ZYDECOEVENTS.com (“ ZydecoEvents.com”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by ZydecoEvents.com. This Privacy Policy applies to our website, https://zydecoEvents.com, (collectively, our “Service”). Before accessing or using our Service, please ensure that you have read and understood our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

ZydecoEvents.com is the controller of your personal information. This means that ZydecoEvents.com is the entity responsible for, and controls the processing of your personal information. Our data collection officer can be reached at support@ZydecoEvents.com with the header ATTN: Legal.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The categories of personal information we collect can include:
Information you provide to us directly. We may collect personal information, such as your name, location, payment information, and email address when you register for our Service, sign up for our mailing list, enter a contest or sweepstakes, or otherwise communicate with us. We may also collect any communications between you and ZydecoEvents.com and any other information you provide to ZydecoEvents.com.

Information collected through the use of the Service. We collect information about how you use the Service, your actions on the Service, and content you post to the Service, including photos and videos you post to the Service, and any content you provide through messages, or other functionality (“User Content”). To share photos and video, we will access your device camera roll and camera with your permission. If you need to update your permissions, you can do so in the “Settings” app of your device. Please remember that ZydecoEvents.com may, but has no obligation to, monitor, record, and store User Content in order to protect your safety or the safety of other users, to assist with regulatory or law enforcement efforts, or to protect and defend our rights and property.

Information collected automatically when you visit, interact with and use our Service. We and our third party service providers may collect certain types of usage information when you use our Service, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We use this information to enhance and personalize your user experience, to recognize and contact you, and to monitor and improve our websites and Service. In some instances, we and our third party service providers may combine this usage information with personal information. If we do combine any usage information with personal information, the combined information will be treated by us as personal information hereunder (as long as it is so combined). We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). We, and our third party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:

Information about your device and its software, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device type/model/manufacturer, operating system, date and time stamp, and a unique ID that allows us to uniquely identify your browser, mobile device, or your account (including, for example, a persistent device identifier or an Ad ID), and other such information. We may also work with third-party partners to employ technologies, including the application of statistical modeling tools, which permit us to recognize and contact you across multiple devices.

Information about the way you access and use our Service, for example, the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our Service, the pages you visit, the links you click, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access the Service from multiple devices, and other actions you take on the Service.

Information about your location, including IP address and GPS coordinates (e.g., latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device, or we may be able to approximate or infer a device’s location by analyzing other information, like an IP address.

Analytics information. We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service and to understand more about the demographics of our users. You can learn more about Google’s practices at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners and view its currently available opt-out options at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies; however, doing so may negatively impact your experience using the Service, as some features and services on our Service may not work properly. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it. We and our third-party partners may also use tracking technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about tracking technologies, please see “Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising” below.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our users, we are unable to respond to Do Not Track signals set by your browser at this time.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

To fulfil your requests and provide our Services to you. For example, we use your information to complete your requests and transactions on our Service and to respond to your customer service requests or feedback. We may also use your information to personalize your experience with us.

To monitor and improve our products and services. We may use your information to understand our visitors and users and tailor our product offerings. We analyze statistics and trends to make our websites and services better and to develop new services or features.

For marketing purposes. We may send you communications about new features, updates, products and special offers. We might also use your information to serve you ads about special offers on our Service we think you might find interesting. We also use information about you and others to inform our marketing and advertising campaigns. For more information on your choices about marketing communications, see “Control Over Your Information” below.

To communicate with you. For example, if you register with us, we’ll enroll you in our email newsletter. We may send you user surveys and promotional communications. We may communicate with you by email, postal mail, or other means. We may use push notifications on our mobile apps. For more information on your communications preferences, see “Control Over Your Information” below.

To protect the security and integrity of our business and comply with legal requirements and obligations. We may use information to protect our company, our customers, and our websites. We may also use information in order to comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal obligations or to assist in an investigation, to protect and defend our rights and property, or the rights or safety of third parties, to enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, or agreements with third parties, to detect and prevent fraud or for crime-prevention purposes.

As otherwise permitted by law.

3. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IN THE EU

As required under applicable data protection law, the legal basis which we rely on to process your personal information are as follows:

The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract (and to take steps prior to entering into a contract) with you, namely, our Terms of Service.

The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, namely:

To maintain and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service;

To send Service-related emails and to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries;

To monitor and improve the Service and business and to help us develop new products and services;

For business administration, including statistical analysis; and

For fraud prevention and detection.

We will only process your personal data to contact you to tell you about new products and services and other information we think you might find valuable to the extent you have given us your consent. You have the right to withdraw consent to such marketing at any time by contacting us.

4. SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal information in the instances described below. For further information on your choices regarding your information, see the “Control Over Your Information” section below.

Please be aware that any personal information that you voluntarily choose to display in any public location through the use of our Service on a third party service, such as YouTube or Twitch, becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others.

We may share your personal information with:

The public and other members of the Service. Your profile information and content you post to public areas of the Service, including public groups, will be viewable by others on the Service and the public. Please do not provide personal information you would not want to be public. You may be able to control the visibility of some of your information and actions in your Settings (see “Control Over Your Information” below);

Third parties at your request. For example, you may have the option to share your activities on the Service with your friends through email, or on various social media sites;

Other companies and brands owned or controlled by ZydecoEvents.com, including but not limited to any of the ZydecoEvents.com products and services, and other companies owned by or under common ownership as ZydecoEvents.com, which also includes our subsidiaries (i.e., any organization we own or control) or our ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that owns or controls us) and any subsidiaries it owns. These companies will use your personal information in the same way as we can under this Privacy Policy;

Third parties with whom we partner to provide contests and sweepstakes, which will usually be identified by name in the Official Rules of the contest or sweepstakes;

Third-party vendors and other service providers that perform services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for us, which may include identifying and serving targeted advertisements, providing mailing services, providing tax and accounting services, contest fulfilment, web hosting, or providing analytic services. These vendors are bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information;

Other parties in connection with a company transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings; and

Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service or to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ZydecoEvents.com, our visitors, or others. We may also share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual.