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degree of entertainment attained irrespective of critical worth

hoopla.nu privacy policy


The privacy of our readers at hoopla.nu is important to us.

At hoopla.nu, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is some information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit hoopla.nu, and how we safeguard your information.

We will never sell your personal information to third parties.


Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.


Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include changing our content based on your preferences, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on hoopla.nu to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here for Google Adsense or here for Chitika.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in internet security programs. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into our forum.


Forums

Signing up for the hoopla.nu forum requires you to provide your email address. This information is kept to allow administration of the forum, and to notify you of any posts you are tracking if you request this. This information will not be released to third parties. Our forum uses cookies to enable log-in and other features.


Comments

We have just started using an external service to allow readers to comment after reading our reviews. This service is provided by JS-Kit.com and they maintain a Privacy Policy here which details the identifiable information they collect and how it is used. One of their features is the ability to maintain a reader profile across multiple participating websites, and this requires the use of cookies to allow recognition of your profile.


Competitions

From time to time we run competitions for movie passes and other small items here at hoopla.nu. This will usually be in cooperation with a film distribution company or a publicity company. As part of a competition, we may request your real name, home address and email address.

This information will not be provided to any third parties, except in the case of winners. If you win a competition, we may forward your personal information to the publicity or distribution company to allow them to send out your prize(s).


RSS to email

hoopla.nu has been using the RSS to email gateway at http://www.sendmerss.com for some time, however this service has now closed. We are now recommending the service supplied by 'Feed My Inbox'. This service means readers who don't use RSS feed aggregators can be notified of each new review at hoopla.nu via their email. Signing up to receive our feed through this service will require you to provide 'Feed My Inbox' your email address. In their privacy policy they detail the information they collect, and you can read it here.



If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or features at hoopla.nu that request your personal information, we welcome you contacting us. Please email us at admin at hoopla dot nu.

This privacy policy may be updated in the future. This privacy policy was last updated on 21st March 2009.
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