Beebizy Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 06, 2022
Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how Beebizy, Inc. will gather, use, and maintain your Personal Data. It will also explain your legal rights to control our use of that information.By using the Beebizy Platform, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service (together referred to herein as the “Agreement”). The Agreement governs the use of the Beebizy Platform. Beebizy will gather, use, and maintain information consistent with the Agreement.
General Terms
In this Privacy Policy:Personal Data Collected By Beebizy
Beebizy collects the following Personal Data from all Users who create an account:In addition, Beebizy collects the following Personal Data from all Users:
Beebizy may collect this Personal Data from you through various channels, including, but not limited to, through your voluntary submission of information to the Beebizy Platform; through your voluntary submission of information to the Beebizy Platform; through requests initiated by you through or related to the Beebizy Platform (i.e. via email); through the collection and analysis of information concerning your computer and browsing activities; through the use of cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, Google Analytics, Google AdSense; and through other sources permitted by law.
Certain offerings of the Beebizy Platform, such as newsletters, surveys, contests, and the like are optional and so you are not required to enter them or to give us your Personal Data in connection with them. Where you do choose to enter them, we will use your Personal Data to operate and manage the survey, contest or similar in connection with our legitimate interest in promoting our business and the Beebizy Platform.
Cookies and Other Technologies. When you visit websites on the Internet, your browser may automatically transmit information to the websites you visit throughout every visit, including ours. In a similar way, when you use our mobile applications, we will access and use mobile device IDs to recognize your device. Like many websites, we use “cookies” and equivalent techniques through our mobile applications to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk.
We utilize persistent cookies that only Beebizy can read and use, and access mobile device IDs:
To save your login information for future logins to the Beebizy Platform; to assist in processing items during checkout; To hold session information; and to track user preferences.
We utilize session ID cookies and similar technologies:
To enable certain features of the Beebizy Platform; To better understand how you interact with the Site and the Beebizy Platform; To monitor usage by our Users and web traffic routing on the Beebizy Platform; To track the number of entries in Beebizy promotions, sweepstakes and contests; and to identify visited areas of the Beebizy Platform.
Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the Beebizy Platform and then close your browser.
Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser, and we may use Flash cookies (or local shared objects) to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on the Site to personalize your visit. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you will not be able to use all portions or all functionalities of the Beebizy Platform.
You can also adjust your individual browser settings relating to cookies by visiting these pages:
https://www.google.com https://www.mozilla.org https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge https://www.apple.com/safari
We and our service providers may also use "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs," or similar means in connection with the Beebizy Platform and HTML- formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Users and email recipients, to determine the success of marketing campaigns, and to compile statistics about Site usage and response rates. We also engage one or more third party service providers to serve online advertisements on our behalf. They may use a “pixel tag” which triggers a cookie to collect information about your visits to the Site and to other websites, and they may use that information and share and combine it with other information with their partners to show you advertisements for goods and services you might be interested in on the Site and on other websites and apps, including by observing the kinds of products and subject-matter you are interested in and certain demographic information about you.
