Initial Posting Date: 1/22/1996
The Walt Disney Internet Group is committed to helping you make the most of your free time on the
Internet within a trusted environment. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use
and share information gathered about you on our family of Web sites. Once you have registered with
one of our Web sites, you will have access to all of our family of sites. Thus, this privacy policy
is the same for all of WDIG's sites. We hope that this disclosure will help increase your confidence
in our sites and enhance your experience on the Internet.
Kids' Privacy Policy:
We recognize the need to provide additional privacy protections for kids who visit our sites. To
read about our protections for kids who are 12 and younger, click here.
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What types of information are WDIG sites collecting, and how are the sites collecting it? |
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The majority of great
products and services on our sites are offered without our collecting any personally identifiable information
from you. You can surf WDIG's Web sites and view much of our terrific content anonymously. For instance, you
can view news headlines at ABCNEWS.com without giving out any personally identifiable information.
- Information You Provide
There are a few activities on our sites where the collection of personally identifiable information is
necessary. Those activities include things like entering a contest or sweepstakes, making a purchase, or
contacting us. When personally identifiable information is collected, you will know because you will have to
fill out a form. For most activities, we collect only your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, and zip
code. When you make a purchase, we also collect your street and billing addresses, your phone number, and
credit card information. Depending on what you purchase, we may also need to collect other personal
information, like your clothing size.
- Information Collected from You with Technology
WDIG sites collect some information about you using technology, so it may not be readily apparent to you that
it is being collected. For instance, when you come to our site your IP address is collected so that we know
where to send information you are requesting. An IP address is often associated with the place from which you
enter the Internet like your ISP (Internet service provider), your company, or your university. This
information is not personally identifiable. WDIG sites use information collected through technology to make
our sites more interesting and useful to you. This includes helping advertisers on our site design
advertisements our Guests might like. We normally don't combine this type of information with personally
identifiable information.
However, we will combine this information with personally identifiable information to identify a visitor in
order to enforce compliance with our house rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, Guests,
or others.
- What Are Cookies, and How Does WDIG Use Them?
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the Web site.
These pieces of information allow the Web site to remember important information that will make your use of
that site more useful. WDIG and other Internet companies use cookies for a variety of purposes. For instance,
DisneyStore.com uses cookies to remember and process the items in your shopping cart, and all WDIG sites use
cookies to make sure kids don't enter unmoderated chat rooms. You can choose to have your computer warn you
each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser
(like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your
browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have
access to many WDIG features that make your Web experience more efficient -- like the features mentioned
above -- and some of our services will not function properly.
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How does WDIG use the personally identifiable information that has been collected? |
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WDIG uses personally identifiable
information in a limited number of ways. We use the information to complete transactions. For instance, if you
purchase a fantasy team on ESPN.com, we use your information to process your order, or if you contact us for help
we will use the information to contact you. We use information collected to notify you if you've won a game or
contest. Information we collect is used to send you e-mail updates and newsletters about our sites. We also use
the information you provide to send you WDIG e-mail promotions and special offers from our third-party sponsors.
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Does WDIG share information with companies or other organizations that are not part of the WDIG family of sites? |
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One of the most valuable
assets of our business is you. We aren't in the business of selling information about our Guests. However,
if there is a value for our Guests, we will share your information or send you messages on behalf of another
company as described below. We will also share information for security reasons.
- Companies That Are "Standing in the Shoes" of WDIG
Sometimes we hire companies to help us deliver products or services, like a shipping company that delivers a
package. In those instances, we need to share your information with them. These companies are basically
"standing in the shoes" of WDIG, and they are allowed to use the information only to deliver the
product or service.
- Companies Offering Promotions, Products, or Services
On occasion, we offer promotions -- like sweepstakes or free subscriptions -- in conjunction with a sponsor.
We will share your information with the sponsors if they need it to send you a product, such as a magazine
subscription. We may share your information with those sponsors so that they can send you other special
promotions they offer, but only if you give us your permission to do so, and we will share it only with that
specific sponsor. In addition, WDIG occasionally sends e-mail promotions out to our Guests on behalf of
third-party sponsors. In this instance, we don't share your name with the third party -- we do the mailing
for them. Again, we only send these promotions to you if you've given your permission.
- Content Partners
On some of our sites, we provide content that is created by a third-party partner Web site. For instance,
ESPN.com provides shopping opportunities with third parties. In some instances the third-party sites will
collect information in order to facilitate the transaction or to make the use of their content more
productive and efficient. In these circumstances the information collected is shared between WDIG and our
third-party sponsors.
- Third-Party Advertisers and Network Advertisers
To help increase privacy protections for our Guests, WDIG allows advertising on our sites from only those
companies that have their own privacy policy. Once you've clicked on an advertisement and have left WDIG
sites, our privacy policy no longer applies. You must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how
your personal information will be handled on their site. In addition, many business advertisements are
managed and placed on our site by third-party companies. These companies are called "network
advertisers." Network advertisers collect non-personally identifiable information when you click on or
scan one of their banner advertisements. The information is collected using technology, so you may not
realize it's being collected. The network advertisers collect this information so that they can show you ads
that are more relevant and interesting to you. If you would like to read more about network advertisers or do
not want network advertisers to collect this non-personally identifiable information about you,
click here.
- Purchase or Sale of Businesses
Online business is still in a very early stage and is changing and evolving rapidly. As WDIG continually
looks for ways to improve our business, we may buy or sell a company. If we buy or sell a business, the names
collected will likely be transferred as a part of the sale. Information about registrants will be used in the
aggregate. However, if we buy a business, we will honor the requests that customers made of that business
regarding e-mail communications. In the event that we sell a business, we will do everything in our power to
ensure that the e-mail communications requests you made of us are honored.
- Organizations That Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Guests and Our Sites
We will give out personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or
subpoena; to enforce our Terms of Service, or site or game rules; or to protect the safety and security of
Guests and our sites.
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What choices do I have about WDIG collecting, using, and sharing my information? |
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It is possible for you to use
much of our site without giving us any personally identifiable information. When you do register with us or
give us personally identifiable information, you will have an opportunity at the time we collect your
information -- to limit e-mail communications from WDIG and from our third-party partners. You can request
at any time that WDIG not send future e-mail to you either by unsubscribing from the communication or by
contacting us at [email protected]. Also, as mentioned
above, there are ways to limit the information collected through technology -- though some of our features
won't work if you decide to do this.
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What type of security does WDIG provide? |
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The importance of security
for all personally identifiable information associated with our Guests is of utmost concern to us. WDIG
takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect all visitors'
information. When you provide credit card information, we use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to
protect it. There are some things that you can do to help protect the security of your information as well.
For instance, never give out your Password, since this is what is used to access all of your account
information. Also remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you finish
surfing the Web, so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information.
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How can I access my account information? |
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You can access the personally
identifiable information you gave us during registration at our member services center. Simply click on this
link http://register.go.com/disney/GuestServices/YourAccount/login
and then log in with your member name and password. There are instructions on the start page to help you
recover your password if you've forgotten it. You can also contact us via e-mail by clicking "Guest Services"
in the footer on any WDIG page and selecting "Registration/Personalization" in the drop down box, or send an
e-mail directly to [email protected]. Please include
information in the e-mail that will help us identify your account so we can assist you with your inquiry or
request.
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Whom do I contact with questions or concerns about this privacy policy? |
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If you need further
assistance, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments to [email protected] or write us at:
Member Services
WDIG
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Mail Code 7716
Burbank, CA 91521-7716
Walt Disney Internet Group is
a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. If you believe that WDIG has not responded to your inquiry or your
inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact TRUSTe http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog.html.
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