Privacy Policy
Last Updated: August 1, 2024
This website is powered by StackSocial, Inc. (“StackSocial”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Policy describes how StackSocial collects, uses, stores, and shares your information when:
- You access and use this website ("Website");
- You purchase products or services through this Website (“Services”);
- You communicate with us in any manner, including by e-mail, text, social media, or telephone (“Communications”); and
- We interact with our third party partners, brands, publishers, merchants, and service providers.
For California residents, please see our California Privacy Notice.
For residents of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas, please see our Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas Privacy Notice.
For Nevada residents, please see our Nevada Privacy Notice.
If you are in the UK, EU, or other country outside of the United States, please see our Non-US Privacy Notice.
1. What Type Of Information Do We Collect About You?
Depending on how you interact with the Website, our Services, the nature of your Communications, and how we may interact with certain third parties, we may collect the following information about you:
- Basic Identifying Information. Information such as your full name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, account name and password, username, and other similar identifiers.
- Device Identifier and other Unique Identifiers. Information such as your device identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifier, and other unique identifiers.
- Internet or Other Network Activity. Information such as your browsing or search history, and other information regarding your interactions with our Websites, emails, and advertisements.
- Geolocation Data. Information that permits us to determine your location so that we can determine the best products and services to offer you.
- Commercial Information. Information such as the nature of the Services you’ve considered from us, and related information.
- User Content. Information such as your Communications with us and any other content you provide, such as social media profiles, photographs of receipts, images, videos, survey responses, comments, product reviews, testimonials, and other content.
- Inferences. Information such as inferences drawn from or created based on the information identified above.
2. How Do We Collect Your Information?
We collect your information in three ways: (1) directly from you when you use this Website, engage in our Services, and Communicate with us; (2) automatically using online technologies when you engage with the Website and our Services and Communications; and (3) from third parties.
- Directly from you. We collect information directly from you when you visit this Website, engage with our Services, or otherwise access our content, take a survey or a poll or enter a contest, engage in Communications with us, or sign-up to receive emails, text messages, or certain other Communications from us.
- Automatically Using Online Technologies. When you visit this Website, open or click on emails we send you or related Communications, or interact with our advertisements, we or other third parties may automatically collect certain information about you using online tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, web beacons, software developer kids, and related technologies. For more information, see How Do We Use Cookies and Similar Online Tracking Technologies below.
- From Third Parties. We collect information from our third party partners, such as distributors, suppliers, other members, partners, data analytics providers, marketing or advertising providers, fraud prevention service providers, and vendors that provide services.
3. Cookies and Related Online Tracking Technologies
We and our third-party partners use cookies, pixels, web beacons, software development kits, and other similar online tracking technologies to gather information about you when you use this Website, interact with our Services, and engage with our Communications. These technologies may include payment processing, advertising, marketing, and related services. Others are used to maintain the security of our Website, manage your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, assist with basic Website functions.Our Website uses Google Analytics for analytics purposes. You can learn more about Google Analytics by visiting How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
4. How Do We Use Your Information?
We use your information for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Provide our Website and Services to You. We use your information to provide our Website and Services to you, including to: (1) create and manage your account; (2) allow you to use the Website and purchase products and Services; (3) facilitate your use of our Services; (4) answer your Communications; and (5) perform other related business functions.
- Communicate with You. We use your information for marketing and advertising purposes, including sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications to you by email, text message, or postal mail. We may also use your information to send you web push notifications, and use your information to show you advertisements for Services and on our Website.
- Market and Advertise. Market and Advertise. We use your information for marketing and advertising purposes, including sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications to you by email, text message, or postal mail. We may also use your information to send you web push notifications, and use your information to show you advertisements for
- Conduct Analytics and Personalization. We use your information to conduct research and analytics, including to improve our Website and Services. We also use your information to understand your interaction with our Website, advertisements, Services, and our Communications with you. We further use your information to personalize your experience, save you time when you visit our Website and use our Services, better understand your needs, and provide personalized recommendations for our Services.
- Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your information to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including fraudulent transactions. We also use your information to enforce our terms and procedures, prevent against security incidents, and prevent the harm to other users of our Services.
- Legal Obligations. We use your information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to establish and exercise our rights, and to defend against legal claims.
- Business Functions. We use your information to support our core business functions, including to maintain records related to business management, loss prevent, collecting amounts owed, and identifying and repairing errors or problems in the Websites.
5. How Do We Disclose Your Information?
We may disclose or share your information with affiliated and non-affiliated third-parties, including in the following scenarios:
- With your Consent. We may disclose or share your information with your consent, which may be obtained in writing; online, through “click-through” agreements; when you accept the terms of use on our Website; when you accept the setting of cookies and related tracking technologies; orally, either in person or on the phone; or by other means.
- In a Business Transfer. We may disclose or share your information as part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition, joint venture, corporate reorganization, financing, or sale of company assets, or in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, in which such information could be transferred to third parties as a business asset in the transaction or otherwise during related proceedings.
- To Non-Affiliated Third Parties. We may disclose or share your information with certain non-affiliated third parties to facilitate your access and use of our Websites, our Services, to complete a transaction, and to provide us with certain business functions, including but not limited to sharing your information with partners, internet service providers, advertising networks, data analytics providers, governmental entities, operating systems and platforms, social media networks, and service providers who provide us a service (e.g., customer service, distribution, supply, auditing, marketing, shipping, debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality on our Website, and/or protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity). We may also disclose your information to third parties for their commercial purposes.
- For Legal Process And Protection. We may disclose or share your information to satisfy any law, regulation, legal process, governmental request, or where we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to: (1) enforce or apply our agreements; (2) protect our interests, property, or safety of others; (3) in connection with claims, disputes, or litigation; and (4) to protect our Websites and Services.
6. How Do We Protect Your Information?
We take all commercially reasonable steps to ensure your information is protected in alignment with all applicable laws and regulations, as appropriate to the sensitivity of your information.
7. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
We keep your information for as long as is necessary in accordance with the purpose for which it was collected, other noticed purposes, our business needs, and our legal and regulatory obligations. If we dispose of your information, we will do so in a way that is secure and appropriate to the nature of the information subject to disposal.
8. Links To Third Party Sites
Our Website and Services may contain links to third party websites and services. Please note that these links are provided for your convenience and information, and the websites and services may operate independently from us and have their own privacy policies or notices, which we strongly suggest you review.
9. Do Not Track
Our Website may, from time to time, collect information about your online activities, over time and across our different websites. When you use our Website, third parties may also collect information about your online activities, over time and across different internet websites, online or cloud computing services, online applications, or mobile applications. Some browsers support a “Do Not Track” feature, which is intended to be a signal to websites that you do not wish to be tracked across different websites you visit. Our Websites do not currently change the way they operate based upon detection of a “Do Not Track” or similar signal.
10. Your Rights
For individuals in California, please see our California Privacy Notice below.
For individuals in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas, please see our Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas Privacy Notice section below.
For individuals outside of the US, please see our Non-US Resident Privacy Notice section below
For all individuals, regardless of location, you have a right to stop receiving promotional e-mails or other related communications from us at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any promotional e-mail you receive from us.
You also have the right to manage your preferences as it relates to cookies and related technologies by visiting our Website and exercising your choices.
11. California Privacy Notice
The following disclosures are made pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act and its implementing regulations (collectively, the "CCPA").
Definitions- Personal information. This is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you or your household.
- Sensitive personal information. This is information such as your social security number, driver’s license number, state identification card, passport number, account log-in and password, financial account and password, debit or credit card number and access code, precise geolocation information, race, ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, the content of your mail, email or texts other than those communications you have with us, genetic data, biometric information, health information, or information that concerns your sex life or sexual orientation.
- Sell, sale, or sold. This means the selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or other means, your personal information to a third party for money or other valuable consideration.
- Share, shared, or sharing. This means the sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or other means, your personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.
You or an authorized agent you designate on your behalf may submit the individual requests outlined below. Upon receipt, we will take reasonable steps to verify you and your authorized agent’s identity prior to responding to the request, which may include in certain circumstances you signing a declaration under penalty of perjury. If an authorized agent is submitting a request on your behalf, you must submit a copy of: (1) a written authorization demonstrating you have authorized the agent to submit a request on your behalf; and (2) provide separate proof verifying your identity.
- Right to Know. You have a have a right to request that we disclose, subject to certain exceptions, information concerning: (1) the categories of personal information we have collected from or about you; (2) the categories of sources from which we have collected that personal information, and the business or commercial purpose for the collection; (3) the categories of third parties with whom we have shared, sold, or disclosed your personal information, including the business or commercial purpose for said sharing, selling, or disclosure; and (4) specific pieces of your personal information, subject to appropriate exceptions.
- Right to Delete. You have a right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Correct. You have a right to request that we correct your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of the Sale / Sharing. To submit a request to “opt out” of the “sale” or “sharing” of your “personal information,” you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our website footer or in our cookie banner, or you may choose to enable online, where available, a universal tool that automatically communicates your opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). We will process the GPC signal as a request to opt out. You may also send an e-mail to privacy@stackcommerce.com.
- Right to Non-Discrimination. You have a right to exercise the above rights without being discriminated against under the CCPA.
- Exercising Your Rights. To submit a request, you may send an e-mail to privacy@stackcommerce.com. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf by sending an e-mail with written proof of such authorization to privacy@stackcommerce.com.
