This Privacy Policy applies when you use our website and tells you, amongst other things, about:
This Privacy Policy will be applicable if you use our website, which means our applications, www.favoritely.com, and/or other domains or websites operated by us and any other services and content. "We", "Our", or "Us" in this Privacy Policy refers to Favoritely LLC and its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable. The term "Platform" refers to the website domain favoritely.com.
For the purposes of data protection laws, the website is the "Data Controller" of your personal data. We will refer to countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland collectively as the "European Countries" in this Privacy Policy.
You are requested to not use our website if you do not want us to collect, store, use, or share your data in the ways described in this Privacy Policy.
We may make amendments to this Privacy Policy and post the latest version on our website. Any material changes will be posted on the website and we will update the date on this Privacy Policy. Your use of the website after the effective date in the Privacy Policy will be subject to the amended Privacy Policy.(a) Data You Provide Us
Any data that is provided directly to our website will be stored in our systems and we may use that data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
When you use the Platform , we may ask you to provide your first and last name; username; gender; birthday; age; email address; password; profile photo; approximate physical location; mobile phone number; and links to your profiles on various social networks.
To verify your Identity when you use the Platform , we may ask you to provide other data that helps us make sure it's you accessing your account or helps us improve our website, such as your driver's license or state ID, tax ID, or passport data.
When you import your address book contacts or manually feed them so that you can locate your contacts, we will collect the information associated with those contacts, including the contact name and any contact information that is included in the contact, such as email, phone number, and/or social media handle. If you import your contacts, we will also provide an opportunity to invite them to join you on our website. You agree that you will be responsible for seeking requisite permission from your contacts before you give their contact data to us. We may also receive data about you from other users importing or entering their contacts. Please contact us at [email protected] in case you want to remove your contacts stored by us and request that we remove the contacts from our systems. We will not store any password which allows us to access your address book.
(b) Data Collected Automatically While Using Our Website
When you use our website, and the Platform, data will be collected from your devices automatically, and we will use that data for the purposes described below.
To provide you services on our website and the Platform , we will collect data in connection with the ways in which you use and interact with our website, applications, products, and other users, such as your website activity, IP address, geolocation, messages with other users, page visits, time on pages, referring and exit pages, and online identifiers.
When you use our communication features , we will collect data communicated or shared by you and communicated or shared with others. This may include data related to your participation in user forums and message boards; data related to your public posts or comments on other users' profiles; data related to any invitations sent to other users or non-public messages, made on our website or Platform or through our in-app mechanisms; any data related to your chats with other users; and/or data related to your posted photos, drawings, or other user-generated content.
For security, safety, research, website improvement and optimization, and advertising , we may access in real-time, record, and/or store archives of the above collected data on our servers to make use of them for:
When you contact our Customer Support team , our team will collect and store the data you provide, such as your name, email address, data about your activity on the Platform, and information regarding your user ID and/or social network ID number. For providing support and improving our website, will also store all the communications you may have with our Customer Service team and further any additional data in such communications.
(c) Data Collected From Third Parties
When you make a payment or purchase on the website , all the billing and financial data in connection with any purchases made on our website including our website will be collected by our third-party payment processor. They will collect the data to process charges for the payments made. The data collected by them may include your postal address, email address, bank account and routing numbers, payment account information, and/or payment card information. No financial data such as credit card numbers is shared with us by the payment processors, however, they may share any non-financial data with us related to your purchases, such as your name, billing address, and the items purchased.
When you use third party applications to make a purchase , any purchases made by using the Platform on connected third-party applications or other platforms will be processed by that third-party application or platform and the purchase will be subject to that third-party application or platform's terms of service conditions and privacy policy documents. In connection with such purchases, the Platform never receives any data related to financial information, but the Platform may receive non-financial data related to your purchases, such as your name, approximate physical location, and the items purchased.
When you connect to the website or Platform using third-party sign-in services , these services may pre-populate our sign-up form, authenticate your identity information, provide an option to share personal information such as your name and email address with us. Platforms like Facebook Connect and Twitter may give you the option to post information about your activities on our Platform or to your profile page to share with others within your network. The Platform may receive certain additional data about you from the provider of the third-party application, if you use The Platform connected third-party applications or connect our Platform to any third-party applications, including social networks like Facebook and Twitter. All the data received by The Platform depends on the Platform service you're using, the third-party application, your privacy settings, and, if applicable, your friends' privacy settings on that third-party application. , The Platform may collect and store the following from connected third-party applications: Your first and last name; your profile picture and/or its URL; your user identification number (like your Facebook ID number) which may be linked to publicly-available data like your name and profile photo; your friends' user ID numbers and other public data; the email address you provided to the third-party application; your approximate physical location and that of the devices you use to access our Platform; your gender, birthday, age, and/or age range; your activities on or through the connected third-party application; other publicly-available data on the third-party application; and/or any other data that you or the provider of the third-party application share with The Platform. If you access our Platform from a third-party application or connect our Platform to a third-party application, you should also read that third-party application's terms of service and privacy policy. If you are unclear about what data a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.
