This Privacy Policy explains in detail how we collect, use and disclose your personal data. Please read this document carefully before submitting any personal data to us.
Table of Contents
- General Information
- What Personal Data Do We Collect and For What Purposes Do We Use It?
- How Do We Communicate With You?
- How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?
- How Do We Share and Disclose Your Data?
- How Do We Protect Your Personal Data?
- What Rights Do You Have With Regard to Your Personal Data?
- Non-Personal Data
- CCPA Disclosure
- Cookies
- Affiliate Links
- AI Voice Code of Conduct
- Contact
1. General Information
1.1 About the Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") governs the processing of personal data collected through the website https://dropinblog.com, the related domain names (e.g., https://app.dropinblog.com), software products, and services (collectively, "DropInBlog"). The Privacy Policy does not cover any third-party websites, applications, software, products or services that integrate with DropInBlog or are linked to from DropInBlog.
1.2 Owner of DropInBlog. DropInBlog is owned and operated by Function Company LLC, DBA DropInBlog having an address at 30 N Gould St, Ste 24467, Sheridan, WY 82801, the United States of America ("we," "us," or "our").
1.3 Our role as a data controller and data processor. We act in the capacity of a data controller and, from time to time, a data processor with regard to the personal data processed through DropInBlog in terms of the applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our role depends on the specific situation in which personal data is handled by us, as explained in detail below:
- Data controller. We are responsible for the collection of your personal data through DropInBlog and its further use. We make decisions about the types of personal data that should be collected from you and purposes for which such personal data should be used. Therefore, we act as a data controller with regard to the personal data collected directly through DropInBlog (e.g., when you send us an inquiry or make a payment). We comply with the data controller's obligations set forth in the applicable laws.
- Data processor. We may act in the capacity of a data processor in situations when our clients use DropInBlog to collect certain personal data from individuals (the "Service Data"). We do not own, control, or make decisions about the Service Data. We process the Service Data only in accordance with the instructions issued by a respective data controller (our client). To ensure that the Service Data is processed in accordance with the strictest data protection standards, we offer for conclusion a data processing agreement (the "DPA") that you can receive by contacting us.
1.4 Your consent. Before you submit any personal data through DropInBlog, you are encouraged to read this Privacy Policy that is always available on DropInBlog to understand on what legal bases (other than your consent) we rely when handling your personal data. In some cases, if required by the applicable law, we may seek to obtain your informed consent for the processing of your personal data.
1.5 Minors. DropInBlog is not intended for use by children (i.e., persons who are minors in their country of residence). Therefore, we do not knowingly collect minors' personal data. If you, as a parent or a legal guardian of a child, become aware that the child has submitted his/her personal data to us, please contact us immediately. We will delete your child's personal data from our systems without undue delay.
1.6 Term and termination. This Privacy Policy enters into force on the effective date indicated at the top of the Privacy Policy and remains valid until terminated or updated by us.
1.7 Amendments. The Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time to address the changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. For significant material changes in the Privacy Policy or, where required by the applicable law, we may seek your consent.
2. What Personal Data Do We Collect and For What Purposes Do We Use It?
2.1 Sources of personal data. We obtain your personal data from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you: For example, if you contact us, register your account, or purchase our plans;
- Directly or indirectly through your activity on DropInBlog: When you use DropInBlog, we automatically collect technical information about your use of DropInBlog; and
- From third parties: We may receive information about you from third parties to whom you have previously provided your personal data, if those third parties have a legal basis for disclosing your personal data to us.
2.2 Types and purposes of personal data. We respect data minimization principles. It means that we collect only a minimal amount of personal data through DropInBlog that is necessary to ensure the proper provision of DropInBlog as described below. We use your personal data for limited, specified and legitimate purposes explicitly mentioned in this Privacy Policy.
- Account and Free Trials. When you register an account or book a Free Trial, we collect your first name, email address, and password. If you use Shopify, you will be asked to login to your Shopify account. We use such data to register and maintain your account, enable your access to DropInBlog, provide you with the requested Free Trial and other services, contact you, if necessary, and maintain our business records. The legal bases on which we rely are "performing a contract with you" and "pursuing our legitimate business interests" (i.e., analyze, grow, and administer DropInBlog).
- Contact form. When you send us a message through the contact form, we collect your blog URL, name, email address, and any information that you decide to provide in your message. We use the said information to contact you, provide you with the requested information, set up a contract with you, and maintain our business records.
- Inquiries. When you contact us by email, we collect your full name, email address, and any information that you decide to include in your message. When you contact us through our chat, we collect any information that you decide to include in your message. We use such data to respond to your inquiries.
- Payment processing. When you make a payment, we collect your full name, card number, expiration date, and security code. We use such data to process your payments and keep our business records.
- IP address. When you use DropInBlog, we or our third-party analytics service providers collect your IP address. We use your IP address to analyze the technical aspects of your use of DropInBlog, prevent fraud and abuse, and ensure the security of DropInBlog.
- Newsletter. When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your full name, email address, and position. We use such information to deliver you our newsletter.