- Responding To Requests. Once you have submitted your request, we will respond within the time frame permitted by applicable law.
- To learn more about the categories of personal information we collect about California residents, please see What Type Of Information Do We Collect? above.
- For more information about how we use those categories of personal information, please see How Do We Use Your Information? above.
- For more information about how we collect categories of personal information, please see How Do We Collect Your Information? and Cookies And Related Online Tracking Technologies above.
- To learn more about how we disclose categories of personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we disclose such information, please see How Do We Disclose Your Information? above.
- To learn more about how long we keep your information, please see How Long Do We Keep Your Information? above.
To learn more about the categories personal information we have disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties with whom we’ve disclosed such information, please see How Do We Disclose Your Information? above.
Notice of Use of Sensitive Personal Information”We “sell” and “share” your personal information through the use of certain third party tools on the Website, including those relating to analytics and advertising. Specifically, we make available certain of your personal information, online identifiers and other persistent online identifiers with advertising, analytics, and marketing partners that may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information, as defined under California law. We may also sell your information to third parties for their own marketing purposes. We don’t knowingly sell or share the personal information or sensitive personal information of any California resident who is 16 years or younger.
Notice of Use of Sensitive Personal InformationWe do not use California resident sensitive personal information for any purpose other than is permissible under the CCPA. Specifically, we do not use sensitive personal information of California residents to derive characteristics about California residents.
12. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas Privacy Notice
The following disclosures are made pursuant to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, as amended from time to time.
Definitions- Personal data. Information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Sell, sale, or sold. The exchange of personal data for monetary or other valuable consideration.
- Targeted advertising. Displaying advertisements to a consumer where the advertisement is selected based on personal data obtained or inferred from that individual’s activities over time and across nonaffiliated Internet web sites or online applications to predict such individual’s preferences or interests.
To learn more about the categories of personal information we collect about you and how we use it, please see What Information Do We Collect? and How Do We Use Your Information? To learn more about the categories of third parties with whom we may share your personal information, please see How Do We Disclose Your Information?
Your Rights- Right to Know and Access: Right to Know and Access: You have a right to know whether we process your personal data, access such personal data subject to certain exceptions, and obtain a copy of the personal data in a portable format.
- Right to Delete. Right to Delete. You have a right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions
- Right to Correct. Right to Correct. You have a right to ask that we correct the personal information we have about you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Targeted Advertising. Our use of certain online tracking technologies may be considered a “sale” or “targeted advertising” under applicable law. To submit a request to “opt out” of the “sale” or use of your personal information for “targeted advertising”, you may click the “Your Privacy Choices” link in our website footer, or you may choose to enable online, where available, a universal tool that automatically communicates your opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). We will process the GPC signal as a request to opt out. We may also sell your information to third parties for their commercial purposes. You can opt-out by sending an e-mail to privacy@stackcommerce.com.
- Right to Non-Discrimination. You have a right not to be discriminated against for the exercise of your rights described herein.
- Right to Appeal. You have a right to appeal our denial of any request above. We will respond to your appeal within the timeframe required by law, and provide a written explanation in support of our response and provide additional information as required by law.
Nevada Privacy Notice
If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to submit a request directing us not to make any sale of your personal information. Please send an email to privacy@stackcommerce.com with “Nevada Opt-Out of Sale” in the subject line.
Non-US Residents
Data ControllerStackSocial, Inc., 73 Market Street, Venice, California, 90291
How Do We Use Your Personal Data?Please see How Do We Use Your Information? above.
What is our lawful basis for processing your information?We primarily use your information (which includes personal data under applicable law) to provide you with our Website and Services. Your personal data may also be used to comply with our legal obligations or to fulfill our legitimate interest, such as to personalize your experience, develop and improve our Website and Services, or to detect illegal activity. With your consent, we may also use your information to send you offers and promotions
Your RightsYou have a right to access the personal data we have processed about you, ask that certain of that data be removed (i.e., deleted), correct or change your personal data, or change your marketing preferences by withdrawing your consent at any time. To submit any of the requests below, please submit your request to privacy@stackcommerce.com. We may take steps to verify your identity by matching the information you provide with your request with the information we have on file about you. Depending on the sensitivity of the information at issue, we may utilize more stringent verification methods.
Lodging ComplaintsYou may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Supervisory Authority concerning our data practices. To receive information about your local Data Protection Supervisory Authority, please contact us.
13. Children
Our Websites and Products are not intended for children under the age of 13. This includes any links to other websites that we provide for our convenience. We don’t knowingly collect the information of children under 13 for any reason.
14. Changes To Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Policy from time to time. Any and all changes will be reflected on this page, and where appropriate provided in person or by another electronic method. The effective date will be stated at the top of this Policy. You should regularly check this page for any changes to this Policy.