The following table sets out the different categories of cookies that the Beebizy Platform uses and why we use them. The lists of third party cookie providers are intended merely as illustrative not comprehensive:
Types of Cookies | Purpose | Who Serves (for example) |
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Athentication Cookies | These cookies (including local storage and similar technologies) tell us when you’re logged in, so we can customize your experience and connect your account information and settings. | Beebizy |
Localization | These cookies help provide a localized experience by showing you Beebizy your local metro area. | Beebizy |
Site features and Services | These provide functionality that help us deliver products and the Beebizy Platform. For example, cookies help you log in by pre-filling and fields. We may also use cookies and similar technologies to help us provide you and others with social plugins and other customized content and experiences, such as making suggestions to you and others. | Beebizy |
Analytics and research | These are used to understand, improve, and research products and services, including when you access the Beebizy Platform and related websites and apps from a computer or mobile device. For example, we may use cookies to understand how you are using site features, and segmenting audiences for feature testing. We and our partners may use these technologies and the information we receive to improve and understand how you use websites, apps, products, services and ads. | Google Analytics |
Advertising | Things like cookies and pixels are used to deliver relevant ads, track ad campaign performance and efficiency, and to understand your interests from your online activity on the Site, mobile applications and other websites and apps. For example, we and our ad partners may rely on information gleaned through these cookies to serve you ads that may be interesting to you on other websites and in doing that your information (which will not contain your name, email address or other "real-world" identifiers) will be shared with other platforms in the digital advertising ecosystem all involved in assisting the delivery, purchase, reporting and analysis of digital advertising. Similarly, our advertisers may use a cookie, attribution service or another similar technology to determine whether we’ve served an ad and how it performed, or provide us with information about how you interact with them. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web-browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices if you are in the United States, or http://youronlinechoices.eu/if you are outside the United States. | Beebizy DoubleClick Sailthru Horizon Bing Ads |
Social Media and Digital Advertising cookies and widgets
DoubleClick: Google's Doubleclick re-targeting cookie lets us serve personalized ads to you when you're browsing other websites and social media platforms. You can control ad personalization on Google and partner websites here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en-GB&gl=uk
Facebook Connect: We may allow you to sign up and log in using your Facebook account. If you sign up using Facebook Connect, Facebook will ask your permission to share certain information from your Facebook account with us. This may include your first name, last name, email address, profile picture, and general location in order to create an account. This information is collected by Facebook and is provided to us under the terms of Facebook’s privacy policy which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. You can control the information that we receive from Facebook using the privacy settings in your Facebook account.
Facebook Impressions: We use Facebook Impressions to track the number of people that interact with our content on Facebook.
Google Sign-in: We may allow you to sign up and log in using your Google account. If you sign up using Google, Google will ask your permission to share certain information from your Google account with us. This may include your first name, last name, email address, profile picture, and general location in order to create an account.
LinkedIn Widgets: his tool enables visitors to engage with us via LinkedIn and show visitors relevant ads and personalized content on LinkedIn. To learn more about LinkedIn’s practices and to opt out, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?tab=account&modal=nsettings-enhanced-advertising.
DoubleClick: Google's Doubleclick re-targeting cookie lets us serve personalized ads to you when you're browsing other websites and social media platforms. You can control ad personalization on Google and partner websites here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en-GB&gl=uk
Facebook Connect: We may allow you to sign up and log in using your Facebook account. If you sign up using Facebook Connect, Facebook will ask your permission to share certain information from your Facebook account with us. This may include your first name, last name, email address, profile picture, and general location in order to create an account. This information is collected by Facebook and is provided to us under the terms of Facebook’s privacy policy which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. You can control the information that we receive from Facebook using the privacy settings in your Facebook account.
Facebook Impressions: We use Facebook Impressions to track the number of people that interact with our content on Facebook.
Google Sign-in: We may allow you to sign up and log in using your Google account. If you sign up using Google, Google will ask your permission to share certain information from your Google account with us. This may include your first name, last name, email address, profile picture, and general location in order to create an account.
LinkedIn Widgets: his tool enables visitors to engage with us via LinkedIn and show visitors relevant ads and personalized content on LinkedIn. To learn more about LinkedIn’s practices and to opt out, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?tab=account&modal=nsettings-enhanced-advertising.
Device Information. When you visit and interact with the Beebizy Platform or the Site, Beebizy may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of computer or mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the IP address of your computer or mobile device, your operating system, the type of Internet browser(s) you use, and information about the way you use the Beebizy Platform (“Device Information”). We may use Device Information to monitor the regions from which Users navigate the Site or the Beebizy Platform and for security and fraud prevention purposes. Tools with the goal of anonymizing certain Device Information (like the TOR network) are forbidden on the Beebizy Platform. While we respect your right to hide this information, we believe that doing so is in conflict with the spirit of our platform and our desire to host an open and honest marketplace. Use of such tools hampers the functionalities of the Beebizy Platform.
Identity Verification. We may collect Personal Data, such as your date of birth, taxpayer identification number, and address, to validate your identity or conduct background checks (“Identity Information”).
Financial Information. To help Talent set up a payment account and help Clients make payments to Talent and pay fees, we may collect financial information, including name, address, credit card number, bank routing numbers, tax information, and any other payment information (“Financial Information”).
Location Information. When you visit the Beebizy Platform via a mobile application, we use GPS technology (or other similar technology) to determine your current location in order to determine the city you are located in and display a location map to improve service for our Users. We will not share your current location obtained in this manner with other Users. If you do not want us to use your location for the purposes set forth above, you should turn off the location services for the mobile application located in your account settings or in your mobile phone settings and/or within the mobile application.
Third Party Information. If you registered through a co-branded version of our Beebizy Platform through one of our Partners (as defined below), they may provide us with basic information such as your name, address, and purchase history related to your Job needs. Additionally, we may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data, payment information, or fraud detection information, from third party Agents (as defined below) and combine it with other information that we have about you. Finally, Beebizy works with a third-party, Sterling, to perform identity checks and criminal background checks on Talent (at the Talent’s request), and we receive information from them such as publicly available information about your criminal history.
Public Areas. Your profile on the Beebizy Platform consists of information about you, and may include Personal Data, photos, work history, skills, hourly pay rates, feedback/rating information, and other information, including your username (“Profile”). The information in your Profile may be visible to all Users and the general public subject to the privacy choices you make within your Profile. If you choose to post a Job via the Beebizy Platform, the contents of such listing will be publicly viewable.
Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Data
The lawful basis for Beebizy processing your Personal Data for the uses described herein will typically be because you have provided your consent; it is necessary for our contractual relationship; the processing is required for us to comply with legal obligations; and/or the processing is in our legitimate interest of providing services through the Beebizy Platform. Specifically, our lawful basis for processing your Personal Data include:
Beebizy's Use of Personal Data
Beebizy uses Personal Data (including Identity Information and Financial Information) for the following purposes:
Advertising. Ads are a standard part of user experience on the Internet, and Beebizy believes that targeted advertising enhances this experience. Beebizy may use cookies and other technologies and Personal Data to place ads where they believe interested parties will see them. In addition to banner ads, Beebizy may advertise products, companies and events that we think might interest you through the email address you provide. Your choices regarding third party ads are set forth in the Choice/Opt-Out section below. Advertising and marketing is carried out as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business.
Analytics and Market Research. Beebizy may analyze your Personal Data and web navigational data based on your interests, and may use the analysis from this information in a way that doesn’t reveal a name, email address or other "real-world" identity (“Market Analysis”) in order to market the Beebizy Platform, improve the likelihood of a sale to a group of potential Users, and increase the likelihood that a group's experience with the Beebizy Platform is relevant to its interests as a whole, as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business.
Beebizy uses Personal Data to sell services to Users who express an interest in these services, through a poll for example, or to Users who can be presumed to have an interest based on results from our Market Analysis. We do this as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business.
Google Analytics: we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service. Google Analytics uses cookies to help Beebizy analyze how visitors use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site and the Beebizy Platform (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by a Google server in the United States. Google uses this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for Site operators, and providing Site operators with other services relating to Site activity and internet usage. You can prevent the storage of data relating to your use of the Site and created via the cookie (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Cell Phone Numbers. Beebizy may use your cell phone number to call or send recurring text messages to you, using an autodialer or prerecorded voice, in order to provide you notifications about Jobs, for marketing purposes (with your consent where required by law), and to administer the Beebizy Platform. If you would like more information about our policy, or to opt out, please review below or Section 9 of our Terms of Service, or visit https://beebizy.com/contact . You may be liable for standard SMS and per- minute charges by your mobile carrier. Beebizy may also message you via “Push” messaging, which you can opt-out of on your mobile device. Data rates may apply.
Financial Information. We use Financial Information solely as authorized by you in order to operate the Beebizy Platform and, in particular, to ensure that Talent are paid by Clients. We do this as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing our platform and services. To keep your financial Personal Data secure, we do not store full credit card information on our servers. We have contracted with a third party to process your payment card information.
With Whom Does Beebizy Share Personal Data?
