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This Customer Privacy Policy of Vidutopia, LLC "Vidutopia" covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information
that may be collected by Vidutopia anytime you interact with Vidutopia, such as when you visit our website, when you purchase
Vidutopia’s products and services online, or when you call our sales or support associates. Your privacy is important to
Vidutopia. This Privacy Statement provides information about the Personal Information that Vidutopia collects, and the ways in
which Vidutopia uses that Personal Information. Your use of this website is governed by our Terms of Service, and by using this
website you accept and acknowledge this Privacy Statement and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal
Information in accordance with this statement.
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| Consent to Collection of Personal Information |
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When you visit this website, certain types of non-personal information, such as referring websites, your IP address, your
username, your browser type and language, access times, web pages viewed, links clicked, and other actions taken in connection
with the use of this site may be collected automatically as part of the site’s operation. Additionally, when visiting our site,
we may place a "cookie" (a small text file used to indentify your computer to the site) in your browser’s memory to allow for
customization of the website for you. You are always free to decline and remove our cookies if your browser permits, although
doing so may affect or impede your use of certain website features. By voluntarily providing your personal information to
Vidutopia, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information as set out in the Privacy Statement.
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| Examples of Personal Information Includes: |
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- Information collected when you register including your member name and password, your name, and e-mail address.
- Information collected when you make a purchase including shipping and billing addresses, telephone number, e-mail address, birthday or proof of age, and credit card number or PayPal account information.
- Information collected when you become a contributor including (I) banking or other financial information required in order for us to compensate you; (II) your social security number or EIN in order for us to prepare tax information when required; and (III) any identification information required for compensation or tax purposes such as shipping and billing addresses, telephone number, e-mail address, birthday or proof of age, or copy of photo identification.
You may always choose not to provide personal information, but if you so choose, certain products and services may not be available
to you.
Please note that any video, image, text, or other content posted by you onto public portions of the site such as forums, message boards,
video download pages, or publicly accessible profile information becomes published content and is therefore not considered Personal
Information subject to this Privacy Statement.
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| Use of Personal Information |
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We collect your personal information because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service. It enables us to give you convenient access to our
products and services and focus on categories of greatest interest to you. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you posted on the latest product
announcements, special offers, and events that you might light to hear about. There are a number of ways Vidutopia, or third parties acting on our behalf, may use
your Personal Information to help us give you better products. For example:
- Personalize the website to you
- Administer the website
- Create and manage your membership accounts
- Enable your access to and use of the website services
- Ship you the products that you purchase
- Process your transactions
- Send you statements or invoices
- To compensate you and prepare tax information (for contributors)
- To identify your uploaded content (for contributors)
- Collect payments from you
- Send you marketing communications
- Perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services, and technologies
- Provide technical and other customer support
Vidutopia takes your privacy very seriously. Vidutopia does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers. To
help us provide superior services, your personal information may be shared with third parties Vidutopia has a strategic
relationship with or that performs work for Vidutopia to provide products and services to you on our behalf. These companies
may help us process information, extend credit, fulfill customer orders, deliver products to you, manage and enhance customer
data, provide customer service, assess your interest in our products and services, or conduct customer research or satisfaction
surveys. Where Vidutopia discloses your Personal Information to third parties acting on our behalf, those third parties will be
obligated to use that Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement. Without such information being
made available, it would be difficult for you to purchase products, have products delivered to you, receive customer service,
provide us feedback to improve our products and services, or access certain services, offers, and content on our website.
We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is
reasonable to do so, including disclosure to credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement,
or for litigation or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act,
regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information. We may also disclose personal information that is necessary
to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our contracts, policies and procedures. Finally,
we may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public
importance, disclosure is necessary.
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| Use of Personal Information |
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If you use a bulletin board or chat room on our website you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other
users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other
individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Vidutopia is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you
choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously non-public, available by
enabling certain user features, Vidutopia will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become
publicly available.
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| Correcting Information |
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If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, you may do so by accessing your membership
account and account details. You may also review, revise and request changes to your information by sending us an e-mail at
privacy@vidutopia.com, and we will assist you in updating your information.
