I. Privacy Policy
Effective Date: This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is effective and was last updated as of Feb 1st 2020.
II. Our Commitment to Your Privacy
A. Cascade Streaming inc. (A.K.A Cascade) is pleased to provide you its online services and applications:
Cascade, Inc. is a private company, established in the U.S.A., registered at 225 Sullivan St. New York, NY, United States and for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is the data controller.
B. The privacy of our visitors and users (collectively, “you” or “your”) is very important to us. This Privacy Policy describes:
C. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
D. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our information collection and use practices, please contact us by emailing kemp@thecascade.co
III. Information We Collect and How We Collect It
A. We collect information in the following ways: (i) we collect information you submit via the Service; (ii) we collect information we derive from your use of the Service; and (iii) we collect information we obtain from Social Networking Services (defined below) when you connect to Service via your social media account. The information we gather enables us to personalize, improve and continue to operate the Service.
B. In connection with the Service, we collect the following types of information from and about you, including:
IV. How We Use Information Collected from You
A. As it is in our legitimate interests to provide our services, be responsive to you and to ensure the proper functioning of our Services, we use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us as follows:
B. Where permissible under applicable law, we reserve the right to send you communications regarding the operation of the Service, or to advise you of Service changes or other events or occurrences which will affect your access to or use of the Service (such as service announcements, administrative notices and the like) without offering you the opportunity to opt out of them.
V. Sharing Your Information
Your information may be shared as follows:
A. We may share aggregated and anonymized information about your interests, your use of the Service, and the links and ads that you follow, with content providers, advertisers, television production companies, cable networks, OTT platforms, talent agencies or others in the television industry.
B. Surveys. If you choose to participate in our surveys, we use Survey Monkey to operate these surveys and Survey Monkey will have access to your survey responses, as well as your IP Address.
C. Safety, Security and Compliance with Law. We will disclose any information, including personal information, as is necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to enforce our rights or to protect the safety and security of the Service or other users.
D. Business Transfers. In the event Cascade undergoes a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, we will transfer your personal information and other information to the successor organization in such transaction. If material changes to the Service’s privacy practices will occur as a result of the business transition, Cascade or its successor will attempt to notify you, including by posting a notice on the Service so that you can elect whether to delete your Account.
E. To Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We contract with third party companies to perform services on our behalf, including advertising, marketing assistance, e-mail delivery, hosting services, customer service, and data research and analysis, and provide your information to them in furtherance of such services. We require any third-party service providers to maintain the security of the information disclosed to them.
VI. Transferring Your Information
A. We are a US-based company so if you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that the information that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of your country and the European Economic Area (“EEA”) in order to provide the Services to you, and, in particular, to the United States, which may have different or less protective privacy laws than those in your country.
B. Where the GDPR applies and our processors of your information are located outside the EEA, such transfer will either be: (i) to a recipient certified to the US Department of Commerce's EU-US Privacy Shield; or (ii) subject to the European Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses, the “Model Clauses”). For more information about the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Privacy Shield website. If you would like to see a copy of the Model Clauses, please contact kemp@thecascade.co
VII. How Long We Retain Your Information
A. We will retain your information as follows for as long as we are required in order to provide the Service to you, or as required to fulfill our legal requirements and defend legal claims.
B. After you have terminated your use of the Service, we will store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format.
VIII. How to Access and Modify Your Information
You may access and modify the information that you have provided to us as follows:
A. You may contact us at kemp@thecascade.co and request to review, amend or delete your information collected by us, and/or request us to cease collecting information from you in the future.
B. If you have created an Account, you may review and make changes to certain of your personal information and other information by logging into your Account and updating your Account profile.
IX. Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies, which are small text files recorded in a user's hard drive, are employed by thousands of sites to enhance users' web viewing. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow sites and advertisers to “remember” users across pages of a site and across multiple visits to a site. We use session and persistent cookies for remembering user preferences and current session information. Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster service, more consistent, updated results, and a more personalized site. In addition to cookies that are strictly necessary to operate the Site, we use the following cookies:
You have certain options to control or restrict which information we share with advertisers, Ad Networks or other Third-Party Services (as defined in Section X (Third Party Services)). These options depend on whether the information is collected through the Site or the App.
A. Options for the Site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, however you may opt out of them by contacting us at kemp@thecascade.co. Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser; otherwise you should use the “Help” option in your browser for more details. Some web browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that lets the browser specify that a user does not want to have their online activities tracked. There are also available mechanisms created for the digital advertising industry, where you can register your intent not to receive targeted advertising, located at http://www.aboutads.info/choices, http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
We use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with the Website. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions, as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Website. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.]
A. Options for the App. Mobile devices may contain settings that allow you to disable tracking advertising and/or analytics. In addition, the digital advertising industry has provided the ability for mobile users to register their intent not to receive targeted advertising at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
If you choose to disable cookies or opt out of tracking or disengage similar features on your mobile device, some or all areas of the Services may not be optimized for your use, you may not be able to access the functionality of the Services, and the advertising you receive may not be relevant to you.
If you are an individual accessing our Services from the EEA, please also see Section XV (Your EEA Privacy Rights) below.
X. Third Party Services
A. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including, but not limited to, any third party websites, services and applications (and the information or content contained therein) ("Third Party Services") that may be linked to or from the Service and/or that you elect to access through the Service, with which we contract for services, or to any individuals that we do not manage or employ. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those Third-Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those Third-Party Services. Please remember that when you navigate away from the Service to another website, this Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Those Third-Party Services may match your data with data from other sources and use your data in ways other than described in this Privacy Policy. Your browsing and interaction on any Third-Party Services is subject to such Third-Party Services’ own rules and policies.
XI. Our Policy Towards Children
A. This Service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register an Account. Children under the age of 13 should not use the Service or access the Service at any time.
XII. Security of Your Information
A. We implement reasonable administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect the security of your information both online and offline, and we are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information to those employees we reasonably believe need such information do their jobs.
B. Your Account information is protected by the password you use to access your Account. It is important that you protect and maintain the security of your Account and that you immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your Account.
C. While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of the Service, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information (including your Account password) safe and to log out of your Account after use.
XIII. Changes to this Privacy Policy
A. It may be necessary from time to time for us to modify this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the way we collect and use information or changes in privacy-related laws, regulations and industry standards. Accordingly, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Service and updating the "Effective Date” at the top of this page. If we make any material changes, we will provide prominent notice including by pop-up on the Services. We encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand any updates and changes to the Privacy Policy. If revisions to this Privacy Policy are unacceptable to you, you must cease using the Service.
XIV. Your California Privacy Rights
A. A California resident who has provided personal information to a business with whom he/she has established a business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes (“California customer”) is entitled to request information about whether the business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a disclosure of personal information, upon receipt of a request by a California customer, the business is required to provide a list of all third parties to whom personal information was disclosed in the preceding calendar year, as well as a list of the categories of personal information that were disclosed.
B. However, under the law, a business is not required to provide the above-described lists if the business adopts and discloses to the public (in its privacy policy) a policy of not disclosing customer’s personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless the customer first affirmatively agrees to the disclosure, as long as the business maintains and discloses this policy. Rather, the business may comply with the law by notifying the customer of his or her right to prevent disclosure of personal information and providing a cost-free means to exercise that right.
C. California customers may request further information about our compliance with this law by e-mailing kemp@thecascade.co. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this e-mail address.
XV. Your EEA Privacy Rights
If you are located in the EEA, you may have certain rights under the GDPR as set out below.
A. Access and Portability: You have the right to ask us to access the personal information we hold about you and be provided with certain information about how we use your information and who we share it with. Where you have provided your personal information to us on the basis of our contract with you or on the basis of your consent, you have the right to ask us for a copy of this information in a structured, machine readable format and to ask us to share (port) this data to another data controller.
B. Right to deletion: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to delete the personal information we hold about you:
C. Restriction: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal information:
D. In addition, you can object to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests and we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate an overriding legitimate ground.
E. At any time you have the right to object to our processing of information about you in order to send you marketing, including where we build profiles for such purposes, and we will stop processing the data for that purpose.
F. To exercise any of these rights above, please contact us at kemp@thecascade.co.
G. Please note that these rights are limited, for example, where fulfilling your request would adversely affect other individuals where there are overriding public interest reasons or where we are required by law to retain your personal data.
XVI. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or practices, please send an email to: kemp@thecascade.co. You may also contact us at Cascade Streaming c.o. Atty. J. Darrell-Kemp, P. O. Box 402, Milton MA 02186.
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact us in the first instance at kemp@thecascade.co and we will endeavor to deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to raise a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.