Privacy Notice

Black Bear TV is committed to protecting and preserving your privacy. This Privacy Notice, together with our Terms of Use [insert hyperlink], sets out the basis on which any information we use and share, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. By using bbtvops.com (the “Site” or Black Bear TV) or interacting with Black Bear TV in any other way, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information Does Black Bear TV Gather?

The information we gather helps us personalize and continually improve your experience. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us.When you register for Black Bear TV; purchase, view, or download certain content or products from Black Bear TV; register for or purchase access to the system; or otherwise use the features and functionality of the Black Bear TV, you may provide a variety of information about yourself to us, such as your name, username, email address, postal mailing address, telephone number, credit card number, and billing information. We do not process your credit card information, nor do we maintain or store such information. Third party payment processors process payments through our Site.

Automatic Information. When you access Black Bear TV or open one of our emails, we automatically record and store certain information about your system by using cookies and other types of technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your browser. Examples of such information we automatically collect include Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), a unique user ID, device and browser types and identifiers, referring and exit page addresses, software and system type, and information about your usage of Back Bear TV. For more informaiton on our use cookies and other tracking technologies, see section below, “How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.”

Information from Social Media

. Our Site uses social media plugins. Even without being a user of such social media websites, your IP-address is transmitted to the servers of the social media provider.

Below are specific examples of information we collect:

Information that We Collect

How We Use It

The Source of the Information

Personal identifiers

Account creation and purchases. We collect personal identifiers, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, username and password, date of birth, gender, and payment data, when you create an account or subscribe to our services, or when you use our services or interact with the Site.

Communications with us and submissions to the Site. We collect personal identifers, such as your name, email address, and other contact information, when you communicate with us, including when you email us, submit information through the Site, such as an inquiry to become an advertiser, and when you sign up to receive materials.

Events and programs. We may collect personal identifiers, such as your name, email address, and other contact information, that you provide when you register for or participate in our events or programs. Online communities and forums. We may collect personal identifiers when you engage with our online communities, blogs, chat rooms and forums, including any information you may provide through your interaction with or participation in our social media pages and groups. Please note that online forums and chat rooms may be publicly accessible, and other users may view information you post. We encourage you to exercise care in deciding what information and content you wish to disclose. BBTV subscribers and users.
If you are a user or subscriber of BBTV, we may collect personal identifiers consistent with the this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.

Directly from you, third party websites or platforms that collect payment, analytics tools, social media networks, and third party services that update or supplement information about you.

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.

Gender expression for the purpose of data filtering for the organization and game registration; medical condition such as injury status for event management.

Directly from you

Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Records of subscription agreement and games purchased.

Directly from you

Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

Cookies and other tracking technologies. Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), a unique user ID, device and browser types and identifiers, referring and exit page addresses, software and system type, and information about your usage of Back Bear TV. -mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, or similar data on certain parts of our Web site for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. We may also collect technical information to help us identify your device for fraud prevention and diagnostic purposes.

Your devices

Geolocation data. (not precise) *location may be determined by varying degrees from your IP address, WiFi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth-enabled devices

For analytic purposes

Your devices

Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

When we conduct analytics on how you use our Site and services. We may collect information from third parties and publicly-available sources.We may obtain certain data about you from third-party sources, or data aggregators, as well as publicly-available sources, in order to help us provide and improve the services and for marketing and advertising. We may combine personal identifiers with data we obtain from our Site or services, other users, or third parties to enhance your experience and improve the Site and our services.

Aggregate audience measurement information. For example, we will say a certain audience is x percent females and y percent males. This data is used to customize content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our users.

To customize content and share aggregate information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties.

Social Media handles, user IDs, and/or user name associated with Social Media Account

Social Media Networks. If you choose to sign up, log into, access, or otherwise connect to the Black Beat TV through a social media or other third-party account (e.g., Facebook) (“Social Media Network”), we may collect personal identifiers that you have provided to that social media network, such as your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media network, and any information or content you have permitted the social media network to share with us, as well as information you have made public in connection with your social media network account.
If you want to control or limit sharing data from social media networks, you should adjust the privacy settings on your social media network account.
If you choose to add your social media handle to your public facing profile.

Your devices

By giving a telephone number to us you agree that a representative of Black Bear TV can contact you at the number you provide, potentially using automated technology (including texts/SMS messaging) or a pre-recorded message. Your consent is not an obligation to receive any of our products and/or services.

How does Black Bear TV Use and Share the Information It Receives?

