Topics
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Collection of Information
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Transferring your information
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Choices you have about your info
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How and when we share information
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How long we keep your information
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Our policy on children�s information
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Your options
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Residents of the EEA
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California residents
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How we make changes to this policy
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Contact us
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Summary of changes
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We added more details about data we collect and how
it's used.
Collection of Information
We collect information in a few different ways
1. When you give it to us or give us permission to obtain
it
When you sign up for or use ProductPals.com you voluntarily
share certain information including your name, email address, phone number,
photos, Collections, comments, and any other information you give us. You can
also choose to share your precise location using your device settings or
through photos. We will still use your IP address, which is used to approximate
your location, even if you don't choose to share your precise location. You
will also have the option to share other information about yourself such as
your gender, age and preferred language.
If you connect your Facebook, Google(opens in a new window)
or other third-party accounts to ProductPals.com, we use information from those
accounts (such as your friends or contacts) to improve your ProductPals.com
experience. This is dependent on the privacy policies or settings for those
accounts.
2. We also get technical information when you use
ProductPals.com
When you use a website, mobile application or other
internet service, certain internet and electronic network activity information
gets created and logged automatically. This is also true when you use
ProductPals.com. Here are some of the types of information we collect:
Log data: When you use
ProductPals.com, our servers record information (�log data�), including information
that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit a website, or that
your mobile app automatically sends when you�re using it. This log data
includes your Internet Protocol address (which we use to infer your approximate
location), the address of and activity on websites you visit that incorporate
ProductPals.com features (like the �Save� button�more details below), searches,
browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, how you used
ProductPals.com, cookie data and device data. You can learn more about the log data
we collect here.
Cookie data. We also use �cookies� (small text files sent
by your computer each time you visit our website, unique to your ProductPals.com
account or your browser) or similar technologies to get log data. When we use
cookies or other similar technologies, we use session cookies (that last until
you close your browser) or persistent cookies (that last until you or your
browser delete them). For example, we use cookies to store your location
preferences or other settings so you don�t have to set them up every time you
visit ProductPals.com. Some of the cookies we use are associated with your
ProductPals.com account (including information about you, such as the email address
you gave us) and other cookies are not).
Device information. In addition to log data, we collect information about the device you�re using ProductPals.com on, including the type of device, operating system, settings, unique device identifiers and crash data that helps us understand when something breaks.
Clickstream data and inferences. When you�re on
ProductPals.com, we use your activity�such as which pages you click on, Collections
you create, and any text that you add in a comment or description�along with
information you provided when you first signed up and information from our
partners and advertisers to make inferences about you and your preferences. For
example, if you create a collection about travel, we may infer you are a travel
enthusiast. We may also infer information about your education or professional
experience based on your activity when you link your account to accounts you
have with third parties like Facebook or Google.
Our partners and advertisers share information with us
We also get information about you and your activity outside
ProductPals.com from our affiliates, advertisers, partners and other third parties
we work with. For example:
Some websites or apps use ProductPals.com features and tools.� If
so, we collect log data from those sites or apps to ensure that Privacy
policies are adhered to.
Online advertisers or third parties share information with
us to measure, report on or improve the performance of ads on ProductPals.com, or
to figure out what kinds of ads to show you on or off of ProductPals.com. This
includes information about your visits to an advertiser's site or purchases you
made from them, or information about your interests from a third-party service,
which we might use to help show you ads. Learn more about the types of
information advertisers or other third parties share with us.
What we do with the info we collect:
We�re committed to showing you content that�s relevant,
interesting and personal to you. To do that, we use your information to provide
and improve your experience, including:
Identify you when you use ProductPals.com:
Recommend Collections, Collections, topics or categories
you might like based on your activity on ProductPals.com. For example, if we see
you�re into cooking, we may suggest food-related Collections, Collections or
people that we think you might like, or show you food-related ads.
Respond to your questions or comments:
We have a legitimate interest for using your info in these
ways. It's fundamental to what we do at ProductPals.com and necessary in order to
make ProductPals.com and its features relevant and personalized to you.
We also have a legitimate interest in making ProductPals.com
safe and improving our product features so you keep finding the inspiration you
want. We all benefit when we use your information to:
Suggest other people who have similar interests. For
example, if you follow interior design Collections, we may suggest interior
designers that you might like.
Help your friends and contacts find you on ProductPals.com, if
you agree to this in your settings. For example, if you sign up using a
Facebook account, we can help your Facebook friends find you on ProductPals.com
when they first sign up for ProductPals.com. Or people can search for your account
on ProductPals.com using your email.
Work with law enforcement and keep ProductPals.com safe. We may
get requests for account information from law enforcement authorities like the
police or courts. To find out more about how we respond to law enforcement
requests, please see our Law Enforcement Guidelines.
Review your messages on ProductPals.com to detect activity that
poses a risk to the safety of you, our community and/or members of the public.
Conduct analytics and research on who is using ProductPals.com
and what they are doing. For example, by logging how often people use two
different versions of a feature on ProductPals.com, we can understand which version
is better.
Improve ProductPals.com and offer new features
Advertise ProductPals.com products and services to you on other
sites. You can choose for us not to share your information with other sites to
personalize those ads as described in the �Choices you have about your
information� section below.
Send you updates (such as when certain activity, like saves
or comments, happens on ProductPals.com) and news by email or push notification,
depending on your settings. For example, we send weekly updates that include Collections
you may like. You can decide to stop getting these notifications by updating
your settings.
We have a legitimate interest in delivering ads that are
relevant, interesting and personal to you in order to generate revenue. To
further these interests we use the information we collect to:
Decide which ads to show you:� For example, if you show an
interest in camCollectionsg tents on ProductPals.com, we may show you ads for other
outdoor products. We customize the ad content we show you by identifying your
interests based on your onsite and offsite activities, as well as by using
information we receive from ad partners or other third parties. Where we use
cookies to identify your offsite interests, we�ll get your consent where we
need to. Where ad partners or other third parties share information with us
about you, we rely on the consent they already obtained.
Tell our ad partners how their ProductPals.com ads are doing,
and how to make them better. Some of this information is aggregated. For
example, we would report to an advertiser that a certain percentage of people
who viewed a Promoted Collections went on to visit that advertiser's site. In
other instances, this information isn�t aggregated. For example, we would let
an advertiser know that a particular Promoted Collections has been saved by
certain people. To find out more about reporting on ads please visit the Help
Center.
We have a legitimate interest in using information we
collect to customize your ProductPals.com experience based on your offsite
behavior. For example, if you visit websites that sell electric guitars, we may
suggest guitar Collections to you. When we identify your interests based on
your offsite behavior with cookies, we will obtain any consent that we may
need. To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
In addition to the specific circumstances above, we�ll only
use your information with your consent in order to:
Allow searching with photos. For example, if you take a
photo of a pair of shoes or a piece of furniture you like, you can ask us to
show you similar items. You can opt in to this in your device operating system
settings.
Send you marketing materials by email, text, push notification
or phone call depending on your account or operating system settings. Each time
we send you marketing materials, we give you the option to unsubscribe.
Identify your precise location and customize the content we
show you. For example, if we know that you�re near a retailer we may show you
that retailer�s Collections that may be of interest to you. You can opt in to
this in your device operating system settings.
Tell our ad partners how their ads are doing using the
ProductPals.com Tag. The ProductPals.com Tag (a piece of code an advertiser puts on
their site) delivers insights to us and our ad partners about actions that a
person takes on their website after viewing an ad on ProductPals.com. To learn more
about the ProductPals.com Tag, please visit the Help Center.
We�ll also rely on your consent where we use cookies to:
Identify you across different browser sessions. This means
if you log into ProductPals.com from your phone (or any device), we'll remember
that you're you and then you won't need to enter your login details each time
you visit ProductPals.com.
Show you ads you might be interested in. We use cookies to
identify your interests based on your offsite activity. We do this for people
currently using ProductPals.com and for new folks, and it helps us customize how
you get started on ProductPals.com.
