Adnet Privacy Policy

At MediaWhiz Holdings Inc. (“MediaWhiz”), holding ourselves accountable to industry guidelines and standards has always been one of our most important values. We believe that our Privacy Policy should give you confidence whenever you view an ad created and/or served by MediaWhiz Holdings Inc. It’s your Web. At Media Whiz, we strive to make your experience on the Web as customized an experience as it can be- and see ads that interest you.

Privacy and Data use policy for adnet

ad{Net} is an advertising network that may deliver advertisements to the Web sites you visit. ad{Net} understands that your online privacy is important to you. We have created the following Privacy and Data Use Policy (the “Policy”) to let you know what information we collect on this Web site and when we serve advertisements on our network of Web sites owned by third-party publishers (collectively, the “ad{Net} Display Network”), how such information is used, and how it is shared with third parties if shared at all.

Please read this Policy carefully. Use of the ad{Net} Display Network, this Web site and your sharing of information with us is subject to the terms and conditions of this Policy. By using the ad{Net} Display Network, this Web site or sharing information with us, you give your agreement to this Policy. The Policy may be revised or updated at any time by us as further described below.

The terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the Web site visitor or consumer. The terms “ad{Net},” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to ad{Net}, and the companies under its control (such as subsidiaries), or under common control (such as parent companies, or companies owned by its parent company), (collectively, “ad{Net} Entities”).

information we collect

Ad Delivery & Reporting Across Multiple Sites

As part of our ad delivery and reporting, we log page views and collect information for the purpose of delivering ads or providing advertising-related services, including providing a specific advertisement based on a particular type of browser or time of day; statistical reporting in connection with the activity on a Web site; and tracking the number of ads served on a particular day to a particular Web site. To do so, we collect information about the type of browser and operating system of Web site visitors, as well as the domain name, day and time of visit, and page(s) visited. We do so across multiple Web domains owned or operated by different entities (each, a “Site”).

Relevant Advertising

We want to deliver more relevant advertising to you. Delivering more relevant advertising to you and other Web site visitors allows Web site owners to generate more advertising revenue. This revenue pays for the free content that they may publish for you, or free services that they may deliver to you. It also means that you are more likely to see online advertising that meets your interests.

In an effort to deliver relevant advertising to you, we collect data across multiple Web domains owned or operated by different entities to categorize likely consumer interest segments for use in advertising online (“Online Behavioral Advertising” or “OBA”).

If you do not wish to benefit from relevant advertising, please feel free to opt out as described in the paragraph titled “Opt-Out” below.

Internet Technology

We collect the information described above by using log files, Web beacons and cookies. We often engage or cooperate with service and technology companies to collect this information. While this tracking and collection technology is commonly used, you might not be familiar with it, and we would like to explain it:

“Log files” track actions occurring on Web sites and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet
service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, click data and types of advertisements viewed.
“Web beacons” are electronic files used to track your navigation of a Web site or collection of sites, the completion of transactions, submittal of applications and browsing behavior.
“Cookies” are files (e.g. HTTP cookies) that are stored on your Internet enabled device (which includes your computer, BlackBerry or other PDA). Cookies are mostly used to record what pages and ads you have already viewed. Cookies are used to facilitate Web site navigation (for example, so your bank knows that you logged in), make sure that you are forwarded to the appropriate Web site when you click on an ad, and generally improve your Web browsing experience. Cookies are also used to control the delivery of a series of advertisements to a Web browser, and to limit the number of times a Web browser receives any one advertisement. We also use cookies to estimate the total reach of an advertising campaign, as well as frequency of display. You can learn more about cookies on the Internet Advertising Bureau’s Web site www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/what-information-in-cookie.html.

We use the information we collect for marketing and advertising purposes, to determine which ads perform well, to better match ads and Web site content to your interests, to assist us in improving the operation of our services, to maintain the quality of our services, to enhance our services to our business partners and clients, to provide general statistics to our business partners and clients regarding use of ad{Net}’s services, and for the other purposes described below.

Personally Identifiable Information

We do not collect data that includes a name, address, telephone number, email address, government-issued identification, or data that likewise would identify a specific individual (“Personal Identifiable Information” or “PII”), except when you may wish to provide PII as a visitor to this Web site or to a member of the ad{Net} Display Network, for example by completing a customer service form. While we generally will use such information only for the purpose that it was intended, we reserve the right to use and share such information under these terms.

