At Ratedd, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Ratedd, Inc. ("Ratedd," "we" or "us") collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our websites, mobile apps, widgets, APIs, emails, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.
We want this privacy policy to empower you to make better choices about how you use Ratedd. We'd love for you to read the whole policy, but if you don't, here is the TL;DR:
Ratedd is a public platform.
Ratedd is a public platform. Our communities are largely public and anyone can see your profile, posts, and comments.
We collect minimal information about you.
We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don't need an account. If you want to create an account to share your product reviews and ratings, we don't require you to give us your real name. We don't track your precise location. You can even browse anonymously. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want when using Ratedd.
We only use data to make Ratedd a better place.
Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our Services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form communities. We don't sell your personal data to third parties, and we never work with data brokers.
All of our users get privacy rights - not just those in select countries.
Privacy rights are for everyone. At Ratedd, anyone can request a copy of their data, account deletion, or information about our policies.
If you have questions about how we use data, just ask.
We've tried our best to make this as easy to understand as possible but sometimes privacy policies are still confusing. If you need help understanding this policy or anything about Ratedd, just ask.
What Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
Account information
You don't need an account to use Ratedd. If you create a Ratedd account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which is automatically generated. Your username is public, and it doesn't have to be related to your real name. You may need to provide a password, depending on whether you register using an email address, Single Sign-On (SSO) feature (such as Apple or Google), or phone number. If your account does not have a password, we may send you an email for verification purposes. We may also ask you to select interests during account creation (e.g., history, nature, sports) to help generate a home feed for you, or to select communities (e.g., r/technology) to join.
When you use Ratedd, you may also provide other information, such as a bio, gender, age, location, profile picture, or social link. This information is optional and may be removed at any time.
We also store your user account preferences and settings. We may ask for such information prior to you creating a username or account to help improve your experience exploring Ratedd.
Content you submit
We collect the content you submit. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, videos, software, and tools.
Actions you take
We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with the platform and content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.
Other information
You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, survey, participate in Ratedd-sponsored activities, promotions, or programs, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:
Log and usage data
We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.
Information collected from cookies and similar technologies
We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to deliver and maintain our Services, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings. See our Cookie Notice for more information about how Ratedd uses cookies. For more information on how you can disable cookies, please see "Your Choices" below.
Location information
We may receive and process information about your location. We may receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including via the Location Customization setting or by associating your content with a location, or we may derive an approximate location based on your IP address.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided to Ratedd, using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID. You can control how we use this information to personalize advertisements for you by visiting the User Settings menu in your account, as described in the section titled "Your Rights and Choices" below.
Linked services
If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Ratedd account, Ratedd receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Ratedd with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see "How Information About You Is Shared" below.
Information collected from integrations
We also may receive information about you, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party sites that integrate our Services, including our embeds and advertising technology. For example, when you visit a site that uses Ratedd embeds, we may receive information about the web page you visited. Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates Ratedd's ad technology, Ratedd may receive limited information about your activity on the advertiser's site or app, such as whether you bought something from the advertiser. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Services for you as described in "Your Choices - Controlling Advertising and Analytics" below.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Embedded content
Ratedd displays some linked content in-line on the Services via embeds. For example, Ratedd posts that link to YouTube or X may load the linked video or tweet within Ratedd directly from those services to your device so you don't have to leave Ratedd to see it. In general, Ratedd does not control how third-party services collect data when they serve you their content directly via these embeds. As a result, embedded content is not covered by this privacy policy but by the policies of the service from which the content is embedded.
Audience measurement
We partner with service providers that perform audience measurements to learn demographic information about the population that uses Ratedd. To provide this demographic information, these companies collect cookie information to recognize your device.
Children
Children under the age of 13 are also allowed to create an account, we do not ask for identity information from our users.
Your Rights and Choices
If you want to delete your profile, you can contact us through info@ratedd.co.
