Blavity, Inc., doing business as AfroTech, Blavity, Blavity 360, Blavity House Party, Home & Texture, Shadow and Act, Talent Infusion, Travel Noire and 21Ninety, (“Blavity”, "Company", “Us” or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”).
This Policy describes/applies to the types of information We may collect from you or that you may provide when you interact with Us through our websites, mobile applications, emails, social media pages, our live events, advertising, other digital platforms or any other means through which you interact with Us and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information (collectively “Our Services”).
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use Our Services. By accessing or using Our Services, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of Our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.
Our Services is not intended for children under sixteen (16) years of age. No one under age sixteen (16) may provide any personal information to or on Our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under sixteen (16). If you are under sixteen (16), do not use or provide any information on Our Services or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to Us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If We learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under sixteen (16) without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. If you believe We might have any information from or about a child under sixteen (16), please contact us at [email protected].
We collect several types of information from and about users of Our Services, including information:
By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or other personal information category collected/any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("Personal Information");
That is about you but individually does not identify you, and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access Our Services, and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to Us.
Automatically as you navigate through Our Services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
The information We collect on or through Our Services may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms through Our Services. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use or subscribing to Our Services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by Us, and when you report a problem with Our Services.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact Us.
Your responses to surveys that We might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through Our Services and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through Our Services.
Any other type of information you may provide.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of Our Services or transmitted to other users of Our Services or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of Our Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, We cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
As you navigate through and interact with Our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our websites, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use through Our Services.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Click here for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on Our websites and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information We collect automatically may include Personal Information, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information We collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve Our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize Our Services according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to Our Services.
The technologies We use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of Our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to Our Services. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of Our Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect Personal Information automatically, but We may tie non-personal information collected automatically to Personal Information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to Us.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on Our Services are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use Our Services. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
To present Our Services and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from Us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and Us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to Our Services or any products or services We offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features relating to Our Services.
In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want Us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which We collect your data and/or adjust your user preferences in your account profile.
We may use the information We have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though We do not disclose your Personal Information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Information that We collect, or you provide as described in this Policy:
To our affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties We use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Us about users of Our Services is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by Us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of Our Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want Us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which We collect your data. You can also always opt-out by logging into any of Our Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email with your request to [email protected].
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by Us to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by logging into any of Our Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to Us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by clicking here. For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept all browser cookies.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into any of Our Services and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if We believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from Our Services, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other users. Proper access and use of information provided through Our Services, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information.
Notice of California Privacy Rights: California residents have specific privacy rights governed by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which includes the following:
You can opt out of sharing your Personal Information. We do not sell your Personal Information
You have the right to know the Personal Information We have collected about you
You can correct inaccurate Personal Information
You can delete Personal Information collected about you
We do not discriminate against you based on the exercise of the above-listed rights.
To exercise any of the above rights, kindly send an email to [email protected]
California’s “Shine the Light” law provides California residents who provide certain Personal Information while obtaining products or services with the right to request and obtain from the Company on an annual basis information about them that have been shared with other businesses for direct marketing uses. To obtain this information where applicable, kindly send an email to [email protected].
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether We process their Personal Information.
Access and delete certain Personal Information.
Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for:
targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
sales; or
profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please send an email to [email protected].
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain Personal Information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request [email protected]. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to Us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where We have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of Our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted through Our Services. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on any of Our Services.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the home page of our website. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our websites and this Policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
To register a complaint or concern, please contact [email protected]