Third Party Data Usage: Information Obtained from Other Companies

We license and otherwise obtain all types of information from various other companies, including research companies, financial information companies, data aggregation companies and other third party companies. Data sets may include information about you or your demographic segment that such companies have licensed, purchased or collected. We use this information for all the purposes described in this Policy, and for any other purpose that we chose.

sharing your information

ad{Net} may use and share your information:

To enable third party service providers to assist or facilitate in the services
we provide to our clients and customers;
To comply with applicable laws and regulations or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request
for information received by us, whether or not a response is required by applicable law;
To enforce our terms of use or to protect our rights;
To protect the safety of members of the public and users of our services;
With other ad{Net} Entities and third party marketing partners;
With third party research companies, vendors, administrative service providers, technology providers, and selected partners for data validation, aggregation, enhancement, verification and suppression purposes, and for research, marketing, advertising, and data aggregation purposes;
For the purposes described elsewhere in this Policy; or
For any other purpose for which you provide consent.

We also may share information with advertisers, publishers and other third parties for marketing and advertising purposes, but such information does not include PII except if you provided it as described above. While ad{Net} strongly encourages its advertising customers, service providers, partners, and members of the ad{Net} Display Network to adopt responsible approaches to online marketing, ad{Net} is not responsible for the information practices of any of third party entities referenced in this paragraph, which may use the information we share with them for the same purposes as we use the information, or for their own independent purposes. The collection, use, and disclosure of information by clients and partners are subject to their respective privacy policies, which may differ from this Policy.

Corporate Changes

In the event that ad{Net} or its holding company is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from you as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your information is treated, transferred, or used.

information collected by third party sites

Please be aware that the Sites of our advertiser clients as well as the Sites on which we place advertisements or any Site linked to from one of our Web sites also may collect information from you. Such information may include non-personally identifiable information through the use of cookies and other technology and any personally identifiable information you may choose to give in registering and transacting with such Web site. Although we choose our business partners and clients carefully, ad{Net} is not responsible for the privacy practices of Web sites operated by such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of such Web sites you visit to determine how they handle any information they collect from you.

Data Retention

Your Internet browser stores OBA-related data as cookies. If you have cookies disabled, if you delete your cookies, or if other software deletes the cookies used for that data storage, such data is lost because it is not retained separately by ad{Net}. The cookies that store data related to ad{Net}’s OBA will in any case expire one year after the last time such information is stored, barring any technical malfunction.

ad{Net} retains information regarding ad delivery (see, “Ad Delivery & Reporting” above) for up to six (6) months. However, ad{Net}may retain aggregate statistics, reports and summaries regarding ad delivery for a longer period.

ad{Net} may delete any or all of OBA or information regarding ad delivery that relates to you at any time and in ad{Net}’s sole discretion, notwithstanding its normal data retention policies. Further, ad{Net} reserves the right to retain and use any information described in this Policy as reasonably necessary to comply with laws or regulations, notwithstanding any limitations described in this Policy to the contrary. If ad{Net} changes its retention data policies by updating this Policy, its new policies will apply to all data then retained by ad{Net}.

your choices

OBA Opt-Out

If you would like to opt out of OBA, then we offer “opt-out cookies” to block the tracking and placement of future ad{Net} cookies for OBA purposes on your system. If you have multiple Internet browsers or users on the same computer, you will need to perform the opt-out operation for each browser and/or user. If you or your anti-virus or other software deletes the opt-out cookies from your computer, if you re-install your browser, or if you delete your cookies (which can happen if you clear or delete your browser history), then you will need to repeat the process. The opt-out cookies will not work while you have set your browser to ignore cookies. You may click here to Install the ad{Net} Opt Out Cookie. http://ad.yieldmanager.com/opt-out

Please note that the above link for opt-out cookies is applicable to ad{Net}, but not any other ad{Net} Display Network Web site. Also, please note that use of the opt-out cookies will affect our ability to provide you content and advertisements that will more effectively match your interests and may prevent us from controlling the frequency with which you may view any particular advertisement. Please report any problems related to the opt-out process to our Customer Services at traffic@adnetinteractive.com