Privacy Policy

What’s New in the Updated Privacy Policy? We have updated the Privacy Policy for our online and mobile websites, services, and applications (“Sites”). Some of the key updates are summarized below, but please take the time to read the full Privacy Policy. You consent to the data collection, use, and disclosure practices described in this notice when you use a Site, including when you view content or videos. 

  •  CW Member Companies and their Affiliates. As The CW Network is a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation, we clarified data sharing practices among Warner, CBS, and their affiliates.
  •  Mobile Devices. We included more detail about data practices when a Site is accessed on apps and mobile devices.
  •  Use of Technical and Usage Information. We provided additional detail about collection, use, and choices regarding non- identifiable information, including cookies and other technologies.

Updated April 14, 2014

CW Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting The CW. The CW Network is a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation (collectively "we" or "us"). Your privacy is important to us. To help protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personally identifiable information collected on our online and mobile websites, services, and applications (“Site” or “Sites”). By using the Sites, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information as described in this notice.

For certain offerings on our Sites, there may be additional notices about information practices and choices. Please read those additional privacy disclosures to understand how they apply to you. 

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Registration and account information. At some Sites, you can order products, play games, read and submit reviews, enter contests, vote in polls, view and rate videos, TV shows and other content, or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that you provide as part of your account may include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card and billing information, information about your interest in and use of various content, products, programs, and services, and other information that you provide to us.  In the course of using our Sites, we may ask you to create an account or register for an application by providing us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, as well as to administer your account.

Information about others/inviting friends. At some of our Sites, you can submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to share content or recommendations, send an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people as part of this process include recipient's name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and information about the recipient’s interest in and use of various content, products, programs, and services. 

Some of our Sites also allow you to invite your friends to join our services and to connect with you through social media features. Inviting friends is always optional. To do so, you may provide their contact information or may enter your log-in credentials to import e-mail addresses or usernames from your address book from other sites that support such functionality (e.g., Yahoo!, Gmail, Facebook). You select the friends you want to invite to share in this experience.

Information from other sources. We may, on occasion, combine information we receive online with outside records and use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, such as to enhance our ability to market to you products or services that may be of interest to you. 

Social media. You can also engage with our content and other offerings, such as videos, contests, games and activities, on or through third-party social media sites, plug-ins and applications, such as those offered by Facebook and others. You may also choose to link your account with us to third party social media sites. When you link your account or engage with our content on or through third party social media sites, services, plug-ins, or applications you may allow us to have ongoing access to certain information from your social media account (e.g., name, e-mail address, profile photo, gender, birthday, location, your list of friends and their contact information, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the 'likes' you make). We may also receive non-personally identifiable information (e.g., content viewed, game performance, high scores, and information about advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on, etc.) from your interaction with our content. 

When you provide information to a Site from your social media account, it can help enable us to do things like (i) give you exclusive content, (ii) personalize your online experience with us within and outside our Sites, and (iii) contact you through the social media sites or directly with the latest news, special offerings, and rewards. By providing such information, you consent to the use of the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

If you post information or content, such as by posting photos, commenting on a blog, or participating in chat functions or online forums or communities at our Sites, or when you interact with our Sites through social media sites, plug-ins or other applications, depending on your privacy settings, this information may become public on the Internet. Therefore, we cannot prevent further use of this information. You can control what data you share through privacy settings available on some social media sites. For more information about how you can customize your privacy settings and how third party social media sites handle your personally identifiable information, please refer to their privacy help guides, privacy policies and terms of use.

Information collection from mobile devices. If you access our Sites, on your mobile telephone or other mobile device, we also may collect your unique device identifier and mobile device IP address (e.g. MAC address), as well as information about your device’s operating system, mobile carrier, and mobile Internet browsers, your precise location information, and other information described in this Policy. 

Technical and usage information. We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you use our Sites, including when you view content and videos on our Sites, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android), the domain name of your Internet service provider or mobile carrier, IP address, device ID and other technical attributes related to your device, and certain usage information.  For example, some content on our Sites is limited to users in the United States. Your device IP address is tested by the Site so that The CW can determine whether you are located in the United States.

Providing requested information. In some cases, only persons who provide us with the requested  information will be able to order products, programs, and services, or otherwise participate in the Site's activities and offerings. 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION 

Providing our products and services. We use the information we collect about you to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, to develop, provide, maintain, support, personalize, protect, and improve our offerings and to offer you other products, programs or services from us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you. 

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services. 

