Last Updated Februari 2, 2005

Overview

PSP-SCENE considers the protection of personal privacy to be one of our most important values. This privacy policy ("Policy") gives you specific information on how we protect your privacy, how we treat personal information, and the choices you have.

As a condition of using the PSP-SCENE website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy. Additional terms and conditions which govern your use of the PSP-SCENE site are contained in our User Agreement, and, as applicable, in certain other service specific license agreements or terms of use, which you will be notified of at the time of your registration for the applicable services.

The Policy is accessible through the PSP-SCENE site in several ways, including from a link entitled "Privacy Police" in the left-block of the PSP-SCENE home page. You acknowledge that this Policy may change over time. If we make a material change to the terms of this Policy, we will give you 30 days notice of those changes ("Notice Period") through reasonably prominent disclosure, including via email. However, you should check the PSP-SCENE site regularly for these and other important announcements. Your continued use of the PSP-SCENE site following the Notice Period will signify that you agree to these changes.

Children

The PSP-SCENE site is not directed to children under the age of 13. The PSP-SCENE site prohibit registration by, and PSP-SCENE will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13. This requirement will be posted at points of data collection within the registration for services.

Information Collection, Storage and Use

We refer to information that identifies an individual as "Personal Information". In general, PSP-SCENE collects Personal Information from users of the PSP-SCENE site in connection with access to certain online areas or services, including during (i) registration for certain online community services and tools such as message boards, chat rooms or other community services; (ii) registration for special communications, such as email updates and newsletters; (iii) subscription registration; (iv) user surveys; (v) events, sweepstakes, contests or promotions. Your Personal Information is stored on PSP-SCENE computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in the Canada.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in public areas of PSP-SCENE, such as the member home pages and message boards, your information can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise users to be especially careful in such public areas about disclosing Personal Information, such as full name, home address, or phone number.

Below are more details about the Personal Information we may gather from you and how we may use it.

A. Email Newsletters. PSP-SCENE offers email newsletters to its registered users. We will use your email address to send you only the specific newsletter that you signed up for. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving a newsletter, follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any newsletter we send you or simply visit http://www.psp-scene.org//modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=edituser to update your profile.

B. Membership Information. When you register for membership on PSP-SCENE, we will ask you for certain minimum required information, such as your name, birth date, gender, email address and zip code. We may also ask for additional information about you and your interests. We do this so we can better understand your preferences and tailor the PSP-SCENE site to suit you better. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor the PSP-SCENE site and promotions to your interests. Additionally, third partty service providers may require you to assent to their privacy party as a condition to receiving their service.

C. Email Updates to Members. If you so elect at registration, we may periodically send you promotional email about products or services offered by the PSP-SCENE site, our partners and advertisers. If you want to update your email address or stop receiving these types of promotional emails, please follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any email we send you or simply visit http://www.psp-scene.org//modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=edituser to update your profile.

D. Promotions. We may ask you for Personal Information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by PSP-SCENE or a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by a third party, the Personal Information you provide will be subject to the privacy policy of the third party sponsor. We encourage you to check the applicable third party policy before providing any Personal Information.

E. Surveys and User Research. PSP-SCENE conducts email and web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our users. Taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not Personal Information, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising or other offerings on our service. We also use some of the Personal Information that you provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make PSP-SCENE more useful to you.

F. Use of Cookies. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of information (a file) that a Web site transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of PSP-SCENE involves cookies. We use cookies to recognize users who have already registered at PSP-SCENE, allowing those users to speed up their future activities on the site. Cookies helps PSP-SCENE and our advertising service (discussed below) track the frequency and placement of advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate (total) usage and traffic to PSP-SCENE and to specific offerings. This aids us in producing content that best meets our users' preferences. In order to implement new services, we may use other types of cookies as well. We also may use cookies to understand better what parts of PSP-SCENE you like the best. We may use that information to display advertisements that we think will be of particular interest to you. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of the PSP-SCENE website. 

Information Storage and Security

Your Personal Information is stored on the PSP-SCENE computer servers (or those of its service providers) located in Canada. We protect your Personal Information with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. But PSP-SCENE is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our site and all Personal Information against foreseeable hazards.

Accessing, Correcting and Updating Your Information

To access, correct or update your account or other Personal Information such as your city or interests, please use the "Edit Account page" at the PSP-SCENE  website http://www.psp-scene.org//modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=edituser.

If you have any other questions, comments or complaints about this Policy, please contact us via our online form, available at http://www.psp-scene.org/modules.php?name=Feedback&file=index or write to us at: webmaster@psp-scene.org


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Newsletters. You may unsubscribe to email newsletters by following the instructions at the bottom of each newsletter.

Email updates and special offers: You may unsubscribe to email announcements by following the instructions at the bottom of each email.

Services: You may unsubscribe to any service for which you have previously elected by following the instructions included in the PSP-SCENE User Agreement.