These Terms of Use (the "Terms of Use" or "Terms") apply to the services and information (collectively, the "Services") that Partie Partners, LLC ("Partie," "we," "our", or "us") provides to you, including those that we make available through our website at www.partie.com, our mobile and desktop apps, and our other means of delivering such Services to you, such as through our APIs (collectively, our "Platform"). These Terms govern your use of the Platform and your provision of information while using the Platform (collectively, the "User Content"). Please read these Terms carefully because they impose legal obligations on you and on Partie, and establish our legal relationship.
To assist you in using the Platform and to ensure a clear understanding of the relationship arising from your use of the Platform, we have created (i) these Terms of Use, and (ii) the Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we treat information you provide to us through the Platform, including Personal Information (as such term is defined in the Privacy Policy), and our Terms govern your use of our Platform, including the services available on the Platform (the "Services"). Our Terms and Privacy Policy apply to anyone that uses or visits our Platform (collectively, "you"), including (a) individuals who use or visit our Platform without registering an account ("Guest Users") and (b) individuals who are, or are seeking to become, registered users ("Registered Users"). The terms "Partie", "we", "our", and "us" refer to Partie Partners, LLC.
1. Your Agreement
You must be 13 years or older to use our Platform. Do not use our Platform unless you are at least 13 years of age. If you have reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, then by accessing our Platform you agree that you have read, understood, and accept to be bound by the Terms. If you are 13 years or older, but have not reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, then by accessing our Platform, you agree that your parent or guardian has reviewed and accepts to be bound by these Terms.
Moreover, if you are agreeing to these Terms of Use on behalf of a company, our partner organization, or other legal entity ("Your Organization"), then (i) you represent and warrant that you have authority to act on behalf of, and to bind Your Organization and (ii) for all purposes in these Terms and the Privacy Policy, the term "you" means Your Organization on whose behalf you are acting.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR PLATFORM.
2. Your Consent to Our Privacy Practices.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we treat information that you provide to us through the Platform. By accessing our Platform, you consent to our privacy practices as set out in our Privacy Policy, which is available at: Terms of Use.
3. Registration; Password Protection.
We may make certain areas of the Platform accessible only to users that have a password. While you can visit the Platform as a Guest User, to access and participate in our Services, you must become a Registered User. For example, only Registered Users can subscribe to our paid Services, participate in Partie Meetups (PM), and manage reward points. During the registration process, you will be required to provide certain information about you. You agree that the information you provide to us in this process is complete and accurate.
If you become a Registered User, and if you obtain a password, please keep in mind that we will treat anyone who uses your user name and password as "you." We will provide this user with all of the rights and privileges that we provide to you, and we will hold you responsible for the activities of a person using your password. Therefore, we recommend that you maintain your user name and password in confidence, and that you refrain from disclosing this information to anyone who might "pretend" to be you with respect to the Platform and your participation in the Services. Please notify us immediately if you suspect that someone is using your user name and/or password in an inappropriate manner.
4. Ownership; Reservation of Rights.
All information, software, videos, audio, pictures, logos, trademarks, trade dress, and other content on the Platform or embodied in our Services, including all associated intellectual property rights (collectively, the "Partie Content"), are the property of Partie and its licensors, are protected by U.S. and international copyright and other intellectual property laws, and/or are used under the principles of fair use. Partie and its licensors retain all rights with respect to the Platform and the Partie Content except those expressly granted to you in these Terms. You agree not to duplicate, publish, display, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from the material available through the Platform unless specifically authorized in writing to do so by Partie.
5. Grant of Rights.
5.1 Grant of Rights to Partie in User Content.
By submitting User Content when interacting with the Platform, uploading files, or through other means (if such features are available to you), you grant to Partie a perpetual, non-exclusive, transferrable, and sublicensable right to use, copy, reformat, index, modify, display, and distribute your User Content for the purposes of providing Services to you and for Partie's operations. No compensation will be paid with respect to Partie's use of your User Content. You represent and warrant that you own all rights needed to provide the grant set out in this Section 5.1 (Grant of Rights to Partie in User Content).
5.2 Grant of Rights to You in Partie Content.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, worldwide right to access, execute, perform, and otherwise use the Platform and Partie Content solely for your personal uses, and provided that you shall not: (i) license, sublicense, sell, resell, distribute, or otherwise commercially exploit the Platform or Partie Content; (ii) modify or make derivative works based upon the Platform or Partie Content; or (iii) reverse engineer, reverse compile, or access the Platform or the Partie Content in order to build a competitive product or service. You may access and view the Platform and the Partie Content for use solely as provided in these Terms, and you may not modify, copy, distribute, or otherwise use the Platform or the Partie Content for any other purposes.