If you choose to submit content for publication, we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us on our Sites, the Internet, or elsewhere. 

Communicating with you. We use information about you to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our user agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter or other service, to confirm purchases you have made through our Sites, or to contact you about your account with us. You may also choose to receive push notifications from us on your mobile device.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them invitations, gifts, cards, or other content on your behalf or through our Sites. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer products, programs, or services to them.

With consent. We may also use your information for any other purposes pursuant to your consent or at your direction.

Use of mobile device data. When you access our Sites on a mobile device, we may use the information collected for any of the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. For example, we use information collected on mobile devices to enable you to do things like (i) watch trailers and video clips, (ii) get entertainment news and updates, (iii) get information about comics, movies, TV shows, (iv) to locate and access personalized information or functionality based on your location (e.g., find comic stores or show times for theaters near you, tag photographs, or check in to a certain venue), (v) buy movie tickets, (vi) play games, (vii) follow blogs, and (viii) read critic and user reviews. We may also use this information to offer you products, programs and services we believe may be of interest to you and otherwise tailor your experience. 

Use of non-personally identifiable information. We use aggregate information about our users and non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design, functionality and content of our Sites and to enable us to personalize your experience with our Sites and offerings. We also use this information to (i) develop, provide, maintain, support, personalize, protect, and improve our products, programs, and services and to operate our business, (ii) to analyze usage and performance of our Sites, and (iii) for us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties to communicate with you, advertise to you and offer you products, programs, or services. 

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Legal Process, Law Enforcement, and Corporate Transactions. We and our agents, contractors, and service providers may disclose information we maintain when required to do so by applicable US or other law, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena, legal process, or other claim or inquiry. We also may disclose such information in response to a US or other law enforcement agency’s request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the rights, property, or physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, and to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Sites and applicable laws, or as otherwise required or permitted by US or other law or legal requirements. In addition, we may transfer information about our visitors in the event of a business transaction or reorganization, such as if we or one of our business units or our relevant assets are reorganized, acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company.

Service providers. Our agents, contractors and other service providers may have access information, including personally identifiable information to help carry out the services they are performing for us. 

Affiliates and other third parties. We may disclose information, including personally identifiable information about you to companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy. For example, we may share such information we collect with our affiliates to provide, improve and communicate with you about their own products and services.  A list of affiliates of Warner Bros. Entertainment is available in the WARNER BROS. AFFILIATES section below.  A list of affiliates of CBS Corporation is available at www.cbscorporation.com/portfolio.php

We may also share such information with business partners and third parties (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, application developers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. If we share personally identifiable information with such unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses. 

Linked sites. Some of our Sites contain links to other sites, services, and applications whose information practices may be different from ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy policies before submitting any information, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. 

Sponsors, joint-offerings and co-promotions. We sometimes may offer content or programs (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, promotions, games, applications or social network integrations) that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the activity. We have no control over these third parties' use of this information, which is covered by their own privacy policies. The Site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

Advertising. At some of our Sites, reputable third parties may present or serve advertisements, provide us with data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, and site analytics, and assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies. The use of these technologies by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy. They may also obtain information about other applications that you have downloaded to your computer or mobile device, the sites you visit, and other information about you or your computer or device in order to help analyze and serve anonymous targeted advertising on the Site and elsewhere. For more information about third party ad networks at our Sites and your ability to opt-out of targeted advertising from such third parties, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (www.networkadvertising.org) and/or the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising (www.aboutads.info/choices). Please note that opting-out through these programs will stop certain targeted advertising, but will still allow the collection of usage data for some purposes, including research, analytics and internal operations.

With consent. We may also share or disclose your information for any other purposes pursuant to your consent or at your direction.

YOUR CHOICES 

Marketing communications. We provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving certain marketing communications from us or from unaffiliated third parties. If you ever decide in the future that you would like to update these preferences, you may: (i) log into your account if you have created an account with us at one of our Sites to adjust your settings, (iii) follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in any marketing email you receive from us, (iii) send us an email at [email protected] and we will modify your preferences accordingly, or (iv) opt-out of targeted advertising as set forth in the Advertising section above. If you previously chose to receive push notifications on your mobile device from us but no longer wish to receive them, you can manage your preferences either through your device or app settings, depending on the type of device.

