Understand How AweSpace ("We" or "Us") Collects, Uses, and Shares Your Information When You Use Our Services, Including Websites, Mobile Apps, Widgets, and Other Online Offerings, or When You Interact With Us or Receive Our Communications.
What We Collect:
- Account Information: To create an account, provide a username (which is public) and password. You may also give an email address, along with your user account preferences and settings.
- Content You Submit: We collect content you submit, including posts, comments, messages, reports, and communications with moderators and us.
- Actions You Take: Information about your interactions with content and other users, including voting, saving, hiding, reporting, following, friending, blocking, and your interactions with communities.
- Transactional Information: For purchases or services sign-ups, we collect your name, address, email, and details about the product or service. Payment processing is done by third-party processors.
- Other Information: Information you provide through forms, participation in activities, job applications, customer support, or direct communications.
Information We Collect Automatically:
- Log and Usage Data: This includes IP addresses (deleted after 100 days except for the one used to create your account), user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information, pages visited, links clicked, requested URL, hardware settings, and search terms.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use these to enhance your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and ads, and improve our Services.
- Location Information: With your consent, we may collect precise location data. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
Information Collected from Other Sources:
- We may receive information about you from other sources, including other users, third parties, and combine it with our data.
- Linked Services: If you link other services to your AweSpace account, we receive information about your use of that service.
- Information from Integrations: We may receive information, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party websites that integrate our Services.
How We Use Information About You:
- To provide, maintain, and improve the Services; research and develop new services; protect the safety of AweSpace and our users; send updates and administrative messages; provide customer service; communicate about products, services, and events; monitor and analyze trends and activities; and personalize the Services and advertisements.
How Information About You Is Shared:
- Your content and profile information may be shared with other users and the public.
- We share information with linked services, partners, to comply with the law, in emergencies, to enforce our policies, with our affiliates, with your consent, and as aggregated or de-identified information.
Ads and Analytics Partners:
- We partner with third parties for advertising and analytics, who may collect information from your devices.
Your Choices:
- You have control over your information, including accessing, changing, deleting your account, controlling linked services, cookies, advertising, and analytics, opting out of promotional communications, mobile notifications, and location information.
Information Security:
- We take steps to protect your information, including using HTTPS and enforcing access controls.
Data Retention:
- We store information as necessary for the purposes collected, for business needs, or as required by law.
International Data Transfers:
- We process and store information in the U.S. and other countries.
Additional Information for EEA Users:
- EEA users have specific rights regarding their personal data, which can be exercised as described in this policy. We process information based on legal bases, including consent, necessity for providing the Services, legitimate interests, and compliance with legal obligations