Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy 

HappinessFactors & its affiliates provide products and services through mobile and other applications, develop software and provide emotional wellness solutions. We refer to these as “service(s),” or “our sites and services.”

This privacy policy applies to our sites and services on which we display or post a direct link to this privacy policy. This privacy policy does not apply to those sites and services that do not display or link to this privacy policy, or that have their own privacy policies.

This privacy policy applies to all users of our sites and services and covers what information we collect and why we collect it, how we use the information we collect, and the choices you have to access and update that information. Please familiarize yourself with our practices and let us know if you have any questions. By using our sites and services, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information as described in this privacy policy. Each time you use our sites and services, the current version of this privacy policy will apply. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use our sites or services.

1. Personal Information that You Provide to Us

Personal information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual, and includes other information that may be associated with personal information. When you interact with our sites and services, depending on the site or service, we may collect the following personal information directly from you.

  1. Account or Registration Information where needed to use our sites and services, and may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, birthday, user account name, and password;
  2. Contact Information, which generally includes your name, addresses, email addresses, social media website user account names, and/or telephone numbers;
  3. Payment Information where needed to process payments and generally includes your credit or debit card number, expiration date, and card verification number, paypal, venmo or other online payment systems;
  4. Personal Profile or Service Information, which may include areas of interest, information from social media interactions (such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+), preferences, physical characteristics (such as height, weight), photographs and, biographical, health information and/or demographic information (such as gender);
  5. Transaction Information, which may include information about how you interact with and use our sites and services, email, other communications, and applications, and how you interact with merchants, business partners, and service providers;
  6. Geographic Location Information  only if your device transmits location data and/or your IP address and you have activated a location-enabled site or service;
  7. Survey Data where needed for the functionality of certain services and generally includes survey questions and responses, and may allow you to import email addresses and names in order to send surveys or to allow us to send surveys on your behalf;
  8. Your Submissions, which generally includes information you voluntarily provide through free form text boxes, forums, document upload, or data retrieval or import;

2. Other Information We Automatically Collect through Cookies and Other Technologies

We or our third-party service providers may collect and store certain technical information when you use our sites and services. For example, our servers receive and automatically collect information about your computer and browser, including, for instance, your IP address, browser type, domain name from which you accessed the site or service, device size and other software or hardware information. If you access our sites and services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device (UDID), type of device, general GPS location, or other transactional information for that device in order to serve content to it and to improve your experience in using the sites or services.

2.1 Cookies

We or our third-party service providers may use cookies and other tracking technologies (including browser cookies, pixels, beacons, mobile application identifiers, and Adobe Flash technology) to help us recognize you across different sites and services, improve your experience, increase security, measure use and effectiveness of our services, and serve advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools.

By visiting our sites and services, you consent to the placement of cookies and beacons in your browser and HTML-based emails in accordance with this privacy policy and cookie policy.

4. How We Use Personal Information

4.1 Personal Information that You Provide to Us

We may use the personal information that you provide in one or more of the following ways:

  1. to carry out our obligations arising from your purchase of, or subscription to, our services or any other contract entered into between you and us;
  2. to enable site features such as geographically specific pricing or logging, and retrieving and providing analysis of data;
  3. to send you important notices, such as communications about changes to your account, and our sites’ and services’ terms, conditions, or policies;
  4. to process payments and to send you emails, invoices, receipts, notices of delinquency, alerting you if we need different or updated payment card information or other communications in connection with processing and collecting payments;
  5. to solicit input and feedback to improve our sites and services and customize your user experience;
  6. to enable you to communicate with other site or service users via private messaging or other service specific communication channels;
  7. to contact you via email, telephone, text or chat in a manner required by law;
  8. to send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages, and service bulletins;
  9. to inform you about new products or promotional offers, or other opportunities which we feel will be of interest to you, and to provide advertisements to you through our sites, email messages, text messages, applications, or other methods of communication;
  10. to manage our sites’ and services’ administration, forum management, or fulfillment;
  11. to provide customer service and technical support;
  12. to administer surveys, sweepstakes, giveaways, contests, or similar promotions or events sponsored by us or our partners;
  13. for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our products, services, and communications;

In addition to the uses described above, we may use personal information that we collect for other purposes that are disclosed to you at the time we collect the information, or with your consent.

4.2 Other Information We Automatically Collect Through Cookies and Other Technologies

We may use information collected from you through cookies and other tracking technologies in one or more of the following ways:

  1. to remember you when you return to our sites;
  2. to understand and analyze trends, to monitor usage, and learn about user behavior;
  3. to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole;
  4. to customize ads, content, or offers on our sites and services; and

5. Sharing Personal and Non-Personal Information

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

  1. when we engage third parties to perform services on our behalf, such services include maintenance, hosting, data storage, security, analytics and data analysis, payment processing, marketing, email and text message distribution, customer service, and surveys and sweepstakes;
  2. where necessary to operate our sites and services, your personal information and the contents of all of your online communications on or through our sites and services may be accessed and monitored:
    1. to satisfy any applicable laws or regulations,
    2. to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action,
    3. where we believe our sites and services are being used in the commission of a crime, including to report such criminal activity or to exchange information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and risk management, and
    4. when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the health and/or safety of you, another person, or the public generally;

We may share personal information about you for any other purpose(s) disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or with your consent.

6. User Generated Content, Online Communities and Forums, Profiles, Surveys, Reviews and Ratings

You may choose to publicly disclose personal information about yourself and others in the course of (i) contributing user generated content (for instance articles, blogs, surveys, reviews, ratings, or podcasts), (ii) communicating with others in our online forums, communities, or chat rooms, (iii) creating user profiles for public view, or (iv) posting images, photos, or videos. Be aware, information that you voluntarily disclose in any of these areas of our sites or services is unencrypted, public information and, therefore, there can be no expectation of privacy or confidentiality, except if the terms of use of the site or service specifically limit use of the content (for example, we may let you know how such survey and rating responses will be used and if anonymity is an option). Any personal information you submit in the course of interacting in these public activities can be read, collected, or used by other users. Prior to posting in these areas, we encourage you to read the specific site’s or service’s terms of use, as we are not responsible for the personal information you choose to make public in any of these areas and strongly recommend against sharing any personal health or other sensitive information that could directly or indirectly be traced to any individual, including yourself.

10. Email and Other Communications

Our sites and services may allow us or other users to communicate with you or other users through our in-product messaging services, service-branded emails, SMS, and other electronic communication channels.

10.2 Opting Out of Requested Communications

Requested communications include, for instance, email newsletters and software updates that may be expressly requested by you or which you consented to receive. After you request such communications, you may “opt-out” of receiving them by using one of the following methods:

  1. selecting the email “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link, or following the opt-out instructions included in each email communication;
  2. returning to the web page(s) where you originally registered your preferences and following the opt-out instructions; or
  3. emailing funny@happinessfactors.com.