Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: This Privacy Policy shall be effective as of November 26, 2019

Welcome to Girlschoice.com (“Site” or “Website”), a voting and information site for Girls’ Choice Awards™ (collectively, “Girls’ Choice” or “the Show”).

This Privacy Policy is designed to explain the Company’s online information-gathering practices regarding this Website. The Privacy Policy describes how this Website collects, uses, and shares personally identifiable information and other non-personally identifiable information obtained from and about individuals who visit this Site. The Internet presents an opportunity for us to reach our audience with product, entertainment, and company information, and activities such as, but not limited to, voting in awards events, sweepstakes, contests, offers, newsletters, and other promotions. We are committed to providing and maintaining that opportunity in a safe and secure environment for our visitors.
Agreement to This Privacy Policy and Privacy Policy Modifications: By using this Website you (and your parent/legal guardian if you are a minor in your jurisdiction of residence) are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, or any of its terms, please do not provide your personally identifiable information (“PII”), for example, your name, address, telephone number, or email address. From time to time, and at any time, this Privacy Policy may be revised or changed. We will notify you about material changes and their respective effective date(s) in the way we treat PII by sending a notice to the primary email address you have specified and by placing a prominent notice on the Site. Website users should review this Privacy Policy periodically to be up-to-date on the Site’s most current privacy policies and practices.

Collection of Your Personal Identifiable Information (“PII”) and Other Personal Information: This Website is intended to provide a unique, informational, and entertaining experience for users without requiring them to submit any more PII than is necessary to participate in particular activities that may be offered, or to use the Site effectively. We do not require users to register or submit PII in order to visit the Website. Some activities on the site may be performed without providing PII. When we ask for PII to participate in an activity we will not require anyone to disclose more PII than we believe is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. At times, users may be asked to provide non-PII such as first name, age, gender, zip code, city, and/or state of residence.

For Children Under the Age of 13: We will not knowingly accept or collect information from children under the age of 13.

When PII May Be Requested: Registration and/or input of PII may be required to participate in activities such as, but not limited to, participation in voting in awards events, sweepstakes, contests, specific promotional activities and offers, and some surveys. If PII is requested for participation in an activity you cannot participate without disclosing the requested PII.

Use of PII: We may use PII for the purposes of Girls’ Choice Awards activities, such as but not limited to, in voting in awards events, sweepstakes, contests, or promotional activity (i) to register you for those activities, to verify that you comply with the published Rules or Terms and Conditions, and to notify you if you are a winner in a sweepstakes or contest, to keep track of your compliance with requirements when voting in award events, or provide you with information regarding promotion activity, (ii) for prize delivery, (iii) for notification of important changes to Website functions, and (iv) to ensure that we comply with applicable laws. The PII you disclose for these and similar activities may be shared with third parties such as those who may administer the activity for us and shipping companies that may deliver a prize. We will inform you at the time we are collecting the PII that such collection is a requirement for participation.
We may also use your PII for the following purposes: (v) to help personalize and enhance our Site and your Website experience; (vi) to send you personalized information about our Site via email, and (vii) to contact you for feedback regarding us or our advertisers or business partners, if any.
Should you give us permission by affirmatively opting-in, we may use your email address and other PII contact information provided to us through the Site (i) to send you promotional materials from us for example but not limited to notification of special offers and newsletters, and, (ii) to have promotional materials sent directly to you from and by third parties. Should you respond to a particular offer from our business partners or advertisers, we may also use your PII to provide a report to our advertisers or business partners that tells them who responded to a particular offer. Further, if you accept an offer contained in, for example, an email, we may provide the advertiser or business partner with the PII necessary to fulfill that offer to you. Opt-ins can be selected when you register and/or complete your communication preferences if or when those preferences are offered, or otherwise. If you do not want to receive such promotional information from third parties do not opt-in to receive them. You can change your communication preferences if and when offered, and remove yourself from our email lists at any time.
Please also note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional emails from us or third parties, we may still use your PII to communicate with you for other purposes, such as notifying you if you are a winner in a sweepstakes or contest or if you are participating in other activities where we believe communication is necessary.

Your PII may be shared with other companies and websites we own or operate for our behalf. Your PII may also be shared with those persons or entities that administer our Website. Your PII will only be shared with administrators, business partners, or advertisers for a particular purpose and they will not be permitted to use it for any unauthorized purpose.

