This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains the way Similarweb Ltd. (“Similarweb,” “we,” “us” or “our”) processes, uses, transfers and shares the information of those individuals who:
(i) Access and use our website for BrandBee available at: https://www.brandbee.io/ (“Visitor(s)” and “Website,”respectively); and
(ii) Access, install, use or interact with our BrandBee market research panel mobile application (“User(s)” and “BrandBee” or “App”respectively) available on Google Play and App Store.
The services enabled through the App include, without limitation, the offer to participate as panelists in research market panels (“Panels”),respond to a demographic survey (“Demographic Survey”), and respond to surveys, market research surveys (“Market Research Survey(s)”), the exclusive research study (“Study”) and the receiving of points for such participation (“Points”), provided by our third-party partners (“Partners”) through the App.
The Panels, Demographic Surveys and the Market Research Surveys as well as the other services available within the App shall be collectively referred to herein as the “Services”. Each of the Visitors andUsers are collectively referred to within this Privacy Policy as “you” or “your”.
This Privacy Policy also explains the rights you have in relation to your Personal Data that we process and the security procedures that we have implemented to protect Personal Data.
Similarweb reserves its right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you with respect to any material changes to this PrivacyPolicy, provided that we are required to do so under applicable law. Any changes to this Privacy Policy shall go into effect as of the date listed in the “Last Amended” heading located at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are familiar with our current practices and policies.
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) (“GDPR”) and the UK data protection laws, Similarweb is the Controller of the personal data that we collect from our Visitors and Users.
You can contact our Data Protection Officer directly at: DPO@brandbee.io.
To learn more about our App please visit: https://www.brandbee.io/ or contact us directly for more information about Similarweb or the App by using the information in the Contact Us section below.
In the event that you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) may apply to you. Please make sure to review our CCPA Privacy Exhibit attached hereto as Exhibit A to learn more about our privacy practices with respect to the CCPA.
Depending on your interaction with us, we may collect one or both of the following types of data from you:
(i) Non-Personal Data: This type of data may be non-identifiable, anonymous, de-identified or aggregated data (“Non-Personal Data”). We are unable to identify the individual from whom we collected the Non-Personal Data. Non-Personal Data mainly consists of technical data such as, without limitation, the type of operating system and type of browser you may use, what device make and model you use, the actions you take while accessing the website or while on your device, the battery state of your device, your network type, time zone, signal strength and speed and the roaming or connection status of your device. Some of this information is collected by way of cookies or similar technologies. Please review the Cookies section below for more information.
(ii) Personal Data: This type of data is individually identifiable information which means information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable effort identify an individual (“Personal Data”). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Data shall also include “PersonalInformation,” as such term is defined under the CCPA.
(iii) Special Categories of Personal Data: This type of data includes demographic data such as gender, age as well as ethnicity, race, financial data and income, etc. (“Sensitive Data”),Sensitive Data also includes Personal Sensitive Data as defined under the CCPA.
For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-Personal Data that is connected or linked to any Personal Data will be considered and treated by us as PersonalData for as long as such connection exists. Additionally, please be advised that you are not required by law to provide us with any of your information and you may choose to refrain from providing us with certain types of Personal Data as you see fit.
We will only collect, use and share your Personal Data where we are satisfied that we have an appropriate legal basis to do so. We have also included the legal bases which we rely on, which will impact the rights you have in relation to your Personal Data (see below for more details).
Depending on the way you interact with us, we may collect data from you in the following ways:
(i) Automatically: we may automatically collect some data from you when you use our Website, the App and the Services.
(ii) Voluntarily: we will collect certain data from you when you choose to provide us with it, as explained in this Privacy Policy.
(iii) Third Parties: we may receive information from third-parties, such as, if you sign in with a social network they will provide us with your profile information.
