Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 25/05/2018
1. General Information
Zonemedia Management Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 03290575 and its registered office at 33 Broadwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0DQ operates this Website (the “Services”) on behalf of AMC Networks International Channel Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 09576192 and its registered office at 33 Broadwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0DQ, (referred to here as “we,” “us” or “our”). In order to maximise your use of the Services and for us to focus marketing initiatives and further understand how people are using the Services, we collect, retain, use, and share information about you. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you (referred to here as “you,” “your” or “yourself”) about how and why we collect, manage, retain, use, and share information related to you and your use of the Services.
2. Type of Information We Collect
(a) Information Provided Directly by You
To access or use certain parts or features of the Services, you will be required to provide certain personal information.
This can consist of a combination of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, social media information, payment information, or date of birth. If you choose to not provide certain information, you may not be able to access or use certain parts or features of the Services. For example, if you do not provide your email address, you will not be able to register for email updates or newsletters; if you do not provide your name or other identifying information, we may not be able to respond to your inquiries or post your content; if you do not provide us with payment information, we will not be able to process your orders; and if you do not provide us with your username and password, you will not be able to access your online account.
(b) Information on How You Use Our Services
When you access our Services we will collect certain information automatically.
For example, when you access our Services, we collect information about your domain name and Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser version, cookie details, how long you stayed on a page, the route you took to navigate through the Services, the content you view, and the websites or other digital services that you visited prior to accessing our Services. These forms of information are automatically logged by our web server and are used by us and selected partners to analyse general activity on our Services. This information is not cross-referenced with any other information which may enable you to be identified as an individual.
We collect this information using cookies, which are small pieces of electronic information stored by your internet browser software on to your computer’s hard drive. We also use other tools to track usage of the Services, including web beacons, which are small pieces of data embedded in images on the Services. We use the information collected via these tools to understand which Content, User Content, marketing and advertisements, you have seen or accessed and to help us identify unique users to our Services. We use and access cookies to enable us to provide you with personalised Content, User Content and advertising so that we can customise areas of the Services based on your activities and inferred interests.
You may be able to have your browser warn you when a cookie is sent, and you may be able to turn off all cookies. You do this through your web browser settings. Each browser is different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that may improve your browsing, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services may not function properly.
Other technical methods including web beacons may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We may also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send to determine whether recipients have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. Please see our Cookies Policy for more information.
(c) Location information:
We collect different types of information about your location, including general information, such as the city, state and/or postal code associated with your IP Address, and, if you agree, more specific location information that is provided through the GPS functionality on mobile devices used to access the Services.
We may use such location information to customize the Services, including advertising that is presented to you. For example, if you provide a postal code that indicates that you live in a particular city, the Services may be customized with information, features, or advertisements specific to that city. In order to do this, your location information may be passed along to our affiliates, agents, vendors or advertisers, as described below.
If you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, do not agree to allow your device to share this information with us or disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this. Your device manufacturer may provide instructions on how to disable GPS or other location-tracking functions. If you initially consent to the collection of location information, you can subsequently stop our collection of location information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device or by uninstalling the application from your mobile device by following the standard uninstall process to remove applications from your device.
3. Additional Information Collection Practices
Some parts of the Services contain embedded content or links to content controlled by third parties. Those third parties may collect information about you when you access their content.
Should you choose to access such third-party content, you should review their privacy policies to ensure you understand and are comfortable with their practices concerning your information. We do not accept, and do disclaim, any responsibility for the privacy policies and information collection, use, and sharing practices of any third party website (whether or not such site is linked on or to the Sites). These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only, and you access them at your own risk.
We obtain information about you and your use of the Services from third parties like web hosting providers, analytics providers, social media platforms, data suppliers, and advertising services.
The information we collect in this manner includes your known or inferred age, gender, contact information, information about your demographics and interests, and information about the devices you use to access online services.
We may combine the information you provide us and information we automatically collect with information that we collect from public or third-party sources. Analytics providers and advertising services may analyze the information they collect from online and other sources to provide us with inferences information about your demographics and interests, such as your age range and the types of products or services that may interest you. You may give us permission to access your information, including personally identifiable information from services offered by third parties, including social media networks. For example, to access the Services, you may choose to login using your social media credentials, which allows us to obtain information from your social media account, such as your friends or contacts, profile picture, birthdate, gender, or other profile-related information and any other information you have opted to share via the platform. The information we obtain from such third party services depends on your account/privacy settings with those third parties and the third parties’ privacy policies.
We collect, store, use, and share the information we collect from third parties in accordance with this Policy.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to provide you with services in accord with the contracts we may have with you, to communicate with you, and to manage and improve our services, as permitted by applicable laws.
We use your personal information to:
- provide you with services so that we can meet our contractual obligations to you. If the services are not governed by a contract, we use your information to meet our business interests in providing quality services to you;
- respond to your requests for information, on the basis that it is in our business interests to respond to your requests, and you have requested that we do this;
- improve the Services and learn about how visitors use the Services . This is necessary for us to improve the services we offer through the Services, and benefits you as it helps us make the Services more usable and appealing;
- communicate with you about our products and services, including behavioral advertising, and providing you with information about features on the Services and possible changes to our Privacy Policy or terms of use. If required by applicable law, we will only send messages on the basis that you have consented, or otherwise it will be to meet our business interests in providing information to you about new products and features. You can opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
- communicate with you about third-party products and services that may be of interest to you, including via behavioral advertising. If required by applicable law, we will only send messages on the basis that you have consented, or otherwise it will be to meet our business interests in expanding our business opportunities and providing information to you about interesting products and services. You can opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
- make inferences about your interests, as necessary to meet our business interest in expanding our business opportunities and learning how to make our services more relevant to you and other uses;
- comply with legal obligations; and
- protect our rights, your rights, and the rights of others, as this may be necessary to meet our own high standards of business practice.
