Dared My Best Friend
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Dared My, LLC (“Dared My Best Friend” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our websites, text games, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”), engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you create an account, fill out a form, submit or post content through our Services, communicate with us via third-party platforms, text us, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, display name, username, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.
We do not collect payment information through our Services. We rely on third parties to process payments in connection with our Services. Any information you provide to facilitate such a payment is subject to the third-party payment processor’s privacy policy, and we encourage you to review this policy before you provide any information to the payment processor.
In some instances, we automatically collect certain information, including:
•Activity Information: We collect information about your activity on our Services, such as your website viewing history or when you click links, comment, download content, or sign up for messages.
•Transactional Information: When you buy merchandise, we collect information about the transaction, such as product details, purchase price, and the date of the transaction.
•Device and Usage Information: We collect information about your activity on our Services, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services. We also may collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your IP address or browser type.
•Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use cookies to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. We may work with third party analytics providers who use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, and links clicked. This information may be used by Dared My Best Friend and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver content targeted to your interests on our Services, and better understand your online activity. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see Your Choices below.
We obtain information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks, accounting services providers, and data analytics providers.
We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our Services, which includes publishing and distributing responsive content, directing you to related content on other Dared My Best Friend websites or social media pages, and sending you subscription emails and texts. We also use the information we collect to:
•Create and maintain your Dared My Best Friend account and persist login state;
•Send you texts and/or emails, if you sign up or opt in to interactive experiences or subscriptions;
•Process transactions and send related information, such as confirmations and receipts;
•Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
•Communicate with you about new content, products, services, and features offered by Dared My Best Friend;
•Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;
•Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of Dared My Best Friend and others;
•Debug to identify and repair errors in our Services;
•Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and
•Carry out any other purpose described at the time the information was collected.
We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:
•We share personal information with other users of the Services. For example, if you use our Services to publish content, post comments or send private notes, certain information about you will be visible to others, such as your name, user name, photo, or other account information you may provide.
•We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.
•We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our Services that we believe are improper.
•We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Dared My Best Friend, our users, the public, or others.
•We may share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
•We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
•Personal information is shared between and among Dared My Best Friend and our current and future parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership.
•We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.
•We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
Dared My Best Friend does not host some of the content displayed on our Services. Some of our content is actually hosted by a third party, but is embedded in our pages (an “Embed”). When you interact with an Embed, it can send information about your interaction to the hosting third party just as if you were visiting the third party’s site directly. For example, when you watch a YouTube video Embed, YouTube receives information about your activity, such as your IP address and how much of the video you watch. Dared My Best Friend does not control what information third parties collect through Embeds or what they do with the information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through Embeds. The privacy policy belonging to the third party hosting the Embed applies to any information the Embed collects, and we recommend you review that policy before interacting with the Embed.
Dared My Best Friend is headquartered in the United States, and we have operations and service providers in the United States and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction. For example, we transfer personal data to Amazon Web Services, one of our service providers that processes personal information for us in various data center locations across the globe. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.
You may delete your account at any time by logging into the Services or by emailing us at [email protected]. Please note that if you choose to delete your account, we may continue to retain certain information about you as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
You may opt of our text messages or unsubscribe from communications by following the instructions in those communications.
The California Consumer Privacy Act or “CCPA” (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq.) affords consumers residing in California certain rights with respect to their personal information. If you are a California resident, this section applies to you.
Dared My Best Friend may collect the following categories of personal information: identifiers, commercial information, and internet or other electronic network activity information. For details about the precise data points we collect and the categories of sources of such collection, please see the Collection of Information section above. We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the Use of Information section above.
Dared My Best Friend may disclose the following categories of personal information for business purposes to the following categories of recipients:
Category of Personal Information | Categories of Recipients |
Identifiers | Analytics Providers Communication Providers Infrastructure Providers Marketing Providers Payment Providers |
Commercial Information | Analytics Providers Infrastructure Providers Payment Providers |
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information | Analytics Providers Infrastructure Providers |
Dared My Best Friend does not sell your personal information.
Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you, (2) request deletion of your personal information, (3) opt out of any sales of your personal information, if we engage in that activity in the future, and (4) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. You may make these requests by emailing us at [email protected]. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under applicable law regarding the processing of your personal data, and this section applies to you.
When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:
•To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., providing the products and services you requested).
•When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain, and improve our products and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).
•To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted out of non-administrative communications).
•When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you opt in to receive non-administrative communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.
We store personal data associated with your account for as long as your account remains active. If you close your account, we will delete your account data within 14 days. We store other personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. To exercise your rights, email [email protected].
If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:
•For individuals in the EEA:
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
•For individuals in the UK:
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
•For individuals in Switzerland:
https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html