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| 9 | # PRIVACY POLICY | 9 | # PRIVACY POLICY | ||
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| 11 | Last updated: Jun 30, 2026 | ||||
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| 13 | Please click here to view the previous version of our Privacy Policy. | ||||
| 14 | |||||
| 15 | California Notice at Collection / State Law Privacy Rights :See the State law pr | ||||
| > | ivacy rights section below for important information about your rights under app | ||||
| > | licable state privacy laws. | ||||
| 16 | |||||
| 17 | This Privacy Policy describes how Connected Ventures LLC d/b/a Dropout and our s | ||||
| > | ubsidiaries and affiliates ("Dropout," "we", “us” or "our") processes personal i | ||||
| > | nformation that we collect through our digital or online properties or services | ||||
| > | that link to this Privacy Policy (including as applicable, our website, online s | ||||
| > | torefront, mobile application, and social media pages) as well as our marketing | ||||
| > | activities, live events, casting, production, nomination campaigns and other act | ||||
| > | ivities described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Service”)). | ||||
| 18 | |||||
| 19 | # Index | ||||
| 20 | |||||
| 21 | • Personal information we collect | ||||
| 22 | |||||
| 23 | • Tracking & other technologies | ||||
| 24 | |||||
| 25 | • How we use your personal information | ||||
| 26 | |||||
| 27 | • Retention | ||||
| 28 | |||||
| 29 | • How we share your personal information | ||||
| 30 | |||||
| 31 | • Your choices | ||||
| 32 | |||||
| 33 | • Other sites and services | ||||
| 34 | |||||
| 35 | • Security | ||||
| 36 | |||||
| 37 | • International data transfers | ||||
| 38 | |||||
| 39 | • Children | ||||
| 40 | |||||
| 41 | • Changes to this Privacy Policy | ||||
| 42 | |||||
| 43 | • How to contact us | ||||
| 44 | |||||
| 45 | • State privacy rights notice | ||||
| 46 | |||||
| 47 | # Personal information we collect | ||||
| 48 | |||||
| 49 | Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us throug | ||||
| > | h the Service or otherwise includes: | ||||
| 50 | |||||
| 51 | • Contact data, such as your first and last name, salutation, email address, bil | ||||
| > | ling and mailing addresses, company name, and phone number. | ||||
| 52 | |||||
| 53 | • Demographic data, such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, | ||||
| > | and age. | ||||
| 54 | |||||
| 55 | • Profile data, such as the username and password that you may set to establish | ||||
| > | an online account on the Service, redemption code, biographical details, avatar | ||||
| > | or picture, videos you have watched or added to your “My list,” links to your pr | ||||
| > | ofiles on social networks, interests, preferences, and any other information tha | ||||
| > | t you add to your account profile. | ||||
| 56 | |||||
| 57 | • Communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contac | ||||
| > | t us through the Service, social media, phone, text or otherwise. | ||||
| 58 | |||||
| 59 | • Recording data, including audio, electronic, visual or similar information, su | ||||
| > | ch as recordings of calls, productions, or other interactions between you and Dr | ||||
| > | opout where permitted by law or with your consent, as well as transcriptions of | ||||
| > | such recordings. | ||||
| 60 | |||||
| 61 | • Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your | ||||
| > | orders on or through the Service, including order numbers and transaction histo | ||||
| > | ry. | ||||
| 62 | |||||
| 63 | • Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communica | ||||
| > | tions and details about your engagement with them. | ||||
| 64 | |||||
| 65 | • Payment data needed to complete transactions, including payment card informati | ||||
| > | on or bank account number. | ||||
| 66 | |||||
| 67 | • Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in thi | ||||
| > | s Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection. | ||||
| 68 | |||||
| 69 | Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you wit | ||||
| > | h personal information falling within one of the categories identified above tha | ||||
| > | t we obtain from other sources, such as: | ||||
| 70 | |||||
| 71 | • Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media plat | ||||
| > | forms, and other publicly available sources. | ||||
| 72 | |||||
| 73 | • Partners, such marketing partners and event co-sponsors. | ||||
| 74 | |||||
| 75 | • Service providers that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the S | ||||
| > | ervice or our business. | ||||
| 76 | |||||
| 77 | • Business transaction partners. We may receive personal information in connecti | ||||
| > | on with an actual or prospective business | ||||
| 78 | |||||
| 79 | transaction. For example, we may receive your personal information from an entit | ||||
| > | y we acquire or are acquired by, a successor, or assignee or any party involved | ||||
| > | in a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or simi | ||||
| > | lar transaction, and/or in the context of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receiver | ||||
| > | ship. | ||||
| 80 | |||||
| 81 | Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners | ||||
| > | may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and | ||||
| > | your interaction over time with the Service, our communications and other onlin | ||||
| > | e services, such as: | ||||
| 82 | |||||
| 83 | • Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type an | ||||
| > | d version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk | ||||
| > | size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifi | ||||
| > | ers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mo | ||||
| > | bile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and gener | ||||
| > | al location information such as city, state or geographic area. | ||||
| 84 | |||||
| 85 | • Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent | ||||
| > | on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, nav | ||||
| > | igation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a pag | ||||
| > | e or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened ou | ||||
| > | r emails or clicked links within them. | ||||
| 86 | |||||
| 87 | • Precise geolocation data when you authorize the Service to access your device’ | ||||
| > | s location. | ||||
| 88 | |||||
| 89 | • Communication interaction data such as your interactions with our email, text | ||||
| > | or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may | ||||
| > | do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which ma | ||||
| > | y be embedded invisibly in our emails. | ||||
| 90 | |||||
| 91 | For more information concerning our automatic collection of data, please see the | ||||
| > | Tracking technologies section below. | ||||
| 92 | |||||
| 93 | Data about others. We may offer features, campaigns or productions that allow us | ||||
| > | ers to invite, refer or nominate their friends, contacts or other individuals to | ||||
| > | use or participate in the Service, such as the ability to send a gift subscript | ||||
| > | ion to another person or nominate someone for a casting, production, promotional | ||||
| > | or similar opportunity. We may collect contact details and related information | ||||
| > | about these individuals, such as name, phone number, email address, relationship | ||||
| > | to you, availability, location or time zone, and nomination content, so we can | ||||
| > | deliver invitations, review submissions, contact nominees, administer the applic | ||||
| > | able campaign or production, manage legal clearance and releases, and maintain d | ||||
| > | o-not-contact records. Please do not refer, nominate or otherwise share contact | ||||
| > | details about someone with us unless you have their permission or another reason | ||||
| > | able basis to do so, and do not submit any sensitive personal information, infor | ||||
| > | mation about minors, health information, financial information, government ident | ||||
| > | ification numbers, precise geolocation, allegations of misconduct, confidential | ||||
| > | information or information that could create safety risks. We do not sell nomine | ||||
| > | e contact information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and | ||||
| > | we do not use nominee phone numbers submitted through a production or nomination | ||||
| > | campaign for unrelated marketing without separate consent. | ||||
| 94 | |||||
| 95 | # Tracking & other technologies | ||||
| 96 | |||||
| 97 | Cookies and other technologies. Some of the automatic collection described above | ||||
| > | is facilitated by the following technologies: | ||||
| 98 | |||||
| 99 | • Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on user devices and th | ||||
| > | at allow web servers to record users’ web browsing activities and remember their | ||||
| > | submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies use | ||||
| > | d on our sites include both “session cookies” that are deleted when a session en | ||||
| > | ds, “persistent cookies” that remain longer, “first party” cookies that we place | ||||
| > | and “third party” cookies that our third-party business partners and service pr | ||||
| > | oviders place. | ||||
| 100 | |||||
| 101 | • Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functio | ||||
| > | nality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your brows | ||||
| > | er in connection with specific applications. | ||||
| 102 | |||||
| 103 | • Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonst | ||||
| > | rate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was | ||||
| > | viewed or clicked. | ||||
| 104 | |||||
| 105 | For information concerning your choices with respect to the use of tracking tech | ||||
| > | nologies, see the Your choices section below. | ||||
| 106 | |||||
| 107 | # How we use your personal information | ||||
| 108 | |||||
| 109 | We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise | ||||
| > | described at the time of collection: | ||||
| 110 | |||||
| 111 | Service delivery and operations. We may use your personal information to: | ||||
| 112 | |||||
| 113 | • provide the Service; | ||||
| 114 | |||||
| 115 | • enable security features of the Service; | ||||
| 116 | |||||
| 117 | • establish and maintain your user profile on the Service; | ||||
| 118 | |||||
| 119 | • facilitate your invitations, referrals or nominations of friends, contacts or | ||||
| > | other individuals who you want to invite to join the Service or submit for a cas | ||||
| > | ting, production, promotional or similar opportunity; | ||||
| 120 | |||||
| 121 | • communicate with you about the Service, including by sending Service-related a | ||||
