Overview
Welcome to Blitz!
Blitz is an online design platform that empowers our users to create video advertisements using video templates and editing tools. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use information, including Personal Data (defined below), about you when you contact us or otherwise use Blitz, our website or other sites or services we may make available (collectively, the "Services").
Information We Collect
When you download and use the Blitz website, we collect the following information from you, including information that, whether alone or in combination, can be used to identify you ("Personal Data"), and we maintain this information for up to three years after your last interaction with the Blitz website:
- When you download and use the Blitz website, we collect the following information from you, including information that, whether alone or in combination, can be used to identify you ("Personal Data"), and we maintain this information for up to three years after your last interaction with the Blitz website:
- User Generated Content: When you use the Services, you will be able to save or post images, video clips, GIFs, designs or other similar media from the Blitz website to a number of endpoints. Videos, images, audio and other data uploaded to your Blitz account may be made available outside of the Blitz website, including through third party social media services. BY REGISTERING FOR OR USING THE SERVICES OR AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU CONSENT TO THE MONITORING AND/OR RECORDING OF ANY AUDIO OR VIDEO RECORDINGS MADE, SHARED, OR TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, AND HEREBY WAIVE ANY NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT AT THE TIME SUCH RECORDING TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
- Data from Social Media Sites: We will collect certain Personal Data from Social Media Services, and will enable our users to log in to Social Media Services to share User Generated Content created in the Services. Information may include Personal Data that you have given to the social media site including name, profile photo, and email address.
- Automatically Collected Data: When you interact with the Blitz website from an online web browser, we may collect some other information, such as the name of your Internet service provider, and information like the webpages you were linked from, sites you visit, and time spent on each page. Generally, this information cannot identify you; however, if we combine this data with any Personal Data, we will treat that information as Personal Data and subject to this Privacy Policy.
- Usage and Communication Information: When you use Blitz, we collect certain information about how you use the service, such as the length of time you are on the service, features you are utilizing in the product, and other log information.
How We Use The Information We Collect
We use the information that we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide the Blitz website or Services: We use the information we collect, including Personal Data and passively collected data described above, to provide you the Blitz Services, including editing tools, export functionality, and other functions.
- To Connect with Social Media Sites: The Blitz website can connect with Social Media Services. We may share your Profile Information with Social Media Services. We use these connections with Social Media Services to help you upload your user content to these Social Media Services, or to help us learn more about Blitz website users. The Profile Information we give to the Social Media Services and the information we receive from the Social Media Services is governed by the privacy policy of that Social Media Service. We do not control the data privacy practices or advertising practices of the Social Media Services.
- To Communicate with You: We may use your Profile Information to communicate with you including to tell you about services or other apps, games and offers we believe will be of interest to you.
- Direct Marketing: We will not share your Personal Data with third parties, except as a processor receiving that data only for the purpose of helping us provide the Site and the Services to you.
- Aggregated Data: We may compile the Personal Data and other information that we collect in an aggregated manner and we may share this aggregated data with our business partners, affiliates, agents and other third parties. Aggregated Data generally does not include Personal Data. If Personal Data is included in the Aggregated Data that we share, we will use and share it according to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
How We Share Information
We share information that we collect, including Personal Data as described below:
- Business Transfers: In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, financing due diligence, receivership, dissolution or similar event, your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to a successor or affiliate either independently or as part of that transaction along with other assets.
- Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: We engage third party vendors and service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf, such as hosting portions of the Blitz Service, maintaining databases, delivering content, sending emails, administering content, running ads, processing speech, processing payments or otherwise operating the services. We share information with vendors and service
- Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: We engage third party vendors and service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf, such as hosting portions of the Blitz Service, maintaining databases, delivering content, sending emails, administering content, running ads, processing speech, processing payments or otherwise operating the services. We share information with vendors and service providers as necessary for them to provide these services on our behalf.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose information about you if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to
(i) comply with a legal obligation,
(ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Blitz,
(iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, (iv) protect against
legal liability, or
(v) enforce our Terms and Conditions.
- With Your Consent: We may otherwise share or disclose information, including your Personal Data, with your consent.
Changes to My Account
Should you ever decide to delete your Blitz account, you may do so by contacting us. If you terminate your account, your profile will be deleted from our servers; provided, however, that such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of such information may remain on backup media for a reasonable period of time. Furthermore, copies of deleted information may remain viewable elsewhere, to the extent it has been shared with others, or was copied or stored by other users or other third parties or included in aggregated data sets for analysis.
Third Party Sites' Ad Applications
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other web sites or applications not operated or controlled by us (the "Third Party Sites"). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from the Services do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
International Users
International Users
By using the Services, you acknowledge, note and agree that you are consenting to the transfer of your information to the United States and the processing of your information globally. The privacy and data protection laws in the United States may differ from and, in some case, may be less stringent than the laws in effect in your country of residence. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that the privacy and data protection laws in effect in the United States will apply to your Personal Data and other data that you provide to us through the Services.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the information you provide from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot warrant the security of any information that you provide to us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post all changes to this Privacy Policy on this page and will indicate at the top of the page the modified policy's effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this page on an ongoing basis so that you are aware of our current privacy policy. Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately for persons registering after the changes are posted and 30 days after posting for person who registered prior to the changes being posted.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at help@useblitz.com. A copy of our Data Retention Policy is available upon request.