Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Winstar Interactive we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- 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.
Mission Media Services Inc. (DBA “Winstar Interactive”) operates winstarinteractive.com. It is Winstar Interactive’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we or our partner platforms may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Winstar Interactive 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. Winstar Interactive’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Winstar Interactive’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Winstar Interactive may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Winstar Interactive also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Winstar Interactive 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 Winstar Interactive’s websites choose to interact with Winstar Interactive in ways that require Winstar Interactive to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Winstar Interactive gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to be contacted via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Winstar Interactive collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Winstar Interactive. Winstar Interactive 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
Winstar Interactive may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Winstar Interactive may monitor the most popular pages on the winstarinteractive.com site or use spam screened to help identify spam. Winstar Interactive may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Winstar Interactive does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Winstar Interactive 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 Winstar Interactive’s behalf or to provide services available at Winstar Interactive website, 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 Winstar Interactive’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Winstar Interactive 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, Winstar Interactive discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Winstar Interactive believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Winstar Interactive, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Winstar Interactive website and have supplied your email address, Winstar Interactive 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 Winstar Interactive and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs 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 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. Winstar Interactive 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. Winstar Interactive uses cookies to help Winstar Interactive identify and track visitors, their usage of Winstar Interactive website, and their website access preferences. Winstar Interactive visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Winstar Interactive website, with the drawback that certain features of Winstar Interactive’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Winstar Interactive, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Winstar Interactive goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, 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 Winstar Interactive may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites 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 Winstar Interactive and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Your Choices
There are many ways to opt out of receiving targeted advertising that our clients may facilitate using our partner platforms or other technology. Different devices use different technologies and identifiers, so users must separately opt-out from each browser and device. Once you opt out of targeted advertising, your personal information will no longer be processed for target advertising on that device or browser.
Mobile Apps and Location Data
Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt-out of the use of information regarding the apps that you use for targeted advertising. You may opt-out to the collection of location information by specific apps or from your entire device at any time by changing your preferences on your mobile device. For more information regarding your preferences and options, please see the link found here HTTP://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice and in the cookies, tracking. and interest-based advertising section below.
Cookies, Tracking, and Interest-Based/Targeted Advertising
If you would like to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Further information on cookies is available at, www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting cookies or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of sites or some of its functionality may be affected.
For clarity, cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out of. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. Additionally, if you opt-out on one of our devices, that opt-out may not be effective on all your devices. You must separately opt-out on each device.
Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on some mobile services. Users may opt out of certain advertisements on mobile applications or reset advertising identifiers via their device settings. To learn how to limit ad tracking or reset the advertising identifier on your iOS and Android device, click on the following links:
iOS – https://support.appple.com/en-us/HT202074
Android – https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
You may also download and set your preferences on the DAA’s App Choices mobile applications provided by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) available on Google Play or Apple App stores to opt-out of behavioral advertising from DAA members.
Do Not Track
Some browsers have a “do not track” (also known as DNT) feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Please note that, unless required by law, we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers. However, we treat Global Privacy signals as opt-out of sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising requests under th California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act, and as opt-out of processing for targetted advertising requests under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
Subject to local law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include, depending on circumstances, the rights to access your personal information, rectify the information we hold about you, erase your personal information, restrict our use of your personal information, object to our use of your personal information, receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party (right to data portability), receive additional information regarding the sources from which we collect and share personal information, the information of yours we hold, and the categories of parties with whom we share your information, lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, and withdraw any consent you have given.
California residents should consult the “California Privacy Rights” CCPA for more information about their rights and additional disclosures. You may exercise your rights without fear of being denied goods or services. We may, however, provide a different level of service or charge a different rate as permitted by applicable law.
If you are a registered user of our partner platforms, you can access your personal account information and make changes through your account.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Winstar Interactive may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Winstar Interactive’s sole discretion. Winstar Interactive 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.