Colog Privacy Policy
Effective . Last Revised
What We Collect (and How it is Used and Shared)
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
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Account information
If you create a Colog account, we may require you to provide a username and password. Your username is public, and it doesn’t have to be related to your real name. You may also provide other account information, like an email address, bio, or profile picture. We also store your user account preferences and settings.
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Content you submit
We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes your posts and comments including unpublished drafts, videos you broadcast via RPAN, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications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, and videos.
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Actions you take
We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.
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Transactional information
If you purchase products or services from us, we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. Colog uses industry-standard payment processor services to handle payment information.
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Other information
You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in Colog-sponsored activities or promotions, 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:
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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. Except for the IP address that is non personally identifiable information(NPII) used only to access control or during the login process, Colog does not collect other types of IP address from you and will delete the NPII IP address immidiately once its purpose is achieved.
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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 improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings.
We may receive and process information about your location. For example, with your consent, we may collect information about the specific location of your mobile device (for example, by using GPS or Bluetooth). We may also receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including by associating your content with a location, or we may derive your approximate location from other information about you, including 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 our own data using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID.
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Linked services
If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Colog account, VicTech 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 Colog with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. Information sharing with linked services is described later in this section.
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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 Colog embeds, we may receive information about the web page you visited. Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates VICTECH’s ad technology, VICTECH 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
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Embedded content
Colog displays some linked content in-line on the Colog services via “embeds.” For example, Cologt posts that link to YouTube or Twitter may load the linked video or tweet within Colog directly from those services to your device so you don’t have to leave Colog to see it. In general, Colog 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.
Accessing and Changing Your Information
You can access and change certain information through the Services.
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Unsubscribing Your membership
You may unsubscribe your membership from boards you have joined at any time. When you unsubscribe, however, the posts, comments, and replies you submitted prior to unsubscribing your membership will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes after you unsubscribe.
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Controlling Linked Services’ Access to Your Account
You can review the services you have permitted to access your account and revoke access to individual services by visiting your account’s Apps page (for third-party app authorizations) and the Connected Accounts section of your Account Settings (for Google Sign-In and Sign in with Apple).
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Controlling the Use of Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
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Controlling Mobile Notifications
With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
International Data Transfers
VICTECH, Inc. is based in the Republic of Korea and we process and store information on servers located using Amazon Web Services(AWS). We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the Republic of Korea and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.
When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland, to VICTECH, Inc., we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed ‘adequate’ under applicable laws. In addition, VICTECH adheres to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Program (“Privacy Shield”) and complies with its framework and principles.
If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
- VICTECH, Inc.
- 3F, 109, Seochojungang-ro, Seocho-gu
- Seoul, Republic of Korea