Last updated: March 3,

TinyPix recognizes that your privacy is very important, and we take it seriously. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures about the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data when you use the TinyPix Platform. TinyPix   is the data controller for your personal information collected through the TinyPix Platform. This Privacy Policy applies to activities by TinyPix,   and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “TinyPix,” “we” or “us”). Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service. For clarity, personal information or personal data means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

The Information We Collect

We collect information directly from individuals, from third-parties, and automatically through the TinyPix Platform. If you choose not to disclose certain personal information, it may limit your access to certain services or features, including account registration, and the ability to follow other TinyPix users or share content on other sites.

Account and Profile Information: When you create an account and profile on the TinyPix Platform, we collect your name, contact information, and other information you provide, such as topics that you know about or find interesting. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to users of the TinyPix Platform. Once you create a profile, other users will be able to see in your profile certain information about your activity on the TinyPix Platform, such as the questions and answers you post, your followers and who you follow, topics of interest to you, the information you list as credentials, and your edits to Your Content. For more information about your choices for publicly displayed information, see the section below about Your Choices.

Your Content: We collect and store the information and content that you post to the TinyPix Platform, including your questions, answers, photos, and comments. Unless you have posted certain content anonymously, Your Content, date and time stamps, and all associated comments are publicly viewable on the TinyPix Platform, along with your name. This also may be indexed by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Internet in accordance with our Terms of Service. For more information about what you can change, see the below section on Your Choices.

Communications: When you communicate with us (via email, phone, through the TinyPix Platform or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication.

Integrated Service Provider and Linked Networks: You can elect to sign in or sign up to the TinyPix Platform through a linked network (i.e., Facebook or Google), and you can connect your existing TinyPix account with certain third party networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (each a “Linked Network”). If you elect to sign up through or connect a Linked Network, we receive certain profile and account information about you from the Linked Network. These Linked Networks may also appear in your profile, so that people can find you on these Linked Networks. The specific information provided to us by Linked Networks is determined by these third parties and may vary by network. In all cases, the permissions page for the Linked Network will describe the information being shared. You should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices. You may elect to use information from the Linked Network to populate your profile on the TinyPix Platform and help you find and follow your contacts on the TinyPix Platform. For information on your choices, including how to disconnect a Linked Network from your TinyPix profile, see the “Your Choices” section below. You may also elect to connect and make and receive payments to and from use through third party networks (“Integrated Service Provider”); if you do so, you will be allowing us to pass to and receive from the Integrated Service Provider your log-in information and other user data for payment purposes.

Automatically Collected Information About Your Activity. We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use of the TinyPix Platform. We also collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of the TinyPix Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with the TinyPix Platform, even if you have not created an account. For more information, see the “Cookies, Pixels and Tracking” section below and our Cookie Policy.

Engagement: We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, TinyPix cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising or content identifiers (if applicable), and time zone, and other information about user activities on the TinyPix Platform, as well as on third party sites and services that have embedded our TinyPix pixels (“Pixels”) widgets, plug-ins, buttons, or related services. See the section below about TinyPix Ads and Personalization for more detailed information about how our Pixels may be used by publishers or users of our advertising services (“Ad Services”) on the TinyPix Platform to enable personalization, as well as your choices related to advertising and personalization. We may also receive information about you from third parties, such as other users, partners (including ad partners), or our affiliated companies.

Purposes and Legal Bases for Our Using of Your Information

We do not sell your personal data – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes.

TinyPix uses the information we collect for our legitimate interests which include the following:

• Provide our Services. To provide you the services we offer on the TinyPix Platform, communicate with you about your use of the TinyPix Platform, respond to your inquiries, provide troubleshooting, and for other customer service purposes.
• Personalization. To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you in the TinyPix Platform, to suggest followers and content, to offer location customization and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the TinyPix Platform.
• Advertising. To display interest-based advertising to you in the TinyPix Platform, to improve our advertising and measurement systems so we can show you relevant ads, and to measure the effectiveness and reach of ads and services. For more information, see the section below about TinyPix Ads and Personalization.
• Marketing and Promotions. For marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including information about third party products and services.
• Analytics. To gather metrics to better understand how users access and use the TinyPix Platform; to evaluate and improve the TinyPix Platform, including the Ad Services and personalization, and to develop new products and services.
• Comply with Law. To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes.
• Prevent Misuse. Where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.

