Privacy Policy
At GoFish, we recognize the importance of your privacy and we are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy describes how GoFish treats and uses information it collects when you use GoFish services and how we help you protect your privacy.
Because we have special concerns about the privacy of children under the age of 13, please do not use this Website unless you are at least 13 years old. GoFish blocks the registration of users with birthdays less than 13 years ago. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) provides special protection for children under the age of 13 and their parents. For more information about COPPA or children's privacy, please visit http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html.
Personal information
Personally identifiable information is information that can personally identify you, such as your name, your e-mail address and your postal address. Information that may be personal in nature, but cannot identify who you are, is not personally identifiable information. For example, your age and your favorite videos are personal information, but are not personally identifiable information because they cannot be used to identify you.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Registration. At the time you register with GoFish, the only personally identifiable information we ask for is your email address. This is so we may communicate with you. None of the other information we request, such as your birthday, gender, country where you live and your zip code, is personally identifiable. During the registration process, you are also asked to create a screen name and password. You should not use any personally identifiable information as your username, as it may be visible to others on the site.
Of course, you can watch videos on GoFish and use parts of the website without registering or having a GoFish account. Certain other activities—like uploading videos, posting comments or flagging videos—require you to register with GoFish. Whether or not you register with GoFish, we may collect information about your use of our site.
Promotions and Communications. We may ask you for information at other times, such as if you enter into a promotion, communicate with us or complete a survey. Depending on the nature of the request, the information we collect at that time may be personally identifiable. We will use it for the purposes of that special event or communication, and we may store it with your other information in order to learn more about what people like about our site and how they use it.
Site Management. In addition, we may collect information through technology to make our site more interesting and useful to you. For example, we gather general statistical information about our Website and visitors, such as IP addresses, browsers, pages viewed, etc. We use this data to track traffic patterns on the site and to learn how people are using our services or to enhance our site based on the usage pattern data we receive. We may also use this information to help diagnose problems with our server and to manage our Website. We may provide this statistical information to third parties, but when we do so we do not provide personally-identifying information about you without your permission.
We may record information about your usage, such as when you use GoFish, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in GoFish (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (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.
Delivering Information to You. We may use your information to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests or geographic location, such as targeted banners, new services and promotions. If you obtain goods or services provided by third party retailers or vendors, retail partners, or service providers linked from GoFish, we may exchange with the vendor personally-identified information about you for purposes of completing your transaction.
We may use your email address to contact you regarding notices and communications relevant to your use of the site. 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. We will not send you promotions or announcements unless you give us permission to do so. You can opt out of receiving such contact by so indicating in your registration/ preferences file. We may also use information to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our Terms of Use. We may disclose or access information whenever we believe in good faith that the law so requires or if we otherwise consider it necessary to do so to maintain service and improve our products and services. When you email a video to someone, we might store the recipient’s email address for our records, although we do not use this email address.
We do not sell, rent or otherwise use personally-identifying information collected during your use of our website without your permission, unless required to do so by law.
Cookies
Our site uses cookies, which are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. Cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. GoFish does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some GoFish features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Security
Your account information and profile are password-protected. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Our personnel will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. Remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished your session. This is to help ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place where others may have access to it.
No data transmission over the Internet or any network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. As a result, while we try to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Should you elect any opt-out feature, you may access your registration/preferences file at your GoFish.com member profile page.
How You Can Update, Correct or Delete Your Information
To update, correct or delete your information, you can make changes to your GoFish member profile. You may have your account deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in you not being able to access certain customized member services.
Children Under 13
If you are a child under age 13, please do not use the Website. While the Website registration requires agreement that you are not under thirteen, we have no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who access our Website. Parents of children under the age of 13 can request the deletion their child’s information and opt out of promotional opportunities by contacting GoFish at privacymatters@gofish.com or writing to us at:
GoFish Corporation
706 Mission St., 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA
94103
Third Party Practices
The Website may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by GoFish. Some of these Websites may belong to GoFish’s publisher’s network, but even these websites are independently owned and operated. These third party websites are typically subject to their own privacy policies, terms of use, and rules, independent of those of Gofish. These third party websites are not necessarily sanctioned, controlled or monitored by Gofish and GoFish has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party website.
GoFish encourages you to be aware when you leave the Website and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of the other websites that you visit before responding to any offer.
If you opt-in to receive information regarding a promotion, you give us your permission to share your e-mail address with the third party offering the promotion. We do not, however, control or have any responsibility for the privacy policies of such third parties.
In addition, third parties may have different privacy policies that apply to any transactions you pursue with them, such as the purchase and download of media files. Your interaction with third party retailers is separate from your interaction with GoFish, and is governed by the third party's privacy policy.
We use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. The third-party advertising technology that
we use on this Web site uses information derived from your visits to this site to
target advertising within this site. In
addition, our advertisers may use other third-party advertising technology to
target advertising on this site and other sites. In the course of advertisements being served
to you, a unique third-party cookie or cookies may be placed your browser. In addition, we may use Web beacons, provided
by third-party advertising companies, to help manage and optimize our online
advertising. Web beacons enable us to
recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this site, and to learn
which banner ads bring users to our Web site.
To “opt-out,” please click here.
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Bankruptcy
If GoFish should ever file for bankruptcy or merge with another company, or if GoFish should decide to buy another business or sell or reorganize part or all of GoFish’s business, GoFish may be required to disclose your information to prospective or actual purchasers and other parties. It is GoFish’s practice to obtain appropriate protections for information disclosed in these types of transactions.
Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacymatters@gofish.com or write us:
GoFish Corporation
706 Mission St., 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA
94103
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time at privacymatters@gofish.com.