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This Privacy Policy describes how Playbook Media, Inc., doing business as Top VR Deals (“Top VR Deals,” “we,” “us,” and/or “our”) handles the personal information we collect from and about you when you use this website (the “Site”); engage with us through our newsletters, emails, and branded social media accounts; or otherwise interact with us (collectively, with our Site, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also describes certain legal rights you may have, subject to applicable law, and how you can exercise them.  “You” refers to you as a user of the Site or Services, or anyone you allow to use the Site or Services on your behalf. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information about an identified or identifiable individual, such as their name or email address and includes “personal data” as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and “personal information” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Some information that is automatically disclosed to us or collected by us through your use of our Services meets this definition. 

By using any of Top VR Deals Services, you confirm you have agreed to our Terms of Use, to the extent applicable by law, and have read and understood this Privacy Policy. 

 

Information We Collect 

The types of Personal Information we collect depends on how you interact with us and which services you use. 

Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us 

We collect some information directly from you in the following ways: 

  • Signing up to receive communications from us, subscribing to our blog, or completing a survey: When you engage in any of these activities, we may collect your name, email address and other contact details, interests, and any additional information you provide to us as part of that request (such as information about what types of brands you are most learning about or your satisfaction with our Services in response to a survey). 
  • Registering for a contest, competition, or sweepstakes. In these circumstances, we may collect your name, contact information, location, photos, demographic information, interests, and any other information relevant to that contest or competition or which you choose to provide. 
  • Sharing user-generated content. We collect any information that you provide to us when you write comments or post other user-generated content on public or semi-public areas of the Site accessible to other Top VR Deals users. 
  • Contacting us: When you contact us by email; through our branded social media accounts; through any integrated chat providers we may offer; or by telephone, SMS, or physical mail, we may collect your name, social media username, contact information, and the contents of your communication, which can include any information you choose to provide. 
  • Inviting others to join Top VR Deals or Sending a Gift Card. We may allow you to invite others to join Top VR Deals through our Services. If you do this or are invited in this way, we will collect and store the invitee’s email address in order to enable us to send an invitation. We will also let the invitee know who invited them and let him/her request that his/her information be deleted from our systems. Similarly, we may offer gift cards from time to time. If you purchase a gift card for another person, we will collect the recipient’s name and email address in order to enable us to send the gift card. 

Information We Collect Automatically 

We also collect certain information about you automatically as you navigate our Site or interact with our emails. The type of information we collect automatically includes the following: 

  • Log information: We may collect log information about your use of our Site including your browser type and language, access times, pages viewed, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, approximate geographic location, and the webpage or online service you visited before navigating to our Site. 
  • Device information: We may collect information about the mobile device you use to access our Services, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers and mobile network information. 
  • Information collected by cookies and similar technologies: We may use cookies and similar technologies to manage and track your interaction with our website. Cookies are small data files that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. We use these technologies to better serve our users and to enhance this Site. For example, we may use cookies to tell us whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor. You can configure most browsers to notify you when you receive a new cookie, to reject new cookies, and to disable existing cookies. You can learn how to do this by consulting the help section of your browser. Please note that if you choose to stop accepting cookies you may not be able to use all features of our Site.
  • Advertising and Analytics: We may allow third parties to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet and in mobile applications. They may use a variety of tools including cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar technologies to track your engagement with our Site as well as our online advertising and email marketing campaigns. These tools may capture information such as your IP address, device ID, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spend on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by Top VR Deals and others to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Services, and to better understand your online activity. We may also use third-party platforms to help us promote interest-based advertisements. This can include converting the email address, phone number, or other contact information you have provided to us into a unique value that these platforms may compare to a unique value created on their platforms in order to identify you as part of an intended audience for our advertisements. Many analytics providers allow you to opt out from the collection of your Personal Information. For opt-out information, please see our Cookie Policy. 

Information We Collect from Other Sources 

  • Social media platforms: We may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools such as widgets, which allow you to share content on our Site with third-party social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. If you choose to use these social sharing features, the provider of the third-party social media platform may make certain information available to us. This can include information necessary to facilitate the integration as well as any additional information the provider chooses to share with us or which you have permitted the provider to share through your privacy settings. We encourage you to check the privacy settings and privacy policies of these third-party social media platforms to understand what information might be shared with us.
  • Publicly available sources: We may supplement the information that we collect from you (such as your email address) with additional information about you and your company obtained from publicly available and third-party databases or services. 

We may combine the information we collect about you from these various sources. If a combination of information that we collect identifies you as an individual, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information. 

