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Lexploration Privacy Policy

by Julian Bryant

Our commitment is to put users first.  We strive to be transparent about how we collect and use your information, to keep your information secure and to provide you meaningful choices.  This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information Lexploration and its affiliates ( “us,” “our” or “we”) collect, why we collect it and what we do with it. This policy applies to Lexploration website, apps, services or technologies (the “Services”).  

Information Collection and Use – General

We may collect and combine information when you interact with Lexploration Services including:

  • Information You Provide to Us.  We may collect the information that you provide to us, such as when you create an account with an Lexploration. (Please note, when you use our Services, we may recognize you or your devices even if you are not signed in to our Services.)  Lexploration may use device IDs, cookies, and other signals, including information obtained from third parties, to associate accounts and/or devices with you.
  • Device Information.  We collect information from your devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.), including information about how you interact with our Services and those of our third-party partners and information that allows us to recognize and associate your activity across devices and Services.  This information includes device specific identifiers and information such as IP address, cookie information, mobile device and advertising identifiers, browser version, operating system type and version, mobile network information, device settings, and software data. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences and advertising across the devices you use.  
  • Information from Cookies and Other Technologies.
    • We may collect information when you access content, advertising, sites, interactive widgets, applications, and other products.
    • This information may also include the kind of content or ads served, viewed or clicked on; the frequency and duration of your activities; the sites or apps you used before accessing our Services and where you went next; whether you engaged with specific content or ads; and whether you went on to visit an advertiser’s website, downloaded an advertiser’s app, purchased a product or service advertised, or took other actions.
  • Information from Others.  We collect information about you when we receive it from other users, third-parties, and affiliates, such as:
    • When you connect your account to third-party services or sign in using a third-party partner (like Facebook or Twitter).
    • From publicly-available sources.
    • From advertisers about your experiences or interactions with their offerings.

How We Use This Information

We are able to deliver, personalize, and improve our Services by combining and using the information we have about you (including information we receive on and off our Services) to understand how you use and interact with our Services and the people or things you’re connected to and interested in.  We also may use the information we have about you for the following purposes:

  • Provide, maintain, improve, and develop relevant features, content, and Services.  
  • Fulfill your requests and when authorized by you.
  • Help advertisers and publishers connect to offer relevant advertising in their apps and websites.
  • Match and serve targeted advertising and provide targeted advertising based on your device activity, inferred interests and location information.  
  • Associate your activity across our Services and your different devices as well as associate any accounts you may use across Lexploration Services together.  We may associate activity and accounts under a single user ID.
  • Carry out or support promotions.
  • Conduct research and support innovation.
  • Create analytics and reports for external parties, including partners, publishers, advertisers, apps, third-parties and the public regarding the use of and trends within our Services and ads, including showing trends to partners regarding general preferences, the effectiveness of ads and information on user experiences. These analytics and reports may include aggregate or pseudonymized information.
  • Detect and defend against fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful activity.

How We Share This Information

We do not sell, license or share information that individually identifies website users with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Lexploration unless one of the following circumstances applies:

  • With Your Consent.  We will share information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Lexploration when we have your consent.
  • With Partners.  We may share your information with nonaffiliated companies who are:
    • Advertising, Analytics and Business Partners (Limited to Non-Personally Identifiable Information).  We may share aggregated or pseudonymous information (including demographic information) with partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics, apps, or other companies.  For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed or report how many people installed an app after seeing a promotion. We do not share information that personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like name or email address) with these partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics, apps, or other companies.
      When you use third-party apps, websites or other products integrated with our Services, they may collect information about your activities subject to their own terms and privacy policies.
      We allow other companies that show advertisements on our webpages or apps to collect information from your browsers or devices.  Other companies’ use of cookies and other data collection technologies are subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Like many companies, we may allow cookie matching with select partners.  But, these parties are not authorized to access Lexploration cookies.
  • For Legal and Other Purposes.  We may access, preserve and disclose information to investigate, prevent, or take action in connection with: (i) legal process and legal requests; (ii) enforcement of a terms of service; (iii) claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties; (iv) requests for customer service; (v) technical issues; (vi) protecting the rights, property or personal safety of Lexploration, its users or the public; (vii) establishing or exercising our legal rights or defending against legal claims; or (viii) as otherwise required by law. This may include responding to lawful governmental requests.  
  • New Ownership.  If the ownership or control of all or part of Lexploration or a specific Services changes as a result of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, we may transfer your information to the new owner.

Protecting Children’s Privacy

Our Services are for a general audience.  We do not knowingly collect, use, or share information that could reasonably be used to identify children under age 13.  

Data Processing and Transfers

When you use or interact with any of our Services, you consent to the data processing, sharing, transferring and uses of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Regardless of the country where you reside, you authorize us to transfer, process, store and use your information in countries other than your own in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to provide you with Services.  Some of these countries may not have the same data protection safeguards as the country where you reside.

Lexploration may process information related to individuals in the EU/EEA and may transfer that information from the EU/EEA through various compliance mechanisms, including data processing agreements based on the EU/EEA Standard Contractual Clauses.  By using our Services, you consent to us transferring information about you to these countries.

Other Important Information

This Privacy Policy Applies Only to Lexploration.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Lexploration does not own or control, or to people that Lexploration does not employ or manage.  

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you should check it periodically.