Privacy Notice
Beathubz is a trading name of Beathubz (Global) Ltd. Registered in England and Wales with company number 12681576 and registered address 13-14 Hilsea Market, London Road, Portsmouth, PO29RA. This Beathubz Privacy Notice applies to your use of https://beathubz.com, and any other websites, applications, or services provided, owned, or operated by Beathubz (with its affiliates, “Beathubz”) that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Beathubz Services”). Beathubz values the privacy of users, subscribers, publishers, members, and others who visit and use the Beathubz Services (collectively or individually, “you” or “users”) and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from and about you. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting https://beathubz.com, setting up your Beathubz account, or using the Beathubz Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice, to the extent permitted by law.
For purposes of data protection laws, Beathubz is the “data controller” of your information collected in connection with the Beathubz Services.
You may share personal information when using the Beathubz Services. One example is when you provide information about yourself as part of the Beathubz account creation process. Another is when you take certain actions on the Beathubz Services that are public or intended to be public in nature, such as when you broadcast content, participate in a chat room, post profile information, follow a channel, or subscribe to a broadcast channel. Given the social nature of some of the Beathubz Services, that information may be collected, used, or disclosed by others who are part of that social interaction. In addition, some features of the Beathubz Services are designed to provide others with information about user activity, such as identifying the user who created a particular Clip or the subscription status of users for a given channel. We encourage you to be mindful of this when considering your activity on the Beathubz Services.
Storage and access to cookies that are set in connection with the Beathubz Services are governed by the Beathubz Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy”).
Personal Information Beathubz Collects About You
We obtain information about you through the means discussed below when we provide the Beathubz Services. Please note that we need certain types of information so that we can provide the Beathubz Services to you. If you do not provide us with such information, or ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use the Beathubz Services.
- User-provided Information: You may provide a variety of information about yourself to us, such as your name, voice and image (in any content you upload), Beathubz username, email address, postal mailing address, telephone number, credit card number, and billing information when you register for Beathubz Services; upload, purchase, view, or download certain content or products from the Beathubz Services; enter contests or sweepstakes; or otherwise use the features and functionality of the Beathubz Services.
- Automatically Collected Information: When you access the Beathubz Services or open one of our emails, we automatically record and store certain information about your system by using cookies and other types of technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your browser. For information about what cookies are, how they work, how Beathubz uses them, and how to remove them, please see our Cookie Policy. Examples of such information we automatically collect include Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), a unique user ID, device and browser types and identifiers, referring and exit page addresses, software and system type, and information about your usage of Beathubz Services. Examples of how Beathubz uses automatically collected information include to: (a) automatically update the Beathubz application on your system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Beathubz Services; (c) provide customized advertisements, content, and information; (d) monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns; (e) monitor and store aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (f) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
- Information from Other Sources: We may obtain additional information from third parties and sources other than the Beathubz Services. For example, we may obtain additional information from advertisers, services you use, or social media networks (such as Facebook) for which you have approved our access. When you access the Beathubz Services through social media networks or when you connect the Beathubz Services to social media networks, you are authorizing Beathubz to collect, store, and use such additional information and content in accordance with this Privacy Notice. We may also obtain information from third-party services regarding your use of such services, including about your use of the content you choose to broadcast through the Beathubz Services. We use this information to supplement the information we collect about you in order to provide more relevant, safer experiences for you with the Beathubz Services and improve the Beathubz Services, analytics, and advertising. If we combine or associate information from other sources with information that we collect through the Beathubz Services, we will treat the combined information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
How We Use Your Personal Information
- Beathubz uses such information to operate, maintain, enhance, provide, create, and develop all of the features, functionality, and services (new or existing) found on the Beathubz Services; provide security for our websites, products, software, or applications; manage relationships with Beathubz account holders (e.g., Partners, Affiliates), including making or receiving payment; improve users’ experience with Beathubz by providing content recommendations and by delivering content that we hope users will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages; allow you to comment on content, and participate in online contests, or rewards programs; prevent fraud and abuse; and understand the usage trends of our users.
- We use your email address and/or telephone number to communicate with you, including to notify you of major Beathubz Services updates, for customer service purposes, or to contact you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded from the Beathubz Services. If you want to stop receiving notifications by telephone, reply STOP to any text message from us. Note that we may still send you additional informational or transnational notifications.
