Our Commitment to Privacy
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' ("Television Academy") Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our sites, products and services.
Your use of our sites, including www.televisionacademy.com and www.televerse.com ("Sites"), means that you accept the practices set forth in this policy. We reserve the right to make changes to the policy by posting the new version with a new effective date. Your continued use indicates your agreement to the changes.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Sites you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you actively choose to disclose when interacting with our Sites or engaging in any transactions with us through our Sites, and information collected, on an aggregate basis, as you browse our Sites ("Passive Information"). We also disclose aggregated personal information to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes.
Information You Choose to Provide
When using our Sites, you may voluntarily provide information about yourself, including your name, contact information, log-in information and any other information you choose to provide. If you choose to post information on our Sites or maintain e-mail, postal mail or telephone contact with us, we may retain such information.
Passive Information Collected
We automatically collect information relating to your interactions with us and our Sites, including browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Sites, device type, time and date of visit, and other information we collect through the use of cookies and similar technologies. Additionally, e-mail messages we send you may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the e-mails, including whether the e-mail was opened and what links (if any) were clicked.
Our Sites' servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address which is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server or administer our Sites or to gather broad demographic information about our users.
Our Sites have been pre-populated with user accounts for all active members. As an active member your online account is subject to the status of your account with the Television Academy. Any information stored in your membership record may be used by our system for administrative purposes.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies allow web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser or hard drive, and they are used to simplify subsequent interactions with a site accessed by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
Our Sites utilize cookies to collect information about how our Sites are used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the Sites' pages viewed, time spent at our Sites and the sites visited just before and just after our Sites. If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult the "Help" section of your browser to do so. However, if you use these tools, our Sites may not function as intended.
How Do We Use the Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or contractors or agents at our direction, use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer services such as support and making available other products or services we think may be of interest to our users. We may use the information you provide to us to contact you about changes to our Sites, new services, features or products we offer or other information we think you shall find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may "opt-out" of doing so by sending an e-mail to us at customerservice@televisionacademy.com.
We use Passive Information to gather information about our users and to enhance and design our Sites to make it easier, faster and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help us understand how many people visit our Sites, when they visit and how they use our service. Passive Information may result in your viewing of particular advertising based on your user habits for your viewing on our Sites and a shopping experience customized to you in content, services and goods.
The Television Academy may track user trends and activity in order to provide useful data for staff and the Board of Governors to make logistical decisions about the services provided.
We may otherwise use your information with your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is requested.
Third-Party Links and Tools
You may be able to access third-party websites through our Sites. When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy and data collection and you should read those sites' privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before using such sites. When you choose to shop at such sites, you should read their privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before making purchases. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites, and they are not covered by this privacy policy.
Sharing Information with Advertisers or Other Third Parties
We may disclose aggregate information about user habits, characteristics and user patterns, based on aggregate user statistics to advertisers on our Sites. We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Sites and other apps over time for non-advertising purposes. The Television Academy uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Sites and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our Sites, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The parties who perform services for us (including, but not limited to, credit card processors, merchant bank and our Internet Service Provider) may also have access to your information in performing such services.
In addition, from time to time, we may share personal information about our user base with carefully selected third parties, so they can offer goods and services that we believe may be of interest to our users.
Sharing excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
We may be required by subpoena, law or government agency to disclose information you have provided to us. In addition, we may disclose information as part of a corporate sale, merger or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets, including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, or with your consent.
How Do We Secure Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of information. In this regard it is our policy not to distribute personal information by way of membership lists or the like to any third parties or to other members of the Television Academy if, in exercise of reasonable discretion, we determine that doing so would cause an unreasonable risk of further distribution of such personal information.
Choices Over Your Information
If you desire not to receive information about products or services we think may be of interest to you or if you wish to access, delete or correct your information, please send an e-mail to customerservice@televisionacademy.com.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or about the information practices of the Television Academy, please contact us at customerservice@televisionacademy.com.
updated 5.19.25
