Updated: September 2007
On-Line Registration

This policy tells you how we collect information from you on-line, how we protect it and how we use it. The Walt Disney Internet Group, a business division of The Walt Disney Company Limited (a company incorporated in England), controls all personal information which you provide online unless otherwise specified on the website, where a different Privacy Policy will be displayed.

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We will collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways including when you register on the website, enter competitions, navigate around our websites and respond to communications from us. This Privacy Policy explains how the above mentioned company and other companies within the Disney Group collect, record and use information about you and the choices you can make about how the information is collected and used. The clicking of the “Register” button during your initial registration with our website will indicate your consent to this Privacy Policy.

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This information may be used for marketing and market research purposes, to provide and personalise our service, to inform you if you are a winner of a competition and what prizes you have won and to send you newsletters and information about other exciting events happening in the world of Disney and about Disney related products and services. When you register on line you will be given the option to receive marketing information. Where we have obtained your consent we may use your information to market our own goods and services, services on behalf of selected third parties, and disclose the information to other organisations who we are working with in co-branding activities or other carefully selected third parties who may market directly to you. Your participation in our marketing activities is voluntary and you can change your marketing preferences or opt out from receiving further marketing at any time. Details on how to do this are set out below. In order to ensure that any marketing which we provide to you is likely to be of interest to you, we may use information collected about you from (i) a variety of technical methods such as cookies and web beacons (see section on “Use of Cookies” for further information); (ii) household classification data (iii) your responses to communications from us ; (iv) your interaction with other parts of Disney Group and (v) customer surveys. This personal information may be used by The Walt Disney Company Limited and other members of the Disney Group worldwide. As used in this Privacy Policy the Disney Group includes The Walt Disney Company Limited and all of its subsidiary and affiliated entities, including companies such as those branded under Buena Vista, ABC and ESPN labels that generally do not offer their products and services under the “Disney” brand name, as well as companies that generally do offer their products and services under the “Disney” brand name. The Walt Disney Company Limited (including its subsidiaries) is a member of the Disney Group, and is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “we”, “us”, “our” and “ourselves”. Wherever your information is processed by the Disney Group, we will ensure that it is protected appropriately. We will only pass on your information to third parties in the following situations: if this was clearly stated at the time of collection or registration and, where required, if you have given permission for this; If we employ another organisation to perform tasks on our behalf – such as delivering goods to you. In this case, the organisations may only use your information to fulfil this specific task; If we sell the business of some of the Disney group of companies to another organisation or merge with other businesses. In this case, the buyer will only be able to use your information as set out in this Privacy Policy; If we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary for legal proceedings. We may also disclose member information when we believe in good faith that applicable law or regulation requires it. If we use third party processors to administer and process for the purposes notified in the Privacy Policy. We may also share details with third parties (such as auditors or legal advisors) to obtain advice. Any such processing will be governed by an agreement in the form required by law, preserving any statutory data protection rights. International Transfer As the Disney Group operates globally, it may be necessary to transfer your information internationally, and in particular your information may either be stored on the servers of the Walt Disney Company Limited in the UK or transferred to the Buena Vista Internet Group (part of the Disney Group) in Burbank, California for maintenance purposes, and stored on its servers in the US. Buena Vista Internet Group (“ BVIG”) will adhere to the "Safe Harbour Principles" officially declared by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection as compared to the data protection laws of the European Union countries, before your information is stored in its servers, and BVIG will adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy . Please be assured that we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.

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We encourage parents and guardians to spend time on-line with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on these websites. If you are a child (a person who is not of legal age to give consent to the collection and processing of their data) and want to register with us, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to register, confirm you have permission to register and provide an email address for the parent or guardian. We will then send a message to your parent that you have registered on the website and depending on your age and location may also ask your parent to confirm consent to the registration. If you have indicated that you would like to receive additional Disney material ( only available to specified age groups as indicated when you register ) , then where required we will also ask your parent for consent . No information should be submitted to or posted to Disney or any Disney affiliate without consent of the relevant parent or guardian.

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If you register with us, you will receive an e-mail either confirming your registration or asking you to confirm your registration (depending on your location). You can ask us to modify or remove your personal information from any or all of our mailing lists at any time by clicking on the Register link under the ‘Contact Us’ menu on Disney.co.uk. We will only send e-mail and text messages to you if you have given us express permission to do so. In addition you will also be able to unsubscribe from email communications via unsubscribe links in those emails. You may be given the opportunity to submit information about other people to enable them to receive information on our products or services. You must obtain permission from such other people prior to submitting their information to us. The types of information that are collected about other people include: recipient's first and last name, phone number, address, e-mail address, and interests.

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We collect information through technology to make our websites more interesting and useful to you. For instance, when you come to one of our websites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is often associated with the portal through which you enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet service provider), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. At times, we also use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our websites. We may combine this information with personally identifiable information. Our websites use a variety of technical methods for tracking purposes, including cookies and web beacons. . Cookies are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. We and other companies use cookies for a variety of purposes including tracking usage on our websites in order to enhance our guests’ experience on our Websites. For instance, when you return to one of our websites after logging in, cookies provide information to the website so that the website will remember who you are (“visitor session information”). You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your Web experience smoother, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services will not function properly. We may use cookies to analyse the traffic patterns on our websites, such as the frequency which our users visit various parts of our websites. . Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites. We also use these technical methods to analyse the traffic patterns on our websites, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our websites. We may combine your visitor session information or other information collected through cookies, web beacons and other technical methods with personally identifiable information in order to understand and improve your online experiences and to determine what products, promotions and services are likely to be of interest to you. We also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send our guests for a number of purposes including: to determine whether our guests have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails; to customise the display of the banner advertisements and other messages after a guest has closed an email; and to determine whether a guest has made an enquiry or purchase in response to a particular email.. Cookies, web beacons and other technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorised by us to collect information on our behalf. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable. You may get cookies from our advertisers. We do not control these cookies, and once you have clicked on the advertisement and left our websites our Privacy Policy no longer applies.

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You should be aware that when you are on our websites you could be directed to other websites where the personal information collected is outside the control of the Walt Disney Company Limited. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or a Disney search result the click may take you off the Disney website. The privacy policy of the new website will govern the information obtained from you on such website.

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We may change this policy and our terms and conditions from time to time and will post the latest version of the privacy policy on the Disney website. If we ever wish to use your personal information in a way which is incompatible with the information in this Privacy Policy, we will only do so with your consent.

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If you have queries about our use of personal information, you can write to us at The Walt Disney Internet Group Technical Operations , The Walt Disney Company Limited , London W6 9PE, England or send an e-mail to customer.support.london@disney.co.uk.

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