Privacy Policy

Effective date: 6-19-2023

At QuizMyBrainz.com, we will always do our best to keep your information secure and confidential. This Privacy Policy outlines our data collection and processing practices and describes your rights and choices for your personal information.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The following categories of personal data are among those we collect and process:

• Contact information, such as name, email address, and phone number
• Payment information, such as your credit card or other payment details

We collect this information in several ways, including when you:

• Register an account with us
• Participate in quizzes or surveys
• Purchase products or services from us using your credit card number
• Contact us for support or assistance

We may also collect information from third-party sources, such as our business partners or public databases.

How We Use Your Information

For the reasons listed below, we will use your personal information:

• To communicate with you about your account sign-up, purchases, or support inquiries
• To personalize your user experience and tailor our offerings to your interests
• To comply with legal or regulatory requirements
• To prevent fraud or other unauthorized activity.

With your explicit consent, your data may also be used for additional purposes, which will be fully and transparently communicated to you beforehand.

Sharing Your Information

There are some outside parties with whom we may share your data:

• Legal or regulatory authorities as required by law or to protect our rights or property

Your personal information will never be shared with any outside parties for their marketing uses, either by sale or rental.

Your Rights and Choices

As far as your private data goes, you have the following rights:

• To access, correct, or delete your personal information
• To object to or restrict our processing of your personal information
• If you’d like a copy of your data in a machine-readable format, you can request a “data portability.”
• To withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information

Cookies and Analytics

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior and our website or mobile app usage. This information helps us understand how users interact with our offerings and personalize your user experience.

We also use analytics tools to analyze and improve our website or mobile app performance. These tools may collect information such as your IP address, device ID, and browsing activity.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Brief: To deliver, enhance, and administer our Services; to interact with you; to maintain security and prevent fraud; to comply with applicable law; and to comply with any other legal requirements. If you permit us, we can also use your data for other reasons.

Depending on your use of our Services, we process your data for a variety of reasons, such as:

Create accounts, verify user identities, and handle other account management tasks.

We may use the data you provide to set up your account, verify your identity upon subsequent logins, and resolve any technical issues.

3. WHICH DATA PROTECTION POLICY SHOULD WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFO?

In cases where it is required to defend a person’s vital interest (for example, to prevent injury), we may process your information. We must explain the legal foundations upon which we process your data.

In Brief: With your consent, to comply with regulations to render services toward the establishment of, or performance of, a contractual relationship with you to safeguard your rights or to meet our legitimate business interests are all examples of situations in which we will treat your personal information.

This section applies to you if you are an EU or UK resident.

We must disclose the specific legal grounds for processing your data to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To handle your data, we may rely on one or more of the following legal grounds:

Consent.A.  We may process your information if you have given us explicit permission (consent) to use your personal info. You are free to revoke your agreement at any time.

Contractual Duties. If we believe that processing your information is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, as in the case of helping out a government agency that deals with criminal activity or regulates business, to exercise or defend our legal rights, or to disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved, then we will do so.

Pristine Concerns. To protect your or another person’s vital interests when there is a potential risk to the safety of any person, we reserve the right to handle your information in exceptional circumstances.

This applies to Canadian residents only.

If you have given us basic authentication (i.e., express consent) to use your data for a certain purpose, or if we have a reasonable basis for believing that you would want us to use your data in this way, then we may proceed with processing your data (i.e., implied consent). At any time, you are free to revoke your agreement. To read more about this, please visit this link.

We may be entitled to process your information without your consent under applicable law in limited circumstances, such as: when doing so is in the clear interest of the data subject and support cannot be acquired promptly.

• As a tool for investigating and preventing fraud
• Under some circumstances, commercial deals
• You can collect it if it’s needed for evaluating, processing, or settling an insurance claim, and it’s in a witness statement.
• Useful for locating and notifying relatives of the injured, ill, or deceased
• If we have reason to believe someone has been, is being, or will be subjected to monetary abuse, we will take appropriate action.
• If it is believed that the information’s availability or accuracy would be jeopardized if consented collection and use were to occur. The data collection is justified if the information is being collected to investigate a possible breach of contract or violation of Canadian or provincial law.
• If sharing is necessary to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or court rules requiring the production of records, we may share the relevant information.
• If the collection is primarily for journalistic, artistic, or literary reasons, and an individual produced the information during their employment, business, or profession. In that case, the information can be included.
• If the data is readily available and falls within the scope of the rules

4. WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?

In Brief: Information may be shared with the following parties and/or in the circumstances specified in this section.

In the following instances, we may need to disclose your personal information:

Business Transfers. To the extent that we are involved in, or are in negotiations regarding, a merger, sale of corporate assets, financing, or purchase of all or a portion of our business by another company, we may disclose or transfer your information to such company.

Affiliates.A We may disclose your information to our affiliates, but only if they agree to abide by the terms of this privacy notice. We also consider companies as our affiliates controlled by us or by which we share common control.

5. HOW LONG DO WE STORE YOUR DATA?

We will only keep your information for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice or as required by law.

If a longer retention time is needed or permitted by law, we will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the reasons outlined in this privacy notice (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). Under no circumstances described in this notice will we retain your personal information for more than six (6) months after the beginning of the user’s account inactivity.

