Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is part of a research project (see Rune Project) and is made available under the CC-by-4.0 license.

This privacy policy was derived from the policy provided by IMDb (archived copy available here)


IMDb knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting IMDb, or by visiting other properties operated by IMDb such as IMDbPro, Withoutabox, Box Office Mojo, and DPReview.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Users Does IMDb Gather?

The information we learn from users helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at IMDb. Here are the types of information we gather.

What About Cookies?

Does IMDb Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our users is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share user information with our parent corporation (Amazon.com, Inc.), the subsidiaries it controls, and as described below.


        
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What About Third-Party Advertisers?

Our site includes third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites .


        
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These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called "ad networks" or "network advertisers"), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.


        
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:IMDBPermission11 rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual ,
                           orcp:Permission ;
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                          :Use ;
                  :data :Cookies ,
                        :IPAddress ;
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                           :PersonalizeAdveritzing ,
                           :ThirdPartyAdvertisingAndLinks ;
                  :recipient :ThirdPartyAdvertisers ,
                             :ThirdPartyWebsites ;
                  :hasDataSubject :IMDBUser .
        
                                

IMDb also displays personalized third-party advertising based on personal information about users, such as information you submit to us about movies you own or have watched. Click here for more information about the personal information that we gather.


        
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                  :controller :IMDB ;
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Although IMDb does not provide any personal information to advertisers, advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized advertisement meet their criteria to personalize the ad (for example, users in the northwestern United States who bought, watched, or browsed for romantic comedies). If you do not want us to use information that we gather to allow third parties to personalize advertisements we display to you, please adjust your Advertising Preferences.


        
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###  http://example.com/privacy-policy-model/IMDBProhibition8
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                           orcp:Prohibition ;
                  orcp:constraint :IMDBConstraint3 .

###  http://example.com/privacy-policy-model/IMDBPermission13
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                  :purpose :PersonalizeAdveritzing .
        
                                

How Secure Is Information About Me?

If you use our subscription service, we work to protect the security of your subscription information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.


        
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                          orcp:Obligation ;
                 :action :TransmitViaNetwork ;
                 :controller :IMDB ;
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It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What Choices and Access Do I Have?

Children

IMDb is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, you may not submit information about yourself to IMDb.


        
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:IMDBProhibition6 rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual ,
                           orcp:Prohibition ;
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                  :data :PersonalInformation ;
                  :sender :ChildUser .
        
                                

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit IMDb, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms and Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington.

If you have any concern about privacy at IMDb, please send us a thorough description to our customer service team, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms and Conditions of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web 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. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Examples of Information Collected

Information You Give Us:

You provide most such information when you register, search, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with us. For example, you provide information when you search for a movie, actor or director; provide information in our registration form; communicate with us by phone ,e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; vote in a poll; provide movie reviews or information related to movies; participate in a discussion board; and employ our notification services. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, e-mail address, physical address, zip code, and phone number; your age and gender; the movies and actors you like or dislike; and your general movie preferences.


        
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                         :Store ,
                         :Use ;
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                       :MoviePreferences ,
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                       :ZipCode ;
                 :hasDataSubject :IMDBUser ;
                 :purpose :Communication ,
                          :Personalization ,
                          :UICustomization ;
                 orcp:uid "IMDB-permission-1" .
            
                                
Automatic Information:

Examples of the information we collectand analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; and pages you viewed or searched for. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), 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.


        
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                 :hasDataSubject :IMDBUser .
            
                                
Information from Other Sources:

Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information so that we can correct our records and deliver your next communication more easily.


        
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                         :Use ;
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