Last Revised and Published May 27, 2020.
Effective as of May 27, 2020.
This Privacy Policy replace and supersede all prior versions.
1. Introduction and Applicability
Girlgaze, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it describes our privacy practices, including the types of information we may collect from you and/or that you may provide, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Additionally, please review our Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Site (as defined below). Any capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by us (and/or third parties acting with our authorization):
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information:
Please be aware that we will either rely on our legitimate interests or our need to perform under contract to collect, store, use and process your information or, if required by applicable law, you will be asked to consent to our processing of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. It is your choice to use or not use the Site. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please review your privacy rights below and/or stop using the Site. This Privacy Policy applies no matter what type of user you are. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Section 11 (Changes to Our Privacy Policy)). Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
2. Children Under the Age of 16
The Site is offered to and available to users who are 18 years of age or older only. The Site is particularly not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 16. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Site or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from any child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at: legal@girlgaze.com.
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of the Site depending on your interaction with us, including information:
We collect this information:
4. Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through the Site may include:
You also may provide User Contributions to be posted on public areas of the Site, or transmitted to other users of the Site or third parties. This would include (without limitation) User Contributions that you make available in your personal profiles or portfolios, message boards, forums, bulletin boards, job boards, postings and applications, messages, and other interactive features, services or products made available via the Site. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Site with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. Please do not post any User Contributions (including, without limitation, any personal information) to your portfolio, profile and/or otherwise via the Site to the extent that you do not want such User Contributions publicly available.
5. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with the Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve the Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including (without limitation) by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
6. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information for our legitimate interests or our need to perform under contract to collect, store, use and process your information, as well as to comply with regulatory and legal obligations or to enforce our legal rights, including:
We may also use your personal information for any other purpose with your consent. Please see Section 8 (Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information; Access and Correcting Your Information) for more information on how you can withdraw your consent to such uses of your personal data that rely on consent as a legal basis to process at any time.
7. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. Further, we may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
Additionally, we may also disclose your personal information:
If we do not process your personal information in accordance with our legitimate interest or based on a contractual obligations we have with you, we may share or disclose your personal information with your consent.
We do not sell your information
8. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information; Access and Correcting Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
9. Third-Party Services
The Site may be linked to, rely on and/or be integrated with Third-Party Services and other websites, applications, interfaces, services and/or platforms operated by other companies. You expressly acknowledge and agree that Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites, applications, interfaces, services and platforms operated by third parties that are linked to, rely on and/or integrated with the Site or for the privacy practices of third-party companies. Additionally, we are not responsible for protecting any information shared with a third-party through your use of the Site (e.g., a third-party social networking platform (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe), etc.).
10. Security
We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site like (as applicable) your profile, and/or message boards. The information you share in public areas and all User Contributions may be viewable by any user of the Site. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information including by requesting that our third-party contractors and service providers follow similar standards of security and confidentiality as we follow, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to the Site and/or otherwise. Any transmission of information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. Please be aware that we only access, retain, store and use your personal information for the least amount of time necessary pursuant to our relationship with you in accordance with applicable laws and data retention polices, and we do not collect more personal information than necessary for purposes in this Privacy Policy.
11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Site home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
12. Privacy Notice for California Residents
This Section 12 (Privacy Notice for California Residents) applies to you only to the extent that you reside in the State of California and are a California resident. We adopt the notice set forth in this section to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.
Section 3 (Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It) of this Privacy Policy describe in detail the information that we collect and how we collect it. However, for purposes of complying with the CCPA, below please find a list of the specific CCPA categories of personal information that we collect:
We collect this information from you directly, indirectly as you navigate and/or interact with the Site, from third parties and/or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We use these categories as described in Section 6 (How We Use Your Information) above, we disclose these categories of personal information for business purposes as described in Section 7 (Disclosure of Your Information) above. We do not sell your personal information.
Under the CCPA, residents of California have the right to (subject to the applicable law) request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months including: categories of personal information that we collected and the sources of it; our business or commercial purposes for collecting that personal information; categories of third parties that we shared that personal information; and specific pieces of personal information that we collected. You also have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at legal@girlgaze.com, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. Please note that some requests may require for us to verify your identity. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. You may designate someone to submit requests and act on your behalf, but to do so, you must provide us with written permission to allow such authorized agent to act on your behalf. Please note that the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication (“B2B personal information”) from some its requirements including the deletion, access and data portability rights described in this section and therefore, we do not provide these rights to B2B personal information.
Additionally, the CCPA requires us to disclose whether we sell your personal information. We do not sell your personal information, and because we do not sell personal information, we do not have an opt-out. Additionally, according to the CCPA, we cannot collect new categories of personal information or use it for materially different purposes without notifying you. We will only make changes to this Privacy Policy in accordance with Section 11 (Changes to Our Privacy Policy) above.
13. Information for Those in the EU and Outside the United States
You expressly acknowledge and agree that the Site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the EU or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using the Site, participating in any of our services, and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer. Further, you acknowledge and agree that we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, other countries where the laws may not provide levels of protection for your personal information equivalent the protection provided by the laws of the EU or elsewhere outside of the United States. We do this by using model contractual clauses that have been approved by the EU or other appropriate means. If you have further questions regarding such transfers, please contact us at legal@girlgaze.com. Additionally, if you are an EU citizen or reside in the EU, you may have certain rights with respect your personal data that you provided to us subject to applicable data protection laws of the EU. If you are a EU resident or citizen and have a question about our Privacy Policy, data and privacy practices and the specific rights and choices available to you, please email us at legal@girlgaze.com.
14. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us by email at: legal@girlgaze.com, or by mail to: Girlgaze, Inc., Attn: Girlgaze Privacy, 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, PMB 95678, West Hollywood, CA 90069.
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