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Privacy Policy

By signing up with the BET It's My Thing research panel and the E-Poll Rewards Program, you agree that information you provide will be used by BET and E-Poll for market research purposes. E-Poll has its own privacy policy that governs your participation with the BET It's My Thing website, which we require you to read.

The phrase "personally identifiable information" as used by us means information such as a user's full name, street address, town or city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth, e-mail address and any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact you.

Your California Privacy Rights

BET It's My Thing website users who reside in California can prevent future disclosures of his or her personally identifiable information, at no charge, by exercising his or her "opt out" rights by using the "opt out" procedures described below:

You can send email to: comments@itsmythingBET.com, or
E-Poll, ATTN: itsmythingBET Member Support
16133 Ventura Blvd. Suite 905
Encino, CA 91436

Additionally, upon receipt of any e-mail communication from BET It's My Thing and E-Poll, to unsubscribe from future communications, you can click on the link that says "If you do not wish to receive these emails in the future, You can click here to unsubscribe."

Because the BET It's My Thing website provides its California users with the ability to exercise his or her "opt out" rights as described above, pursuant to Section 1798.83 (c)(2) of the California Civil Code, the BET It's My Thing website is in compliance with the California "Shine the Light." The BET It's My Thing website, hosted and managed by E-Poll has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, such as:

  • The data is backed up daily on site by E-Poll and a copy is kept off site.
  • A limited number of E-Poll employees have access to the data for maintenance, research analysis, points program fulfillment, and other specific responsibilities. Each employee is aware of and must maintain full compliance with our access and data management policies.
  • Employees must have password access and are not allowed to reveal or release any data not authorized by E-Poll.
  • E-Poll reviews its security measures on a regular basis by utilizing the various technologies being developed and updating password access as necessary. Refer to Limitations of Liability in the Terms & Conditions.

BET It's My Thing

With your registered membership, you will receive surveys, newsletters, and offers sent from BET It's My Thing and E-Poll.

When you register to become a Member of itsmythingBET, the following information such as name, email address, postal address, telephone number, gender, education, income level, country, and occupation will be collected in order to take the poll. No personally identifying information is collected unless you register to become a Member of itsmythingBET.

E-Poll

E-Poll has been and will continue to be respectful of our member's privacy. The information you provide to E-Poll through BET It's My Thing will not be shared other than as outlined in this privacy policy and we will maintain the highest standards of security and integrity for our members.

The following is a summary of the E-Poll Privacy Policy governing your use of the BET It's My Thing website. See below for a full description of our Privacy Policy and the Terms & Conditions for visiting our site and participating in E-Poll's Rewards Program.

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E-Poll will not sell, distribute, or make available in any form personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, phone, or email) of any member or guest of the site without their expressed permission (opt-in) as outlined in this privacy policy.

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When you opt-in to participate in the E-Poll Rewards Program with your registered membership in itsmythingBET, you will receive special surveys, newsletters, reward incentives and offers sent from E-Poll.

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Security: This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

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"Cookies": Cookies are a general mechanism that web servers can use to store information on your side of the connection. We use cookies to make sure that we deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you don't have to reenter it each time, and to rotate ads and other content so you don't see them repeatedly. Cookies are not tied with personally identifiable information.

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E-Poll Rewards Program

In order to become a member of the E-Poll Rewards Program, you must opt-in at the itmythingBET registration process. The following information will be collected by E-Poll: contact information such as name, email address, and postal address, telephone number, gender, income level, education, country, and occupation.

E-Poll does not collect personal information about individuals except when knowingly provided by such individuals (or as otherwise detailed below). Any personal information (e.g., name, email address, etc.) provided by such individuals to E-Poll may be used by E-Poll in connection with such purposes as may be indicated at the point of collection (or otherwise detailed in the E-Poll Privacy Policy).

(A) Members grant E-Poll the right to use this information solely for internal purposes without restrictions for the purposes of, but not limited to, research, marketing, and content development.

(B) E-POLL WILL NOT RELEASE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES other than to BET as provided above and as outlined in this privacy policy. Any E-Poll Poll/Survey reports and marketing studies using information provided by members of the E-Poll Rewards Program that is disseminated outside of BET will be released in aggregate form with no names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses attached.

(C) With your registered membership in the E-Poll Rewards Program, you will receive special surveys, newsletter, reward incentives and offers sent from E-Poll. You may also receive special promotions that will be sent out by E-Poll on behalf of its marketing partners.

You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g. name, email address, etc.) during these promotions or through newsgroups, bulletin boards, etc. such information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages. (Refer to Section 6 for Disclaimer of Warranty - Limitation of Liability.)

(D) Minors: E-Poll is free and encourages people over the age of 18 to participate in our surveys and to get involved with the process of expressing your opinions through the BET It's My Thing website.

(E) Cookies: Cookies are a general mechanism that web servers can use to store information on the user side of the connection. E-Poll uses cookies to make sure that we deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you don't have to reenter it each time, and to rotate ads and other content so you don't see them repeatedly. Cookies are not tied with personally identifiable information.

Cookies are also used and are necessary to track whether a user has participated in a particular poll in order to track points and to prevent ballot stuffing. If the user chooses to set their browser to reject cookies, they will not be able to receive any points for taking polls and would not be eligible for prizes.

(F) Should E-Poll make any material changes in its privacy practices or how it uses your personally identifiable information, it will be prominently posted on the BET It's My Thing site and you will be notified via email.

(G) Changing your Personal Information: You can change any personal information at the following location on the BET It's My Thing web site: Your Profile. You may also elect to cancel your membership at any time at that location.

(H) E-Poll Email Notifications: All members of E-Poll Rewards agree to receive occasional updates about changes in our program via email such as important changes in our rewards program, Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. It also indicates to us if members have changed their email address so that we can keep our records current. If you do not want to receive these, you may cancel your membership at any time.

(I) E-Poll Newsletters: If you have joined as a member of E-Poll Rewards Program, we will notify you of special marketing surveys, new offerings on our site, poll results, opportunities to earn extra points, and special offers from E-Poll's partners through the E-Poll Newsletter. You may cancel at any time by visiting the Your Profile section and canceling your membership altogether.

(J) Other Sites: E-Poll contains links to other sites where E-Poll's privacy policy does not apply. Members should review the privacy policy at these specific sites carefully before giving out information because they may not follow the same policies as E-Poll.

(K) Transfer/Assignment: E-Poll reserves the right to assign the ownership of the site, database, intellectual property and all information contained within the Web site upon sale or acquisition to another entity. Members will be notified of such sale or acquisition by email and it will be posted on the site. You may cancel your membership at any time by visiting the Your Profile section.

(L) E-Poll Third Party Relationships: E-Poll has business development relationships with third parties, some of which are listed in the E-Poll's Partner/Clients section of For Businesses. No personally identifiable information is provided to any third party without our member's explicit permission (opt-in) other than what is outlined in this privacy policy.

E-Poll contracts with outside parties to provide services to the site such as hosting and administering its servers and database. These third party providers are not allowed to use the user's information for any other purposes except as directed by E-Poll.

(M) Contacting E-Poll: You can contact E-Poll in a number of ways which can be found in our Contact Us section. If you choose to correspond via email, E-Poll uses email links located throughout the site to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read every message sent in and try to reply promptly to every one. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also file your comments to improve the site and program, or review and discard the information. Your personal information is only shared with third parties as outlined in this privacy policy.

(N) Privacy Policy Disclaimer: E-Poll may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on E-Poll's Web site.

Membership Update/Cancellation:

Update Membership Information/Cancellation policy: You can change/update the information you provide at registration or cancel your membership at any time by visiting the Your Profile section of the website; or

Member have the following options for removing his or her personal information from our databases in order to stop receiving future communications from BET It's My Thing or E-Poll.

You can send email to: comments@itsmythingBET.com.
You can send mail to the following postal address:
E-Poll, ATTN: itsmythingBET Member Support
16133 Ventura Blvd. Suite 905
Encino, CA 91436

Upon receipt of any communication from BET It's My Thing and E-Poll, to unsubscribe from future communications, you can click on the link that says "If you do not wish to receive these emails in the future, You can click here to unsubscribe."

Please note: BET It's My Thing and E-Poll are not responsible for removing information from third-party lists or entities with which you have previously authorized us to share your information.)