PRIVACY NOTICE

Last updated July 5, 2024



Introduction to Our Privacy Policy

Welcome to AdvueMedia. Your privacy is of utmost importance to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information across all interactions with our platform. Our goal is to ensure transparency and compliance with all legal requirements while providing you with a seamless and secure experience.

The following content aims to explain how we collect, use, and protect your personally identifiable information (PII), as well as your rights regarding this information.

Information We Collect (For survey participants)

We may collect the following types of personal information:

  • Name
  • Contact details (such as email address, phone number)
  • Demographic information (such as age, gender)
  • Residential address and postal code
  • Other information required in survey questionnaires

How We Use This Information

We use the collected personal information for the following purposes:

  • Analyzing user behavior to improve our services
  • Sending survey questionnaires and collecting responses
  • Conducting market research and data analysis
  • Ensuring the security of our platform

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share your personal information with third parties, except:

  • With your explicit consent
  • When required by law
  • To protect our rights, property, or safety

Data Protection

We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of your personal information, including:

  • Encryption technologies
  • Access controls
  • Regular security audits

Participant Rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal information. You can also object to the processing and request data portability. To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@advuemedia.com.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at: Email: hello@advuemedia.com


Legal Requirements for Collecting and Processing PII

To comply with legal requirements for collecting and processing personally identifiable information (PII), we have implemented the following measures:

1.Transparency and Consent:

  • We provide clear and accessible information about our data collection practices.
  • Participants give explicit consent before we collect their PII, typically through an unchecked box next to a privacy policy link during sign-up.

2.Purpose Limitation:

  • We only collect PII necessary for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes. We do not process PII in a way that is incompatible with those purposes.

3.Data Minimization:

  • We ensure that the PII we collect is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

4.Accuracy:

  • We take reasonable steps to ensure that the PII we hold is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.

5.Storage Limitation:

  • We retain PII only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

6.Integrity and Confidentiality:

  • We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of PII, protecting it against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

7.Individual Rights:

  • Participants have rights regarding their PII, including the rights to access, correct, delete, restrict processing, object to processing, and data portability.
  • Participants can exercise these rights by contacting us at hello@advuemedia.com.

8.Third-Party Disclosures:

  • We may share PII with third parties only with participants' consent or as required by law.
  • We ensure that any third parties with whom we share PII provide adequate safeguards for their protection.

9.Data Breach Notification:

  • In the event of a data breach involving PII, we will notify the affected individuals and the relevant authorities as required by law.

WHAT INFORMATION DOES Advuemedia COLLECT, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
WHAT IS NOT COLLECTED

Advuemedia’s monetization platform does not automatically access, collect, or receive your name, your email address, your username, your physical address, your phone number, your credit card or other financial information.


If you opt in to engage with campaign content displayed through the Advuemedia monetization platform, the ad or offer may ask you for personal information. For example, an ad or offer may link to an advertiser’s website, where the advertiser may ask for your email address to join its mailing list, or your payment information if you are buying its products. A market research survey accessed through the Advuemedia platform may involve questions about your location (e.g., postal code), demographics, or other information. In each case, it is up to you whether to provide the information requested, and any information you choose to provide in these circumstances is considered voluntarily given. You are always free to decline to provide information in connection with a campaign, though doing so may affect whether the campaign partner considers you to have completed the action required to earn the reward.

In connection with customer support, you may provide us with additional information, such as your email address or Twitter handle, and which we use to respond to your request.

WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED THROUGH Advuemedia’S MONETIZATION PLATFORM?

If you are an individual who uses a mobile app, and the app’s publisher uses Advuemedia monetization services, we, where permitted by applicable law, receive and collect information about your device and the campaign content you access through our services, and we use this information to reward you for campaign engagement, to draw inferences about which campaign content may be more or less interesting to you, and to provide publishers with information about how their apps are used. This information is collected through our SDK, as integrated into the app you use to access campaign content, and through your interactions with campaign content accessed through or on our monetization platform.

Under Advuemedia’s publisher terms of service, app publishers that integrate and use Advuemedia’s monetization services must notify their users of the collection and use of their data in connection with Advuemedia’s monetization services, as described in this policy, and obtain their consent to the extent required by applicable law.

Here are the types of information that we collect through the Advuemedia monetization platform and services, based on the SDK version current as of the date of this privacy policy. (Please note that not all publishers update their app to reflect each SDK update or version we release; in addition, some parameters are optional or can be changed based on publisher choices in integration.)

Device identifiers (a device identifier is a string of numbers and letters unique to your smartphone or tablet assigned by the manufacturer or platform provider), such as

  • Advertising identifier – this is a resettable identifier for advertising use, such as Google Android Advertising ID (GAAID), for Android devices, and ID for Advertisers (IDFA), for iOS devices
  • Publishers of Android apps have the option of sending other identifiers, such as Google Android ID or MAC address, for use as a fallback identifier or for analytics use
  • The publisher’s user identifier

Information about the device itself, including:

  • Whether it is a smartphone or tablet
  • What operating system and version it uses (example: iOS, version 11.0)
  • Whether the device’s “opt-out” options related to advertising have been enabled
  • Model and manufacturer (example: Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S8)
  • Screen size, screen density, and other information relevant to ad formatting and display

Information about the internet connection used to access our services, including

  • Mobile carrier
  • Network provider
  • Whether the network type is wifi or cellular
  • IP address
  • Timestamp and duration (when the device connected to our services and how long the connection lasted, for a given session)

Information about the app used to access our services and your use of it, and about our SDK, including

  • Which version of the app is being used, and which version of our SDK is integrated in the app
  • API key (identifier for application)
  • How frequently and for how long you use the app, and, at the publisher’s option, information about what level of the game you’re on and your in-app purchases
  • If the publisher uses mediation to connect with ad networks, it may opt to send or enable collection of parameters related to mediation services
  • Signals relating to eligibility for behavioral advertising

Location-related information – We do not request or receive precise (sometimes referred to as “lat-long”) geolocation data; we infer the perceived general location of the device based on:

  • The IP address used to access our services
  • Location-related device settings, such as the device’s country code, language setting, and time zone
  • Information relating to campaign content – We collect information about the campaign content you view, such as:

What the campaign content is about

  • What type of campaign content it is (example: video)
  • The reward offered in exchange for your engagement with the campaign content
  • Which placement is involved (meaning, where and how the campaign content is displayed in the mobile app where you accessed it)
  • Whether you respond to the campaign content’s “call to action” – for example, did you click through to the advertiser’s website? – or complete its requirements (examples: watching a 30-second video; making a purchase)

Market research information – Responses to market research surveys accessed through our platform are voluntary and opt-in. Responses voluntarily provided by you may include

  • Demographic information (such as age, household income, gender, highest education completed, household composition)
  • General location (such as postal code, or city and state)
  • Other information you voluntarily provide, which may include product preferences and opinions, employment status, marital status, veteran status, health information, race or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership information, sexual orientation, religious beliefs – in each case, subject to applicable law.

If at any time you do not wish to respond to a question, please select “Prefer not to say” or equivalent, or exit the survey

Some surveys are conducted by third parties, outside the Advuemedia campaign platform (indicated by a non-Advuemedia URL); in those surveys, your responses go to the market research campaign partner (not to Advuemedia), and will be governed by their privacy policy.

Some surveys are administered partly or entirely within the Advuemedia platform; in those surveys, your responses will be shared with the market research campaign partner who commissioned the survey, and we and the market researcher will associate your responses with the advertising identifier for the device used to access and complete the survey offer, and use it for advertising and market research as described in this privacy policy (see, How does Advuemedia use information collected through the monetization platform)

Information from our campaign partners – The campaign partners using our services may provide us with information they have separately collected about you (for example, whether you already have the app that is being advertised), so that we can improve the relevance of the campaign content we serve to you on their behalf (for example, by not showing you an ad for an app you already have).

HOW DOES Advuemedia USE INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE MONETIZATION PLATFORM?

We use the information we collect through our monetization platform in the following ways;

  • To show you campaign content customized to what our system infers to be your interests, preferences, and locations, based on the information profile associated with your mobile device’s advertising identifier; this is referred to as behavioral or interest-based advertising
  • To show you campaign content based upon the context of the app you’re using (instead of based on your inferred interests); this is referred to as contextual advertising
  • To determine which campaign content is more or less effective
  • For market research purposes
  • To target and filter campaign content for publishers and campaign partners – for example, a campaign partner may want to reach a user audience in a specific country, or a publisher may want to exclude some categories of campaign content from its app, or a market researcher may want to target a survey to users in a specific age bracket
  • To avoid showing you campaign content for an app or service you already use, or the same campaign content too many times
  • To track the rewarded campaign content you engage with, so we can provide you with the rewards you earn
  • To respond to and resolve your customer support requests
  • In statistical and aggregate form, for analysis and research, to improve our services and to report our services’ results to our advertisers and publishers
  • To prevent and detect fraud, and to maintain our services’ and systems’ security

We keep this collected information as long as it remains necessary to provide the Advuemedia Services.

HOW DOES Advuemedia SHARE INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE MONETIZATION PLATFORM?

The information we collect through our monetization platform is used internally within our platform, and shared only with authorized partners or vendors, as follows:

  • We provide publishers using Advuemedia’s analytics service with access to aggregated information about how their users interact with their apps.
  • We notify publishers that use Advuemedia’s monetization service and manage their own app currency of when their users earn rewards through our platform, so they can increase these users’ in-app virtual currency balances by the amount of the reward.
  • We provide campaign partners that use Advuemedia’s platform to advertise, or their mobile measurement providers, with the advertising device identifiers and IP addresses associated with users who view their campaign content via Advuemedia, so they can track campaign results and identify which users go on to engage with the campaign partner (for example, by buying the advertised product or service or downloading an advertised app), and which ad networks should receive credit for the user’s action.
  • We provide campaign partners using Advuemedia’s platform to conduct market research with the advertising device identifiers, IP addresses, and the voluntarily provided demographic information, such as postal code, gender, marital status, education, ethnicity/race, employment-related information, household size, and other responses, associated with those users who voluntarily engage with market research campaign content, so that we or the campaign partners can identify survey opportunities, support and track participation in surveys, disclose survey response data (including voluntarily provided demographic information) to clients for audience measurement services, append demographic data elements to completed surveys and deliver the appended survey data to clients for analytical or research purposes, manage and improve survey quality issues, and track and deliver rewards earned through engaging with market research campaign content.
  • Vendors and service providers working for Advuemedia, or for our campaign partners or publishers, have access to information collected via our platform as necessary for them to perform their services for us, or for the campaign partners or publishers they work for. Under our agreements with our service providers, they can use this information only as needed to perform their services; they cannot use it for their own purposes.
  • We may share user information, to the extent permissible by applicable laws, when we believe in good faith that such sharing is reasonably necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, or to comply with legal process. We may also share user information in situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this privacy policy or our terms of service; or to respond to the claims of violation of the rights of third parties and/or to protect the rights, property and safety of Advuemedia, our employees, users, or the public and obtaining your consent is difficult. This may involve the sharing of your information with law enforcement, government agencies, courts, and/or other organizations, including for national security and law enforcement purposes.
  • Business Transaction. We may share your information with another company if they merge with us or purchase our assets, or as part of due diligence for such a transaction.
  • Consent. We may share your information with your consent.
  • Aggregated Data. We may aggregate, anonymize and/or de-identify information collected through our ad platform so that the information can no longer be associated with you or your device in specific; our use and disclosure of information that is not identifiable to a specific person or device is not restricted by this Privacy Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without limitation.

HOW LONG DOES Advuemedia KEEP INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE MONETIZATION PLATFORM?

We keep information as long as necessary to provide our services, generally speaking. Information used for interest-based ad targeting is rotated out on a 90-day basis. Information used to segment audiences for market research surveys, based on the users’ voluntary responses, is rotated out or refreshed every six months. Conversion data and non-production backups of production data are retained for longer due to financial records and disaster recovery requirements.

HOW CAN I OPT OUT OF INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING?

If you prefer not to receive campaign content tailored to your perceived interests, you can enable device-based “opt-out” options in your device’s settings. If you do so, we will cease processing your personal data for such purposes. We collect these opt-out signals ourselves, and will also respect consent or opt-out flags if passed by the publisher of the app you are using. As of the date of this policy, you can use your device’s native settings to adjust your advertising preferences as follows:

in iOS, visit Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking

in Android, visit Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of interest-based ads

Opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean opting out of advertising altogether. There may still be campaign content in the app you use, but it will not be targeted based on your inferred interests.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT INFORMATION

To submit a request for Advuemedia customer support (for example, for help with a missing Advuemedia ad offer reward), you must submit a working email address; this is required for us to be able to communicate with you about investigating and resolving your support issue. We may request additional pertinent information, such as the device advertising identifier, the ad offer and publisher involved, and so on. Emails and other information submitted for support purposes are used only for support purposes; depending on the circumstances, this may require us to share your information with the campaign partner and publisher whose campaign and app are involved.

WEBSITE AND DASHBOARD USER INFORMATION


Advuemedia DASHBOARD

Our campaign partners and publishers have access to a Advuemedia dashboard. Our dashboard is a business-to-business service that allows Advuemedia’s commercial partners to manage their use of our platform and services and review their results. When you create a dashboard account, you provide information such as your name, the name of your company, your username and password, your email address, postal address, phone number, and payment information, as well as any required financial information (e.g., tax ID, VAT, or sales tax registration number). We use this information to provide our commercial partners with Advuemedia services and support. If you invite other users to your Advuemedia dashboard account, we will collect the email address of the employee or other individual you wish to add and use it to send them a one-time email informing them they have been added. If they are not your employee, you must have their consent before providing us with their email address to invite them to join your dashboard account.

Advuemedia WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Our corporate website, www.advuemedia.com, provides general information about Advuemedia and our products and services; we also maintain a blog and various social media channels. If you post information through one of these channels, you understand that we cannot control what other users do with any content (including without limitation images, ratings, captions, and comments) you voluntarily post. You should not post any sensitive personal data, such as details of your ethnicity, health or political preferences or photos of yourself to any Advuemedia board, blog, social media channel, or forum, nor should you allow other users to have access to your content if you do not wish them to make your content publicly available to be collected and used by others, or to be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels.

AGGREGATED DATA

We may aggregate, anonymize and/or de-identify information collected through our website, dashboard, and social media channels so that the information no longer relates to you individually. As a result, our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not restricted by this Privacy Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without limitation.

COOKIES AND RELATED TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

When you use our website and dashboard, we may place and read cookies or access information on your device to obtain information about the performance of our site, enable you to move around the site, to record your preferences and to serve you with advertising that is relevant to your interests. This information may, where permitted by applicable law, then be combined with other information we hold about you. Information and technologies we may use include:

  • Device and usage information. When you interact with our website or dashboard, we may collect information such as

  • a) IP addresses, unique device identifiers, and other information about your device(s), browser types, browser language, operating system, the state or country from which you accessed the services; and
  • (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with our website, such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of clicks, internal Advuemedia subdomain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the services, error logs, and other similar information. As described in Online Analytics below, we may use third party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools, to assist us in understanding how the Advuemedia Web Services are used.
  • Location information. We may market to you based on your location, inferred from the IP address you use to reach our website or dashboard.
  • Cookies and other technologies. When you use the Advuemedia website or dashboard, we use persistent and session cookies and other similar technologies to perform various tasks, such as:

  • (a) storing your dashboard account username and password;
  • (b) analyzing the usage of our website and dashboard; and
  • (c) customizing our website and dashboard to your preferences. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies by visiting your browser’s help page. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in, customize, or use some features of the Advuemedia Web Services. By using our website and dashboard with your browser set to accept cookies, you consent to our use of cookies in the manner described above. In addition to cookies, we may use a technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons) that help us better manage and analyze content. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages. Where permissible under applicable law, we may include web beacons in e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether the message has been opened and for other analytics purposes.

ONLINE ANALYTICS

To help understand your use of our website and dashboard, we use third-party web analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, which in turn use the technology described above at Cookies and related tracking technologies. Our service providers collect and use this information to evaluate how websites are used. To opt out of tracking via Google Analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

HOW Advuemedia USES INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH OUR WEBSITE AND DASHBOARD

We use the information we collect through your use of our corporate website and our dashboard to provide our services, to manage your publisher or campaign partner account, to do business with you as a publisher or campaign partner (including taking orders, reporting results, and so on), to communicate with you (including responding to your inquiries, informing you about products and services based on your marketing preferences, and notifying you of new features), to analyze the user bases and usage patterns for our website and dashboard, and to provide and improve our services. We also use this information to improve our corporate website content and to personalize the dashboard for you. We keep the information we collect for so long as we continue to provide our website, dashboard, and services.

HOW DOES Advuemedia SHARE INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE WEBSITE AND DASHBOARD?

We don’t buy, sell, or trade-in information collected through our website and dashboard. We share only as described here:

  • Vendors and service providers working for Advuemedia, or for our campaign partners or publishers, have access to information collected via our ad platform as necessary for them to perform their services we engaged them to do. Unless we tell you otherwise, under our agreements with our service providers, they can use this information only as needed to perform their services; they cannot use it for their own purposes. These service providers include analytics providers, payment processors, product fulfillment providers, providers of technical infrastructure, technical support, email providers, and customer support vendors.
  • We may share your information, to the extent permissible by applicable laws, when we believe in good faith that such sharing is reasonably necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, or to comply with legal process. We may also share your information in situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this privacy policy or our terms of service; or to respond to the claims of violation of the rights of third parties and/or to protect the rights, property and safety of Advuemedia, our employees, users, or the public and obtaining your consent is difficult. This may involve the sharing of your information with law enforcement, government agencies, courts, and/or other organizations, including for national security and law enforcement purposes.
  • We may share your information in connection with any merger, reorganization, a sale of some or all Advuemedia assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company (including in the course of due diligence for any such transaction).
  • We may share your information with your consent.

WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE ABOUT USE OF INFORMATION RELATED TO Advuemedia’S WEBSITE OR DASHBOARD?

  • Commercial Marketing. We will comply with applicable marketing laws; for example, where applicable law requires prior consent, Advuemedia will only send you marketing email if you have opted in. To opt out of receiving marketing emails or other commercial communications from us, use the “unsubscribe” option in a commercial email from us or send us an email at privacy@advuemedia.com. It may take several days for us to process your request, consistent with applicable law.
  • Publisher and Campaign Partner Accounts. If you have access to a publisher or campaign partner dashboard account and do not want your email address used, please contact your account manager or contact us at privacy@advuemedia.com.
  • Dashboard Account Deactivation. To request deactivation of your dashboard account, email your account manager or contact us at privacy@advuemedia.com. Some information may remain in our records after deactivation of your account based on business needs. After deactivation, we may continue to use any information constituting financial records, as well as aggregated data derived from or incorporating your personal information but not identifying you personally.

GENERAL PRIVACY PRACTICES


HOW DOES Advuemedia SECURE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Advuemedia processes personal information only as relevant or necessary to provide our services. We use physical, technical, and administrative procedures designed to safeguard your information and data security, and to prevent unauthorized access. These safeguards take into account the sensitivity of the information that we collect, process, and store and the current state of technology. Although we take such measures to safeguard against unauthorized access of information, the Internet and the services are not 100% secure so we cannot assure you that all information we collect or store will be protected at all times from all unauthorized access.

CHILD AND YOUTH USERS

If you are under the locally applicable minimum age of consent to data use, please do not sign up as a Advuemedia campaign partner or publisher, engage with any offer-based campaign content, or send us any information about yourself. Publishers who target their apps toward audiences that include young users, in part or in full, may choose to offer users below the minimum age the ability to access advertising content through our platform and services; as a condition for doing so, the publisher is required to flag the users’ devices and associated data for exclusion from behavioral targeting, and contextual advertising is provided instead. Users below the minimum age are not otherwise eligible to interact with Advuemedia services. Please inform us by emailing privacy@advuemedia.com if you learn that we have been provided with personal information from a child under the applicable minimum age without exclusion flagging or verified parental consent, so that we may take appropriate steps to delete that personal information.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to update (amend) this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our platform and services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes and review them carefully, as our use of information at a given point is governed by the Privacy Policy that is then in effect. Your continued use of our services after a Privacy Policy update means that you understand and acknowledge the applicability of the updated policy.

THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

Our services and communications may contain links to third-party websites, including social media services. Your use of these links, websites, or services may result in the collection, processing or sharing of information about you, depending on what you use. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites or services that may be linked on our services. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites or services. Any information you choose to provide to these services, or that they collect, is covered by their privacy policy rather than ours, so please make sure to read it.

FEEDBACK ABOUT Advuemedia

If you submit feedback or suggestions about our services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.

NOTICE OF COLLECTION

As described above at, What information is collected through Advuemedia’s monetization platform? and Website and dashboard user information, Advuemedia discloses personal information to third parties for commercial purposes, including your mobile device advertising identifier and IP address with campaign partners whose campaign content you access, for tracking purposes, and with the publisher of your app, for delivery of rewards earned by you; if you opt in to respond to a market researcher’s survey, Advuemedia shares your survey responses, device advertising identifier, and IP address with the market researcher, who may share the information with its client. Advuemedia uses the information collected through our monetization platform to infer your interests and target campaign content displayed to you based on those inferred interests. Market research campaigns may include questions intended to help Advuemedia or our market research campaign partners or their clients identify audience segments to target based on criteria set by the market researcher or its clients. We partner with service providers and vendors to assist with our daily operations and manage our Service. Please review, “How does Advuemedia share information collected through the monetization platform?” and “How does Advuemedia share information collected through the website and dashboard?”, above, for more detail.

RIGHT TO OPT-OUT

You have the ability to opt-out of the use of your personal information for behavioral advertising at any time.Please review the section above titled, How can I opt-out of interest-based advertising?

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES

Financial incentives are programs, benefits, or other offerings, including payments to consumers as compensation, for the disclosure, deletion, or sale of personal information about them.

As described above, app publishers use Advuemedia to monetize their apps, through displaying campaign content to users in the apps, provided by third-party campaign partners. Campaign partners use Advuemedia to access app users for their campaigns, and reward the users (in the form of in-game currency or tokens in the publisher’s app, or access to additional or premium app content) for their engagement with campaign content. Advuemedia is the platform supporting and enabling these interactions between users, publishers, and campaign partners. These interactions may involve in-app currency rewards or other benefits to users, which may or may not qualify as financial incentives, but any such rewards or benefits are offered by or on behalf of campaign partners and publishers, not by Advuemedia. In any case, your voluntary use of the Advuemedia platform, by engaging with campaign content to access in-app rewards, regardless of form, will be interpreted as affirmative consent to the terms of such incentive.

THE EU GDPR

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), effective May 25, 2018 in the EEA countries and Switzerland, requires Advuemedia and the publishers and advertisers using our services to provide app users with information about the processing of personal data. (“Personal data”, as used in the GDPR, means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, including name, address, cookie identifiers, mobile device identifiers, and more; “app user” here means the person involved; and “processing” of data includes collection, storage, and use.)

This section provides representations and information in compliance with our GDPR obligations, for the benefit of our users located in the EEA countries and Switzerland.

LEGAL GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The GDPR requires us to identify the legal ground we’re relying on to process personal data about you. Our legal grounds for processing your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy will typically be because:

  • You provided your consent. To store and access information on your device, we rely on your consent. For this “cookie consent” (which applies not only to “cookies” but also to mobile device advertising identifiers), to fulfill our obligations under the ePrivacy Directive, we rely on the mobile app publishers that use our services and oblige them contractually to pass on only legally obtained data. In some circumstances, we may obtain your consent directly, in which case we will adhere to applicable laws relating to consent and its withdrawal.
  • The processing is in our legitimate interest. In some cases, we use legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal data to provide our and our commercial partners’ services. A legitimate interest we rely on, for instance, is the tailoring of campaign content and opportunities to obtain in-game rewards to users of mobile applications; this benefits users through a value exchange that goes beyond the original collection of mobile device advertising identifiers. Our legitimate interest also includes providing analysis of and reporting about ad campaigns. We also rely on legitimate interest when we use personal data to maintain the security of our services, including fraud detection and identifying and fixing bugs.
  • Contractual Relationships. Sometimes, we process personal data as necessary under a contractual relationship we have, such as our customer records and contact information.
  • Legal Obligations. Finally, some processing of data may be necessary for us to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.

California Residents

We do not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

I. Your Rights And Choices

II. The CCPA provides consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes consumer CCPA rights.

III. Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collect from you and retained.

IV. Right to access/portability: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.

V. Right to request additional information about data collection: You have the right to request that we disclose the categories of personal information that we have collected, disclosed or sold.

VI. Right to request information about sales or disclosures: You have the right to request that we disclose the categories of personal information that we have collected, disclosed or sold.

VII. Right to not be discriminated against if exercising rights: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, provide you a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Compliance with State Privacy Laws

In addition to our compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Advuemedia also complies with the following state privacy laws:

California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

Extending the protections of the CCPA, we ensure additional rights and protections for California residents. Under CPRA, California residents have the right to:

  • Know what personal information is being collected about them.
  • Access their personal information.
  • Delete their personal information.
  • Correct inaccurate personal information.
  • Opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information.
  • Limit the use of their sensitive personal information..

Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)

We adhere to the requirements of the VCDPA, ensuring that residents of Virginia have control over their personal data. This includes:

  • The right to access their personal data.
  • The right to correct inaccuracies in their personal data.
  • The right to delete their personal data.
  • The right to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable format.
  • The right to opt-out of the processing of personal data for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling.

Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)

In compliance with the CPA, we protect the personal data of Colorado residents and provide them with the following rights:

  • The right to access their personal data.
  • The right to correct inaccuracies in their personal data.
  • The right to delete their personal data.
  • The right to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable format.
  • The right to opt-out of the processing of personal data for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling.

Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)

We follow the guidelines set forth by the UCPA, safeguarding the privacy of Utah residents and allowing them to manage their personal data. This includes:

  • The right to access their personal data.
  • The right to delete their personal data.
  • The right to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable format.
  • The right to opt-out of the sale of personal data.

Connecticut Privacy Act (CTPA)

We comply with the CTPA, providing Connecticut residents with transparency and control over their personal information. Residents have the following rights:

  • The right to access their personal data.
  • The right to correct inaccuracies in their personal data.
  • The right to delete their personal data.
  • The right to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable format.
  • The right to opt-out of the sale of personal data or targeted advertising.

Nevada Privacy Law (SB 220)

Under Nevada law, residents have the right to direct us not to sell certain personal information we have collected or will collect about them. Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights may submit a request to us at [hello@advuemedia.com].

Maine Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Consumer Information

Maine residents have specific rights regarding the use and sharing of their personal data by broadband internet access service providers. Although this law primarily applies to ISPs, we ensure that we handle any data related to Maine residents with the highest standards of privacy and security.

New York SHIELD Act

Although primarily focused on data security, the SHIELD Act requires businesses to implement reasonable safeguards to protect the personal information of New York residents. We comply by ensuring robust data security measures and promptly addressing any data breaches.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

Advuemedia is committed to protecting the privacy rights of all individuals and ensuring compliance with applicable state privacy laws. If you are a resident of any of these states and wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at [hello@advuemedia.com] with your request.

PERSONAL DATA RETENTION

As a general matter, we retain your personal data for as long as necessary to provide our services, or for other important purposes such as complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. We generally rotate through personal data used for ad personalization on a 90-day timetable and personal data used for market research audience segmentation and targeting on a 180-day timetable, provided that we may retain data if we have a legal or significant operational need to do so, such as for auditing, corporate record-keeping, compliance, accounting or bug-fixes.

If you are a Advuemedia campaign partner or publisher, we retain your information as long as your account is active and for as long as necessary for legal or operational purposes, such as auditing, corporate record-keeping, compliance, or accounting, after its closure.

EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

As an individual covered by the GDPR, you have certain rights about the personal data that data controllers hold about you, including right of access, right to request correction, right to be forgotten (i.e., deletion), and right to object to processing (including profiling for online ad targeting).

RIGHT TO OBJECT TO PROCESSING OR TO WITHDRAW CONSENT

By enabling device-based “opt-out” options in your device’s settings, you may withdraw consent for processing where we rely on consent. If you do so, we will cease processing your personal data for such purposes within 30 days. We collect these opt-out signals ourselves, and will also respect consent or opt-out flags if passed by the publisher of the app you are using. For instructions and more detail, please see above at, How can I opt out of interest-based advertising? Please note that opting out does not mean opting out of advertising or campaign content altogether; there may still be campaign content in the app, but it will not be targeted based on your inferred interests.

RIGHT TO ERASURE

You also have the right to request erasure of personal data that we hold as a controller. The above opt-out process satisfies this right, because when a user opts-out (whether through device settings or by submitting a request to gdpr-optout@advuemedia.com and following our instructions), we stop using your personal data to provide our services to you; the data is permanently rendered disconnected to your device and will be automatically deleted from our production system. We may retain copies of some personal data for our own internal and necessary purposes, such as auditing, accounting and billing, legal, bug-detection, backups, and (if applicable) to ensure that you receive and that we are able to track the rewards you have received.

Advuemedia: A DATA CONTROLLER AND A DATA PROCESSOR

EU data protection law makes a distinction between organizations that process personal data for their own purposes (known as “data controllers”) and organizations that process personal data on behalf of other organizations (known as “data processors”). If you have a question or complaint about how your personal data is handled, we encourage you to direct your inquiry to the relevant data controller, since data controllers have primary responsibility for your personal data.

Advuemedia may act as either a data controller or a data processor in handling your personal data, depending on the precise circumstances. For instance, for personal data that we use internally to create our data-related services, such as interest-based ad targeting, and for personal data that we collect about our publisher and advertiser customers for use in marketing to them, we are a data controller. But when we handle personal data strictly on behalf of our customers to provide our services to them (for example, if they provide us with a list of device identifiers to use for targeting or suppression), we are a data processor. If you have questions about data that is used primarily on behalf of one of our publishers or advertisers, you should contact them.

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS

To opt-out of Advuemedia services or access your personal information, please contact us at hello@advuemedia.com

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies, please send us a message to privacy@advuemedia.com.