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Consumer Privacy

Protecting consumer privacy is important to all our businesses. We devote significant resources to privacy protection, and we are committed to being open about how we collect and use consumer data. Our corporate privacy policy, which applies to all of our businesses, is available at www.timewarner.com/corp/legal_and_privacy.html.

AOL

The range of threats to users’ privacy in the online world is broad and growing, from hackers to spammers, phishers, viruses, spyware and identity thieves. AOL protects the privacy of its users through the AOL® Safety and Security Center, the Internet’s most comprehensive free set of safety tools, which is available to all online users at no charge. The AOL® Safety and Security Center protects online users through such features as:

• Virus protection that is automatically updated to help protect members’ entire computers from viruses, trojans and other online threats.
• Spyware protection that offers four different levels of protection against more than 28,000 known spyware, adware and sneakware programs.
• A leading firewall that helps protect members against hackers and other attacks from the Internet.
• Robust parental controls that help limit access by children to inappropriate content on the Web and allow parents to configure custom controls, such as an online timer and a regular AOL®Guardian report card of their activity online.

AOL also offers other leading free security tools including:

* Active Security Monitor -- Checks the status of key protections on a single computer or across the entire home network, alerting the user to the status of virus protection, spyware protection, firewall, Windows updates, wireless security, P2P software, and PC utilities.
* Active Virus Shield -- Comprehensive full-computer virus and spyware protection powered by Kaspersky Lab that includes automatic updates, always-on scanning, and real-time protection.

For all users of the free AOL and AIM Mail services, AOL also provides “behind-the-scenes” protections against the most dangerous online predators—phishers and identity thieves. Phishers are scam artists who try to convince users to surrender sensitive personal information by impersonating banks, credit card or other companies. AOL protects against them by monitoring incoming email with multilevel systems that detect and block phishing attacks and prevent members from unintentionally accessing scam sites. AOL blocks roughly 1.5 billion spam messages and protects members from roughly 8 million phishing attacks each day.

Time Inc.

Time Inc. has a clear and concise privacy policy that applies to online and offline consumer information gathered through subscriptions. The policy explains Time Inc.’s information practices and the choices consumers can make about the way their information is collected and used by Time Inc., third-party sites and sponsors. More detailed information can be found here.

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable provides a detailed description of its privacy policies at http://help.twcable.com/privacy. Time Warner Cable upholds the high privacy standards set out in the federal Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, which covers, among other things, the collection and disclosure of its customers’ personally identifiable information.


This page was last updated on October 30, 2006. Click here for a PDF of our 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, published May 2006.