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PHOTOBUCKET PRIVACY POLICY

Rev. October 12, 2023

Thank you for visiting Photobucket.com and our mobile applications
(collectively, the "Site") and reviewing this Privacy Policy of Photobucket.com,
Inc. ("Photobucket" or "we" or "us"). We are a company headquartered in the
United States of America, but our Site may be accessed in any country where it
is legal to do so.

WE KNOW THAT YOUR PRIVACY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU AND IT IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT
TO US.

PHOTOBUCKET WILL NEVER USE YOUR IMAGES, INCLUDING YOUR FACIAL DATA, YOUR PROFILE
INFORMATION OR YOUR ACTIVITY ON OUR SITE IN ANY MANNER OR FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER
THAN TO PROVIDE OUR SERVICES TO YOU UNLESS WE HAVE YOUR EXPRESS PERMISSION OR AS
SET FORTH HEREIN.

THE FOLLOWING PROVIDES DETAILS ON WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT, WHY WE COLLECT IT
AND HOW WE WILL/WON'T USE IT.

It is important to us that you understand what information we collect when you
visit the Site either from a computer or a mobile device and what we may do with
that information, so we have laid it all out here for you. This Privacy Policy
also covers the collection of data from applications on mobile devices.It sets
out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect
from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify
you (“personal information”) and information that could not. In the context of
the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or
otherwise act on information.

By using this Site you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you
signify your assent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of
Use. If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Policy or ourTerms of
Use, please do not use this Site or submit any personal information. Please take
care to read our Privacy Policy to be sure you are informed about how your
information may be used. Please also read our Terms of Use.

We take seriously our obligation to protect your privacy. We understand that all
visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not
be used for any purpose unintended by them and will not accidentally fall into
the hands of a third party.

Our policy complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This
law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations in regard to
the processing and control of your personal data. If you want to read more about
your rights and our obligations, please review the information provided at
www.knowyourprivacyrights.org.

Why Do We Collect & Process Information About You?

1. We have a contractual right or obligation

When you create an account on our Site, upload content, buy a product or service
from us, or otherwise agree to our Terms of Use, a contract is formed between
you and us. In order to carry out our obligations under that contract we must
process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal
information. We may use it in order to: (a) verify your identity for security
purposes; and (b) sell products and provide services to you.We process this
information on the basis that there is a contract between us, or that you have
requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.
Additionally, we may aggregate this information in a general and anonymous way
and use it to monitor or improve our features and performance. For example, we
actively use Google Analytics to better understand usage, behaviors and trends
on our Site and may also use artificial intelligence and machine learning to
improve tagging capabilities. We shall continue to process this information
until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the
terms of the contract.

2. We have your consent

When you use our Site, such as when you create an account, upload, search and
view images or ask us to provide you more information about our products and
services, you provide your consent to us to process and use information that may
be personal information. Wherever possible, we will attempt to obtain your
explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to
agree to our use of cookies. If you have given us explicit permission to do so,
we may from time to time provide your name and contact information to selected
partners whom we believe may provide services or products you would find useful.
For example, if you decide to order a print of one of your images and click on
the button or link that initiates the "handoff" to our third party print
partner, we would provide user and image information to them to assist you in
the ordering process. Sometimes you may give implicit consent, such as when you
send us a message through our support desk or by e-mail to which you would
reasonably expect us to reply.

Except where you have consented, we do not use your information in any way that
would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general and anonymous
way to do such things as monitor the performance of a particular page on our
website or for artificial intelligence and machine learning purposes by us or
others we contract with.

We continue to process your information on the above basis until you withdraw
your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at
support@photobucket.com. However, if you do so, you will not be able to use our
Site or our services in the future other than to search for other users' images
as a Site visitor.

3. We have a legitimate reason to do so

We may process information on the basis there is a legitimate reason, either to
you or to us, of doing so. Where we process your information on this basis, we
do after having given consideration to: (a) whether the same objective could be
achieved through other means; (b) whether processing (or not processing) might
cause you harm; and (c) whether you would expect us to process your data, and
whether you would reasonably expect us to do so. For example, we may process
your data on this basis for the purposes of: (i) record-keeping purposes; (ii)
responding to unsolicited communication from you to which we believe you would
expect a response; (iii) protecting and asserting our legal rights; and (iv)
protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so.

4. We have a legal obligation

We will process your information when necessary to comply with a legal,
statutory or administrative obligation. For example, we may be required to give
information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper
authorisation such as a search warrant or court order. This may include your
personal information.

5. You have asked us to charge your preferred payment method

Your payment information is never taken by us or transferred to us either
through our Site or otherwise. Our employees and contractors never have access
to it. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the
website of our payment gateway partners. Their pages may be branded to look like
a page on our Site but are not controlled by us.They are regulated by stringent
credit card privacy laws as well as the rules of Visa, Mastercard, etc.

