Privacy Policy

XcelerateTV Website Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 8, 2021

Xcelerate Media Group and its affiliate companies (“Xcelerate,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the way we handle your information when you use the XcelerateTV service through our XcelerateTV mobile applications or when you visit our website available at www.xceleratetv.com and other websites operated by Xcelerate (collectively, the “Service”).

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through the Service, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use [BR1] , confirm that you are not located outside the United States and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

Xcelerate collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include your name, credit card information, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, username, password and country of residence. This information is collected and stored electronically when you subscribe to XcelerateTV, post comments, use the Service’s contact us feature or otherwise provide it to us through the Service.

Information Collected Automatically

Information about your computer hardware and software may automatically be collected by Xcelerate when you use the Service. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, geographic location and other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information. We may also collect information about how you interact with the Service such as what pages you visit or what features you use. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Service, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain quality of the Service and to create general statistics regarding use of the Service. We may use cookies and other automated data collection tools to collect this information.

Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

Duration of Cookies. We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

Why do we use them? Cookies help us improve the Service by providing us with information about which parts of the Service are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Service, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools (such as web beacons and server logs) to help improve your experience with the Service. These tools use cookies to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Service (including IP address) is transmitted to our data collection tool service providers. This information is then used by us to evaluate visitors’ use of the Service and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Xcelerate. For example, we use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Service.If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google analytics, you may use Google’s analytics opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose.[ACN2]

How do I control cookies? Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Service.

How Information is Used

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

to provide the Service to you and to improve the Service;
to operate and improve our services, and to give each user a more consistent experience when interacting with us;
to provide customized and personalized viewing recommendations for videos we think will be of interest to you;
to provide you with promotional offers;
for customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Service;
to fulfil your requests, such as those related to subscriptions and payment; and
to communicate with you.

Sharing of Information

With Third Party Vendors Performing Services on Our Behalf. We may share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Service or assist us in providing functionality on the Service, provide data analyses for the Service or to send out email updates about the Service and information about our products and services.

For Promotional Offers. We may offer joint promotions or programs that, for your participation, will require us to share your information with our partner organizations. In fulfilling these types of promotions, we may share your name and other information in connection with fulfilling the incentive. Please note that these partner organizations are responsible for their own privacy practices.
For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
Changes of Control. We may transfer or assign information, including your personal information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, liquidation, change in control or other sale by or of us or any affiliated entity (in each case whether in whole or in part).

We may use personally identifiable information to create and share aggregated information that does not identify any individual with third parties for any lawful business purpose.

Your Choices

Account Information. You may update your account information or delete your account by going to your account settings.
Email. If you no longer want to receive certain communications from us via email, click the “unsubscribe” link in the email. Please note that you cannot unsubscribe from service-related correspondence from us, such as messages relating to your account transactions.

Links to External Websites

The Service may contain links to third party websites. Any access to and use of such third-party websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.

Security Used & Retention of Personal Information

Xcelerate uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Service and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information, however, the security of information transmitted over the internet cannot be guaranteed. We are not responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse of personal information that you provide to or through the Service, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents with whom we have an established business relationship are entitled to request and receive, free of charge, once per calendar year, information about certain personal information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses in the previous calendar year. To request a copy, please contact us at the email provided in the “How to Contact Us” section, below. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” law requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Do Not Track

The Service does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.

Children

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of thirteen. No parts of the Service are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.

Questions / Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to request changes to your personal information, please contact us at info@xceleratemg.com

Notification of Changes

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.

[BR1]Please hyperlink to Terms of Use once it is posted to the Service.

[ACN2]Internal Note: While Uscreen indicated it would not use cookies, it stated that Xcelerate may choose to do so. Accordingly, we have included these paragraphs providing users with information about cookies. If you plan on using Google Analytics as a tool to collect information on site usage, then this last sentence is required per the terms of service with Google. If Google Analytics will not be used, this last sentence should be removed.