PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: February 20, 2024

This website is operated by Felixa, Inc. d/b/a emcee, (hereinafter, “emcee”, “We”, or “Us”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs your access to the emcee website (https://about.emceestudios.com/), the emcee mobile application, and any other services owned, controlled, or offered by emcee, now or in the future (all collectively referred to as, the "Services").  The term “You” or “User” shall refer to any individual that views, uses, accesses, browses or submits any content or material to the Services.

Since we may gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This Privacy Policy discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

BY VISITING, SIGNING UP, USING, BROWSING, OR ACCESSING THE SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE DATA PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES, DO NOT USE THE SERVICES.

  1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

    1. Personal Information:

      Through the Services, we may collect Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information about you that specifically identifies you or, when combined with other information we have, can be used to identify you. Generally, we do not collect Personal Information about you when you visit and/or use the Services, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Submitting Personal Information through the Services is voluntary. By doing so, you are giving us your permission to use the information for the stated purpose.

    2. Legal Basis for collecting your Personal Information

      We collect, process, and use your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, based at least on one of the following legal grounds:

      • With your consent: We ask for your agreement to process your information for specific purposes, and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
      • When Performing this Agreement: We collect and process your Personal Information to provide you with the Services, following your acceptance of this Privacy Policy; to maintain and improve the Services; to develop new services and features; and to personalize the Services in order for you to get a better user experience.
      • Legitimate interests: We process your information for our legitimate interests while applying appropriate safeguards that protect your privacy. This means that we process your information for things like detecting, preventing, or otherwise addressing fraud, abuse, security, usability, functionality or technical issues with protecting against harm to the rights, property or safety of our properties, or our users, or the public as required or permitted by law; enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of this Privacy Policy; in order to comply and/or fulfill our obligation under applicable laws, regulation, guidelines, industry standards and contractual requirements, legal process, subpoena or governmental request, as well as our Terms and Conditions.

    3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

      Through the Services, we may collect information that can identify you or your company when you voluntarily submit it to us. If requested, your Personal Information may include:

      • Full name
      • Mailing address
      • Email address
      • Demographic Data (such as age, gender, zip code)
      • Other similar information

    4. STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

      We will take reasonable precautions, as well as physical, technical, and organizational measures in accordance with industry standards, as described herein, to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.  Computer safeguards, such as firewalls and data encryption may be used to protect your information.

      However, the security of information on or transmitted via the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Unauthorized entry of use, hardware or software failures, and other factors may compromise the security of your Personal Information. All information you send to us electronically or through email is not secure. Any transmission is at your own risk as the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure.

  2. NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

    We collect and temporarily store certain information about your usage of the Services. Non-Personal Information means information that alone cannot identify you, including data such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and device information. The information includes, without limitation:

    1. Device Data: We may collect information such as: the type of computer and/or mobile device you use; the unique device ID of your computer and/or mobile device; the IP address of your computer and/or mobile device; the operating system of your computer and/or mobile device; and the type of mobile internet browsers of your computer and/or mobile device.
    2. Usage details: when you access and use the Services, we may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the Services, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the Services.
    3. Location information: When you first visit or use the Services, we may request permission to collect and use your device’s precise geolocation. You can opt not to permit the collection of this information, but you may not be able to use the Services provided by emcee without access to your location. We may need your location information in order to provide the Services. You can control how and whether we collect your precise geolocation information through your device’s settings.

    If you do not want us to collect this information, you may either change your device’s privacy settings or do not access or use the Services.

  3. INFORMATION COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

    The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include:

    1. Cookies (or mobile cookies): We may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Services or the Services overall.

    2. Retargeting/Advertising Cookies: Retargeting/Advertising Cookies collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that we believe is relevant to you.

    3. Web Beacons: The Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Services statistics.

    4. Social Ad Services: We may also use re-marketing through social media tracking cookies and pixel-based retargeting services. This means that if you provided your consent to any social media Services (the “Social Ad Services”) to be provided with personalized commercial offers, you may be served with ads (including advertisements of third parties) based on your access to the Services, outside of the Services and across the internet. In such event, the Social Ad Services, will place cookies on your web browser and use such cookies to serve you ads based on past visits to our Services.

