Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy describes the policy of Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy applies to the StoryBee.Space website ("StoryBee" or "Website"), and all related websites, mobile applications, application, services and tools where reference is made to this policy, regardless of how you access the Services, including access through mobile devices.

The terms “Storybee Inc.,” “our firm," “our company," “StoryBee," “StoryBee.Space," “StoryBee.Online," "us or Us," “we or We,” and “our or Our” refer to Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners. The term "you or You" / “your or Your” refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Scope and consent: By using our services, you give explicit consent to Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners. for the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by us, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We advise you to read it regularly. Substantial changes to our Privacy Policy will be announced on our Website. The amended Privacy Policy will be effective immediately after it is first posted on our Website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

From time to time, this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They should not be taken to imply that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s). Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use is subject to the laws of the province of Ontario, Canada. Proceed with caution and understanding the privacy policy is recommended.

CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will not distribute your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional materials.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A fee is applicable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact support@storybee.space, with your request.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

The data controller of your personal information is Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners. Please note that if you contact us to assist you, for your safety and ours we may need to authenticate your identity before fulfilling your request.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND POTENTIAL USAGE

You can visit our Website or Mobile Application without registering for an account. When you decide to provide us with your personal information, you agree that such information is sent to and stored on our servers. We collect the following types of personal information:

Information we collect automatically: When you visit our Website, use our Services and or reply to ads or other content, we automatically collect the information sent to us by your computer, mobile device or other equipment that provides access. This information includes, but is not limited to:

• information from your interaction with our Website, Mobile Application and Services, including, but not limited to, device ID, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from our site and mobile application, referring URL, ad data, IP address and standard web log information; and

• information we collect through cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

Information you provide to us: We collect and store any information you enter on our Website/Mobile Application or that you provide to us when you use our Services. This information includes, but is not limited to:

• information that you provide to us when you register for an account or for the Services that you use;

• additional information that you may provide to us through social media sites or third party Services;

• information provided in the context of dispute resolution, correspondence through our Website or correspondence that is sent to us;

• information about your location and the location of your device, including your device’s unique identifier information if you have enabled this service on your mobile device, and

• your resume if you choose to submit it to us for consideration through our careers page.

Information from other sources: We may receive or collect additional information about you from third parties and add this to our account information. This information includes, but is not limited to: demographic data, navigation data, additional contact data and additional data about you from other sources, such as public authorities, to the extent permitted by law.

Information from partners: We collect information from other companies with whom you have a relationship (“Partners”). These Partners might include (depending on what services you use): your internet service provider, or other streaming media device providers who make our service available on their device such as YouTube/Google; mobile phone carriers or other companies who provide services to you and collect payment for the Our service for distribution to us or provide pre-paid promotions for the Our service; and voice assistant platform providers who enable interaction with our service through voice commands. The information Partners provide us varies depending on the nature of the Partner services, and may include:

• search queries and commands applicable to Us that you make through Partner devices or voice assistant platforms;

• service activation information such as your email address or other contact information;

• IP addresses, device IDs or other unique identifiers, as well as associated pre-paid promotion, billing and user interface information, that support user authentication, the Our service registration experience, Partner payment processing, and the presentation of Our content to you through portions of the Partner user interface.

Information from other sources: We also obtain information from other sources. We protect this information according to the practices described in this Privacy Statement, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These sources vary over time, but could include:

• service providers that help us determine a location based on your IP address in order to customize our service and for other uses consistent with this Privacy Statement;

• security service providers who provide us with information to secure our systems, prevent fraud and help us protect the security of Our accounts;

• payment service providers who provide us with payment or balance information, or updates to that information, based on their relationship with you;

• online and offline data providers, from which we obtain aggregated demographic, interest based and online advertising related data;

• publicly-available sources such as publicly available posts on social media platforms and information available through public databases associating IP addresses with internet service providers (ISPs).

How we use your personal information: You agree that we may use your personal information for the following purposes but not limited to:

• to provide you access to our Services and Customer Support by means of mail, e-mail or telephone;

• to prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, fraud and security breaches and to enforce our Terms of Use;

• to analyze and understand our audience, improve our service (including our user interface experiences and service performance) and optimize content selection, recommendation algorithms and delivery;

• to personalize, measure and improve our Services, content and ads;

• to contact you, by e-mail, push notification, text message (SMS) or by telephone, to inquire about our Services and the services of companies that are part of the Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners. ‘corporate family’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Group’) for the purpose of targeted marketing activities, updates, and promotional offers based on your message preferences (where applicable), or for any other purposes as set forth in this Privacy Policy;

• to provide you with other services that you have requested, as described when we collected the information, and

• to consider you as a potential candidate if you choose to upload your resume through our careers page.

• to coordinate with Partners on making the Our service available to members and providing information to non members about the availability of Our service, based on the specific relationship you have with the Partner;

• and any other reason we might find appropriate.

Sharing information with and registration on social media sites: We may offer sign-on Services that enable you to access the Website or related websites with your login credentials. We can also offer Services that enable you to share information with third party social media websites, such as Facebook, Google and Twitter.

If you provide us access to personal information stored on third party websites, the scope of access to this personal information shall vary per website and will be determined by both your own browser settings and your consent. If you wish to connect your third party account to your StoryBee.Space account and you consent to us accessing the information in these third party accounts, you agree that we can collect, use and store information from this third party website in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Transfer of your personal information to third parties: We may disclose your personal information to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable legislation and regulations. We may share your personal information with:

• Any company, employee, or partner related to Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners to provide joint content and services (such as registration and customer support), to prevent, detect and investigate possible illegal activities, violations of our policy, fraud and/or data security breaches, and to support decision making on products, websites, applications, services, tools and communication. The companies will only use this information to send you marketing messages when you yourself have requested their services, and they will use your personal information in accordance with their respective privacy policy.

• service providers with whom we have entered into an agreement to help us provide our Services on the website, such as financial service providers, marketing agencies and technical support. In such cases, the personal information shall remain under the control of Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners.

• certain third parties (such as intellectual property rights holders, supervisory authorities, tax authorities, police and other regulatory authorities) if we are required to do so by law, or in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We may share your personal information:

  - to comply with legal obligations or a court order; or

  - if this is necessary for the prevention, detection or prosecution of criminal offenses, such as fraud, deceit or prosecution, or

  - if it is necessary to maintain our policies or to protect the rights and freedoms of others.

• other third parties to whom you have given consent to share your information via Storybee Inc., its affiliated companies and partners, e.g. in the framework of a cooperation;

• companies that we intend to merge with in the context of a re-organization or that acquire us;

• an intellectual property owner if the owner of an intellectual property right or an intermediary in good faith believes that an advertisement violates the rights of the owner. Before personal information is provided, the IP owner will enter into an agreement that, inter alia, stipulates that information is only provided on the strict condition that it may only be used in the context of legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal advice and/or to answer questions from the relevant advertiser.

Whenever in the course of sharing information we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area and other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Statement and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.

Social plugins and social applications are operated by the social networks themselves, and are subject to their terms of use and privacy policies.

MARKETING PURPOSES

You agree that we may use the information collected by us to send you offers, whether personalized or not, or to contact you by telephone regarding products or Services offered us.

We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our Services and functionalities.

When you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can, where applicable, email us at support@storybee.space or follow the unsubscribe link in the marketing communication you received.

PROTECTION AND RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We protect your information by using technical and administrative security measures (such as firewalls, data encryption, and physical and administrative access controls to the data and servers) that limit the risk of loss, abuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. Nevertheless, if you believe your account has been abused, please contact us through the support@storybee.space.

We retain personal information no longer than is legally permissible and delete personal information when it is no longer necessary for the purposes as described above.

Your Information and Rights

You can request access to your personal information, or correct or update out-of-date or inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You may also request that we delete personal information that we hold about you.

For other requests, or if you have a question regarding our privacy practices, please contact support@storybee.space. We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please also see the "Your Choices" section of this Privacy Statement for additional choices regarding your information.

We may reject requests that are unreasonable or not required by law, including those that would be extremely impractical, could require disproportionate technical effort, or could expose us to operational risks such as free trial fraud. We may retain information as required or permitted by applicable laws and regulations, including to honor your choices, for our billing or records purposes and to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. We take reasonable measures to destroy or de-identify personal information in a secure manner when it is no longer required.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your personal information.

Other Websites, Platforms and Applications

Our service may be provided through and/or utilize features (such as voice controls) operated by third party platforms, or contain links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of information may differ from ours. For example, you may be able to access Our service through platforms such as gaming systems, smart TVs, mobile devices, set top boxes and a number of other Internet connected devices. These websites and platforms have separate and independent privacy or data policies, privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. In addition, you may encounter third party applications that interact with Our service.

