Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://bigjstam.com. BigJStam (“Company”, “we”, “us” “our”), we respect our users (“User(s)” or “you(r)”) privacy.  This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) summarizes what personal information we collect, and how we use and disclose this information.

This Privacy Policy applies to all users of our services, which includes our products, content, website, and applications (collectively, the “Services”), and to people that create accounts with us through our website, upload content to our website, or purchase products from our website, or link their other online profiles to our website. By using our Services, or by creating or linking an account on our website, you signify your consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services or submit any personal information to us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal information is any information that could, alone or together with other information, personally identify, or otherwise be reasonably linked or connected with, a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”). Information such as a username and password, an email address, a real name, an Internet protocol (IP) address and a photograph are examples of Personal Information. We collect Personal Information when you voluntarily provide it through our Services, or when you provide it to us through the following other means, including:

  • contact us through email, telephone, mail; or other correspondence; 
  • register for or request a service we provide or which we make available to you through our Services;
  • register or link an account on our website;
  • upload content to our website;
  • create an account on the Services, which may include your name, address, email, phone number, date of birth, photo, payment or banking information, and government ID;
  • enter into a sweepstakes, contest, or promotional prize draw (each a “Sweepstakes”) held through our Services;
  • fill out questionnaires on our Services or which are sent to you;
  • communicate with the Company;
  • provide access to linked accounts, including Twitch and YouTube;
  • submit information about product purchases;
  • submit information about your business, including financial information;
  • engage with our content on social media;
  • interact with our platform, website; and
  • interact with our company on social media

We may collect the following Personal Information:

  • your full name;
  • contact information, such as your address, telephone number, or email address;
  • your physical location and/or shipping address (if you win any deliverable prize);
  • your date of birth;
  • your photo;
  • your username on the Services;
  • your username from third party accounts which you have linked to our Services (each such account, a “Linked-Account”);
  • your account profile picture;
  • your Linked-Account profile picture;
  • video submitted to us by you;
  • audio submitted to us by you;
  • social media data, including without limitation: who you follow, your followers, subscribers and who you subscribe to;
  • your payment and banking information;
  • information provided by third-party payment processors such as Stripe or PayPal;
  • your location;
  • your site activity history, behaviors, preferences, settings; and
  • any other Personal Information that you choose to submit to us.

We also collect information about you from third parties. We may obtain this information from sources such as:

  • our business partners;
  • our clients and customers;
  • third-party service providers, including:
    • Facebook (social media authentication platform and Facebook pixels for adverting retargeting);
    • Google (advertising pixels);
    • Instagram (social media authentication platform);
    • Twitch (social media authentication platform);
    • Twitter (social media authentication platform);
    • YouTube (social media authentication platform); and
    • Google analytics (for tracking usage data, analytics and statistics);
  • other users of the Services;
  • the entities that are administrating the Sweepstakes (the “Sponsors”); and
  • publicly available sources.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We and third parties we partner with may use cookies, web beacons, API access tokens, tracking pixels, flash cookies (also known as locally shared objects), HTML5 cookies, entity tags, and other similar technological means (collectively, “Cookies”) on our Services to help us collection information through technological means. These technological tools may track or collect information such as: (i) IP addresses; (ii) the type of web browser and operating system used; (iii) the pages of the Services visited; (iv) the URL that referred you to our Services; (v) the aspects of our Services you use; (vi) your activities on the Services; and (vii) information about your device.

We use Cookies for a number of different reasons:

  • to improve functionality and performance of our Services, including tailoring our Services to increase relevancy of content displayed to you;
  • to provide you with services;
  • to facilitate your transactions on the Services;
  • to authenticate users of our Services;
  • to provide us with insights on how users use our Services and other analytics, such as traffic on our Services;
  • to remember your settings and preferences; and
  • to deliver relevant advertisements to you based on your interests, preferences, and activities. Cookies also help to avoid delivering the same advertisements to you too many times and measure the usefulness of advertisements you have been delivered. Information gathered by Cookies may be shared with third parties, including advertisers. This means that sometimes you’ll see our Services advertised elsewhere on the internet.

We obtain your consent to our Cookies by providing you with transparent information in our privacy policy and providing you with the opportunity to make your choice. You have the right to object to the use of Cookies. Regular cookies may generally be disabled or removed by tools that are available as part of most commercial browsers, and in some but not all instances can be blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options in this regard. Also, these tools may not be effective in relation to Flash cookies or HTML5 cookies. For information on disabling Flash cookies go to Adobe’s website (www.adobe.com). Please be aware that if you disable or remove these Cookies some parts of our Services will not work and that when you revisit our Services your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. You can also find out more information about managing, disabling, and deleting cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. 

We reserve the right to transfer Personal Information to a third party in the event that we merge with or are acquired by a third party, or as part of the negotiations leading up to such merger or acquisition. We also may disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose permitted by law or to which you consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information for legal compliance purposes, to cooperate with or carry-out investigations, and in compliance with any court order or subpoena.

While the entities donating the prizes may receive your Personal Information and use your Personal Information for purpose stated herein, we do not sell our users’ Personal Information to third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We keep track of Personal Information by storing it in a relational database, with all Personal Information tied to specific user records.

Information collected through your use of the Services may be processed or stored in the United States, Canada, Europe or any other country in which We maintain facilities. We may transfer information that we collect about You, including personal information, to affiliated entities or to other third parties across borders and from your country of jurisdiction to other jurisdictions throughout the world.

We Store Personal information for as long as necessary in order to provide the Services and fulfill the purposes discussed above. Please note that in some cases means that such Personal Information may be retained by Us indefinitely as long as you have an account with Us. You may also contact us at any time to delete your Personal Information, including any account information you have submitted to us, as set out below in this agreement.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This Privacy Policy does not apply to applications, technologies or websites that are owned by and/or operated by other parties. The relevant third party’s terms of use, privacy policy, permissions, notices and choices should be reviewed by yourself regarding their collection, storage and sharing practices since they may be different from ours.

Additional information

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. As a user of our Services, you have the following rights as they relate to Personal Information:

  • the right to know what Personal Information about you is collected.
  • the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
  • the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained (subject to certain exceptions).
  • the right to know whether and to whom your Personal Information is sold and/or shared, and you have the right to opt out of having your Personal Information sold.
  • the right to not to be charged a different price or receive different services where exercising the other rights described above (subject to certain exceptions).

Opting Out

You can opt out all marketing communications by (i) clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of emails, or (ii) changing your account settings on the platform. It may take up to 30 days before we are able to process your opt-out request. Once we have processed the request, you will not receive any more marketing communications unless you opt back in.

Age Restriction

THE SERVICES ARE NOT AIMED AT INDIVIDUALS UNDER 13. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS OUR SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from people under 13 years old. If we learn that personal information of people under 18 years old has been collected on or through our Services, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 years old who uses our Services, then please contact us at the address below to have your child’s account terminated and personal information deleted.

By using the Services you confirm that you are at least 13 years old. In the event that you are over the age of 13 but under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you should speak with a parent or guardian about your use of the Services before registering for an account on the website or using the Services. By using the Services you and your parent and guardian confirm that you consent to the use and disclosure of your Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Statement from time to time. We will reflect any such modifications to this Privacy Policy on our Services. Your continued use of the Services after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy, as revised. Such revisions will be effective thirty days after their posting. We will provide notification to users of material changes to this Privacy Statement through our Website at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our home page or sending email to the primary email address specified in your user account.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, wish to access your information, or have any concerns about the same please contact us via email at big+jstam@jstam.com. We will respond promptly — within 45 days at the latest.