Asia in Cinema

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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Asia in Cinema we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (Almost all of the time we don’t.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is Asia in Cinema’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Asia in Cinema 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. Asia in Cinema’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Asia in Cinema’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Asia in Cinema may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Asia in Cinema currently doesn’t allow comments, but if we do, we would also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the blog. Asia in Cinema only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Asia in Cinema choose to interact with Asia in Cinema in ways that require Asia in Cinema to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Asia in Cinema gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we can potentially ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Asia in Cinema updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Asia in Cinema collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Asia in Cinema. Asia in Cinema 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

Asia in Cinema may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors. For instance,Asia in Cinema may monitor the most popular pages. Asia in Cinema may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Asia in Cinema does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Asia in Cinema 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 Asia in Cinema’s behalf or to provide services available at Asia in Cinema, 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 Asia in Cinema’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Asia in Cinema 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, Asia in Cinema discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Asia in Cinema believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Asia in Cinema, third parties or the public at large. If you become a registered user of Asia in Cinema at a later date and supply your email address, Asia in Cinema 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 Asia in Cinema. We currently don’t send out any e-mail or register users, but if we do, we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), 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. Asia in Cinema 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. The WordPress platform that Asia in Cinema runs on uses cookies to help Asia in Cinema identify and track visitors, their usage of Asia in Cinema, and their website access preferences. Asia in Cinema visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Asia in Cinema, with the drawback that certain features of Asia in Cinema may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Asia in Cinema, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Asia in Cinema goes out of business or enters bankruptcy (though we’re currently not a registered company), user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Asia in Cinema may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy. As Asia in Cinema is currently not a business, this is an extremely unlikely event.

Ads

Asia in Cinema currently doesn’t run any ads, but it can potentially happen in the future. Ads appearing on Asia in Cinema may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Asia in Cinema and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Asia in Cinema may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Asia in Cinema’s sole discretion. Asia in Cinema 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.