6. Partie Rules.
As a condition to your use of the Platform, you agree to follow our rules ("Partie Rules") set out below. These Partie Rules are intended to ensure that all of our users can use the Platform in a safe, fun, and legal manner. In using our Platform or participating any Services, you will not:
• Upload, email, share, message, post, or otherwise transmit User Content that is unlawful, obscene, vulgar, harmful, hateful, violent, sexually suggestive, threatening, abusive, defamatory, or is otherwise objectionable. For example, don't share pornographic or "NSFW" images or videos (or links to such contents) in chatrooms or make comments that others will find offensive or hurtful.
• Share any material that impacts or invades the privacy of others, such as photographs, video clips, sound recordings, Personal Information, or other materials that reveal personal, private, or sensitive information about another person, without that person's consent. Don't participate in the practice of researching and sharing private information (sometimes referred to as "doxing") about another Partie user, or cyberbully or harass other users.
• Submit falsified, confusing, or deceptive information during the registration process or otherwise, for example, in attempt to impersonate or pose as another person, organization, or brand. Don't create or use a username or other identifier on our Platform that infringes anyone's rights of publicity or privacy.
• Infringe anyone's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights. You may not share materials subject to copyright protection over the Platform without the copyright owner's permission, or without a legitimate "fair use" justification for the transmittal.
• Distribute material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other devices or methods that are intended to damage, interfere with, intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or Personal Information.
• Use the Platform to artificially generate traffic or page links to a website, or for any other purpose not expressly allowed under these Terms.
• Use the Platform in a manner that could disable, overburden, or impair the Platform or interfere with anyone's use and enjoyment of the Platform, such as through sending "spam" email or messages to other users.
• Use the Platform to test or reverse engineer the Platform. Do not attempt to find limitations or vulnerabilities of our Platform, or to evade filtering capabilities in our Platform.
• Seek to obtain access to any materials or information through hacking, data harvesting, or through other means we have not intentionally made available to you through the Platform.
• Use the Platform for any purpose that is illegal or prohibited by these Terms. For example, do not use the Platform to violate any law, statute, or regulation.
7. Monitoring; Revocation or Suspension of Use Privileges.
We reserve the right at any time to (i) monitor your use of the Platform, and (ii) terminate or suspend your use of some or all portions of the Platform if you engage in activities that we conclude, in our discretion, breach our Partie Rules or otherwise violate these Terms or our Privacy Policy.
Although we have no – and assume no – obligation to monitor activities on the Platform, we may employ filters designed to detect and block inappropriate content under our Partie Rules. We reserve the right to request edits to remove any information or material, in whole or in part, that we believe, in our sole discretion, is incompatible with our Partie Rules. IF YOU DO NOT REMOVE OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT IN RESPONSE TO OUR REASONABLE REQUESTS, THEN WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TERMINATE YOUR USE OF SOME OR ALL OF THE PLATFORM OR SERVICES, AND TO REMOVE THE CONTENT AT ISSUE.
Our Partie Rules are based in many instances on principles of applicable law. Accordingly, users who violate our Partie Rules may be exposed under these laws to criminal charges, and civil liability to harmed parties for compensatory damages and attorney's fees. Partie reserves the right at all times to disclose information that it deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, consistent with our Privacy Policy.
8. Reports and Complaints.
If you believe that a user has acted inappropriately, such as by violating our Partie Rules, then please report your concerns by contacting us as set out in Section 20 (Contact Us).
9. Links to Third-Party Platforms.
The Platform may contain links to third party websites or third party features (collectively, the "Linked Sites"). Linked Sites may include websites operated by third parties that we engage to provide certain Services, such as to process your subscription payments. Partie does not: (i) own these Linked Sites; (ii) assume any responsibility or liability for any content, opinions, material available on Linked Sites, or such Linked Sites' privacy practices with respect to information that you provide to the Linked Sites; (iii) endorse the content of any Linked Site; or (iv) warrant that a Linked Site will be free of computer viruses or other harmful code that can impact your computer or other web-access device. By using the Platform to link to another site (including Linked Sites), you agree and understand that such use is at your own risk.