We will delete or anonymize your data when we no longer need it to fulfill a legitimate business need, or if this is not possible (for instance, if your data is located in backup archives), then we will ensure its security by placing it in a separate, secure location until deletion is possible.

6. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR DATA?

In Brief: We are taking organizational and technical precautions to ensure the safety of your data.

We take the security of your personal information very seriously and have taken all feasible and acceptable technical and organizational precautions to ensure its safety. While we take precautions to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure that our security safeguards will prevent your data from being accessed, stolen, or modified by malicious third parties such as hackers and cybercriminals. While we take every precaution to safeguard your personal information, any transmission to or from our Services is done at your own risk. Ensure to use a safe network connection when accessing the Services.

7. DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA FROM CHILDREN?

We don’t intentionally collect information from or market to minors (those under 18). However, you must affirm that you are at least 18 years old or the parent or guardian of a minor dependent using the Services with your permission. If we discover that we have obtained personal information from a user under the age of 18, we will immediately deactivate that user’s account and take commercially reasonable steps to erase this information. Contact us at antonieta@quizmybrainz.com if you learn that we have collected information from a kid under 18.

8. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY?

At QuizMyBrainz.com, we will always do our best to keep your information secure and confidential. When it comes to the privacy and security of your information, we know how important it is to be able to prove who had access to it and when, and we strive to comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations, including the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), the European Union’s Privacy laws such as GDPR and the Californian one protect individuals’ personal information (CCPA). As part of our commitment to privacy, we collect and process only the information that is necessary to provide and improve our products and services, and we make every effort to ensure that your personal information is accurate, secure, and kept confidential. We collect several types of personal information, including contact information, demographic information, usage information, technical information, and payment information. We use this information for varied purposes, including communicating with you about your account, purchases, or support inquiries, personalizing your user experience and tailoring our offerings to your interests, and complying with legal or regulatory requirements. Data processing service providers, whom we may share your information with, such as payment processors, hosting providers, or marketing agencies, as well as business partners who offer products or services that may interest you. Your personal information will never be shared with any outside parties for their marketing uses, either by sale or rental. At QuizMyBrainz.com, we recognize your rights to your personal information and work hard to ensure that you have access to the resources you need to make the most of them. You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, to object to or restrict our processing of your personal information, to receive a copy of your personal information in a structured, machine-readable format, and to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. Please contact us at antonieta@quizmybrainz.com To make use of any of these privileges, and we will do our best to respond to your inquiry in a timely and complete manner. We also understand the importance of data protection and security, and we safeguard your data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We use industry-standard security protocols and technologies to safeguard your data, and we regularly review and update our security practices to ensure they meet or exceed current best practices. In addition to complying with applicable privacy laws and regulations, we also provide a clear and conspicuous cookie notice to inform you about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, as well as an analytics disclosure to tell you about our use of analytics tools to analyze and improve our website or mobile app performance. Overall, we are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe and secure user experience. Do not hesitate to contact us at antonieta@quizmybrainz.com if you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices.

9. CONTROLS FOR DO NOT TRACK (DNT) FEATURE

You can communicate your privacy preference by activating the Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or configuration found in most mobile web browsers and in a small subset of mobile operating systems and mobile applications. As of yet, the technology has no standardized method of detecting and acting upon DNT signals. Due to this, we do not currently honor Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals or any other mechanism that conveys your preference not to be tracked automatically. If a universal standard is established for online monitoring that we are obligated to use, we will update this privacy notice to reflect the new requirements.

10. ARE THERE ANY PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA CITIZENS?

In Brief: if you live in California, you have certain rights concerning your data. Users who are California residents are entitled to request and receive from us once per calendar year, and at no cost, specifics on the types of personally identifiable information (if any). We follow the California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, by disclosing your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing uses, the names and addresses of all third parties with whom we shared personal information in the preceding calendar year. If you live in California and would want to make this request, please use the contact information below to send us a letter. If you are under 18 and a California resident with a registered account, you may request that information you have publicly posted on the Services be removed. Please use the contact information below to request the removal of such material and include your account email address and a statement that you are a California resident. We’ll make sure the information isn’t visible to users of the Services, but it may not disappear entirely from our servers (e.g., backups, etc.)

11. HOW DO WE UPDATE NOTICES FOR CHANGES?

In Brief: We intend to make any changes required to keep this notice under applicable laws.

This privacy notice may be revised at any moment. The “Updated” date will be changed to reflect the new version, and the newest version will be effective immediately. If we decide to make any substantial changes to this Privacy Notice, we will provide you with an advance notice by either publishing a notice of the changes in a conspicuous location on our website or by directly contacting you. If you are concerned about how your personal information is being handled, please go back to this privacy notice often.

12. HOW CAN REACH OUT TO US FOR THIS NOTICE?

Email contactus@quizmybrainz.com or write to Quiz my Brainz if you have any questions or comments concerning this notice.

You can reach us at 9133 Silver Dollar Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76131, USA.

13. HOW CAN YOU ACCESS, MODIFY, or DELETE THE INFO WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

You may have the right to access, modify, or delete the personally identifiable information we collect from you by the laws of your country. You can submit a request form to access, modify, or delete your data by clicking here.