We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you Services and to comply with our accounting and legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your order information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your information, including personal information and content, for the following purposes:
Providing and Improving Our Services. To provide and maintain our Services; to improve our Services; to develop new features, products, or services; to authenticate users; or to perform technical operations, such as updating software.
Customer Support and Service. We use the personal information we collect for customer service and support purposes. For example, if you send us an inquiry we will use your personal information to address and answer your question.
Personalizing Content and Ads. We may use the information we collect about you to personalize the information and content we display to you, including marketing, promotional and sponsored content, as well as providing you with more relevant ads.
Marketing and Communications. To communicate with you about your account and use of our Services via email and push notification, including to send you product updates; to respond to your inquiries; to provide you with news and newsletters, special offers, promotions, promotional contests, and other information we think may interest you; and for other informational, marketing, or promotional purposes. Please see the “Access to Your Information” section or contact us for more information about how to change your communications preferences.
Research and Analytics. To monitor, analyze and understand usage and activity trends, to conduct analytics on photos and images, and for other research, analytical, and statistical purposes.
Protecting Rights and Interests. To protect the safety, rights, property, or security of Giggle, the Services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop activity that we consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation; and to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Use.
Legal Compliance. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process; or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a governmental authority.
How We Disclose Your Information
We may disclose your information, including personal information as described to you at the time of collection or disclosure or as follows:
Users. You may post or upload materials, comments, reactions and other content or information to our Services, collectively “User Content”. Any User Content you post within the Services may be viewable by all other users and Site visitors. This includes comments, reviews, or other content you choose to share on your user profile or blog provided within the Services. We cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, our Terms of Use, the law, or your personal privacy. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN PUBLIC POSTING AREAS.
Partners. If you click an ad or otherwise take advantage of a third party offer in the Services, we may share certain information, including personal information, with that partner to facilitate your interaction with them. Partners are responsible for their own use of your personal information as well as the communications they send to you; you should contact them directly to opt-out of receiving marketing communications and review their respective privacy policies for more information.
Marketing Partners. We also may share your information with certain third parties so that they may send you offers and other information we think you may be interested in. If you don’t want us to share your personal information with our third party marketing partners, you may opt-out by emailing us at info@giggle.com. However, if you opt-out of such ‘third-party-marketing’, this won’t affect information we have already shared, and we may still send you our own marketing and promotional emails about information and third-party ads we think you may be interested in (unless you have opted-out of receiving marketing emails from us).
Service Providers. We may disclose your information to our vendors, service providers, agents, or others who perform functions on our behalf. For example, we may disclose your information to third-party service providers to process payments on our behalf.
Affiliates. We may disclose the information we collect from you to our affiliates or subsidiaries. However, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personal information will be subject to this Policy.
Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer your information to another entity in connection with an acquisition or merger, sale or transfer of a business unit or assets, bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of any other similar business transfer or reorganization, including during assessment and negotiations related to such transactions. If transferred in such a case, your information would remain subject to this Policy or a privacy policy that, at a minimum, protects your privacy to an equal degree as this Policy.
Protecting Rights and Interests. We may disclose your information to protect the safety, rights, property, or security of Giggle, the Services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop activity which Giggle, in its sole discretion, may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation; and to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Use.
Legal Compliance. We may disclose your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process; or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a government official.
Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may disclose aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified information about users for marketing, advertising, research, compliance, or other purposes.
Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms
We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, java script, and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Site and App. We or our service providers may combine this information with other information, including personal information, we collect about you.
Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Services to, among other things, track the activities users of our Services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Services. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.