Privacy Policy [AmpWurld]
“AmpWurld” recognizes that your privacy is very important, and we take it seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information when you use the “AmpWurld” Platform.
This Privacy Policy applies to activities by “AmpWurld” and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “AmpWurld” or ”AmpWurld,” “we” or “us”).
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for all visitors and members to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in “AmpWurld. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
If you register on the Site and set up an account and password, you are responsible for anything that happens through your account. You agree to keep your password secure and confidential, not permit others to use your account, and not use other’s accounts. You should immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any breach of security. If you become aware that your account has been compromised, you should immediately change your password.
We collect information directly from individuals, from third parties, and automatically through the “AmpWurld” Platform.
When you create an account and profile on the “AmpWurld” Platform, we collect your name, contact information (including your email id), demographic information, and other information you provide, such as topics that you know about or find interesting. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing by the public and other users of the “AmpWurld” Platform. Once you create a profile, others will be able to see in your profile certain information about your activity on the “AmpWurld” Platform, such as the questions and answers you post, your followers and who you follow, topics of interest to you, the information you list as credentials, and your edits to your content. For more information about your choices for publicly displayed information, see the section below about Your Choices.
We collect the information and content that you post to the “AmpWurld” Platform, including your questions, answers, photos, and comments. Unless you have posted certain content anonymously, your content, date and time stamps, and all associated comments are publicly viewable on the “AmpWurld” Platform, along with your name. This also may be indexed by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Internet. For more information about what you can change, see the below section on Your Choices.
Your contact information may be used to communicate with you (via email, text message, through the “Amp Social” Platform or otherwise). When you communicate with us (via email, text message, through the “AmpWurld” Platform, or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication. By disclosing your contact information to “AmpWurld”, you consent to our use of your contact information to communicate with you.
You can connect your existing “AmpWurld” account with certain third-party networks like Facebook or Google, for example (each a “Linked Network”). You can also elect to sign in or sign up to the “AmpWurld” Platform through a Linked Network. If you elect to sign up through or connect a Linked Network, we receive certain profiles and account information about you from the Linked Network. These Linked Networks may also appear in your profile so that people can find you on these Linked Networks. The specific information provided to us by Linked Networks is determined by you and these third parties and may vary by network. In all cases, the permissions page for the Linked Network will describe the information being shared. You should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices. You may elect to use information from the Linked Network to populate your profile on the “AmpWurld” Platform and help you find and follow your contacts on the “AmpWurld” Platform.
We may use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use of the “AmpWurld” Platform. We also collect information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of the “AmpWurld” Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with the “AmpWurld” Platform, even if you have not created an account.
We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, “AmpWurld” cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising or content identifiers (if applicable) and time zone, and other information about user activities on the “AmpWurld” Platform, as well as on third-party sites and services that have embedded our “Amp Social” pixels (“Pixels”), widgets, plug-ins, buttons, or related services.
We may also receive information about you from third parties, such as other users, partners (including ad partners), or our affiliated companies.
We do not sell your personal information – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes. “Amp Social” uses the information we collect for the following purposes:
To provide you the services we offer on the “AmpWurld” Platform and make the “AmpWurld” Platform available to the public, communicate with you about your use of the “AmpWurld” Platform, respond to your inquiries, provide troubleshooting, and for other customer service purposes.
To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you in the “AmpWurld” Platform, to suggest followers and content, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the “AmpWurld” Platform.
To display interest-based advertising to you in the “AmpWurld” Platform, to improve our advertising and measurement systems so we can show you relevant ads, to pre-fill forms in ads, and to measure the effectiveness and reach of ads and services.
For marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including information about third-party products and services.
To gather metrics to better understand how users access and use the “AmpWurld” Platform; to evaluate and improve the “AmpWurld” Platform, including the Ad Services and personalization, and to develop new products and services.
To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes.
Where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or violations of our Privacy Policy.
We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:
Your Content and Public Information.
Your content, including your name, profile picture, profile information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users of the “AmpWurld” Platform and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share your content across other sites or services. In addition, your content may be indexed by search engines. In some cases.
Metrics.
We may share with our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the “AmpWurld” Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information, but certain features may allow you to share your personal information with advertisers on our platform if you choose to do so.
We and our third-party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage, log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your usage and browsing activities on the “AmpWurld” Platform and across third-party sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about users. Below, we provide a brief summary of these activities.
These are small files with a unique identifier that is transferred to your browser through our websites. They allow us to remember users who are logged in, to understand how users navigate through and use the “AmpWurld” Platform, and to display personalized content and targeted ads (including on third-party sites and applications).
We may use internal and third-party analytics tools, including Google Analytics. The third-party analytics companies we work with may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other websites and/or other online products and services. Their collection and use of information are subject to their own privacy policies.
Please note we do not change system behavior within the “AmpWurld” Platform in response to browser requests not to be tracked.
We may also work with third parties such as network advertisers to serve ads on the “AmpWurld” Platform and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense and Facebook Audience Network. These third parties may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you.
The security of your information is very important to us. “AmpWurld” has implemented safeguards measures to protect the information we collect. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take extra steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing a strong password for “AmpWurld” log in and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using the “Amp Social” Platform on a shared or unsecured device.
You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your Choices.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit information through the “AmpWurld” Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the “AmpWurld” Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here is some further information about some of your choices:
You may edit or delete the answers that you post at any time. Any questions you have posted may remain on the “AmpWurld” Platform and be edited by other users. Any deleted content will be removed from third-party sites from which it has been shared via “AmpWurld”s standard sharing features; however, we have no control over deletions or changes to your content if it has been shared manually by others. When you make edits to your content, other users will be able to see the history of those edits in your profile activity and on content edit logs.
When you join the “AmpWurld” Platform by signing up for an account or creating a profile, as part of the service, you will receive the “AmpWurld” digest containing content that we believe may match your interests. As permitted by law, you are also opting to receive other emails and text messages from us that may be of interest to you as a user of the “AmpWurld” Platform. You can manage your email, text messages, and notice preferences in your account profile settings, under your Emails and Notifications settings, but note that you cannot opt-out of receiving certain administrative or legal notices from us.
Third parties may comment on your postings within the “AmpWurld” Platform. In your profile, under your Privacy Settings, you can adjust whether to allow people to comment on your posts. You can also adjust permissions about who you allow to send you messages on the “AmpWurld” Platform. In addition to that, you can adjust permissions about who can see your profile and who can see your profile.
You may hide your birthday details and even restrict other users from liking your profile.
You are may hide your online status upon which no other user will be able to know that you are online.
You can block the ability of another “AmpWurld” user to follow you by selecting the setting for this in the other user’s profile. You can change whether or not you follow other users.
You can change your credentials that are displayed in your profile or in connection with a specific answer.
Linked Networks.
You may connect or disconnect your Linked Networks, such as Google and Facebook, through the Account Settings tab in your profile settings, and you may access, amend and delete much of your profile information through your profile settings. Once you disconnect a Linked Network, we will not receive information from that Linked Network going forward unless you choose to reconnect it.
The “AmpWurld” Platform may contain links to third-party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We can occasionally alter or slightly change the Privacy Policy whenever it seems fit. By using the “AmpWurld” Platform, you agree to the current terms and conditions. We reserve the right to make modifications without prior notice.