Privacy Notice
HiClub Inc. (“ HiClub ”, “ we ”, “ our ” or “ us ”) is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice sets out how we collect, store, process, transfer, share and use information that identifies or is associated with you (“ personal information ”).
This Privacy Notice applies to your use of our personalized animation-style video service and other online products and services that we make available through a mobile application available for download on your device (the " ToonOut App ").
Please ensure that you have read this Privacy Notice to understand how we collect, store, use and disclose your personal information when you use the ToonOut App.
Table of Contents
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE
In general.
We collect personal information from you when you submit information directly to us when you use the ToonOut App, for example:
In addition to the uses described above, we will use your personal information to: (i) provide, maintain, improve the Service and to develop new products and services; (ii) maintain the safety, stability and security of our services and protect ourselves, our users and others; (iii) to communicate with you and provide support; (iv) provide, personalize, measure and improve our advertising and marketing; (v) in connection with legal and regulatory requirements and proceedings; (vi) to enforce our rights; and (vii) for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection.
If you choose not to provide or share such personal information, it may affect or even disable those features and functionalities. Please see the Your Choices Regarding Your Information section of this Privacy Notice for more information.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
We, and our third party partners, automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit the ToonOut App, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information and similar technology (collectively, “ tracking technologies ”).
We, and our third-party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:
We use or may use the data collected through cookies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit our websites and online services; (b) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our websites and online services; (c) monitor online usage and activities of our websites and online services; (d) diagnose errors and problems with our websites and online services; (e) otherwise plan for and enhance our online services; and (f) facilitate the purposes identified in the Information We Collect and How We Use It section above.
We and our advertising partners also use the information we collect through cookies to understand your browsing activities, including across unaffiliated third-party sites, so that we can deliver ads and information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
Please note that we link some of the personal information we collect through cookies with the other personal information that we collect about you and for the purposes described above.
We and our third party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about tracking technologies, please see “ Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising ” below.
2. SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER PARTIES
You may share personal information you upload to the ToonOut App with third parties. For example, you may have the option to share your animated videos on the ToonOut App with your friends on various social media sites.
We may share your personal information among the HiClub group, or with third parties (i) where they are subcontractors or advertisers, or (ii) to comply with legislation, to carry out a contract with you or to defend HiClub against any type of harm. Please find a detailed explanation of how we share your personal information under ‘Further information’ below.
Further information
We may share your personal information with:
3. THIRD PARTY TRACKING AND ONLINE ADVERTISING
Interest Based Advertising . We participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on your browsing history. We may share, or we may permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies and other third party services, to collect, information about your use of our website and apps over time so that they may play or display ads on the ToonOut App, on other devices you may use, and on other websites, apps or services, including on Facebook. These third parties may collect information such as click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the site, mobile device identifiers, app usage, and/or precise geolocation data and other information. We and our third party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research.
Social Media Widgets and Advertising . The ToonOut App may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to the ToonOut App, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.
We display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and others. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in the ToonOut App while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them.
Cross-Device Linking . We, or our third party partners, may link your various devices so that content you see on one device can result in relevant advertising on another device. We do this by collecting information about each device you use when you are logged in to the ToonOut App. We may also work with third party partners who employ tracking technologies, or the application of statistical modeling tools, to determine if two or more devices are linked to a single user or household. We may share a common account identifier (such as an email address or user ID) with third party advertising partners to help recognize you across devices. We, and our partners, can use this cross-device linkage to serve interest-based advertising and other personalized content to you across your devices, to perform analytics and to measure the performance of our advertising campaigns.
Your Choices :
Cookies . If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to adjust your browser settings to: (i) notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies.
Blocking or deleting cookies may negatively impact your experience using the ToonOut App, as some features and services on the ToonOut App may not work properly. Depending on your device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. In addition, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you will need to do so on each browser on each device you actively use. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.
You can learn more about Google’s practices with Google Analytics by visiting Google’s privacy policy at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can also view Google’s currently available opt-out options at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Online Advertising . We support the self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising (Principles) published by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). This means that we allow you to exercise choice regarding the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites for online interest-based advertising purposes. More information about these Principles can be found at www.aboutads.info. If you want to opt out of receiving online interest-based advertisements on your internet browser from advertisers and third parties that participate in the DAA program and perform advertising-related services for us and our partners, please follow the instructions at www.aboutads.info/choices, or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ to place an opt-out cookie on your device indicating that you do not want to receive interest-based advertisements. Opt-out cookies only work on the internet browser and device they are downloaded onto. If you want to opt out of interest-based advertisements across all your browsers and devices, you will need to opt out on each browser on each device you actively use. If you delete cookies on your device generally, you will need to opt out again.
If you want to opt out of receiving online interest-based advertisements on mobile apps, please follow the instructions at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.
Google Analytics and Advertising . We use Google Analytics to understand the demographics of our users and how our users interact with the ToonOut App and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the Doubleclick advertising cookie) or other third party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the ToonOut App. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google's site “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences or by vising NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
4. YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you the functionalities of the ToonOut App and for thirty days thereafter for the purpose of analyzing or further improving our technology, the ToonOut App, after which the personal information will be deleted or anonymized.
You may control the ToonOut App’s access to your device information through your “Settings” app on your device. For instance, you can disable the ToonOut's access to your photo stream and camera.
Note that certain features require personal information input or access to your camera and photo stream to function, and the overall effectiveness of the ToonOut App or various other features and functionalities may deteriorate or be disabled if you decide to turn-off these features. For instance, if you turn off access to your camera and photo stream, it may affect or even disable your ability upload videos to create animation-style videos.
5. SECURITY AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION
HiClub cares about the security of your information and uses commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information we collect and that we share with our service providers. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.
HiClub does not knowingly collect or solicit any information through the ToonOut App or from anyone under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us at [gtfeedback@creativeappnow.com] .
7. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The ToonOut App may contain or suggest links to third party websites provided by our business partners, advertisers, and social media sites. Our users may also post links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy notices and policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those websites.
8. REGION-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES
W e may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of personal information about residents of certain countries, regions or states. Please refer below for disclosures that may be applicable to you:
- If you are a resident of the State of California in the United States, please click here for additional California-specific privacy disclosures.
- If you are a resident of the State of Nevada in the United States, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. To submit such a request, please contact us at gtfeedback@creativeappnow.com
9. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we make any changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the "Last Updated" date below and will post the updated Privacy Notice on this page.
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us at gtfeedback@creativeappnow.com
This Privacy Notice was last updated on, and effective as of February 12, 2020
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE
Last Updated : February 12, 2020
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
This section applies to you if you are a resident of the state of California. California law requires us to disclose certain information regarding the categories of personal information we collect. For purposes of this section, “personal information” has the meaning provided by the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) and does not include information that is publicly available, that is deidentified or aggregated such that it is not capable of being associated with an identifiable consumer or device, or that is excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, such as the HIPAA, the FCRA, GLBA or the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994. This section does not apply to information relating to our employees, contractors, applicants and other personnel. This section also does not apply to personal information we collect when we are acting as a “service provider” to process information in accordance with a contract with our business customers.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information from and about you for a variety of purposes.
To learn more about the types of personal information we collect and the purposes for which we use this information, please refer to “ Information We Collect and Use ” section of our Privacy Notice .
In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
As described in the Information Shared With HiClub and the Sharing Information With Other Parties sections in our Privacy Notice , we share personal information with third parties for business purposes or we may sell your personal information to third parties, subject to your right to opt out of those sales (see The Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales section below).
The categories of third parties to whom we sell or disclose your personal information for a business purpose may include: (i) other brands and affiliates in our family of companies; (ii) our service providers and advisors; (iii) marketing and strategic partners; (iv) ad networks and advertising partners; (v) analytics providers; and (vi) social networks.
In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information to third parties for a business purpose:
Unless you have exercised your Right to Opt Out of personal information sales, we may sell personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. The third parties to whom we sell personal information may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties.
In the previous 12 months, we have sold the following categories of personal information to third parties:
As is common practice among companies that operate online, we have permitted third party advertising networks, social media companies and other third party businesses collect and disclose your personal information (including Internet / Network Information, Commercial Information, and Inferences) directly from your browser or device through cookies or tracking technologies when you visit or interact with our websites, use our apps or otherwise engage with us. To learn more, please see the Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising section of our Privacy Notice .
YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS
As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the Personal Information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):
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The Right to Know |
You have the right to request any or all of the following information relating to your personal information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:
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The Right to Request Deletion |
You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. |
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The Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales |
You have the right to direct us not to sell personal information we have collected about you to third parties now or in the future. |
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The Right to Non-Discrimination |
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights.
However, please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services or engage with you in the same manner. |
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“Shine the Light” |
California residents that have an established business relationship with us have rights to know how their information is disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civ. Code § 1798.83). |
TO EXERCISE YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS
To Exercise Your Right to Know or Right to Deletion
To exercise your Right to Know or your Right to Request Deletion, please submit a request by:
We will need to verify your identity before processing your request, which may require us to request additional personal information from you or require you to log into your account, if you have one. We will only use personal information provided in connection with a Consumer Rights Request to review and comply with the request.
In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems. If we are unable to comply with all or a portion of your request, we will explain the reasons for declining to comply with the request.
To Exercise Your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales
Unless you have exercised your Right to Opt Out of personal information sales, we may sell personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. The third parties to whom we sell personal information may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties.
To exercise the Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales, you may submit a request by clicking the following link:
Do Not Sell My Information
Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising
We do allow certain third-party partners and providers to collect information about consumers directly through our services, from your browser or device through cookies or similar tracking technology when you visit or interact with our website, use our apps or otherwise engage with us online. For example, they may collect Internet/Network information, such as a cookie or device ID, browsing history and website usage, Geolocation Data, and Inferences generated from your browsing history and interactions with our service as well as other sites and services. These third parties use your personal information for purposes of analyzing and optimizing our services and ads on our site, on other websites or mobile apps, or on other devices you may use, or to personalize content and perform other advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. These third-party businesses may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties, including other advertising networks.
Please see the Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising section of our Privacy Notice for more information about how third parties use cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically on our websites and other online services, and the choices you may have in relation to those activities.
Minors Under Age 16
We do not sell the personal information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "Right to Opt In") from either the minor who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a minor less than 13 years of age. Please contact us at gtfeedback@creativeappnow.com to inform us if you, or your minor child, are under the age of 16.
California’s “Shine the Light” Law
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section §1798.83) provides certain rights to California residents that have an established business relationship with us with regard to the disclosure of certain types of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To opt-out of having your personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please click Do Not Sell My Information and provide your contact information to be added to our suppression list.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Updates to These CA Disclosures
We will update these CA Disclosures from time to time. When we make changes to these CA Disclosures, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of these Disclosures. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to gtfeedback@creativeappnow.com