Privacy Policy
Updated as of December 13, 2023
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) provides a comprehensive description of how Interlude US Inc. (d/b/a eko) and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “eko”, “we” or “us”) collect, use, and share information about you (“Private Information”) as well as your rights and choices regarding such information.
This Privacy Policy applies to our branded mobile application (the “App”), the eko Studio app available at https://studioapp.eko.com, (“eko Studio”), eko’s video platform technology available at https://platform.eko.com, (the “Platform”), the interactive videos on the Platform (the “Videos”), eko’s websites and subdomains (the “Sites”) and any other online services operated by eko that link to this Privacy Policy (the “Online Services”) (collectively, the App, eko Studio, the Platform, the Videos, the Sites, and the Online Services shall be referred to as the “Services”).
Please read the following carefully to understand eko’s data practices. If you have any questions, please contact us as set out in the “Have Questions?” section.
1. Acknowledgment
BY ENTERING, CONNECTING TO, ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE OR HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME AWARE OF AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND EKO’S PRACTICES DESCRIBED THEREIN, INCLUDING THE PROCESSING, COLLECTING, SHARING, USING, DISCLOSING, RETAINING OR DISPOSING OF YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.
3. Usage of Information
We collect and use information, including Private Information, for business and commercial purposes in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Our purposes for collecting and using information include to:
Enable the operation and management of the Services, including the Site, the App, and the Platform;
Perform services requested by you, such as responding to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide you with technical assistance and customer support;
Ensure that content on the Services is presented in an optimal way for you and for your device (e.g., tablet, mobile phone);
Conduct internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes;
Send you transactional communications, notices, announcements, and additional information related to eko including with respect to changes made to our Services’ policies;
Keep the Services safe and secured and to prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm;
Comply with our legal and contractual obligations and in order to be able to protect our rights and legitimate interests;
Maintain our data processing records and general administrative purposes;
Use it for customization and improvement of our Services and other eko websites, apps, technologies, marketing efforts, products and services;
Enhance and personalize the user’s experience on the Site, the App, and/or the Platform;
With respect to our Videos, understand your Video preferences and personalize your experience and advertising on the Services, including for our business partners;
Develop and send you information about our and other parties’ products and services (for example, if you opt-in we may send you email and push notifications regarding content that may be of interest to you);
Provide you with advertising and send you offers;
Fulfill any other purpose at your direction; and
Any other information with notice to you and your consent.
Notwithstanding the above, we may use information that does not identify you (including information that has been aggregated or de-identified) for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law.
4. Sharing of information
We share the information that we collect, including Private Information, in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The categories of parties with whom we share information include the following:
Group Companies: We may share information with members of our group of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers: We may share information with service providers who perform services and process information on our behalf, including without limitation, hosting services, payment processing services, analytics services, authentication and fraud prevention services, and marketing services. We contractually prohibit our service providers from retaining, using, or disclosing information about you for any purpose other than performing the service for us, although we may permit them to use information that does not identify you (including information that has been aggregated or de-identified) for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law.
Vendors and Other Parties: We share information with vendors and other parties for analytics and advertising purposes. These parties may act as our service providers, or in certain contexts, independently decide how to process your information. For more information on advertising and analytics, see the “Analytics and Advertising” section below.
Business Partners: We share information with our partners in connection with offering co-branded services, selling or distributing products, or engaging in marketing or advertising activities.
Promotions: Our promotion may be jointly sponsored or offered by other parties. When you voluntarily enter a promotion, we share information as set out in the official rules that govern the promotion as well as for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., on a winners list). By entering a promotion, you agree to the official rules that govern that promotion, and may, except where prohibited by applicable law, allow the sponsor and/or other entities to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing materials.
Public Forums: We share information you make public through the Services, such Videos you post as a creator. Please think carefully before making information public as you are solely responsible for any information you make public. Once you have posted information, you may not be able to edit or delete such information, subject to additional rights set out in the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.
