Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at OutVoices ("OutVoices", "we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].
This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which include our Website at https://outvoices.us), as well as any related services, sales, marketing, or events. By using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly to us, as well as information collected automatically when you use our Website.
- Information You Provide: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Website, leave comments, or otherwise when you contact us. This may include names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and other similar information.
- Information Automatically Collected: When you visit, use, or navigate the Website, we automatically collect certain information. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location information (derived from your IP address), information about how and when you use our Website (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which features you use), and other technical information. We also collect information through cookies and similar technologies (like web beacons and pixels). This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. More information about our use of cookies can be found in the "Cookies" section below.
2. How We Use Your Information
We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. We use the information we collect or receive:
- To facilitate account creation and logon process.
- To post testimonials (with your consent).
- To request feedback.
- To enable user-to-user communications (with each user's consent).
- To manage user accounts.
- To send administrative information to you.
- To protect our Services (e.g., for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.
- To fulfill and manage your orders (if applicable).
- To administer prize draws and competitions (if applicable).
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications (in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out at any time as described below).
- To deliver targeted advertising to you (and work with third parties who do so).
- For other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Website, products, marketing, and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form.
3. Sharing Your Information
We may process or share your data that we hold based on your consent, our legitimate interests, performance of a contract, legal obligations, or vital interests. More specifically, we may share your information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Affiliates: With our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice.
- Business Partners: With our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
- Service Providers: With service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., spam detection services). We have contracts with these providers requiring them to protect your information.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so.
- Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights, investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
4. Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and store information.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
- Login Cookies: When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
- Other Cookies: We may use other cookies for various purposes, such as to personalize your experience, analyze website traffic, and deliver targeted advertising. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Website. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Website visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
5. Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites.
6. Data Retention
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
7. Your Privacy Rights
You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time by contacting us at [email protected] or through your account settings (if applicable).
- Access and Correction: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you and to correct any inaccuracies.
- Deletion: You may have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Objection to Processing: You may object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Restriction of Processing: You may request to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Data Portability: You may have the right to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
- Opt-out of Marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below.
- California Residents: If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding access to your personal information. Please see the CCPA Privacy Notice below for more information.
- European Residents: If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
8. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
9. Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
10. Updates to this Notice
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Privacy Notice
This section applies to California residents as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Categories of Personal Information Collected: We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
- Identifiers (e.g., contact details, IP address, online identifiers)
- Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (e.g., name, contact information)
- Internet or other similar network activity (e.g., browsing history, search history)
- Geolocation data (e.g., device location)
- Use and Sharing of Personal Information: More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice. We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract. We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. We do not sell your personal information.
- Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data: California residents have the following rights:
- Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. As we do not sell your personal information, this right is not applicable.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
- Exercising Your Rights: To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at [email protected]. We will need to verify your identity to process your request. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.
- Verification Process: Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to ensure that you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at [email protected]