The information we maintain about our customers is primarily used to enable us to supply our services to you. Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we do not sell it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with parent companies that control us and subsidiaries that we control that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

Third-Party Service Providers

. We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy subsidiaries, business units or the entire business. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Black Bear TV or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Please be aware that we may transfer your personal information to the European Union or to another country where privacy standards may not be equivalent to those in your country.

Protection of Black Bear TV and Others. We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Black Bear TV, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

As Required or Permitted by Law. We may share your information with law enforcement pursuant to a valid legal request, as required or permitted by applicable law, court order or other governmental regulations.

With Your Consent. Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

How Do We Secure Your Information?

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. Nonetheless, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically on our Site, and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk.

We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company and/or payment processor during the processing.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your device. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared device.

What Choices Do I Have?

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such features as your account, wish lists and customer reviews.

You can add or update certain information on pages such as your account. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please contact us to adjust your communication preferences. To stop receiving marketing emails from us, you may choose to unsubscribe using the hyperlink in the email footer.

How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site and estimate visits and click-throughs. This helps us to provide you with an enjoyable experience when you browse our Site and allows us to improve our Site. By continuing to use the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. A “cookie” is a piece of text which asks permission to be placed on your device’s hard drive. Once you agree, this cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your device. They help us to improve our Site. They present the content from our Site in the most effective manner for you and your device. We also use cookies to aggregate user statistics and improve Site functionality.
If you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any Black Bear TV products and services that require you to sign in. We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

. These are cookies that are needed for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site, use a shopping cart.

Analytical/performance cookies

. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Our Service Providers

Additionally, our Site may also work with third-party products or services (“Service Providers”) to offer and present our Site to you. These Service Providers may include Google and other Service Providers who help us track and analyze our Site user activity (e.g. through Google Analytics).

Our Service Providers may get more information about your activity on our Site, including pages you visit, access times, visit duration, how you arrived at our Site and your IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies a device connected to the internet. For most devices, the IP address changes on at least a weekly basis. Our Service Providers may also get device identifiers and specific information about the browser you use. In some cases, this information may be unique to you.

Flash Cookies

We may use flash cookies on our Site. Flash cookies are small pieces of information stored and accessed by Adobe Flash. If you want to disable these flash cookies, you’ll need to open up the Adobe Settings Manager, accessible either by right-clicking flash content and clicking “Global Settings,” or by navigating directly to your storage settings through the Flash Website. There you can clear some or all your flash cookies manually through the Website Storage panel, or even turn off Flash Storage completely. However, please remember this could prevent some parts of our Site from working properly.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most internet browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change your browser preferences to block or restrict cookies if you do not want your web browsing activity tracked. Please note that some cookies are necessary for our Site to run and, as such, cannot be declined. However, such cookies do not collect any personal information. If you choose, you may use the

Digital Advertising Alliance

(DAA) Web Choices Tool to globally opt out of third-party tracking via website cookies. There are also a variety of other tools publicly available to manage cookies and similar technologies that collect information related to your use of our Site. To learn more about cookies and modifying your browser settings related to these cookies you can review guidance from the FTC.

We are not responsible for the effectiveness or compliance of third-party opt-out mechanisms or programs. Please note that if you remove your cookies or upgrade your browser after having opted out, you will need to opt out again. Your opt out is specific to the browser you are using and the device you use to access the Site. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices you will need to opt out on each browser or device. You can access the information on our Site without enabling cookies in your browser, but disabling cookies may result in a diminished ability to take advantage of the services and related informational content on our Site.

Third Party Websites

By accessing third party websites through our Site, you are consenting to the terms and privacy policies of those websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions to our Privacy Notice

If you choose to visit bbtvops.com or interact with Black Bear TV in any other way, your visit and interaction, and any dispute over privacy is subject to this notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law shall be the State of Maryland. If you have any concern about privacy at Black Bear TV, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the conditions of use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, but you should check our Site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

If we materially alter our Privacy Notice, we will let you know of such changes by posting a notice on our Site and/or contacting you at the e-mail address provided to us. Your continued use of the Site will be considered your agreement that your information may be used per the new notice. If you do not agree with the changes, then you should stop using the Site, and you should let us know that you do not want your information used per the changes.

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT

Black Bear TV is committed to respecting and protecting the legal rights of copyright owners. As such, Black Bear TV adheres to the following notice and take down policy, in full compliance with Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512 et seq.). If you believe any of the Content infringes upon your intellectual property rights, please submit a notification alleging such infringement (hereafter a “DMCA Takedown Notice”). To be valid, a DMCA Takedown Notice must (i) be provided to Black Bear TV’s designated agent, (“Copyright Agent”), as set forth below, and (ii) include the following: