What is the Privacy Policy and what does it cover?
Section Highlights
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your information. It also explains how long we keep your information and how we protect it when we share it.
The Privacy Policy also describes your rights.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Blogstars Product.
The Privacy Policy also applies to Blogstars Play if you are logged in to a Blogstars account.
At Blogstars, we want you to understand what information we collect, how we use it, and who we share it with. That’s why we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy. It will help you use the Blogstars Products in the way you want.
In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, store, and share information. We also tell you about your rights. Each section of this Policy includes helpful examples and simplified language to help you understand our practices. We’ve also included links to resources where you can learn more about privacy-related topics that interest you.
It’s important to us that you have control over your privacy, so we also show you where you can manage your data in the settings of the Blogstars Products you use. You can update these settings to personalize your user experience.
What information do we collect?
This Policy lists the categories of information we collect. Here are a few important ones. We collect:
Information you provide to us when you register for our Products and create a profile (such as your email address, phone number, or age).
Information about your activity in our Products. This includes information about your clicks or likes, your posts, photos, and messages you send. In some Products, you can use end-to-end encrypted messages.
Your friends or followers, and their activities in our Products.
Information from the phone, computer, or tablet you use our Products on, such as what device it is and what version of our app you are using.
Information from our partners about what you do in and outside of our Products. This includes information about other websites you visit, apps you use, or online games you play.
The information we collect and process about you depends on how you use our Products. For example, we collect different information when you sell furniture in the Marketplace than when you post a video. We collect data about you when you use our Products, even if you don’t have an account.
In our Products, you can send messages, take photos and videos, buy and sell items, and more. We call everything you can do in our Products “activities.” We collect data about your activities in our Products and the information you provide, such as:
Content you create, such as posts, comments, or audio.
Content you provide through the camera feature, camera roll settings, or voice-activated features. Learn more about what data we collect from these features and how we use camera information to power masks, filters, avatars, and effects.
Messages you send and receive, including their content, subject to applicable law. In some Products, you can use messages protected by end-to-end encryption. Learn more about how end-to-end encryption works.
Metadata about content and messages, subject to applicable law.
The types of content, including ads, you view or interact with, and how you interact with it.
The apps and features you use and the actions you take in them.
Purchases or other transactions you make, such as Blogstars checkout interfaces, including credit card information. Hashtags you use.
The time, frequency, and duration of your activity on our Products.
Selfies of yourself, if you provide them when you contact us for account support.
Information with special protections
You may choose whether to share information about your religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political or philosophical views, health, racial or ethnic origin, or trade union membership. These and other types of information may be subject to special protections under the laws of your jurisdiction.
Friends, followers, and other contacts.
Information we collect about your friends, followers, and other contacts.
We collect information about the friends, followers, groups, accounts, Blogstars Pages, and other users and communities you communicate and interact with. This includes how you interact with them on our Products and which ones you interact with the most.
Contact information we collect.
We also collect your contact information, such as your name, email address, or phone number, if you choose to upload or import it from your device, such as by syncing your address book.
We may collect your information even if you don’t use Blogstars Products or use them without an account. Learn more about how Blogstars uses contact information uploaded by account holders.
Learn how to upload and delete contacts on Blogstars or how to connect your device’s contact list to Instagram.
Information we collect or receive about you based on the actions of others
We collect information about you based on the actions of others.
We also infer information about you based on the actions of others.
For example: We may recommend a friend to you through Blogstars' "You May Know" feature if you are both listed in someone's uploaded contact list.
When recommending you to join a group, we consider whether your friends are members of that group.
App, browser, and device information
We collect and receive information from the different devices you use, about the devices themselves, and how you use them.
We collect and receive information from devices, including, but not limited to:
What device and software you are using, and other device characteristics.
What you do on your device, such as whether our app is running in the background or whether your mouse is moving (which helps distinguish humans from bots).
Identifiers that help distinguish your device from other users' devices, including shared device IDs.
Signals from your device.
Information you have shared with us through your device settings, such as GPS location, camera access, photos, and associated metadata.
Information about the network you connect your device to and about your connection, including your IP address.
Some location information, even if location services are disabled in your device settings. This also includes the use of IP addresses to estimate your location.
Information about the performance of our Products on your device.
Information obtained through the use of cookies and other similar technologies.
Information from Partners, Suppliers, and Other Third Parties
What types of information do we collect or receive?
We collect and receive various information about you and your activities on and off our Products from partners, measurement providers, marketing providers, and other third parties.