We will not share any of your Personal Data with a third party, except under the following circumstances:
(i) Service Providers: We may share Personal Data with our authorized third-party service providers (e.g.,Amazon Web Services and Zendesk) as necessary and reasonable for our business purposes, including investigations of potential violations of our Terms. These third-party service providers and agents have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and only have access to Personal Data that they need in order to perform their services and functions and they are not permitted to use it for any other purpose.
(ii) Security: We may share your Personal Data in order to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or other technical issues.
(iii) Legal: we may share your personal data with regulators, in order to comply with any applicable law, regulation, requests of law enforcement, legal process, subpoena or other similar investigative demand or governmental request.
(iv) Business Transfers and Affiliates: We may share your information when we are undergoing a change in control of any kind including by way of a merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of our assets. Additionally, we may share yourPersonal Data with our parent company, any of our parent company’s subsidiaries, joint ventures or other companies under common control with Similarweb (“Affiliates”) when necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy (including as necessary and reasonable for our business purposes, market analytics and market research activities and services that we and our Affiliates may provide or do)or upon the occurrence of the corporate transactions listed above.
(v) Explicit Consent: We will share your Personal Data if you provide us with your explicit consent to share this information, prior to its disclosure. BusinessPartners: We share your pseudonymized, de-identified Personal Data in order to provide our Services (including our Market Research Services) to our buyers of our market place (collectively,“Partners”). Our Partners utilize our Services to gain information they purchased or licensed, develop insights, conduct research, as determined in their sole discretion. In limited cases, we may share Personal Data with our Partners for their own analytics and marketing purposes. Some of our Partners are the providers of the Market Research Surveys and include, without limitation, Innovate MR, LLC (you can find its privacy policy here), Pollfish, Inc. (you can find its privacy policy here), Cint AB (you can find its privacy policy here),GWS (privacy policy here) and Dynata, LLC(you can find its privacy policy here).
We or our third-party service providers may use cookies, other similar tracking technologies or methods of web and mobile analysis to gather, store, and track certain information related to your access of, activity and interaction with our Website, the App or your device. A “cookie” is a small piece of information that a website assigns to your device when you access the Website. Cookies are very helpful and may be used for a variety of different purposes. These purposes include, without limitation, allowing you to navigate between pages more efficiently, enabling the automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and ourWebsite quicker and easier, to prevent fraud and protect our Services. For further information, please contact us at support@brandbee.io.
Please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more about cookies.
We use the following cookies, third-party tracking or analytic technologies on our Website and App:
It is important to note that most browsers allow you to erase cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block the acceptance of certain cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your device. Please note however, that by choosing to block or erase certain cookies you may be limiting or diminishing your online experience with us. We encourage you to visit the following links to learn more about how you can block or erase cookies via your browser of choice: Google Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari; Edge; Opera.
Our Website, App andServices are not directed to and are not meant to be used by individuals who are under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, we request that you not use our Website, Services or our App. We do not knowingly collect PersonalData from individuals who are considered children in their jurisdictions (i.e.,under the age of 16 or as otherwise defined under the applicable law in their jurisdictions). If we become aware of the fact that Personal Data of children has been collected through our Website, Services, or App, we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. Please contact us at support@brandbee.ioif you become aware of or have any reason to believe that a child has sharedPersonal Data with us.
Our Services App and our Website may contain links to third partyservices or websites that are not operated by us. These links are provided as aservice and do not imply any endorsement of the activities or content of thesewebsites, nor any association with their operators. Similarweb is notresponsible for the privacy policies or privacy practices of any third partyincluding, without limitation, websites directly linked to our Services, App orour Website (including any of the brands included in our cash back program). Weencourage you to review the privacy policies of any such third-party websitesor services before you access them.
Similarweb takes reasonable and has put in place industry standard technical and organizational precautions to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your Personal Data and in order to prevent any unauthorized use of such Personal Data. In addition, we limit access to yourPersonal Data on our servers. The data collected by us is stored mainly on the servers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) located in the United States and in theUK. Please visit the following link for more information regarding the data security provided by AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.
