Privacy Notice 

Last Modified: January 1 ,2025

NOTE: This Privacy Notice is drafted in English. If this Privacy Notice is offered in any language other than English it shall be for information purposes only and, in case of conflict between the English-language version and any translation thereof, the English-language version will prevail.

Introduction

Vid Group (hereinafter “we”, “us” or “our”) operates the website www.ThisVidster.com (hereinafter “ThisVidster”) and is the controller of the information collected or provided via ThisVidster.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully, as your access to and use of ThisVidster signifies that you have read and understand all terms within this Privacy Notice. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please see the section “Contact Information” below for information on how to contact us.

1. Scope

For the purposes of this Privacy Notice, “process”, “processed” or “processing” means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or on sets of personal data (excluding disclosure thereof), whether by automated means, including one or several of the following operations: collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction. Information on disclosure of personal data or of sets of personal data may be found in the “Disclosure of Your Personal Information” section below.

This Privacy Notice applies to information we process:

2. The Data We Process About You

“Personal data”, or “personal information”, means any information about an individual that can identify that person. It does not include data that has been anonymized or aggregated.  

We may process different kinds of personal data about you, depending on whether you chose to create an account with us. 

Persons who visit ThisVidster without logging in or registering (“Unregistered Users”):

For persons who choose to create an account on ThisVidster (“Registered Users”), we process the same categories of information described above for Unregistered Users, and additionally the following information:

Please use caution in providing user contributions. By providing user contributions you are making that content and information publicly available. User contributions can be read, collected, used, and disclosed by others, and we cannot control who accesses your user contributions or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post or submit. User contributions are governed by the ThisVidster terms of use found at https://www.ThisVidster.com/terms-of-use.

We may process your data to produce and share aggregated insights that do not directly or indirectly identify you and are not associated with you. Such aggregate information is not personal information.

ThisVidster prohibits minors from using the platform. ThisVidster is forbidden for persons under the age of 18 and the applicable age of majority in the jurisdiction from which ThisVidster is accessed. As indicated throughout this Privacy Notice, some users may be asked to provide some information to us and our service providers for us to make sure that you are over the age of majority required to have access to the ThisVidster. We do not knowingly process personal information from minors. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a minor who has provided us with personal information, then please contact us here to have that minor’s personal information deleted.

3. The Sources from Which We Process Personal Information

We process Personal Information in the following ways:

4. Purposes for Which We Process Your Personal Information

We process personal information for the purposes described below.

5. Our Legal Bases under Canadian and European Union (EU) Privacy Law

To the extent required by applicable laws, we process your personal data only when: 

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on different legal bases when processing your same information for different purposes. If you reside outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland or the United Kingdom (“UK”), the legal bases on which we rely may differ from those listed above.

6. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We disclose your personal information when necessary to perform the services or for other purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. When we disclose your personal information, we usually rely on the performance of our contract with you, our legal obligation to do so, our legitimate interest (e.g., operating ThisVidster), so long as it doesn’t outweigh your interests or your consent, except when expressly stated otherwise below in the paragraph “To comply with the law or protect our rights or the rights of third parties”. Disclosure of your personal information may also involve transfers of your personal information outside the EEA. To the extent that we need to transfer personal information outside the EEA, we will do so according to the section “Transfers of Your Personal Information to Other Countries” or when necessary for the performance of the contract between us. The parties to whom we may disclose your personal information include: 

  1. comply with any applicable law, regulation, court order, legal process, government or public authority requests
  2. enforce applicable Terms & Conditions, including prevention of potential violations thereof. This also includes our Trust and Safety initiative, in the scope of which we may disclose some information to several recipients. You can find out more about this here.
  3. detect, prevent, or otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities, security, or technical issues. 
  4. protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; or 
  5. to maintain and protect the security and integrity of ThisVidster or infrastructure. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us, in our sole discretion.

We may disclose your information to third parties for the above purposes where necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to perform a task in the public interest (where the public interest is laid down by applicable law), or under our legitimate interests and the interests of the public, including as part of investigations or regulatory enquiries to detect, investigate and prosecute illegal activity.

7. Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with ThisVidster, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect website activity data. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include cookies and other similar technologies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your web browser or downloaded to your device when you visit ThisVidster. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our Cookie Notice, available here.

8. Your Choices About How We Collect, Use and Disclose Your Personal Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.

9. California Rights and Choices

As of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), provides California residents (“Consumer(s)”) certain rights with respect to their personal information, as this term is defined under the CCPA. In addition to the rights that we state under this Privacy Notice, and subject to the exceptions found under the CCPA, Consumers have the right to:

•      Opt-out of the sale of their personal information, should we sell their personal information;

•      Be informed of certain information concerning our collection and use of their personal information;

•      Request that we delete certain personal information we collected from them;

•      Appoint an agent to exercise their rights provided for by the CCPA, provided that a duly executed notarized power of attorney is presented and provided that the agent has information deemed sufficient to allow us to verify the identity of the Consumer in question and to locate his/her information in our systems;

•      Not be subjected to discrimination for the exercise of these rights. We will not deny California residents the use of our service, neither will we provide a different level or quality or services for exercising any of their CCPA rights, unless as permitted under the CCPA.