We only share the Personal Data we collect about you as described in this Privacy Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:
Third Party Agents. To operate the Beebizy Platform, including processing your transactions, we may share your Personal Data with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers (“Agents”) so they can provide us with support services as follows:
Third Party Partners. Some Beebizy content is "sponsored by" or "presented by" other companies. If you connect to the Beebizy Platform through a co-branded version of our Beebizy Platform through one of our third party service partners (“Partners”), or otherwise participate in one of our partner programs with such a Partner, we may share information about your use of the Beebizy Platform with that Partner in order to offer the integrated platform and to measure how the partnership performs. We may share your Personal Data with our Partners in order to receive additional information about you. We may also share your Personal Data with Partners to create offers that may be of interest to you. Please check such Partner’s privacy policy before revealing information about yourself. If you don't want these Partners to have your Personal Data, you can choose to not participate.
Other Users. Beebizy facilitates contact between Clients and Talent and reserves the right to share a Talent’s contact Personal Data (e.g. photos, phone number, or email and postal address) with a Client and vice versa, or with their legal or other representative, in order to facilitate the resolution of a dispute related to or arising from an interaction between two or more Users of the platform. This exchange of Personal Data is a mandatory part of the Beebizy Platform.
Legal Obligations Beebizy may disclose Personal Data or User Generated Content, including location data or communication data, to a third party if required to do so by law or pursuant to a court order, warrant or subpoena. Beebizy reserves the right to disclose Personal Data from both private and public areas of the Site and the Beebizy Platform in the absence of a court order warrant or subpoena if we are given reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that someone is causing injury to or interfering with the rights of Users, the general public, or Beebizy or its partners, parents or affiliates.
It is our policy to provide notice to Users before producing their Personal Data in response to law enforcement requests unless (i) we are prohibited by law or court order from doing so, (ii) we have reason to believe the User’s account has been compromised such that the notice would go to the wrong person, or notice would otherwise be counterproductive or would create a risk to safety, or (iii) it is an emergency request and prior notice would be impractical (in which case we may provide notice after the fact).
Business Affiliates Finally, Beebizy reserves the right to transfer, sell and/or distribute all Personal Data collected through the Beebizy Platform to an affiliate, subsidiary, or third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or part of our business, assets or stock. We will require the new entity to follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Data, as and to the extent required by applicable law.
Personal Data Transfer and Storage.
Your Personal Data is stored and processed on computers and servers in the United States and through your use of the Website, you consent to the processing and storage of your Personal Data and personally identifiable information. You understand that your Personal Data may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide Personal Data to us, please note that we transfer your Personal Data to the United States and process it here, and that we may store portions of your Personal Data in the United States.
Choice/Opt-Out
You may opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners, remove your Personal Data from our database, choose to not receive future communications related to the Beebizy Platform, or cancel your account by logging on to the Site and clicking on the “Account” tab, or by contacting us at hello@beebizy.com
During registration you choose whether to receive marketing correspondence from either Beebizy or its partners and whether you want to participate in a variety of Beebizy programs. This Personal Data remains on your Profile where you can, at any point, easily edit it to indicate that you have changed your mind. After logging on, click on the “Account” tab, then select “Notifications” to make your selections. We may occasionally contact you with information about special events, sales, activities, promotions, contests, submission opportunities and programs. You always have the option to ask Beebizy not to contact you with this information again.
You can opt out of receiving promotional communications from Beebizy sent via text message at any time by following the instructions provided in those messages to text the word, "STOP". Please note that your opt-out is limited to the phone number used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions. If you opt-out of only certain communications, other subscription communications may continue. Even if you opt-out of receiving promotional communications, Beebizy may, subject to applicable law, continue to send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account, transactions, servicing, or Beebizy’s ongoing business relations.
If you receive unsolicited email from a Beebizy domain, please contact us at hello@beebizy.com
How to Stop Beebizy from Collecting and Storing your Personal Data
You can stop Beebizy from collecting your Personal Data by either deleting your account or contacting Beebizy at hello@beebizy.com and requesting that Beebizy stop collecting your Personal Data. Additionally, you can adjust your web browser settings to limit or turn off Cookies or other tracking techniques, or you can cease use of the Beebizy Platform. You may contact Beebizy with any requests regarding your Personal Data. Beebizy does not honor Do Not Track requests and signals.
Beebizy's Information Retention Policy
We retain Personal Data for as long as you are a User in order to meet our contractual obligations to you, and for such longer period as may be in our legitimate interests and to comply with our legal obligations. We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help us develop and improve our services. You cannot be identified from aggregate information retained or used for these purposes.
Your rights
You have the right under certain circumstances:
Where the processing of your Personal Data by us is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time. You can also change your marketing preferences at any time as described in the Choice/ Opt-Out section above. You can exercise your rights by clicking on the “Account” tab, then selecting “Notifications” to make your selections, or by contacting us at hello@beebizy.com
EU Users Rights Under the GDPR
User Generated Content.
Talent who have provided Beebizy with any videotape, film, record, photos, voice, or all related instrumental, musical, or other sound effects, hereby consent to our use of these materials as User Generated Content in accordance with Section 10 of the Terms of Service.
Beebizy’s Personal Data Security.
Your Beebizy account is password-protected so that only you and authorized Beebizy staff have access to your account information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. Also, if you share a computer, you should sign out of your Beebizy account and close the browser window before someone else logs on. This will help protect your Personal Data entered on public terminals from disclosure to third parties.
Beebizy takes reasonable precautions to ensure that your Personal Data is secure on its system by backing up data in separate backup drives and using public key access encryption and firewalls on both our main and backup servers. Beebizy has staff dedicated to maintaining this Privacy Policy and other privacy initiatives, periodically reviewing security, and making sure that every Beebizy employee is aware of our security practices. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, Beebizy cannot guarantee the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. While Beebizy will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of all credit card and all other Personal Data, we expressly disclaim any liability for any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all Personal Data and/or Financial Information stored therein, and you agree to hold Beebizy harmless for any damages that may result therefrom. If you have any further questions on this issue, please refer to the terms of service. .
Beebizy expressly disclaims any liability that may arise should any other individuals obtain the Personal Data you submit to the Beebizy Platform.
How Can Users Update Their Personal Data?
You can update your Personal Data at any time by logging in and clicking on the “Account” tab. There you can view, update and correct your account information.
So that we can protect the integrity of sensitive data, there are certain pieces of Personal Data, such as your age, that you cannot alter yourself. For example, since children under 18 (UK) or 21 (US) are not allowed to register as Users, we need to take reasonable measures to preserve the accuracy of our Users' ages.
Our databases automatically update any Personal Data you edit in your profile. Personal Data transmitted through boards, chats, polls or through any other means remains in our databases and becomes the property of Beebizy upon submission.
Notification of Changes
Beebizy's Privacy Policy are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. This Privacy Policy might change as Beebizy updates and expands the Beebizy Platform. Beebizy will endeavor to notify you of any material changes by email. Beebizy also encourages you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. If you do not understand any of the terms or conditions of any of Beebizy's policies, feel free to contact us at hello@beebizy.com.
Children’s Privacy and Note to Parents and Guardians
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13 years of age. The Beebizy Platform is not directed to children under the age of 13 and children under 13 are not permitted to use the Beebizy Platform. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Data from a child under the age of 13, we will delete or disable such information. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13, and you believe that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please let us know at hello@beebizy.com.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under the CCPA, California Users have the following rights:
To exercise your rights under the CCPA – or have an authorized agent exercise your rights under the CCPA on your behalf – please submit either a ”Request to Know Personal Information” or a ”Request to Delete Personal Information” to Beebizy by contacting hello@beebizy.com.
California’s “Shine the Light” law permits customers in California to request certain details about how certain types of their information are shared with third parties and, in some cases, affiliates, for those third parties’ and affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. Under the law, a business should either provide California customers certain information upon request, or permit California customers to opt in to, or opt out of, this type of sharing.
Beebizy may share Personal Data as defined by California’s “Shine the Light” law with third parties or affiliates for such third parties’ or affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. California residents may obtain information about our compliance with this law by sending us a written request at https://beebizy.com/contact . Requests must include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that Beebizy is not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided email address or mail address.
Contact and Notices
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Site, your dealings with the Beebizy Platform, or if you have technical problems, you may contact us at: hello@beebizy.com or Beebizy Privacy, 5950 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
Beebizy's staff will respond to all requests sent through mail or email from Users and parents of Users with questions about privacy or the types of Personal Data is stored on the Beebizy database, or requests to nullify such Personal Data.
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