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This Privacy Policy is designed to help you better understand in the simplest way possible, what information we monitor and collect so that you have the most transparent view and control over your data.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
At BuzzyGroups.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded BuzzyGroups.com and how we use it.
By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through via the information provided in Additional Information in this Privacy Policy page.
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in BuzzyGroups.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
You must create an account to use most of our service features, such as browsing and viewing BuzzyGroups profiles, searching for BuzzyGroups groups, brands, viewing a group's page or brand's page. In some cases, you might not need to create an account to view brand pages or viewing public BuzzyGroups pages. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal information so that we can provide all of our services to you. On BuzzyGroups.com this includes a username name, first name, last name, date of birth, zip code, country, about me, referral name, an email address, password, profile image, phone number, etc.
Your username, about me, and profile image are always public, but you can use either use your real name or a pseudonym. You can also create and manage multiple BuzzyGroups accounts but encourage only one account per person.
Most activity on BuzzStream.com is private. Most activity on the site is password protected for users and is also protected at a group-level as well. Some activity on BuzzyGroups is public, including some information from Brand pages, username information, which includes, but is not limited the information stored publicly in your profile page, time zone, and language information. On Brand pages, this may include the date, time, and version of BuzzyGroups, profile image, and any comment left on a Brand page, that may become public at the discretion of the Brand Leader or moderator. Even though we have put certain safety measures in place, we always recommend that you use caution when posting information that could potentially disclose information that you may not want the public to know. At the moment, there is no way to prevent people from taking pictures, screenshots, printing, or saving the information that displays on users' screens. Thus, although doing so is a violation of our terms, we cannot guarantee that people will not break the rules. This is why we always recommend that users are aware that content that is intended to remain private may become public due to the action of bad actors.
If you engage with an ad on our services, that advertiser might thereby learn information about you associated with the ad with which you engaged such as characteristics of the audience the ad was intended to reach.
Information posted about you by other people who use our services may also be public. For instance, other people may post a photo of you or with you in it or may mention you or your likeness in a Post.
All users are responsible for their Posts and other information provided through our services. We strongly urge that you use double caution before posting any information on the site, especially if it is personally identifiable or sensitive information. If you update your public information on BuzzyGroups, such as by deleting a Post or closing your account, we will reflect your updated content on BuzzyGroups.com, and potentially all BuzzyGroups platforms.
By posting any type of content when you Post on BuzzyGroups, you give us your permission to disclose that information as broadly as possible, including through our APIs, and directing those accessing the information through our APIs to do the same. To enable quick global dissemination of Posts, we use technology like application programming interfaces (APIs) and embeds to make that information available to websites, apps, and others for their use. We reserve the right to make this content available in limited quantities for a fee and/or charge licensing fees for access.
BuzzyGroups has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by BuzzyGroups of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user’s own risk, which is why we always urge users to be cautious when clicking on links they do not recognize as safe.
We may use your contact information, such as your phone number or email address, to authenticate your account and keep our services secure. We may also use your contact information to help in preventing spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to enable certain account features, and to send you information about our services, and to personalize our services, including ads. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from BuzzyGroups to that number as your country’s laws allow. BuzzyGroups also uses your contact information to market to you as your country’s laws allow, and to help others find your account if your settings permit, including through third-party services and client applications. You can use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from BuzzyGroups. You can also unsubscribe from within the notification or in your profile settings.
If you email us, we may keep any details of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
There are several parts about your data that users control what they share with BuzzyGroups.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, country, zip code, company name, address, email address, telephone number and other personal information.
We require information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you. We may also collect, use, and store additional information about your location to help provide relevant services and provide greater security to your account and our platforms.
We measure and keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in Posts that appear on other websites or mobile applications. If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from BuzzyGroups, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
We use the information we collect in various ways, including, but not limited to:
BuzzyGroups.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
BuzzyGroups.com uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you including ads, and remembering your language preferences. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option.
Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads visitors based upon their visit to BuzzyGroups.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Revenue from advertising allows us to support and improve our services. We use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of BuzzyGroups. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by BuzzyGroups from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with BuzzyGroups and that BuzzyGroups receives about you described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on BuzzyGroups.com, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that BuzzyGroups.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
BuzzyGroups.com's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites. Disabling cookies may prevent users from being able to use all features on BuzzyGroups.com, so we recommend leaving Cookies enabled.
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad partners, such as others on BuzzyGroups, partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform, our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your BuzzyGroups account.
When you log into BuzzyGroups on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. We may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into BuzzyGroups (or associate your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). When you provide other information to BuzzyGroups, including an email address, we associate that information with your BuzzyGroups account. We may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity. We do this to operate and personalize our services. For example, if you visit websites with vacation content on your phone, we may show you related ads on BuzzyGroups, if the email address associated with your account shares components with another email address, such as shared first name, last name, or initials, we may later match advertisements to you from advertisers that were trying to reach email addresses containing those components.
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services for us in the United States and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting, and to help us understand the use of our services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal data with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions (service providers may use other non-personal data for their own benefit). We share your payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards.
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.
Any claim relating to BuzzStreams’s services shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, share, or disclose your personal data or other safety data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the total number of times people engaged with a Post, group, brand, web page, demographics, the number of people who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll (even if only one did), the topics that people are Posting about in a particular location, some inferred interests, or reports to advertisers about how many people saw or clicked on their ads.
If you have registered an account on BuzzyGroups, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account.
If you deactivate your BuzzyGroups account, your account will no longer be available on any BuzzyGroups platforms. Deactivation is permanent and will result in permanent data loss.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account. This is not something that BuzzyGroups can control or alter.
When you are logged into your BuzzyGroups account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features by going to update profile at any time. It may take a short amount of time for privacy settings to be fully reflected throughout our systems. Please note that this change does not always happen immediately.
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the following data protection rights. We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access - You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification - You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13.
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
BuzzyGroups.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us by writing to us at the appropriate address below.
Please note that we will always do our best to reply as quickly as possible, but please allow our team sufficient time to receive, review, and respond to any requests if necessary.
If you live in the United States, United Kingdom, or any country outside of those countries please use the following contact details.
Market Action Research, Inc.
Attn: BuzzyGroups Privacy Policy Inquiry
23679 Calabasas Road #1134
Calabasas, CA 91302
Please ensure to include the following information in your letter
Any additional information provided will help us to more quickly and accurately resolve your inquiry. Please make sure to specify a preferred method for contact in your letter but note that we may need to use alternative channels or methods for contacting you. If you prefer lettered correspondences, please include with your letter the proper postage and return letter for our reply. Please note, that with some correspondences it may not be possible for our team to reply via letter, which may result in an alternative method of contact instead.
You can confidentially contact BuzzyGroup’s Data Protection Officer by sending your correspondences to the address listed above, with the same info in the "ATTN" line, suffixed with the words "Confidential". Of course, you would not be required to include any personally identifiable information in your letter if you wish to omit that information in your letter.
To bring you our services, we may choose to operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the United States and any other country where we may choose to operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of your country. Our commitment is to always ensure adequate levels of protection if data transfer is required to expand globally.
BuzzyGroups may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at https://BuzzyGroups.com/privacy.
If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you within BuzzyGroups.com, BuzzyGroups.com platforms, via a BuzzyGroups owned and operated BuzzyGroupsaccount, or by sending an email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
