DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT AND POLICY

This DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT AND POLICY (Policy) governs your use of CLPL’s website(s). For purposes of this document, “you” shall mean you, and “our” or “we” shall mean CLPL and/or its affiliates. By accessing CLPL website(s) you explicitly agree you have read this Policy, and agree to be governed by its content.

What kinds of information do we collect?  Depending on which Services you use, we collect different kinds of information from or about you, which may include the following:

1. Things you do and information you provide.  We collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up to receive newsletters and content updates, use our Interactive Areas, enter contests and free giveaways, or respond to our polls.  This can include information in or about content you provide, such as your name, address, phone number, location, and/or the date or location from which you accessed our website and/or a content file was created. We also collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with and the frequency and duration of your activities.
2. Interactive Service Connections.  We collect information about the people and/or groups you may communicate with using our Interactive Services, including, but not limited to third party vendors and their services, made available through our advertising opportunities, external/internal links and applications, and message boards.
3. Information about payments, contest entries, and/or free giveaways.   If you use our website services for purchases or financial transactions (like when you make a purchase on our website or in a game, or directly from our applications), we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes your payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information, and other account and authentication information, as well as billing, shipping and contact details. If you enter our contests and giveaways we also collect information regarding shipping, including contact details and information we are legally required to collect by the IRS.
4. Device information.  We collect information from or about the computers, phones, or other devices where you install or access our Services, including any of our mobile applications, depending on the permissions you’ve granted. We may associate the information we collect from your different devices, which helps us provide consistent Services across your devices. Here are some examples of the device information we collect:
   1. Attributes such as the operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types, battery and signal strength, and device identifiers.
   2. Device locations, including specific geographic locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals.
   3. Connection information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number and IP address.
   4. We may use technologies like cookies, pixel tags (“pixels”), device or other identifiers and local storage (collectively, “Cookies and similar technologies”)i to deliver, secure, and understand products, services, and ads. We also use these technologies in other ways, like for security purposes, to deliver and enable products and services, as well as to understand and measure products, services and advertisements. Third parties that you interact with as you use our Services may also use these technologies for a variety of purposes.
5. Information from websites and apps that use our Services.  We collect information when you visit or use third-party websites and apps that use our Services (like when they offer our Like button or use our measurement and/or advertising services). This includes information about the websites and apps you visit using links from our website(s), your use of our Services on those websites and apps, as well as information the developer or publisher of the app or website provides to you or us.
6. Information from third-party collaborators.  We receive information about you and your activities on and off CLPL from third-party partners, such as information from a partner when we jointly offer services or from an advertiser about your experiences or interactions with them.
7. CLPL companies and branded portals (Affiliates). We receive information about you from companies and branded portals that are owned or operated by CLPL, in accordance with their terms and policies.

How do we use this information? We use all of the information we collect to help us customize and provide Services and support to you in the following manners:

1. Provide, improve and develop Services.  Use information to personalize content by understanding how you use and interact with our Services.  We use location information to tailor our Services for you, like helping you find resources and offers in your area.
2. Survey and Research.  We conduct polls/surveys and research to develop, test, and analyze features to evaluate and improve products and services, develop new products or features, and conduct audits and troubleshooting activities.
3. Communication.  We use your information to send you marketing communications, including newsletters and updates about our Services and products; policies, terms and conditions updates; and collaborators and partners. We also use your information to send you contest entry and free giveaway rewards, and respond to you when you contact us.
4. Show and measure ads and services.  We use information to improve our advertising and measurement systems.
5. Promote safety and security. We use the information we have to help verify accounts and activity, and to promote safety and security on and off of our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our terms or policies. We work hard to protect your account using teams of engineers, automated systems, and advanced technology such as encryption and machine learning. We also offer easy-to-use security tools that add an extra layer of security to your account. For more information about promoting safety on CLPL, visit the CLPL Security Help Center. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide and support our Services and each of the uses outlined and described in this section of our policy. Read our Cookie Policy to learn more.

How is this information stored and shared? Information we collect from you is stored on a secure server, and protected by measures that are in accordance with industry standards.  Further, with the exception of the following circumstances, CLPL does not share your information with third parties:

1. Interactive Areas.  When you use our interactive areas, such as message boards, anyone who accesses our website(s) has access to the information you provide, which becomes Public Information.  Public Information is any information you share with a public audience, such as content you share on a CLPL’s website(s) or another public forum. Public information is available to anyone on or off our Services and can be seen or accessed through online search engines, APIs, and offline media, such as on TV. In most cases, Public Information can be downloaded or re-shared with others on and off our Services.
2. Apps, websites and third-party integrations on or using our Services. When you use third-party apps, websites or other services that use, link from, or are integrated with, our Services, they may receive information about you.
3. CLPL companies and affiliates.  We may share information we have about you within the family of companies that are part of CLPL, including, but not limited to, if the ownership or control of all or part of our Services or their assets changes. In such event, we may transfer your information to the new owner.
4. Sharing With Third-Party Collaborators (Partners) and Advertisers.  We work with third party companies and collaborators who help us provide and improve our Services or who use advertising or related products.  In the case of third-party partners and/or advertisers, we may share measurement and analytics Services in a non-personally identifiable format, which excludes name or email address that can by itself be used to contact you or identifies who you are unless you give us permission. We may provide these partners with information about the reach and effectiveness of their advertising without providing information that personally identifies you, or if we have aggregated the information so that it does not personally identify you. For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed, or how many people viewed their ads or installed an app after seeing an ad, or provide non-personally identifying demographic information to these partners to help them understand our audience and/or customers in accordance with our advertising agreement(s).
5. Vendors, service providers and other partners.  We transfer information to vendors, service providers, and other Partners who support our business by providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our Services are used, measuring the effectiveness of ads and services, providing customer service, facilitating payments, or conducting research and surveys. Our agreements with these Partners contain strict confidentiality obligations that are consistent with this Policy.
6. Lawful Court Orders and Investigations.   We store data for as long as it is necessary to provide products and services to you and others.  We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. This may include, but, are not limited to, investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

How will we notify you of changes to this policy? Changes or updates to this policy can be accessed on our website, where you may review it at any time before continuing to use our Services. If you sign up on our website(s) to receive newsletters and other updates, we may also send you notifications via email regarding updates to this and other CLPL website(s) policies.