In this Privacy Statement, your information and data is collectively referred to as “user information.” And we use the term “process” to mean any operation or set of operations performed on user information, whether by automated means or otherwise, including, without limitation, handling, collecting, storing, recording, organizing, structuring, adapting, altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing, disseminating (or otherwise making available), combining, erasing, or destroying.
What User Information Do We Collect?
When you use our services, we may collect the following user information about you:
- If you create an account, we collect the username that you select for your account, and the email address that you use when signing up for an account.
- When browsing our services, we collect your IP address, browser user agent, HTTP request path, HTTP referrer, and HTTP version.
- User session parameters
We may also use your IP address to determine your general geographic location and store that information.
We will also collect any other information and data that you willingly provide to us when contacting us in any form of communication for any reason, including your email address.
We also collect information about page views, thumbnail/video views and clicks, and likes and dislikes. However, such information is anonymized and aggregated, and is not associated with your account or any personally identifiable information.
We also use cookies for various purposes, which is more fully set forth in the Cookies section below.
Why Do We Collect User Information and How Do We Use It?
We collect user information for a wide range of reasons, including, without limitation, as follows:
- To provide you the services available on and through our services.
- To collect information about the quality of traffic on our services for analysis, internal business, and security purposes.
- To check for and protect against fraud, bots, or any other type of inorganic traffic for the benefit of users, affiliates, advertisers, and other parties.
- To comply with legal obligations to which we may be subject (e.g., court orders, subpoenas, warrants, etc.).
- For our legitimate interests or those of third parties in compliance with applicable law. A legitimate interest includes, without limitation, when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. Examples of such purposes include, but are not limited to: (i) initiating legal claims and preparing for litigation and other dispute resolution proceedings and procedures, (ii) measures to manage business and for further developing products and services, (iii) to promote safety, security, and operation of our services, including by investigating suspicious or fraudulent activities or violations of rules, laws, or procedures, and (iv) providing you the services available on and through our services.
- Other compatible purposes for which the user information was collected.
Please note that certain user information may be used for multiple purposes and more than one reason for processing personal data may apply in each situation.
Without limiting the generality of any of the foregoing, IP addresses, browser user agent, HTTP request path, and HTTP referrer information are used to analyse your activity on our services and create statistics for the use of our services. IP addresses, browser user agents, HTTP request paths, HTTP referrers, and HTTP versions are also used to monitor and track errors and service outages. Use session parameters are used to analyze user activity on our services. Information about page views, thumbnail/video clicks, and likes/dislikes are used to rank and generate search results and to otherwise organize content on our services.
If you provide feedback, your feedback and email address used to provide that feedback is used to communicate with you (including by responding to your feedback and/or reacting to abuse) and to improve our services.
You are not subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal effects concerning you. However, automated processes are used to review traffic through our system to detect and block spam, fraud, and other unlawful or undesirable activities.