Use of Non-PII: From time to time, we may also ask you to provide us with non-PII which is data that does not allow us to identify you, such as first name, zip code, age, gender, product and promotional preferences, and household characteristics like presence of children or income bracket. Your non-PII may be aggregated and used for our internal purposes or for creating reports for third-party advertisers and partners, or otherwise shared with third parties for any lawful purpose, without your permission. No third party will know who you are as a result of the use of your non-PII.

Opting Out-Continued PII Use: If you opt out of the use of your PII, we may still use your PII for internal purposes, or as may be necessary to administer the Site, for example, sharing that data with those persons or entities that administer the Website. Your PII may further still be used to comply with applicable law, for example, but not limited, to comply with valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, and to report sweepstakes and contest winnings as may be required by law. And it may be used in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify or contact you, or bring legal action against you if, for example, we believe that you may be causing injury to, or interference with, our Site or company’s rights or property, or other users of the Site, whether your actions are intentional or unintentional. Further, your PII may be shared with any successors and/or assigns we may have. If you wish to change your decisions to “opt out” or to “opt in” as applicable, you can email us at info@Girlschoice.com.

Safety and Security: We take steps to help ensure that all information provided by you, whether PII or non-PII, is treated securely. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect visitor information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
If you share your computer or use a computer that is accessed by the general public, remember to sign off and close your browser window when you have finished your session. This will help to ensure that others cannot access your PII.

No data transmission over the Internet, however, can be guaranteed to be totally secure. While we try to protect your PII, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us. You use the Site, and provide us with PII, at your own risk. To the extent reasonably necessary to protect a user’s safety, we may collect his or her name, address, and/or email address. To protect our security, to protect us against liability, or as required by law, we may collect a user’s name and email address. PII collected pursuant to this provision will not be used for any other purpose.

Passive Gathering Information Electronically: Use of Cookies During the course of any visit to the Website a “cookie,” may be downloaded to your computer. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies do not contain any personal identifying information, but they do enable us to provide features such as personalization. Should cookies be used, most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, but rather the computer used. Users may have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or to not to receive cookies at any time. Different browsers may address cookies differently. If cookies are used and you set the browser to not accept cookies, it may result in certain personalized services not being provided to users of that computer.

Co-branded Micro Sites: Web pages and/or micro websites may be included within our Site and may be co-branded with third-party names, logos, and/or properties, and are operated and maintained by us. While such third parties are sponsors of these web pages or micro websites, they do not share in any PII collected within those web pages or micro websites. Alternatively, third parties may have landing pages on our Site that may be linked to independent micro-sites that will take you off our Site. You will receive a notice that you are leaving our Site. We do not maintain those micro-sites. We are not responsible for the content, practices, or information practices (including but not limited to information practices relative to the gathering and use of PII) of the micro-sites operated by these third parties, and we do not sponsor endorse or approve the content, policies, practices, or products of these micro-sites. When you leave our Site check the relevant micro-site’s privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of PII.

Third-Party Advertisements: We may include banner, icon or text advertisements for third parties (or for sites operated by third parties) that are not sponsors of and are not affiliated with our Website. Should you click on any such advertisement, you will leave our Website and be taken to the advertiser’s website. As such, we are not responsible for the content, practices, or information practices (including but not limited to information practices relative to the gathering and use of PII) of the websites operated by these third parties. In addition, these advertisements do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by us of the content, policies, practices, or products of these websites. All users should check the relevant website’s privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of PII.

International User Notice: The Site is intended for use exclusively by residents of the United States of America. Our computer systems are based in the United States. Personally Identifiable Information may be treated differently than it is in other parts of the world, such as the European Union.

Review, Change and Deletion of Personal Information: All users may review their PII at any time. If you would like to review, modify, or delete this information, please email us at hello@Girlschoice.com or by mailing a letter with the request to: Sand Sisters Los Angeles, 4505 Glencoe Avenue, Marina Del Rey, 90202. Attn: Privacy Policy Administrator, We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your requests.
Privacy Rights California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our Website users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, should you be a California resident and would like to make such a request please submit your request in writing to: Sand Sisters Los Angeles, 4504 Glencoe Avenue, Marina Del Rey, 90202.