Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you voluntarily register on our site or through any of our apps, connect to our app via a third party connection (for example, Facebook Connect), subscribe to a newsletter, enter a contest, or otherwise complete a brand experience. This information is collected on behalf of, and for the exclusive use of, the brand and/or company identified on any particular community hub or individual customer-facing experience. These brands are customers of Crowdly, INC, and are implementing our capabilities as part of their own digital marketing.

Crowdly does not require that you register in order to access the website. Registration may be required to access certain interactive features, or gated content.

Website Navigational Information – Crowdly uses commonly used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and tracking pixels, to collect information as you navigate Crowdly’s website. This Website Information includes standard information from your Web browser (such as browser type, version, and language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the actions you take on Crowdly’s websites (such as, pages viewed, links clicked).

When submitting or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, or mailing address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience.
• To facilitate any sampling invitations or prize fulfillment.
• To respond to your request – such as to schedule a demonstration
• To improve our Websites and products – Crowdly may use Website Navigational Information to provide Visitors and Customers with relevant content and in the aggregate to identify trends and usage patterns.
• To administer a contest, UGC submission, UGC collection, promotion, survey, or other site experience.
• To improve our products' user experience (we continually strive to improve our offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
• To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
• To send periodic emails.

If you opt-in the email address you provide may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to occasional brand news, experiences, related opportunities, and the like.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you always have the ability to do so. Instructions on how to unsubscribe from receiving future emails are included at the bottom of each email. You may also contact privacy@crowdly.com to be unsubscribed at any time.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or it’s service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser – if you allow – that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Other Tracking Technologies

Behavioral Targeting

We partner with a third party to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer data or personally identifiable information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties, specifically the brand through which you are engaged with Crowdly through, or the Crowdly app, or those who assist us in operating our platform, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or other rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

All personal information is collected exclusively for the specifically named Brand or Company under which you interacted with Crowdly through, and for Crowdly’s utilization solely on their behalf. Unless described in this Privacy Policy, Crowdly does not share, sell, rent, or trade any information collected through its Website or Services with third parties for their promotional purposes.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

As part of compliance with California law SB 568, all users of our site who are minors (users under the age of 18) may request removal of content stored on our servers, by emailing privacy@crowdly.com from the email address associated with the data and requesting removal of the information.

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

GDPR

Data Roles

Under GDPR, we operate as a data processor on behalf of our clients in the context of providing services to them and their end users. In this context the client is the controller. We operate as a data controller on our own behalf in the context of our marketing campaigns.

Where Crowdly clients are the controller, they can be contacted about data collected on their behalf, by reviewing their privacy policies.

Where we are the controller, EU residents can contact us to exercise your rights under GDPR. You can contact us at privacy@crowdly.com or our address below to:

• Request access to information that we have about you
• Correct information that we have about you
• Request destruction of information that we have about you

We use analytics services and Cookies in order to improve our services, users' experiences, and to understand how our web applications are used. The data is mostly anonymous traffic data including browser, device, language, and general location (region or city). Where we are the controller, we do not use collected information to profile those who access our website. Where we are the processor, we sometimes aggregate user data on behalf of clients, to generate general insights (gender, location).

Your Content

Personal information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose within the mobile Application or on the Website, for example on idea comment pages, or on the blog forums, becomes publicly available. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post messages using the Application or through the Website. Please note that any comment or other content you post or send to the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. You grant the named Brand or Company a free perpetual worldwide non-transferable license to use any brand specific user Generated Content you submit through the site or applications or share or create specifically for participation in a brand program or activation.

We may choose to feature customer submitted ideas or content which will contain customer’s user name.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our web site Privacy Policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on 8/4/2021.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact us using the information below.

Crowdly, INC
51 Melcher St
Boston, MA 02210

www.crowdly.com
support@crowdly.com