The Nightingale Company and Get Outta Town! Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is applicable to TheLinetv.net (thelinetv.net) and is provided here at thelinetv.net to inform you, the users and visitors of this website, how The Nightingale Company collects and uses your personal information when you visit our website. We respect the privacy of those who access, use and engage in thelinetv.net. The Nightingale Company reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Statement at any time by modifying this Privacy Statement from time to time. It is your responsibility to visit this Privacy Statement from time to time for any changes. Your continued use of thelinetv.net following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Statement constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

Our Privacy Statement will inform you of:

1. Who the Privacy Coordinator is at The Nightingale Company

2. What Personal Information is acquired from you

3. How we use your Personal Information

4. What ?Cookies? are and how they are used on the website

5. With whom your information is shared

6. How we protect the privacy of children
   

1. Who is the Privacy Coordinator?
   The Privacy Coordinator for The Nightingale Company and thelinetv.net is responsible for the company and website policies and practices, with respect to the management of personal information, and is the individual to whom complaints and inquires can be forwarded.

Debbie Nightingale
Privacy Coordinator
The Nightingale Company
588 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V1Y9

Tel. (416) 628-1355
Fax (416) 628-1505

2. What Personal Information is acquired from you
   We do not collect information that personally identifies individuals except when individuals provide such information on a voluntary basis. The following are some instances where we may collect personal information:
   

• where you have registered to gain access to all of the functionality, content and enhanced experience within the thelinetv.net website

• where you have subscribed to our Forum and/or Newsletter

• where you have provided your information to participate in a contest or other special activity
  

Personal information collected in the above mentioned circumstances may include your name, address, phone number, birth date and e-mail address.

Personal Information collected using a Username and Password system

We will collect only information that is voluntarily provided by the user and we will take reasonable precautions to ensure that such information will be kept strictly confidential. Individual information provided to access the website will not be sold or made available to a third party without your consent.

We may ask you to provide us with your personal information along with a username and password. These identifiers allow you to participate in various online activities while providing us with a means of contacting you in connection with a particular online activity.

There may be occasions where specific personal information is requested before an individual can enter certain sections of the thelinetv.net website. For example, registration is required for the user to maximize full use of the website and to access certain interactive areas and content. Registration helps us to keep in touch with dedicated users who wish to be informed of new enhancements, contests, new content and all other information that is relevant to the The Line and the thelinetv.net website.

If you do not use your username and password identifiers for a period of six (6) months, we may email you a notice advising you of such expiration. If you do not notify us that you wish to keep your username and password active, we may delete them from our database.

3. How we use your personal information

Personal information is only used by us for the purposes expressed at the time of collection or as described in this Privacy Statement.

If you have participated in an online activity, your personal information will only be used for the purposes of that online activity, unless you provide us with your consent to do otherwise. We may ask you for your consent to use your personal information for other purposes, for example, to send you a Newsletter for marketing and promotion purposes. We will only use this information for these purposes if you have provided us with consent by ?opting-in? on our online form.

Non-personal information may be extracted or compiled from the information we collect. This information may be used to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of the thelinetv.net website so as to improve design and navigation and to gather marketing information. Only aggregated data from these analyses, not individual data, will be used for this purpose.

You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose information within bulletin boards, forums and chat rooms, such as the ones included in thelinetv.net your personal and other information that you disclose will become public information and can be collected and used by outside parties. Such collection and use are beyond the control of The Nightingale Company.

4. What are ?Cookies? and how do we use them for www.getouttatown.tv

You should be aware that some non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by us through the use of so-called "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that identify your computer's browser when you enter a website. They enable the website to track your movements within your browser through the website and over your various sessions. By using cookies, a website can recognize you when you come back and then help you to access and use the website while tracking how you use the website, where you go and how long you stay. Our use of cookies on the thelinetv.net website is only for the purposes mentioned above and we will not use them to identify you or to track usage other than what takes place within the thelinetv.net website. Although you can disable cookies within your browser options, in so doing you may limit your experience or find that some areas of thelinetv.net may not be available to you.

5. With whom your information is shared

In some instances, we may use outside parties to administer contests, promotions and other online activities on our behalf, or to operate portions of the www.theline.tv website. This may require us allow outside parties to collect your personal information directly from you. We endeavor to associate only with parties who operate according to industry best-practices, however we cannot make any warranties or representations about the security of your personal information on behalf of any third party. We encourage you to review the outside party?s Privacy Statement.

There may also be instances in which we are required by law to disclose personal information without your consent. Such instances include emergency situations, or where required by governmental or other legal order. In such circumstances we will disclose your personal information as required by the applicable laws of any jurisdiction.

Other than as indicated above, we will not sell, rent, share or otherwise make available your personal information to any outside parties without your consent. In such a case, we will tell you for what purpose such information will be disclosed and we will ask for your consent to "opt-in". If you want to share your personal information, you will have to respond affirmatively. If you do not respond, by default, we will assume that you do not want to be involved and your information will not be sold, rented, shared with or otherwise made available to outside parties.

Third Party Advertising
Any advertising that appears on the thelinetv.net website is delivered to you by a third party partner specializing in online advertising. For these ads to be effective your visits to this website, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you.

6. How The Nightingale Company thelinetv.net protects the privacy of Children

We encourage and support the efforts of parents and legal guardians of children to monitor their children's internet usage and to caution them against providing personal information to any website without their permission. As such, during our registration process, users who identify themselves as under the age of thirteen will be prompted to obtain consent from a parent or legal guardian.