Privacy & Cookie Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Glimesh, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies (“Glimesh”). In the Privacy Policy the terms “We”, “Us”, and “Our” refer to Glimesh, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies. “You” and “your” refers to the end user of our products and services. “Site” and “Services” refer to any products offered by Glimesh.

This Privacy Policy includes but is not limited to; the websites of Glimesh, including https://glimesh.tv/ and all subdomains (“Sites”), Glimesh’s other products, services or any other features, technologies or functionalities offered by us on our Sites or through any other means (collectively, “Services”).

The Privacy Policy does not apply to information you provide directly to third party websites or third party applications that use Glimesh’s Services. We do not control the activities of such third parties and advise you to consult their privacy policies before you share your personal information. Please see the sharing of personal information section for more information.

Personal Information Collected

The section below describes what personal information we collect. Personal information is collected through various channels in our Site and Services. We also obtain information about you from other sources, including third party websites or applications that offer the Glimesh Services, and combine that with information we collect on our Sites and through our Services.

When you visit our Sites or use our Services, some information is automatically collected. For example, when you visit our Sites, your computer’s operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, access times, browser type and language and the website you visited before our Sites are logged automatically.

Types of Personal Information We Collect

Account Registration
- Username
- Password
- Email address
- Date of account creation
This information is collected in order to create your account on the Site. Without this information we could not create a verifiable account.
Site and Services Usage
- We collect the information that you provide on your profile.
- Content uploaded to our platform including but not limited to
  1. Live Streamed Videos
  2. Pictures (Profile Pictures, Newsfeed images, Saved Screenshots, Etc…)
  3. Audio (Portions of stream audio, uploaded audio)
  4. Uploaded prerecorded video
- Chat messages and direct messages
Automatic data provided through usage of Glimesh Services
When you visit, and interact with the Services, we may receive information about your visit, use, or interactions. We may monitor the number of users who visit the service, hours of use, page viewership, and which browsers users use to access the Services. We automatically log the following information in our systems:
- Cookies: Please see our Cookies section to learn more about how we use your cookies.
- Device Information: Name of device, operating system, and your browser.
- Log Data: Information that your browser automatically sends when using our services. Log Data can include information about your browser, type, settings, the date and time of your request, your browser, and your interactions with the Services.
- Services Usage: The type of content you view or interact with, the features you utilize, actions you take, time and frequency of your activities.
Chat & interactive features
Glimesh Services utilize interactive functionality to engage with our Services and community. When you watch streams, chat, browse, or otherwise utilize our public Services any data you provide will be considered “public”. Glimesh has little to no control over how other individuals of our Services may use the information you share through our interactive features.
Communications or responses to Glimesh
We will collect personal information from you such as username, email, legal name, or mailing address when you request information about our Services, request to receive support from us, or otherwise initiate communication with us.
Social logins, or other 3rd party information
We may receive information about you from 3rd party services. This supplemental information allows us to fetch pre-registration information, and can be used to provide improved services to you.
Video Identifiers
The Services utilize unique video identifiers to track and brand the content we distribute via our Services.
Media Content
When you utilize our Services to live stream yourself, your computer, or any other visual or auditory content you choose to share, that data will be recorded and retransmitted to users of our Services, and may be stored for future usage.
Analytics
We use Plausible Plausible.io to collect basic anonymized analytics about our site, and it’s usage. We collect this data to better understand our users, their referrals, and how they utilize our Services. Please see their Privacy Policy for more information.
Cookies
We automatically collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Sites, Services and your experience. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove and/or reject cookies. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites or Services. For example, you will not be able to login to the Glimesh Services. Glimesh provides a single functional cookie for our users to track their logged in state
- Our Cookies
  - Name: __glimesh_key
  - Provider: Glimesh
  - Purpose: Track state of users
  - Country: United States
  - Type: http_cookie
  - Expires: Session (on logout)
Web Beacons
We may also collect information using “Web Beacons”. Web Beacons are electronic images that are utilized by our sites, our services, and by our emails. We utilize Web Beacons to deliver cookies, count page visits, understand campaign usage and effectiveness, and check the engagement of emails that we send out. If you’d like more information on Web Beacons please see Wikipedia Web Beacon Article

Use of Personal Information We Collect

We use personal information collected through our Sites and Services for purposes described in this Policy or otherwise disclosed to you. For example, we may use personal information to:

to operate and improve our Sites and Services;
to respond to your comments,questions, resolve Terms of Service issues and provide customer service;
to process transactions,send you related information, including confirmations, receipts, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support, and administrative messages;
to develop new programs and services;
to prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuse of our Services, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks;
to comply with legal obligations,legal processes, and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property and that of our affiliates, you, or other 3rd parties.

Glimesh stores and processes personal information in the United States.

Sharing of Personal Information

We may also share your personal information with these third party vendors who work on our behalf:

reCAPTCHA - anti-robot service for preventing spam.
Plausible.io - privacy focused analytics provider

We may also share your personal information with these third parties during our charity streams:

Tiltify - charity organization & donation service
Pusher - live update service for donation widget from Tiltify
Google Analytics - analytics service used by Tiltify

We may also share your information as follows:

to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal processes; to protect the rights and property of Glimesh, our agents, users and others, including to enforce our terms, policies and guidelines; or in an emergency to protect the personal safety of our users or any other person;
in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company;
any information you give us to share on your behalf will be provided to other users of the Services; and
with your consent or direction to do so.

Security of Your Personal Information

Glimesh takes measures to help protect your personal information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.We are committed to keep your information safe and secure to the best of our ability. If you feel that your Information may have been compromised please reach out to [email protected].

Children

Glimesh is not directed to children who are under the age of 13. Glimesh does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to Glimesh through our Services, please email us at [email protected]. Children under the age of 13 must have parental consent in order to use the site and services of Glimesh. Parents can email a written consent form to [email protected]

International Users

By using our Services, you acknowledge and understand that your Personal Information will be transmitted and stored in our facilities in the United States.

Changes to This Policy

Glimesh may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to the Policy, we will update this webpage. Any changes in the policy will be communicated through the Site or through email.

California Privacy Rights

To the extent provided for by law and subject to applicable exceptions, California residents have the following privacy rights in relation to the Personal Information we collect:

The right to know what Personal Information we have collected and how we have used and disclosed that Personal Information;
The right to request deletion of your Personal Information; and
The right to be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.

Exercising Your Rights: California residents can exercise the above privacy rights by emailing us at: [email protected].

In order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may require you to verify your login credentials before you can submit a request to acquire or delete your Personal Information. If you do not have an account with us, or if we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity, we may ask you to provide additional Personal Information and proof of residency for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not provide or delete your Personal Information.

Authorized Agents: you may submit a request to know or request to delete your Personal Information through an authorized agent. If you do so, the agent must present a signed written permission to act on your behalf. You may also be required to independently verify your identity and submit proof of your residency with us.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at [email protected].