Children

You must be at least 18 years of age or older to subscribe to Our service. Minors may only use the service with the involvement, supervision, and approval of a parent or legal guardian.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We will update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory or operational requirements. We will provide notice of any such changes (including when they will take effect) in accordance with law. Your continued use of Our service after any such updates take effect will constitute acknowledgement and (as applicable) acceptance of those changes. If you do not wish to acknowledge or accept any updates to this Privacy Statement, you may cancel your use of Our service. To see when this Privacy Statement was last updated, please see the "Last Updated" section below.

Cookies and Internet Advertising

We and our Service Providers use cookies and other technologies (such as web beacons), as well as resettable device identifiers, for various reasons. We want you to be informed about our use of these technologies, so this section explains the types of technologies we use, what they do, and your choices regarding their use.

Cookies and similar technologies, web beacons, and resettable device identifiers

Cookies are small data files that are commonly stored on your device when you browse and use websites and online services. We use other technologies such as browser storage and plugins (e.g., HTML5, IndexedDB, and WebSQL). Like cookies, these other technologies may store small amounts of data on your device. Web beacons (also known as clear gifs or pixel tags) often work in conjunction with cookies. In many cases, declining cookies will impair the effectiveness of web beacons associated with those cookies.

If you use the Our app on a mobile device, tablet, or streaming media device, we may collect a resettable device identifier from your device. Resettable device identifiers (also known as advertising identifiers) are similar to cookies and are found on many mobile devices and tablets (for example, the "Identifier for Advertisers" (or IDFA) on Apple iOS devices and the "Google Advertising ID" on Android devices), and certain streaming media devices. Like cookies, resettable device identifiers are used to make online advertising more relevant and for analytics and optimization purposes.

Why do We use these technologies?

We use these types of technologies for various reasons, like making it easy to access our services by remembering you when you return; to provide, analyze, understand and enhance the use of our services; to enforce our terms, prevent fraud; to improve site performance, monitor visitor traffic and actions on our site; and to deliver and tailor our marketing or advertising, and to understand interactions with our emails, marketing, and online ads on third party sites.

To help you better understand how we use cookies and resettable device identifiers, please see the information below:

Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide our website or online service. For example, we and our Service Providers may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our websites and applications so we can provide our service to them. They also help us to enforce our Terms of Use, prevent fraud and maintain the security of our service.

Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies help us to customize and enhance your online experience with us. For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during member sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as popular pages, conversion rates, viewing patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors' use of Our service so that we can enhance and personalize our website and service and conduct market research. Deletion of these types of cookies may result in limited functionality of our service.

Advertising cookies and resettable device identifiers: These cookies and resettable device identifiers use information about your use of this and other websites and apps, your response to ads and emails, and to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and for analytics and optimization purposes. These types of ads are called "interest-based advertising." The advertising cookies associated with our service belong to our Service Providers.

In connection with our use of these technologies, some of the websites and apps where we advertise, as well as advertising technology companies that we use to purchase, deliver, optimize, and/or measure our advertisements (collectively “Advertising Partners”), may receive limited information from us as part of our campaign targeting, measurement, and optimization (e.g., steps completed in sign-up and site visit or app open/install information).

Common uses of this type of information are to judge the effectiveness of and optimize ad campaigns, by allowing Advertising Partners to see when someone who saw an ad later signed up for our service. Another common use is to make sure we do not serve ads trying to get individuals to sign up for Our service if they are already our user.

We use contractual and technical measures designed to prevent Advertising Partners from accessing information regarding specific title selections you make, URLs you land on, or shows you have watched on our service. We do not share information about title selections or your shows you have watched on our service.

To exercise choice using self-regulatory program resources

We support the following self-regulatory programs, which provide additional privacy choices for interest-based advertising:

In Canada: AdChoices: Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC) / Choix de Pub: l'Alliance de la publicité numérique du Canada (DAAC)

To exercise choice regarding other technologies

There are a number of ways to exercise choice regarding technologies that are similar to cookies, such as browser storage and plugins (e.g., HTML5, IndexedDB, and WebSQL). For example, many popular browsers provide the ability to clear browser storage, commonly in the settings or preferences area; see your browser's help function or support area to learn more.

Contact: If you have any question, please contact us by support@storybee.space.

Last Updated: June 6th, 2021