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RhymeZone.com
Website Privacy Notice
Effective Date: December 15, 2023
* Solely for purposes of placing advertising on the Services, the Services are affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”), and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage or to withdraw your consent to or opt-out of Raptive's processing of your personal information, please click here: Raptive's Advertising Privacy Statement.
Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. We understand that you are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This Privacy Notice sets forth your privacy rights and applies to personal data we may collect solely through your use of the RhymeZone.com service. This Privacy Notice does not govern our collection of personal information through any means other than through RhymeZone.com.
Your decision to use RhymeZone.com and provide your personal data is voluntary. We indicate on our online, mobile, and other registration forms what types of personal data are requested. You may choose not to submit requested information online or may choose to restrict the use of cookies (see 'Your Rights & Choices; Opt-Out' below for more information), but that may limit the services we are able to provide to you.
We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and so we will from time to time update this Privacy Notice as we undertake new personal data processing practices or adopt new privacy policies. If you have concerns, please contact our data protection officer at dpo@RhymeZone.com.
COPPA Compliance
RhymeZone.com is intended for a general audience, and is not targeted to, and does not knowingly collect personal data from, minors under 13 years of age. We request that these individuals do not provide personal data through the RhymeZone.com service.
In accordance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly solicit, nor will we accept, personally identifiable information from Users known to be under 13 years of age in a manner not permitted by COPPA or other applicable laws.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe that we have collected personal information from your child in a manner not permitted by law, please contact us at: dpo@RhymeZone.com. We will remove the data to the extent required by applicable laws.
Information that You Provide to Us
RhymeZone.com protects the identity of visitors to the RhymeZone.com service by limiting the collection of personally identifiable information. Personal information provided by you to us will not be posted or published by us and will be shared with third parties only as provided herein. You can enjoy many of the features of RhymeZone.com without giving us your personal information.
Promotions and other special features
For certain promotions and to access certain features that may be available on RhymeZone.com, we collect information voluntarily submitted by you to us to deliver the requested feature that may include (but not be limited to) your name, email address, city, state and age. You may edit this information at any time to change, add or remove it from our RhymeZone.com service. We process your personal information to deliver the requested feature to you and to inform you of other benefits or opportunities associated with our RhymeZone.com service. We may also use this information for legitimate business purposes that help us understand our users' needs and interests to better tailor our products and services to meet your needs.
Game Play
Whenever you play RhymeZone.com, we collect data about your interactions with each RhymeZone.com. This information may be associated with your username, IP address or device ID for the purpose of providing the RhymeZone.com service and improving it.
Payment card information
You may choose to purchase goods or services from RhymeZone.com using a payment card. Typically, payment card information is provided directly by a User, via the RhymeZone.com service, into the PCI/DSS-compliant payment processing service to which the RhymeZone.com service subscribes, and the RhymeZone.com service does not, itself, process or store your card information.
How We Use Information that You Provide to Us
Non-subscriber communications from us and our approved, third-party partners
If you choose to provide us with personal information through the RhymeZone.com service, you may receive the following types of emails from us:
- Emails related to subscription-maintenance activities;
- Emails highlighting new features, content, and usage tips for the RhymeZone.com service; and
- Special offers from our approved, third-party partners, if you “opt-in” or give us your permission to send them.
When you provide us with your personal information, you can let us know that you do not wish to receive special offers from our third-party partners. Also, each special offer will have information available to allow you to “opt-out” if you no longer wish to receive special offers.
Authorized service providers
For legitimate business interests, we may share your personal information with service providers that perform certain services on our behalf, such as processing credit card payments, performing business and sales analysis, and supporting the RhymeZone.com service's functionality.
Business partners
When you make purchases or engage in our promotions, we may share personal information with the businesses with which we partner to offer you those products, services, promotions, contests and/or sweepstakes. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant's offer or program, you expressly authorize us to provide your email address and other information to that merchant.
Surveys
We may occasionally conduct on-line surveys. All surveys are voluntary, and you may decline to participate.
Law enforcement
We also may disclose your information: In response to a subpoena or as otherwise required by law. When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of RhymeZone.com, our Users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies.