To find out more about how we use cookies, and your choices
about how we use them, please see our Cookie Policy.
Transferring your information
ProductPals.com Collections is a
worldwide service. By using this product or related services, you authorize us
to transfer and store your information outside your home country, including in
the United States, for the purposes described in this policy. The privacy
protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information
in such countries may not be equivalent to those of your home country.
See the section for EEA Residents to learn more about data
transfers to and from that region.
Choices you have about your info
Our goal is to give you simple and meaningful choices
regarding your information. If you have a ProductPals.com account, many of these
controls are built directly into ProductPals.com or your settings. For example, you
can:
Edit information in your profile at any time, decide
whether your profile is available to search engines, or choose whether others
can find your ProductPals.com account using your email address.
Link or unlink your ProductPals.com account from other services
(like Facebook, Google or Twitter). For some services (like Facebook), you can
also decide whether or not to publish your ProductPals.com activity to that
service.
Edit Private Collections settings: Private Collections are visible to you and other collaborators in the
Collections, and any collaborator may choose to make the Collections available
to anyone else. For example, another collaborator can invite someone else to
the Collections, make the Collections available to an app they use to view
ProductPals.com, or even just take an image from the Collections and email it to
their friends.
Choose whether ProductPals.com will be customized for you using
information from other websites or apps. If you have a ProductPals.com account and
want to control how your offsite data is used to tailor your experience, you
can visit your settings and update your �Personalization� preferences.
Choose whether ProductPals.com ads delivered to you on other
platforms, sites or apps are customized using information about your account
activities. You can control this by visiting your settings and updating your
�Personalization� preferences.
Choose whether ProductPals.com shares information about your
activity on ProductPals.com for ads performance reporting. You can control this by
visiting your settings and updating your �Personalization� preferences.
Close your account at any time. When you close your
account, we�ll deactivate it, remove your Collections and Collections from
ProductPals.com and delete your account data.
We also support settings such as Limit Ad Tracking in iOS,
Ads Personalization in Android devices as well as Do Not Track in browsers.
Learn more about how Do Not Track affects our collection and use of data
collected off of ProductPals.com.
You also have choices available to you through the device
or software you use to access ProductPals.com. For example:
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The browser you use lets you control cookies or
other types of local data storage.
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Your mobile device lets you choose how and whether
your precise location, photos, contacts and other data is shared with us.
To learn more about these choices, please see the
information provided by your device or software provider.
How and when we share information
Anyone can see the Public Profiles and Collections you
create and p you give us. We also make this public information available
through what are called APIs (basically a technical way to share information
quickly). For example, a partner can study what their most popular Collections
are or how their Collections are being shared on ProductPals.com by using a
ProductPals.com API. We also share your information with:
Other services, to enable you to sign up for or log in to
ProductPals.com, or when you decide to link your ProductPals.com account to those
services, like Facebook or Google, or when you publish your content on
ProductPals.com to them. For example, if you choose to publish your Collections to
Facebook or Twitter, then information about that content will be shared with
Facebook or Twitter.
Services we use to market ProductPals.com to you on sites and
apps other than ProductPals.com, such as Facebook Ads, Google Marketing Platform,
Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn Advertising, The Trade Desk and others from
time to time. You can opt-out of sharing with such advertising services in your
settings.
Online advertisers and third-party companies that we or
they use to audit or improve the delivery and performance of ads or content on
websites and apps (for example, through Google Analytics). This includes us
sharing the Collections or ads you were shown on ProductPals.com and whether or how
you engaged with those Collections or ads, or other information about your
activity on ProductPals.com. Learn more about how we share information with online
advertisers. To learn more about third-party companies that analyze ad
performance, please visit our Help Center.
Third-party companies, service providers or individuals
that we employ to process information on our behalf based on our instructions
and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we share
data with security consultants to help us get better at identifying spam. Some
information we acquire may be collected by third-party providers on our behalf.
