PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: January 01, 2024
This Privacy Policy applies to Visual
Streams. (“Visual Streams”, “we”, “our” or “us”)
services, including but not limited to Visual Streams applications, our
website info@visualstreams.online, our
application currently titled “Guess The Word” (the “App”) and any
other product or service that we choose to apply this Privacy Policy to
(collectively, the “Service”), and details how we collect, use, and
disclose data about our users, including you.
BY CLICKING “I AGREE” OR SIMILAR CONFIRMATION
OR BY USING THE SERVICE YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AS
APPLICABLE IN YOUR JURISDICTION.
The Service collects and processes
personal data, which is information about you or that identifies you. We obtain
your personal data directly from you or when you use the Service. Your
provision of personal data to Visual Streams is governed by this Privacy Policy
and our Terms of Use or End-User License Agreement then in place (“TOU”),
which, if requested to do so, you must agree to in order to
use the Service.
Subject to legal, contractual and
technical requirements, you may choose not to provide Visual Streams with
certain data or you may request the deletion of
certain data, which may impact the quality of the Service provided to you.
We collect personal data about you
when you access the Service and while you use the App. On occasion, anonymous
data that we collect is linked with your personal data making such data
personal data as well. The following is a description of the personal data that
we may collect, use and process in connection with the Service:
We process your personal data
primarily for our legitimate business purposes, such as providing the Service
to you, to understand your needs and the needs of our users and to improve the
quality of the Service and analyze the data we collect. Specifically, these
uses include but are not limited to:
We may disclose your personal data to
our parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, employees and contractors for
the same purposes described above. We may also disclose your personal data to third-parties, who may be located in a foreign jurisdiction
and subject to foreign laws. The situations where we disclose your personal
data to third-parties include, but are not limited to:
The
Privacy Policy only applies to personal data that Visual Streams collects,
processes and discloses and does not apply to the collection, processing and
disclosure of data by third parties, through third-party services, which may be
broader than set forth in this Privacy Policy, and that may be embedded into
the Service. In many cases, third-parties may
collect personal information about a user’s online activities over time and
across different websites and services
The Service does not use tracking
technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, java beacons and clear GIFs, to
collect data about you, such as your IP address but may use third party
software that does use these tracking technologies. Based on this data, third-parties may be able to resolve your identity across
multiple devices, for example, by matching your IP address, in order to target
you based on your online behavior. This data is collected, used and disclosed
in accordance with the terms the applicable third-party privacy policies.
Certain features of the Service may rely on tracking technologies and by
declining to accept cookies, disabling JavaScript or by changing certain
settings on your device, you may not have access to these features. You have the
right to opt-out of certain cookies that are not necessary for the operations
of the Service, including third-party cookies and may do so.
You may contact Visual Streams to
obtain a copy of any personal data we have collected about you, the production
of which may be subject to a fee as permitted by applicable law. In addition,
you may contact Visual Streams to correct inaccurate personal data or to
complete incomplete personal data.
You may be able to opt-out of some or all of the ways in which your personal data is processed, or
request the deletion of certain personal data, except where the personal data
is necessary or vital:
and may do so by removing personal
data, if the Service permits such removal, by deleting your Account or by
contacting us using the contact information found below.
While Visual Streams is a Canadian
company, the data you provide through the Service may be stored and processed
by third parties in countries around the world. You authorize Visual Streams
and third parties acting on our behalf to process your data in any country of
their choosing, which may cause your data, including personal and anonymous
data, to be subject to privacy protections and legal rights that may not be
equivalent to those in your country.
Visual Streams complies with
international personal data transfer laws in applicable jurisdictions. For
European Economic Area (“EEA”) residents, Visual Streams complies with
Articles 44-49 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the
“GDPR”). Currently, any transfers of personal data to Canada from
residents of the EEA are covered by an adequacy decision as described in
Article 45 of the GDPR.
Your personal data is retained until
you request its deletion or until Visual Streams no longer requires such data
for the purpose for which it was collected or until required to be deleted by
laws applicable in your jurisdiction. Please email us at info@visualstreams.online to
delete any personal data of yours we hold.