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| Security |
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Vidutopia will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your
Personal Information. We will store all Personal Information you provide on our secure servers and may employ industry-standard
Secure Sockets Layer encryption when requesting certain financial information from you. We or third parties acting on our behalf
do not, however, use such encryption during day-to-day use of our website. It should be noted that the confidentiality of any
information transmitted over the internet cannot be guaranteed.
Information that Vidutopia collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Vidutopia
or third parties acting on our behalf operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
In addition, Personal Information that you submit for publication on the website may be published on the internet and may be available
around the world. Your use of this website signifies your assent and acceptance of such cross-border transfers of Personal
Information.
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| Links to Other Sites |
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You should be aware that this Privacy Statement applies only to our website. This Privacy Statement does not apply to any
other third party websites to which a link may be provided as part of our website. Vidutopia is not responsible for the
privacy policies or practices of any third party.
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| Forums and Other Interactive Services |
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Our site may include discussion forums or other interactive areas ("Interactive Areas") and services, including blogs, bulletin
boards, message boards, or other areas or services in which you or third parties may create, post, store, or share any content,
messages, comments, reviews, ratings, materials, or other items on the site. If you use an Interactive Area, you should be aware
that these areas are open to the public and any Personal Information you post or provide in these areas may be viewable by others.
We are not responsible for Personal Information you submit in connection with the use of these Interactive Areas, nor are we
responsible for how others might use that information, including to send you unsolicited messages. Interactive Area postings may
be retained indefinitely. If at any time you would like to remove a posting, please email us at privacy@vidutopia.com. Keep in
mind that removal of a posting from an Interactive Area does not necessarily mean that the posting will be deleted from our systems.
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| Email Referrals |
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If you choose to use our email referral services to tell a friend about our products or services we will ask you for your
friend’s name and email address. We will then use that information to send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her
to visit the site and review the product or service you have selected. We may use a third-party provider to administer
this function, but any such third-party provider may only use the information submitted to facilitate the generation of
this one-time email.
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| Changes to Privacy Statement |
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Due to the dynamic nature of this website and our business we may need to update or make revisions to this Privacy Statement.
Therefore, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time without notice. You should check this page occasionally
to ensure you are familiar with any changes. When we make changes, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy
Statement, and your use of this website signifies your assent to and acceptance of any and all revisions to the Privacy Statement.
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| Children Under 18 |
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YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS VIDUTOPIA’S WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT
PERMITTED TO ACCESS VIDUTOPIA'S WEB SITE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information
from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you shall not use or enter information on this site, including any
interactive areas of the site without parental consent. If a child under 18 submits personal information to Vidutopia and we
learn that that personal information is the information of a child under 18, then Vidutopia will attempt to delete this
information as soon as possible. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all
other applicable laws. Please contact customer service at privacy@vidutopia.com, to obtain the necessary parental consent forms
for children under the age of 18.
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| Non-US Users |
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This website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing this website from a jurisdiction with privacy laws or
regulations that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the website, you are transferring
your Personal Information to the United States and in doing so consent to that transfer.
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| Contact |
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or Vidutopia's treatment of your Personal Information, please feel free
to contact us at privacy@vidutopia.com. However, the Internet is not a fully secure medium and any communications may be lost,
intercepted or altered. Vidutopia is not liable for any damages related to communications to or from this website. You agree
with respect to any information provided by you to us through this website or via e-mail that:
- Vidutopia has no obligation concerning such information
- The information is non-confidential
- Vidutopia may use, disclose, distributor copy the information and may use any ideas, concepts, or know-how contained in the information for any purpose without compensation; and
- The information is truthful and disclosure of the information does not violate the legal rights or others.
You may also contact our privacy officer by mail to:
ATTN: Don Owens
Vidutopia, LLC
5625 Pearl Drive
Suite F - 104
Evansville, IN 47712
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| Effective Date |
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The terms and conditions in this policy statement came into effect on November 1, 2010. Vidutopia reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy at any time and in any manner. When
we change the policy in a material way a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated privacy policy. Your use of our website and any other services provided by Vidutopia after such
changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.
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