TheBetterReality.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Conrad L. Ricketts Productions Inc. and TheBetterReality.com (hereinafter, “TBR”) and its affiliates and subsidiaries treat personal information when you use the TBR Website.

 

Personal Information

Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos on the TBR Website without having a TBR Account.

Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on the TBR Website—like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos—require you to have a TBR Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a TBR Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use the TBR Website, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in the TBR Website (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

 

Uses

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the TBR Website, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the TBR Website, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the TBR Website and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the TBR Website may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, as further detailed and defined in the Terms of Use, found at http://www.thebetterreality.com/termsofuse and may be viewed by the general public.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major TBR Website changes or for customer service purposes).

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the TBR Website and to create new features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the TBR Website; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries and submissions.

 

Publicly Available Information:

Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos or send messages through the TBR Website. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments.

You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your channel page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, relationship status, or other details.

If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include your favorite videos, what videos you rated and what videos you have uploaded.

Any videos that you submit to the TBR Websites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels as further detailed and defined in the Terms of Use, found at http://www.thebetterreality.com/terms, and may be viewed by the general public.

 

Your Choices

You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through the TBR Website, in which case you can still view videos and explore the TBR Website, but certain services will not be available to you.

You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your TBR Profile Page.

You may control the information that is available to other Users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your channel page.