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This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use, and share your information across our websites, our other covered services that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”), and from our partners and other third parties. For example, you send us information when you use our Services on the web, via SMS, or from an application such as Memes for Android or iOS. When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes any information you choose to provide that is deemedsensitive under applicable law.
When this policy mentions “we” or “us,” it refers to the controller of your information under this policy. Your information is controlled by Memes, Inc., 8216 Lankershim Blvd north hollywood California US 91605 Despite this, you alone control and are responsible for the posting of your memes and other content you submit through the Services, as provided in the Terms of Service.
We collect and use your information below to provide, understand, and improve our Services.
Basic Account Information: If you choose to create a Memes account, you must provide us with some personal information, such as your name, username, password, email address, or phone number. On Memes, your name and username are always listed publicly, including on your profile page and in search results, and you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. You can create and manage multiple Memes accounts. Some of our product features, such as searching and viewing public Memes user profiles or watching a broadcast on Periscope’s website, do not require you to create an account.
Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable certain account features, for example, for login verification. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages to that number from us. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services, to market to you, to help prevent spam, fraud, or abuse, and to helpothers find your account, including through third-party services and client applications. You may use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from Memes. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website.
Memes, Following, Lists, Profile, and Other Public Information Memes is primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide us through Memes is information you are asking us to make public. You may provide us with profile information such as a short biography, your location, your website, date of birth, or a picture. Additionally, your public information includes the messages you meme; the metadata provided with memes, such as when you memeed and the client application you used to meme; information about your account, such as creation time, language, country, and time zone; and the lists you create, people you follow, memes you Like or Repost, memes you click or otherwise engage with (such as by commenting or hearting) on Memes. Memes broadly and instantly disseminates your public information to a wide range of users, customers, and services, including search engines, developers, and publishers that integrate Memes content into their services, and organizations such as universities, public health agencies, and market research firms that analyze the information for trends and insights. When you share information or content like photos, videos, and links via the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making public.
Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications: We provide certain features that allow you to communicate more privately. For example, you can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with other Memes users. When you privately communicate with others through our Services, such as by sending and receiving Direct Messages, we will store and process your communications, and information related to them. Please note that if you interact with public Memes content shared with you via Direct Message, for instance by liking a meme shared via Direct Message, those interactions may be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate privately, please remember that recipients may copy, store, and re-share the contents of your communications.
Cookies: Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user profiles. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer or mobile device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to customize and improve our Services. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, some browsers’ settings can be modified to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies.
Using Our Services: We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our Services, even if you have not created an account (“Log Data”). For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party website, application, or service, or visit a third-party website, application, or service that includes Memes content, we may receive information about you. This Log Data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, or cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view or interact with links on our Services, including links to third-party applications, such as when you choose to install another application through Memes. We use Log Data to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you, including ads.
Advertising: Our Services are supported by advertising. We may 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 Memes. We do not use the content you share privately in Direct Messages to serve you ads. Our Memes Ads Policy also prohibits advertisers from targeting ads based on categories we consider sensitive such as race, religion, politics, sex life, or health. Memes adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as “interest-based advertising”).
Third-Parties and Affiliates: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as other Memes users, partners (including ad partners), or our corporate affiliates. For example, other users may share or disclose information about you, such as when they mention you, share a photo of you, or tag you in a photo. Your privacy settings control who can tag you in a photo. Our ad partners and affiliates may share information with us such as a browser cookie ID, mobile device ID, or cryptographic hash of an email address, as well as demographic or interest data and content viewed or actionstaken on a website or app. Our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, may enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology.
Personalizing Across Your Devices: When you log into your account with a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication and personalization. Depending on your settings, we may also personalize your experience on, and based on information from, other browsers or devices besides the ones you use to log into Memes. For example, if you visit websites with sports content on your laptop, we may show you sports-related ads on Memes for Android.
We do not disclose your private personal information except in the limited circumstances described here.
User Consent or Direction: We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. When you use Digits by Memes to sign up for or log in to a third-party application, you are directing us to share your contact information, such as your phone number, with that application. If you’ve shared information, like Direct Messages or protected memes, with another user who accesses Memes through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.
Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and to help us understand and improve the use of our Services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal information 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. We share your payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address 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 or debit cards.
Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information 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 address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our or our users’ rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may haveto a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.
Business Transfers and Affiliates: In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose information about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help provide, understand, and improve our Services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.
Public Information: We may share or disclose your public information, such as your public user profile information, public memes, or the people you follow or that follow you. Remember: your privacy and visibility settings control whether your memes and certain profile information are made public. Other information, like your name and username, is always public on Memes, unless you delete your account, as described below.
Deleting Your Account: You can delete your use account at any time. Your profile will no longer be accessible via our Service if you delete your account. This is not a reversible action. Send an email to: contact@memes.com from the email address associated with your account and we will delete your account as well as all information we have associated with it soon after receiving it.
Non-Personal, Aggregated, or Device-Level Information: We may share or disclose non-personal, aggregated, or device-level information such as the total number of times people engaged with a meme, the number of users who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll in a meme (even if only one did), the characteristics of a device or its user when it is available to receive an ad, the topics that people are memeing about in a particular location, or aggregated or device-level reports to advertisers about users who saw or clicked on their ads. This information does not include your name, email address, phone number, or Memes handle. We may, however, share non-personal, aggregated, or device-level information through partnerships with entities that may use data in their possession (including data you may have given them) to link your name, email address, or other personal information to the information we provide them. These partnerships require that they get your consent before doing so.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at https://www2.memes.com/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via 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.
Effective: October 16, 2019
Memes, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
8216 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood California US 91605
