Darwin Discount ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, brand name, and social media handles, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or make a submission.
- Financial Data: We do not collect or store any financial information. All payment transactions are processed through our third-party payment processor, Stripe. We encourage you to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
- User Content: We collect the content you submit for us to post, including any images, videos, and text captions associated with your submission.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. This may also include data collected by third-party tracking technologies like the Facebook Pixel.
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your submissions and payments.
- Post your approved content on our social media channels as part of our service.
- Email you regarding your account, submissions, or payments.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other promotions related to our service.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (Stripe) and data analysis (Facebook/Meta).
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. We utilize Firebase Authentication and Firestore Security Rules to secure user accounts and data. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
5. Data Retention
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.
6. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Effective" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: cs@darwindiscount.com