Effective: April 20, 2024
Introduction
At Ratedd, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Ratedd, Inc. ("Ratedd," "we" or "us") collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our websites, mobile apps, widgets, APIs, emails, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.
We want this privacy policy to empower you to make better choices about how you use Ratedd. We'd love for you to read the whole policy, but if you don't, here is the TL;DR:
Ratedd is a public platform.
Ratedd is a public platform. Our communities are largely public and anyone can see your profile, posts, and comments.
We collect minimal information about you.
We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don't need an account. If you want to create an account to share your product reviews and ratings, we don't require you to give us your real name. We don't track your precise location. You can even browse anonymously. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want when using Ratedd.
We only use data to make Ratedd a better place.
Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our Services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form communities. We don't sell your personal data to third parties, and we never work with data brokers.
All of our users get privacy rights - not just those in select countries.
Privacy rights are for everyone. At Ratedd, anyone can request a copy of their data, account deletion, or information about our policies.
If you have questions about how we use data, just ask.
We've tried our best to make this as easy to understand as possible but sometimes privacy policies are still confusing. If you need help understanding this policy or anything about Ratedd, just ask.
What Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
Account information
You don't need an account to use Ratedd. If you create a Ratedd account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which is automatically generated. Your username is public, and it doesn't have to be related to your real name. You may need to provide a password, depending on whether you register using an email address, Single Sign-On (SSO) feature (such as Apple or Google), or phone number. If your account does not have a password, we may send you an email for verification purposes. We may also ask you to select interests during account creation (e.g., history, nature, sports) to help generate a home feed for you, or to select communities (e.g., r/technology) to join.
When you use Ratedd, you may also provide other information, such as a bio, gender, age, location, profile picture, or social link. This information is optional and may be removed at any time.
We also store your user account preferences and settings. We may ask for such information prior to you creating a username or account to help improve your experience exploring Ratedd.
Content you submit
We collect the content you submit. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, videos, software, and tools.
Actions you take
We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with the platform and content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.
Other information
You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, survey, participate in Ratedd-sponsored activities, promotions, or programs, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:
Log and usage data
We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.
Information collected from cookies and similar technologies
We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to deliver and maintain our Services, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings. See our Cookie Notice for more information about how Ratedd uses cookies. For more information on how you can disable cookies, please see "Your Choices" below.
Location information
We may receive and process information about your location. We may receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including via the Location Customization setting or by associating your content with a location, or we may derive an approximate location based on your IP address.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided to Ratedd, using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID. You can control how we use this information to personalize advertisements for you by visiting the User Settings menu in your account, as described in the section titled "Your Rights and Choices" below.
Linked services
If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Ratedd account, Ratedd receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Ratedd with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see "How Information About You Is Shared" below.
Information collected from integrations
We also may receive information about you, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party sites that integrate our Services, including our embeds and advertising technology. For example, when you visit a site that uses Ratedd embeds, we may receive information about the web page you visited. Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates Ratedd's ad technology, Ratedd may receive limited information about your activity on the advertiser's site or app, such as whether you bought something from the advertiser. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Services for you as described in "Your Choices - Controlling Advertising and Analytics" below.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Embedded content
Ratedd displays some linked content in-line on the Services via embeds. For example, Ratedd posts that link to YouTube or X may load the linked video or tweet within Ratedd directly from those services to your device so you don't have to leave Ratedd to see it. In general, Ratedd does not control how third-party services collect data when they serve you their content directly via these embeds. As a result, embedded content is not covered by this privacy policy but by the policies of the service from which the content is embedded.
Audience measurement
We partner with service providers that perform audience measurements to learn demographic information about the population that uses Ratedd. To provide this demographic information, these companies collect cookie information to recognize your device.
Children
Children under the age of 13 are also allowed to create an account, we do not ask for identity information from our users.
Your Rights and Choices
If you want to delete your profile, you can contact us through info@ratedd.co.