 

How We Use Your Information 

Top VR Deals collects the Personal Information described above so that we can: 

  • Provide the Services to you;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events we offer and provide news and information we believe will be of interest to you; 
  • Operate and improve our Site, including monitoring and analyzing usage, trends, and activities related to the Site;
  • Personalize your experience and the advertisements you see when you use the Services or third-party platforms, based on your preferences, interests, and browsing behavior; 
  • Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments, and suggestions; 
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; 
  • Identify, fix, and troubleshoot bugs and service errors; 
  • Enhance our communications and the experience we offer you, including requesting feedback about the Site and Services;
  • Further our marketing and social strategies (including promoting our products and services and using information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our Services on third-party websites); 
  • Protect against, identify, investigate, and respond to misuse of our Services or other unlawful behavior; and 
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

How We Share Your Information 

We may share information about you with certain third parties in the following circumstances: 

  • Companies under common control: We may share Personal Information between and among Top VR Deals current and future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and other companies under common control and ownership. 
  • Vendors and service providers: To conduct business operations and provide our Services, we may share Personal Information with a variety of third-party vendors and service providers who need to access the data in order to perform services on our behalf, such as providing cloud-hosting or cloud-storage services. 
  • Other third parties. We may share your Personal Information with other third parties that provide advertising, campaign measurement, online analytics and other services, in order to help us reach individuals with relevant ads and measure our ad campaigns, or to better understand how individuals interact with both our Services and other online services over time and across devices.
  • Social Media Platforms. Our Service may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools such as widgets, which allow users to share information on our Sites with third-party social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter. Using these social sharing features is optional.
  • Public: We may offer features that allow you to connect with other Top VR Deals users and communicate in public or semi-public spaces. If you use these features or post information on our branded social media pages, that information may be displayed and viewable by other users. 
  • Business transfers: We may share your Personal Information with another company in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of services to another provider. 
  • Legal requirements: We may share Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to protect Top VR Deals rights and property, to protect the safety of our users, and to defend against legal liability.
  • Consent: We may share Personal Information with your consent and at your direction, including if we notify you that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide that information. 

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for various purposes including compliance with various reporting obligations; for business or marketing purposes; or to assist third parties in understanding our users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality available through our Services. 

 

Our Legal Bases for Handling Your Personal Data 

Data protection laws in certain jurisdictions require businesses to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to use or disclose your Personal Information. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds are as follows: 

  • Legitimate interest: Most often, we handle Personal Information on the ground that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities such as the following: 

           o Providing and personalizing the Services for you;

            o Marketing our business; 

            o Protecting our users, personnel, and property;

            o Analyzing and improving our business;

  • Legal compliance: We need to use and disclose Personal Information in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations.
  • To honor our contractual commitments to an individual: We need to process some Personal Information in order to meet our contractual obligations to the individual to whom the Personal Information pertains, including performing the contractual obligations in our Terms of Service. 
  • Consent: Where required by law, and in some other cases, we handle Personal Information on the basis of implied or express consent. For instance, we will obtain and rely on your consent to send you newsletters.

Your Rights and Choices 

Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights and choices with respect to your Personal Information. Those rights may be limited by local law requirements. You may exercise these rights by contacting us as specified below. 

  • Opting out of email marketing. You can opt-out of receiving our promotional emails and texts . You may do so by contacting our customer service team, adjusting the text and notification preferences in your mobile device’s settings, or by following the opt-out instructions in the promotional emails or texts we send you. Please be aware that it may take up to 10 days for us to process your request, and you may continue receiving promotional communications from us during that period. If you opt-out of receiving such communications, please note that we may continue to send you non-promotional emails (such as emails related to our business relationship or emails about changes to our legal terms). 
  • Restricting cookies/Do Not Track. Top VR Deals does not change its behavior in response to web browser “do not track” signals. However, you can configure most browsers to reject cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you a chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You can consult the help section of your browser to find out how to do this. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. 
  • Limiting Information Available Through Social Media Platforms.  If you want to limit or stop receipt of information from third-party social media platforms, you can change your privacy settings on those other websites. You also may choose not to use social features we make available. 
  • Access, Update, or Delete Your Information. To access, update, or delete information we maintain about you please contact us at privacy@topvrdeals.com. Please note that even if you ask us to delete your information, we may keep certain Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations or for legitimate business purposes, such as to resolve disputes or enforce our agreements. We may also keep cached archived copies of Personal Information for a certain period of time. 
  • Data Subject Requests: Depending on your location, you may be eligible to request that we provide you with access to and/or a copy of certain Personal Information  we hold about you, including information we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes; ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased; object to our processing of your Personal Information; request that we restrict certain processing; transfer your Personal Information to a third party; or honor your withdrawal of consent for certain processing of your Personal Information. 

We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. Before responding to your request, we may require that you provide us with additional information to confirm your identity. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorities applicable to your situation. However, we invite you to contact us with any concern, as we would be happy to try to resolve it directly. 

California Privacy Rights: If you are a resident of California, California law requires us to disclose the following information with respect to our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information. 

Notice of Collection. Although the information we collect is described in greater detail in the “Information We Collect” section above, the categories of Personal Information that we have collected – as described by the CCPA – including in the past 12 months are: 

            ♣ Identifiers, such as name, contact information, and IP address. We collect this information directly from you, from third-party sources, or indirectly through your actions on our Site or from your devices. 

            ♣ Other individual customer records, such as phone number. This category includes personal information protected under pre-existing California law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), and overlaps with other categories listed here. We collect this information directly from you or from third-party sources.

            ♣ Commercial information, such as engagement with our Service. We collect this information directly from you. 

            ♣ Demographic information, such as age and gender. We collect this information directly from you. 

            ♣ Geolocation data, such as your precise physical location. We collect this information directly from you or from your device. 

            ♣ Internet activity, such as referring and exiting pages and your interactions with our Service. We collect this information directly from your device. 

            ♣ Sensory information, such as photos. We collect this information directly from you. 

            ♣ Inferences, such as information about your interests and preferences. We collect this information directly from you or indirectly from your activity on our Sites or from your device. 

Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting and Using Personal Information. We collect each category of Personal Information listed above for the business or commercial purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information” section above. 

Categories of Sources of Personal Information. We collect each category of Personal Information listed above directly from you, through automatic data collection means, or through the third-party sources described in the “Information We Collect” section above. 

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed. In the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed the categories of Personal Information listed above in the circumstances described in the “How We Share Your Information” section above. 

Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share Personal Information. We may share each category of Personal Information listed above with the third parties described in the “How We Share Your Information” section above. 

Right to Know. California residents may request disclosure of the specific pieces and/or categories of Personal Information that we have collected about them, the categories of sources for that Personal Information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, the categories of Personal Information that we have disclosed, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared. To request this information please contact us at privacy@topvrdeals.com

Right to Opt-Out. California law requires that we provide transparency about the Personal Information we “sell,” which for the purposes of the CCPA means any instance in which we share Personal Information with third parties in exchange for valuable consideration. Top VR Deals does not sell Personal Information to third parties for monetary value. Based on the CCPA’s broad definition of the term “sale,” certain data collection on our Services by third parties for the purposes of interest-based advertising may be a “sale” under the CCPA. To the extent that “sale” under the CCPA is interpreted to include any of the data uses described in the How We Use Your Information section above, California residents are entitled to opt-out of the “sale” of data at any time. You may opt-out by emailing us at privacy@topvrdeals.com

Deletion. You may request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected about you (subject to certain exceptions). Please be aware that we may keep certain information as required or permitted by applicable law. To exercise this right, please contact us at privacy@topvrdeals.com

Authorized Agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification. To verify the request, we may contact you directly. 

Right to Non-Discrimination. Limiting use of, or deleting, your Personal Information may affect features and uses that rely on that information. However, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights, including denying you goods or services, providing you with a different level or quality of services, or charging you different prices or rates for services. 

Financial Incentives. We offer various financial incentives. For example, we may provide discounts, coupons, and other benefits to individual who sign up to receive our promotional communications or to join a rewards program. When you participate in a financial incentive, we collect personal information from you, such as identifiers (like your name and email address) and commercial information (like your purchase history). You can opt into a financial incentive by following the sign-up or participation instructions provided, and you may opt-out of the financial incentive or our continued use of your Personal Information in connection with a financial incentive, at any time by contacting us at privacy@topvrdeals.com In some cases, we may provide additional terms and conditions for a financial incentive, which we will present to you when you sign up. The value of your Personal Information is reasonably related to the value of the offer or discount presented to you. 

Shine the Light. California Civil Code § 1798.83, also known as the “Shine the Light” law, permits California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of Personal Information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below. 

 

 

Children’s Privacy 

Our Services are intended for adults and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold where applicable) has given us Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at privacy@topvrdeals.com

 

Data Transfers 

Personal Information we collect may be stored and processed for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy in the United States where we are based or in any country where we have operations or engage vendors or service providers. These countries may have different data protection and government surveillance laws than your country. By using our Services and submitting your Personal Information to us, you agree to such transfers. 

 

Links to Other Websites and Third-Party Content

We may provide links to third-party websites, services, and applications that are not operated or controlled by Top VR Deals. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those third parties. The fact that we link to a website, service, or application is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party service before providing any information to or through them. 

If you reside or are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), you may contact us to obtain a copy of any relevant mechanism we may use to transfer Personal Information outside the EEA.  

 

Data Retention

We only keep your Personal Information for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as required by law, or as necessary to resolve disputes and enforce our rights and agreements. We may, however, retain data in copies made for backup or business continuity purposes for additional time. To dispose of personal data, we may anonymize it, delete it, or take other appropriate steps. 

 

Security

Top VR Deals uses generally accepted administrative and technical safeguards we believe are appropriate to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Information. Although we make reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk in any system for transmitting and storing information electronically. Top VR Deals cannot and does not guarantee absolute security. If you believe your Personal Information has been compromised through your use of our Services, please contact us immediately at privacy@topvrdeals.com

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy 

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. If we make changes to this policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our Site and indicate when it was last revised. You are advised to review this policy periodically to stay informed of our practices. 

If we make material changes, we may provide you with additional notice, such as posting a statement on our homepage or sending you an email notification, if we have your email address on file. Your continued use of the Services after the revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood, and agreed to the current version of this Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by law. 

 

Contacting Us 

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or how we protect your Personal Information, please contact us at privacy@topvrdeals.com or you may write us at 444. S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90017.