Visual Streams complies with the U.S.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and all other applicable laws and
regulations concerning children and the Internet. The Service is not directed
to children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information
from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we inadvertently collected
personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that
information as quickly as possible. If you are a parent or guardian of a child
who you believe provided Visual Streams with personal information without your
consent, please contact us at info@visualstreams.online.
If you are a resident of the EEA below
the age of consent in your country, Visual Streams shall comply with applicable
consent gathering standards required by law in your jurisdiction. If you are a
parent or guardian of a child below the age of consent in your jurisdiction who
you believe provided Visual Streams with personal information without your
consent, please contact us at info@visualstreams.online.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a web
or device setting that allows users to request that receivers of personal data
stop their tracking activities. When you choose to turn on the DNT setting in
your browser or device or use alternative consumer choice mechanisms, your
browser or device sends a special signal to websites, analytics companies,
advertising networks, plug in providers and other web services you encounter to
stop tracking your activity. Currently, there are no DNT technology standards,
and it is possible that there may never be any DNT technology standards. As a
result, we do not respond to DNT requests.
If you are a California resident,
California Civil Code 1798.83 grants you the right to request our disclosure of
the categories of personal information we provided to third parties, and the
names and addresses of these third parties, for direct marketing purposes
during the preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would
like to make this request, please contact us using the contact information set
forth below.
Please note that you may only make
this request once per year.
If you are a California resident,
California Civil Code Section 1798.120 permits you to opt-out of the sale of
your personal information to third parties. Currently, Visual Streams does not
sell your personal information to third parties and as such no opt-out of the
sale of such personal information is necessary. Although Visual Streams does
not sell your personal information, Visual Streams does provide a general
opt-out right to all of our users as described in our
Privacy Policy. Furthermore, as Visual Streams already complies with Canadian
and EEA privacy laws, the rights required to be provided by law to Californian
residents are provide to all our users. If you have any other questions about
our privacy practices, please email us at info@visualstreams.online.
Visual Streams has a legitimate
interest, as described in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, in collecting your
personal data as described in section 2 of this Privacy Policy for the purposes
described in detail in section 3 of this Privacy Policy. In addition, when you
provide consent to contact you using your email address or when providing us
your contact information by linking a third-party account or ID to our Service,
Visual Streams may contact and communicate with you using this information,
pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. Note also that UK residents have
similar rights as EEA residents and the same rights described in this section
also apply to UK residents (and residents located in other jurisdictions around
the world) under similarly applicable laws.
If you are a resident of the EEA, you
have certain rights relating to your personal data. These rights include:
In the event of, or in preparation
for, a change of ownership or control of Visual Streams or a business
transition such as the sale of Visual Streams or the sale of some or all Visual
Streams’s assets, we may disclose and/or transfer
your personal and anonymous data to third parties who will have the right to
continue to collect and use such data in the manner set forth in this Privacy
Policy.
We are committed to ensuring that your
data is secure. To prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or breach, we have
put in place suitable physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to
safeguard and secure the data we collect and process.
We communicate with our users
primarily through the Service itself, our online forums but we may sometimes
collect the email address of some of our users in order to
respond to support requests or comments. If you have provided us with your
email address and would like to change the email preferences, we associate with
you (for example, unsubscribing from receiving certain types of email) you may
do so by clicking a link within certain types of emails that we send to you or,
if no link is available, by replying with “unsubscribe” in the email title or
body or by modifying your email settings within the Service. On rare occasions,
some types of email are necessary for the Service and cannot be unsubscribed
from if you continue to use the Service.
Visual
Streams reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify the Privacy
Policy at any time (“Updates”) and shall make Updates available on Visual
Streams’s website. You are deemed to accept Updates
by continuing to use the Service. Unless Visual Streams states otherwise,
Updates are automatically effective 30 days after posting on Visual Streams
website.
If you have requests, questions or
comments about the Privacy Policy or our data collection in general, please
contact our Data Protection Officer at info@visualstreams.online