The Mashup Arts Management Team

Last Updated May 20, 2009

The Mashup Arts Privacy Policy describes how Mashup Arts treats personal information when you use Mashup Arts services.

You should have control over all your personal information.

Personal Information

Account-Related Activity. Certain activities on www.mashuparts.com - like uploading backgrounds, creative writing, photos, videos, posting comments, rating ingredients and mashups, or watching restricted mashups - require you to have a Mashup Arts Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Mashup Arts Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Usage Information. Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when and how you use mashuparts.com, the mashups you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on including UI elements, settings, and other information. If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (in ecards you designate as public, on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

Uses

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through www.mashuparts.com, we may use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of mashuparts.com, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

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-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes such as notifying you of major mashuparts.com site changes or for customer service purposes.

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 Mashup Arts site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

We use cookies, clear gifs, 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 Mashup Arts; (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 promotions, sweepstakes, and contests..

Information That is Publicly Available

When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of mashups you have watched.

You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users. This may include a profile picture, you name, gender, relationship status, or other details.

Any content that you submit to Mashup Arts may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Mashup Arts site, in which case you can still view content and explore the Mashup Arts site, but Mashup Arts may not be able to provide certain services to you, like creating your own Mashups, or sending Mashups to others..

You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your “My Account” profile page.

More Information

Mashup Arts 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. For more information about our privacy practices, write to us at:

Mashup Arts, Inc. Suite 1600, 67 Yonge Street
Toronto , Ontario, M5E 1J8
Canada

Email: Privacy@mashuparts.com

Tel: 416 865 1025
Fax: 416 865 0088