Other: (i) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (ii) to enforce this Privacy Policy or any other agreement or terms of service between you and eko, and to defend against any claims or demands asserted against us by you or on your behalf; (iii) to protect the rights, property, health, security, or personal safety of eko, its users or anyone else; (iv) when eko is undergoing or negotiating any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or any portion of the assets of eko, or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another business; (v) at your request or direction; and (f) with notice to you and your consent.
5. Third Party Sites
We offer parts of our Services through websites, platforms, and services operated and controlled by other parties. The Platform may be available to you through our Site or App, or sites or apps operated by other parties. For example, we may offer embedded code or an SDK to allow other parties to use the Platform on their services. Unless explicitly stated otherwise by eko, any information collected by us through the Platform, including any associated code or SDK operated by eko, is subject to this Privacy Policy.
In addition, we integrate technologies operated or controlled by other parties into parts of our Services.
Some examples include:
Links: Certain links provided in the Site and App permit users to leave our Site and App and enter non-eko sites or use non-eko services. Most of such linked sites and services provide legal documents, including terms of use and privacy policies governing the use thereof. It is always advisable to read such documents carefully before using those sites and services in order to know what kind of information about you is collected.
Platform: Unless explicitly stated otherwise by eko, any information collected by us through the Platform, including any associated code or SDK operated by eko, is subject to this Privacy Policy. However, other parties may use eko's Video in their own websites or apps, and those parties may independently collect information about you. Such collection of information is governed by their own policies.
Liking, Sharing, and Logging-In: We may embed a third-party pixel or SDK on our Services that allows you to “like” or “share” content on, or log-in to your account through social media. If you visit a page that contains such integration, we may receive information from the social network that you have authorized to share with us. Please note that the social network may independently collect information about you through the integration.
Brand Pages: We may offer our content through social media. Any information you provide to us when you engage with our content (such as through our brand page or via our chatbot) is treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Also, if you publicly reference our Services on social media (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with eko in a tweet or post), we may use your reference on or in connection with our Services.
Please note that when you interact with other parties, including when you leave our Services, those parties may independently collect information about you and solicit information from you, which are not subject to this Privacy Policy.
6. Retention of Private Information
We use the servers of third parties, including Snowflake, Snowplow, AWS and auth0, in which we store, collect and process your information. These third parties’ software are using security and encryption mechanisms in order to keep the information secure and safe. Please visit the associated organization sites for a more comprehensive review of the storage details.
7. Analytics and Advertising
We use analytics services, such as those offered by Google, Snowplow and Appsflyer, hubspot to help us understand how users access and use the Services. In addition, we work with agencies, advertisers, ad networks, and other parties, such as Facebook and Google, to place ads about our products and services on other websites and services.
As part of this process, we may incorporate tracking technologies from us and our vendors and other parties into our own Services (including our website and emails) as well as into our ads displayed on other websites and services. These tracking technologies may collect data across time and services for purposes of measuring conversions or actions you take, associating the various devices you use, and serving ads and/or other content targeted to your interests (“Interest-based Advertising”). For instance, we incorporate pixels and SDKs from Facebook and Google on the Services and may share information with them for these purposes as well as to provide you with other functionality.
We also use audience matching services (which is a type of Interest-Based Advertising) to reach people (or people similar to people) who have visited our Services or are identified in one or more of our databases (“Matched Ads”). This is done by us sharing a list of hashed emails with an ad partner or incorporating a pixel or SDK from an ad partner into our own Services, and the ad partner matching common factors between our data and their data or other datasets. For instance, we use Facebook Custom Audiences to serve ads to our players on Facebook and Facebook Lookalike Audiences to serve ads to users on Facebook similar to our players.
As discussed above, vendors and other parties may act as our service providers, or in certain contexts, independently decide how to process your information.
