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Different Lenses Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Different Lenses Platform. The Platform is owned and operated by Different Lenses LLC, (“Different Lenses”). 

 

At Different Lenses, your privacy is of the utmost importance to us.  To provide our users with the highest levels of data protection, as well as assurance that we will not misuse your information, Different Lenses is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as stated below. 

 

This Privacy Policy governs the use of the Different Lenses Platform. When using or accessing the Different Lenses Platform, you are agreeing to be bound to the terms within this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use policy. This policy may refer to users as “you” or “user” and may refer to Different Lenses as “us,” “we,” or “our.” If you do not agree to the terms within this Privacy Policy and the corresponding Terms of Use, do not access or use the Different Lenses Platform.

 

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Platform and services. Please also read our Terms of Service. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meaning assigned to them in the Terms of Service.


 

INFORMATION COLLECTED AND STORED BY DIFFERENT LENSES

 

In order to carry out the services of Different Lenses and to provide a great user experience, we will collect and store the following information about you:

 

Personal Information, that may be used to identify you as an individual (Personal information is any information related to an identified or identifiable natural person).

- First and Last Name;

- Address

- Location

- Email Address

- Phone Number

- IP Address

- Age

- Gender

- Business Information (Businesses Only)

 

Other information that may be linked to personal information. 

- Content you post publicly or privately on the Platform

- Searches Completed through the Platform;

- Preference Settings;

- Credit Card or Other Payment Information (this is all handled through our payment-processor, Stripe)

- Stored Information or Files Created or Stored on Platform Through Your Account 

- Content you Post to the Platform;

- Any Emails You Send to Different Lenses

- Times of Access to Platform;

- Platform that Referred to Different Lenses; 

- Your Operating System Type

 

This policy does not apply to the privacy practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third-party websites, services, applications, online resources to which the Platform may link or otherwise reference (collectively “Third Party Services” or “TPS”) that you may access through the Platform. For example, the Platform may utilize the YouTube API as a TPS, and you are agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), Privacy Policy ( http://www.google.com/policies/privacy), and API Services Terms of Service (https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service) when engaging YouTube content and services through the Platform. Our use of information received from Gmail APIs will adhere to Google’s Limited Use Requirements (https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy). We take no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any TPS. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any TPS you access.

 

You may have the option to register an Account with us using a TPS, and you may connect your Account to a TPS such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. By authorizing us to access your TPS account, you authorize us to obtain certain information from your TPS account, which may including your name, email address, birthday, work history, education history, current city, shared media, and the names, profile pictures, relationship status, and current cities of your TPS contacts. We only obtain information from your TPS account that you specifically authorize and grant us permission to obtain. Our use of information received via Google Restricted Scopes, such as from Gmail APIs, will adhere to Google’s Limited Use Requirements (https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy).

 

Different Lenses does not consider personally identifiable information to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not allow a third party to identify a specific individual or household. We collect and use your personally-identifiable information to: provide the Platform; operate and improve our Platform; provide customer service; perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products, Platform and technology; and display content that is customized to your interests and preferences.

 

You may always choose not to provide personally identifiable information, but if you so choose, certain parts of the Platform may not be available to you. If you have registered an Account with us, you will have agreed to provide your personally identifiable information in order to access the Platform. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please do not use the Platform.

 

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

 

Different Lenses collects personal information from you upon your registration for our services and upon your log in. We collect any additional information about you when you interact with us electronically, when you access our Platform and when we provide our services to you. 

 

It may not be readily apparent to you when such data is being collected. For instance, when you visit our Platform, your IP address is collected so that we know where to send information you are requesting. An IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer every time you log on to the Internet. 

 

COOKIES, LOCAL STORAGE AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES. 

We collect information about you using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a Platform. The cookies that we use are for authentication purposes (to facilitate your log-in) and session cookies (to recognize your preferences while navigating through the Platform). 

Usually the information that we collect automatically through cookies is statistical data and cannot be used to identify you as an individual. It helps us to improve our Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

 

Additionally, there might be third party cookies used on our Platform by third party advertisers, those cookies are not related to your profile, they cannot identify who you are and therefore are not linked to your personal data. 

 

We also use local storage, which is an industry-standard technology which allows a website or application to store information locally on your computer or mobile device which allows us to customize your experience and the content you may see.

 

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

We process your personal information because we have a contractual obligation with you. Once you create an account to use our Platform and Services, and agree to our Terms of Service, a contract is formed between you and us. In order to carry out our contractual obligations we need to process the information you provide, which also includes personal information.  Even if there is no direct contractual obligation between us, we may process your information based on your explicit consent you have provided (to us or a third-party data controller) for the processing of that information.


 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

We will use the personal information collected from you:

  • to administer your account with us and provide you with our Services;

  • to respond to your inquiries and deliver notifications and reminder e-mails to you;

  • to provide you with information regarding updates and changes to our Platform, our Terms of Service or any services we offer or provide through it;

  • to improve our product and services;

  • to contact you regarding your order;

  • To provide you advertising within the Platform; and

  • to provide personalized experience for you upon use of our services.

 

Additionally, we may use anonymized 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 PERSONAL INFORMATION.

We will not disclose your personal information to any third parties and we do not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their commercial purposes, however, we reserve the right to disclose information about you to third parties to third-parties for assistance in improving the Different Lenses products and services.  Additionally, we may disclose personal and non-personally identifiable information with third parties service providers, engaged by us to provide technical support, hosting services, testing, network security or statistical services, any such disclosure will be subject to confidentiality obligations. 

 

Different Lenses may also disclose information about you to third-parties where we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of Different Lenses, our affiliates or their employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements and our terms of use); (ii) protect the safety, privacy, and security of users of the Different Lenses employees, owners, or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process; or (v) respond to requests from public and government authorities.

 

Different Lenses may use third-party payment processors including Paypal, Stripe, Apple Pay and Square for payment transactions. Please visit their Platforms for their privacy and terms of use policies as all payment transactions are governed by them.

 

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION.

We will keep your personal information for as long as you use our Platform and services. You have the right to request that your personal information is permanently removed from our system and database at any time. We will accommodate such requests within 45 (forty-five) days or less.

You can e-mail such requests for permanent removal to differentlensesllc@gmail.com.


 

RIGHT TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR DATA

We provide you with many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts and communication controls. We will provide you with access to your personal information that we store and allow you to:

 

1) Delete your data - you can request that we erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you);

 

2) Change or correct your data - you have the option to edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate;

 

3) Object to, or limit or restrict, use of data - you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held);

 

4) Right to access and/or take your data - you can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.

 

5) We provide our California consumers with detailed information about the categories of personal information you have collected in the past 12 months.

 

You may send us an e-mail at differentlensesllc@gmail.com to request any or all of the above.


 

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Different Lenses is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. We have implemented suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorized access, modification and disclosure. 

  • All information you provide to us is stored, if at all, on a secure database behind a Virtual Private Network;

  • All passwords are stored in an encrypted form;

  • We restrict access to personal information to employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations;

  • We back up all client data in multiple data centers enabling speedy recovery in case of a disaster;

  •  Whenever possible we will make sure we pseudonymize all personal or related data.

 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you a password for access to certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password 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 Platform like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Platform.

 

INTERNATIONAL USAGE

The Platform is owned by Different Lenses and may be accessed in the United States and abroad. For data protection purposes, Different Lenses is the controller and, unless otherwise noted, is also the processor of data. Information collected may be retained, and may be stored, processed, accessed, and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction. If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the information you provide to us may be transferred to the United States. By using the Platform, application and/or website, you consent to such transfer. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

 

COMMERICAL AND NON-COMMERICAL COMMUNICATION

By providing information to the Platform, such as signing up for an account, you have agreed to receive e-mail communication from us. However, you may unsubscribe from certain communications by notifying Different Lenses that you no longer wish to receive solicitations or commercial information. Different Lenses will remove you from the database, where you have the right to request this under the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or applicable law, or where Different Lenses voluntarily decides to grant the request.


 

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT

The Different Lenses Platform is directed to adults, over the age of 18. Different Lenses does not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age or have any reasonable grounds for believing that persons under the age of 13 are accessing the Platform. If Different Lenses discovers any inadvertently collected Personal Information of a person under the age of 13, that information will be swiftly deleted from its’ records. If you believe that Different Lenses may have any information from a person under age 13, please contact Different Lenses at: differentlensesllc@gmail.com.


 

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Different Lenses welcomes residents of the State of California to use its Platform, and complies with the California Business and Professions Code §§ 22575-22579. If you are a California resident you may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please send a written request to Different Lenses Inc 95 Third Street 2nd Floor, San Francisco 94103.

 

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time. If we change our privacy policy, we will notify you via email sent to the email address you provide at the time of registration as well as post an updated version of this Privacy Policy on our Platform so that you and other users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Changes will not apply retroactively and changes addressing new functions for a service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms, you should discontinue your use of the Platform. Your continued use of the after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy. You should also check back from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Under California Consumer Privacy Act we will be reviewing this Privacy Policy every 12 months. 


 

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact us anytime at the following address: Different Lenses LLC, _Different Lenses LLC

455 Market St Ste 1940 PMB 374128 San Francisco, California 94105-2448 US and/or differentlensesllc@gmail.com.  We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.

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