Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Welcome to the CyParks.Com Privacy Policy Statement.

1. Welcome to our privacy policy. We are CyParks.Com. If you’re a CyParks.Com user or a visitor to our Sites, this policy explains how we handle your personal information.

2. We use the terms “we,” “us,” “CyParks.Com,” and “CyParks” because that is who we are and who owns and operates the Site.

3. When we say “policy,” we’re referring to this privacy policy. When we say “user terms,” we’re referring to the guidelines for accessing and using CyParks.

The types of personal information we collect:

4. We collect certain personally identifiable information from visitors and users of our website.

5. Usernames, member names, email addresses, IP addresses, other contact details, survey responses, blogs, photos, payment information such as payment agent details, transactional details, tax information, support queries, forum comments (if applicable), and content you direct us to make available on our Sites (such as item descriptors) are among the most common types of information we collect. Personal information from job applications will also be collected (such as your CV, the application form itself, cover letter, and interview notes).

How we collect personal information:

6. We gather personal information directly from you when you offer it to us, automatically as you browse through the Sites, or indirectly from others when you utilize Sites-related services.

7. When you complete membership registration, buy or offer things or services on our Sites, subscribe to a newsletter, email list, give feedback, enter a contest, fill out a survey, or send us correspondence, we collect your personal information.

8. We have a legitimate interest in authenticating the identity of our authors as operators of digital content markets. Knowing who our authors are, we believe, will improve the integrity of our markets by eliminating fraud, making authors more accountable for their work, and allowing CyParks.Com and customers to enforce contracts for authors who break the rules. In certain cases, CyParks.Com is also bound by legal duties that need us to know who our authors are. As a result, if you are an author, we will ask you to show us a Photo ID document to verify your identity, including your name, full address, and date of birth. The verification procedure is called CyParks Verify. We will perform the verification. You will be requested to snap a selfie as part of the CyParks Verify process, which will be matched to your Photo ID document using facial recognition technology. We will only utilize your Photo ID document to complete the CyParks Verify process or a third-party identity verification service providers. After you’ve completed this step, we delete it.

We obtain personal information about you from third parties:

9. We collect personal information about you from you directly most of the time, but we do collect some kinds of personal information about you from other sources on occasion. Specifically:

10. Financial and/or transaction details from payment providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria to complete a transaction;

11. Third-party service providers in the United States or the United Kingdom (such as Google or Facebook) who may provide information about you when you link, connect, or log in to your account with the third-party provider, and they send us information such as your registration. The information varies and is controlled by that service provider, or as authorized by you via that service provider’s privacy settings; and

12. Other third-party sources and/or partners from the United States or the United Kingdom, whereby we receive additional information about you (to the extent permitted by applicable law), such as demographic data or fraud detection information, and combine it with information we already have about you. Fraud warnings from service providers such as identity verification services, for example. We also receive information about you and your activities on and off the CyParks.Com platform from our partner ad networks, as well as information about your experiences and interactions. Our third-party authors also provide us with information about you as a rights holder.

What we do with your personal information:

We will use your personal information in the following ways:

1. To carry out a contract or take steps in connection with a contract, such as facilitating and processing transactions on the Site, such as when you buy anything from our marketplace.

2. Where it is necessary for purposes that are in our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties. Among these are:

3. Operating the Site;

4. Providing you with services described on the Site;

5. Verifying your identification when you sign in to our website;

6. Responding to support tickets and assisting in the resolution of any disputes;

7. Informing you about operational news and information regarding our Site and services, such as changes to our Site, website outages, or security upgrades;

8. Doing technological study to see how we might improve our Site and services;

9. Monitoring activities on the Site, for example, to detect potentially fraudulent behavior and ensure compliance with the Site’s user conditions;

10. Maintaining our connection with you, such as by responding to your comments or questions posted on the Site, or by soliciting your opinion or deciding whether or not to participate in a survey;

11. Overseeing our legal and operational concerns (including risk management for content and fraud);

12. Educating CyParks employees on how to effectively serve our users;

13. Providing general administrative and performance functions and activities;

14. Verifying your identity by comparing a selfie taken by you against your Photo ID document using facial recognition technology (as is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims); and

15. Processing your job application to CyParks.Com.

Where you grant us your permission:

1. Providing you with marketing information about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you; and

2. Customizing our services and website, such as advertising that appears on the Site – where cookies or similar technologies are used – to create a more personalized experience.

3. For the objectives of complying with the law.

4. In order to respond to demands from the government, a court, or law enforcement officials conducting an investigation.

When we share your personal information with others:

We’ll share your personal information with the following people:

1. Companies in the CyParks.Com group based in Nigeria, UK, and the United States;

2. If applicable, authors of any items or services made available to you, in order to facilitate support and license validation, who may be based in any of the countries where our products are available;

3. Subcontractors and service providers who assist us with the ways we use personal information (as described above), including website hosting providers in the United States and the United Kingdom; technical and customer support services in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and recruitment agencies in Nigeria, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It’s worth noting that our subcontractors and service providers may also send and access such data from other countries where they do business.

4. Our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers, and others) in the United Kingdom and the United States;

5. Regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations;

6. A purchaser or prospective purchaser of all or part of our assets or business, and their professional advisers, in connection with the purchase;

7. A third party to respond to requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity;

8. A third party, in order to enforce or defend our rights or to address financial or reputational risks;

9. A rights holder in relation to an allegation of intellectual property infringement or any other infringement; and

10. Other recipients where we are authorized or required by law to do so.

Marketing and analytics:

1. When you register with us, we will ask you if you would like us or other businesses to send you marketing messages or newsletters. If you have said yes, we and other businesses within the CyParks.Com group, as well as our third-party partners, will from time to time send you information about products and services that you might find interesting. You can also unsubscribe from receiving marketing messages by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our marketing emails.

2. We and our third-party partners use tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies, to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our site, within our advertising or email content. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, date and time information, and other technical information about your computer.

3. We may also track certain information about the identity of the website you visited immediately before coming to our site. We do not otherwise track any information about your use of other websites.

Your rights:

You have several legal rights in relation to the information that we hold about you, including:

1. The right to request details of the information we have about you;

2. The right to withdraw your consent to the use of your information where we are relying on that consent (for example, you can opt out of receiving marketing messages);

3. The right to object to the use of your information where we are relying on our legitimate interests to do so;

4. The right to request that we restrict the use of your information;

5. The right to have your information provided to you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format;

6. The right to have inaccurate information about you corrected or removed;

7. The right to erasure of your information (sometimes known as the right to be forgotten);

8. The right to challenge our use of your information (where we rely on our legitimate interests as our legal basis);

9. The right to ask us to explain any automated decision-making that we make about you, and to object to the automated decision-making.

Contact us:

1. If you wish to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by emailing us at support@cyparks.com. If you are an author, you can update your personal information via your “Author Profile” on the CyParks.Com Site.

2. Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

3. You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.