8. Your Rights and Choices
Account Information: You may have certain choices with respect to information in your eko account. For example, you can update or remove the information you have provided in your profile or delete your account. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity. Please note that even if you remove information or delete your account, we will retain and use information about you as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Tracking Technology Choices
Cookies and Pixels: Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to decline or delete cookies. If you use multiple browsers on your device, you will need to instruct each browser separately. Your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. For more information on cookies and how to limit the use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Do Not Track: Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals. For more information on “Do Not Track,” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
App and Location Technologies: You can stop all collection of information via an app by uninstalling the app. You can also reset your device Ad Id at any time through your device settings, which is designed to allow you to limit the use of information collected about you. You can stop all collection of precise location data through an app by uninstalling the app or withdrawing your consent through your device settings.
Please be aware that if you disable or remove tracking technologies some parts of the Services may not function correctly.
Analytics and Interest-Based Advertising: You may opt out of the use of certain information collected by Google Analytics at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
and
by Google Analytics for Display Advertising or the Google Display Network at: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb.
The companies we work with to provide you with targeted ads are required by us to give you the choice to opt out of receiving targeted ads. Most of these companies are participants of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) and/or the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). To limit targeted advertising in our Apps, visit your device settings and: (i) reset your Advertising Identifier; and (2) turn off “Ad Personalization” (Android) or turn on “Limit Ad Tracking” (iOS).
To opt out of us sharing your hashed email address for Matched Ads, please contact us at privacy@eko.com and specify that you wish to opt out of Matched Ads. We will remove your email address from any subsequent lists shared with ad partners for purposes of Matched Ads.
Please note that if you opt out using any of these methods, the opt out will only apply to the specific browser or device from which you opt out. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any opt out options or programs, or the accuracy of any other entities’ statements regarding the opt out options or programs.
Communications
E-mails: You can opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us at any time by following the instructions as provided in emails to click on the unsubscribe link or emailing us at privacy@eko.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field of the email. Please note that you cannot opt-out of non-promotional emails, such as those about your account, transactions, servicing, or our ongoing business relations.
Push Notifications: If you have opted-in to receive push notifications on your device, you can opt-out at any time by adjusting the permissions in your device or uninstalling our App.
9. Data Transfer
Please be aware the information collected through the Services may be transferred to and stored on servers which may be located in countries outside of your jurisdiction and in a country that is not considered to offer an adequate level of protection under your local laws. Your use of the Services or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of information about you in the U.S., Israel, and other jurisdictions as set out in this Privacy Policy.
10. Children
Our general Services are intended for audiences over the age of sixteen (16), and not directed toward children. eko does not knowingly collect personal information (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act, or “COPPA”) from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected Private Information in violation of COPPA, contact us at privacy@eko.com. We will remove the Private Information in accordance with COPPA.
Please note that eko is not responsible for any uses of third-party sites that embed eko’s software, regarding their policies of children’s use and personal information.
11. Security and Shared Responsibility
The parties hereby acknowledge that security and privacy responsibilities in the cloud environment are shared between eko as the cloud provider, and the User. More specifically, eko is responsible for securing the underlying infrastructure, hardware, software, data centers, and all components supporting its Services. eko takes reasonable and appropriate security measures designed to maintain the security and integrity of the Services to help protect information about its Users from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, the User is responsible for securing any content that a User submits, posts, or displays on or through eko’s Services (the “User Content”). This shared model or responsibility provides flexibility to meet each Users’ security and compliance needs. Users may implement additional controls to achieve regulatory compliance.
“User Content” is considered public information. Users store and submit User Content through the Services at their own risk and any and all User Content may be subject to unauthorized access or use. You are solely responsible for your User Content. eko assumes zero liability or obligation whatsoever to provide or guarantee the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability or privacy of any User Content. Even in the event of unauthorized access to, or loss, alteration or destruction of User Content, eko is not responsible in any way for recovering, replacing or reimbursing Users for any such User Content or remediating any issues related to security or privacy of User Content.
You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses and rights to use and authorize us to use all intellectual property and other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Content. Users grant eko a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, modify, display, and perform their User Content. You accept full responsibility for your User Content and any harm resulting from its use or access by others. We may delete or destroy any and all User Content at any time without notice to you.
