Privacy Policy
Effective Date These Terms (this “Terms of Service”), Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) and Cookie Policy (this “Cookie Policy”) are effective and were last updated as of May 26, 2024.
This Privacy Policy explains how Celeb Vote and our corporate subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Celeb Vote”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and shares personally identifiable information if you visit Celebvote.com, our websites, applications, other ‘offerings’, or our other websites or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”), contact us, receive our communications or attend our events. This policy is applicable to all Celeb Vote websites, apps, affiliates, brands and entities that Celeb Vote Controls.
This Privacy Policy only covers information collected through the Services and via direct communications between you and Celeb Vote, and unless otherwise notified to you, does not address any information collected at any other website or application. You can learn more about how we use and protect your privacy here or by contacting us. By using the Services, you consent to such collection, use and sharing of your information and Personal Data and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information We Collect
Information you provide to us
When visiting Celeb Vote you may choose to submit information through the Services which may include:
Profile information, such as your first and last name, birth date, gender, city, state and zip, social profile urls, profile photo
Account information, such as your username and password, email address, phone number and any account preferences for the Services.
Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us.
Usage information, such as information about how you use the Services and interact with us, including information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Services.
Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our products, activities, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications.
Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
If you choose to create a Celeb Vote account, the personal information you chose to enter including name, gender, profile picture or other details, may be made visible to other Celeb Vote users on your Celeb Vote account page. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, and various other information. If you choose to communicate with other Celeb Vote users, you alone are responsible for any events or actions that might result from such communication; Celeb Vote is not responsible for conversations between its users, either on the site or elsewhere.
If you so choose, you can use our Services without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, certain users choose to interact with Celeb Vote in ways that require Celeb Vote to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Celeb Vote gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, to engage with certain Services we may invite you to contact us with questions or comments or feedback, participate in list creation and/or voting, questionnaires or contests, recommend or rate content, or complete a registration form. Celeb Vote does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described herein. And users can always refuse to supply personally identifying information.
Information we obtain from social media platforms
We may maintain pages for Celeb Vote on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider's privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use, and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you choose to connect your account on a third-party platform or network to the Services, like using your social account to access, we may collect information from that platform or network. For example, this information may include your Medium username, profile picture, and other profile information. You may also have the opportunity to provide us with additional information via the third-party platform or network, such a list of your connections. You can read more about your privacy choices for social media networks and other third-party platforms below.
Information we obtain from other third-parties
We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources, and data providers.
Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means
We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Services by using different types of tracking technology, including server logs. This information that may be collected automatically includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model; device identifier and/or user ID; browser type; screen resolution; IP (Internet Protocol) address; the website you visited before browsing to our website; general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on the Services, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, dates and times you visited/access times, and length of access; uploaded or download materials; ads that you clicked on; information from your Facebook account that you make publicly available, which is provided to us by Facebook via the Facebook APIs. Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications. Celeb Vote allows for the RSS syndication of its public content within the Celeb Vote website.
See our Cookie Policy for more information.
How we Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
To Operate The Services
We use your personal information to:
provide, operate, and improve the Services;
establish and maintain your user profile on the Services;
facilitate social features of the Services;
communicate with you about the Services, offers and events offered by Celeb Vote or others, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
understand your interests and personalize your experience with the Services including delivering recommendations, advertisements, content, and features that match your interests;
enhance our advertising and measurement systems to present relevant ads on and off our Services
provide measurement and advertising services to third-party apps, websites, and advertisers, so that they can better understand the usage of their services, the effectiveness of their ad campaigns, and plan and deliver future ads based on interests;
monitor and analyze the usage of our Services;
detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent and other illegal activities to protect the rights, safety, and property of Celeb Vote;
provide support and maintenance for the Services; and
respond to your requests, questions, and feedback.
For research and development
We analyze use of the Services to improve the Services and to develop new products and services.
To send you marketing and promotional communications
We may send you marketing communications as permitted by law. You can opt out of our marketing and promotional communications as described below.
To comply with law, fraud prevention, and safety
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities. We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Services; and (c) protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity.
With your consent
In some cases we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use, or share your personal information, such as when required by law.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We do not share your personal information with third-parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
Affiliates
We may share your personal information with Celeb Vote’s current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and other companies under our common control and ownership to administer and deliver our Services for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Service providers
We may share your personal information with third-party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Services (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, database management services, maintenance, and security service). These third-parties may use your personal information only as authorized.
Partners/Advertising Partners
We may sometimes share your personal information with business partners or enable them to collect information directly via our Services including device IDs, advertising IDs, or other identifiers, or pseudonymous IDs. The information we may sell to business partners may include IP addresses, and/or hashed/encrypted versions of your email address. All information will not identify you directly, but may reveal your identity indirectly through your device or other means.
We engage third-party advertisement partners and advertising networks to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and provide analytics services to us. Therefore, when you use our website, we may share information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our identity partners/service providers. These partners return an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and cross-channel advertising and it may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising.
We also use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to provide augmented website functionality and do data analyses in aggregate. These, and other companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. They may do this by using Cookies and web beacons, among other things. Some third-parties might use third party cookies in the ads served on the Website. When users visit the Website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these Cookies will be used to help better serve and manage ads on our Website.
We may use Google to serve ads on Celeb Vote. Google uses cookies or unique device identifiers, in combination with their own data, to show you ads based on your visit to celebvote.com and other websites. You can opt out of the use of the Google cookie by visiting the related Google privacy policy Although we may attempt to contractually limit what third-party advertising companies and networks do, we have no ability to monitor or control what they do. Although we attempt to contractually require that these companies shall always allow the end-user (you) to easily and completely uninstall any means of tracking the end-user without regenerating the means of such tracking, we cannot assure that this will occur and, therefore, you consent to these types of practices. If you would like more information about what many advertising companies and advertising networks do and to know some of your choices about not having this information used by the companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, please visit https://thenai.org/opt-out/. We cannot assure that all of our third-party advertising companies and advertising networks are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, or that they comply with the policies of the Network Advertising Initiative.
See our Cookie Policy for more information about third-parties that collect information through our Services with Cookies and similar technologies.
Third-party platforms and social media networks
If you have enabled features or functionality that connect the Services to a third-party platform or social media network (such as by connecting your account with a third-party to the Services or sharing content via a third-party platform), we may disclose the personal information that you authorized us to share and the data generated by Cookies, web beacons, logs and the aggregated information. We may share information with consultants, data processors, service providers, and other trusted businesses that enable our digital advertising business-to-business activities. Such third-party entities may be obligated to use your personally identifiable information to provide the services to us. We do not control the third-party's use of your personal information.
Other Users of the Services and the Public
We may provide functionality that enables you to disclose personal information to other users of the Services or the public. For instance, if you submit content to the Services (such as comments to a post), we may display some information, such as your name and a link to your user profile along with the content you submit. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to other users or the public.
Professional advisors
We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
For compliance, fraud prevention and safety
We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above including disclosing information to companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Celeb Vote if required by any applicable law or legal process, or if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Celeb Vote or others.
Government Requests
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or legal request (including upon receipt of what we believe may be a valid subpoena, whether issued by a Court that has jurisdiction over Celeb Vote or not) or to protect the safety, property, or rights of Celeb Vote or others. Please note that Celeb Vote reserves the right to assert that only the Federal District Court of the Central District of California, and the Los Angeles County Superior Court, have jurisdiction, and subpoenas from outside those jurisdictions must be "domesticated," though we are not obligated to do so. However, nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third-party or government request to disclose your information.
Business transfers
We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a (potential) business transaction such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.