Please contact us at: dpo@brandbee.io.If you believe that your privacy was treated in a way that was not in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you or any applicable supervisory authority in the event that a security incident occurs in which your Personal Data may be at risk, provided that we are required to do so in accordance with applicable law.
We will store and retain your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes set forth above, as otherwise required in accordance with applicable law or until you have requested to opt-out of our collection of such Personal Data, subject to applicable law. We may at our sole discretion delete or amend information that is stored by us, without providing you with any prior notice of our intention to do so once it is no longer necessary for us to retain it for our purposes.
We may store or process your Personal Data in the UK, the EU, theUnited States or in other countries. As such, please be advised that any information you provide us may be transferred to and processed in countries other than the country from which you accessed our Website or App. We will make sure to implement appropriate measures to ensure that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of data protection while it is being transferred.When Personal Data that was collected within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the UK is transferred outside the EEA or the UK (as applicable), we will take necessary steps in order to ensure that sufficient safeguards are provided during the transferring of suchPersonal Data. You may exercise your rights, where applicable, to receive information regarding the transfer mechanism that was used during the transferring of your Personal Data. Personal Data that is being transferred outside the EEA to a country which has not received an adequacy decision from the European Commission (“AdequacyDecision”)will be transferred pursuant to the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Union (“StandardContractual Clauses”). Personal Data that we transfer outside of the UK to a country that is not in the EEA, has not received an Adequacy Decision or an adequacy regulation has not been passed regarding it by the UK will be transferred, depending on the situation, either pursuant to the International Data Transfer Agreement or the addendum to be used with the StandardContractual Clauses, both as issued by the UK’s Information Commissioner.
Depending on your jurisdiction, data protection and privacy laws may provide you with the ability to exercise certain rights with respect to yourPersonal Data. We have included the rights that apply to EEA and UK residents below for your reference and convenience. If you are a California resident, please see our CCPA Exhibit for a description of your privacy rights.
(i) Right to Access: You may have the right to access your Personal Data by asking us to confirm whatPersonal Data we process about you, as well as additional information regarding how and the purposes for such processing, and to request and obtain a copy of such Personal Data.
(ii) Right to be Informed: You have the right to be informed regarding Similarweb’s information (e.g., our name and address) as well as what Personal Data we process, and how and why we process Personal Data.
(iii) Right to Rectification:You may have the right to require us to update and complete any Personal Data that we have about you that is inaccurate or incomplete and to require us to inform third parties that process such Personal Data on our behalf to update such inaccurate or incomplete data.
(iv) Right to Erasure: You may have the right, depending on the circumstances, to request that we delete your Personal Data that is held by us. The deletion right is not absolute and in certain cases we may refuse and reject such request.
(v) Right to Restrict the Processing: Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to limit the purposes for which we process your Personal Data. We can continue to use your Personal Data following your request to restrict the processing of yourPersonal Data, where we have your consent; or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person.
(vi) Right to Data Portability:You may have the right to request that we send or “port” the Personal Data that we process about you to a third-party, but in each case only where the processing is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract with you, and the processing is carried out by automated means. It is important to note that theGDPR and the CCPA differ in the application of this right and therefore we will handle the fulfillment according to the applicable laws in your jurisdiction
(vii) Right to Object: You may have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data on the basis of our legitimate interest. The right to object does not exist, in particular, if the processing of your Personal Data is necessary in order to enter into a contract with you or to perform a contract with you.
(viii) Right to Withdraw Consent:If you have given us your consent for the processing of your Personal Data, you may have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before your consent was withdrawn.
(ix) Data Transfer Rights: You may be able to obtain a copy of, or reference to, the safeguards under which your Personal Data is being transferred outside the UK/EEA. We have included links and explanations regarding these mechanisms in section J above.
(x) Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: You may have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automatic decision making or profiling.
Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligation under this Privacy Policy, the GDPR, the UK data protection laws, or the CCPA you have the right to make a complaint to an EU Data Protection Authority or the UK Information Commissioner's Office (as applicable).
If you would like to exercise any of your rights listed above, please contact us at: dpo@brandbee.io to submit a request to exercise such rights, or otherwise, certain right can be exercised independently through the App settings, you can correct, access and review as well as delete your account information which includes the Sign Up information and the Demographic Data, you can delete your account data from the App settings (removing the App does not delete the account data, you need to first request deletion account and then remove the App), you can opt-out from direct marketing and tracking at any time as detailed above, etc.
We reserve the right to ask that you send us reasonable evidence in order to verify your identity before we provide you with any of the information that you requested, subject to applicable law. We aim to respond to a verifiable request without undue delay and in any event in accordance with applicable law. We will notify you if we require more time to respond to your request and inform you of the reason and length of the extension period in writing. Our response to your request may also explain the reasons why we cannot fulfill your request, if applicable. When you request to exercise your data portability right, we will provide your Personal Data in a format that is able to be used and that would allow you to easily transmit the information from one entity to another.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us as follows:
By email at: dpo@brandbee.io
This CCPA Privacy Exhibit (“Exhibit”)governs the way in which we process the data of consumers who reside in theState of California (“Consumers” as defined under the CCPA, and will be referred to herein as “you”). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Exhibit. Furthermore, this Exhibit is an integral part of ourPrivacy Policy and therefore, any definitions used herein but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in our Privacy Policy.
To learn more about your California privacy rights, please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws
When you access our Website and use our App or Services, we collect certain information with respect to such use and access. This data may include “Personal Information” which is defined under the CCPA as any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer, household or device as specified in the table below.
The following table specifies the categories ofPersonal Information that we may collect (or may have collected within the last 12 months):
In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:
We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: service providers (e.g., servers etc.), business partners (e.g., our Partners), affiliates of Similarweb and third parties to whom you authorize us to disclose your Personal Information in connection with our Services.
We collect the Personal Information that we listed above in the ways listed in and in accordance with section B of our Privacy Policy.
We may use the Personal Information we collect for the business purposes that we included in section B of our Privacy Policy.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected in a way that is materially different, unrelated, or incompatible with the purposes that are listed in section B of our Privacy Policy without providing you with prior notice of our intention to do so.
We have sold the following types of Personal Information in the last twelve (12) months of those users who choose to participate in a Study or take part in a Demographic Survey or a Market Research Survey:
If you would like to opt-out of this “sale” you can send us a Do Not Sell My Personal Information request at any time here or by emailing us at: dpo@brandbee.io.
We may make available certain programs or offerings that are considered “financial incentives” under the CCPA. You can find a description of these programs and our applicable notice required by the CCPA here.
You have the right to request the following information from us with respect to the Personal Information that we have collected about you in the previous 12 months (which can be requested by you up to twice per year and is subject to certain exemptions):
Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, you may have the right to request deletion of Personal Information that we have collected about you.
California consumers who are registered users of the App and who are under 18 years of age may request the removal of content or information they posted on via the App. We will remove such content or information when we are required to do so by law. To request the removal of content or information you posted on the App, you may contact us as described below. Please note that even if we remove the content or information that you posted, we cannot prevent further use or disclosure of that content or information by others once you have shared it publicly
You may submit a request to us to opt-out of “sale” by visiting our Do Not Sell My Personal Information page and submitting a request there or by emailing us at dpo@brandbee.io.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the rights described in this section.
We provide you with the ability to exercise certain choices and controls in connection with our treatment of your Personal Information, depending on your relationship with us. You may exercise any or all of your rights in relation to your Personal Information by contacting our DPO at: dpo@brandbee.io or by contacting our support team at: support@brandbee.io.
We will update our Privacy Policy every 12 months, as required under the CCPA. The last revision date will be reflected in the “Last Amended” heading located at the top of this Privacy Policy.