Purposes of Processing the Information That You Provide to Us
As explained above, the RhymeZone.com service processes your data to provide you with the products and services you have requested or purchased from us, including special features and other content. Sometimes we use third-party providers to facilitate the delivery of the services described above, and these third-party providers may be supplied with or have access to your personal information for the sole purpose of providing services to you on our behalf.
We also use your data for legitimate business purposes that enable us to refine our the RhymeZone.com service and better tailor it to your needs and communicate with you about other products and services offered by RhymeZone.com. In addition, we may disclose your personal information in special legal circumstances. For instance, such information may be used where it is necessary to protect our copyright or intellectual property rights, or if the law requires us to do so.
You can update your personal information and change your marketing preferences at any time by sending an email to dpo@RhymeZone.com.
Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Notice only governs information collected through the RhymeZone.com service. The RhymeZone.com service may contain links to websites or content (including advertisements) operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of a third-party website before disclosing any personal information to the website. Do not supply personal information to these sites unless you have verified their security and privacy policies.
Information Collected Automatically & Other Information; Cookie Policy
Like other commercial websites, the RhymeZone.com service and its authorized partners use cookies (small files transferred from a website to its visitors' hard drives or browsers for record-keeping purposes), including essential, functional and analytical cookies, and other similar information-gathering technologies throughout the RhymeZone.com service to collect certain information automatically and store it in log files for a variety of legitimate business interests and purposes. This information may include (but is not limited to) internet protocol (IP) addresses, mobile device identifiers, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other usage information about your use of the RhymeZone.com service, including a history of the pages you view.
Web beacons, tags, and scripts may be used on the RhymeZone.com service or in email or other electronic communications we send to you. These assist us in delivering cookies, counting visits to the RhymeZone.com service, understanding usage and campaign effectiveness and determining whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our third-party service providers on an individual and aggregated basis.
RhymeZone.com and its authorized partners use cookies, beacons, and other similar technologies on the RhymeZone.com service for legitimate business interests that enable us to permit you to navigate, use, and access secure areas of the RhymeZone.com service. We also use these technologies for statistical purposes and to analyze and improve the use of the RhymeZone.com service and prepare aggregated usage reports.
As described below, we use these technologies for legitimate business purposes to provide standard advertising controls, determine User response to advertisements and promotions, and deliver targeted advertisements that we or our partners believe will be of most interest to you.
We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences.
We have a legitimate interest in understanding how our users, customers, and potential customers use the RhymeZone.com service. Among other things, this assists us in providing more relevant products and services. Please refer to 'Your Rights & Choices; Opt-Out' below for more information.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the RhymeZone.com service. For more information about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
For our legitimate business interests, we may process your personal information for analytic purposes on the RhymeZone.com service as described in this section.
Together with Google Analytics, we use cookies and software logs to monitor the use of the RhymeZone.com service and to gather non-personal information about visitors to RhymeZone.com. These monitoring systems allow us to track general information about our visitors, such as the type of browsers (for example, Firefox or Internet Explorer), the operating systems (for instance, Windows or Macintosh), or the Internet providers (for instance, Comcast) they use. This information is used for statistical and market research purposes to tailor content to usage patterns and to provide services requested by our customers.
We also have implemented certain Google Analytics Advertiser features. These tools use cookies to collect and store standard Internet logs and visitor information on our behalf, including information about what pages you visit, how long you are on RhymeZone.com, how you got here, and what you click on during your visit. This Google Analytics data is not tied to personal information, so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We use the data provided by Google Analytics to develop our services and content around our User demographics, interests, and behavior on our RhymeZone.com service. You can opt-out of this Google Analytics Advertiser feature using the Ads Settings located at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. In addition, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. To delete these cookies, please see your browser's privacy settings or follow the above instructions.
We also may receive other data about your use of our RhymeZone.com service from other sources. This information may include (but is not limited to) information about your activities across unrelated websites and mobile applications, information about the possible relationships between different browsers and devices and information that we receive from our third-party service providers. We may add this information to the information to the information we have already collected through our RhymeZone.com service.
