Last revised January 7, 2020

Squid Brands, Inc.
228 Park Ave S, 
New York, NY 10003-1502

The Gist

Squid Brands, Inc. (“Squid Brands”) will collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you as you use our sites. We may use this data to better understand our users. We can also publish this data, but the data will be about a large group of users, not individuals. We may also collect certain personal information about you and your use of the Service (as defined herein) which may be published and used in the aggregate as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We will also ask you to provide personal information, but you’ll always be able to opt out. If you give us personal information, we won’t do anything evil with it.

We can also use cookies, but you can choose not to store these.

That’s the basic idea, but you must read through the entire Privacy Policy below and agree with all the details before you use any of our sites.

Reuse

This document is based upon the Automattic Privacy Policy and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License 2.5. Basically, this means you can use it verbatim or edited, but you must release new versions under the same license and you have to credit Automattic somewhere (like this!). Automattic is not connected with and does not sponsor or endorse Squid Brands or its use of the work.

Squid Brands makes available services include our web sites (http://www.squidbrands.com (the “Site”)), https://app.squidbrands.com (the “App”), our blog, our API, and any other software, sites, and services offered by Squid Brands in connection to any of those (taken together, the “Service”). It is Squid Brands’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Service.

Questions

If you have question about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Visitors

Like most website operators, Squid Brands collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Squid Brands’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Squid Brands’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Squid Brands may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Squid Brands also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Squid Brands does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below. We may also collect and use IP addresses to block users who violated our Terms of Service.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Squid Brands’ websites choose to interact with Squid Brands in ways that require Squid Brands to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Squid Brands gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Squid Brands collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Squid Brands. Squid Brands does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Service-related activities.

Additionally, some interactions, such as posting a comment, may ask for optional personal information. For instance, when posting a comment, may provide a website that will be displayed along with a user’s name when the comment is displayed. Supplying such personal information is completely optional and is only displayed for the benefit and the convenience of the user.

Aggregated Statistics and Third Party Analytics Providers

Squid Brands may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to and users of the Service. For instance, Squid Brands may monitor the most popular parts of the Squid Brands Site. Squid Brands may display this information in the aggregate publicly or provide it to others.

In addition, Squid Brands may, from time to time, collect certain personal information from you, your use of the Services, and/or the users of your website, channels, or connected third party channels (your “Channels”). This information may include audience statistics such as user conversation rates, bounce rates, and other metrics (your “Data”). Squid Brands may publish and display your Data in the aggregate to the public through our Site or on our blog, e.g. by publishing a report on average bounce rates on the Site. However, all Data is only used and published in the aggregate which means that any published Data will not identify you, your Channels, your company or your users, or link you to the published information in any way. If you wish to opt out of the publication of your Data, please contact us as [email protected].

Squid Brands may also use third party analytics providers and products, such as Amazon (collectively, “Third Party Providers”), to obtain, compile and analyze information (that may include personally-identifying information) about how users are using and interacting with Squid Brands and/or the Services. Such information is compiled in the aggregate and anonymized (i.e. the aggregated data will not personally identify users in any way) and provided to Third Party Providers for analytics purposes only (e.g. obtaining statistics and other information about how users are using and interacting with Squid Brands). These Third Party Providers may use a variety of established or new technologies or tools (including, without limitation, cookies, web beacons, HTTP cache, local shared objects and persistent identifiers) to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. You understand and acknowledge that Squid Brands has no control over the technologies, tools or practices of the Third Party Providers providing analytics products and services to Squid Brands.

Squid Brands does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Squid Brands discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Squid Brands’ behalf or to provide services available at Squid Brands’ Site websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the Service, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Squid Brands will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Squid Brands discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Squid Brands believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Squid Brands, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Service and have supplied your email address, Squid Brands may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Squid Brands and our products. We primarily use our website and blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Squid Brands takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Service each time the visitor returns. Squid Brands uses cookies to help Squid Brands identify and track visitors, their usage of Squid Brands Service, and their Service access preferences. Squid Brands visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Squid Brands’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Squid Brands’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Squid Brands, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Squid Brands goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Squid Brands may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Data Storage

Squid Brands uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run the Service. You understand that although you retain full rights to your data, it may be stored on third party storage and transmitted through third party networks.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Squid Brands may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Squid Brands’ sole discretion. Squid Brands encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.