General

The following privacy policy describes what information is collected by abcstlouis.com and how that information is used. This privacy policy is effective as of September 17, 2006 and will remain in effect until such date as the policy may be modified by abcstlouis.com in its sole and absolute discretion. Any such changes will be posted on the abcstlouis.com website. Your use of the abcstlouis.com web site constitutes your agreement to the privacy policy as in effect at that time.

No Postings by Children

abcstlouis.com does not knowingly collect information from any individuals under the age of 13, and all children under the age of 13 are hereby notified that they are not permitted to post any information on abcstlouis.com. If we become aware of any video submissions or postings by children under the age of 13, that video/posting will be removed by abcstlouis.com. In addition, certain areas abcstlouis.com are intended for mature audiences only. Parents and guardians should carefully monitor the use of abcstlouis.com by children.

Information abcstlouis.com Collects

The only personally identifying information abcstlouis.com intentionally collects from users who submit video on abcstlouis.com are those users' e-mail addresses. Addition personal information may unintentionally be collected if such information is provided in a video or if included in any correspondence sent to abcstlouis.com. Personal information included in a video submission or posting is by its nature available to the general public and no such information should be posted by any user who desires to keep it private. abcstlouis.com is not responsible for any use which may be made of such information by any third party.

Like most major websites, abcstlouis.com uses “cookies.” A “cookie” is a small piece of text that a web server stores on your computer in order to make your experience better upon return visits to that website. For example, _ abcstlouis.com uses a cookie to allow you to bypass the abcstlouis.com home page and instead start on your local page each time you enter abcstlouis.com into your Internet browser. In addition abcstlouis.com uses cookies to aggregate information about our users to allow us to see how our visitors navigate the site in order to make improvements in the site's design. Cookies are not a program and do not allow us to access any information on your computer other than the information that we initially placed there.

In addition, we have web logs which collect standard information each time we serve a page on the abcstlouis.com site. The web logs provide abcstlouis.com with information on our users Internet protocol addresses, the pages of abcstlouis.com visited and a date and time stamp. This information allows us to administer the website and identify how it is being used.

Maintenance of Information

All videos and postings on the abcstlouis.com website may be stored in our database even after the videos and/or postings have been deleted from public display. In addition, our web logs may be stored indefinitely. Although we use customary practices to store all information received from our users in a secure operating environment that is not available to general public, no guarantee can be provided that such information might not become available to persons outside of abcstlouis.com.

Disclosure of Information

All personal information collected by abcstlouis.com may be disclosed as required by law, by the rules of any governmental agency of if abcstlouis.com otherwise becomes legally compelled (by oral questions, interrogatories, requests for information or documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or similar process). abcstlouis.com may also disclose such information as it deems necessary to enforce its rights, to ensure compliance with abcstlouis.com's Terms and Conditions and to avoid the violation of any party's rights (including intellectual property rights, rights to privacy and rights not to be defamed in any way). Information may also be disclosed by abcstlouis.com to law enforcement officers or others if abcstlouis.com determines, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights and safety of abcstlouis.com's employees, users and/or the public at large.

Linked Sites

As a courtesy to its users, abcstlouis.com allows postings which include links to other sites. abcstlouis.com has no control over such other sites and is not responsible for any content on such linked sites or for the use by such other sites of any information collected by those sites.