- Advertising on RhymeZone.com
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here
The RhymeZone.com service may also rely on third-party service providers to do things like: take user-level information, anonymize it through hashing (a hashed email address might look something like this: e820bb4aba5ad74c5a6ff1aca16641f6) and match it against other anonymized, people-based identifiers - doing this helps us serve you personalized, relevant advertisements. Specifically, when you use our ad supported RhymeZone.com service, we may share information that we may collect from you, including your email (in hashed form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our third-party service provider, LiveRamp Inc. and its group companies ('LiveRamp'). LiveRamp may use our first party cookie on your browser to match your shared information to their marketing databases in order to provide back a pseudonymous privacy-centric identifier for our use in real time bidding in digital advertising. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. You have the choice to opt out of the use of your data by third-party service providers for this purpose at any time. Please find more information about opting out below.
Please note that limiting third-party cookies via your browser controls does not prevent our first-party cookies from being set in this way. Also, please know, if you opt-out of interest-based advertising you will continue to receive ads on our free, ad-supported RhymeZone.com service, but not behaviorally targeted ads. Also, if you opt out of RhymeZone.com's practices, you may continue to receive interest-based advertising through other companies. If you erase your browser's cookies, you may need to perform this process again.
Anonymous aggregated data may be provided to other companies we do business with for statistical purposes. For example, we may report to advertisers that a certain percentage of our site's visitors are adults between the ages of 25 and 35.
For our legitimate business interests, we process your device identifiers as described in this section.
When you use a mobile device like a tablet or cell phone to access our RhymeZone.com service, we may access and monitor one or more “device identifiers.” Device identifiers are small data files associated with your mobile device that uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may deliver information to us or a third-party partner about how you browse and use the services and may help us or others provide reports or personalized ads. Some features of the services may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.
For our legitimate business interests, and with your consent where this is required, we may process data collected by us for advertising, including interest-based advertising, as described in this section.
As described above, in order to monetize our free, ad-supported RhymeZone.com service, we work with third-party advertisers and advertising networks that use cookies and other similar technologies to target ads served to our free, ad-supported RhymeZone.com service. Our Privacy Notice does not cover the use of data that you provide directly to advertisers or third-party partners; that usage is governed by the advertiser's or third-party partner's privacy policy.
What does it mean to “serve ads”? When you visit a website, your Internet browser transmits a “request” to the computer that hosts the website (the “host server”) requesting that server to send you (or “serve”) the Web page that you are seeking. Most Web pages contain components that are pulled from different sources, for example, a Web page at a news site may get its weather section from one provider, its sports results from a different source, and advertisements from other servers. Our Web pages contain coding that directs your browser to fill the ad spaces on the Web pages with content served by advertisers and networks of advertisers to whom we have sold the ad spaces. The advertisers and networks use cookies and beacons to help manage ad delivery and frequency and to identify audience segment(s) for customized advertising (“targeting”). These cookies are used to identify your IP address, so that when you visit another website using the same advertising network, the network will recognize the cookie as one of its own, read the information on the cookie (the record of which sites in the network you have visited) and serve you an ad that you might be interested in, based on your past visits to other sites in the network. Advertising targeted based on past Web surfing is known as “behavioral advertising.”
RhymeZone.com does not provide any personal information to third-party advertisers about visitors to the RhymeZone.com service. Our Privacy Notice does not cover the use of information that may have been collected from you by third parties on other sites. If you would like to learn more about behavioral advertising or to opt-out of having this information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to deliver targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org. Many of the same companies are members of the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can learn more and opt-out of receiving targeted ads from them at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Some advertising networks require that we specifically list their opt-out links below. When you opt-out of a network, you may receive a “opt-out” cookie so that the network will know not to assign you new cookies in the future. You will continue to receive ads from that network, but not behaviorally targeted ads. If you erase your browser's cookies, you may need to perform this process again.
Your Rights & Choices; Opt-Out Choices
We participate in the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework and comply with its Specifications and Policies. Our Consent Management Platform (CMP) is LiveRamp with the CMP identification number 3.
Raptive's Advertising Privacy Statement more fully describes the cookies, beacons and other similar technology used on the RhymeZone.com service and provides information on when and how Users can accept or reject them.
You can opt-out of being behaviorally targeted by RhymeZone.com (and other companies employing online advertising) via the following options:
Please remember, if you opt out of interest-based advertising you will continue to receive ads on our free, ad-supported RhymeZone.com service, but not behaviorally targeted ads. Also, if you opt out of RhymeZone.com's practices, you may continue to receive interest-based advertising through other companies.
