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Effective Date: June 30, 2023
Last Updated: October 22, 2024
OVERVIEW
This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of the Throw App Platform (the “Service”) operated by Throw App Co., a Delaware corporation (collectively, “Company” or “Throw App” or “we” or “us” or “our”), the Personal Data we collect about you, how we collect it, how we use it and with whom we share it. This Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your Personal Data. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people whom we do not employ or manage.
By using or interacting with the Service, whether on our web application or on our mobile device app, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is subject to and incorporated within the Service’s Terms of Service (“Terms”), including its provisions on liability and dispute resolution. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms.
Cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller. Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any Personal Data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers). Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the service of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User). Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, you are a Data Subject.
Personal Data. Personal Data means information about a living individual who can be reasonably identified from such information (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data. Usage Data is data collected automatically by the use of the Service itself (for example, dates and times of Service visits or usage, the duration of a web page visit or the use of a mobile app, IP addresses, browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs and information on actions taken on our Service).
We collect information in different ways from individuals who access the Service. We collect information in the following ways:
Directly from you:
When you sign-up to use the Service.
When you provide information to create your account.
When you verify your account.
When you explore and answer Throws™ on the Service.
Automatically from you:
When you like, dislike, report or invest answers on the Service.
Through third party tools used to collect User behavior, such as through Cookies. We may also receive reports based on the use of these technologies from our Service Providers on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We collect different information from you depending on how you engage with us.
We collect your email address and any other information you provide to us when signing up to use the Service.
We collect your identifiers and biographical information, such as your name, date of birth, gender education and professional background information, geographical location (zip code), and any other information you provide to us when you set up your account on the Service.
Third parties may collect financial information, such as your credit or debit card numbers, to facilitate our [Subscription Service / Premium Plan] payments, but we do not receive or process your financial information. That information stays with our third party service providers.
We collect your association with Throws (questions) and Catches (answers) on our Service when you participate in the Service and generate Throws, answers, like or dislike answers and boost answers.
We automatically collect Usage Data through your use of the Service.
We collect information and inferences regarding your personality, interests and expertise traits when you participate in the Service.
We collect lead generation data and track marketing campaign effectiveness from information from third parties, including advertising partners.
We may process and use your Personal Data primarily to perform a contract with you, and to otherwise deliver the Service or a service that you request, including:
To create your account and authenticate you.
To fulfill your requests to initiate or respond to Throws or to re-publish your responses to Throws pursuant to a report of offensive comments.
To associate you with the Throws and answers that you initiate, respond to, like, dislike or boost.
To address reports of offensive comments.
To associate your account with the Score determined by the Service.
To assist us in operating and improving the Service, including to anonymize, deidentify and aggregate your Personal Data, following which processing it will no longer be considered Personal Data.
To enhance your profile on the Service in order to optimize matching you with relevant Throws that match your expertise.
We may also process your Personal Data because it is necessary for our or a third party's legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights. In this respect, we may use your Personal Data to:
To contact you via email, postal mail, or telephone to learn more about your preferences, to conduct market research and learn more about how we can improve our offerings.
To contact you to obtain additional information and assist in the resolution of a report of offensive comments.
To track Service performance, to make your visit better, and for aggregate Service analytics.
To analyze trends, measure page views and performance, administer the Service, track Users’ movements around the Service and to gather demographic information about our User base as a whole.
We use Cookies and LSOs to remember Users’ preferences (e.g. search filters), for authentication, for source tracking, for analytics, or for product recommendations.
To show you relevant ads.
To show you surveys you may qualify for.
To better match Throws to Users providing answers that may have relevant or specific expertise in order to increase the quality of answers. In providing this matching service, we use large language models based artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot technologies.
We may also process your Personal Data for our compliance with our legal obligations. In this respect, we may use your Personal Data for the following:
When necessary to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by us, whether or not a response is required by applicable law.
When necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and other related agreements.
To protect our rights or the property or safety of our employees, Users or members of the general public.
You may also choose to share your Personal Data with survey companies through our Service. Our Service uses Pollfish SDK. Pollfish is an on-line survey platform, through which, anyone may conduct surveys. Pollfish collaborates with Publishers of applications for smartphones in order to have access to users of such applications and address survey questionnaires to them. When a user connects to this app, a specific set of user's device data (including Advertising ID, Device ID, other available electronic identifiers and further response meta-data is automatically sent, via our app, to Pollfish servers, in order for Pollfish to discern whether the user is eligible for a survey. For a full list of data received by Pollfish through this app, please read carefully the Pollfish respondent terms located at https://www.pollfish.com/terms/respondent. These data will be associated with your answers to the questionnaires whenever Pollfish sends such questionnaires to eligible users. Pollfish may share such data with third parties, clients and business partners, for commercial purposes. By downloading the application, you accept this privacy policy document and you hereby give your consent for the processing by Pollfish of the aforementioned data. Furthermore, you are informed that you may disable Pollfish operation at any time by visiting the following link https://www.pollfish.com/respondent/opt-out. We once more invite you to check the Pollfish respondent's terms of use, if you wish to have more detailed view of the way Pollfish works and with whom Pollfish may further share your data.
We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us using the details set out below. You may have the right to:
Access or update the information we have on you. Find out if we use your Personal Data, access your Personal Data and have it corrected or amended if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
Withdraw consent. Withdraw any express consent that you have provided to the processing of your Personal Data at any time without penalty.
Object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
Data portability. Obtain a transferable copy of some of your Personal Data which can be transferred to another provider when the Personal Data was processed based on your consent.
Rectification. If you believe your Personal Data is inaccurate, no longer necessary for our business purposes, or if you object to our processing of your Personal Data, you may also have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data pending our investigation and/or verification of your claim.
Deletion or restriction. Request your Personal Data be deleted or restricted under certain circumstances. For example, if Throw App is using your Personal Data on the basis of your consent and has no other legal basis to use such, you may request your Personal Data be deleted when you withdraw your consent.
Opt-out of targeted or behavioral advertising. You may have the right to opt out of cross-context behavioral / targeted advertising, which is based on the Personal Data you share with our Service, as well as data collected from third party websites.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or raise a complaint on how we have handled your Personal Data, please contact us at user.privacy@throwapp.com or via the details below.
You additionally have choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Data.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for promotional marketing purposes. If now or in the future you receive promotional or electronic newsletter communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving such communications from us, and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by clicking the “Unsubscribe” hyperlink at the bottom of all such communications. Notwithstanding your indicated email marketing preferences, we may continue to send you administrative emails regarding the Service, including, for example, order confirmations or updates to our Privacy Policy or the Terms.
You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some Cookies, or notify you when a Cookie is set — all browsers are different, so check the “Help” menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your Cookie preferences. Please note that if you have set your browser to refuse Cookies, you will not be able to be authenticated and thereby you will not be able to use the Service - you will only be able to browse public portions of our website. Users can control the use of Cookies at the individual browser level. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
Visiting our Service from outside the United States:
Our Service is intended for users within the U.S. We store and process all Personal Data within the U.S.
If you are visiting our Service from outside the United States, please be aware that your information will typically be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Data is protected. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to perform a contract with you, comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We take precautions to insure that our visitors’ Personal Data is secured and we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We use a variety of industry-standard technical, contractual, administrative and physical security measures and procedures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. Unless otherwise provided, we restrict access to Personal Data to those employees who need access to perform their job functions. Please note that despite our best efforts, no one can guarantee the security of Personal Data. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of Personal Data at any time.
We may employ Service Providers, to process Service-related data on our behalf, to perform Service-related service or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. Each of these Service Providers is contractually obligated to provide services to us in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose and must comply with the requirements for third party processors set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at user.privacy@ThrowApp.com or at the address provided below. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
From time-to-time we may modify, change, update, add to, remove portions of or otherwise alter this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service of any substantive changes, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. If you object to any such changes, you must immediately cease using the Service.
When we receive formal written complaints, it is our policy to contact the person regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of Personal Data that cannot be resolved between us and an individual.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can always contact us in any of three ways:
Send us an e-mail: user.privacy@throwapp.com
Write to us at:
Throw App Co.
3500 South DuPont Highway
Dover, DE 19901
Attention: Privacy