Customer Value Partners d/b/a Black Turtle Media, Inc. ("Black Turtle Media", "we" or "our") recognizes that its customers, visitors and users of www.blackturtlemedia.com (the "Site") or the Services provided via the Site (the "Services") value their privacy. We have created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information about our users. Our commitment to you is that we will use our best efforts not to disclose information collected from you other than as described in this policy. The following discloses in detail our information collection, utilization and dissemination practices of information collected through the Site.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Black Turtle Media General Terms. Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Services.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of users ("Submissions") onto the Site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy and Black Turtle may or may not identify you as the author of any Submissions.

Our Privacy Policy in Short

•          We will only use personal information you provide us according to the terms outlined in this policy.

•          In order to participate in the Services provided through the Site including, but not limited to, posting Submissions, you must provide a limited amount of personal information.

•          You acknowledge and agree that Black Turtle may disclose your name in association with your Submissions.

•          You acknowledge and agree to receive communications from certain specified third parties.

•          We will never provide personally identifiable information about you to third parties without your consent.

The Information Black Turtle Media Collects

•          User Provided Information: In order to use the Site and the Services, you must provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to Black Turtle Media when choosing to participate in various activities on the Site such as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums, responding to Submission requests, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.

•          Cookies Information: When using the Services, we may create "cookies" on your computer for purposes of facilitating and maintaining your current user session, and may collect personal data using those cookies in order to enable us to identify you in connection with the Services and to track use of the Services for purposes consistent with this policy. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

The Way Black Turtle Media Uses Information

•          If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Site, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Site.

•          Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Any videos that you submit to the Site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

•          We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-out.

•          We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and Services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends.

•          We use cookies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (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, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, Submissions, and status in certain promotions.

When Black Turtle Media Discloses Information

•          We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-out.

•          We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, Services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Site.

•          We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.

•          Black Turtle Media also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Black Turtle Media believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our General Terms, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Black Turtle Media, our users or others.

Accessing Your Personal Data

Each user selects a unique username and password that enables their access to the Site and/or the Services. We monitor the use of the usernames and passwords in order to collect and maintain records of all individual transactions conducted through the Services by users, and those records are associated with each user's individual account profile within the Services.

Users may access their account profiles at any time to update personal data contained within that account profile. Subsequent uses or disclosures of information by us will reflect those changes. Certain information is necessary in order for us to provide the Services; therefore, if you delete such necessary information you will not be able to use all of the features and functionality of the Site or the Services.

Please contact Black Turtle Media with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices at privacy@blackturtlemedia.com.

Our Commitment to Data Security

Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information in our possession and control, no security system can prevent against all potential security breaches, and we bear no liability for uses or disclosures of personal data or non-personal data arising in connection with the theft thereof. Likewise, you are responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of passwords to the Services, and we bear no liability for access to, or use or disclosure of personal data if such access, use or disclosure arises in connection with the theft or disclosure (whether intentional or negligent) of such user's password.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Black Turtle Media allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Site. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

Black Turtle Media does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-out.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Black Turtle Media does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Site from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Site at any time or in any manner. If Black Turtle Media learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the Site without verified parental consent, then Black Turtle Media will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

Special Note to International Users

The Site is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are a user accessing the Site from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Site, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and our General Terms, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Site so that users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will disclose it. Any continued access to and/or use of the Site or Services constitutes your assent to, and acceptance of, this policy, including all posted changes for which we have provided notice.

Contact Information:
Please contact Black Turtle Media with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy at privacy@blackturtlemedia.com.

Date Last Modified: June 2007.