Browser controls
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our RhymeZone.com service. For more information about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Please note that limiting third-party cookies via your browser controls does not prevent our first-party cookies from being set in this way.
Google Analytics
You can control the use of your personal data by Google Analytics by visiting the 'Your privacy controls' section of the Google Privacy Policy located at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US#infochoices. You also can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. To delete these cookies, please see your browser's privacy settings or follow the above instructions.
LiveRamp
To opt out of LiveRamp's use of your personal data, please head here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/.
How we respond to “Do Not Track” signals
When you visit a website in any browser, you automatically share information with that website, such as your IP address, and other standard PC information. If the website contains content provided by a third-party website (for example a web measurement tools such as a web beacon or scripts), some information about you may be automatically sent to the content provider. This type of arrangement has several benefits, such as allowing you to access third-party content from the RhymeZone.com service conveniently. Some internet browsers or other tools include “Do Not Track” (DNT) features that, when turned on, send a signal to websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked across websites over time. However, since no technology standard for DNT signals has been developed or adopted to date, the RhymeZone.com service does not currently respond to DNT signals.
Security of Your Information
Any personally identifiable information collected through this site is stored on limited-access servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect these servers and the information they store. In addition, to help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of our RhymeZone.com service, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We strive to restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you.
Data Storage and Retention
Your personal data is stored by us in the AWS Cloud - U.S. (eastern) and Singapore regions. We retain your information for the duration of your relationship with us and as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the legitimate business purposes that we have communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact RhymeZone.com's data protection officer at dpo@RhymeZone.com.
Consent to Processing and Transfer of Information about You
RhymeZone.com's headquarters are in the United States. Information we collect from you will be processed in the United States and may be stored, transferred to, and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. These countries may be outside your country of residence, including the United States, and may have different data protection laws than your country.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), RhymeZone.com collects and transfers personal data out of the EEA only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of RhymeZone.com in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. RhymeZone.com endeavors to apply suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your personal data and to use it only consistent with your relationship with us and the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Correcting, Updating, or Removing Personal Information; Account Deletion
Users may opt out of certain RhymeZone.com features or correct, update, or remove certain personal information that RhymeZone.com has collected about them through any of the means listed below. Please be sure to include the following information in your correspondence:
Your email address
Your first and last name
Your mailing address (street, city, state, zip code, and country)
Email us at: dpo@RhymeZone.com
Account Deletion:
If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may terminate your account by sending an email to dpo@RhymeZone.com. Because of the way we maintain the RhymeZone.com service, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information or posts may remain on backup media for up to ninety (90) days.
Privacy Notice for California Residents
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained elsewhere in this Privacy Notice and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Information We Collect
The RhymeZone.com service collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, the RhymeZone.com service may collect the following categories of personal information from its consumers:
|
Category |
Collected |
| A. |
Identifiers |
YES |
| B. |
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) |
YES |
| C. |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law |
NO |
| D. |
Commercial information. |
YES |
| E. |
Biometric information. |
NO |
| E. |
Internet or other similar network activity. |
YES |
| F. |
Geolocation data. |
YES |
| G. |
Sensory data. |
NO |
| H. |
Biometric information. |
NO |
| I. |
Professional or employment-related information. |
NO |
| J. |
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). |
NO |
| K. |
Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
YES |
Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
- Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
- health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
- personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about the RhymeZone.com service, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we or our third-party service providers will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product or service orders and requests.
- To provide, support, personalize, and develop the RhymeZone.com services, emails, and other products, services and platforms.
- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
- To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including investigating and addressing your concerns and monitoring and improving our responses.
- To personalize your emails or RhymeZone.com experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through the RhymeZone.com service, and other products, services and platforms.
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the RhymeZone.com service and our apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms, databases and other technology assets, and business.
- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including developing and improving the RhymeZone.com service and our apps, emails, and other products, services and platforms.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the RhymeZone.com assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by RhymeZone.com about our Users is among the assets transferred.
