THE CANDIDLY Privacy Policy
Effective Date: December 15, 2025
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
The Candidly (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors and users of the www.thecandidly.com (the “Website”) and has so adopted this “Privacy Policy.” This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our Website and other services that link to this policy (the “Services”) and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
· Through the Services.
· In communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic communications, between you and the Services.
· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
This policy does not apply to information collected by:
· Us through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) that does not link to this policy; or
· Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By accessing or using the Website or interacting with our Services, you agree and consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you cannot use the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of someone else (such as your child) or an entity (such as your employer), you represent that you are authorized by such individual or entity to accept this Privacy Policy on such individual’s or entity’s behalf.
Your use and/or access of the Website is governed by this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use (as such term is defined in our Terms of Use). Any capitalized term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning in the Terms of Use.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@thecandidly.com.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal Information
When you use the Services, we may ask you to voluntarily provide us with certain information that identifies you or could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”) such as your name, residential address, e-mail address and phone number, your gender, date of birth and similar information personal to you that you voluntarily choose to provide to us.
We may also collect additional information, which may be Personal Information, to which you consent, including:
· Account and contact information, including name, address, email address, phone number, username, and other contact information you provide us.
· Demographic information, including your age, gender, income level, education, or family or marital status.
· Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city and precise geolocation.
· Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
· Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications sent to us.
· Images, voice recordings, and videos collected or stored in connection with the Services.
Traffic Data
We also may automatically collect the following types of data when you use the Services: (1) IP address; (2) domain server; (3) type of device(s) used to access the Services; (4) web browser(s) used to access the Services; (5) referring webpage or other source through which you accessed the Services; (6) geographic information; and (7) other statistics and information associated with the interaction between your browser or device and the Services (collectively “Traffic Data”). Depending on applicable law, some Traffic Data may be Personal Information.
Some of the information identified above, including precise geolocation information may be considered sensitive data under certain laws. If required under applicable law, we will collect and process sensitive personal data only with your consent. If you choose not to provide or allow us to collect some information, we may not be able to provide you with requested features, services, or information.
We also collect:
· Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
· Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION
Collection of Information
We collect information when you access, use and interact with the Services, and in some cases from third party sources. Such information includes:
The Website’s interactive components;
Information you supply through the Website;
Answers to surveys or questionnaires;
Information received from downloads from the Website;
Your mobile device location;
Through cookies, web beacons, web application analytics services and other tracking technology (collectively, “Tracking Tools”), as described below; and
When you use the “Contact Us” function on the Website, send us an email or otherwise contact us.
Tracking Tools
As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.
We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies: “Cookies” are small computer files transferred to your computing device that contain information such as user ID, user preferences, lists of pages and activities conducted while using the Website. We use Cookies to help the Company improve or personalize the Website by tracking habits, storing authentication status, customization features in an effort to limit fraud, and other analytic benefits. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
We may use interest-based or online behavioral advertising. So, our providers and partners may use Cookies to display Company ads on other applications and services based on information about your access and/or use of the Website and your interests (inferred from your online activity). Other Cookies used by our providers and partners may collect information when you use and/or access the Website. These Cookies help the Company and its providers and partners learn more about users’ demographics and internet behaviors.
For more information on cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Web Beacons: “Web Beacons” (a.k.a. clear GIFs or pixel tags) are tiny graphic image files imbedded in a web page or email that may be used to collect anonymous information about your use of the Website, the applications of selected advertisers and the emails, special promotions or newsletters that we send you. The information collected by Web Beacons allows us to analyze how many people are using the Website, using the selected advertisers’ applications or opening our emails, and for what purpose, and also allows us to enhance our interest-based advertising.
Mobile Device Identifiers: “Mobile device identifiers” are data stored on your mobile device that may track mobile device and data and activities occurring on and through it, as well as the applications installed on it. Mobile device identifiers enable collection of Personal Information (such as media access control, address and location) and Traffic Data.
To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by contacting us at info@thecandidly.com. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.
Advertising
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive ("Raptive") for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Third-Party Use of Cookies or Tracking Tools
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website may be served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different applications and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content on other applications.
We do not control third parties’ tracking technologies or use. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Options for Opting out of Cookies and Mobile Device Identifiers
Some web browsers (including some mobile web browsers) allow you to reject Cookies or to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device. You may be able to reject mobile device identifiers by activating a setting on your mobile device. Although you are not required to accept the Company’s Cookies or mobile device identifiers, if you block or reject them, you may not have access to all features available through the Website.
You may opt out of receiving certain Cookies and certain trackers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) opt out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) consumer opt-out page. When you use these opt-out features, an “opt-out” Cookie will be placed on your computer or tablet indicating that you do not want to receive interest-based advertising from NAI or DAA member companies. If you delete Cookies on your computer or tablet, you may need to opt out again. Information about how to opt out of interest-based advertising on mobile device identifiers can be found at http://www.APPlicationprivacy.org/expressing-your-behavioral-advertising-choices-on-a-mobile-device.
Please note that even after opting out of interest-based advertising, you may still see Company advertisements that are not interest-based or targeted specifically toward you. If you opt out of interest-based advertisements, the Company may still collect information about your use of the Website and may still serve advertisements based on information it collects through the Website.
Browser “Do Not Track” Signals
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to applications that a visitor does not want to have his/her online activity and behavior tracked. If an applications operator elects to respond to a particular DNT signal, the application operator may refrain from collecting certain Personal Information about the browser’s user. The Company does not respond to DNT signals. For more information about DNT signals, visit http://allaboutdnt.com.
USE OF INFORMATION
We use your Personal Information to provide the Services to you and to help improve it, including to:
Provide you with information you request and to respond to correspondence that we receive from you;
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
Provide, maintain, administer or expand the Website, perform analyses, or to support, improve or enhance the Website;
Send you information about the Company and the Website;
Customize and tailor your experience of the Website, which may include sending customized messages based on information collected in accordance with our Privacy Policy;
Send communications that display content that we think will interest you and according to your preferences;
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;
Combine information received from third parties with the information that we have from or about you and use the combined information for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
Use information that we collect in any way permitted by law, including with third parties in connection with their commercial and marketing efforts; and
Prevent, detect and investigate security breaches and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
We may use information to better understand who uses the Services and how we can deliver a better information.
The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
· Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
· Speed up your searches.
· Recognize you when you return to our Services.
Disclosure of Your Information
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 privacy policy:
· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
· To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
· 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 the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
· To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information.
· 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 (https://www.thecandidly.com/terms-and-conditions)
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company our customers, or others.
Storage and Security of Information
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
Although we make good faith efforts to store Personal Information in a secure operating environment that is not open to the public, we do not and cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information. If we become aware that your Personal Information has been disclosed in a manner not in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you of the nature and extent of the disclosure (to the extent we know that information) as soon as reasonably possible and as permitted or required by law.
How We Retain Your Personal Data
We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
CLOSING OR MODIFYING YOUR ACCOUNT
If you wish to close your account, please email us at info@thecandidly.com. We will delete your account and all of your Personal Information at your request as soon as reasonably possible. Please know that the Company does reserve the right to retain certain information from closed accounts in order to comply with law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, enforce the Terms of Use and take other actions permitted by law. You may review and modify the information you entered into your profile by accessing the settings for your account.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The Company reserves the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. The process for changes to this Privacy Policy are described in our Terms of Use. If we change the terms of this Privacy Policy, the new terms will apply to all Personal Information the Company maintains, including information that was created or received before such changes were made.
Contact Information
To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@thecandidly.com or 1610 W. Whispering Wind Dr Phoenix, AZ 85085.