How We Share Your Information

We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:

• Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.
• Affiliates. The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of TinyPix,  , whose use and disclosure of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
• Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.
• Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.
• Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of TinyPix, its users, or others.
• Your Content and Activity. Your Content, including your name, profile picture, profile information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users of the TinyPix Platform and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share Your Content across other sites or services. In addition, Your Content may be indexed by search engines. See the section below about Your Choices for information about how you may change how certain information is shared or viewed by others.
• Metrics. We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the TinyPix Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use Pixels on the TinyPix Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their ads or content.
• Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

Cookies, Pixels and Tracking

We and our third party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage, log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your usage and browsing activities on the TinyPix Platform and across third party sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about users. Below, we provide a brief summary of these activities. For more detailed information about these mechanisms and how we collect activity information.

Cookies. These are small files with a unique identifier that are transferred to your browser through our websites. They allow us to remember users who are logged in, to understand how users navigate through and use the TinyPix Platform, and to display personalized content and targeted ads (including on third party sites and applications).

Pixels, web beacons, clear GIFs. These are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, which we use to track the online movements of users of the TinyPix Platform and the web pages of users of our Ad Services, and to personalize content. We also use these in our emails to let us know when they have been opened or forwarded, so we can gauge the effectiveness of our communications.

Analytics Tools. We may use internal and third party analytics tools, including Google Analytics. The third party analytics companies we work with may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other websites and/or other online products and services. Their collection and use of information is subject to their own privacy policies.

TinyPix Ads and Personalization

On the TinyPix Platform, we may display content from publishers tailored to your interests or personalized ads (including sponsored content) to you, based on information that we have collected via the TinyPix Platform and through our Pixels, widgets, and buttons embedded on third party sites. We also may report to users of our Ad Services and to publishers of content on the TinyPix Platform the number of users that saw a particular ad or content, as well as other information about the audience engagement in an aggregated format.

Users of our Ad Services may also provide us with information as part of their ad campaigns, including customer list information (e.g., email addresses and demographic or interest data) in order to create customized audiences for their ad campaigns; we only use this information to facilitate the particular user’s campaign (including ad metrics and reporting to that user) or for fraud detection and security purposes, and we do not disclose this information to third parties (other than our service providers) unless required by law. We also do not disclose to the users of our Ad Services the names or identities of their customers that were successfully reached as part of such campaigns.

Please see the “Your Choices” section below for information about your choices regarding targeted advertising and personalization, and how you can opt out of personalized ads from us or tracking by our Pixels.

As described in our Cookie Policy, we may also work with third parties such as network advertisers to serve ads on the TinyPix Platform and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense (privacy and opt-out info here) and Facebook Audience Network (privacy and opt-out info here). You may opt out of interest-based ads from these third party ad networks. These third parties may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you.

For more information about how to opt out of interest based ads from many ad networks, see our Cookie Policy. Note, if you delete cookies or change devices, your opt-out may no longer be effective.

How We Protect Your Information

The security of your information is important to us. TinyPix has implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using the TinyPix Platform on a shared or unsecured device.

Access and Amend Your Information

You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your Choices.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit information through the TinyPix Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the TinyPix Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here is some further information about some of your choices:

Adult Content. In your profile’s privacy settings, you can elect whether to receive adult content.

Followers. You can block the ability of another TinyPix user to follow you by selecting the setting for this in the other user’s profile. You can change whether or not you follow other users.

Topics. You can change topics that you follow or that your profile lists as areas that you know about.

Credentials. You can change your credentials that are displayed in your profile or in connection with a specific answer.

