Safe Social Online Inc. Privacy Policy
Effective April 5, 2022
Country Version: United States of America
The Data Privacy Policy is very important in communicating how Safe Social Online Inc. will collect your personal information, and what they will do with your information. How it will be stored and securely protected. We ask that you please read this “Privacy Policy” carefully and urge you to not skip past them.
Privacy Policy
Service Provider
Safe Social Online services are provided by, and you are contracting with:
Safe Social Online Incorporated:Organized under the laws of the State of Indiana, USA and operating under the laws of the USA.
1888 Keystone Crossing
Suite 1300
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240
USA
Privacy Policy
Safe social Online Inc., the security of your data is important to us. But we want you to remember that no method of transmission of information and content over Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% (one-hundred percent) secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your persona data, we must inform you that we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Safe Social Online, Inc. is a social media networking web-based company that helps avoids exposure to unwanted or offensive content, provides age-appropriate content, block posts that violate community standards, refuses to sell their personal information and browsing habits to advertisers, set time limits for all users, offer help from public service providers within the user’s postal zip code.
Our mission is to be clear and transparent about how and why we collect and use personal information and to empower you to control your personal information.
When Does This Statement Apply?
This Privacy Statement applies when you interact with Safe Social Online, Inc. through website, mobile apps, e-mail communications, video calling, and other platforms (our “Services”).
What Does It Say?
Read this Privacy Statement in full!
What Personal Information Do Safe Social Online Collect?
When you visit our Services, Safe Social Online, Inc. may collect the following personal information from or about you:
• Online Identifiers: IP address, advertising ID, unique device ID, and other information about your device, and internal and third-party IDs that have been assigned to you.
• Location Information: Information about your precise location that we collect from your device (collected in limited circumstances) or information about your general location derived from your IP address.
• Internet Activity Information: Information about your use of our Services, your interactions with the e-mails we send to you, and your activities on other websites you visit, including the web pages, content, and advertisements you view and links you click on, and whether you open, forward, or click the links in e-mails we send to you; your browsing history; and social media you use, including the “shares” and “likes” you make on a social media platform that is connected to the Services.
• Inferences about Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data: Hobbies and interests (like your favorite foods, which videos you like, your purchases, favorite recipes, or consumption tendencies).
• Demographic Information: Age, gender, race, education level, income information, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status such as the presence of children/child age ranges, household size, own/rent indicator, and the length of time at your residence.
• Safe Social Online, Inc. may offer you the opportunity to register for a print subscription, sign up for a newsletter, register on our platform services, ask us for additional information, or purchase products from us. When you do that, (our “Services”) may also collect:
• Contact Information: Your full legal name, phone number, postal address, personal valid ID, date of birth and e-mail address.
• Account/Registration Information: Username and password, reminder questions and answers, subscription and account numbers, and communication preferences such as which newsletters you would like to receive (when you provide that information to us).
• Premium Account/Payment Information: Billing address, shipping address, credit card or bank account number, expiration date, and card verification number (when you provide that information to us).
• Health/Fitness Information: Information about your health and fitness, including body type, general health, physical injuries, exercise and activity levels, weight loss objectives, and dietary preferences (when you provide that information to us).
• Other Personal Information that Consumers Voluntarily Choose to Provide: Any content you submit or make available when you use the interactive features on our Services (like photos and comments), as well as the personal information about others that you may share in order to send others (friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) information that may interest them.
Where and How Safe Social Online Inc., Collect Personal Information?
We collect personal information about you from a number of sources:
From You; Some of Safe Social Online and affiliates and associated service providers collect your contact, registration/account information, payment information, and any other personal information when you provide it to us on the services we provide. When you make a purchase on the services, we also retain a record of your purchases and order history.
From Your Device.
What Are Cookies and Other Technologies?
• Cookies: A “cookie” is a tiny file that’s stored on your computer. It contains a unique identifier, as well as the address and other information about the website you are visiting. Cookies help us know whether you are a returning visitor to our Services. For example, although you may not log in when you visit our Services, we can use cookies to recognize that you have visited that website in the past.
By using cookies, this helps us to understand what is of interest to our customers and ensure the content and services we offer are relevant and compelling when you visit our Services. In some cases, we may use the personal information we collect from cookies to deliver relevant and compelling content to you when you visit the Services.
• Web Beacons, Pixel Tags, and Other Tracking Technologies. Web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies are small strings of code placed on a web page or in an e-mail or advertisement. These technologies allow your browser to recognize and store certain types of information such as cookies previously set, the time and date that you viewed the page with the beacon, and a description of that page.
Although we will collect the data, Safe social will not sell your personal information or click habits on our site.
Can You Opt Out? (legal issues)
In most cases, yes! There are some cookies that we need in order to operate Safe Social Online Inc to the mission purpose of the company. If you delete those cookies, the services we state we will provide would no longer function (as an example, if we can’t remember the items you put in a shopping cart, then you won’t be able to place an order and purchase our products).
You can always decide to opt out of or delete the third-party cookies (cookies set by advertisers and data partners) on our platforms and products. Keep in mind, if you block cookies, you may not be able to view or access some of the features of our Services. Visit our section on your privacy choices for more information on how to opt out.
From Others.
• Advertisers. In some cases, the advertisers that serve ads on our Services will share your e-mail or online identifiers with us so that we can make sure their advertisements or offers reach you.
• Data Partners. We work with third-party data partners who share personal information with us, including your demographic information, internet activity information, purchasing information, and interests, preferences, and other behavioral data, which help us understand you better and ensure the content and services we offer are relevant and compelling.
• Service Providers. We work with service providers that collect personal information on our behalf in order to provide services to us, such as hosting our websites, processing our credit card transactions, fulfilling your subscriptions and orders, verifying your identity, and other activities needed to help us provide our content and services to you.
We only allow our service providers to use your personal information in connection with the services they provide us.
How Does Safe Social Online, Inc. Use Personal Information?
Safe Social Online, Inc. and the service providers working on our behalf use personal information collected about you to:
Contact You.
• To send you e-mail and postal mail, including our newsletters, surveys, and other communications.
Fulfill Your Subscriptions, Orders, and Other Requests.
• Fulfill your orders and requests for products, services, and information (including to send you newsletters via e-mail or postal mail).
• Some of our Brands offer products and services you can purchase individually or on a subscription basis. We use the personal information you provide at checkout to process your orders on those sites.
• To help you redeem points earned from loyalty programs.
• Create and Manage Your Account.
• Create and manage your Account, including providing you with access to your Account.
Marketing Safe Social Online Inc. to You.
• We may use your personal information to market the content ads to you that you select or align with your personal interests, as well as the products and services of the other businesses owned by the Safe Social Online Inc., when we have the appropriate agreements in place.
Personalize Your Experience Safe Social Online Inc, Including the Content and Ads Displayed to You.
• Customize the content and ads you see when you use our Services, visit the websites of other companies, and receive our e-mail communications.
• Remember your browser settings and any preferences you set while using the Services.
• Recognize you across our platform and products so that we may deliver relevant interest-based content and advertising to you.
Provide and Improve the Services.
• Analyze, operate, and improve our services (including repairing errors or debugging) or develop new ones.
• Allow you to participate in features such as surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards.
• Measure and analyze visitor traffic and usage patterns and improve the quality and effectiveness of our services, features, and related communications. Advertising, Marketing, and Other Research for Our Advertisers.
• Provide you with special offers, promotions, and information from Safe Social Online, Inc. and select third parties (as permitted by law).
• Understand trends in how the visitors interact with the ads, content, and features on Safe Social Online, Inc. (e.g., your behavior may be included in a general report about whether people prefer video content over written content).
• Conduct market or audience analysis and related reporting (e.g., to give reports on who our visitors are and whether the ads displayed are effective).
• Security and Fraud Prevention.
• Enforce our legal rights or comply with the law.
• Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with applicable law, and enforce our terms of service Safe Social Online, Inc. products.
We may use your personal information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your personal information, provided we have obtained the required consent.
Who Does Safe Social Online, Inc. Share Personal Information With?
Safe Social Online, Inc. will only share your personal information with: Public Service Providers (PSP) in the event of a life threating communication is attempted or to offer help with substance or behavioral addictions (including addictions associated with excessive social media use).
Your data protection rights under GDPR (General Data Protection Rights, if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you do have certain data protection rights. Safe Social Online seeks to take reasonable steps that will allow you to correct, amend delete, or limit the use of your personal information. We do not sell your personal data or click habits to advertisers.
How Can You Control Our Use of Your Personal Information?
What Rights Do You Have?
• Right to Be Free from Discrimination: You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
• Right to be Provided: You have the right to ask us to provide you with a copy of the information we have on you in a readable format telling you what information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you.
• Right to Restrict: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• Right to Access and Correct or Update: You have the right to access, update or delete the information we store on you, and you can delete or change your personal data within your account settings within your account.
• Right to Rectification: have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your Persona Data.
• Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to ask us to delete the personal information we collect or maintain about you.
• Right to Withdraw: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Safe Social Online Inc relies on your consent to process your personal information.
NOTE: To have an active account on any of Safe Social Online Inc products, your personal contact information must be stored and retained to support the mission statement and purpose of Safe Social Online Inc.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You do have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about collection and use of your personal data.
European Data Protection Agency: For or more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
If you are in the U.S. and wish to exercise your rights:
• Information and Deletion Requests. To exercise your right Safe Social Online, Inc. will need to verify that you are who you say you are before we delete or share personal information with you. You may need to provide us with a copy of your utility bill so that we can verify your identity. After you submit your request, you will be sent a confirmation e-mail and will need to click on the link provided.
If you are a postal subscriber, you will need to confirm your subscription information in order to verify your request. Some personal contact information must be retained to support Safe Social Online, Inc. structure.
• Authorized Agents. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. If you use an authorized agent, please include written permission that you have designated that agent to make the request, or proof of the agent ‘s legal power of attorney documents.
• Safe Social Online Inc. may follow up with you to verify your identity before processing your authorized agent’s request.
• Safe Social Online Inc. may require your authorized agent to verify his contact information prior to processing the request. What Other Choices Do You Have? Marketing Communications.
• E-mail. You can opt out from any Safe Social Online, Inc. e-mail newsletter or other e-mail list by visiting E-mail Preferences and updating your preferences. Opt Out of Cookies and Other Technologies.
There are a few ways to opt out of or delete cookies:
• On Your Browser (Chrome, Safari, etc.). The settings of the browser you use give you an option to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences). Please be aware that certain browsers cannot block or delete so-called Flash cookies, which use a feature of the Adobe Flash video player to store information on your computer.
For information about how to delete Flash cookies, please visit the Adobe website. This will opt you out of cookies on the browser you are using. If you use multiple browsers, you will need to take this step for all relevant browsers. Please note that denying all or certain cookies may result in a less personalized experience with some of the services offered on the website.
• Opt Out on a Mobile Device. Each operating system, iOS for Apple devices, Android for Android devices, and Windows for Microsoft devices, provides its own instructions. Visit the privacy settings for your mobile device or contact your platform operator for more information.
• Opt Out of Nielsen’s Tracking Technologies. Some of our advertisers and Brands may use Nielsen’s measurement services, which contribute to market research, like Nielsen’s TV and Online Campaign Ratings service. Nielsen’s pixel may be in some of the ads on our Services and will record whether or not you viewed the ad. Nielsen uses the data it collects to create ratings reports for advertisers and publishers. For more information about Nielsen’s information collection practices and any related opt-out choices, please see the Nielsen.com privacy policy.
Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising.
We follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Principles (“Principles”) for Online Behavioral advertising.
• To opt out of our use of your website viewing data to serve interest-based advertising on the websites of other companies and e-mail newsletters, visit the DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.
• You can also click on the Ad Choices located in the footers of our webpages and navigate to the consumer opt-out form.
• You may be required to opt out separately from each computer or device and browser that you use to access our Services, and if you clear your cookies, you will need to repeat the opt-out process over again.
Note that many of our websites allow you to adjust your cookie preferences by clicking on the “Ad Choices” link in the footers of our webpages.
Mobile App Advertising and Tracking.
Some of our services may collect personal information from your mobile device, including unique advertising identifiers and the names and IDs of apps you have installed, as well as information about how you use our mobile applications and other unaffiliated applications. We and our partners use this personal information to enable interest-based advertising you receive through our services and within third-party apps and other marketing channels.
For information about the mobile data-collection practices of the service providers we use to support interest-based advertising in our All mobile applications, and your additional opt-out choices.
Do Not Track We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards set out in this Privacy Statement and offer the opt-out choices described above.
Children’s Privacy
COPPA Compliance
Safe social Online Inc., and all affiliate sites, comply with all Children Online Privacy Protection Rule’s (COPPA) Laws, Rules, and Regulations. Safe Social Online requires all other entities collecting personal information for minor children under 13 years of age must comply with COPPA rule and regulations to associate with our platform, products, and services.
Safe Social Online, Inc. do not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 17 to provide any personal information online at signup or registering to open an account. Safe Social Online, Inc. standards require parents or legal guardians to enter all information for children ages 5-17. Children should always gain permission from their parents before sharing any personal information about themselves over the internet.
Additional Privacy Information
• Contests and Other Co-Sponsored Promotions. Safe Social Online Inc. from time to time, we may offer contests, or other promotions. Participation in these promotions may require registration on our products or products and services offered on our platform. We don't control these third parties’ privacy practices, and our Privacy Policy Statement does not permit their collection and use of your personal information.
• Security, Retention, and Storage of Personal Information. We use commercially reasonable procedures to protect the personal information that we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that personal information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet. Please see our terms of service for the more relevant information related to posting materials on Safe Social Online Inc., and affiliate sites owned by us, including our use of such materials.
• Location of Your Data. Safe Social Online, Inc. and your personal information will be transferred to, processed, stored, and accessed by Safe Social Online, Inc. When you visit our products and services, you consent to the processing of your personal information in the United States and other jurisdictions as described here.
• EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Safe Social Online, Inc. adheres to the principles of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield Principles”) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union (“EU”) to the United States; however, we do not rely on the Privacy Shield Principles when we transfer or receive personal information transferred from the EU.
If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Statement and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles will govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, please visit the Privacy Shield Principles website.
Safe Social Online, Inc. is responsible for the processing of personal information it receives under the Privacy Shield Principles or subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Safe Social Online, Inc. complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers from the EU and European Economic Area (“EEA”), including onward transfer liability provisions.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over Safe Social Online, Inc. and our compliance with its obligations under the Privacy Shield Principles. In certain situations, Safe Social Online, Inc. may be required to disclose personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Safe Social Online, Inc. commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us at Privacy Policy Statement.
Safe Social Online, Inc. has further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to JAMS, an established alternative dispute-resolution provider located in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, please contact, or visit JAMS or call 800-352-5267 to file a complaint. If the arbitrator finds that you cannot afford to pay JAMS’s filing, administrative, hearing, and/or other fees and you cannot obtain a waiver from JAMS, Safe Social Online Inc., will pay them for you.
Changes to Our Privacy Statement. Digital technology is rapidly evolving. If we decide to change our Privacy Statement in the future, we’ll post the changes here and indicate at the top of the page the last date on which it was updated. Unless otherwise noted, all changes will be effective when posted.
Rights for Our California Residents
This section contains information on the personal information we collect about residents of California (our “California Consumers”), including the sources of that personal information, how that personal information is used, with whom it is shared, and the rights that California Consumers have under California law. Our collection of your personal information, our data-sharing practices, and your privacy rights are discussed below.
I. Our Collection of Personal Information
What Personal Information Do Our Brands Collect?
• Online Identifiers (IP addresses, device IDs, and other internal and third-party identifiers we use to recognize you online).
• Contact Information (name, e-mail, postal address, ZIP code, and telephone number).
• Location Information (information about your precise location that we collect from your device (collected in limited circumstances) or information about your general location derived from your IP address).
• Internet Activity Information (your use of our services, your interactions with the e-mails we send to you, and your activities on other websites you visit, including the web pages, content, and advertisements you view and links you click on, and whether you open, forward, or click the links in e-mails we send to you; your browsing history; and social media you use, including the “shares” and “likes” you make on a social media platform that is connected to the services).
• Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data (including purchase behaviors).
• Demographic Information (age, gender, race, education level, income information, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status such as the presence of children/child age ranges, household size, own/rent indicator, and the length of time at your residence).
• Account/Registration Information (username and password, reminder questions and answers, subscription and account numbers, and communication preferences such as which newsletters you would like to receive (when you provide that information to us).
• Premium/Payment Information (billing address, shipping address, credit card or bank account number, expiration date, and card verification number, when you provide it to us).
• Health/Fitness Information (body type, general health, physical injuries, exercise and activity levels, weight-loss objectives, and dietary preferences, when you provide that information to us).
• Other Personal Information That Consumers Voluntarily Choose to Provide (photos, comments, or personal information about others that you post or submit on our services).
What Are Our Sources of Personal Information?
• You (when you register on Safe Social Online, Inc., subscribe to one of our publications, or otherwise submit personal information to us).
• Our advertisers who place ads on services.
• Our data partners (these are companies that give us personal information about you to help us and our advertisers understand who you are and what you may be interested in).
• Pixels, cookies, and other tracking technologies (which collect personal information about you when you visit Safe Social Online, Inc.).
How Does Safe Social Online, Inc. Use Personal Information?
To Provide the Services to You:
To contact you (to deliver our newsletters, surveys, and other communications to you).
To fulfill your subscriptions, orders, and other requests.
To create and manage your account when you register on Safe Social Online, Inc. and provide you with your membership benefits.
For Advertising and Marketing:
To market our services to you.
To combine with other personal information, we receive from our data partners to help us learn more about you, your interests, and your preferences so that we can customize your experience (including the content and advertisements displayed to you).
To create consumer segments (groups of cookies and other IDs based on personal information we collect about, for example, “women age 35-44 who have purchased mascara,” which we share with advertisers looking to sell mascara or products we think people who like mascara may also be interested in).
To serve targeted ads to you on the Services or other websites sites (to help us, our advertisers, and our advertising networks and platforms identify the best ads to display to you on our services, based on the interests, preferences, and other behavioral data associated with your online identifiers).
To help us identify you and understand your interests and preferences so that we can customize your experience on our Services (including the content and advertisements displayed to you).
To help our advertisers contact you, directly or online.
For Auditing Our Interactions:
To help us measure the effectiveness of the ads on Safe Social Online, Inc., including to understand whether you click on the ads on our services and whether you buy the products/services advertised.
For Our and Your Security:
To prevent fraud, including by verifying your identity.
To detect security incidents.
II. Our Data-Sharing Practices
We share the personal information below with our public service providers in the event of life threating communications. Our service providers help us send our newsletters to you, fulfill your orders, and provide advertising and marketing services, and for analytics, and carry out other activities that support our business structure. Our service providers only use the personal information we share with them to provide these services to us.
Below are the categories of personal information we disclose to our service providers:
• Contact Information
• Demographic Information
• Online Identifiers
• Internet Activity Information
• Payment Information
• Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data
• Premium/Account Information
• Health/Fitness Information
• Other Personal Information That Consumers Voluntarily Choose to Provide
Personal Information We Sell to Third Parties
Safe Social Online, Inc. does not sell personal information and click habits to third parties.
III. Your Privacy Rights
What Rights Do You Have?
• Shine the Light Rights – You have the right to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed certain types of personal information.
• Right to Opt Out of a Sale of Personal Information – Safe Social Online, Inc. does not sell personal information and click habits to third parties.
• IV. How Do You Submit These Requests to Us?
In addition to the rights detailed in the “How Can You Control Our Use of Personal,
Information?” section above, California residents can:
• Contact us to exercise your Shine the Light Rights at:
https://safesocialonline.com/page/privacy.
• Out of Sales. Safe Social Online, Inc. does not sell personal information and click habits to third parties.
Privacy Guarantee:Member Personal Information and Browsing Habits are NOT Sold to Advertisers. Member names will not show except to registered users who are logged in. We hate spam and will never send it nor allow spammers to use SafeSocialOnline.com