Our Privacy Policy explains what information we process when you use our products and describes how that information is collected and used. It also includes details about your rights and how to contact us. The Supplement provides additional information for residents of certain states and countries. Our Ad Choices site provides you with more information about choices that you have for targeted advertising.
Last updated: July 20, 2024
Civil Rights Daily News (“CRDN”) is a global media company. When you use our websites or apps, purchase our products or services, or otherwise interact with our businesses online or offline (collectively referred to as “Services”), we may collect information about you (“Information”), including information considered “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable privacy laws.
This Privacy Policy is not for Services or experiences directed to children. If you would like more information about how we handle children’s Information, please visit our Children’s Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle children’s data on child-directed Services and in child-specific experiences. For example, the Children’s Privacy Policy sets out how we process Information for children’s profiles on CRDN.
This Privacy Policy contains:
We collect Information when you interact with our Services online or offline. In general, the Information we collect is either (a) provided by you, (b) collected by us when you use our Services, or (c) given to us by third parties. Where required by law, we get your consent to collect this Information. This Information includes:
In addition to the Information, we collect from you directly, CRDN may receive Information about you from a variety of sources, including other individuals and third-party businesses. For instance, we may receive Information about you from the following sources:
Friends and Other People. We may receive Information from people you know, such as when a friend invites you to participate in an offering, makes recommendations, or discloses content to you.
Companies You Direct to Disclose Information. We receive the Information you ask other companies to provide to us, such as your mobile carrier, your device carrier, or your cable or TV provider for authentication and personalization, to receive access to our content, or to participate in special events.
Linked Sites and Tools. We may receive Information from websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us, but that are linked to or integrated in our Services or provide links to our Services, such as third-party communities, forums, and social media sites, services, plug-ins, and applications. Your interactions with websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us are covered by the privacy policies of those companies, not this Privacy Policy. You hould carefully read the privacy policies of websites and tools you use.
Publicly Available Sources. In limited cases, we may get Information from
publicly available sources.
CRDN Technology and Service Providers. We may receive Information from our service providers and other technology partners we work with, such as companies that assist us with account validation, analytics, fraud prevention, or otherwise help us run our Services, including attractions, events, and exhibits such
as a film premier or influencer event.
CRDN Advertising and Marketing Partners. We work with advertising and marketing partners, such as advertisers, app developers, publishers, and data providers that enable us to purchase or deliver ads as well as personalize, target, and measure the performance of those ads or campaigns. These partners may provide Information about your preferences or interests or may provide Information that is inferred or derived based on your information, activity, or interactions from different businesses not associated with CRDN.
Joint Venture, Promotional, or Strategic Partners. When we partner with other companies, we may receive Information from them.
We may combine this Information with Information we collect directly from you.
CRDN uses your Information to provide you with our amazing range of Services. We use Information only as permitted or required by law and as described in this privacy policy or otherwise disclosed at the time of collection. For more information on the legal grounds applicable to our processing of Information under General Data Collection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other comparable data protection laws around the world, see our Legal Bases Chart.
Provide CRDN Services. We use your Information to provide our wide range of Services that you request, view, or otherwise engage with. This might include customizing and personalizing the Services for you. For example:
o Streaming Services. We use Information to enhance your experience of the range of content on our streaming services. We may use it to recommend products, services, shows, movies, or sports events we think you’ll want or want to watch, manage your subscription orders and payments, or to target and deliver marketing and advertising on an ad-supported subscription service (see also Advertising and Marketing below).
Improve our Services. We may analyze your information (and create aggregated data derived from your Information) to develop, maintain, analyze, optimize,
improve, measure, and report on our Services and Services features and how they are used.
Communications. We may send you communications, including by email, push notifications, or text, about purchases, your account, offers, contests, surveys, changes to policies, customer service inquiries, or to request feedback. We may record your comments, text, or voice communications for purposes of making features available, improving our services, and addressing potential abuses of the terms of use that apply to our Services. or other concerns on behalf of our users.
Advertising and Marketing. We promote our brands and offerings by publishing advertising on our own Services and by placing ads on third parties’ services. We also provide advertising services for third party advertisers. We may use your Information to model, segment, target, offer, market, and advertise our Services, including providing discounts or offerings from our affiliates, business partners, and select third parties, and running competitions on social media and other channels. We may also use your Information to provide and improve our advertising services, including how we target and measure our publishing of ads for third party advertisers. For more information and options to control this, please see the How Can You Control Your Information? section or visit Ad Choices.
Operate our Business. We also use Information to support our internal business functions, including finance, accounting, and audit.
Safety, Security, Fraud Prevention. We may use your Information to enhance the safety and security of our Services. We may also use it to verify your identity, monitor, investigate, and prevent fraud, and halt other unauthorized or illegal activity.
Comply with Law and our Terms of Use. We may use your Information to comply with applicable law, such as to satisfy a tax obligation or government
request. We may also use it to enforce or defend our rights, investigate, or report potential violations of our >Terms of Use.
With Your Consent. We may use your Information with your consent for other purposes described at the point of collection.
Deriving aggregated data. We may analyze your Information to create aggregated data that we use in connection with any of the other uses of Information set out in
this section.
Retention. We only keep Information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purpose, we are using it for, as permitted by law.
CRDN may disclose Information to:
Service Providers. CRDN hires vendors and other companies to perform services for us such as creation, maintenance, hosting, delivery, and marketing of our Services. This may include processing payments, email and order fulfillment, administration of contests, customer service, or conducting research and analytics, including recording of mouse movements or clicks, keyboard strokes/touches, page scrolls, typed text or other interactions during a user session. We may also use service providers to enable our chat, comments, or survey features, to moderate comments and chat among our users or to verify disclosures from influencers we work with. These chat, comment, survey, or moderation service providers may obtain recordings of your comments, text, or voice communications for purposes of making the feature available, improving our services, or addressing potential abuses of our Terms of Use or other concerns on behalf of our users.
Affiliates. We may disclose Information to our Affiliates in connection with any of the uses of your Information set out in this Privacy Policy. Also, where we are permitted to do so under applicable law, we may disclose Information to other Controllers in our family of companies so that they can contact you about other Services we provide.
Business Partners and Third Parties. We may disclose Information to business partners and third parties (e.g., other companies, retailers, distributors, social media networks, research organizations, publishers, and non-profit organizations) for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you, showing you relevant advertising, or providing an enhanced experience that integrates with one of our Services. When required, we will ask for your consent or provide opportunities to opt-out. To learn more about your choices, please see How Can You Control Your Information? below.
Sponsors, Co-promotions, and Branded Programs. We may offer content or programs (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, promotions, games, applications, branded community or panel programs or social media integrations) that are sponsored by or co-branded with third parties that may collect or obtain Information from participants. When you participate in branded community or panel programs your name and contact information may also be disclosed to other participants or made public.
Advertising and Marketing Companies. CRDN may disclose Information with advertisers, ad agencies, ad networks and platforms and other companies to provide
advertising to you based on your interests. For more information, please see How Can You Control Your Information? and Ad Choices.
Legal and Law enforcement Purposes. CRDN may disclose Information in response to legal process, for example in response to a court order or a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request. We may disclose Information to third parties for fraud prevention, to investigate or prevent illegal activities or violations of the terms of use of our Services, to protect the rights and safety of others, or as otherwise required by law.
Change of Control. CRDN may transfer Information in the event of an actual or potential business transaction, such as if one or more of our business units or assets are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or a business reorganization.
Others. We may disclose Information at your direction or when you provide us with your consent to do so, for example, when we disclose information to a third party to link an account you have with us to the third party’s account.
A cookie or other tracking technology is a small piece of script or code that is stored on your browser or device to help websites and apps remember you and collect information about your use of the Service. CRDN uses cookies, web beacons, SDKs, pixels and other tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies”) to make your experience on our Services better. These technologies help recognize your browser or device, maintain your preferences, and provide certain features (like storing a high score on a game or saving your location). CRDN (including our affiliates) and third parties may use these technologies to collect information over time from apps, websites, and other digital products. We and third-party advertising companies may use this Information to help serve advertising tailored to your interests, both on and off the CRDN Services.
These technologies also help measure advertisements across our Services, marketing emails and other third-party websites, apps, devices, and services. We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Services and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. For example, CRDN uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Services and for other analytics purposes. These third parties are responsible for their cookies and identifiers and may use them for their own purposes with your consent. For more information, see Google’s Privacy & Terms. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. On some Services,
CRDN also uses Nielsen to allow users to contribute to market research. For more information, visit the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy.
Please see the How Can You Control Your Information? for more information about your choices with respect to Information collected via cookies.
There are a number of tools and options you can use to help control how your Information is collected, used, and disclosed.
Individual Rights: depending on the country where you are based, you may request the following:
o Right to access and rectification: you can request Information we hold and the correction of any errors of your Information.
o Right to erasure/deletion: the right, in certain circumstances, to ask for your Information to be deleted. In specific cases, we may not be able to delete some types of Information, in particular, where we have a legal obligation to keep that Information (e.g., for regulatory reporting purposes), or where you want us to continue to
provide you with a Service and the processing of the Information is necessary for the provision of that Service.
o Right to restriction of processing: the right, in certain circumstances, to restrict further processing of your Information.
o Right to portability: the right in some cases to receive your Information in a digital format or to have it transmitted directly to another controller (where technically feasible)
o Right to object: The right to object (on grounds relating to your particular situation) to the processing of your Information on the basis of our legitimate interests, including for direct marketing purposes.
o Right to withdraw consent: you can withdraw your consent at any time in respect of any processing of Information which is based upon a consent.
o Right to lodge a complaint before the supervisory authority for data protection in your country, if you consider that your rights under the applicable privacy legislation have been infringed.
To exercise any of these rights that apply where you live, please submit a request by navigating to the CRDN Privacy Center. Residents of some US states have specific rights relating to access, deletion, and correction requests. Please visit the US State Supplement page for a description of those state-specific rights.
Marketing Communications. If you would like to stop receiving email or text marketing communications from us, follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in the relevant email or respond “STOP” to the relevant text. In certain Services, you may also be able to opt out via the settings when you log into your account.
CRDN Targeted Advertising. To opt-out of CRDN’s use and sharing of Information for targeted advertising purposes, please visit Ad Choices. Please note that if you opt out, CRDN will continue to collect and use data for other purposes, including research, analytics, and internal operations. You may continue to receive advertising on our Services based on your activities there.
Third-Party Targeted Advertising. You can also opt out of targeted advertising on websites by third parties that participate in self-regulatory programs via the following links:
o Websites: The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) WebChoices and Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) WebChoices
o Mobile: DAA AppChoices and NAI Mobile Choices
o CTV: NAI CTV Choices
Browser and Device Settings. You may have more options depending on your mobile device, operating system, or browser. Please review the support materials and/or the privacy settings for the respective devices and systems to learn more about these features and how they apply to targeted advertisements. Blocking cookies may also prevent you from accessing some of our content or Service features.
Precise Location Information. To disable collection of mobile device precise location information through our apps, please access your device settings and choose to limit that collection.
Cookies. See What Do You Need to Know About Cookies and Other Identifiers? for more choices about managing other technical and usage information.
Please note some of the rights detailed above are not absolute, might not all be available in your country, and may not be applicable in certain scenarios. If you have any particular questions about your data protection rights, feel free to reach out to us by email at [email protected]
CRDN has implemented administrative, technical and physical safeguards to help protect your Information. Unfortunately, no security measures are perfect, and we cannot assure you that Information will never be accessed or used in an unauthorized way.
Some US states require us to inform their residents about additional privacy information and rights. Please visit our US State Supplement page for additional information.
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy and post the updated Policy here. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Policy so that you always know our current privacy practices.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy you can contact us and our Data Protection Officer at: [email protected] .
Last updated: July 20, 2024
Hi and welcome! This is a “Privacy Policy”, where we tell you about how we, CRDN Media (“we”, “us” or “our”), will collect and use personal information when you use our Services. The word “Services” in this Privacy Policy means our ‘digital services,’ such as websites, mobile apps, games, subscription services, chat messages and fan pages/channels on third party social networks, and ‘offline services’, such as studio tours, attractions and exhibitions and events you attend as a consumer, passerby or guest.
We are a “family” of companies that is made up of many companies and brands such as CRDN. The list of companies can be located by navigating to our affiliates page.
In this Privacy Policy, the “Controller” of your information means the company that decides the purposes for which it is processed and how it is processed. The company acting as Controller will depend on which Services you are using; it will often be the company responsible for providing that Service, as may be set out in the relevant terms and conditions.
In some circumstances, more than one Controller may be responsible for processing your information. Please navigate to our Controller List for more details. If you still have questions about the relevant Controller, please contact us using one of the methods set out below.
If you need help understanding this document, you should ask a parent or guardian to read it and talk with you about it. We refer to this person as “your adult” in this Privacy Policy. This document covers Services aimed at children; however, if you are an adult using these Services, this Privacy Policy also covers data collected about you. If you are a parent or guardian of a child who is using these Services, this Privacy Policy explains how we process information we collect in relation to your child.
Under the laws of some countries outside of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom we may need your or your adult’s consent to our processing of your information set forth in this Privacy Policy. Subject to any indications you or your adult may give us to the contrary, such as opting out or not opting in if asked, and where permitted by law, by providing your information or otherwise interacting with our Services, you or your adult consent to our use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information about you
Contact and account details
For some of our Services, you don’t need to give us information like your name or email address to use the Service.
For other Services, we will ask for information from you so you can use the Service. We might need to ask permission from your adult before you can give us this information. This information can include things like:
For some of our Services, such as virtual worlds, games, or services with social features, you can talk with your friends or get items, such as gems in game currency and additional costumes or powers for your character. For these Services you may need to choose a screen name or create an account which will require a password and some other information about you. For some Services, we collect your email address to help you make an account and then we may keep your email address only in a “hashed” (i.e. jumbled) format so that it doesn’t identify you. We use these “hashed” email addresses to help with your account, like to help you if you forget your password.
Things you have bought and payment details
Before buying something, you should always have permission from your adult. When you buy something in a Service, your adult may have to pay for it with real money. Some of our Services allow you to buy things inside the Service, pay to join our communities, and use online currency from our Services.
Services usage details
When you use our Services, we may collect information about your in-game, in-app, or online usage and viewing activities – such as actions taken in a game, app, or other Service, including chat or comments, interactions, and videos, content, or pages viewed. In collecting Information about your use of a Digital Service, we may use service providers or other solutions to record users’ interactions with our Sites, which may include mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling, and keystrokes/key touches during those sessions. We use these recordings to diagnose issues and identify areas for improvement and further engagement. Conversations with your friends Some of our Services will let you talk with your friends in a way that shows your conversation publicly or with other people on the Service like in a group chat or forum. Sometimes, you will choose from phrases we have already written. Otherwise, we will take steps to try to stop people from using any bad words, shares your personal information, or engages in other illegal or inappropriate activity. If we see that you are sharing your or a third party’s personal information with someone else, we will try to delete it before it is shared. We may ask permission from you or your adult before we let you talk to your friends on our Services, or if our Services let you post on social media. We will not use the information gathered from your conversations for any purpose other than to provide the Services. To protect users on our own Services, we may use third party service providers and/or third-party software to moderate chat among our users. These moderation services may include recordings of text or voice chat for purposes of avoiding or addressing potential abuses of our terms of use or other concerns on behalf of our users.
Social media
If you interact with our social media pages we may collect information when you do things such as commenting, sharing or “liking” posts or videos. We may also receive information that you share on your social media page or channel, such as your profile photo, your birthday and your list of friends. We may need to ask permission from your adult before we can collect this information through social media.
Information about your computer, console or smartphone
When you visit or use one of our Services, we will get some information about your device and your Internet browser (for example, Chrome or Firefox). We will also get some information about your IP Address and how you use our Services. To learn more, see our section about Cookies.
Notifications
Our apps may send you alerts from inside the app on your device to help you use the app. For some of our apps, you can also choose to receive notifications on your device that are sent from outside the app (called push notifications). We may need to ask permission from your adult to send you these push notifications. You can always turn push notifications off in the settings of your device. This might be difficult, so make sure to ask your adult to help. If you do not provide your information If you do not provide us with your personal information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our Services to you.
When you contact us
If you contact us by email, customer helpdesks, or use an online form for help, we may ask you for some information. For example, this may include your first name and email address. We will also ask you to tell us why you are contacting us. Once we have helped you, we will delete your information.
Last updated: July 20, 2024
Hi and welcome! This is a “Privacy Policy”, where we tell you about how we, CRDN Media (“we”, “us” or “our”), will collect and use personal information when you use our Services. The word “Services” in this Privacy Policy means our ‘digital services,’ such as websites, mobile apps, games, subscription services, chat messages and fan pages/channels on third party social networks, and ‘offline services’, such as studio tours, attractions and exhibitions and events you attend as a consumer, passerby or guest.
We are a “family” of companies that is made up of many companies and brands such as CRDN. The list of companies can be located by navigating to our affiliates page.
In this Privacy Policy, the “Controller” of your information means the company that decides the purposes for which it is processed and how it is processed. The company acting as Controller will depend on which Services you are using; it will often be the company responsible for providing that Service, as may be set out in the relevant terms and conditions.
In some circumstances, more than one Controller may be responsible for processing your information. Please navigate to our Controller List for more details. If you still have questions about the relevant Controller, please contact us using one of the methods set out below.
If you need help understanding this document, you should ask a parent or guardian to read it and talk with you about it. We refer to this person as “your adult” in this Privacy Policy. This document covers Services aimed at children; however, if you are an adult using these Services,
this Privacy Policy also covers data collected about you. If you are a parent or guardian of a child who is using these Services, this Privacy Policy explains how we process information we collect in relation to your child.
Under the laws of some countries outside of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom we may need your or your adult’s consent to our processing of your information set forth in this Privacy Policy. Subject to any indications you or your adult may give us to the contrary, such as opting out or not opting in if asked, and where permitted by law, by providing your information or otherwise interacting with our Services, you or your adult consent to our use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information about you
Contact and account details
For some of our Services, you don’t need to give us information like your name or email address to use the Service.
For other Services, we will ask for information from you so you can use the Service. We might need to ask permission from your adult before you can give us this information. This information can include things like:
For some of our Services, such as virtual worlds, games, or services with social features, you can talk with your friends or get items, such as gems in game currency and additional costumes or powers for your character. For these Services you may need to choose a screen name or create an account which will require a password and some other information about you. For some Services, we collect your email address to help you make an account and then we may keep your email address only in a “hashed” (i.e. jumbled) format so that it doesn’t identify you. We use these “hashed” email addresses to help with your account, like to help you if you forget your password.
Things you have bought and payment details
Before buying something, you should always have permission from your adult. When you buy something in a Service, your adult may have to pay for it with real money. Some of our Services allow you to buy things inside the Service, pay to join our communities, and use online currency from our Services.
Services usage details
When you use our Services, we may collect information about your in-game, in-app, or online usage and viewing activities – such as actions taken in a game, app, or other Service, including chat or comments, interactions, and videos, content, or pages viewed. In collecting Information about your use of a Digital Service, we may use service providers or other solutions to record users’ interactions with our Sites, which may include mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling, and keystrokes/key touches during those sessions. We use these recordings to diagnose issues and identify areas for improvement and further engagement.
Conversations with your friends
Some of our Services will let you talk with your friends in a way that shows your conversation publicly or with other people on the Service like in a group chat or forum. Sometimes, you will choose from phrases we have already written. Otherwise, we will take steps to try to stop people from using any bad words, shares your personal information, or engages in other illegal or inappropriate activity. If we see that you are sharing your or a third party’s personal information with someone else, we will try to delete it before it is shared. We may ask permission from you or your adult before we let you talk to your friends on our Services, or if our Services let you post on social media. We will not use the information gathered from your conversations for any purpose other than to provide the Services. To protect users on our own Services, we may use third party service providers and/or third-party software to moderate chat among our users. These moderation services may include recordings of text or voice chat for purposes of avoiding or addressing potential abuses of our terms of use or other concerns on behalf of our users.
Social media
If you interact with our social media pages we may collect information when you do things such as commenting, sharing or “liking” posts or videos. We may also receive information that you share on your social media page or channel, such as your profile photo, your birthday and your list of friends. We may need to ask permission from your adult before we can collect this information through social media.
Information about your computer, console or smartphone
When you visit or use one of our Services, we will get some information about your device and your Internet browser (for example, Chrome or Firefox). We will also get some information about your IP Address and how you use our Services. To learn more, see our section about Cookies.
Notifications
Our apps may send you alerts from inside the app on your device to help you use the app. For some of our apps, you can also choose to receive notifications on your device that are sent from outside the app (called push notifications). We may need to ask permission from your adult to send you these push notifications. You can always turn push notifications off in the settings of your device. This might be difficult, so make sure to ask your adult to help.
If you do not provide your information
If you do not provide us with your personal information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our Services to you.
When you contact us
If you contact us by email, customer helpdesks, or use an online form for help, we may ask you for some information. For example, this may include your first name and email address. We will also ask you to tell us why you are contacting us. Once we have helped you, we will delete your information.