Be aware that if you submit Personal Information to a Linked Site, then the Personal Information that you submit to the Linked Site shall be governed by the Linked Site's privacy policy and terms of use, and not by our Privacy Policy or these Terms of Use; provided, however, if such Linked Site is collecting and/or processing such Personal Information on our behalf, then we will treat the Personal Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
10. User Conduct; User Disputes.
Partie is not responsible or liable for User Content or user conduct. You are solely responsible for your User Content, conduct, and interaction with other Platform users, both online or offline. We have no obligation to become involved in disputes between Platform users. If you have a dispute with another site user, then you release Partie (and our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees) from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such dispute.
11. Warranty Disclaimer.
PARTIE DOES NOT PROMISE THAT THE PLATFORM, PARTIE CONTENT, OR SERVICES WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED. THE PLATFORM, PARTIE CONTENT, AND SERVICES ARE DELIVERED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WHEN YOU ACCESS THE PLATFORM, PARTIE CONTENT, OR SERVICES, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. PARTIE DOES NOT WARRANT OR REPRESENT THAT MATERIALS YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE PLATFORM WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL FEATURES.
PARTIE DISCLAIMS: (i) ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT; (ii) ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, CONTENT, COMPLETENESS, OR LEGALITY OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE PLATFORM (INCLUDING PARTIE CONTENT) OR SERVICES; AND (iii) ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR HARM RESULTING FROM DOWNLOADING OR ACCESSING INFORMATION THROUGH THE PLATFORM (INCLUDING PARTIE CONTENT), INCLUDING HARM CAUSED BY VIRUSES OR SIMILAR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE PLATFORM, PARTIE CONTENT, AND SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
12. Limitation of Liability.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR NEGLIGENCE, WILL PARTIE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) THAT ARISE OUT OF OR ARE RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, PARTIE CONTENT, AND SERVICES.
13. Indemnity.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Partie and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees harmless from any liability to third parties, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your breach of these Terms or the Privacy Policy.
14. Contact for Alleged Copyright Infringement.
Partie respects the intellectual property rights of others and requires that its users do the same. If you believe that any content (including User Content and Partie Content) on the Platform or other activity taking place on the Platform constitutes infringement of a work protected by copyright (each, a "Work"), please notify us as follows:
Stuart Shanus Shanus Law 11150 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: (310) 633-2327 Email: shanus@shanuslaw.com
Your notice must comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512) (the "DMCA"). Upon receipt of a compliant notice, we will respond and proceed in accordance with the DMCA.
We have implemented a repeat infringer policy to address instances in which a particular user is subject to multiple DMCA notifications (the "Repeat Infringer Policy"). If we determine that a user has violated our Repeat Infringer Policy, then we may take in our sole discretion any number of steps including, but not limited to, issuing warnings to the applicable user, suspending or terminating that user's account, and/or any interim measures that we deem appropriate.
15. Modifications to these Terms; Assignment.
We may modify and change these Terms over time. We will not "retroactively" change these Terms, and any modifications we make shall take effect proactively, once you next access the Platform. Please feel free to print out a copy of these Terms for your records. These Terms shall not be assignable by you, either in whole or in part. Partie reserves the right to assign its rights and obligations under these Terms.
16. General.
These Terms shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California without giving effect to its conflicts of law provisions. Both parties submit to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in the state and federal courts located in the judicial district that includes Los Angeles, CA. The parties further agree that any cause of action arising under these Terms or our Privacy Policy shall exclusively be brought in such courts. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or extent of such section. Partie's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive its right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. Subject to Section 19 (Relationship to Privacy Policy and Other Contracts), this agreement and the terms and conditions contained herein set forth the entire understanding and agreement between Partie and you with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding, whether written or oral.
17. Additional Terms.
Certain portions of the Platform or Services offered through it may be subject to additional or different terms and conditions, including the End User License Agreement. We will notify you if a Service or portion of the Platform is subject to terms and conditions that differ from these Terms, and you will have the opportunity to decline to participate in such Service or Platform if you do not agree with the differing terms and conditions.
18. Survival.
In addition to any right or obligation that by its nature or intent is intended to survive the termination or expiration of these Terms, the following Sections shall survive any termination or expiration of these Terms and shall apply indefinitely: (i) Section 4 (Ownership; Reservation of Rights); (ii) Section 11 (Warranty Disclaimer); (iii) Section 12 (Limitation of Liability); (iv) Section 13 (Indemnity); (v) Section 15 (Modification to these Terms; Assignment); and (vi) Section 16 (General).
19. Relationship to Privacy Policy and Other Contracts.
These Terms must be read in conjunction with (i) other agreements into which you and Partie may enter concerning the Platform (if any), and (ii) our Privacy Policy. The provisions of our Privacy Policy are incorporated herein. To the extent these Terms conflict with the terms of our Privacy Policy, the terms of our Privacy Policy shall control. Similarly to the extent these Terms conflict with the terms and conditions of any specific agreement you enter with us, the terms and conditions of such specific agreement shall control.
20. Contact Us.
If you have any questions about these Terms, the practices of our Platform, or your dealings with our Platform, please contact us by using the information below, or by other means of communication as described on our Platform: support@partie.com.
21. Effective Date.
The effective date of these Terms of Use is November 20, 2019.
22. COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICE.
Copyright © 2019 Partie Partners, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
This Partie Privacy Policy (this "Privacy Policy") applies to the services and information (collectively, the "Services") that Partie Partners, LLC ("Partie," "we," "our", or "us") provides to you, including those that we make available through our website at https://www.partie.com/, our mobile and desktop apps, and our other means of delivering such Services to you, such as through our APIs (collectively, our "Platform"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information, governs how we treat this information, and lets you know your associated rights.
Our Platform contains links to other websites for your convenience and reference, including those owned and operated by our service providers, as further explained in Sections 3.6 (Information Provided to Third Parties) and 5.1 (Our Service Providers). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party websites.
1. Your Consent to this Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy applies to anyone that uses or visits our Platform (collectively, "you"). You indicate your consent to this Privacy Policy in different ways. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully; once you consent to this Privacy Policy and its terms, it creates legal obligations on you and on us.
1.1 Consent by Non-Registered Users.
We have structured our Platform so that you are able to review a limited amount of information about our Services without registering an account with us. By accessing, downloading, or otherwise using our Platform or Services as a non-registered user, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to be legally bound by it.
1.2 Consent by Registered Users.
Our Services are available only to users who have registered with us to create user accounts. To participate in the Services as a registered user, you must: (i) complete the registration process at our Platform; and (ii) indicate your consent to this Privacy Policy in the manner we specify during the registration process.
1.3 Consent by User Acting in a Representative Capacity.
If you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy on behalf of a company or other legal entity ("Your Organization"), then (i) you represent and warrant that you have authority to act on behalf of, and to bind, Your Organization, and (ii) for all purposes in this Privacy Policy, the term "you" means Your Organization on whose behalf you are acting.
1.4 Right to Withdraw Consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with Section 10 (Your Right to Opt-Out; Object to Processing; Deleting Information).
2. The Information We Collect.
To provide our Services, and to otherwise conduct our business via the Platform, we rely on information provided by, and collected from, our users. This information consists of the following:
2.1 Personal Information.
We collect certain information that identifies or relates to an identified or identifiable individual (collectively, "Personal Information"). The Personal Information we collect may include the following categories of information relating to you or to others:
We also collect technical and device-related information that is not typically considered Personal Information, and instead identifies, or may reasonably be used to identify, a particular user device (collectively, "Non-Personal Information"). Non-Personal Information is typically collected automatically by technical means and, subject to Section 2.4 (Treatment of Combined Information), for purposes of our Platform and Services, may consist of the following:
To the extent that statutes, regulations, and any other laws that apply to the Platform or the Services (collectively, "Applicable Law") establish that Non-Personal Information constitutes Personal Information, and such Applicable Law applies to information we collect from you, then we will treat the relevant Non-Personal Information as Personal Information.
2.3 Anonymous Information.
Our Platform also collects, processes, and/or uses information that does not identify you or your devices, including Personal Information that has been made anonymous by: (i) removing identifying fields and aggregating the information with other information so that individual subjects of the information cannot be re-identified, or (ii) anonymizing the information with techniques that remove or modify the identifying data so as to prevent re-identification of the anonymized information (collectively, "Anonymous Information"). Information that meet these criteria might include, for example, demographic information, statistical information (e.g. page views and hit counts), and general tracking information.
2.4 Treatment of Combined Information.
If we combine Non-Personal Information or Anonymous Information with Personal Information, then we treat the resulting combination as Personal Information. We may, for example, combine Personal Information that you provide to us with other data for purposes of responding to your inquiries, and for other purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. If information we combine in this manner includes your Personal Information, then we will treat the combined information as your Personal Information for all purposes under this Privacy Policy.
3. How We Collect this Information.
We collect the above information through the following means and technologies:
3.1 Registration; Linked Accounts.
To register an account with us, you will need to provide us with certain information, including Personal Information. If you link one of your third party accounts to our Platform (for example automatically via Google, Facebook, or Twitter) to your Partie user account for registration, authentication, or for other purposes, then we will receive certain information from such third party, subject to the consent you provide to us and to the applicable third party. We will use this information to set up your account, authenticate your sign-on information, and to manage other functionalities relating to your account.
3.2 Payments.
We may make certain of our Services available to you only if you have purchased a paid subscription to such Services. You must use the payment methods that we have facilitated via our Platform when you make payments or perform other transactions on our Platform. We will collect your transaction information from the third party payment processor(s) that we have authorized to collect such information from you on our behalf. For more information on our privacy practices with respect to our service providers, please refer to Section 5.1 (Our Service Providers). The payment information that our payment processor will collect from you during this process may include your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, transaction amount, date of transaction, and payment method. The payment processor may also collect certain Personal Information from you, such as your name and billing address. Please note that different payment methods may require you to provide different categories of information. Once you make your payment through the payment processor, we will receive a transaction number that we will use to complete your transaction with us.
3.3 User Generated Content.
We may give you the ability through the Platform to engage with us and others in chats, forums, and other forms of public and private exchanges, and these may include opportunities for you to provide feedback, comments, and other input (collectively, "User-Generated Content"). For example, any information you post on your user profile constitutes User-Generated Content. Please understand that, if you include Personal Information in User-Generated Content, depending on the configuration of your privacy settings, others will be able to read, collect, re-publish, and otherwise freely use the information. Additionally, we reserve the right to access and read any direct messages transmitted between you and other users if, in our discretion, we have reasonable grounds to do so, for example, to investigate an alleged violation of the Partie Rules by our users.
3.4 We are not responsible for Personal Information you decide to include in User-Generated Content, and we will not take down, remove, or edit User-Generated Content, except as required by Applicable Law. If you include in your User-Generated Content any Personal Information relating to others, you represent that you have full permission and authority to do so.
3.5 Contacting Us.
You can contact us with questions or comments using the contact methods available on our Platform or using the information provided in Section 16 (Contact Us). In order to communicate with us, you must provide certain Personal Information.
3.6 Contact Matching.
We may give you the ability to provide us with the contact information of your friends, family, and other individuals stored on your device or accessible through third party accounts and software, to determine whether any of your contacts have registered on our Platform. If you choose to use such Service, then the contact information you provide to us will be uploaded to our servers on a transient basis for the sole purpose of us identifying Partie users with matching contact information, and to put you in contact with those matched users. You acknowledge that we will use your contact information to respond to contacting matching requests initiated by other users.
3.7 Job Applications and Inquiries.
You may submit to us Personal Information in connection with job applications and if you have questions for us. In each case, we collect the information you submit to us for various purposes, including to respond to your inquiries or to consider your candidacy for our employment opportunities.
3.8 Information Provided to Third Parties.
As explained further in Section 5.1 (Our Service Providers), we may engage third parties to perform certain services for us or on our behalf. The forms on our Platform may be managed by such third parties, and we may obtain from the applicable service provider the information that you provide using such forms.
3.9 Newsletters.
We may offer newsletters and other content that we believe may be of interest to you. We will use your Personal Information to provide you with this content. You can opt-out of receiving this content by following the instructions set out in Section 10 (Your Right to Opt-Out; Object to Processing; Deleting Information).
3.10 Questionnaires and Surveys.
Our Platform may allow you to participate in surveys and questionnaires, which we may post on the Platform from time to time or otherwise send to you via the contact information that you provide to us. You are free to choose whether you participate in a survey or questionnaire. We may ask that, in addition to providing your responses, you also provide Personal Information. In these instances, we use any information that you provide to us for the purposes for which you submit the information. Survey and questionnaire information may be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use and appeal of our Platform or for other business purposes.
3.11 Device Identifiers; Logs; IP Addresses.
To determine whether your device is supported by our Platform and Services, we may collect certain information about your device and network, including your IP address, your operating system and browser, your device model, information about your use of the Platform or Services, as well as the presence of any software that our Platform or Services may require to operate with your device, or other third party software or mobile apps on your device. We automatically receive and record this information in log files, and this is generally Non-Personal Information.
3.12 Cookies.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use a website upon a future visit. We may include cookies on our Platform and use them to recognize you when you return to our Platform. You may choose not to accept cookies; however, you may need to enable cookies if you wish to access certain personalized features of our Services. For more information about the cookies we may use on our Platform, please refer to our Cookie Policy, available at http://partie.com/help/.
3.13 Geolocation Information.
Our Platform may determine your location (your "Geolocation Information") using your device or browser features and/or through the information provided by a third party, such as Google or Facebook . You may prevent providing your Geolocation Information by disabling the GPS and other applicable features in your device or browser settings. To the extent your Geolocation Information is combined with any Personal Information (to the extent that Geolocation Information itself does not constitute Personal Information under Applicable Law), we will treat it as Personal Information. We may use your Geolocation Information to send communications to you, and for other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
3.14 Beacons and Tags.
The Platform may use certain data collection technologies that rely on: (i) beacons; (ii) pixel tags and object hyperlinking tags; and (iii) other means to link an object to an Internet address, a remote software application, a remote database, or other remote means of receiving or processing information. We may use these technologies to tell us what parts of our Platform have been visited or to measure the effectiveness of searches that users perform on our Platform. These technologies also enable us to send email messages in a format users can efficiently read, to learn whether these email messages have been opened, and to help ensure, for example, that our messages are of interest to our users. These technologies provide us with Anonymous Information, Non-Personal Information and, in certain instances, Personal Information.
3.15 Click-Throughs.
We may send email messages or display links that use a "click-through URL" linked to our Platform or to another resource. When you click one of these URLs, you pass through our web server before arriving at the destination website page or other resource. Click-throughs may use and collect Anonymous Information and Non-Personal Information. We may track this click-through data to help determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our user communications.
4. How We Use this Information.
We use the information we collect or process, including Anonymous Information, Non-Personal Information, and Personal Information, as permitted under Applicable Law, including where the use is based on: (i) the consent you provide to us at the point of collection; (ii) performance of our agreement to provide you with the Services; (iii) compliance with our legal obligations; and/or (iv) our Legitimate Interests, as well as a third party's Legitimate Interests. More specifically, we use the information we collect for some or all of the following:
To provide you with the Services you request and, specifically, to allow us to send you email with information
To conduct fraud monitoring, prevention, and detection activities
To respond to your inquiries, comments, or complaints that you provide to us via the Platform
To process subscription payments and other transactions you make with respect to Partie, our Platform, and/or Services
To consider your submittals and other expressions of interest in connection with our career opportunities
To process your registration or signing-on to our Platform, including through the use of your account information on third party platforms
To determine, per your request, if any of the contact information stored on your device or other third party accounts has have been used to open accounts on the Partie Platform, and to notify you of such users
To customize your visit to, and use of, the Platform and Services
To allow you to submit User-Generated Content
To determine which content or information (including, if applicable, our newsletter) might interest you and, upon making this determination, to provide you with the associated information
To track access to and use of our Platform and Services, and conduct data and other analyses, including anonymization and aggregation of Personal Information
To perform internal administration, auditing, operation, and troubleshooting for our Platform and Services
To engage in the activities specified in Section 5 (How We Share This Information)
To evaluate and improve our Platform, Services, and our communications, and to develop and test new services and content
To comply with Applicable Law
Note that when determining the bases for our use of your information, we rely on what we consider to be the most appropriate basis, even if there are multiple bases available in connection with our use. Furthermore, our "Legitimate Interests" mean that there is a good reason for processing your Personal Information, and that the processing is carried out in a way that we believe minimizes impacts (if any) on your privacy rights and interests. Legitimate Interests also refer to our use of information in ways that you would reasonably expect, based on your relationship to us. For example, there is a Legitimate Interest in collecting and processing your Personal Information: (i) to safeguard our Platform, Services, networks, content, and related information and resources; (ii) to administer and generally conduct our business; and (iii) to prevent fraud.
5. How We Share this Information.
We value your privacy, and we share the information we collect only in the manner set out below.
5.1 Our Service Providers.
We engage third parties to perform functions on our behalf, such as maintaining the Platform, processing payments, collecting information (including information related to enrollment applications), responding to and sending email or other messages, and other functions useful to us. In this capacity, we may provide service providers with Personal Information, Non-Personal Information, and Anonymous Information (as applicable). The following are examples:
Our Platform includes links to third party websites offering services that augment those Services offered on our Platform.
