Last updated: December 19, 2021
We recognize that your privacy is very important and take it seriously. Our Sharebird Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your information when you use the Sharebird Platform. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to activities by Sharebird Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “Sharebird,” “we” or “us”). Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service.
Account and Profile Information When you create an account and profile on the Sharebird Platform, we collect your name, contact information, and other information you provide, such as topics that you know about or find interesting. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to users of the Sharebird Platform. Once you activate a profile, other users will be able to see in your profile certain information about your activity on the Sharebird Platform, such as answers you post, your followers and who you follow, topics of interest to you, the information you list as credentials, and your AMA’s. For more information about your choices for publicly displayed information, see the section below about Your Choices.
Your Content. We collect and store the information and content that you post to the Sharebird Platform, including your questions, answers, photos, comments. Unless you have posted certain content anonymously, Your Content, date and time stamps, and all associated comments are publicly viewable on the Sharebird Platform, along with your name. This also may be indexed by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Internet in accordance with our Terms of Service. For more information about what you can change, see the below section on Your Choices.
Communications. When you communicate with us (via email, phone, through the Sharebird Platform or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication.
Integrated Service Provider and Linked Networks. If you elect to connect your Sharebird account to another online service provider, such as a social networking service (“Integrated Service Provider”), you will be allowing us to pass to and receive from the Integrated Service Provider your log-in information and other user data. You may elect to sign in or sign up to the Sharebird Platform through a linked network like Facebook or Google (each a “Linked Network”). If you elect to sign up through a Linked Network, you will be asked to enable sharing of your contacts with Sharebird. If you agree to this sharing, in order to facilitate a more connected experience, we may send notices informing your contacts you have joined Sharebird so that you and your contacts can find and follow each other on the Sharebird Platform. The specific information we may collect varies by Integrated Service Provider, but the permissions page for each will describe the relevant information. Integrated Service Providers control how they use and share your information; you should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices.
Automatically Collected Information About Your Activity. We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use of the Sharebird Platform. We also collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of the Sharebird Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with the Sharebird Platform, even if you have not created an account. For more information, see the Cookies, Pixels and Tracking section below.
Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.
Affiliates. The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of Sharebird, Inc., whose use and disclosure of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal data, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.
Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.
Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of Sharebird, its users, or others.
Your Content and Activity. Your Content, including your name, profile picture, profile information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users of the Sharebird Platform and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share Your Content across other sites or services. In addition, Your Content may be indexed by search engines. See the section below about Your Choices for information about how you may change how certain information is shared or viewed by others.
Ad Metrics. We may share with users of our Ad Services aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the Sharebird Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers to use Pixels on the Sharebird Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their ads.
Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
Anonymous Posts. You post certain content anonymously, including questions. In such event, your name is not displayed along with the content, and Sharebird does not associate such content with your user ID and other profile data. For information see how anonymity works on Sharebird.
Your Content. You may edit or delete the answers that you post at any time. Any questions you have posted may remain on the Sharebird Platform and be edited by other users. Any deleted content will be removed from third party sites from which it has been shared via Sharebird’s sharing features; however we have no control over deletions or changes to Your Content if it has been shared manually by others. When you make edits to Your Content, other users will be able to see the history of those edits in your profile activity.
Emails and Communications. When you join the Sharebird Platform by signing up for an account or creating a profile, as part of the service, you will receive the Sharebird digest containing content that we believe may match your interests. As permitted by law, you are also opting to receive other emails from us that may be of interest to you as a user of the Sharebird Platform. You can manage your email and notice preferences in your account profile settings, in our subscription preference center, but note that you cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative or legal notices from us. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you transactional e-mails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us. It may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests.
Additionally, by joining the Sharebird Platform, you are agreeing to receive feedback and communications from third-parties within the Sharebird Platform, including third parties who may comment on your postings within the Sharebird Platform.
Followers. You can change whether or not you follow other users.
Topics. You can change topics that you follow or that your profile lists as areas that you know about.
Credentials. You can change your credentials that are displayed in your profile.
Linked Networks. You may connect or disconnect your Linked Networks, such as Facebook, through your profile settings on the Linked Network’s site. Once you disconnect it, we will no longer receive information from that Linked Network going forward; we may still maintain the information we have already collected.