- Beathubz may periodically send promotional materials or notifications to you related to the Beathubz Services. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, you can go to your account settings once you have logged in to the Beathubz Services or follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email from us. If you have installed a mobile app and you wish to stop receiving push notifications, you can change the settings either on your mobile device or through the app.
- In certain cases, we have a legal obligation to collect and process your personal information (such as our obligation to share data with tax authorities).
- We may also ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop the processing of your data for that purpose.
- Beathubz will rely on legal grounds to process your personal information to the extent permitted by applicable law, which may include, without limitation: to honor contractual commitments, to take steps in anticipation of entering into contract, to fulfill legal obligations, your consent, and Beathubz’s legitimate interests.
When We Disclose Personal Information
We share such information as described below:
- We disclose such information to service providers working on our behalf, such as, to: provide website hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; or assist Beathubz in improving the Beathubz Services and creating new services and features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and we require them to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
- Beathubz may disclose user information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with U.K laws or other applicable laws around the world (for example, in the country of your residence), or respond to a court order, judicial or other government request, subpoena, or warrant in the manner legally required.
- Beathubz also reserves the right to disclose information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to protect Beathubz from potential liability or from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims, or allegations; protect the security or integrity of the Beathubz Services; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Beathubz, our users, or others.
Other than as set out in this Privacy Notice, you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
Data Subject Rights and Your Choices
For requests to review, update, delete, or otherwise limit Beathubz’s use of information that you have provided directly to Beathubz, you may contact us directly. In your request, please include your email address, name, address, and telephone number and specify all relevant background. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), can exercise certain data subject rights available to them under applicable data protection laws. We will comply with requests to exercise these rights in accordance with applicable law. Please note that in some circumstances, we may need to keep processing your information for certain legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. If these rights apply to you, they may permit you to request that we:
- Obtain access to or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you.
- Prevent the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling).
- Update personal information that is out of date or incorrect.
- Delete certain personal information we hold about you.
- Restrict the way that we process and disclose specific personal information about you.
- Transfer your personal information to a third-party provider of services.
- Revoke consent that you previously provided for the processing of your personal information.
If applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based. Alternatively, you may seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
Advertisers and Analytics Providers
Beathubz may use third-party Web analytics services in connection with the Beathubz Services. These service providers use a variety of tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the Beathubz Services. The information collected may be shared with or collected directly by these services and processed to evaluate your use of the Beathubz Services.
Beathubz may also work with third-party ad networks, advertisers, and advertising analytics providers to target (and measure the performance of) ads to you both on and off the Beathubz Services. We may share with these third parties (or they may directly collect) data such as cookie and mobile ad identifiers in order to engage in advertising activity (including to understand how you respond to advertisements and to serve relevant ads). Beathubz also works with third parties to serve ads to you off Twitch’s Services. When we do so, we may share information such as your email address or resettable device identifier for that advertising partner to “match” to other information that may have about you.
Advertisers on Beathubz, or representatives or service providers working on their behalf (“Beathubz Advertisers”), sometimes use technology to serve ads that appear on our services directly to your device. They automatically receive certain data, such as your IP address, when this happens. They may also use cookies (or similar technologies) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize ad content. This Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we cannot control the tracking technologies and activities of Beathubz Advertisers and you should consult their respective privacy policies.
Data Security
Beathubz uses a variety of managerial, technical, and physical measures to protect the integrity and security of your information. These measures may vary based on the sensitivity of your information. However, no security precautions or systems can be completely secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Beathubz, and you do so at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Retention of Your Information
Beathubz maintains data related to your usage of Beathubz for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Notice, as may be required (or permitted) by law such as for tax and accounting purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you. Once you have asked us to close your account and delete your profile information, we will delete all information that we are not required or permitted to retain by law.
Merger or Sale
In the event that Beathubz, or some or all assets related to the Beathubz Services are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity or in connection with a contemplated change of ownership transaction, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control event, including in the course of diligence.
International Data Transfers
Information collected by Beathubz may be stored and processed in your region, in the United Kingdom (for instance in our major data centers), or in any other country where Beathubz or its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, or service providers are located or maintain facilities. If we provide any information about you to any such entities, we will take appropriate measures to ensure such companies protect your information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable law.
Changes and Updates to This Privacy Notice
Beathubz reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Notice at any time (for example to reflect updates to the Beathubz Services or to reflect changes in the law). Please check this Privacy Notice periodically for those changes. Your continued use of the Beathubz Services after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.
We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of personal information collected in the past under a prior version of the Privacy Notice without the consent of affected individuals