Welcome to MovieDost, an online community for movie fans where users can setup a profile with all of their favorite movies connect their profile with friends and meet new people with similar taste. MovieDost knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously.
This privacy policy details important personal information regarding the use and disclosure of user and/ or member information collected on the Site. MovieDost provides this privacy policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or discontinue using the Site.
This privacy policy is incorporated into and is subject to the MovieDost Terms of Use. Your use of the MovieDost Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remains subject to the
terms of this privacy policy and our Terms of Use.
Please note that any video, image, comment or other content posted on the Site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information which is subject to this privacy notice.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the MovieDost website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. You can end your membership with MovieDost at any time
Information collected from users:
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you. We collect the following types of information from our users:
1. Information You Provide to Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:
Registration: In order for you to use MovieDost services, such as submitting new links to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address.
2. Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. MovieDost automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, MovieDost cookie information, and the page you requested. MovieDost uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
MovieDost may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
Social sharing of data: MovieDost allows other users to browse stories that you have dugg, submitted, blogged, or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile (MovieDost.com/users/username), on the MovieDost spy page (MovieDost.com/spy) or within the permalink URL of the story in which you performed the action on. MovieDost may choose to post this data on other site features in the future.
Profile information: MovieDost allows other users to browse your full name, location, and instant messaging URL, within your member profile should you provide this optional information.
Syndication: MovieDost allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.
Friends Data: Much like other social services MovieDost allows non-friends to browse through your friends activities (MovieDost.com/users/usersname/friends).
API: MovieDost will allow 3rd parties access to all MovieDost data this is already publicly available through MovieDost.com. MovieDost will forever keep private passwords and blog settings.
Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While MovieDost will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
3. COOKIES:
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. MovieDost cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of MovieDost's most attractive features.
- Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
4. Security:
- Your MovieDost account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
- Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
By default, we will send you weekly updates of various site information including new movies or quizzes of the week, a variety of transactional emails such as when users post comments to your profile and the occasional site announcement.
You have full control regarding which of these emails you want to receive. To change your options, simply click "My Account" at the top right corner of any page.
Special note to international users / members:
MovieDost is hosted in India and is intended for and directed to users / members in India. If you are a user / member accessing the MovieDost Site from any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, protection and disclosure, that differ from Indian laws, please be advised that through your use of the MovieDost Site, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to India and you consent to that transfer. We will only be complying with the legal provisions on the subject matter as applicable in India from time to time
If you believe that any content on the Site infringes your copyrights, please contact the Company's copyright agent, who can be reached as follows:
By mail: ATTN: MovieDost.com, 405 HUDA Maitrivanam, S.R. Nagar, Hyderabad, 500038
By e-mail: 
Invite your friends to MovieDost:
MovieDost is intended to be a place to share movie ratings and reviews with friends. We hope you will like the site and invite others to join you!
Inviting friends to MovieDost is always completely optional. When you choose to invite friends, we will send an email to the addresses you enter indicating that it is a message from you. We will share your name and email address with anyone you invite so that they know who the invitation is coming from. If a friend does not respond to the initial invitation after a little while, we will send up to two reminder messages on your behalf.
For your convenience, MovieDost offers the ability to import email addresses from common address books such as Yahoo/Gmail/AOL. If you choose to use this feature, we will access your address book using the login details that you provide. We access your address book only once to retrieve your friends' information so that you may select whom to invite. We do not store your login details nor do we use them for any other purpose then to retrieve your contacts. We never send invitations to contacts you do not explicitly select and your invitations are the only email we will ever send to your friends unless they register to join the site.
If you have accidentally sent invitations you did not intend - please contact us and we can cancel the reminder message.
Edit your profile:
You can review and revise your personal profile at any time.
Eligibility:
Children under the age of thirteen (13) are not eligible to use our service. If we become aware that any user is under the age of 13, we cancel their account and delete all of their personal information.
Acquisition or business transfer:
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a merger, acquisition or reorganization of ownership of MovieDost. It is possible that an acquiring company may materially change this privacy policy
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