      Please visit the Social Ad Platforms Privacy policy to find out how they use such information:

    5. Mobile Device Identifiers. Mobile device identifiers help emcee learn more about our users’ demographics and internet behaviors. Mobile device identifiers are data stored on mobile devices that may track mobile device and data and activities occurring on and through it, as well as the applications installed on it. Mobile device identifiers enable collection of Personal Information (such as media access control, address, and location, and tracking data, including without limitation IP address, domain server, type of device(s) used to access the Services, web browser(s) used to access the Services, referring webpage or other source through which you accessed the Services, other statistics and information associated with the interaction between your browser or device and the Services).

    6. Cross Device Matching. To determine if users have interacted with content across multiple devices and to match such devices, we may work with partners who analyze device activity data and/or rely on your information (including demographic, geographic and interest-based data). To supplement this analysis, we may also provide de-identified data to these partners. Based on this data, we may then display targeted advertisements across devices that we believe are associated or use this data to further analyze usage of Services across devices.

  4. CHANGING YOUR DATA COLLECTION SETTINGS

    We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. You may need to adjust the settings on your computer and/or device to restrict the collection of information by the Services, but this may prevent you from accessing all the features of the Services.

    1. Tracking Technologies: You may be able to set your browser or device to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or block the use of other tracking technologies, some parts of the Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
    2. Location Information: You can choose whether to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts or all of the Services may be inaccessible or not function properly.
    3. Social Ad Platforms: If you wish to opt-out of re-targeting and tracking functionality of the Social Ad Platforms, you may do so through each platform directly. PLEASE NOTE that these tracking and targeting by Social Ad Platforms, is provided pursuant to your engagement with the Social Ad Platforms and the actual nature and scope of Personal Information collection and processing performed by such Social Ad Platforms may not be fully known to us. If you would like to learn more or make further inquiries with respect to such nature or scope, please refer to each Social Ad Platforms directly.

    You can decide whether to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You may also be able to reject mobile device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your computer. Although you are not required to accept Cookies, if you block, reject, or delete them, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

    To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

  5. THIRD-PARTY AUTOMATIC INFORMATION COLLECTION

    When you use the Services or its contents, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

    These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information about your online activities over time and across different platforms, mobile applications, and other online sites. 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.

  6. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

    We use information collected as described in this Privacy Policy for the following:

    1. Operation
      • Operate, maintain and improve the Services;
      • Provide you with the Services and its contents, and any other information, products or services that you request from us;
      • Send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages and marketing messages;
      • Answer your questions and respond to your requests;
      • Ensure that content from the Services is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device for accessing the Services;
      • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including the Terms and Conditions;
      • Notify you when there are changes to any products or services we offer or provide though the Services; and
      • To maintain the security of Services.
    2. Usage and Analytics
      • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
      • Perform analytics and conduct customer research;
      • Analyze advertising effectiveness; and
      • Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about us and any of our partners.
    3. Location: We will use location data for the following reasons:
      • To provide the Services targeted to the city in which you are located;
      • To display information that is relevant to your particular location.
      • To maintain the security of Services.

  7. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

    The Personal Information you provide to us whether voluntarily or automatically, may be used and disclosed without limitations, in the following instances:

    1. To other Users – Your Personal Information may be shared voluntarily if you message or otherwise communicate with other Users;
    2. With vendors who provide services for us (who are required to protect the Personal Information) - We may share Personal Information for business purposes with service providers that provide us with services for the purpose of operating the Services, opening and operating your account, as well as providing ancillary services and solutions. These include, among others, hosting services, billing and payment processors and vendors, community management services, data and cybersecurity services, web analytics and performance tools, translation tools, IT and SaaS services, session recording, communication systems, mailing systems, data optimization and marketing services, data enrichment services, legal and financial advisors or technical consultants. All credit, debit, or prepaid card information collected by emcee, or any applicable payment processor will be stored and processed in compliance with applicable payment card industry standards. Consistent with applicable legal requirements, we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to require third parties to adequately safeguard your personal information and only process it in accordance with our instructions;
    3. To report or collect on debts owed to us;
    4. To comply with legal requirements - We may be required to disclose personal Information to a prospective buyer or buyer of emcee or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets; as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, for the enforcement of law, regulations, court orders, subpoena, a warrant during the course of a legal proceedings or otherwise; in order for us to protect and safeguard our copyright, trademarks, legal rights, intellectual property rights or safety; or in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States.

  8. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

    We may also disclose Non-Personal Information:

  9. HOW TO ACCESS, UPDATE, WITHDRAW CONSENT OR DELETE YOUR INFORMATION

  10. SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

  11. COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS

  12. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY