We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us.
That's the basic purpose of this Privacy Policy.
You should read this policy in full, but here are a few key things we hope you take away from it:
- ISporty is public and Kicks are immediately viewable and searchable by anyone around the world. We give you non-public ways to communicate on ISporty too, through protected Kicks and PASS Messages. You can also use ISporty under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your name.
- When you use ISporty, even if you are just looking at Kicks, we receive some personal information from you like the type of device you are using and your IP address. You can choose to share additional information with us like your email address, phone number, address book contacts, and a public profile. We use this information for things like keeping your account secure and showing you more relevant Kicks, people to WATCH, events, and ads.
- We give you control through your settings to limit the data we collect from you and how we use it, and to control things like account security, marketing preferences, apps that can access your account, and address book contacts you've uploaded to ISporty. You can also always download the information you have shared on ISporty.
- In addition to information you share with us, we use your Kicks, content you've read, Liked, or Rekicked, and other information to determine what topics you're interested in, your age, the languages you speak, and other signals to show you more relevant content. We give you transparency into that information, and you can modify or correct it at any time.
- If you have questions about this policy, how we collect or process your personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, we want to hear from you. You can contact us at any time.
Information You Share With Us
We require certain information to provide our services to you. For example, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on ISporty. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.
1.1 Basic Account Information
You don't have to create an account to use some of our service features, such as searching and viewing public ISporty profiles. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On ISporty this includes a display name (for example, ISporty Moments), a username (for example, @ISportyMoments), a password, and an email address or phone number. Your display name and username are always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. You can also create and manage multiple ISporty accounts, for example to express different parts of your identity.
1.2 Public Information
Most activity on ISporty is public, including your profile information, your time zone and language, when you created your account, and your Kicks and certain information about your Kicks like the date, time, and application and version of ISporty you Kicked from. You also may choose to publish your location in your Kicks or your ISporty profile. The lists you create, people you WATCH and who WATCHING you, and Kicks you Like or Rekick are also public. Information posted about you by other people who use our services may also be public. For example, other people may mention you in a Kick.
You are responsible for your Kicks and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it is sensitive information. If you update your public information on ISporty, such as by deleting a Kick, we will reflect your updated content on ISporty for iOS, and ISporty for Android.
1.3 Contact Information
We use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services - secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features (for example, for login verification or ISporty via SMS), and to send you information about our services. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from ISporty to that number as your country's laws allow.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
1.4 PASS Messages and Non-Public Communications
We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or control who sees your content. For example, you can use PASS Messages to have non-public conversations on ISporty or protect your Kicks. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving PASS Messages, we will store and process your communications and information related to them. This includes link scanning for malicious content, link shortening URLs, detection of spam and prohibited images, and review of reported issues. We also use information about whom you have communicated with and when (but not the content of those communications) to better understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to show more relevant content. We share the content of your PASS Messages with the people you have sent them to; we do not use them to serve you ads. Note that if you interact in a way that would ordinarily be public with ISporty content shared with you via PASS Message, for instance by liking a Kick, those interactions will be public. When you use features like PASS Messages to communicate, remember that recipients have their own copy of your communications on ISporty - even if you delete your copy of those messages from your account - which they may duplicate, store, or re-share.
1.5 Payment Information
You may provide us with payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, in order to purchase advertising or other offerings provided as part of our services.
1.6 How You Control the Information You Share with Us
Your Privacy and safety settings let you decide:
Whether your Kicks are publicly available on ISporty
Whether you will be able to receive PASS Messages from anyone on ISporty or just your followers
Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number
When and where you may see sensitive content on ISporty
Whether you want to RED CARD or YELLOW CARD other ISporty accounts
Additional Information We Receive About You
We receive certain information when you use our services or other websites or mobile applications that include our content, and from third parties including advertisers. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.
2.1 Location Information
We require information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you have previously used ISporty - to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to WATCH.
2.2 Links
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in Kicks that appear on other websites or mobile applications.
If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from ISporty, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
2.3 Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our services such as searching and looking at public profiles. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you including ads, and remembering your language preferences. We do not support the Do Not Track browser option.
2.4 Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as Log Data, even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party service, or visit a third-party service that includes ISporty content, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through ISporty. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is popular on our services. We also use this data to improve the content we show you, including ads.
We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you, including ads.
