At VSCO, it’s important to us to be open and transparent with the creators who trust us with their data. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices and how we handle your data that we collect through our websites, products, services, social media, marketing activities, and other ways described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “Services”).
Account Data
We need certain information to set up your account.
Name, email address, phone number, username, password, redemption code, age, date of birth
Profile Data
You can customize your profile on our Services so other creators can get to know you better
Any information you add about yourself to your profile, such as your biographical details, photograph, social media links, interests, preferences
Our Communications With You
Sometimes we might reach out to you, or you might reach out to us.
The communications between us when you contact us with questions, comments, or support requests
Feedback
We would love to hear your thoughts on our Services.
Any feedback that you provide in any questionnaires, surveys, interviews, beta tests, or other scenarios in which we request your feedback
Payment and Transactional Data
We need certain information about you so we can process your payments
Name, country, payment card information, bank account number, billing information, subscription information, purchase history
Marketing Data
We want to honor your choices regarding our marketing efforts, and understand how our marketing campaigns are performing.
Your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them
User Generated Content
You’ll get to interact with other creators and generate your own content when you use our Services.
Images, music, videos, collages, montages, comments, tags, collaborative areas that you create, your “favorite” content, the content you repost, messages, your interactions with VSCO’s or other people’s content on our Services
Data About Others
You might want to invite your friends to use our Services.
Contacts that you share with us
Non-fungible token (“NFT”) Data
We might need NFT data related to artists and their content, curators, exhibitions, and collections.
Artist or artwork information, cryptocurrency wallet address and accounts, cryptocurrency transactions, cryptocurrency balance, keys, the content of the NFT, information on the related blockchain
Date We Collect From Third Parties
Data from Social Media Platforms
Sometimes you might connect with us on social media
Your interactions with our social media posts, your mentions of VSCO or VSCO related hashtags in your social media posts
Data from other creators
Our creators might want to invite you to use our Services.
Contact lists that other creators sync with our Services
Data from your Single Sign On (SSO) Provider
We try to make the login process simpler for you by providing you with some SSO options.
Information related to your account with the SSO provider, such as your name, picture, username, email address, or phone number
Data We May Collect Automatically
Device Data
We receive certain information about your device and browser when you use our Services.
Operating system type and version, device type, device model, browser type, IP address, network information, unique identifiers, general location information
Online Activity Data
We learn about how you’re engaging with us and our Services online.
Your interactions with different pages on our Services, the website that referred you to us, whether you opened our marketing emails or clicked links within them
Geolocation Data
Depending on whether you’ve given us permission, we might learn about your precise location.
Precise location data that we get when you authorize our mobile application to access your device’s location
Metadata about User-Generated Content
We get data about the content you contribute to our Services.
How, when, and where you created your content, how you edited your content
You may be able to configure your browser and device settings to limit some of the data we might collect about you. Some of our automatic data collection happens through cookies or similar technologies, which you can learn more about by reading our
Cookie NoticeDelivering our Services
We’ll use your data to provide our Services to you.
We use your data to provide and improve our Services and our business, establish and maintain your account and profile, facilitate the display and transfer of NFTs and related content, enable security features, communicate with you about our Services, understand your needs and interests as they relate to our Services, personalize your experience with our Services, respond to your requests, questions, and comments, and invite your contacts that you invite to join our Services.
Research and Development
We might use your data to help us make our Services better.
We may use your data for research and development so we can understand and improve our Services.
As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve our Services and promote our business.
Marketing
Depending on your choices, you might get marketing communications about our Services.
Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications about our Services or products or services that we offer with our marketing partners. If you would rather not receive our marketing emails, you can follow the steps in the
“Opt-Out of Marketing” section later in this Privacy Policy.
Interest-based advertising. We may engage third-party marketing companies and social media companies to display ads on other online services. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies with our Services, our communications and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our creators with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar creators on other online platforms. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the
“Your choices” section of our Cookie Notice.
Compliance and Protection
We may need to use your data in certain ways to make sure we provide our Services legally and safely.
To provide our Services, we must be mindful of the many legal, ethical, and contractual requirements that apply to us, while also trying to protect our creators and our Services.
To that end, we might use your data as needed to comply with the law, respond to lawful data requests (like subpoenas and warrants), protect our creators, protect our rights (including by establishing and defending against legal claims), comply with any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, enforce our terms and policies, and prevent or investigate fraudulent, harmful, or illegal activity.
Who we might share your data with
Why we might share your data with them
We might share your data with our corporate affiliates or subsidiaries to do the things mentioned in this Privacy Policy.
We lean on certain companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Services or our business. These service providers perform services like data hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, and website analytics
We may work with advertising networks or adtech providers to advertise to you. You can learn how to opt-out of interest-based advertising in our
Cookie Notice.We may need to share your data with our professional advisors, like our lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers if it’s necessary for them to provide their services.
We may need to share your data with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties if we need to do so for the compliance or protection purposes described above.
If we go through a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of our assets, we may share or transfer your data to the parties (or their advisors) to the transaction during the transaction or in contemplation of the transaction (including during due diligence).
Other creators and the public
Your profile and user-generated content are publicly visible and can be seen and used by others.
We may create other ways you can interact and communicate with other creators, including things like tipping and other ways you can support creators monetarily. The data related to these interactions will be visible by other creators.
We make commercially reasonable efforts to verify that any third parties who we share personal information with provide a level of protection of personal information that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Except for service providers and affiliates, any such third parties may use personal information as described in their own privacy policies to the extent permitted by law.
What you can do with your data
Access or update your information
You can review and update certain account information by logging into your account.
Opt-out of marketing communications
You can opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of a marketing email, or by
contacting us. You will continue to receive other non-marketing emails related to our Services. If you receive marketing text messages from us, you can opt out by replying STOP to our marketing message.
To learn about the cookies we use and how you can control them, please see our
Cookie Notice.
Disable mobile location data
You can disable our access to your device’s precise geolocation in your mobile device settings.
Decline to provide information
You can decide not to give us certain data, but then you may not be able to use certain features of our Services.
Configure third party platform settings
If you connect to our Services through a third party platform (like a social media account), you may be able to use your settings in your account with that platform to limit the information we receive from it moving forward.
Delete your content and account
You can choose to delete certain user-generated content from your account. You can delete your account entirely by following the instructions
here.
If you are under 18 years of age, you can also use these same instructions to exercise your right to delete your content under California’s “Online Eraser” Law.
Because there is no widely accepted standard for the browser-initiated Do Not Track signal, we do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.