In summary, the parties acknowledge eko secures the cloud itself, while the User secures their workloads and data within the cloud environment.
Please note, notwithstanding the aforementioned, generally, there are inherent risks in transmission of information over the Internet or other methods of electronic storage and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of the information.
12. Changes to the Privacy Policy
The terms of this Privacy Policy will govern the use of the Services and any information collected with respect thereto. eko reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please re-visit this page frequently. In case of any material change, we will make reasonable efforts to post a clear notice on the homepage of the Site and/or the App or we will send you an email regarding such changes to the e-mail address that you may have provided us with. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” date and your continued use of the Services after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.
13. Jurisdictional Disclosures
If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah or Vermont resident, or reside in Europe or Israel, the law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Private Information.
Please review our Supplemental Privacy Notice, attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit A, to learn more about these rights.
13. Have Questions?
If you have any questions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: privacy@eko.com.
This Privacy Policy applies to the following subsidiaries and affiliates of eko: JBF Interlude 2009 Ltd. and W*E Interactive Ventures, JV LLC.
This Privacy Policy has been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. If you experience any difficulties accessing the information here, please contact us at privacy@eko.com.
Exhibit A
Supplemental Privacy Notice
Last Revised: November 20, 2023
The following disclosures supplement this Privacy Policy and apply only to consumers of particular jurisdictions (this “Supplemental Notice”). Specifically, this Supplemental Privacy Notice applies only to information collected about consumers in the following jurisdictions: (1) California, (2) Colorado, (3) Connecticut, (4) Nevada, (5) Utah, and (6) Virginia, as well as (7) Israel and (8) Europe. This Supplemental Notice describes our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Private Information and provides instructions for submitting data subject requests.
To the extent terms used in this Supplemental Notice are defined terms under the applicable US State Privacy Law, they shall have the meanings afforded to them in those statutes, whether or not capitalized herein. As there are some variations between such definitions in each of the state statutes, the definitions applicable to you are those provided in the statute for the state in which you are a consumer. For example, if you are a Virginia consumer, terms used in this Supplemental Notice that are defined terms in the VCDPA shall have the meanings afforded to them in the VCDPA as this Supplemental Notice applies to you.
Supplemental Notice for California Residents.
This Supplemental Notice for California Residents applies to our processing of Personal Information that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), effective as of January 1, 2023 (collectively, the “California Privacy Laws”). The California Privacy Laws provides California residents with the right to know what categories of Personal Information Pattern Brands has collected about them, the right to have Personal Information deleted, the right to opt out of the sale of Personal Information (if applicable), the right to opt in of the sale of Personal Information of consumers under the age of 16 (if applicable), the right to nondiscriminatory treatment for exercising any rights, the right to initiate a private cause of action for data breaches, the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information and the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive Personal Information.
Disclosure for California Consumers
Unless specifically stated, we have not sold or shared Personal Information about California consumers to third parties for their own use in the past twelve (12) months. Relatedly, we do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share Personal Information of California consumers under 16 years of age. However, we may share your Personal Information with our affiliates and trusted partners in arrangements that may meet the broad definition of “sale” or “share” under California law. In these arrangements, use of the information we share is limited by policies, contracts, or similar restrictions. That said, we may share information with third-party advertising partners or analytics providers for the purpose of promoting our Services as described above, including for cross-context behavioral advertising. To the extent that such sharing is considered a “sale” under the CCPA, you may opt-out of having your Personal Information shared with such advertising partners or analytics providers by emailing us here: privacy@eko.com. For purposes of California law, a “sale” is the disclosure of Personal Information to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, and a “share” is the disclosure of Private Information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.