We may use aggregated and/or de-identified data or other data that does not constitute personal data under applicable laws for any purpose, including, without limitation, in statistical analyses to help us analyze patterns in the use of the Services.
When we analyze the personal information we collect for advertising, marketing, security, and fraud prevention, we use automated processes to identify or predict potential risks or outcomes.
For example, we may use the information you provide us and information about your online activities to infer your interests. And we use those inferences to support automated decisions about the content, recommendations, and offers we present to you on our digital properties. We use automated tools to identify suspicious activities associated with the Services (e.g., multiple logins from different locations within a short period of time). These automated processing activities will not, without human intervention, have legal or similar effects for you.
5. How We Share Information
We may disclose information when you ask us to do so or otherwise consent to the disclosure. If you would like to withdraw your consent that you may have provided, please use the mechanisms that may have been presented to you at the time we obtained your consent or contact us via the channels listed below.
We share information with third parties that act on our behalf in association with the operation of the Services or associated activities.
Except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise communicated to you, we take reasonable steps require these companies to collect, store, and use information about you only on our behalf and in accord with this Privacy Policy. Service providers include web hosting providers, email services, shipping providers, and data storage providers. We share personal information with service providers on the basis that it is necessary to meet our legitimate interests in efficiently managing our business and for developing future business.
We will share information about you with third parties when you engage in certain activities on the Services that are sponsored by third parties. For example, you may choose to purchase products or services offered by a third party or elect to receive information or communications from a third party. When you engage in such third-party, co-sponsored, or co-branded offerings, we may share information (e.g., your e-mail address) with third parties in association with the offerings. More
We disclose this information to third parties for the purposes and on the basis described above (see Section 4), for example, to process your transactions and to respond to your requests for information or communications from third parties.
We engage third-party analytics providers to help us understand how users engage with the Sites. These third parties may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Sites as well as information about your use of other websites over time.
The third-party services we use include, but may not be limited to: Google Analytics, Brightcove, NPAW and Adobe, which may provide you with choices about how they collect and use information. We share personal information with analytics providers on the basis that it is necessary to meet our legitimate interests in efficiently managing our business and for developing future business.
From time to time, we share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries, or with our other entities in connection with the purposes described in Section 4 above.
We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures:
- are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request;
- will help to protect our rights or enforce our Terms of Use;
- will support our detection, prevention, or response to fraud or intellectual property infringement;
- will help protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and
- will protect the safety and security of the Services, databases, and/or third parties, including the safety and security of tangible and/or intangible property that belongs to us or to third parties.
We may also share information about you to the extent reasonably necessary to proceed with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a merger, reorganization, or acquisition of our business, or a sale, liquidation, or transfer of some or all of our assets.
The above-described disclosures are provided on the basis that they are either necessary to comply with our legal obligations or they are necessary to meet our legitimate interests in managing our business efficiently and for developing future business.
Additionally, we reserve the right to share with third parties information that does not identify you (and cannot be combined with other information accessible to us to identify you) for any purpose.
6. Retention of Information
We will retain the information that identifies you as an individual for as long as we have a relationship with you and for a period after our relationship with you has ended.
When deciding how long to keep your personal information after our relationship with you has ended, we take into account how long we need to retain the information to fulfill the purposes described above and to comply with our legal obligations, including obligations to financial services regulators. We may also retain personal information to investigate or defend against potential legal claims in accordance with the limitation periods of countries where legal action may be brought.
7. Security
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect the information that we collect or receive. From time to time, we review and consider updates for our security procedures. Please be aware that, despite our ongoing efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
8. If You Are Under 18
If you are aged 18 or under you are not permitted to register on this Services or provide us with any personal information. You are otherwise entitled to use the Services with the permission of your parent or guardian.
9. Your Choices and Rights
If you no longer wish to receive marketing materials from us, you can let us know by contacting us at
DataPrivacy-uk@amcnetworks.com or by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link or using other unsubscribe features that we provide in our marketing communications.
Subject to local law, you may have certain additional rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the following rights to: access your personal information; rectify the information we hold about you; erase your personal information; restrict our use of your personal information; object to our use of your personal information (as described above); receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party (also known as the right of data portability); and lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, and withdraw any consent you have given to uses of your personal information. If you would like to discuss or exercise the rights you may have, feel free to contact us at DataPrivacy-uk@amcnetworks.com
10. Chatroom, Forums, Comments and User Content
We remind you that chat rooms, forums, comments and areas of our Services that allow you to submit User Content on our Services are for public viewing and discussion. Any personal information supplied by you in the public areas of the Services is widely accessible.
11. Where Is Information Processed?
We process information collected via the Services in and subject to the laws of the United Kingdom, which may not provide the same level protection for your information as your home country. In addition, we may transfer your information outside the United Kingdom to our affiliates, business partners, and service providers located in other countries, either in the European Union or outside.
In some cases, your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country that is not regarded as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal information under United Kingdom and/or European Union or other applicable laws. However, we have put in place appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses approved by the relevant authorities) in accordance with applicable legal requirements to ensure that your data is adequately protected. For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place or to obtain a copy, please contact us at
DataPrivacy-uk@amcnetworks.com
12. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change at any time, so you may wish to check it each time you visit our Services.
13. How to Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about our Policy, please contact us at: DataPrivacy-uk@amcnetworks.com
AMC Networks International Channel Limited,
C/O AMCNI – UK Data Protection Officer
111 Salusbury Road, London, NW6 6RG, United Kingdom
AMC Networks International – Iberia
C/O AMCNI European Data Protection Officer
Calle Saturno 1 – Pozuelo de Alarcon, 28224 Madrid, Spain