| > | nnouncements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; | ||||
| 122 | |||||
| 123 | • communicate with you or individuals you refer or nominate about events, contes | ||||
| > | ts, casting, productions, nominations, promotions or similar opportunities; and | ||||
| 124 | |||||
| 125 | • provide support for the Service, and respond to your requests, questions and f | ||||
| > | eedback. | ||||
| 126 | |||||
| 127 | Service personalization, which may include using your personal information to: | ||||
| 128 | |||||
| 129 | • understand your needs and interests; | ||||
| 130 | |||||
| 131 | • personalize your experience with the Service and our Service-related communica | ||||
| > | tions; and | ||||
| 132 | |||||
| 133 | • remember your selections and preferences as you navigate webpages. | ||||
| 134 | |||||
| 135 | Service improvement and analytics. We may use your personal information to analy | ||||
| > | ze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our busin | ||||
| > | ess, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are | ||||
| > | most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user | ||||
| > | interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services. For exa | ||||
| > | mple, we use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about Google | ||||
| > | Analytics and how to prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of | ||||
| > | our sites here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en . | ||||
| 136 | |||||
| 137 | Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers and our third-party adverti | ||||
| > | sing partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and ad | ||||
| > | vertising purposes: | ||||
| 138 | |||||
| 139 | • Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications and may pers | ||||
| > | onalize these messages based on your needs and interests. You may opt-out of our | ||||
| > | marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below | ||||
| > | . | ||||
| 140 | |||||
| 141 | • Interest-based advertising. We, our service providers, and third-party adverti | ||||
| > | sing partners may use cookies and other technologies to collect information abou | ||||
| > | t your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collectio | ||||
| > | n section above) with the Service, our communications and other online services | ||||
| > | over time, and use that information to serve online ads that we or they think wi | ||||
| > | ll interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share in | ||||
| > | formation about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based adve | ||||
| > | rtising to those or similar users on other online platforms. You can learn more | ||||
| > | about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the Your choices s | ||||
| > | ection below. | ||||
| 142 | |||||
| 143 | Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to: | ||||
| 144 | |||||
| 145 | • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to re | ||||
| > | spond to subpoenas, investigations or requests from government authorities; | ||||
| 146 | |||||
| 147 | • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by | ||||
| > | making and defending legal claims); | ||||
| 148 | |||||
| 149 | • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual require | ||||
| > | ments or our internal policies; | ||||
| 150 | |||||
| 151 | • enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and | ||||
| 152 | |||||
| 153 | • prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, un | ||||
| > | ethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft. | ||||
| 154 | |||||
| 155 | Data sharing in the context of corporate events, we may share certain personal i | ||||
| > | nformation in the context of actual or prospective corporate events – for more i | ||||
| > | nformation, see How we share your personal information, below. | ||||
| 156 | |||||
| 157 | To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data. We may create aggreg | ||||
| > | ated, de-identified and/or anonymized data from your personal information and ot | ||||
| > | her individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal informat | ||||
| > | ion into de-identified and/or anonymized data by removing information that makes | ||||
| > | the data identifiable to you and we will not attempt to reidentify any such dat | ||||
| > | a. We may use this aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data and share it | ||||
| > | with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and i | ||||
| > | mprove the Service and promote our business. | ||||
| 158 | |||||
| 159 | Further uses, in some cases, we may use your personal information for further us | ||||
| > | es, in which case we will ask for your consent to use of your personal informati | ||||
| > | on for those further purposes if they are not compatible with the initial purpos | ||||
| > | e for which information was collected. | ||||
| 160 | |||||
| 161 | # Retention | ||||
| 162 | |||||
| 163 | We generally retain personal information to fulfill the purposes for which we co | ||||
| > | llected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or r | ||||
| > | eporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevent | ||||
| > | ion purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal informa | ||||
| > | tion, we may consider factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the | ||||
| > | personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or discl | ||||
| > | osure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your perso | ||||
| > | nal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, a | ||||
| > | nd the applicable legal requirements. | ||||
| 164 | |||||
| 165 | When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, | ||||
| > | we may either delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further processing. | ||||
| 166 | |||||
| 167 | # How we share your personal information | ||||
| 168 | |||||
| 169 | We may share your personal information with the following parties (or as otherwi | ||||
| > | se described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time | ||||
| > | of collection). | ||||
| 170 | |||||
| 171 | Affiliates. Our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates. | ||||
| 172 | |||||
| 173 | Service providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us | ||||
| > | operate the Service or our business (such as hosting, information technology, cu | ||||
| > | stomer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research and website analyti | ||||
| > | cs). | ||||
| 174 | |||||
| 175 | Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on t | ||||
| > | he Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such a | ||||
| > | s Shopify and Stripe. Shopify and Stripe may use your payment data in accordance | ||||
| > | with their privacy policies, available at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy | ||||
| > | and https://stripe.com/privacy , respectively. | ||||
| 176 | |||||
| 177 | Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based a | ||||
| > | dvertising purposes described above. | ||||
| 178 | |||||
| 179 | Third parties designated by you. We may share your personal information with thi | ||||
| > | rd parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. | ||||
| 180 | |||||
| 181 | Partners. Third parties with whom we partner, including parties with whom we co- | ||||
| > | sponsor events or promotions, with whom we jointly offer products or services, o | ||||
| > | r whose products or services may be of interest to you. | ||||
| 182 | |||||
| 183 | Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers | ||||
| > | and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that t | ||||
| > | hey render to us. | ||||
| 184 | |||||
| 185 | Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private par | ||||
| > | ties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Complia | ||||
| > | nce and protection purposes described above. | ||||
| 186 | |||||
| 187 | Business transferees. We may disclose personal information in the context of act | ||||
| > | ual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in Dropout, financin | ||||
| > | g of Dropout, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer or merger of all or | ||||
| > | part of our business, assets or shares). For example, we may need to share certa | ||||
| > | in personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers. We m | ||||
| > | ay also disclose your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assigne | ||||
| > | e of Dropout as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar tran | ||||
| > | saction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in wh | ||||
| > | ich personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of o | ||||
| > | ur business assets. | ||||
| 188 | |||||
| 189 | We make commercially reasonable efforts to verify that the parties with whom our | ||||
| > | mobile application shares personal information provide a level of protection of | ||||
| > | personal information consistent with the practices described in this Privacy Po | ||||
| > | licy, except that all such parties described above other than service providers | ||||
| > | and affiliates may, to the extent permitted by law, use personal information as | ||||
| > | described in their own privacy policies. | ||||
| 190 | |||||
| 191 | # Your choices | ||||
| 192 | |||||
| 193 | In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. User | ||||
| > | s who are residents of California and certain other states can find additional i | ||||
| > | nformation about their rights below. | ||||
| 194 | |||||
| 195 | Access or update your information. If you have registered for an account with us | ||||
| > | through the Service, you may review and update certain account information by l | ||||
| > | ogging into the account. | ||||
| 196 | |||||
| 197 | Opt-out of communications. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by follow | ||||
| > | ing the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by co | ||||
| > | ntacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emai | ||||
| > | ls, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails. | ||||
| 198 | |||||
| 199 | Cookies and other technologies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. | ||||
| > | To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers acce | ||||
| > | pt cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you se | ||||
| > | t your browser to disable cookies, the Service may not work properly. For more i | ||||
| > | nformation about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on you | ||||
| > | r browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You | ||||
| > | can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web bea | ||||
| > | cons from functioning. | ||||
| 200 | |||||
| 201 | Blocking images/clear gifs: Most browsers and devices allow you to configure you | ||||
| > | r device to prevent images from loading. To do this, follow the instructions in | ||||
| > | your particular browser or device settings. | ||||
| 202 | |||||
| 203 | Mobile location data. You can disable our access to your device’s precise geoloc | ||||
| > | ation in your mobile device settings. | ||||
| 204 | |||||
| 205 | Advertising choices. You may be able to limit use of your information for intere | ||||
| > | st-based advertising through the following settings/options/tools: | ||||
| 206 | |||||
| 207 | • Browser settings. Changing your internet web browser settings to block third-p | ||||
| > | arty cookies. | ||||
| 208 | |||||
| 209 | • Privacy browsers/plug-ins. Using privacy browsers and/or ad-blocking browser p | ||||
| > | lug-ins that let you block tracking technologies. | ||||
| 210 | |||||
| 211 | • Platform settings. Certain platforms offer opt-out features that let you opt-o | ||||
| > | ut of use of your information for interest-based advertising. For example, you m | ||||
| > | ay be able to exercise that option for Google and Facebook, respectively, at the | ||||
| > | following websites: | ||||
| 212 | |||||
| 213 | o Google: https://adssettings.google.com/ | ||||
| 214 | |||||
| 215 | o Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads | ||||
| 216 | |||||
| 217 | • Ad industry tools. Opting out of interest-based ads from companies that partic | ||||
| > | ipate in the following industry opt-out programs: | ||||
| 218 | |||||
| 219 | o Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt | ||||
| > | _out.asp | ||||
| 220 | |||||
| 221 | o Digital Advertising Alliance: optout.aboutads.info. | ||||
| 222 | |||||
| 223 | o AppChoices mobile app, available at https://www.youradchoices.com/appchoices, | ||||
| > | which will allow you to opt-out of interest-based ads in mobile apps served by p | ||||
| > | articipating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance. | ||||
| 224 | |||||
| 225 | • Mobile settings. Using your mobile device settings to limit use of the adverti | ||||
| > | sing ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purpos | ||||
| > | es. | ||||
| 226 | |||||
| 227 | You will need to apply these opt-out settings on each device and browser from wh | ||||
| > | ich you wish to limit the use of your information for interest-based advertising | ||||
| > | purposes. | ||||
| 228 | |||||
| 229 | We cannot offer any assurances as to whether the companies we work with particip | ||||
| > | ate in the opt-out programs described above. | ||||
| 230 | |||||
| 231 | Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” si | ||||
| > | gnals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do | ||||
| > | Not Track” signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://w | ||||
| > | ww.allaboutdnt.com . | ||||
| 232 | |||||
| 233 | Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to pro | ||||
| > | vide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as requ | ||||
| > | ired or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services. | ||||
| 234 | |||||
| 235 | Delete your content or close your account. You can choose to delete certain cont | ||||
| > | ent through your account. If you wish to request to close your account, please c | ||||
| > | ontact us . | ||||
| 236 | |||||
| 237 | # Other sites and services | ||||
| 238 | |||||
| 239 | The Service may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online | ||||
| > | services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated | ||||
| > | into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These l | ||||
| > | inks and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are a | ||||
| > | ffiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications | ||||
| > | or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for th | ||||
| > | eir actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites | ||||
| > | , mobile applications and online services you use. | ||||
| 240 | |||||
| 241 | # Security | ||||
| 242 | |||||
| 243 | We employ technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect | ||||
| > | the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all i | ||||
| > | nternet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of you | ||||
| > | r personal information. | ||||
| 244 | |||||
| 245 | # International data transfer | ||||
| 246 | |||||
| 247 | We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that ope | ||||
| > | rate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the Uni | ||||
| > | ted States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as tho | ||||
| > | se in your state, province, or country. | ||||
| 248 | |||||
| 249 | # Children | ||||
| 250 | |||||
| 251 | The Service is not intended for use by anyone under 16 years of age. If you are | ||||
| > | a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal | ||||
| > | information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us . If we learn that | ||||
| > | we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without | ||||
| > | the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will compl | ||||
| > | y with applicable legal requirements to delete the information. | ||||
| 252 | |||||
| 253 | # Changes to this Privacy Policy | ||||
| 254 | |||||
| 255 | We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make mater | ||||