Indexed Search. In your privacy settings, you can control whether your profile and name is indexed by search engines. Changes to privacy settings may only apply on a going-forward basis; for example, your name (e.g., answers and profile) that has already been indexed by search engines may remain indexed for a period of time even after you have turned off indexing, as implementing this change is outside of our control.

Deleted or Deactivated Account. If you choose Delete Your Account in your privacy settings, then all of Your Content will be removed from public visibility on the TinyPix Platform, and it may not be restored by us, even if you change your mind. If you choose Deactivate Your Account, then you will no longer receive any communications from us, and users will not be able to interact with you; however Your Content will remain on the TinyPix Platform. Once you deactivate your account, you can reactivate it any time by choosing to log in.

Personalized Advertising and Pixels

To opt out of receiving personalized ads on the TinyPix Platform please visit https://tinypix.co.uk/page/contact and select “I need help with my account,” to tell us that you no longer wish to receive personalized ads from us in the Platform. Please include a link to your profile in your request to opt out of personalized ads. TinyPix may still show you contextualized ads relevant to the content you’re viewing.

To opt out of tracking via the TinyPix Pixels, please visit this page. Opting out of Pixels tracking may impact our ability to personalize ads and content tailored to your interests. This setting is tied to your cookies, and, unless you are logged in to the TinyPix Platform, will only be effective on the browser for which you have performed the opt-out.

Third Party Ad Networks

For information about and to opt out of interest-based ads from many ad networks, go to:

• European Union: www.youronlinechoices.eu/
• Canada: www.youradchoices.ca
• U.S.: www.aboutads.info Internet Advertising Bureau

Linked Networks. You may connect or disconnect your Linked Networks, such as Facebook, through the Account Settings tab in your profile settings, and you may access, amend and delete much of your profile information through your profile settings. Once you disconnect a Linked Network, we will not receive information from that Linked Network going forward, unless you choose to reconnect it. You may also control whether the Linked Network is visible in your profile.

Your Rights

As noted above, TinyPix gives users several easy-to-use ways to exercise choices about their personal information in the TinyPix Platform.

Access Amendment, Deletion, Portability, Objection and Other Rights. If you have registered with us and wish to access or update your profile, or exercise certain opt-out rights, you may do so online by visiting the “profile” settings in your account. In addition, users may also have the right to be provided certain personal information in a commonly used format where technically feasible, and, under certain conditions, to object to or restrict our use of certain personal information. You may also contact our privacy coordinator, as set forth below, to access or amend your personal information, to request that we rectify, delete or stop processing your personal information, to withdraw your consent to our processing, and, if you are an EEA resident, to exercise your opt-out rights or place a data portability request.

Requests should be directed to Contact (or at the Contact Us information shown below). Please keep in mind that certain services will not be available if you withdraw your consent, or otherwise delete or object to our processing of certain personal information. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

Complaints. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory data protection authority.

Retention of Your Data

We will generally retain your profile and related personal information for as long as you have an account with us. If you wish to “be forgotten” by TinyPix (i.e., request the deletion of your personal information from TinyPix and the TinyPix Platform), you will need to delete your account (see “Your Choices” section above). If you delete your account, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, and enforce our agreements. Further, any questions you post, threads you start, or other Your Content that other users have responded to or interacted with may continue to appear in the TinyPix Platform, but your user name will be removed from such content.

Transferring Your Data

TinyPix is headquartered in the United States, and has operations, entities and service providers in the United States and throughout the world. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or access it in, jurisdictions (including the United States) that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it, including through: putting in place appropriate written data processing terms and/or data transfer agreements, using contractual clauses as approved by the European Commission (the form for the standard contractual clauses can be found here), or following an adequacy decision by the EU Commission.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (or under the age of 14 for anyone living in Spain or South Korea), or knowingly allow such persons to register. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without parental consent, we take steps to delete that information.

Links to Other Websites

The TinyPix Platform may contain links to third-party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavour to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice in the TinyPix Platform or to your email address of record, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the opportunity to opt out of such changes.