About Our Privacy Policy

YipZap Inc. is a [YipZap's business, e.g., social media, e-commerce, content sharing] company. Our mission is to [YipZap's mission, e.g., connect people, provide a platform for creators, facilitate commerce].

The YipZap services that link to this Privacy Policy provide fun ways for you to [describe YipZap's services, e.g., create and share content, discover products, connect with others].

When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. We want to explain clearly what information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.

That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. We tried to write it in simple language with minimal legalese so it’s easy for you to understand. If you have any questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Information We Collect

There are three basic categories of information we collect:

• Information you choose to give us
• Information we get when you use our services
• Information we get from third parties

Here’s how we collect your information.

How We Collect Information

Information You Choose To Give Us

When you use and interact with our services, we collect the information you choose to share with us. For example, most of our services require you to set up a basic YipZap account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as: a unique username you choose, a password, an e-mail address, and your date of birth. To make it easier for others to find you, we may also ask you to provide us additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, for example a profile picture, a name, or other identifiable information. Our other services, such as commerce products, may also require you to provide us with a debit card or credit card number and its associated account information.

You’ll also provide any information you send through our services, such as [e.g., posts, comments, product reviews, messages]. Keep in mind that [e.g., posts and comments] you upload can be seen publicly, and can always be saved and copied outside of our services. Please don’t share content you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.

Lastly, when you contact us or communicate with us in any way, we’ll collect any information you give us.

Information We Get When You Use Our Services

When you use our services, we collect information about which services you use and how you use them. For example, we may know what [e.g., products you view, users you follow, content you interact with], when you’re [viewing/following/interacting], and how you’re [doing so] (desktop, mobile browser, or mobile app). Here’s a more detailed explanation of the information we collect when you use our services:

Usage Information. We collect information about your activity through our services. For example:

• How you interact with our services, such as what [e.g., products you look at, users you follow], what you search for, what [e.g., content you upload], or what [e.g., content you like or dislike].

Content Information. We collect content you create on our services. For example:

• The images, videos, and text you upload [or other content you create].

We also collect information about the content you create. For example:

• When you created the content
• Where you created the content
• How you created the content such as device information

We also collect information about how other users interact with your content. For example:

• [e.g., Likes and dislikes]
• [e.g., Comments and comment likes and dislikes]

Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example:

• Information about your hardware and software, such as hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, unique device identifiers, and language.
• Information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as your type of network connection.

Camera and Photos. Some of our services require us to collect images and other information from your devices’s camera and photos. For example, you won’t be able to [e.g., upload images or videos from your camera roll] unless we can access your camera or media library.

Location Information. When you use our services, we may collect information about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, and Wi-Fi access points.

Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies. We may use cookies and other technologies such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We may use these technologies to collect information when you interact with services we offer through one of our partners, such as advertising and commerce features. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. It is up to you to move or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Removing or rejecting cookies may affect our service function and availability.

Log Information. We also collect log information when you use our services. For example:

• Details about how you’ve used our services.
• Device information, such as web browser type and language.
• Access times.
• Pages and content viewed.
• IP address.
• Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser.
• Pages you visited before or after visiting our website or using our service.

Information We Collect From Third Parties

We may collect information from our affiliates and third parties. For example:

• If you use your Google or Facebook account to sign up or sign in to our services, we may receive information so you can create or access your YipZap account.
• If you interact with one of our advertisers, they may share information with us to help target or measure ad performance.

How We Use Information

We use your information to provide you with the best products and services we can build and improve. Here’s what we use this information for:

• To develop, maintain, improve, deliver, and protect our products and services.
• Monitor and analyze trends and usages of our products and services.
• Send you communications, including by e-mail. Examples include using e-mail to respond to support inquiries, or to share information about our products, services, and promotional offers that we think may interest you.
• Personalize our services by showing you better and more relevant content [or products, etc.].
• Provide ad targeting and measurement, including the use of your precise location information to show relevant ads.
• Enhance and enforce the safety and security of our products and services.
• Verify your identity and prevent fraud, or other unauthorized and illegal activity.
• Use information we’ve collected cookies and other data to enhance our services and products.
• Enforce our Terms of Service, Community Rules, and other usage policies.

How We Share Information

We may share information about you in the following ways:

With other YipZap Users.

We may share information with other YipZap users. Examples include:

• Information about you, such as your name, username, and profile pictures.
• Information you upload, such as [e.g., product reviews, posts, comments].
• Information about how you interacted with our services, such as the content you post, the comments you post, and the content you upvote.

With all YipZap Users, our business partners, and the general public.

We may share information with all YipZap users, our business partners, and the general public. Examples include:

• Public information like your name, username, and profile pictures.
• Content submissions set to be viewable by everyone.
• Content from our services that you share on other services, such as Facebook or Pinterest.

With our affiliates.

We may share information with the entities within the YipZap Inc. family of companies.

With third parties.

We may share your information with third parties. Examples include:

• With service providers. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf.
• With business partners. We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality.
• With third parties for legal reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is necessary. Examples include:
  • To comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule or regulation.
  • To investigate, enforce, or remedy potential Terms of Service violations
  • To protect the safety, rights, and property of YipZap, our users, or others.
  • To detect and resolve any fraud or security matters or concerns.
• With third parties as part of a merger or acquisition. If YipZap Inc. gets involved with a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation, bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with the company before, during, and after the transaction.

We may also share aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information with third parties, such as advertisers.

Third-Party Content and Integrations

Our services may contain third-party links and search results, include third-party integrations, or offer a co-branded or third-party-branded-service. Through these links, third-party integrations, and co-branded or third-party-branded services, you may be providing information, including personal information, directly to the third party, to us, or to both. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services.

Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others

We may let other companies use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies on our services. These companies may collect information about how you use our services over time, and combine it with similar information from other services and companies. This information may be used to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and understand your online activity, among other things.

Some companies, including our affiliates, may use information collected on our services to measure the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps.

When you enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up to a newsletter, or similar) we may share personal or other information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, information about your device or browser, information about your activity on our website, with LiveRamp Inc. and its group companies' ("LiveRamp"). LiveRamp uses this information to provide us with an identifier for marketing and advertising purposes. This identifier may be stored on your browser in an advertising cookie and may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. If you would like to opt out of LiveRamp's use of your data, you may visit https://liveramp.com/opt_out.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We only keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by law. After that, your information will be deleted.

The actual period for which we keep your personal information varies depending on the specific way your information is used. That said, here are some examples:

• We keep your basic account information, like your name, phone number, and email, until you ask us to delete it.
• We keep location information for varying periods of time, depending on how precise it is and which of our services you use.
• We keep information about the content you create, such as posts and comments, for as long as that content remains visible on our services.

Control Over Your Information

We want you to be in control of your information. That’s why we provide you with the following tools:

• Access, correct, and port. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. If you need to access, correct, or port information that isn’t available in our apps, you can contact us.
• Revoke permissions. If you let us use your information, you can always change your mind. For example, if you let us access your location, you can later disable location services on your device. Just keep in mind that some services may lose full functionality if you do this.
• Deletion. We hope you’ll be a YipZap user for life, but if for any reason you ever want to delete your account, just go to [link to deletion section] and follow the steps.

If you live in certain states or regions, you may have additional privacy rights. For example, you may have the right to:

• Confirm whether we process your personal information.
• Receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Object to our processing of your personal information.
• Withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information.
• Request that we delete your personal information.

Information for California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information regarding how we handle their personal information. This section of the Privacy Policy is intended to satisfy those requirements.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

During the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers, such as name, username, email address, IP address, and device identifiers.
• Demographic information, such as age and gender.
• Location information.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and interactions with our services.
• Sensory data, such as audio and visual information.
• Inferences drawn from any of the above information.

Business or Commercial Purposes for Which We Collect and Use Personal Information

We collect and use your personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the "How We Use Information" section above.

Categories of Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information from the categories of sources described in the "How We Collect Information" section above, including:

• Directly from you.
• From your devices.
• From our affiliates and third parties.

Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share Personal Information

We share your personal information with the categories of third parties described in the "How We Share Information" section above, including:

• Other users.
• Our affiliates.
• Service providers.
• Business partners.
• Third parties for legal reasons.
• Third parties as part of a merger or acquisition.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights with respect to your personal information, including the right to:

• Request that we disclose to you the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
• Request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you (subject to certain exceptions).
• Opt out of the sale of your personal information. We do not "sell" your personal information as that term is defined under the CCPA.
• Be free from discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise your California privacy rights, please contact us.

Children

Our services are not intended for children under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are a parent, and you know that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us. If we become aware that we’ve collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete that information.

Revisions to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll let you know. We’ll provide notice to you by [e.g., updating the date at the top of this Privacy Policy, providing notice in our services, or via email].

If you continue to use our services after we change the Privacy Policy, you agree to the new Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can reach us at [support@yipzap.com].