If you sign-on to our Platform using your credentials for a third party platform, or otherwise link your Partie user account to your account with a third party for registration, authentication, or for other purposes as set out in Section 3.1 (Registration; Linked Accounts), we may be required to send certain information about you to such third party. If you have concerns or questions regarding such process, please refer to the privacy policy of the applicable third party and direct your inquiries to such third party.
We may use service providers to: (i) process your payment transactions; (ii) provide customer service (where applicable); (iii) process and distribute email and newsletters; (iv) manage marketing and similar activities; (v) provide you with access to various portals and platforms on which to perform activities; and (vi) receive assistance in organizing and hosting our events and programs. These service providers generally require access to your Personal Information in order to perform these services.
We may use analytics service providers to assist us in understanding and using Non-Personal Information and other information that we collect via the Platform.
We may use service providers to anonymize and aggregate Personal Information in order to generate Anonymous Information.
We may engage service providers to analyze the interests and attributes of our users and, using techniques based on Anonymous Information and Non-Personal Information, identify others who might share those interests and attributes. We then use this information to reach out to relevant market segments to provide them information concerning the Platform or Services.
We require our service providers to contractually commit to protect the privacy and security of the Personal Information they process on our behalf.
5.2 Questions of Harm; Legal Process.
We may disclose your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to third parties, including law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and private investigators, where it is necessary, or where we have a good faith belief that it is necessary:
To comply with legal process;
To protect and defend our rights and property, including the Platform, Services, and associated content;
To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Platform, Services, and associated content;
To protect the personal safety or property of Platform users or the public, including your personal safety or property (it being understood that we assume no duty to provide, or monitor the need for, such protections); and
To cooperate with public and government authorities including, where required, authorities outside your jurisdiction.
While you are not able to opt out of this use of information, we will take reasonable steps to limit such use, and disclose only the information we reasonably believe is necessary for the above purposes. If we receive legal process calling for the disclosure of your Personal Information, then we will attempt to notify you within a reasonable amount of time, unless such notification is not permitted.
5.3 Transfer of the Platform.
We shall be entitled to transfer information that we collect (including Personal Information) to a third party in connection with a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition (including a disposition in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings) of all or substantially all assets or stock of the business unit or division responsible for the information under this Privacy Policy; provided, however, that the acquiring third party has agreed to safeguard your Personal Information with protections that are compatible with those set out in this Privacy Policy.
5.4 Our Affiliates.
We may choose to rely on and share the information we collect with our affiliates. By "affiliate" we mean an entity that is closely related to us, such as an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, Partie Partners, LLC. Our affiliates will be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
6. Advertising.
Our Platform may display online advertising to keep our users up to speed on various offerings, promotions, and associated content. Our Platform may include the use of ad banner partners for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions, and other marketing messages. Like many companies, we may also display targeted ads or banners about us to you when you are visiting other sites and apps. The banners and ads that you may see displayed may be based on information we hold about you, such as your previous use of our Platform. This may include your search history on our Platform, the content you read on our Platform, or on banners or ads you have previously clicked on. These ads may be provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service provider or advertiser (collectively, "Advertisers"). Additionally, Advertisers may place or utilize their own cookies on your browser and may use Anonymous Information about your visit to our Platform. If an Advertiser requests that you provide Personal Information to it or otherwise accept its cookie on your browser, please be aware that the Advertiser's use and collection of this information and use of any cookies will be governed by its privacy policy or other relevant agreement, and not by our Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the Advertiser's privacy policy before providing Personal Information. In certain circumstances, you may be able opt out of receiving targeted advertising from certain ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics, and other service providers as indicated at: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
7. How We Safeguard the Information We Collect.
We recognize the sensitivity of our users' Personal Information and we have put in place security systems designed to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, this information. Our security systems include physical, technical, and administrative information security controls, and we take commercially reasonable steps to secure and safeguard such Personal Information in accordance with Applicable Law.
8. Our Retention of Data.
We retain Personal Information for the period of time necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we obtained the Personal Information and consistent with Applicable Law. We use the following criteria to set our retention periods: (i) the duration of our relationship with you; (ii) the existence of a legal obligation as to the retention period; and (iii) the advisability of retaining the information in light of our legal position (for example, in light of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
9. Accuracy and Minimization of Data.
We take reasonable steps (i) to maintain the accuracy of the Personal Information we process, and (ii) to limit the Personal Information that we process to that which is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which we obtained the information.