Additional Privacy Rights for California Residents
Right to Access. If you are a California consumer, you have the right to ask us to send you the following information up to two times in a twelve-month period: (i) categories of Personal Information we have collected about you; (ii) categories of sources from which we collected the Personal Information; (iii) our business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information; (iv) categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information; (v) categories of Personal Information we disclose about you for business purposes; (vi) categories of Personal Information we sell or exchange for consideration about you; and (vii) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to Delete. If you are a California consumer, you have the right to ask us to delete the Personal Information about you we have collected. We may deny the request if the information is necessary to: (i) complete a transaction, including providing a requested or reasonably anticipated good or service, or fulfill a contract between the consumer and Pattern ; (ii) detect and protect against security incidents, malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or take against those responsible for such activity; (iii) debug to identify and repair errors impairing intended functionality; (iv) comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; (v) engage in research in the public interest adhering to applicable ethics and privacy laws where the consumer has provided informed consent; (vi) enable solely internal uses reasonably aligned with the consumer’s expectations based on the consumer’s relationship with Pattern; (vii) comply with a legal obligation; or (viii) otherwise use the information internally in a lawful manner compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
Right to portability. A consumer has the right to request Personal Information about the consumer be disclosed in a common file format.
Right to Opt-in or Opt-out of the sale of Personal Information. If a business sells Personal Information to third parties, California consumers have the right, at any time, to opt in or out of the sale or disclosure of their Personal Information to third parties.
Right to designate an authorized agent. You have the right to designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. To designate an authorized agent, please contact us. Right to non-discrimination. The CCPA grants California consumers the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. If you exercise your privacy rights, we will not discriminate against you, for example, by denying you access to our shop or charging you different rates or prices for the same Services, unless that difference is reasonably related to the value provided by your data.
California Privacy Rights Act. In addition to the rights provided by the CCPA, California residents are provided with the following rights through the California Privacy Rights Act: (i) the right to request that incorrect or outdated Personal Information be corrected but not deleted; (ii) the right to restrict a business’s ability to process sensitive data about the consumer; and (iii) prohibition against a business making decisions about a consumer based solely on an automated process without human input.
California Shine the Light. The California “Shine the Light” law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their Personal Information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of Personal Information disclosed to those parties.
Disclosure About Direct Marketing for California Residents. California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits California residents to annually request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to other entities for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. We do not distribute your Personal Information to other entities for their own direct marketing purposes.
Supplemental Notice for Colorado Residents. The Colorado Privacy Act provides Colorado residents with the following rights: (i) the right to opt out of the processing of Personal Information concerning the consumer; (ii) the right to confirm whether a business is processing Personal Information concerning the consumer and to access the consumer's Personal Information; (iii) the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information collected from the consumer; (iv) the right to delete Personal Information concerning the consumer; (v) the right to restrict a business’s ability to process Personal Information about the consumer, specifically to opt-out of processing for profiling/targeted advertising purposes; (vi) a prohibition against a business making certain decisions about a consumer based solely on an automated process without human input; and (vii) the right to data portability. When exercising the right to access Personal Information, a consumer has the right to obtain the Personal Information in a portable, and to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows the consumer to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. A consumer may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.
Supplemental Notice for Connecticut Residents. The Connecticut Data Privacy Act provides Connecticut residents with the following rights: (i) the right to confirm whether a business is processing Personal Information concerning the consumer and to access the consumer's Personal Information; (ii) the right to request that incorrect or outdated Personal Information be corrected but not deleted; (iii) the right to delete Personal Information concerning the consumer; (iv) the right to restrict a business’s ability to process sensitive data about the consumer- specifically to opt-out of processing for profiling/ targeted advertising purposes; (v) the right to request Personal Information about the consumer be disclosed in a common file format; (vi) the right to opt out of the sale of Personal Information about the consumer to third parties; and (vii) prohibition against a business making certain decisions about a consumer based solely on an automated process without human input.
Supplemental Notice for Nevada Residents. We generally do not disclose or share Personal Information for profit. If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Information to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Information. To exercise this right, if applicable, you or your authorized representative may submit a request to privacy@eko.com. If you have any questions, please contact us at privacy@eko.com. We will respond to your verified request as soon as reasonably practicable, but no later than sixty (60) days after receipt. If circumstances cause any delay in our response, you will be promptly notified and provided a date for our response.