Law enforcement agencies or government agencies. We only
share information if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to
comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety, rights,
or property of the public, any person, or ProductPals.com; or to detect, prevent,
or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
Our wholly-owned subsidiaries and affiliates. If we were to
engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or
similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information
described in this Policy, we would share your information with a party involved
in such a process (for example, a potential purchaser).
How long we keep your information
We keep your information only so long as we need it to
provide ProductPals.com Service to you and fulfill the purposes described in this
policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with
and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your
information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or
regulatory obligations, we�ll either remove it from our systems or
depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.
Our policy on children�s information
Children under 13 are not allowed to use ProductPals.com. If
you are based in the EEA you may only use ProductPals.com if you are over the age
at which you can provide consent to data processing under the laws of your
country. If you are a parent and you learn that your child is using ProductPals.com
and you don't want them to, please contact us.
Your options
You have options in relation to the information that we
have about you. To exercise these options, please visit your account settings
and, if you still need help, our Help Center.
Request access to the information we collect and hold
about you: We'll usually share this with you within 30
days of you asking us for it through our Help Center.
Have your information corrected or deleted: You can update your information in your profile or delete your data by
closing your account.
Object to us processing your information: You can ask us to stop using your information, including when we use
your information to send you marketing emails or push notifications. If you opt
out of receiving marketing messages from us, we may still send you updates
about your account, such as when someone comments on one of your Collections.
Have the information you provided to us sent to another
organization, where we hold this information with your consent or for the
performance of a contract with you, and, where it's technically feasible for us
to do so.
Request more details about the information we collect and
how and why we use and share it.
We will not discriminate against you if you choose to
exercise your options related to your personal information. We work to be clear
with you about your options and the consequences of exercising certain options.
If you have questions, please contact us.
ProductPals.com will shortly comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy
Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the
collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the
European Union to the United States. ProductPals.com has certified to the
Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If
there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy
Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more
about the Privacy Shield program, please visit the Privacy Shield website.
California residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to
disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the
categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third
parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.
In the preceding twelve months, we have collected Personal
Information from you, your devices, our partners, third parties, and from
categories of sources otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
We are also required to communicate information about
rights California residents have under California law. You may exercise the
following rights:
Right to Know and Access: You
may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories
of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which
categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories
of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces
of Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to Equal Service: We will
not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Right to Delete: You may submit
a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete Personal
Information about you that we have collected.
We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.
For more information about these rights, please see
�Choices you have about your info� above, and to exercise them, please visit
our Help Center or contact us at privacy-support@ProductPals.com. In order to
verify any request, you may need to log in to your account or respond to an
email verification request.
We collect the following categories of Personal Information
and in the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed these categories of Personal
Information for a business purpose to affiliates, service providers and third
parties:
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Identifiers, such as your name, username, email
address, phone number, unique device identifiers, and your IP address
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Personal characteristics protected by law, such as
your gender and age
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Commercial information, such as purchases made, and
payment information
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Internet or electronic network activity
information, such as information about your device and your use of our Services
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Geo-location data, when shared through your device
settings or photos
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Electronic, visual, or similar information, such as
your profile picture or photos
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Professional or employment information when you
link your account to other accounts
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Inferences we draw or derive about users, such as
your interests or preferences
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Other information you provide, such as your bio, Collections,
and comments
We use and disclose this information for the business
purposes described in this policy, including to: audit our Service, detect
security incidents and prevent fraud, debug and repair errors, maintain your
account, provide customer service, process or fulfill orders, conduct research
and development and other activities to improve our Service, show advertising,
market our Services, and understand how users interact with our Services.
How we make changes to this policy
We may change this policy from time to time and if we do,
we�ll post any changes on the web page. If you continue to use ProductPals.com
after those changes are in effect, you agree to the new policy. If the changes
are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice or get your consent, as
required by law.
Contact us
The best way to get in touch with us or to exercise your
options described above is through the Help Center. You can contact ProductPals.com
Inc. at 662, 11 A main, 5th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560041
Effective Date July 1, 2020
Last updated July 1, 2020
