StoryBlender Privacy Policy

General

StoryBlender is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit Storyblender.com or use its services. Each time you visit Storyblender.com, use the Services, or provide us with information, you are accepting the practices described in this policy at that time. You agree that by using the Site you are expressly and affirmatively consenting to our use and disclosure of the information that you provide, as described below in this privacy policy. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

  • This policy outlines how StoryBlender treats personal information that it receives and collects when you sign up for a Storyblender account or promotion that requires registration, including information related to your past use of StoryBlender’s platform. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that StoryBlender does not own or control, or to people that StoryBlender does not employ or manage.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • This policy may be revised from time to time as we add new features to our services. In the event that these revisions might change the way we treat your personal information, we will notify you by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your StoryBlender account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Use of information collected by Storyblender

General

  • StoryBlender collects personal information when you register with StoryBlender, when you use the StoryBlender Website, when you use StoryBlender’s platform via third parties, when you visit StoryBlender pages or the pages of certain StoryBlender partners, and when you enter promotions and contests offered on StoryBlender. StoryBlender may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, website, and personal interests. When you register with StoryBlender and sign in to the StoryBlender Website, you are not anonymous to us.
  • StoryBlender collects information about your use of the StoryBlender Website and with some of our business partners.
  • StoryBlender automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address, StoryBlender Cookie information, and the page you request.
  • When you send email or other communication to Storyblender, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
  • StoryBlender uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

  • StoryBlender does not permit children under the age of 13 to register with StoryBlender. Nowhere on the the Storyblender platform do we knowingly collect contact information or financial information from children under the age of 13.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • StoryBlender only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of StoryBlender except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with StoryBlender under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help StoryBlender communicate with you about offers from StoryBlender and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of StoryBlender's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • We transfer information about you if StoryBlender is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, StoryBlender will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, and StoryBlender displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. Such information does not identify you individually.
    • StoryBlender does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    • StoryBlender advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies)
  • StoryBlender works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please contact us at help@storyblender.com

Cookies

  • StoryBlender may set and access StoryBlender cookies on your computer.
  • StoryBlender lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to StoryBlender's cookies.
  • StoryBlender may use web beacons to access StoryBlender cookies inside and outside StoryBlender’s web site and in connection with StoryBlender products and services.

Editing and Deleting Your Account Information and Preferences

  • You can edit your StoryBlender Account information, at any time.
  • New categories of communications and notification might be added to the Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe and/or block future messages by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
  • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to StoryBlender’s services, such as service announcements and administrative messages, which are considered part of your StoryBlender account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
  • You can suspend your StoryBlender account at any time by following the instructions on the relevant section of the StoryBlender website. Please Contact Us about information and User Submitted Media that might remain in our records after your account has been suspended.

Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
  • To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please contact us at help@storyblender.com

How to contact us

  • If you have further questions and suggestions regarding this privacy policy, or any of the information that we collected you can contact us at:

E-mail: help@storyblender.com

Address: 6440 Oak Canyon Rd #200 Irvine, CA 92618 USA