Privacy Policy

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.

The Information We Collect

We collect information directly from individuals, from third-parties and automatically through the Sharebird Platform.

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.

How We Use Your Information

We do not sell your personally identifying information – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes.
Sharebird uses the information we collect:

How We Share Your Information

We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:

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.

Cookies, Pixels and Tracking

We and our third party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage, log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your usage and browsing activities on the Sharebird Platform and across third party sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about users. Below, we provide a brief summary these activities. For more detailed information about these mechanisms and how we collect activity information, see our Cookie Policy.

How We Protect Your Information

The security of your information is important to us. Sharebird has implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal data safe, such as choosing strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using the Sharebird Platform.

Access and Amend Your Information

You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your Choices.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit information through the Sharebird Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the Sharebird Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here is some further information about some of your choices:

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.

Transferring Your Data

Sharebird is headquartered in the United States, and has operations, entities and service providers in the United States and throughout the world. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your personal data to, or access it in, jurisdictions (including the United States) that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it, including through appropriate written data processing terms and/or data transfer agreements.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (or under the age of 14 for anyone living in Spain or South Korea) or knowingly allow such persons to register. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without parental consent, we take steps to delete that information.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Sharebird Platform may contain links to third party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.

Your California Privacy Rights

California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the types of personal information disclosed to those parties. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please submit your request in an email to [email protected].

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].