USE OF INVISIBLE GIFS, THIRD PARTY RELATIONSHIPS AND ADVERTISING SERVERS
Use of Invisible Gifs
Invisible GIF's (also known as "single pixel tags" or "action tags," or "web bugs") may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our site relating to third party advertising and research services. We use this technology to access your personally identifiable information in accordance with the other sections of this privacy policy, and to compile aggregate data. This technology is used in our email messages that are delivered by a third party advertising service. This technology transfers your e-mail address to us so that we can associate your personally identifiable information with the elements (such as links, advertisements or graphics) that you click on a RealNetworks web page. We also use this technology to compile aggregate statistics about our website. Additionally, third party advertisers and research services may share aggregated and anonymous site statistics with RealNetworks regarding the web traffic patterns of web browsers that visit certain RN sites, whether through the use of Invisible GIFs or otherwise. If you are concerned about these practices, you may opt out from receiving cookies in your browser or you may visit the URLs listed below which direct you to the privacy policy page of RealNetworks' recent advertising service providers and instructs you how to opt out from their cookies or informs you of their cookie policy.
Relationships with Third Party Advertising Services
Advertisements displayed on RealNetworks Web sites or embedded in other media content provided by RealNetworks may be delivered via an advertising management service. When you view a web page on our web site that contains advertising provided one of our advertising management services, the advertising service company may place a cookie on or retrieve a cookie from your computer if you have enabled cookies. This cookie may uniquely designate your computer/browser, without containing any personally identifying information such as your name or e-mail address. RealNetworks does not intentionally provide any of your personally identifiable information to the advertising service without your permission or informed consent.
RealNetworks uses DoubleClick and other advertising services in order to serve ads on our web pages. Third party advertising services recently used by RealNetworks are listed below.
When you search for specific content on RealNetworks web sites, the search terms may be embedded in the "search string" that appears in the URL display window of your web browser. Certain advertising services or third party content providers may associate these search strings with cookies they set or retrieve from our pages.
While RealNetworks does not have access to cookies set by third parties on your hard drive, you may be concerned about the potential practices of advertising management services and wish to disable this functionality as follows:
You may opt out from receiving cookies in your browser if you do not wish to receive cookies from advertising servers. This is a current list of recent advertising service providers to RealNetworks and the URL link to the page of their privacy policy that instructs you how to opt out from their cookies or informs you about their cookies policy:
Because of the changing nature of our advertising service partners, RealNetworks cannot guarantee that the above list is complete. If you have concerns about a specific RealNetworks advertising service, please contact us at: http://forms.real.com/service/contact/privacy.html.
Information Collected When You Acquire Third Party Products
From time to time, RealNetworks enters into partnerships with other companies to provide you with the opportunity to sample or purchase a product or service that might be of interest to you. We also partner with other companies to offer plug-ins, products and services that enhance the experience of using a RealPlayer, RealJukebox or other RealNetworks product.
If you purchase a product or service developed or owned by another company, RealNetworks will seek your informed consent prior to giving that company information you provide to us. We will never sell, rent or disclose to third parties our customers' personally identifiable information collected from the distribution of RealNetworks products or gathered on a RealNetworks Web site unless we are required to do so by law or receive your advance informed consent.
Special Third-Party Relationships
On occasion, RealNetworks will offer our product users and Web site visitors the opportunity to participate in third-party or co-branded promotions, sweepstakes or special programs.
The use of any information provided by a user in entering such a third-party promotion will be specified prior to the user providing such information. We will also specify the manner in which such information is to be used. If your personal information is to be shared with a third party, it will only be done with your prior informed consent.
These relationships will be clearly identified by RealNetworks
The Privacy Policy or policies governing such third-party promotions and/or co-branded programs will be specified.
In addition, RealNetworks offers a variety of "plug-in" products that are compatible with certain RealNetworks products such as RealPlayer or RealJukebox. While we endeavor to fully research and disclose how such plug-ins utilize personal information, RealNetworks is not responsible for the operation of plug-ins provided by third parties and we strongly encourage you to visit their Web sites and read the privacy policies that govern their usage. RealNetworks will not provide personally identifiable information to our product plug-in partners without first obtaining the informed consent of our users.
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