Mobile App Privacy Policy

Effective date: January 10, 2018

Welcome to Pixilated’s Pixi app (“Pixilated”, “Pixi,” “we,” “us” or “our”). Pixi provides an easy, efficient, and fun platform for you to share and personalize photos taken at your favorite businesses and events. Just tap to take a photo, choose your overlay, and share!

Our Privacy Policy explains how we and some of the companies we work with collect, use, share and protect information in relation to our application services and any software provided on or in connection with Pixi services (collectively, the “Service”), and your choices about the collection and use of your information.

By using our Service you understand and agree that we are providing a platform for you to capture and share content.

Our Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service (“Users”).

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect the following types of information.

Information you provide us directly:

User Content (e.g., photos and other materials) that you obtain through the Service.

Email addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information input into the Service. Pixilated and companies that work with us will collect this information to provide the opportunity to opt in to regular communications with our business and our partners.

Communications between you and Pixilated. For example, we may send you Service-related emails (e.g., changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices). Note that you may not opt out of Service-related e-mails.

Metadata:

Metadata is usually technical data that is associated with User Content. For example, Metadata can describe how, when, and by whom a piece of User Content was collected and how that content is formatted.

Users add Metadata to their User Content including a timestamp, location, or other data by taking a photo that is saved to our storage system.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

In addition to some of the specific uses of information we describe in this Privacy Policy, we may use information that we receive to:

• provide personalized content and information to you and others, which could include online ads or other forms of marketing
• provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Service
• develop and test new products and features
• monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns
• diagnose or fix technology problems

3. SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

By agreeing to these terms you are giving Pixilated and it’s Affiliates to right to sell your information. We may rent or sell your information to third parties outside Pixilated (or the companies that partner with Pixilated) with your consent, except as Parties with whom we may share your information: in this Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:

We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Pixilated is part of, or that become part of that group (“Affiliates”). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates’ own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences). But these Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see your photos.

We also may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.

We may also share certain information such as cookie data with third-party advertising partners. This information would allow third-party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.

We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties.

We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content:

Any information or content that you voluntarily capture or submit with the Service, such as User Content, becomes available to Pixilated anonymously.

What happens in the event of a change of control:

If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Pixilated or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), your information such as User Content and any other information collected through the Service may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your User Content. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.

Responding to legal requests and preventing harm:

We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. Information we receive about you may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

4. HOW WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION

Storage and Processing:

Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Pixilated, its Affiliates, or Service Providers maintain facilities.

Pixilated, its Affiliates, or Service Providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.

By registering for and using the Service you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which Instagram, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Service secure and take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. However, Instagram cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to Instagram or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to emails between you and Pixilated, at all times. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes the social media services you connect to. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any other organization.

5.  YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION

Unsubscribe from email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications. As noted above, you may not opt out of Service-related communications (e.g., account verification, purchase and billing confirmations and reminders, changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices).

If you specifically would like your information to be exempt from being sold, please email your request to legal@pixilated.com.  We will cater to the request as quickly as possible.

Learn more about reviewing or modifying your account information.

How long we keep your User Content:

Following request for deletion of User Content by User, Pixilated, its Affiliates, Partners, or its Service Providers may retain information (not including User Content requested to be deleted) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

6. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Pixilated does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13. The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.

7. OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Service, including the information or content contained within them.

8 . HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us through the email support@pixilated.com, or mail us at:

Legal

Pixilated

3200 James Street

Baltimore, MD 21230

9 . CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Pixilated may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of Pixilated or the Service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.