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VietnameseThis Privacy Statement describes how freeimagz manages personal data and personal information, and respects your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of our sites to regularly review our Privacy Policy.
All "Personal Information" (which is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time.
When we refer to "freeimagz", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we mean the freeimagz entity that acts as the controller or processor of your information
Collection of Personal Information
As a visitor to the Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any Personal Information.
However, when you register to use a freeimagz site and order products or services as a freeimagz subscriber in order to provide the services to you, we may collect the following Personal Information from you:
Contact information such as your name, phone and fax numbers, address and email address; and
Billing information such as the number, expiration date, card type and billing address of your credit card;
Demographic information such as your job title, job description and company name and company type; and
Profile data, including your username and password, details about your purchases and the Content that you license from us.
If you submit content to freeimagz for licensing, you may be asked to provide the following information:
Contact information such as your name, phone number, primary address, and email address.
Payment and contributor information including, but not limited to, payout method, payout email, desired display name, content focus, camera equipment, and information about your skill level and creative process.
Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
As is true of most websites, when you use the Site, freeimagz or third party subprocessors contracted by freeimagz may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. freeimagz also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. To better understand the needs of our visitors to the Site we may occasionally match such information with your Personal Information.
Upon request freeimagz will provide you with information about and access to your Personal Information that we process. To request this information please contact us at privacy(at)freeimagz.com
You have the right to access and correct, or _delete_ your Personal Information and privacy preferences at any time. If you wish to _delete_ your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services you should request deletion. We will provide your request within a reasonable timeframe.
freeimagz collects your information in order to provide services to you, comply with our legal obligations, and to improve our products and services. We do not sell, rent or share your personally identifiable information to or with third parties in any way other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. freeimagz may use this information to:
Authenticate and provide access to the freeimagz websites, mobiles applications, and services.
Process your financial transactions.
Send you order / renewal confirmations.
Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users.
Respond to customer service requests, questions and concerns.
Administer your account.
Send you requested product or service information.
Keep you informed about special offers and services of freeimagz and _select_ed third parties.
Administer promotions and sweepstakes you enter and notify you of the results.
Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of our Terms of Service.
Meet our research and product/service development needs and to improve our Site, services and offerings; and
Customize your experience, including targeting our services, search results, and offerings to you.
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, transparent images, and/or third party sources to create a summary of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and/or your membership usage history, to information in the summary, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers, to improve the content of the site for you and/or to determine your preferences.
In certain situations, freeimagz may be required to comply with legal obligations to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Where required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on freeimagz), and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request. We may also disclose information about you in order to comply with our legal obligations if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.
For individuals located in European Economic Area (EEA) and UK, we rely on the following legal bases for the processing of your personal data:
Where processing is necessary to perform our contract with you:
Providing access to the freeimagz websites, mobiles applications, and services to fulfill the terms of your contract;
Customizing your experience, including targeting our services, search results, and offerings to you.
Providing information so that you can make decisions about freeimagz services;
Processing your financial transactions and sending you order / renewal confirmations;
Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users;
Responding to your customer service requests, questions and concerns;
Administering your account.
Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person:
Investigating and protecting against intellectual property infringement;
Confirming the validity of licenses to freeimagz content;
Investigating, preventing or taking action regarding violations of our Terms of Service.
Processing in furtherance of freeimagz’s legitimate interests:
Providing, improving and customizing our website and services;
Administering our operations and meeting our contractual obligations to our customers and contributors;
Analyzing and understanding how our online platforms are being used;
Maintaining the security and integrity of our websites, mobile applications and other services;
Sending you requested product or service information and keeping you informed about special offers and services of freeimagz and _select_ed third parties;
Administering promotions and sweepstakes;
Research and product/service development for the improvement of our Site, services and offerings.
Processing is necessary for compliance with freeimagz’s legal obligations, including:
Investigating and protecting against intellectual property infringement, fraud, spam, harassment, crime and security risks;
Compliance with money laundering, bribery, corruption, and applicable sanctions laws and regulations; and
Meeting financial reporting and other obligations under applicable securities laws.
freeimagz uses one or more outside credit card processing companies to bill you for our goods and services. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
We also share Personal Information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the Personal Information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for freeimagz. We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active and your information is needed to provide you services, as necessary to validate or enforce the licenses to use Content, or as required to fulfill our legal obligations. If you wish to _delete_ your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you with services you must request a deletion of your account. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
freeimagz does not sell your personal data or personal information to any third party. We do use third party advertising services to manage the advertisements that we place on other sites. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies and trackers to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out, Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
freeimagz will only use your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement and will not use your personal information for a purpose that is materially different without your express authorization.
You may "opt out" of receiving freeimagz_qt_s email _update_s, newsletters and/or partner emails by clicking on the "My Account" link on the Site and making the appropriate _select_ions. The choice to opt out of such communications is also generally available during the sign-up process. freeimagz will still contact you when there are changes to the Terms of Service or Submitter Terms of Service, as applicable. In addition, we will still send you service-related announcements including, but not limited to, a registration email, benefit notification emails, emails automatically triggered by actions you took on the Site and bill related notices. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you wish not to receive them, you have the option of deactivating your account
The Personal Information that you provide in connection with the use of the Site is protected in several ways.
Access by you to your account profile is available through a password and unique customer ID _select_ed by you. This password is encrypted. You should strive to use a strong, alpha-numeric password which you should not divulge to anyone.
Your Personal Information resides on secure servers that only _select_ed freeimagz personnel and contractors have access to via password.
Your Personal Information is encrypted whenever it is transmitted to freeimagz.
When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using transport layer security technology
We strive to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we take into account the sensitivity of the Personal Information we collect, process and store, and the current state of technology to use these measures protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web Sites, you can send email to us at privacy@freeimagz.com.
The Site may automatically collect information as you browse, such as Internet Service Provider, browser type and version, operating system and device type, average time spent on our site(s), pages viewed, information accessed, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other relevant statistics. Such information is sometimes referred to as web analytics and/or clickstream data.
We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, and provide site functionality.
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by freeimagz and our affiliates, analytics services and service to provide site features and functionality. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer when you visit a site. We may use session cookies, which terminate when a user closes his or her browser, and/or persistent cookies, which remain on the user_qt_s computer until manually _delete_d. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies to your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use the Site.
We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
We enable you to create a profile for accessing blogs or online communities for sharing information such as messages, photos and videos. Please note that we cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Any information you post to a public bulletin board or chat room, such as the Forum For Contributors (the "Forums"), is available to all persons accessing that location. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at privacy@freeimagz.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. Alternatively, if you used a third party application to post such information, you can remove it, by either logging into the said application and removing the information or by contacting the appropriate third party application.
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile application.
freeimagz reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice by email or on the home page of the Site when we make material changes to this Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective. If as the result of such changes, you want to _alter_ the ways in which freeimagz is allowed to use your Personal Information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled "Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences."
You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, any material changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: If at the time you provide Personal Information to freeimagz you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by freeimagz or by third parties, freeimagz will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if freeimagz is acquired by or merged with another entity, freeimagz may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent, but freeimagz will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site.
freeimagz will not discriminate against any user who exercises rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act or other privacy or data protection law. We will not deny services from users who exercise rights under a privacy law and we do not charge different prices to users who choose to exercise rights under applicable privacy law.
Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of freeimagz. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.
Our Web sites may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
You may be able to log in to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not enter information on this site or engage our services. If you believe a child of yours under the age of 18 has entered Personal Information please contact support@freeimagz.com to have the data removed and terminate the child_qt_s account.
Privacy Complaints
Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area, have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to Personal Data, seek to _update_, _delete_ or correct this Information, and request to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
To the extent that freeimagz_qt_s processing of your Personal Data is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, freeimagz relies on its legitimate interests, described above, to process your data. Where freeimagz processes certain Personal Data for freeimagz_qt_s own direct marketing purposes, you have a right to object to freeimagz_qt_s use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time by clicking on the link, "My Account" and opting out from receiving all email.
You may request the deletion of your Personal Data from our systems and/or opt-out of further processing of your Personal Data by visiting the "My Account – Preferences" page and following the instructions under the section titled "Delete My Personal Data"
If you wish to make any other objection to the processor of your personal data, you may also object to processing by emailing privacy@freeimagz.com
freeimagz takes its users_qt_ privacy concerns seriously. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that freeimagz has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal