Your privacy preferences regarding this website and as our customer are important to us. The policy of ABS-CBN International and its Web sites at abs-cbni.com and other URLs that display a direct link to this Privacy Policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
In order for you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of the information, we’ve prepared this privacy statement that discloses what information we gather, how we use and share it, and how to correct or change it. We reserve the right to revise this privacy policy upon reasonable notice on this Web site.

GATHERING INFORMATION
From subscribers to The Filipino Channel and other broadcasting packages, we collect account-related information and other personal data such as the following: Name, home and work address (street, city, state, zip), home and work telephone numbers (landline and/or mobile phone), gender, marital status, occupation, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, social security numbers, credit card information and cable tv provider.

From website visitors who subscribe to sites or services, we ask for personal information, including your name, e-mail address, home and work address (street, city, state, zip), home and work telephone numbers (landline and/or mobile phone), credit card information and/or other data that enables the recipient to personally identify you during the registration process for subscription to the site or services offered in this site.

Also, we use the IP addresses of Web site users to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web sites. We also use it to gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide profiles, in aggregate form, about our users and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. We may share this composite information with our advertisers to help them better understand our services.

We also collect some information about you using technology (called cookies), so it may not be readily apparent to you that it is being collected. These pieces of information allow the Web site to remember important information that will make your use of that site more useful. You can disable or reject cookies in your Web Browser settings, but this may adversely affect your ability to view and use our Web sites.

We also gather information about users through optional, voluntary participation in message boards and quick polls, and from consumers who subscribe to TFC or any of our other services online and purchase goods from the Starry Starry Store.

USE OF THE INFORMATION
We use your information to deliver products, services and information to you, to contact you, to inform you of changes to our terms and conditions and of other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. We also use your information to improve our offerings and for other legitimate business purposes.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
We may share your information with affiliated companies such as ABS-CBN Telecom North America, ABS-CBN Global Limited, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation and ABS-CBN Interactive in order to notify you of product offerings and promotions from our affiliates that may be interesting to you, to compare and update information, and for other legitimate business reasons.
We are not in the business of selling or renting your information to telemarketers and do not share your information with unaffiliated companies, except as follows:
• We may share your information with trusted third parties service providers and other business partners, which we engage and obligate to process your data only on our behalf or on behalf of joint purposes, e.g., in support of delivering information, products or services to you.
• We may share your information as required or permitted by law, e.g., without limitation, in connection with requests from law enforcement officials, court orders or in situations where we need to share your information in order to exercise or pursue our rights.
• We may also perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure relative consumer interest on various services (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many have responded to an advertisement and seen or “clicked” on their advertising banner. In performance of these statistical analyses, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form.
• We may share or transfer your information in connection with a prospective or actual sale, merger, transfer or other reorganization of all or parts of our business.
• In addition to the above exceptions, we may share your information, after giving you notice and an opportunity to opt out, with other trusted third parties, which would use and share your information in accordance with their own policies and for their own purposes.

OPT-OUT POLICY AND PRIVACY PREFERENCES
In connection with certain specific promotions, joint campaigns with selected partners or other projects, we may ask you specifically whether you have objections against a certain kind of data use or sharing. If you opt-out under such circumstances, we will respect your decision.
In general, if you send an email to privacypreferences@abs-cbni.com with the words “Minimize Data Use and Sharing” in the subject header and your full name, address and TFC Direct account number (if any) in the message text, then we will mark your account accordingly and use and share your data only as reasonably necessary with regard to delivery and billing for products, services and information that you specifically requested or ordered, and we will otherwise minimize any usage and sharing of your data. We may still rely on some of the exceptions listed in the paragraph on ‘Sharing the Information’ in individual instances, but will try to limit data usage and sharing as much as reasonably possible. Please note that our affiliates have their own data privacy policies, which may differ from ours.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of ABS-CBN International who are California residents to request certain standard information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes (including a list of categories of data disclosed in the previous calendar year and names and addresses of data recipients). To make such a request, please send an email to Californiaprivacyrights@abs-cbni.com or write us: ABS-CBN International, Attention: California Privacy Rights Administrator, 859 Cowan Road, Burlingame, CA 94010.

UPDATING AND CORRECTING DATA
Please notify us by email to datacorrection@abs-cbni.com of any changes or errors related to any of your data that we have on file. Upon receipt of such requests, we will update our files within thirty (30) days.

OTHER PRIVACY ISSUES AND CONCERNS
We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure. However, communications over the Internet are never one hundred percent safe. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of Web sites to which we may link. And, please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online—for example, on message boards, through email or in chat area—that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Furthermore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

EFFECTIVE DATE AND CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This policy becomes effective on April 1, 2005. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by posting a new version of this privacy policy on our website. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the privacy policy. If you have questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site or your dealings with us, you can contact us by email at privacypreferences@abs-cbni.com or by regular mail to ABS-CBN International, Attention: Privacy Preference Administrator, 859 Cowan Road, Burlingame, CA 94010.