Privacy Policy for California
Last Modified: Aug 03, 2023
Table of Contents
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The Personal Information That We Collect About You
Categories of Business/Commercial Purposes for Use of Your Information
California Rights and Choices
Accessing and Deleting your Personal Information
Sales of Personal Information
Children
Non-Discrimination Rights
Revisions and Changes to the Privacy Policy
If this isn’t the information you’re looking for, you can visit our other Privacy Policy pages in the links below:
General Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for EU
Contact Us About Your Privacy
Users in the State of California (US)
The Personal Information That We Collect About You
For individuals who are California residents, the California Consumer Privacy Act requires certain disclosures about the categories of personal information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect personal information, and the third parties with whom we share it with.
Depending on how you interact with us, 9GAG may collect the following categories of information as summarized in the table below. This does not apply to personal information we collect from employees or job applicants in their capacity as employees or job applicants. It also does not apply to personal information we collect from employees, owners, directors, officers, or contractors of businesses in the course of our provision or receipt of business-related services.
All of the categories of personal information we collect about you (as detailed below) come from the following categories of sources:
You, including through your use of our services
Automatically collected from you
Our affiliate companies
Third parties
| Categories of Personal Information We Collect | Categories of Third Parties with Which We Share That Information |
|---|---|
| Identifiers (such as name, e-mail address) | • Third parties (such as our service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
| Commercial Information (such as transaction data) | • Third parties (such as our service providers) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
| Financial Data (such as billing information) | • Third parties (such as our service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
| Internet or Other Network or Device Activity (such as browsing history or app usage) | • Third parties (such as our service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
| Location information (e.g. inferred from your IP address) | • Third parties (such as our service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
| Legally Protected Classifications (such as gender and age) | • Third parties (such as service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies |
| Other Information that Identifies or Can Be Reasonably Associated with You | • Third parties (such as our service providers and integration partners) • Our affiliate companies • Aggregators (such as analytics services) |
Categories of Business/Commercial Purposes for Use of Your Information
All of the categories of personal information we collect about you (as detailed above) are used for the following purposes:
Providing our services (for example, account servicing and maintenance, customer service, advertising and marketing, analytics, and communication about our services)
For our operational purposes, and the operational purposes of our service providers and integration partners
Improving our existing services and developing new services (e.g., by conducting research to develop new products or features)
Delivering relevant advertising
Detecting, protecting against, and prosecuting security incidents and fraudulent or illegal activity
Bug detection, error reporting, and activities to maintain the quality or safety of our services
Auditing consumer interactions on our site (for example, measuring ad impressions)
Other uses that advance our commercial or economic interests, such as third party advertising
Other uses that we notify you about
California Rights and Choices
Subject to certain restrictions, California residents have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect about you, to delete any personal information that we collected from or maintain about you, and to opt-out of the sale of personal information about you. As a California resident, you also have the right to designate an agent to exercise these rights on your behalf. This section describes how to exercise those rights and our process for handling those requests, including our means of verifying your identity. If you would like further information regarding your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us here. While our contact form is the best way to reach us, you may also email us at privacy@9gag.com
Accessing and Deleting Your Personal Information
Right to Request Access to Your Personal Information
California residents have the right to request that we disclose what categories of personal information that we collect, use, or sell about you. You may also request the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you. However, we may withhold some information where the risk to you, your personal information, or our business is too great to disclose the information.
Right to Request Deletion of Your Personal Information
You may also request that we delete any personal information that we have collected from/about you. However, we may retain personal information as authorized under applicable law, such as personal information required as necessary to provide our services, protect our business and systems from fraudulent activity, to debug and identify errors that impair existing functionality, as necessary for us, or others, to exercise their free speech or other rights, comply with law enforcement requests pursuant to lawful process, for scientific or historical research, for our own internal purposes reasonably related to your relationship with us, or to comply with legal obligations. We need certain types of information so that we can provide our services. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use our services.
How to Exercise Your Access and Deletion Rights
California residents may exercise their California privacy rights by submitting your request here. While our contact form is the best way to reach us, you may also email us at privacy@9gag.com
For security purposes, we may request additional information from you to verify your identity when you request to exercise your California privacy rights.
If you have an online account with us, logging into your account will serve to verify your identity and request, although we may request additional information if we believe your account has been compromised. If you do not have an account with us, or if we have reason to suspect that the security of your account is compromised, we will request additional information from you to match with our existing records to verify your identity, depending on the nature of the request and the sensitivity of the information sought.
Once you submit a request to (1) access the categories of personal information we have about you or (2) obtain a copy of specific pieces of personal information we have about you, we will ask that you verify your identity by logging into your account using your username and password. If you don’t have an account with us, we will ask you to provide certain information so we can verify your identity. Once verified, we will provide you access to your information in a downloadable format.
To request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, you will need to authenticate with us by first logging into your account using your user name and password on file with us. Once you are logged in, we provide a way for you to delete your account.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights and do not have an account with us, please contact us here and we will request additional information to perform identity verification where possible.
Sales of Personal Information
California residents may opt out of the sale of their personal information here.
Children
Our services are not intended for anyone under 16. We don’t direct our services to anyone under16.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. We may limit how we collect, use and store some of the information of EU or EEA users between ages 13 and 16. We may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information
Non-Discrimination Rights
California residents have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising their rights as described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CPRA rights.
Revisions and Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by notifying you one way or another. We may let you know by revising the date at the top of this privacy policy, which is available on our websites and mobile applications. We may also provide additional notice, such as adding a statement to our homepage, or providing you with an in-app notification.