Privacy Policy

VPirates Privacy Notice

Updated as of June 25, 2011.

Personal Information

Browsing VPirates You can watch videos on VPirates without having a VPirates Account. You also can contact us through the VPirates Help Center or by emailing us directly without having to register for an account.

Your VPirates Account.

For some activities on VPirates, like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos, you need a VPirates Account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access

Usage Information.

When you use VPirates, we may record information about your usage of the site, such as the channels, groups and favorites you subscribe to, which other users you communicate with, the videos you watch, the frequency and size of data transfers, and information you display about yourself as well as information you click on in VPirates (including UI elements, settings). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your VPirates Account. In order to ensure the quality of our service to you, we may place a tag (also called a "web beacon") in HTML-based customer support emails or other communications with you in order to confirm delivery.

Content Uploaded to Site.

Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (e.g., video comments, your profile page) may be collected and used by others.

Uses.

If you submit personal information to VPirates, we may use that information to operate, maintain, and improve the features and functionality of VPirates, and to process any flagging activity or other communication you send to us.

We do not use your email address or other personal information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major VPirates changes or for customer service purposes).

We use cookies, web beacons, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit VPirates; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Information That is Publicly Available.

When you create a VPirates Account, some information about your VPirates Account and your account activity will be provided to other users of VPirates. This may include the date you opened your VPirates Account, the date you last logged into your VPirates Account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of videos you have watched.

Your VPirates Account name, not your email address, is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on VPirates, such as when you upload videos or send messages through VPirates. Other users can contact you by leaving a message or comment on the site.

Any videos that you submit to VPirates may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by other VPirates users or the general public.

You may also choose to add personal information which may include your name, gender, profile picture or other details, that will be visible to other users on your VPirates Account channel page. If you choose to add certain features to your VPirates Account channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your friends or other users. Such shared activity may include your favorite videos, videos you rated and videos that you have uploaded.

Your Choices.

If you have a VPirates Account, you may update or correct your personal profile information, email preferences and privacy settings at any time by visiting your account profile page. You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your VPirates Account. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name, not your email address, are watching the same video.

You may, of course, decline to submit personal information through VPirates, in which case you can still view videos and explore VPirates, but VPirates may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced VPirates features may use other services like Paypal or AdSense. The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.

Advertising on VPirates.

VPirates strives to provide you with relevant and useful advertising. We may use a range of information including cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, usage data and other non-personal information about your computer or device (such as browser type and operating system) to provide you with relevant advertising. While you are logged in or logged out of your VPirates Account, we may also show you advertising based on non-personally identifiable information you have provided to us in your VPirates Account.

Advertisers may serve ads based on interests and demographic categories associated with non-personally identifiable online activity, such as videos viewed, frequency of uploading or activity on other AdSense partner sites. Advertisers may also serve ads to you based on previous activity on that advertiser's website or based on non-personally identifiable information from other companies. This non-personally identifiable information is held separately from your VPirates Account data, or other personally identifying information in our possession.

VPirates does not provide any personal information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. VPirates’ privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with VPirates is maintained and dealt with by VPirates in accordance with this privacy policy.

More Information.

Vpirates adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.