| > | ial changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of t | ||||
| > | his Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service or other appropriate means. Any | ||||
| > | modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the mod | ||||
| > | ified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, | ||||
| > | your use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy | ||||
| > | indicates your acknowledging that the modified Privacy Policy applies to your in | ||||
| > | teractions with the Service and our business. | ||||
| 256 | |||||
| 257 | # How to contact us | ||||
| 258 | |||||
| 259 | • Email: privacy@dropout.tv | ||||
| 260 | |||||
| 261 | • Mail: Connected Ventures, LLC | ||||
| 262 | |||||
| 263 | 3108 Glendale Blvd., #573 | ||||
| 264 | |||||
| 265 | Los Angeles, CA 90039 | ||||
| 266 | |||||
| 267 | # State privacy rights notice | ||||
| 268 | |||||
| 269 | This section provides additional information to residents pursuant to state priv | ||||
| > | acy laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the Virginia Co | ||||
| > | nsumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”), Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPS | ||||
| > | A”) (collectively the “State Privacy Laws”). | ||||
| 270 | |||||
| 271 | This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of re | ||||
| > | sidents of these states and the rights these users may have with respect to thei | ||||
| > | r Personal Information. Please note that not all rights listed below may be affo | ||||
| > | rded to all users and that if you are not a resident of one of these states list | ||||
| > | ed above, you may not be able to exercise these rights. In addition, we may not | ||||
| > | be able to process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail | ||||
| > | to allow us to confirm your identity or understand and respond to it. | ||||
| 272 | |||||
| 273 | For purposes of this section, the term “Personal Information” has the meaning gi | ||||
| > | ven to “personal data”, “personal information” or other similar terms and “Sensi | ||||
| > | tive Personal Information” has the meaning given to “sensitive personal informat | ||||
| > | ion,” “sensitive data”, or other similar terms in the State Privacy Laws, except | ||||
| > | that in neither case does such term include information exempted from the scope | ||||
| > | of the State Privacy Laws. In some cases, we may provide a different privacy no | ||||
| > | tice to certain categories of residents of these states, such as job applicants, | ||||
| > | in which case that notice will apply instead of this section. | ||||
| 274 | |||||
| 275 | Your privacy rights. The State Privacy Laws may provide residents with some or a | ||||
| > | ll of the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute and some S | ||||
| > | tate Privacy Laws do not provide these rights to their residents. Therefore, we | ||||
| > | may decline your request in certain cases as permitted by law. | ||||
| 276 | |||||
| 277 | Information. You can request the following information about how we have collect | ||||
| > | ed and used your Personal Information during the past 12 months: | ||||
| 278 | |||||
| 279 | - The categories of Personal Information that we have collected. | ||||
| 280 | - The categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information. | ||||
| 281 | - The business or commercial purpose for collecting and/or selling Personal Info | ||||
| > | rmation. | ||||
| 282 | - The categories of third parties with which we share Personal Information. | ||||
| 283 | - The categories of Personal Information that we sold or disclosed for a busines | ||||
| > | s purpose. | ||||
| 284 | - The categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold or d | ||||
| > | isclosed for a business purpose. | ||||
| 285 | |||||
| 286 | Access. You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collecte | ||||
| > | d about you. | ||||
| 287 | |||||
| 288 | Appeal. You can appeal our denial of any request validly submitted. | ||||
| 289 | |||||
| 290 | Correction. You can ask us to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we ha | ||||
| > | ve collected about you. | ||||
| 291 | |||||
| 292 | Deletion. You can ask us to delete the Personal Information that we have collect | ||||
| > | ed from you. | ||||
| 293 | |||||
| 294 | Opt-out. | ||||
| 295 | |||||
| 296 | - Opt-out of certain processing for targeted advertising purposes. You can opt-o | ||||
| > | ut of certain processing of personal information for targeted advertising purpos | ||||
| > | es. | ||||
| 297 | - Opt-out of profiling/automated decision making. You can opt-out of automated p | ||||
| > | rocessing or profiling performed on personal information to evaluate, analyze, o | ||||
| > | r predict personal aspects related to a person's economic situation, health, per | ||||
| > | sonal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements. | ||||
| 298 | - Opt-out of other sales of Personal Information. You can opt-out of other sales | ||||
| > | of your Personal Information. | ||||
| 299 | |||||
| 300 | Consumers under 16. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the pe | ||||
| > | rsonal information of consumers under 16 years of age. | ||||
| 301 | |||||
| 302 | Nondiscrimination. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free | ||||
| > | from discrimination as prohibited by the State Privacy Laws. | ||||
| 303 | |||||
| 304 | Exercising your right to information/know, access, appeal, correction, and delet | ||||
| > | ion/deletion. You may submit requests to exercise your right to information/know | ||||
| > | , access, appeal, correction, or deletion by calling us 323 -375-5986, or via em | ||||
| > | ail to datarequest@dropout.tv. | ||||
| 305 | |||||
| 306 | Exercising your right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Inf | ||||
| > | ormation. While we do not sell personal information for money, like many compani | ||||
| > | es, we use services that help deliver interest-based ads to you as described abo | ||||
| > | ve. The State Privacy Laws may classify our use of some of these services as “se | ||||
| > | lling” or “sharing” your Personal Information with the advertising partners that | ||||
| > | provide the services. You can by submit requests to opt-out of tracking for tar | ||||
| > | geted advertising purposes or other sales of Personal Information here: Do Not S | ||||
| > | ell or Share My Personal Information , via email to datarequest@dropout.tv, or b | ||||
| > | y broadcasting the global privacy control signal . | ||||
| 307 | |||||
| 308 | Verification of identity. We may need to verify your identity in order to proces | ||||
| > | s your information/know, access, appeal, correction, or deletion requests and re | ||||
| > | serve the right to confirm your residency. To verify your identity, we may requi | ||||
| > | re government identification, a declaration under penalty of perjury, or other i | ||||
| > | nformation, where permitted by law. | ||||
| 309 | |||||
| 310 | Authorized agents. Under some State Privacy Laws, you many enable an authorized | ||||
| > | agent to make a request on your behalf. However, we may need to verify your auth | ||||
| > | orized agent’s identity and authority to act on your behalf. We may require a co | ||||
| > | py of a valid power of attorney given to your authorized agent pursuant to appli | ||||
| > | cable law. If you have not provided your agent with such a power of attorney, we | ||||
| > | may ask you to take additional steps permitted by law to verify that your reque | ||||
| > | st is authorized, such as by providing your agent with written and signed permis | ||||
| > | sion to exercise your State Privacy Laws rights on your behalf, the information | ||||
| > | we request to verify your identity, and confirmation that you have given the aut | ||||
| > | horized agent permission to submit the request. | ||||
| 311 | |||||
| 312 | Additional information for California residents. | ||||
| 313 | |||||
| 314 | • Sensitive personal information. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal i | ||||
| > | nformation for purposes that California residents have a right to limit under th | ||||
| > | e California Consumer Privacy Act. | ||||
| 315 | |||||
| 316 | • Retention. The criteria for deciding how long to retain Personal Information i | ||||
| > | s generally based on whether such period is sufficient to fulfill the purposes f | ||||
| > | or which we collected it as described in this notice, including complying with o | ||||
| > | ur legal obligations. | ||||
| 317 | |||||
| 318 | • Deidentification. We do not to attempt to reidentify deidentified information | ||||
| > | derived from Personal Information, except for the purpose of testing whether our | ||||
| > | deidentification processes comply with applicable law. | ||||
| 319 | |||||
| 320 | • Personal information that we collect, use and disclose. We have summarized the | ||||
| > | Personal Information (“PI”) we collect and may disclose to third parties by ref | ||||
| > | erence below to both the categories defined in the “Personal information we coll | ||||
| > | ect” section of this Privacy Policy above and the categories of Personal Informa | ||||
| > | tion specified in the CCPA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140). The below summary describ | ||||
| > | es our practices currently and during the 12 months preceding the effective date | ||||
| > | of this Privacy Policy. Information you voluntarily provide to us, such as in f | ||||
| > | ree-form webforms, may contain other categories of personal information not desc | ||||
| > | ribed below. | ||||
| 321 | |||||
| 322 | Contact data | ||||
| 323 | |||||
| 324 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California cus | ||||
| > | tomer records | ||||
| 325 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Payment processors, Third parties designated by you, | ||||
| > | Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 326 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 327 | |||||
| 328 | Demographic data | ||||
| 329 | |||||
| 330 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, California customer records | ||||
| 331 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 332 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 333 | |||||
| 334 | Profile data | ||||
| 335 | |||||
| 336 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California cus | ||||
| > | tomer records | ||||
| 337 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 338 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 339 | |||||
| 340 | Communications data | ||||
| 341 | |||||
| 342 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California con | ||||
| > | sumer records, Internet or Network Information, Audio, electronic, visual, therm | ||||
