04.07.2016
Welcome to Happy Boards (“Happy Boards,” “Happy Medium,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Happy Boards provide a completely customizable way to share your message on TV. Happy Boards are the place to welcome guests, share social posts or pictures, and to provide information. Your Happy Board can say whatever you want it to.
This Privacy Policy explains how we, collect, use, share, and protect information you provide when you access and use your Happy Board through our mobile services, web site, and any software provided on or in connection with our platforms and services, which we will refer to collectively as the Happy Boards Services or Services in this Policy, and your choices about the collection and use of your information.
By using our Services, you understand and agree that we are providing a platform for you to access and use information, text, graphics, photos, and other materials that are uploaded, downloaded, or appearing on the Services, including what is displayed on a Happy Board, which we will collectively refer
to as the Content. This means that others, including customers, patrons, clients, bystanders, visitors, employees, staff, and the like, will be able to see the Content you directly and indirectly choose to display on the Happy Board using the Services.
Note that using other services, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, in conjunction with the Services can result in your information being collected
and used beyond the scope of this Policy. We have no control over how those entities use the information you share through those services. As such, we suggest you review the Privacy Policy for each service you access and use in conjunction with our Services.
1. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED BY US
The following types of information are collected by us.
A. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE DIRECTLY TO US
We collect information when you first register for an account, which includes your name, phone number, address, and email. We use your email to contact you about changes to the Services, including additional features and updates.
In order to setup payment for your account, we also collect credit card or debit card information, as well as the related contact information in order to process the payments. We establish and collect a username and password that is used to access the Services. Additionally, we will collect usernames and passwords for third-party sites, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, which are used in conjunction with the Services to access those accounts. We also collect information regarding where you will be putting your Happy Board. We use
this information for statistical purposes only.
B. ANALYTICAL INFORMATION
We use analytical tools to help us to measure the traffic and usage trends on the Services. These analytical tools work by collecting information sent by your device or our Service that assist us in improving the Service. We collect and use this information within the aggregate along with other Happy Boards users’ information so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual user.
C. COOKIES AND LOG FILES
When you access and use the Services, we may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about how you use the Services in order to provide improved features to you. Some features of the Services may be impaired or disabled if cookies are disabled.
Additionally, your browser will automatically create log file information each time you request to visit a website or web application. Log file information
can also be created when content from a webpage or web application is downloaded by your browser or device. When you use our Services, our servers automatically record certain log file information. This information
can include the web request, the Internet Protocol address or IP address, browser type, referring or exist page and URL, the number of clicks and how you interact with the Services, domain pages, landing pages, pages viewed,
and other information related to the Services. We may also use this information from emails that we send to you in order to determine what emails are opened and what links are clicked within particular emails. The collection of this information allows us to collect more accurate information to use for
improving the Happy Board Services.
D. DEVICE IDENTIFIERS
Device identifiers are files or similar data structures that are stored or associated with your mobile devices, such as your tablet or phone, which are used to uniquely identify that particular mobile device. A device identifier may be associated with hardware within the device, the operating system of the device, or may be sent to the device by the Happy Boards Services.
When you use your mobile device to access the Services we may monitor, access, collect, monitor, on your device, or remotely store on your device one
or more device identifiers. We use device identifiers to collect information about how you use the Services, which allows us to improve the Services.
If device identifiers are disabled on your mobile device it may impair or disable some of the Services’ features.
E. METADATA
Metadata is commonly viewed as the technical data that is associated with Content, for instance it describes how, when, and by whom a piece of Content was collected and how that Content is formatted. We may collect the metadata inherently included in your Content or actively added by you through geotagging, comments, hashtags, and the like. The collected metadata is
used as part of the Services functionality and we may also use it to improve
the features available through the Services.
2. HOW INFORMATION IS USED BY US
In addition to the specific uses of information we detail this Privacy Policy,
we may also use information to:
- store account information so you will not have to reenter your account details when you visit the Happy Boards Service;
- allow you to efficiently access information after you log into your account;
- provide content and information to you that is personalized;
- improve the Services by monitoring, testing, diagnosing, repairing,
and updating the Services, which can include developing and testing
new features and products, as well as updating the website or mobile application related to the Happy Boards Services; and monitor metrics on an individual and aggregate basis, e.g. site traffic and demographics.
3. HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside of Happy Medium without your consent. We will only share your information with outside sources as set forth within this Policy.
A. PARTIES WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH
We may share Content and your information, including but not limited to, cookie information, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data, with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Happy Medium is part of, or that become part of that group referred to as our Affiliates. Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Services, which may include providing analytical data and analytical reports to Affiliates’ own services.
We also may share your information, cookie information, log files, device identifiers, and location data, and usage data, with third-party organizations,
or Service Providers that help us provide the Happy Boards Services to you. Our Service Providers will be provided access to your information only as is reasonably necessary to provide the Services under reasonable confidentiality terms. This may include combining your information with others in an aggregate, anonymized fashion.
B. PARTIES YOU MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH
Information or Content you voluntarily disclose by using, posting, or displaying through the Services becomes available to the public as controlled by any applicable privacy settings that you set for the particular service you are using, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Also, Happy Boards are inherently public in that customers, patrons, clients, bystanders, visitors, employees, staff, and the like can view what you display using the Services.
C. WHAT OCCURS IF HAPPY BOARDS CHANGES CONTROL
If we sell or transfer part or all the Services or our assets to another organization, for instance in the course of a merger, dissolution, or acquisition, or the like, your information and Content, and any other information collected through the Services may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your Content. The buyer or transferee will have to honor
our commitments to you that we have made in this Policy.
D. RESPONSES TO PREVENT HARM AND LEGAL REQUESTS
In the event that we receive a legal request, such as a warrant, court order, or subpoena, we may access, preserve, or share your information or Content in response if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so.
This may mean that we respond to requests made from outside the United States, if we have a good faith belief the response is required by the law in
that jurisdiction, affects individuals in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with international standards.
We may also access, preserve, or share your information or Content when we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to detect, prevent, or address fraud or other illegal activity, or to protect ourselves, you, or others, including as part of an investigation, or 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 YOUR INFORMATION IS STORED
We store and process your information and Content in the United States and any other country that we, our Affiliates, or our Service Providers keep facilities. In doing so, we may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and around the world. Note that we may transfer information to a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. Your registration, access, and continued use of the Services is your consent to the transfer of information to any of the locations we, our Affiliates, or our Service Providers keep facilities.
Our Services use commercially reasonable safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. We also take reasonable steps
to verify and identify you before we grant access to your account. We cannot guarantee, however, that the security of any information you transmit or guarantee that the information on the Services may not be accessed, altered, disclosed, or destroyed. We ask that you help us protect our Services and your account. Please be responsible for maintaining a secret and secure password that is unique for your account, at all times. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any service, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or the like, used in conjunction with the Services.
5. MAINTAINING YOUR INFORMATION
You may update your account at any time by logging in and changing your profile within your account settings. You may also opt-out of receiving emails from us by using the “unsubscribe” link provided in the messages you receive. After your account is closed with us, we may retain some or all of your information for a commercially reasonable amount of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes.
6. INFORMATION ON CHILDREN UNDER 13
We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13 or allow them to register or use the Services. Our Terms of Use prohibit such individuals from using the Services. The Services and its content are not directed at or intended for children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age
of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about
a child under 13, please contact us as indicated in Section 8 of the Policy.
7. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
We are not responsible for any third-party service, web site, platform, application, or their respective users linked to or used in conjunction with
the Happy Board Services. Please remember that when you use a third-party service, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or the like, our Privacy Policy
and Terms of Use do not apply. Your use and interaction of those third-party services are subject to their policies and rules. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and do not have control over any third-parties or the content that is integrated into the Content of our Services. You also agree
that by using a third-party service you are doing so at your own risk.
8. CONTACT US
Tweet us at @gethappyboards or reach us at [email protected] if you have questions about this Policy.
9. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We may modify this Policy periodically as we deem necessary, so please come back from time to time to review it. We may notify you of changes under certain circumstances. Your continued use of the Happy Boards Services constitutes your acceptance of any such modification that we may make.