Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how and why GeniuSparkle, TBD. (“GeniuSparkle,” “we" or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our sites, mobile apps, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.

What We Collect (and How it is Used and Shared)

Information You Provide to Us We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This Includes:

• Account information.

  If you create a GeniuSparkle account, we require you to provide your name, gender, email, date of birth and password. Your email and date of birth is by default made private. You may also provide other account information, like profile picture(collected automatically when signed up with social media), cover picture, bio, country, email and topic preference, social accounts(Facebook. Google, Discord) and phone number. We also store your user account preferences and settings.

• Content you submit.

  We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes the completed projects that you showcase in your profiles.

• Actions you take.

  We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We also collect your interactions with games, communities and quizzes.

• Transactional information.

  If you purchase products or services from us (e.g., GeniuSparkle Subscription or GeniuSparkle Topup), we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. GeniuSparkle uses industry-standard payment processor services (for example, PayPal) to handle payment information.

• Other information.

  You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in GeniuSparkle-sponsored activities or promotions, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

Information We Collect Automatically When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:

• Log and usage data.

  We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.

• Information collected from cookies and similar technologies.

  We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, and improve the quality of our Services. The cookies we use are google analytics, cloudflare, unsplash, hubspot and youtube cookies. Manage your cookies here ( Cookie Settings )

Information Collected from Advertisers and Potential Advertisers If you use GeniuSparkle Ads (GeniuSparkle’s self-serve ads platform at business.geniusparkle.com) we collect some additional information. To sign up for GeniuSparkle Ads, you must provide your name, email address, and information about your company. If you purchase advertising services, you will need to provide transactional information as described above, and we may also require additional documentation to verify your identity. When using GeniuSparkle Ads, we may record a session replay of your visit for customer service, troubleshooting, and usability research purposes.

We use information about you to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
• Research and develop new services;
• Help protect the safety of GeniuSparkle and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcing our Terms and Conditions and our other policies;
• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices, and other support and administrative messages
• Provide customer service;
• Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see Your Choices below);
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;
• Measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services; and
• Personalize the Services, and provide and optimize advertisements, content, and features that match user profiles or interests.

Your GeniuSparkle account has a profile page that is public. Your profile contains information about your activities on the Services, such as your name, username, profile and cover picture, interests on topics, projects, awards received, trophies, GeniuSparkle Subscription status, and how long you have been a member of the Services.

We do not sell your personal information. However, in addition to the personal information that is displayed publicly as described above, we may share personal information in the following ways:

• With your consent. We may share information about you with your consent or at your direction.
• With linked services. If you link your GeniuSparkle account with a third-party service, GeniuSparkle will share the information you authorize with that third-party service. You can control this sharing as described in Your Choices below.
• With our service providers. We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us. Their use of personal data will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures. A few examples: (i) payment processors who process transactions on our behalf, (ii) cloud providers who host our data and our services, (iii) third-party ads measurement providers who help us and advertisers measure the performance of ads shown on our Services.
• To comply with the law. We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request. Our Transparency Report has additional information about how we respond to government requests.
• In an emergency. We may share information if we believe it's necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
• To enforce our policies and rights. We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our User Agreement, rules, or other GeniuSparkle policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others.
• With our affiliates. We may share information between and among GeniuSparkle, and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
• Aggregated or de-identified information. We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may show the total number of times a post has been upvoted without identifying who the visitors were, or we may tell an advertiser how many people saw their ad.

How We Protect Your Information

We want you to understand that nothing on the internet is 100% secure and everything can be breached. Aside from it, we take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to nonpublic personal information. You can help maintain the security of your account by configuring two-factor authentication.

We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

Your Choices

You have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and sharing of information about you when you use the Services.

• Accessing and Changing Your Information

  You can access and change certain information through the Services. See our Help Center page for more information. You can also request a copy of the personal information GeniuSparkle maintains about you by following the process described here.

• Deleting Your Account

  You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information GeniuSparkle maintains about you by following the process described in the Your Rights - Data Subject and Consumer Information Requests section below. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes after you delete your account.

• Controlling Linked Services’ Access to Your Account

  You can review the services you have permitted to access your account and revoke access to individual services by visiting your account’s Apps page (for third-party app authorizations) and the Connected Accounts section of your Account Settings (for Google Sign-In, Sign in with Apple, and connected Twitter accounts).

• Controlling the Use of Cookies

  Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. For more information on controlling how cookies and similar technologies are used on GeniuSparkle, see our Cookie Notice.

• Controlling Advertising and Analytics

  Some analytics providers we partner with may provide specific opt-out mechanisms and we may provide, as needed and as available, additional tools and third-party services that allow you to better understand cookies and how you can opt out. For example, you may manage the use and collection of certain information by Google Analytics via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can opt out of the Audience Measurement services provided by Nielsen and Quantcast.
  
  We also offer you choices about receiving personalized advertisements. You can adjust how we personalize advertisements for you by visiting your ads preferences your account settings in the GeniuSparkle app, or here if you use GeniuSparkle in a web browser. You can also use device-level settings to control personalized advertisements on Android (“Reset advertising ID” and “Opt out of Ads Personalization”) and iOS (“Limit Ad Tracking”) devices. You may also generally opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from certain third-party advertisers and ad networks. To learn more about these advertisements or to opt out, please visit the sites of the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative, or if you are a user in the European Economic Area, Your Online Choices.

• Controlling Promotional Communications

  You may opt out of receiving some or all categories of promotional communications from us by following the instructions in those communications or by updating your email options in your account preferences here. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as information about your account or your use of the Services.

• Controlling Mobile Notifications

  With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

• Controlling Location Information

  You can control how we use location information inferred from your IP address for content recommendation purposes via the Safety and Privacy settings on your account. If you initially consent to our collection of more precise location information from your device, you can subsequently stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

Your Rights under the GDPR

Residents of the EU have rights to:

• Request access to your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
• Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Object to processing of your Personal Data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
• Request erasure of your Personal Data.
• Request the transfer of your Personal Data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your Personal Data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

California privacy rights

Residents of California have the right to:

1. Know what personal information we collect about you and from where we collect it.
2. Access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
3. Understand how we process your personal information and how it may be shared.
4. Opt out of having your personal information shared with certain third parties.
5. Request a deletion of your GeniuSparkle account and personal information

Links

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If You click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Do Not Track

The Service is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals sent by some browsers.

Children

We allow children under 13 to create accounts in GeniuSparkle where we don’t differentiate between age groups like school does. We collect the same data from every age group. To comply with COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act), we ask children under 13 to get their parents to read our privacy policy and consent on behalf of them. We value our minor users’ privacy so we take necessary steps to keep the information of the users confidential and we only use the information internally. We don’t disclose the information to any 3rd party. As the parent, you have full control over the data of your children which you can access from the parents portal at parents.geniusparkle.com and to remove your child’s data from our database, you can delete the account yourself or ask our customer support to delete the account on behalf of you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: support@geniusparkle.com