| > | al, olfactory or similar information | ||||
| 343 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 344 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: None | ||||
| 345 | |||||
| 346 | Recording data | ||||
| 347 | |||||
| 348 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California con | ||||
| > | sumer records, Internet or Network Information, Audio, electronic, visual, therm | ||||
| > | al, olfactory or similar information | ||||
| 349 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 350 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: None | ||||
| 351 | |||||
| 352 | Transactional data | ||||
| 353 | |||||
| 354 | - CCPA statutory categories: Commercial information, California consumer records | ||||
| > | , Financial information | ||||
| 355 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Payment processors, Third parties designated by you, | ||||
| > | Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 356 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 357 | |||||
| 358 | Marketing data | ||||
| 359 | |||||
| 360 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California cus | ||||
| > | tomer records, Internet or Network Information | ||||
| 361 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Payment processors, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Busi | ||||
| > | ness transferees, Partners | ||||
| 362 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 363 | |||||
| 364 | Payment data | ||||
| 365 | |||||
| 366 | - CCPA statutory categories: Commercial information, Financial information, Cali | ||||
| > | fornia consumer records | ||||
| 367 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Payment processors, Third parties designated by you, | ||||
| > | Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 368 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: None | ||||
| 369 | |||||
| 370 | Data about others | ||||
| 371 | |||||
| 372 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, California consumer records | ||||
| 373 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Payment processors, Third parties designated by you, | ||||
| > | Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 374 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: None | ||||
| 375 | |||||
| 376 | Device data | ||||
| 377 | |||||
| 378 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Internet or Network Information | ||||
| 379 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Payment processors, Third parties designated by you, | ||||
| > | Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 380 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 381 | |||||
| 382 | Online activity data | ||||
| 383 | |||||
| 384 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, Internet or Ne | ||||
| > | twork Information | ||||
| 385 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 386 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 387 | |||||
| 388 | Precise geolocation data | ||||
| 389 | |||||
| 390 | - CCPA statutory categories: Geolocation data | ||||
| 391 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Advertising partners, Third parties designated by yo | ||||
| > | u, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 392 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 393 | |||||
| 394 | Communication interaction data | ||||
| 395 | |||||
| 396 | - CCPA statutory categories: Identifiers, Commercial information, California con | ||||
| > | sumer records, Internet or Network Information | ||||
| 397 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Third parties designated by you, Professional adviso | ||||
| > | rs, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partners | ||||
| 398 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 399 | |||||
| 400 | Data derived from the above | ||||
| 401 | |||||
| 402 | - CCPA statutory categories: Inferences | ||||
| 403 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: Aff | ||||
| > | iliates, Service providers, Authorities and others, Business transferees, Partne | ||||
| > | rs | ||||
| 404 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: Advertising partners (to facilitate online advertising) | ||||
| 405 | |||||
| 406 | Other Sensitive Personal Information (We do not intentionally collect this infor | ||||
| > | mation, but it may be revealed in Profile data or other information we collect) | ||||
| 407 | |||||
| 408 | - CCPA statutory categories: Protected Classification Characteristics | ||||
| 409 | - Categories of third parties to whom we disclose PI for a business purpose: N/A | ||||
| 410 | - Categories of third parties to whom we “sell” or “share” PI for interest-based | ||||
| > | advertising: None | ||||
| 411 | |||||
| 412 | Additional information for Nevada residents. Nevada residents have the right to | ||||
| > | opt-out of the sale of certain personal information for monetary consideration. | ||||
| > | While we do not currently engage in such sales, if you are a Nevada resident and | ||||
| > | would like to make a request to opt out of any potential future sales, please e | ||||
| > | mail us at datarequest@dropout.tv. | ||||
| 413 | |||||
| 414 | Additional information for Texas residents. We may sell your sensitive personal | ||||
| > | data, as defined by the TDPSA, by using services that help deliver interest-base | ||||
| > | d ads to you as described above. | ||||