Paramount is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Paramount website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Paramount website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Paramount collects and uses your personal information to operate the Paramount website and deliver any services you request. Paramount also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Paramount and its affiliates. Paramount may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Paramount does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Paramount may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Paramount may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Paramount, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Paramount does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. Paramount keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Paramount, in order to determine what Paramount services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Paramount to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Paramount websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Paramount or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Paramount; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Paramount, or the public.
The Paramount website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Paramount pages, or register with Paramount sites or services, a cookie helps Paramount to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Paramount website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the Paramount features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Paramount services or websites you visit.
Paramount secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Paramount secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Paramount collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Paramount also collects anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences,interests and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Paramount.This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names,access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Paramount for the operation of online services, to maintain quality of the services and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Paramount website. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Paramount public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Paramount does not read any of your private online communications. Paramount encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our site so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Paramount is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Paramount and Paramount family of websites.