6. You sent a message to our customer support team

When you contact us, whether through our website or by e-mail, we collect the
data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need. We
record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our
company. We may keep personally identifiable information associated with your
message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our
communications with you to provide a high-quality service.

7. You have made a complaint or notified us of potential instances of copyright
infringement

When we receive a complaint or take down request, we record all the information
you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint or
request. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person,
we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in
your complaint or request. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a
matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we
do, what that information is. We may also compile statistics showing information
obtained from this source on an anonymous basis to assess the level of service
we provide.

How Do We Collect Information Other Than When You Provide It To Us?

1. Cookies, Mobile Device Identifiers and SDK's

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive by
your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on
one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a
website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with
statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved. Some
cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you
close your browser. Others last indefinitely. Your web browser should allow you
to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their
use.

Our Site uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers,
and by software operated by third parties whose services we use. If you choose
not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you
will not be able to use all the functionality of our Site. We use cookies in the
following ways: (a) to track how you use our Site; (b) to record whether you
have seen specific messages we display on our Site; (c) to keep you signed in
our Site; and (d) to record your answers to surveys and questionnaires on our
Site while you complete them.

2. Personal identifiers obtained from browsing

Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on
our Site are recorded. We record information such as your geographical location,
your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information
about the software you are using to browse our Site, such as the type of
computer or device and the screen resolution. We use this information in
aggregate on an anonymous basis to assess the popularity of the webpages on our
Site and how we perform in providing services to our members.We also use this
anonymous information to help us make decisions on where/how we can improve and
enhance our services.

Note though: if combined with other information we know about you from previous
visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you
are not signed into your user account on our Site, but that is not common.

3. Our use of re-marketing

Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our Site
in order to be able to serve to you an advertisement for our products or
services when you visit another website that is not owned or controlled by us.
We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to
time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies by continuing to
use our Site, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other
websites.

4. Information we obtain from third parties

Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except
as set out in this notice), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up
from your personal information from third parties whose services we use.

5. Third party advertising on our website

Third parties advertise on our Site. In doing so, those parties, their agents or
other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects
information about you when their advertisement is displayed on our Site. For
example, they may collect information about your broad geographic location based
upon your IP address. They may also use other technology such as cookies, mobile
SDK's or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the
performance of their advertisements. We do not have control over these
technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy
notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

We allow third party advertisements on our Site to reduce the cost of providing
a free storage plan to the public. If you want to eliminate having to see third
party ads while using our Site, which means that these advertisers won't be able
to collect information about you, simply purchase one of our affordable premium
plans, which removes all third party ads during your use of the Site.

What Do We Do With Information We Collect on the Site?

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party,
any information collected through our Site.

Our Site allows you to upload and share images and information that, by doing so
and making such images public, you intend to be viewed, copied, downloaded, or
used by other people, such as:(a) tagging, describing or commenting on images,
whether such images are posted by you or someone else; (b) making comments on a
forum; or (c) clicking on an icon next to another user's image or comment to
convey your agreement, disagreement or thanks. We will store your information
and will use it for the purpose of providing our services to you and the public.

We, and those third parties we may contract with, may also use your images in a
general and anonymous way for training artificial intelligence ("AI") algorithms
and/or machine learning models and subsequent commercial uses derived therefrom.

When posting images or other personal information, it is up to you to satisfy
yourself about the privacy level of every person who might use it.Once your
information enters the public domain, we have no control over what any
individual third party may do with it. We accept no responsibility for their
actions at any time.

At any time, you may review or update personally identifiable information that
we hold about you, by signing into your account on our Site and accessing your
user profile.

You may send us a request at support@photobucket.com if you wish for us to
remove your personal information. Provided your request is reasonable and there
is no legal basis for us to retain it, then at our discretion we may agree to
your request to delete your personal information.When we receive any request to
access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise
taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information. Such removal
may make it impossible for you to continuing using the Site.

Our Site is hosted in the United States of America.If you are located in the
European Union, please be aware that your data will be processed outside the
European Union.

How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Data?

Except as otherwise mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we keep your personal
information only for as long as required by us: (a) to provide you with the
goods and services you have requested; (b) to comply with applicable law; and
(c) to support a claim or defense in court.

How Do We Notify You of Changes to This Policy?

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we may deem necessary.
The terms that apply to you are those posted here so please check back often to
view any changes.Should we make any major changes to this Privacy Policy, we
will endeavour to provide you with notification via on Site messaging and/or by
e-mail to e-mail address you provided to us when creating your user account. We
advise you to print a copy for your records.

How Do You Contact Us with Questions or a Request?

If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
support@photobucket.com.

Our legal address is:
621 Kalamath Street, Suite 135
Denver, CO 80204 USA

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