Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how PoetryBird ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your information when you use our poetry submission website (the "Service").

1. Information We Collect

We collect different types of information from and about users of our Service, including:

• Personal Information: Information that can identify you directly or indirectly, such as your username, email address, and any other information you choose to provide when registering for an account or using the Service.
• User-Generated Content: The poems, comments, descriptions, and any other content you submit or create on the Service. This content may contain personal information if you choose to include it.
• Technical Data: Information about your device and how you access and use the Service, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, unique device identifiers, referral URLs, and pages you viewed.
• Usage Data: Information about your interactions with the Service, such as the features you use, the time and duration of your activities, and error reports.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Service.
• Manage your account and provide access to features.
• Enable you to post poems, send likes, and interact with others.
• Improve and personalize and expand our Service.
• Understand and analyze how you use our Service.
• Communicate with you, including for customer service, updates, and promotional purposes (with your consent where required).
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or security incidents.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

• With Your Consent: We may disclose your information for any purpose with your explicit consent.
• With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., hosting, analytics, customer support). These service providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
• Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

4. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• Rights related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
• The Right to Lodge a Complaint: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection authority regarding our collection and use of your personal data. Please contact the appropriate authority in your jurisdiction for more information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. Third-Party Links

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updateded" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: contact@poetrybird.com