PRIVACY POLICY
Last modified: January 2018
Sprazzi, Inc. (”Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.sprazzi.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
On this Website;
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website;
Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website;
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Clients are subject to a Client Terms of Use and Photographers are subject to Photographer Terms of Use, both of which incorporated in this policy by reference. To the extent there is any inconsistency between this Privacy Policy and the Client or Photographer Terms of Use, the Client or Photographer Terms of Use (as the case may be) will prevail. If you are neither a Client nor a Photographer, by using this website you agree to the collection and use of your data in accordance with this policy.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not register with us or use the Company’s website or the services provided over it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that we will only use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may change this policy from time to time without notice by updating this page. Any such changes will take effect from the time of such updating. You should check this page periodically ensure that you are happy with any changes. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. We will also take all reasonably practical steps to notify you specifically of any changes that materially affect the ways in which your information may be used or shared.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at hello@sprazzi.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (”personal information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as educational level, former professional affiliations; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us;
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, posting material, or requesting services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website;
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.;
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website;
Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Photographer
Photographers registering with company are required to provide personal data, including name and contact information, as well as detailed description of their academic and professional background and employment history (and other information typically contained in a detailed curriculum vitae). If you are contacted by and booked by the client, we will also require your payment details to be able to effect payment to you for the services. We may collect additional information through correspondence and other interactions with you.
We will clearly indicate what information is required to enable us to provide our service to clients. For information, which is not indicated as being required, it is your choice whether to provide it to us.
Clients
For Client enquiries and registrations, we require the full name and address of the client, a brief description of the client’s project, and contact details.
Generally
By using our Website Photographers and Clients agree to our Privacy Policy and agree to our use of any information, which may be collected by us, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you wish to withdraw such consent at any time, you may do so by contacting us at hello@sprazzi.com. However, if you do so, you will be unable to continue to be a Client or Photographer (as the case may be).
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your interests, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). If you wish to opt out of behavioral tracking on this website, you may do so by contacting us at hello@sprazzi.com.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests;
Speed up your searches;
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website [and our e-mails] may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or [opened an email] and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based behavioral advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information, which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
What we do with the information we gather
We use the information that we collect about Clients and Photographers to facilitate their participation in projects and to improve the overall quality of our services.
Photographers
If you are a Photographer, we use and analyze the information, which we collect about you in order to identify clients and projects, which may be within your field of expertise and of interest to you. We may disclose information about you to Clients who may wish to obtain your services.
We may provide prospective clients with your biographical information for the purposes of demonstrating the quality and coverage of our photographers network.
Clients
If you are a Client, we use and analyze the information, which we collect about you in order to identify the most suitable Photographers for your projects and to help us identify events, which may be of interest to you. We may share your information with Photographers in respect of actual and potential projects for you.
Generally
The more accurate and detailed the information provided, the better we are able to match Photographers to Clients.
By registering as a Photographer or a Client, you agree that we may contact you via the contact information you provided to us.
We may also use information collected from you to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, including, but not limited, for the following reasons:
internal record keeping
to present our Website and its contents to you
to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it
to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection
to improve our products and services
to periodically send promotional emails and notifications about new services or other information we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided or sending notification to your online profile
to disclose your information without further notice to you in the following instances: (i) if you have already authorized us to do so; (ii) if we are required to do so by applicable law or pursuant to a court or administrative order; (iii) as deemed necessary, in our discretion, to protect our legal rights or property or the legal rights or property of any Photographer, Client or third party; and/or (iv) in connection with a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of part or all of the business, assets or shares in Company
to contact you from time to time for market research purposes. Such contact may be initiated by email, phone, via your account created on the Website, fax or mail
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information
for any other purpose with your consent
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to or not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients;
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes;
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. (http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html) If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to hello@sprazzi.com
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email, address or other contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to hello@sprazzi.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a service purchase, service experience or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to hello@sprazzi.com.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (”NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
We will retain your information for as long as we consider is reasonable or for as long as is required by law.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at contact us at hello@sprazzi.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to hello@sprazzi.com
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. We put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We hold all personal data on our servers within the United States. We have a global network of Photographers and our Client base is international. Accordingly, in the course of our business your information may be transmitted across borders both inside and outside the United States.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Please help us keep your information secure by keeping your password and other account details confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: hello@sprazzi.com
Sprazzi
January 2018