Brand New Name Inc. (“Brand New Name” , “Company” , “We) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), to describe our practices regarding the Personal Information (as defined below) we collect from Users of our website at www.BrandNewName.com and our Services. This Policy also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of your Personal Information and how you can access and update this information. Capitalized terms not defined in this Policy have the meanings given in our Terms of Service located at www.brandnewname.com/legal .
1. User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our website or Services, you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. Visitors Under the Age of 18
Our Service is not offered to persons under the age of 18. Thus, we do not intentionally gather Personal Information from visitors who are under the age of 18.
3. Types of Data We Collect
“Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, email address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. We collect Personal Information, only as described below.
a. Information You Provide to Us
- We may collect Personal Information from you, such as your name, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, and passwords when you create an account with us and become a User.
- If you are a Creative, we may require that you provide your tax information. We may also require you to provide a copy of government issued identification and a copy of your recent billing statement for address verification.
- As a Contest Owner, you are asked to make a purchase, and We (or our third party Payment Gateway) will collect all the information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, debit card information and billing information.
- We retain information on your behalf, such as Creative Briefs, Contests, Entries, transactional history, messages and any other information and Content that you store as a User.
- If you provide us feedback, or contact us via email, we will collect your name and email address, as well as any other Content included in the email, in order to send you a reply.
- When you participate in one of our surveys, we may collect additional information.
- When you post messages on our website, the information contained in your posting (Content) will be stored on our servers and other Users will be able to see it.
- We may also collect Personal Information at other points within our Services.
b. Tracking Technologies / Cookies
- Brand New Name and our marketing partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers use cookies or similar technologies in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking Users’ movements around the website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use cookies to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Services, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Services may be limited or nonfunctional or unresponsive as a result of that, and we make no gurantees to the Service.
- To make our website and Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from you automatically and store it in log files. The information may include your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, clickstream data and/or a date/time stamp for your visit. We may link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information for the purposes of security and to detect fraudulent activity.
- We partner with a third party ad networks to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad networks partners uses cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here or if located in the European Union click here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
c. Google Analytics
We currently use Google Analytics as well as Google Analytics for Display Advertising. Google Analytics collects information and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Please see the following links for more information about Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics/ , www.google.com/privacy.html and www.google.com/analytics/tos.html . You can also opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising by going to the Google Ads Preferences Manager .
4. Use of Your Personal Information
a. General Use
In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used either to respond to requests that you make, or to aid us in serving you better. We use your Personal Information in the following ways:
- to facilitate the creation of your User account and secure our Service;
- identify you as a User in our system;
- improve our website and Services;
- for our internal research and development;
- customize content to match your preferences;
- prevent suspended Users from re-registering;
- provide the Services you request;
- send you emails to facilitate the Service;
- send you administrative email notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advisories;
- respond to your inquiries and requests;
- to make telephone calls to you, from time to time, as a part of secondary fraud protection or to solicit your feedback or business; and
- to send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Services and for other marketing purposes of Brand New Name.
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We disclose your Personal Information as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
a. Profile Information
The profile you create on our website will be publically accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may request deletion of your profile by requesting to delete your account by contacting us by email at info@brandnewname.com. The information collected during the registration process by Brand New Name may be used by Brand New Name to: contact members, customize content to match your preferences, display member status, and display the date of the member's last visit. If you believe that an unauthorized profile has been created about you, please contact us at info@brandnewname.com to request an investigation.
b. Public Member Directory
We will list your information or your contest in our publicly accessible directory. If you wish to request removal of your information from our directory, you can request your User account deletion by emailing us at info@brandnewname.com.
c. Third Party Service Providers
We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers to: provide you with the Services that we offer you through our website; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate creation of User accounts; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other Services of Brand New Name.
d. Affiliates and Acquisitions
We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, partners, or other companies under a common control (“Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. If another company acquires our company, business, or our assets, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and many not assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.
e. Frames
Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our site. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to Brand New Name.
f. Other Disclosures
Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Information (as described below), Brand New Name may disclose Personal Information if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served to Brand New Name, bankruptcy proceedings, or similar legal process; (c) to protect or defend the rights or property of Brand New Name or Users of the Services; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or the Terms of Use.
6. Third Party Websites
a. Third Party Websites General
When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our website and go to another website and another entity may collect Personal Information. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of data after you click on links to such outside websites.
b. Other Features
Our website includes social media features (“Features”) such as the Facebook Like button, Twitter button and other widgets or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. These Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the terms of use and privacy policy of the company providing them (e.g., Facebook or Twitter).
7. Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. Upon request, Brand New Name will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may change any of your Personal Information in your account by editing your profile within your account or contacting us via email to do so. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us via email at info@brandnewname.com, but please note that we may be required to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We will respond to your request for such deletion within 30 days with details.
We will retain your information for as long as your User account is active or as needed to provide you Services, for fraud prevention, financial needs, and similar purposes and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
8. Security of Your Personal Information
Brand New Name is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We (and our third party service providers) use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we (or our third party service providers) encrypt transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also require you to enter a password to access your User account information. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Though we have implemented these measures designed to secure your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk and that you're not obliged to do so, and can at any time leave our website and opt to not use our Services.
9. Testimonials
We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. If you choose to provide written feedback to our team on the Services offered, we may post your feedback along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at info@brandnewname.com.
10. Contact Information
Brand New Name welcomes your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact us at info@brandnewname.com.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our privacy practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will give you notice of such changes by posting the revised policy on this website at www.brandnewname.com/legal . By continuing to use this website or the Service after these changes are posted, you agree to the revised policy.