Supplemental Notice for Utah Residents. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act provides Utah residents with the following rights: (i) the right to confirm whether a business is processing Personal Information concerning the consumer and to access the consumer's Personal Information; (ii) the right to delete Personal Information concerning the consumer; (iii) the right to restrict a business’s ability to process sensitive data about the consumer- specifically to opt-out of processing for profiling/ targeted advertising purposes; (iv) the right to request Personal Information about the consumer be disclosed in a common file format; and (v) the right to request to opt out of the sale of Personal Information about the consumer to third parties.
Supplemental Notice for Virginia Residents. The Consumer Data Protection Act provides Virginia residents with the following rights: (i) the right to confirm whether or not a controller is processing the consumer's Personal Information and to access such Personal Information; (ii) the right to delete Personal Information provided by or obtained about the consumer; (iii) the right to obtain a copy of the consumer's Personal Information that the consumer previously provided to the business in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format; (iv) the right to opt out of the processing of the Personal Information for purposes of, targeted advertising, the sale of Personal Information, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer; and (v) the right to restrict a business’s ability to process Personal Information about the consumer, specifically to opt-out of processing for profiling/targeted advertising purposes.
Disclosure for Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and Connecticut Consumers: Unless specifically stated, we do not sell or share Personal Information to third parties for their own use. However, we may share or process one or more of the above categories of Personal Information with our affiliates and trusted partners in arrangements for purposes of targeted advertising, as the terms “sell,” “share,” “process,” and “targeted advertising” are defined in the CPA, VCDPA, UCPA, and CTDPA. In these arrangements, use of the information we share is limited by policies, contracts or similar restrictions.
Supplemental Notice for Israeli Residents
These additional disclosures apply only to Israeli residents. By entering, connecting to, accessing or using the services, you consent to the collection, processing, transfer and use of your personal information. You also acknowledge and confirm that you are not legally required to provide us with your personal information and that such information is voluntarily provided to us.
If for any reason you wish to delete or modify your personal information, please send us an email with adequate details of your request to: privacy@eko.com, and we will make reasonable efforts to modify or delete any such personal information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws. Note that we may retain your personal information for as long as reasonably required for the purposes of which such personal information was collected or as long as we have a legitimate business purpose to retain it, all as permitted under any applicable privacy laws.
Supplemental Notice for European Residents - These additional disclosures apply only to data subjects in Europe.
Roles
Data protection laws in Europe distinguish between organizations that process personal data for their own purposes (known as “controllers”) and organizations that process personal data on behalf of other organizations (known as “processors”). eko acts as a controller with respect to personal data collected as you interact with our Services.
Lawful Basis for Processing
Data protection laws in Europe require a “lawful basis” for processing personal data. Our lawful bases include where: (a) you have given consent to the processing for one or more specific purposes, either to us or to our service providers or business partners; (b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you; (c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, such as disclosure of information to authorities where we are obligated to do so; or (d) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party, where your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms do not override those interests.
Data Transfer outside the EEA
The personal data collected from you by eko, as detailed in this Privacy Policy, may be transferred to, and stored at, servers which may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We apply strict safeguards when transferring it outside of the EEA, which may include the following:
Transferring your personal data to countries approved by the European Commission as having adequate data protection laws, such as Israel;
Entering into standard contracts that have been approved by the European Commission and which provide an adequate level of high quality protection, with the recipients of your personal data; and
Transferring your personal data to U.S. organizations that are Privacy Shield certified, as approved by the European Commission.
Your Data Subject Rights
You have the right to access, rectify, or erase any personal data we have collected about you. You also have the right to data portability and the right to restrict or object to our processing of personal data we have collected about you. In addition, you have the right to ask us not to process your personal data (or provide it to third parties to process) for marketing purposes or purposes materially different than for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you. You may withdraw your consent at any time for any data processing we do based on consent you have provided to us.
