.