Privacy Policy
NOTICE: We do not sell your personal data.
Introduction
Blast Labs Inc. (the “Company” or “Blast” or “We” or “Us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes the types of information we may retrieve or collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website https://getblast.video/ as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our accompanying Terms of Use (our “Terms of Use”) and Platform Services Agreement (our “PSA”) – together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, the “Legal Terms”). This Policy may change or be modified from time to time. Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates. If you do not agree with our Policy and practices, you must discontinue use of the Site immediately.
Children Under the Age of 13
We strive to educate parents and children about how to appropriately safeguard their privacy when using our Site. We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), which requires us to inform parents and legal guardians about our information collection and use practices. COPPA also requires that we obtain parental consent before we allow children under the age of 13 to access and/or use our Site. We urge children to check with their parents before entering information through our Sites, and we recommend that parents discuss with their children the restrictions regarding the online release of Personal Information (as defined below) to anyone they don’t know.
The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age without parental permission. Children under the age of 13 may not use the Site without express parental permission. No one under the age of 13 may provide any Personal Information (as hereinafter defined) to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13 other than the contact information required to obtain parental consent. If you are under 13, unless you have parental consent, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through any of its features, register with the Site, make any purchases through the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, or that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 beyond what we have request from them, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@getblast.video.
Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information.
Information Covered by Our Privacy Policy
This Policy applies to information we collect:
On this Site.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Site.
Other digital channels or platforms owned or controlled by us.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including information:
By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal/mailing address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, credit card information, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (collectively, “Personal Information”);
Provided by you if you register or sign in through your email provider, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, any and all information that you agreed that such third-party email provider would provide to us through their respective Application Programming Interface (“API”). Such information may include, without limitation, your first and last name, your username, profile picture, headline, unique identifier and access token, and e-mail address, as may be the case depending on the third-party API.
That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as the content of your User Contributions uploaded to the Site and incorporated into the invitations (the “Invitations”) generated by the Site for events (“Events”) you are organizing; and/or
About your operating system, your IP address(es), browser type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, keywords, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of a website you visit, and similar information concerning your use of the Site (the “Usage Information”).
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us, including information provided in the process of registering an account with Blast, generating an Invitation on the Site or when making a transaction through the Site.
From your email provider during registration or sign in to our Site, limited to the information that you agree to provide.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically, including Usage Information, may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Site may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site or when requesting further services or assistance from us. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us and when you report a problem with our Site.
Information that you provide by generating and distributing Invitations or uploading User Contributions for inclusion as part of an Invitation.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Site (such as purchasing an Invitation) and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide payment information before placing an order through our Site. This may include, but is not limited to, your credit card, shipping, billing and banking information.
The Site provides users the ability to upload images, videos and audio recordings (collectively, “User Contributions”) for incorporation into Blast’s personalized digital Invitations. User Contributions are incorporated into an Invitation for the eventual purpose of transmission of the Invitation to third parties. By uploading User Contributions to the site, your User Contributions may be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on certain areas of the Site, or transmitted to other users of the Site or third parties. Your User Contributions are Posted on and transmitted to others with your consent and at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Site with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Please be advised that Invitations, including all User Contributions and other information and content contained within Invitations, are deleted from the Site by us 90 days after the Event takes place.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you access, use, navigate through, and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Usage Information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically, including Usage Information, may include Personal Information. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
Recognize you when you return to our Site.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Site and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Blast, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
[Third-Party Use of Cookies [and Other Tracking Technologies]]
[Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Site are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.]
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
To present our Site and its contents to you.
To identify you when you sign into your account with Blast.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To enhance and improve the Site, such as through personalized features and content.
To analyze the Site’s use and the Users visiting the Site to help us improve the Site and our content and services.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Site or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site, including the generation and distribution of Invitations.
ANY OTHER USE PURPOSES DEPENDING ON SITE PURPOSE (direct marketing, behavioral advertising, etc.).
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please email us at support@getblast.video
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users[, and information that does not identify any individual,] without restriction. Such aggregated information will be anonymized and non-identifiable to any individual user.
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Blast’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Blast about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or upload an Invitation you have generated to.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “send Invitation to a friend” feature of our Site, we will transmit the Invitation and your [email address/name/username] to the recipients.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use or the Platform Services Agreement and other agreements you are party to, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Blast, our customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the sign up and registration page). You can also always opt-out by logging into the Site and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile or by sending us an email with your request to privacy@getblast.video.
Promotional Offers from Blast. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Blast to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@getblast.video. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions or click “unsubscribe” in our promotional email. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Blast as a result of a product purchase, service experience or other transactions.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Residents of certain states may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
We strive to help parents ensure that their children have a safe experience while using our Site. Parents or legal guardians can review any Personal Information and User Contributions collected about their child under 13 years of age, have this information deleted, request that there be no further collection or use of their child’s Personal Information or User Contributions, and/or allow for our collection and use of their child’s Personal Information while withholding consent for us to disclose it to third parties. We take steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child and to ensure that the person is in fact the child’s parent or legal guardian.
Additionally, you may take the same actions with respect to your own Personal Information and User Contributions by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at privacy@getblast.video to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information or User Contributions that you have provided to us.
In certain cases, we may not be able to delete your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause your information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Site, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Site users. As noted above, Invitations (including all User Contributions and other information and content contained within Invitations) are deleted from the Site by us 90 days after the Event takes place. Proper access and use of information provided on the Site, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
Residents of certain states may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
Your State Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether we process their Personal Information.
Access and delete certain Personal Information.
Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose.
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for:
targeted advertising;
sales; or
profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please reach out to us via email to privacy@getblast.video. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please reach out us via email to privacy@getblast.video.
Important Notice to Users Outside the United States
Blast operates the Site in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By providing us with any information through the Site, you expressly consent to this transfer.
How We Protect Your Information; Data Security
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply, including your Personal Information, will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Site home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Site home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
privacy@getblast.video
You can also reach out to us by mail to:
Blast Labs Inc.
311 W Avenida Palizada
San Clemente, California 92672
To register a complaint or concern, please contact us via email to support@getblast.video.
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