Please note that we retain information as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and may continue to retain and use information even after a data subject request for purposes of our legitimate interests, including as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and enforce our agreements.
If you have any issues with our compliance, you may contact us at privacy@eko.com. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.
Cookie Policy
This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) explains what cookies are and how Interlude US Inc. (d/b/a eko), its subsidiaries and affiliates, (together, “eko”, “we”, “our” or “us”), use them when you (“User(s)”, “you”, “your”) visit and/or use any of the following: Our branded mobile application (the “App”), the eko Studio app available at: https://studioapp.eko.com, (“eko Studio”), eko’s video platform technology available at https://platform.eko.com, (the “Platform”), the interactive videos on the Platform (the “Videos”), eko’s websites and subdomains (the “Sites”) and any other online services operated by eko that link to this Privacy Policy (the “Online Services”) (collectively, the App, eko Studio, the Platform, the Videos, the Sites, and the Online Services shall be referred to as the “Services”). It also explains the different types of Cookies we use, and how you can change or delete them.
We hope that this policy will assist you in understanding and feeling more confident about our use of Cookies. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We aim to be as open and transparent as possible around the information we collect, use and share.
For information on how your information is collected and used by us in general, please see our Privacy Policy at [https://eko.com/legal-terms#privacy] (“Privacy Policy”).
In this Cookie Policy, reference to "Cookies" includes cookies and all other files that collect information in a similar manner. Please note that most Cookies do not collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how Users arrive at and use the Services, or a User’s general location.
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored on, and accessed from, your computer or mobile device when you visit or use the Services. We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs and other similar tools (collectively, "Cookies") on the Services to recognize your device from those of other Users of the Services, to improve the Services' performance, to deliver a better and more personalized service according to the User's individual interests and the device or browser used, to track Users' use of the Services, to gather information about the Users' approximate geographic location (e.g. city) to provide localized content, to prevent fraud and/or abuse, to estimate our audience size and usage pattern and perform other analytics, to develop our Services and to administer targeted advertising and our advertising campaigns to Users across different websites and devices.
2. How Long Will Cookies Stay on My Device?
Most of the Cookies we use are erased from your device immediately after your browser session terminates ("Session Cookies"). Other Cookies remain saved on your device and enable us to recognize your device in the event of a later visit to our Site, App, Eko Studio and Embedded Video Players ("Persistent Cookies"). Persistent Cookies allow us to make the Services more user-friendly, effective and safe and to record your acceptance of our Cookie Policy detailed herein. Please note that the data collected through Cookies will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above.
3. First - and Third - Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies are Cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device. Third-party Cookies are Cookies that another party, which provides us a service, places on your device through your use of the Services. For example, to administer the Services and for research purposes, we have contracted third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Users. Third-party Cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet or so that they may provide you with behavioral advertising via our Site, App and Embedded Video Players.
4. Do We Track Whether Users Open Our Emails?
Our emails may contain a single "web beacon pixel" which enables us to verify whether our emails (and any links or advertisements within the email) are opened. We may use this information to determine whether our emails are of interest to Users, to approach Users who do not open our emails and verify whether they wish to continue receiving them and to inform our advertisers in aggregate of the audience size for their advertisements. Please note that such "web beacon pixel" will be deleted once you delete the email from your email account. If you do not wish the "web beacon pixel" to be downloaded to your device at all, please set your email account settings to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.
5. What sort of Cookies Do the Services Use?
Generally, our Cookies perform the following functions:
Essential Cookies: Those Cookies are essential to navigate around the Services and use its features. For example, they allow us to remember your Cookie preferences and to verify if something is not working properly, so we can fix it quickly.
Analytical and Performance Cookies: Those Cookies are used to analyze how our Users use the Services and to monitor Services' performance. For example, we might use performance Cookies to keep track of which pages are frequently visited and from what locations our Users come from. We might also use these Cookies to highlight the Services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the Services. We generally use third party Cookies to perform these services, for example, Google Analytics and Snowplow.