We may use other sources such as third-party data and advertising providers for collecting or receiving data about you and this data along with the data provided by you may be used inter alia to help you and your friends connect or to make your advertising needs more tailored to your interests.
(d) Cookies and Other Data Collection
In order to recognize you and your device(s), we use cookies and other similar technologies such as pixel tags, beacons, clear figs, and device identifiers. We allow others to use cookies and similar technologies. We allow you to control or opt out from the use of cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for third-party advertising. Please see our cookie notice for further information on this.
We and our partners may use cookies and other similar technologies to collect and analyze certain kinds of technical data, including your IP address; the type of devices you are using; the platform type (such as Apple iOS or Android); operating system version information; mobile device identifiers (for example, Apple Identifier For Advertising (IDFA), your MAC address, and/or Android Advertising ID (AAID)); de-bugging data and application performance; language and browser type; URL visits, and referring and exit pages; website page and/or the number of clicks on an application feature or website page; the amount of time you spend on an application feature or web page; domain name information; landing page information; and information regarding pages viewed and the order of those pages.
In addition to your mobile device identifiers as described above, we may also collect additional data if you use our website on a mobile device, such data can be as follows:
(i) Data Submitted via Platform
For purposes included but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and/or marketing goods or the website, we may use the content of any interactions or communications submitted by you, including any concepts, inventions, ideas, techniques, or know-how disclosed therein.
We will keep your name confidential and will not publicize or advertise the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless:
We use your data under several legal bases, including for performing our contract with you, for our legitimate business interests, for complying with our legal obligations, or otherwise we use it with your consent.
The collected and stored data may be used:
If you are located in the European Countries (as defined above in Section 1), our legal basis for collecting and using the data described above depends on what the data is and the context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect data from you only where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e., our Terms of Service), where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren't overridden by your interests or rights), or if we otherwise have your consent.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation or need to collect data from you or may otherwise need the personal data to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, another user).
If we ask you to provide data to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, this will be clear from the context in which we are asking you to provide your data (for example, when we ask you to provide a username to access our Platform, this will be to create an account for you in accordance with our Terms of Service), and, if not, we will provide an explanation to you at the relevant time. We will also make clear whether providing data is mandatory.
Similarly, if we collect and use your data in connection with our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), it will be made clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are (such as personalizing our services and marketing, etc.).
We may share your data, including personal data, with third parties or allow third parties to collect this data from our Platform in the following circumstances:
(a) Friends and Other Users
We support and encourage you to interact with other users. If you use a social network or connect to a social network (for example, Twitter), your social network friends who also use our service will see your name, photo, user profile (which may include the data described above in Data About You That You Share With Us Directly), and descriptions of your activity.
Additionally, other users, regardless of whether they are your social network friends, will be able to:
(b) Third-Party Advertising Including Behavioral Advertising and Analytics
We use advertising for offering some portions of our site for free. These may include, without limitation, banner advertisements on message boards or on the Platform itself, as full-screen advertisements.
The following information may be shared when you use our website for enabling advertisers, and advertisement networks providers to serve you with more relevant ads. They may collect, or we may collect and share with them:
The data may also be additionally used for:
Advertisers or ad networks may use a single tracking technology or multiple tracking technologies at the same time for collecting this data through the use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies.
On clicking a third-party advertisement or offer, please note that you may no longer be on a site or application controlled by us.
Please see How to Access, Update, and Manage Your Personal Data, in case you do not want to receive tailored in-application advertisements from third parties. Please see our cookie notice for further information on controlling the use of cookies and similar technologies. Please note that the practices of third-party companies delivering advertisements on our Platform are subject to those companies' own privacy policies.
Sometimes we use technology to collect the information that your browser uses to auto-fill. We use this to tell you if there is a mistake in registration or if the registration cannot be submitted. You can stop this technology by turning it off in your browser, and you will still be able to use all of the options on our websites.
You may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page .
You may also opt out of other third-party online advertising vendors' use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page .
We also use two remarketing services, including (1) Google's Remarketing services, which are delivered in two ways: (a) Remarketing Dynamic Ads, which you may opt out of by visiting here and (b) DoubleClick, which uses remarketing pixels, which you may opt out of by visiting the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page and (2) AdRoll, which you may opt out of here .
Do Not Track Signals . Some web browsers allow you to turn on Do Not Track ("DNT"), which sends signals to websites you visit, telling those sites that you do not want your online activities to be tracked. Our websites currently are not designed to respond to DNT signals received from web browsers.
(c) Safety, Security, and Compliance with Law
We may access and monitor all your data including contents of all of your online communications on our website and between you and our representatives for providing our Service. We may further disclose your data:
(d) Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your data with third-party companies who may perform following on our behalf, such as
We will also share your data with our third-party business partners who assist us in delivering and optimizing our Platform, such as our platform partners (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc.). We ensure that we have appropriate agreements in place to protect your data as required by applicable data protection laws especially wherever we share your data with third-party service providers and business partners.
(e) Sale or Merger
Please note that we may disclose or transfer all of your data, including personal data, to the successor organization in a transition in the event that the we undergo or evaluates undergoing a business transition, like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part of its assets. Before transferring your personal data, we will make reasonable efforts to let you and other users know of the business transition in the way described in Changes to Our Privacy Policy.
(f) Other Third Parties
Additionally, with your consent, we may share your data with other third parties or allow them to collect your data from us in some ways not specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
(g) Sale of Information
In the past 12 months, we have sold the data discussed above in Section 5(b). For a chart that shows the legal categories of data we have sold in the past 12 months, please see the California Privacy Chart at the end of this Privacy Policy. We do not knowingly sell the personal data of minors under 16 years old.
(h) International Data Transfer
For users located in one of the European Countries, please note that the Platform, our company, and all the data you provide to us will be stored on our servers and accessed by our employees and other users who are located in the United States, which has not received an adequacy decision from the European Commission regarding its protections for personal data. Where we receive personal data from third parties, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, which are available URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc/standard-contractual-clauses-international-transfers_en
The law requires us to tell you about the personal information we collect about you in a certain way - specifically, we need to tie it back to "legal categories" of personal data that are listed in the law. To do this, we bundled up the information we gave you above and matched the different types of personal data we collect about you with the legal category. To make things easier to understand, we've put this information in a chart that shows you four things:
We've included all this information in the California Privacy Chart at the end of this Privacy Policy.
(a) European Countries' Users' Rights
If you are located in the European Countries (defined above in Section 1), you have the following data protection rights:
(b) California Users' Rights
In certain circumstances, California residents may have the following rights regarding their personal data:
How to Make a Request : If you wish to exercise any of the rights we've described above, please contact us at [email protected] . Be ready to provide your name and email address, and we will also verify your identity via email. If you have authorized an agent to make a request on your behalf, we will need you to provide the agent's name and email address, as well as your written authorization appointing the agent to make a request on your behalf.
(c) Accessing and Deleting Personal Data Held by Favoritely LLC
If you want to review, update or delete personal data associated with your account, please submit a request to us at [email protected] . To delete an account in its entirety, you can email [email protected] or select the "Delete Account" option under "Settings" and follow the instructions therein.
For deletion requests, we will take reasonable measures to delete your personal data from our records. If you have sent content through or posted content on the Platform, we may not be able to delete it. We will keep certain records (e.g., personal data relating to payments or customer service matters) where we need (and have rights) to, such as for legal or accounting purposes. We will also keep data in order to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.
(d) Managing Personal Data We Receive From Third-Party Applications / Platforms And From Your Mobile Device
To manage the data we receive about you from a third-party application or platform where you use our Platform, like Twitter, you will need to follow the third-party application's instructions for updating your data and changing your privacy settings.
Once we receive your data from a third-party application / platform or your mobile device, that data is stored and used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may access and update that data as described above.
(e) Opting Out of Promotional Communications
If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from us, click on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any promotional email from us or visit our Email Settings page. Your unsubscribe request or e-mail preferences change will be processed promptly, and in no event longer than ten business days. During that processing period, you may receive additional promotional emails from us.
You can opt out of receiving SMS text messages by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS text messaging program or by contacting us at [email protected] . When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS text messages, we may send a text message confirming receipt.
Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still communicate with you from time to time if we need to provide you with data about the Platform you are using from us, if we need to request data from you with respect to a transaction initiated by you, or for other legitimate non-marketing reasons.
Our website may contain advertisements from "Third-Party Services," meaning companies other than ours that may link to their own websites, online services, or mobile applications. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Third-Party Services. If you have any questions about how these Third-Party Services use your data, you should review their policies and contact them directly.
Our Platform is not intended for children. Children are not permitted to use our Platform, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from Children.
Though our Platform do not target Children as the primary audience, we may collect age data to confirm the user is not a Child before allowing a user to proceed for certain Platform.
If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal data that is not subject to a COPPA exception from a Child, we will take reasonable measures to promptly remove that data from our records.
How long we retain your personal data depends on why we collected it and how we use it, but we will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements.
We will retain personal data about you and connected with your account and/or the Platform you use from us for as long as you have an active account with us. We will take reasonable measures to delete this personal data if you delete your account. However, you acknowledge that we may retain some data after you have closed, or we have deleted, your account with us where necessary to enable us to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.
We implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to help protect the security of your data both online and offline and to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures vary based upon the sensitivity of your data.
If you have an account registered directly with us your profile data is protected by the password you use to access your account. It is important that you protect and maintain your account's security and that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account. If you forget the password to your account, the website will allow you to request that instructions be sent to you that explain how to reset your password. If you access our Platform through a social network and your social network account is hacked or otherwise compromised, this may lead to someone accessing or deleting your accounts without your permission. So, be careful to keep your social network account data, including your social network account password, secure as well. We urge you to log out of your account and any social network account you have used to access our Platform when you are finished using them.
When you sign into your account or enter payment data, we and our third-party payment processor use encryption to transmit that data.
While we take precautions against possible security breaches of our Platform and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data while it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your own risk.
If you have questions about data protection, or if you have any requests for resolving issues with your personal data, we request you to contact us so that we can reply to you more swiftly and efficiently.
Favoritely LLC
30 Gould Street, Ste 4
Sheridan, WY 82801
[email protected]
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or privacy practices, please send an e-mail to [email protected]