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Privacy Statement
If you or your child are under 18 years of age, please go to and read our special children's Privacy Policy entitled: Notice to Parents Regarding Collection of Information from Children which you may access by clicking here.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Contact Information
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales has not adhered to this Statement, please contact GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
GrandStrandNow.com is maintained and operated by
Time Warner Cable Media Sales
316 East Morehead, Suite 400
Charlotte, NC, 28202
Phone: 704-973-7540
Email: latasha.brown@twcable.com
Collection of your Personal Information
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home and/or work address, and telephone number. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales also may occasionally collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, and interests.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web site.
Some of the contests and prizes are provided by third parties and/or Time Warner Cable Media Sales clients. If you are directed to a third party web site and provide contact information on that web site, you should be aware that the provisions of this Notice does not apply. These participants may have their own privacy policies, which you may want to review. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales and GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales collects and uses your personal information to operate the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web site and deliver the services you have requested. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales and its affiliates. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Occasionally sponsors of GrandStrandNow.com (ie. Time Warner Cable Media Sales clients) will receive personal information with the registrant’s consent via an Opt In feature. Once personal information is submitted via the Opt In feature, it is the responsibility between the two parties (registrant and sponsor/client) to establish a means of Opting Out; at which point, Time Warner Cable Media Sales has no authority or liability.
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales, in order to determine what GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales's pages, or register with GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales site or services, a cookie helps GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Notice to Parents RegardingCollection of Information from Children
Collection of Information from Children
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales is committed to maintaining a safe online environment for all participants. It is the intention of GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales to comply with all state and federal regulations pertinent to our web sites. No entries will be accepted from children under the age of 13.
When contests are open to children age 13 to 18, GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales will not require a minor to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity as a condition of participation. Only minimal contact information will be requested of all minor participants. This will usually include name, birthdate, email address, parent email address, and a contact phone number for participation. The winner(s), additionally, may be requested to provide mailing or shipping address, parent or guardians name and contact information and other data necessary to complete an affidavit of eligibility for winner verification and prize delivery.
Any personal identifying information collected from children will be used solely for notifying contest winners and maintaining records as required by law. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using personal information except to provide these services to GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales, and they are required to maintain confidentiality.
Parents have the option to agree to the collection and use of the child's information without consenting to the disclosure of the information to third parties. For example, the parent may elect to personally pick up prizes rather than disclosing a mailing address. Note that all contest rules and deadlines still apply and an affidavit of eligibility must be completed to qualify for prizes.
At any time, a parent or guardian may review the child's personal information (after verification of parent’s or guardian’s actual identity), ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child's information. To place such a request, please contact Time Warner Cable Media Sales, 316 East Morehead, Suite 400, Charlotte, 28202. Please include the name of the child and the email address(es) to be excluded. This request must be made in writing and must come directly from the child’s parent or guardian and must include the parent or guardian’s name and contact information for verification purposes.
Changes to this Statement
GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how GrandStrandNow.com/Time Warner Cable Media Sales is protecting your information.