Functionality Cookies: Those Cookies allow us to operate the Services in accordance with your preferences when browsing or using the Services For example, such Cookies save you the trouble of typing in a username every time you access the Site and App, and recall your customization preferences, such as your preferred text size, fonts, languages and other parts of the Services that are alterable.
Targeting and Tracking Cookies: Those Cookies collect information about your activities when using the Services and other apps and websites, to provide you: (i) Online Behavioral Advertising, for which Cookies are placed on your device by our third party service providers to collect data from your activities on our Services and your web browsing activity, and group together your interests in order to provide you with targeted advertisements which are more relevant to you when you visit or use our Services (please note that your web browsing activity history and information derived from your activities on our Services can be used to deduce certain demographic information which relate to you, such as your age and gender); and (ii) retargeting, which enables our advertising partners to show you advertisements selected based on your online browsing activity on other websites, thus allowing companies to advertise to people who previously visited their website. We may allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on our Services for the purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/what-are-my-options/.
Social Networking Cookies: Those Cookies are used so that Users can interact with the content of different social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) which are generated specifically for individual users of these social networks. The conditions of use regarding these cookies and the information collected is regulated by the privacy policy of the corresponding social platform.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of certain specific Cookies you can find on our Services:
6. Can a User block Cookies?
Most devices and browsers will allow you to erase Cookies from your device’s hard drive, block acceptance of Cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase Cookies, your experience of the Site, App, Eko Studio and Embedded Video Players may be limited. Please note that unless you block the acceptance of Cookies, the Site, App, Eko Studio and Embedded Video Players will utilize Cookies upon your use of the Site, App, Eko Studio and Embedded Video Players (all unless it is required by applicable law to provide a separate consent to use such Cookies, and in which case we will use such Cookies only after we receive your separate consent to such use and subject to your right to withdraw such consent at any time). If you want to remove previously stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site, App, Eko Studio and Embedded Video Players from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your settings as described above.
For detailed instructions regarding the blocking of Cookies, please refer to your browser ‘help’, ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Below are links to instructions regarding the blocking of Cookies on commonly used web-browsers:
7. Opting out of performance Cookies
It is possible to opt-out of having your browsing activity within the Services recorded by performance Cookies. Please note that we use Google Analytics as our service provider in order to track Users' activities on the Services, including by use such service's persistent Cookies. Google provides a browser-add on which allows users to opt-out of Google Analytics across all websites, which can be downloaded here: You may opt out of Snowplow by using this form: https://mintmetrics.io/privacy-right-to-be-forgotten/ and Appsflyer by using this link: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout.
8. Opting out of target advertising Cookies
Please note that if you want to opt out from receiving targeted advertising, this does not mean that you will receive less advertising when you use the Services, but rather that the advertising you see will not be as customized to your interests.
You can visit the following sites, which will provide you further information, a list of all Cookies that are currently set on your device and instruction on how to opt-out of each of them:
Internet Advertising Bureau’s consumer advice site at: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
or
the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!%2F
You may also opt-out of certain advertising cookies directly, by using the following links:
Audigent - https://audigent.com/optout
Adpredictive - https://adpredictive.com/privacy/opt-out/
Google Ads - https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
9. Changes to the Cookie Policy
eko reserves the right to change this Cookie Policy at any time, so please re-visit this page frequently to check for any changes. In case of any material change, we will make reasonable efforts to post a clear notice on the Site and App or we will send you an e-mail regarding such changes to the e-mail address that you may have provided us with. Otherwise, all other changes to this Cookie Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” and your continued use of the Site and App on or after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes. In the event that the terms should be amended to comply with any legal requirements, the amendments may take effect immediately, or as required by the law and without any prior notice.
11. Have any Questions?
If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Cookie Policy, please send us an email to the following address: privacy@helloeko.com
Last Revised: November 19, 2023