2.5 ISporty for Web Data
When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate ISporty content such as embedded timelines or Kick buttons, we may receive Log Data that includes the web page you visited. We use this information to better understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to show more relevant content, including ads. We do not associate this web browsing history with your name, email address, phone number, or username, and we delete, obfuscate, or aggregate it after no longer than 30 days. We do not collect this data from browsers.
2.6 Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
Advertising revenue allows us to support and improve our services. We use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of ISporty. Our ad partners and affiliates share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology.
If you are an advertiser or a prospective advertiser, we process your personal data to help offer and provide our advertising services. You can update your data in your ISporty Ads dashboard or by contacting us directly as described in this Privacy Policy.
2.7 Other Third Parties and Affiliates
We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad partners, such as others on ISporty, partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform, our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your ISporty account.
2.8 Personalizing Across Your Devices
When you log into ISporty on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into ISporty (or associate your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). We do this to operate and personalize our services. For example, if you visit websites with sports content on your laptop, we may show you sports-related ads on ISporty for Android.
Information We Share and Disclose
As noted above, ISporty is designed to broadly and instantly disseminate information you share publicly through our services. In the limited circumstances where we disclose your private personal data, we do so subject to your control, because it's necessary to operate our services, or because it's required by law.
3.1 Sharing You Control
We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. If you've shared information like PASS Messages or protected Kicks with someone else who accesses ISporty through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.
Subject to your settings, we also provide certain third parties with personal data to help us offer or operate our services. For example, we share with advertisers the identifiers of devices that saw their ads, to enable them to measure the effectiveness of our advertising business. We also share device identifiers, along with the interests or other characteristics of a device or the person using it, to help partners decide whether to serve an ad to that device or to enable them to conduct marketing, brand analysis, interest-based advertising, or similar activities. The information we share with these partners does not include your name, email address, phone number, or ISporty username, but some of these partnerships allow the information we share to be linked to other personal information if the partner gets your consent first.
3.2 Service Providers
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the Kuwait, UAE, United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and to help us understand the use of our services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal data with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. We share your payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards.
3.3 Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party's, including a government's, request to disclose your personal data.
3.5 Affiliates and Change of Ownership
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help operate our services and our affiliates services, including the delivery of ads.
3.5 Non-Personal Information
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the total number of times people engaged with a Kick, the number of people who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll in a Kick (even if only one did), the topics that people are Kicking about in a particular location, or reports to advertisers about how many people saw or clicked on their ads.
Managing Your Personal Information With Us
You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. We also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where applicable for the use of data you have provided to iSporty. And we make the data you shared through our services portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.
4.1 Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
If you have registered an account on iSporty, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account.
4.2 Deletion
We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. When deactivated, your iSporty account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be viewable on ISporty.net, iSporty for iOS, and iSporty for Android. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is still possible to restore your iSporty account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information and public Kicks, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.
4.3 Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent
When you are logged into your iSporty account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features at any time.
4.4 Additional Information or Assistance
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us or writing to us at the appropriate address below.
If you live in the Kuwait, the data controller responsible for your personal data is iSporty, Inc. with an address of:
ISporty, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to Images, Videos. The information that we request will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy. Furthermore, ISporty will access your images and videos from gallery to allow you to share kicks. We may upload some placeholder images in the Signup process if user have not selected any image at all for profile picture and cover picture. This is because of the requirements for the ISporty's Signup API. In addition, there might be some cases where the app uses Location and/or Images in order to fulfill certain API's requirements.
The app does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.
Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app
If you live outside the Kuwait, the data controller is iSporty International Company, with an address of: info@isporty.net
Children and Our Services
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
Our Global Operations and Privacy Shield
To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the Kuwait, UAE, United States, Ireland, and any other country where we operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of your country.
When we transfer personal data outside of the European Union or EFTA States, we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country's data protection laws, contractual obligations placed on the recipient of the data (model clauses may be requested by inquiry as described below), or EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles.
iSporty, Inc. complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles (the Principles) regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland, as described in our EU-US Privacy Shield certification and Swiss-US Privacy Shield certification.
If you have a Privacy Shield-related complaint, please contact us. As part of our participation in Privacy Shield, if you have a dispute with us about our adherence to the Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our internal complaint resolution process, alternatively through the independent dispute resolution body JAMS, and under certain conditions, through the Privacy Shield arbitration process.
Privacy Shield participants are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission and other authorized statutory bodies. Under certain circumstances, participants may be liable for the transfer of personal data from the EU or Switzerland to third parties outside the EU and Switzerland.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at http://iSporty.net/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an @iSporty update or email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective: July 10, 2022