Introduction
Any reference to "we", "us" and "our" is to Ariana Television Network. Please see below for our contact details. Any reference to “you” or “your”, means you as user of the http://www.arianatelevision.com/ (the "Website").
Ariana Television Network is committed to protecting your privacy. This page sets out our privacy policy and explains how your personal information (meaning any information about you which is personally identifiable like your name, address, telephone number or email address, generally referred to throughout this policy as "personal information") will be used.
This privacy policy only applies to the collection of your personal information by us and the use of that personal information by us and those whom we authorise. It does not cover third party websites to which we provide links, nor does it cover advertisers. They may have their own privacy policies and/or terms and conditions of use.
By accessing and continuing to use the website, you accept the terms of
this privacy policy. Please note that we may update and amend the
privacy policy from time to time and any changes will be posted on the
Website. If you do not agree with any of our privacy policy then you
should not use the Website.
What information do we hold about you and how is it collected?
When you register for various services on the website or when you
otherwise update your registration details, personal information is
collected by us. You may also be asked to provide personal information
when buying or subscribing for content from us via the website.
In addition, in common with many other online services, we may use
"cookies" or other devices to store and sometimes track information
about you (see section entitled "Cookies" below).
We may also collect personal information: when you make a complaint or
enquiry or provide other feedback to us; when you submit an entry to a
competition or prize draw; when you request to be sent communications
such as updates or newsletters; in monitoring your communications sent
via and use of the website to ensure and check compliance with the Terms
of Use; and/or otherwise as required by law; and when you disclose your
personal information to us or otherwise through the website at any
other point.
How do we use information about you?
We use information about you to help us provide you with a more
personalised service which is tailored to suit your needs.
Your personal information may be used by us to:
- monitor, develop and improve the website, services and your
experience;
- assist in and administer the provision of services to you;
- process and deal with any complaints or enquiries made by or about
you;
- investigate any suspected breach of the Terms of Use or the breach of
other terms and conditions otherwise relating to you and to monitor
compliance including by way of checking postings or submissions to the
website, retaining forum or chat room exchanges and using keyword
triggers to investigate usage that may be inappropriate; and/or
- where you are a prize winner, to administer the competition prize and
to publish or otherwise make available a list of prize winners.
Amending your information
Where you register your details for certain services (such as our weekly
newsletter) and open a user account that you can then use to access and
log on to use those services. You may change or update your user name
and password or other details at any time via your account. You must
make sure that you update details as soon as possible with any and all
relevant changes.
Cookies and other such devices
A cookie is a small amount of data sent from our server and stored on
your computer's hard drive.
We use cookies and other such devices to compile anonymous, aggregated
statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website and to
help us improve the structure of our website (we cannot identify you
personally in this way). We use cookies and other such devices to allow
us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements on the
website, to determine how frequently particular such pages and
advertisements are visited, to determine the most popular areas of the
website and generally in order to monitor usage of the website.
We may also use cookies and other such devices:
- to allow you to carry information across pages of our website and
avoid having to re-enter information;
- within registration to allow you to access stored information;
- to help us recognise you as a unique visitor when you return to our
website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match
your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts
repeatedly;
- within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a
questionnaire too often or after you have already done so; and/or
- to gather aggregate non personal data to help us improve the services
to you. We will also use aggregate non personal data to track the
success of any advertising campaigns on our website and/or to provide to
third parties anonymised demographic data provided by you to target
advertising more appropriately.
Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies, but
you can set your browser to refuse a cookie or ask your browser to show
you where a cookie has been set up. Certain services are only activated
by the presence of a cookie and, if you choose to refuse cookies,
particular features of this Website may not be available to you.
Will we share your information with third parties?
We may pass your information to other parties as follows:
- where relevant, your user name and information you voluntarily provide
in your profile that you register with us will be published on areas of
the website such as forums, chat rooms or pages where user submissions
are displayed and this will be the identity by which you are known on
those areas. Where other users wish to chat or otherwise contact you,
they will be able to identify you by your user name and any other
information you may yourself disclose via the website;
- we may pass your personal information to our employees, contractors,
suppliers and/or agents to administer the services provided to you by us
now or in the future;
- If you call our customer care call center, we may pass your personal
information to our call center to allow them to deal with your call more
efficiently;
- some general statistical information about the website user base,
sales patterns, traffic volumes and related matters may be passed on to
reputable third parties but these details will not include information
personally identifying you; and
- we may disclose your personal information to the police, regulatory
bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence
or suspected breach of the Term of Use and or the breach of other terms
and conditions otherwise relating to you or otherwise where required by
law and we will co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or
court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of or
locate anyone breaching these Term of Use or otherwise for the
prevention or detection of crime or the apprehension or prosecution of
offenders.
ATN reserves the right to use any footage of a contestant to promote the
programme without having to pay the contestant anything in return.
We do not pass or sell your personal information to third persons for
any other purpose than those set out above. Any marketing referred to in
the section entitled "How do we use information about you?" is
conducted by us on behalf of third parties and they do not have any
access to your data unless you yourself choose to contact them.
Always think carefully before disclosing your personal information or
other information to other users of the website or otherwise posting
your personal information on the website. It is important that you are
aware that any of your personal information or other information which
you disclose to another user may then be disclosed on the website by
that user. We have no responsibility or control over the contents of
communications made between users of the website.
Security and how do we protect your information?
We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal
information. Where possible we use industry-standard technology to allow
for the encryption of sensitive information.
Contact details
You can email us with any questions, queries or complaints at
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Ariana Television Network, Darul Aman Road, Kabul Afghanistan