ThisVidster does not sell, nor has it sold in the past twelve (12) months personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. We may however disclose certain personal information with third parties, service providers and entities within our corporate group to enable them to perform certain services on our behalf, and namely to make ThisVidster function properly, as further described in the section above titled Disclosure of Your Personal Information. 

We respect California residents’ right to exclude personal information from such sharing arrangements and grant them the option to opt-out of any future sale of their personal information. If you are a Registered User and the CCPA is applicable to you and you would like to exercise your rights, please email us here.  with the email subject line “CCPA Request”.

In either case you will need to provide the following information to verify your identity and enable us to locate your information in our systems: your username and email address that you used to create an account with us, as well as any other information which we may reasonably request for us to verify your identity. We may require you verify that you have access to your account and/or email account that you used to register with us.

You can designate an agent to make a request by executing a notarized power of attorney to have that person act on your behalf and providing that person with the information listed above that allows us to verify your identity and locate your information. Alternatively, you will need to directly confirm your identity with us using the methods described above, sign an authorization for the agent to act on your behalf and provide us with confirmation that you have done so.

10. Resident’s Rights – Jurisdictions in the United States, Where Applicable

We do not sell, trade, or exchange the Registered Users’ personal information with anyone for money.

11. Biometric Information

We employ third-party service providers to verify your identity, age, and the authenticity of the identification documents you provide using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology creates a mathematical representation of your facial features from the live scan of your face, your selfie, and the government-issued ID you submit or previously submitted to us. Information derived from this face scan or mathematical representation may be considered biometric information under the laws of certain states and countries and may be shared with us by our third-party service providers: 

When applicable, your biometric information may be processed to:

You will be asked to provide your consent to biometric information processing which you may withdraw at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any collection, use, processing, or disclosure that occurred prior to the withdrawal. This Privacy Notice may not always reflect the privacy practices said third-party service providers and therefore invite you to consult their privacy notices and terms and conditions of these third-party service providers.    

12. Notice to Law Enforcement

The following information serves as a guideline for law enforcement officials seeking disclosure of records. We work with law enforcement and follow all applicable laws. Please contact us here if you are law enforcement and you need records disclosed.

13. Transfers of Your Personal Information to Other Countries

We may share the information we collect globally, across our corporate group and with our service providers and other third parties. Transfers are necessary for a variety of reasons, including our operation and provision of the services stated in our Terms & Conditions and this Privacy Notice to fix, analyze, and improve our Website, products and services. Whenever we transfer personal information to countries outside the EEA and other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Notice, as permitted by the applicable laws and based on appropriate mechanisms.

Where applicable, we rely on decisions of the European Commission, known as “adequacy decisions,” recognizing that certain countries offer a level of protection of personal data that is essentially equivalent to the EEA. 

In other situations, we rely on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission (and the equivalent standard contractual clauses for the UK, where appropriate) or on derogations provided for under the applicable law to transfer information to a third country.

For more information or to obtain a copy of our standard contractual clauses, please see the section “Contact Information” below on how to contact us.

14. Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as your account is active, or for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we processed it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider several factors, including what personal data we are processing, the risk of harm from any unauthorized disclosure, why we are processing your personal data and whether we can achieve this outcome by another means without having to process it.

Where we no longer need to process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, we will delete your personal information from our systems. 

For more information on data retention periods, please see the section “Contact Information” below on how to contact us. 

Where permissible, we will also delete your personal information upon your request as explained in the section “Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information”.

15. Third-Party Links and Sites

If you click on a link to a third-party website, you will be taken to websites we do not control. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the privacy practices of these websites. Read the Privacy Notice of other websites carefully. We are not responsible for these third-party practices.

16. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review. The scope is to address any new legal requirements, technical developments or add more clarifications where needed.  

Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to this Privacy Notice, you are expected to periodically review the most up-to-date version found at this location, so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you. If we change anything in our Privacy Notice, the date of change will be reflected in the “Last Modified” date mentioned after the header of this Privacy Notice.  

17. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our information-handling practices, please contact us here.

18. Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information

Subject to local law and applicable legal requirements and exemptions, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:

If we ask for your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Note that, in that case, you may no longer able to use several functionalities on ThisVidster or access ThisVidster in some cases.

You can exercise your rights of access or deletion of your data by following the dedicated links in the section “Manage Your Personal Data” below. You can send an e-mail here to exercise your rights to Rectification, Object, Restriction of Processing, or to request us to help you with the process. Please note that we have one (1) month to respond to your request. 

Prior to processing an access or deletion request of your data, we will need to verify your identity and ensure your right to access or delete the information. This is an appropriate and reasonable security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it or deleted in an unauthorized way. 

Please note that unless you have created an account with us, we may not have sufficient information to identify you and therefore may not be able to respond to your request. Additionally, in some cases, to adequately verify your identity or your authorization to make the request, we may require you to provide additional information.

Note that some requests to delete certain personal information will require the deletion of your user account as the provision of user accounts are inextricably linked to the processing of certain personal information (e.g., your e-mail address). If you delete your account, your personal data and all account related information including, but not limited to, user profile data, sharing data and any data or content specifically associated with your account will no longer be accessible. If, after deleting your account, you wish to have an account with us in the future, you will have to sign up for a new account.