RhymeZone.com will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
RhymeZone.com may disclose your personal information to a third-party for a business purpose or sell your personal information, subject to your right to opt-out of those sales (see 'Sales of Personal Information' below). When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter into a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. The CCPA prohibits third parties who purchase the personal information we hold from reselling it unless you have received explicit notice and an opportunity to opt-out of further sales (see 'Sales of Personal Information' below).
We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:
- Subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Contractors and service providers.
- Data aggregators.
- Third parties with whom we partner to offer products and services to you.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
In the preceding twelve (12) months, RhymeZone.com has not disclosed any categories of personal information collected through the RhymeZone.com service for a business purpose.
Sales of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, RhymeZone.com has not sold any of the categories of personal information collected through the RhymeZone.com service.
As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Notice, the Company and our advertising partners will collect the personal information identified in the table above (such as the cookies stored on your browser, the advertising identifier on your mobile device, or the IP address of your device) when you visit the RhymeZone.com or open our emails. We, and our partners, will use this information to tailor and deliver ads to you on the RhymeZone.com service, or to help tailor ads to you when you visit others' sites (or use others' apps). To tailor ads that may be more relevant to you, we and/or our partners may share the information we collect with third parties.
If you do not wish for us or our partners to sell your personal information to third parties for advertising purposes, click the “Do Not Sell My Info” link accessible from the RhymeZone.com service. Note that although we will not sell your personal information after you click that button, we will continue to share some personal information with our partners (who will function as our service providers in such instance) to help us perform advertising-related functions such as, but not limited to, measuring the effectiveness of our ads, managing how many times you may see an ad, reporting on the performance of our ads, ensuring the RhymeZone.com service is working correctly and securely, providing aggregate statistics and analytics, improving when and where you may see ads and/or reducing ad fraud. If you access the RhymeZone.com service from other devices or browsers, visit our “Do Not Sell My Info” link from those devices or browsers to ensure your choice applies to the data collected when you use those devices or browsers. Additionally, although clicking the “Do Not Sell My Info” link will opt you out of the sale of your personal information for advertising purposes, it will not opt you out of the use of previously collected and sold personal information (except for personal information sold within 90 days prior to your exercising your right to opt out) or all interest-based advertising. If you would like more information about how to opt out of interest-based advertising in desktop and mobile browsers on a particular device, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that the Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
- If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we will identify the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that the Company delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at dpo@RhymeZone.com
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing in accordance with CCPA requirements.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights
If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time.
To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by emailing dpo@RhymeZone.com.
Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least twelve (12) months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. However, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by clearing cookies from your browser or emailing dpo@RhymeZone.com.
You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
- Deny you goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for like-goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Provide you with a different level or quality of like-goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for like-goods or services or a different level or quality of like-goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time. We currently provide the following financial incentives:
NONE
Other California Privacy Rights
California's “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits Users of our websites, mobile applications, and other products, services and platforms 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 dpo@RhymeZone.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
RhymeZone.com reserves the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on our website at RhymeZone.com and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of the RhymeZone.com service following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which RhymeZone.com collects and uses your information described herein, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
EU Data Subject Rights
The EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and other countries' privacy laws provide certain rights for data subjects. A good explanation of them (in English) is available on the website of the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office.
If you wish to confirm that the RhymeZone.com service is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data that RhymeZone.com may have about you, please contact us at dpo@RhymeZone.com.
Data Protection Officer
RhymeZone.com is headquartered in the United States. RhymeZone.com has appointed a data protection officer for you to contact at dpo@RhymeZone.com if you have any questions or concerns about RhymeZone.com's personal data policies or practices.
Copyright
All of the content on the RhymeZone.com service is copyrighted, and it cannot be redistributed or used for commercial purposes.
Business Transfers
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice or Policy (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that RhymeZone.com, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets, and will remain subject to our Privacy Notice.
Acceptance of Privacy Notice Terms and Conditions
By using RhymeZone.com, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this RhymeZone.com Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the site. Please check this page periodically for any modifications. Your continued use of the RhymeZone.com service following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.
Questions, Comments or Complaints
If you have questions about RhymeZone.com, please submit them via our feedback form. To correct, update, or remove personally identifiable information, please email us at dpo@RhymeZone.com. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to dpo@RhymeZone.com.
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