10. Accessing and Updating Your Information.
If you would like to review, correct, or update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, or if you would like to request an electronic copy of this Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent Applicable Law provides you with this right to data portability), then you may make such requests by us as provided in Section 16 (Contact Us).
11. Your Right to Opt-Out; Object to Processing; Deleting Information.
11.1 Unsubscribing to Email.
If you no longer wish to receive email messages from us, then you can opt out of this Service by either (i) following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each email message, or (ii) contacting us as provided in Section 16 (Contact Us).
11.2 Deleting Information.
If you request, we will take reasonable steps to remove your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information from our databases, within the time frames (if any) set out in Applicable Law. Please understand, however, that if you request the deletion of your information, you will no longer be able to receive certain Services. In addition, it may be impractical (or essentially impossible) to remove the requested information completely, due to requirements promulgated by Applicable Law, and/or data backups, and records of deletions. As such, certain Personal Information and Non-Personal Information may remain in our databases following the deletion of your account; we will continue to treat the remaining information (if any) in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Applicable Law.
11.3 Objections.
If you object to our processing of your Personal Information, and a request for us to delete this information is not, in your view, sufficient, please contact us as provided in Section 16 (Contact Us).
11.4 Anonymous Information.
We will not delete Anonymous Information from our database, and nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts our use of Anonymous Information.
12. Advisory Regarding Participation by Children and Teens.
Under U.S. Federal Law (as reflected in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), WE DO NOT COLLECT OR STORE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM INDIVIDUALS THAT WE KNOW ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13. If you wish further information concerning privacy policies in general, and concerning online social networking and safety, you should visit the following website: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html.
13. Shine the Light Law.
This Section 13 (Shine the Light Law) applies if you are a California resident. California law requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California users who ask about business practices related to disclosing Personal Information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. The California "Shine the Light" law further requires us to allow California residents to opt out of certain disclosures of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
14. Do Not Track Notice.
Our Platform does not change its behavior when receiving "Do Not Track" signals from browser software.
15. Complaints.
We want your feedback. If you have a suggestions on how we can improve or complaints you would like us to address, please contact us at the address set out in Section 16 (Contact Us). If you are a California resident, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Other states may provide similar avenues for lodging complaints. Please check with your state's consumer protection authority.
16. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy for our business purposes and to comply with changes in Applicable Law. If we make any substantive or material changes, then we will communicate these changes to you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Platform and/or notifying you of the change via the Platform, email, or other methods. Your continued use of the Platform following such notice constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the updated Privacy Policy.
17. Contact Us.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our Platform, or Services, please contact us at: support@partie.com.
18. Effective Date.
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is November 20, 2019.
19. COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICE.
© 2019 Partie Partners, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, stored in any form without written permission from Partie Partners, LLC.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to our website at www.partie.com (the "Website" or "Site") operated by Partie Partners LLC ("Partie", "we", "our", or "us"), as well as to the services and information (collectively, the "Services").
1. Our Use of Cookies. We use cookies as set out in our Privacy Policy, available at http://partie.com/help/.
2. Categories of Cookies We May Use. We may use the following categories of cookies on our Website:
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies. We may use cookies that are strictly necessary for operating our Website. These include authentication cookies that help us prevent fraudulent activities on our Website.
2.2 Performance/Analytical Cookies. We may use cookies for purposes of assessing the performance of our Website, such as by gathering information about how many visitors use our Website and how they navigate around it. These cookies help us identify issues so that we can continually improve our Website.
2.3 Functionality Cookies. We may use cookies that allow us to enhance the functionality of our Website. For example, these cookies enable us to keep track of the items you access on our Website and to remember your preferences the next time you visit our Website.
2.4 Targeting/Advertising Cookies. We may use cookies that help us determine which content or advertising may be relevant to your interests. We may also use this information to assess the performance of our marketing activities.
3. Cookies We Use on Our Website. We use the following cookies on our Website:
| Cookie Name | Type | Expiry |
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doubleclick.net IDE |
HTTP | 2 years |
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doubleclick.net test_cookie |
HTTP | 1 day |
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youtube.com GPS |
HTTP | 1 day |
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youtube.com VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
HTTPS | 7 months |
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youtube.com YSC |
HTTP | session |
4. How to Manage Cookies. You may choose to refuse or accept cookies from our Website by adjusting the settings of your browser. Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies for more information on how you can disable some or all cookies. If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to use all or certain portions of Services and features on our Website that depend on the use of cookies.
5. Contact. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, our Website, or your dealings with our Website, please contact us at: support@partie.com.