Uninstalling a mobile application. If you no longer wish to have any information collected by a mobile application, you may uninstall the application by using the standard uninstall processes available on your mobile device or via the mobile application marketplace or network.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS - YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS  If you are a California resident, you may request information about our practices related to disclosing your personal information to certain third parties and/or opt-out of our sharing of your information with unaffiliated third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Please send your request (along with your full name, e-mail address, postal address, and the subject line labeled “Your California Privacy Rights”) by e-mail at [email protected]

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION 

Cookies and web beacons. We, and our affiliates, third party service providers, and our business partners may send "cookies" to your computer or use similar technologies to support and enhance your online experience at our Sites, including by helping us collect and understand usage and performance information and to display and measure advertisements. For example, "cookies" are files that can identify you as a unique customer and store your personal preferences as well as technical information (including click through and click stream data). Cookies manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on or delivered by or through us and/or other networks or sites. Cookies can either be persistent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser).

Some of our Sites may use locally stored objects (sometimes referred to as "Flash cookies") to provide certain content, such as video on demand, video clips, or animation. Adobe's Flash player and similar applications use this technology to remember settings, preferences, and usage similar to browser cookies. Flash cookies are not managed through your web browser, but you can access your Flash management tools from Adobe's website at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.

We may also use "web beacons" that monitor your use of our Sites. Web beacons (or web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the web beacon appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. 

When corresponding with you via HTML capable email, web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our email.

On their own, cookies or web beacons generally do not contain or reveal any personally identifiable information. However, if you choose to furnish personally identifiable information, this information can be linked to the data stored in the cookies/web beacons.

Managing cookies and web beacons and Do Not Track. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies and web beacons as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other website. Additionally, by setting your web browser to display HTML emails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of our Sites can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content or Site features. We do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We continue to review new technologies and may adopt a standard once one is created.

For more information about cookies and how browser settings can be changed to reject them, you should go to your web browser’s Help menu. 

Google Analytics, one of our service providers, provides its own opt-out process. You can find out more information about Google Analytics’ cookies at https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. You can control the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Sites, by downloading an installing the browser-plug in available at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

To set your preferences and opt-out of certain tracking and targeted advertising on your mobile device, follow the device and/or applicable settings on your mobile device.

If you decide not to accept cookies from our Sites or disable certain technologies, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our Sites.  

OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY We have put in place physical, technical, and administrative procedures designed to protect the information we collect online at the Sites. However, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be used or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION To access the personally identifiable information that our Sites have collected about you online from the pages on which this Privacy Policy is posted, to correct factual errors in such information, or to update your interests, preferences or other portions of your user profile, please log into your account if you have created one with us or send an email to [email protected].

To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING CHILDREN'S PRIVACY This privacy policy governs Sites or portions of Sites that are directed to a general audience and that are not designed or intended for use by children. For more information about our online privacy practices for Sites or portions of Sites that are directed to children, please review the privacy policy posted there.

NOTIFICATION REGARDING UPDATES From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our Sites or by sending you an email message. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know our current privacy practices.

HOW TO CONTACT US If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation you may contact us at: [email protected].

You may also contact us at any time at:  
The CW Network, LLC  
Attn: Chief Privacy Officer (WB) 
3300 West Olive Avenue 
Burbank, CA 91505 
(818) 977-2500

WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT AFFILIATES Below is a list of some of the Warner Bros. Entertainment companies that currently may have access to the information collected from users on our Sites as set forth in the Privacy Policy. We may update this list from time-to-time, so please check back periodically to keep up-to-date. 

Flixster, Inc. 
DC Entertainment 
New Line Productions, Inc. 
Telepictures Production Inc. 
TMZ Productions Inc. 
Turbine, Inc. 
WB Games Inc. 
Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services, a division of Warner Bros. Technical Operations Inc. 
Warner Bros. Animation Inc. 
Warner Bros. Consumer Products Inc. 
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. 
Warner Bros. Distributing Inc. 
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. 
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution Inc. 
Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of WB Studio Enterprises Inc. 
Warner Bros. Studio Facilities, a division of WB Studio Enterprises Inc. 
Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution Inc. 
Warner Bros. Television, a division of WB Studio Enterprises Inc. 
Warner Bros. Television, a division of WB Studio Enterprises Inc. 
Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. 

Below is a list of some of the Time Warner companies that are affiliated with the Warner Bros. Entertainment Group companies and with whom we may share information we collect at our Sites. We may update this list from time-to-time with additional Time Warner companies, so please check back periodically to keep up-to-date.

The Cartoon Network, Inc. 
Home Box Office, Inc. 
Time Inc. 
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.