Privacy Policy
Diversify Media operates several websites including thetvremote.com. It is Automattic’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Diversify Media collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Diversify Media’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Diversify Media’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Diversify Media may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Diversify Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Diversify Media does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Diversify Media’s websites choose to interact with Diversify Media in ways that require Diversify Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Diversify Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Diversify Media collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Diversify Media. Diversify Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Diversify Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Diversify Media may monitor the amount of comments on articles and the most popular articles on the website. Diversify Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Diversify Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Diversify Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Diversify Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Diversify Media’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Diversify Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Diversify Media will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Diversify Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Diversify Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Diversify Media, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a Diversify Media website and have supplied your email address, Diversify Media may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Diversify Media and our websites. We primarily use our websites to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a contact form), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Diversify Media takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Diversify Media uses cookies to help Diversify Media identify and track visitors, their usage of Diversify Media website, and their website access preferences. Diversify Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Diversify Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Diversify Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Advertisers and Sponsors
Diversify Media sponsors and advertisers may use cookies within their advertisements or promotions. Diversify Media will likely not have access to these cookies or any information that they may contain. Visitors who want any information about these cookies should contact the sponsors and advertisers directly. Once you click on a sponsor link or advertisement and leave the Diversify Media websites our privacy policy no longer applies. You must read the privacy policy of the individual advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their site. There may be times when we use third-party advertising companies (the “Companies”) to serve ads when you visit our site. These Companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we may share web site usage information about visitors to our sites with this these Companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements, for market research analysis on our site and other sites and for tracking a specific activity on our site relating to the marketing efforts of an advertiser. For these purposes, the Companies may note some of the pages you visit on our site as well as some of the activities you undertake through the use of Web Beacons and pixel tags (also called clear gifs). In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the Companies may also place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your computer. As is always the case, information collected and used by these Companies will not be tied to a user’s personal information and will only be used in the aggregate. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt-out. Diversify Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Diversify Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Diversify Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Community Elements
Diversify Media has comments and blogs available to visitors and may incorporate additional forums in the future. Please be aware that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in any of these public forums. Diversify Media does not require you to make your personal information available to the public so please exercise care when participating in these public forums. Diversify Media does not require you to make your personal information available to the public so please exercise care when participating in these public forums. Any personal information, including your email address, voluntarily disclosed by you and posted on a Diversify Media site can be viewed and used by others. If you post personal information that is accessible to the public online you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
User Created Content
Please be aware that all content that you create (“User Content”) that is posted on message boards, polls, blogs or other community oriented areas (”Community Areas”) is provided for entertainment purposes and that Diversify Media may, in its sole discretion, choose to remove any such content from Community Areas if we believe that the content is inappropriate for public display. Our goal is to avoid abuse of these Community Areas in order to create an enjoyable and entertaining user experience. If you are aware of any content that may be inappropriate or users who are abusing our systems please contact us. Diversify Media cannot ensure that parties who have access to the publicly available information in these Community Areas will respect your privacy so please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in these areas. Diversify Media is also not responsible for the content or business practices of web sites that are linked from these Community Areas by our visitors so please keep this in mind before clicking on any links.
Rights To User Created Content
Diversify Meida does not claim ownership of User Content. However, you hereby grant Diversify Media a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display your User Content and to incorporate User Content in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
Business Transitions
In the event that Diversify Media merges with, or substantially all of its assets are acquired by, another business entity, personal information that users have provided at any point in time to Diversify Media may be released or transferred to the new business entity as one of the transferred assets. Further, personal user information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with any Diversify Media offer to merge or sell substantially all of Diversify Media assets. If Diversify Media merges with, or substantially all of its assets are acquired by, another business entity Diversify Media will provide notice of such a transaction on the Diversify Media websites and via email.
Governing Law
This policy and the use of this website are governed by Illinois law. Any claim related to the site or this policy shall be brought in a federal or state court in Illinois, within one year after the claim arises. You agree no such claim may be brought as a class action. Users of Diversify Media consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such court as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this policy. Diversify Media is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please note the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. You hereby consent to this transfer.
Privacy Policy Changes
Diversify Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Diversify Media’s sole discretion. Diversify Media encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.