- BlogVoice (Text-to-Speech). When you use our BlogVoice feature, we process your text content through our text-to-speech service provider to convert your blog content into audio. We do not store your audio content on third-party servers beyond what is necessary for processing.
- Cookies. When you use DropInBlog, we collect your cookie-related data. For more information on our cookie usage practices, please refer to the section "Cookies" below.
2.3 Sensitive data. We do not collect or have access to any special categories of personal data from you, unless you decide, at your own discretion, to provide such data to us.
2.4 Processing of the Service Data. When you submit, upload or create the Service Data through DropInBlog, we process the Service Data as requested by you in order to provide you with the requested services and perform our contractual obligations.
2.5 Refusal to provide personal data. If you refuse to provide us with your personal data when we ask you to, we may not be able to perform the requested operation and you may not be able to use the full functionality of DropInBlog or get our response.
3. How Do We Communicate With You?
3.1 Commercial communication. If we have your email address, we may, from time to time, send you information about DropInBlog. You will receive our newsletters in the following instances:
- If we receive your express ("opt-in") consent to receive marketing messages; or
- If you ask us to send you information about DropInBlog; or
- If we decide to send you information closely related to services already used by you.
3.2 Opting-out. You can opt-out from receiving our commercial communication at any time free of charge by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link included in our emails or by contacting us directly.
3.3 Service-related notices. We send you important transactional emails, such as confirmation receipts, technical notices, and other administrative updates. Please note that such messages are sent on an "if-needed" basis and they do not fall within the scope of commercial communication that may require your prior consent. You cannot opt-out from service-related notices.
4. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?
4.1 Retention of personal data. We store your personal data in our systems only for as long as such personal data is required for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or until you request that we delete your personal data, whichever comes first. We retain your data for 6 months after termination unless requested by you, in which case it can be removed immediately. After your personal data is no longer necessary for its primary purposes and we do not have another legal basis for storing it, we securely delete your personal data from our systems.
4.2 Retention as required by law. In certain cases, we are required by law to store your personal data for a certain period of time (for example, for accounting or business records purposes). Thus, we may keep your personal data for the time period stipulated by the applicable law and securely delete it as soon as the required storage period expires.
5. How Do We Share and Disclose Your Data?
5.1 Disclosure to data processors. From time to time, your personal data is disclosed to our service providers with whom we cooperate (our data processors). For example, we share your personal and non-personal data with entities that provide certain technical support services to us, such as hosting and email distribution services. We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
5.2 Categories of our data processors. We use a limited number of data processors. We choose them only if they agree to ensure an adequate level of protection of your personal data that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection laws. The categories of data processors that may have access to your personal data include:
- Cloud hosting and infrastructure service providers;
- Analytics service providers;
- Payment processing service providers;
- Database service providers;
- Customer support service providers;
- Content delivery network (CDN) providers;
- Text-to-speech service providers for our BlogVoice feature; and
- Independent contractors and consultants.
These service providers are primarily located in the United States and the European Union. For specific information about our data processors, you may contact us using the information provided in the "Contact" section.
5.3 Disclosure of technical (non-personal) data. Your non-personal data may be disclosed to third parties for any purpose.
5.4 Legal requests. If we are contacted by a public authority, we may need to disclose information about you to the extent necessary for pursuing a public interest objective, such as national security or law enforcement.
5.5 Successors. In case our company or DropInBlog are sold partly or fully, we will provide your personal data to a purchaser or successor entity and request that the successor handle your personal data in line with this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any changes of the data controller.
5.6 Selling personal data. We do not directly sell your personal data to third parties.
5.7 International transfers. Some of our data processors listed above are located outside the country in which you reside. For example, if you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), we may need to transfer your personal data to jurisdictions outside the EEA. In case it is necessary to make such a transfer, we will make sure that the jurisdiction in which the recipient third party is located guarantees an adequate level of protection for your personal data or we conclude a data processing agreement with the respective third party that ensures such protection.
6. How Do We Protect Your Personal Data?
6.1 Our security measures. We implement organizational and technical information security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, and disclosure. The security measures taken by us include:
- Encryption;
- Anonymization;
- Access control;
- Secured networks; and
- Carefully selected data processors.
6.2 Security breaches. Although we put our best efforts to protect your personal data, given the nature of communications and information processing technology and the Internet, we cannot be liable for any unlawful destruction, loss, use, copying, modification, leakage, and falsification of your personal data that was caused by circumstances that are beyond our reasonable control.
7. What Rights Do You Have With Regard to Your Personal Data?
7.1 The list of your rights. You have the right to control how your personal data is processed by us by exercising the rights listed below (unless, in very limited cases, the applicable law provides otherwise):
- Right of access: you can get a copy of your personal data that we store in our systems and a list of purposes for which your personal data is processed;
- Right to rectification: you can rectify inaccurate personal data that we hold about you;
- Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"): you can ask us to erase your personal data from our systems;
- Right to restriction: you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
- Right to data portability: you can ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and move that personal data to another processor;
- Right to object: you can ask us to stop processing your personal data;
- Right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw your consent, if you have provided one; or
- Right to complaint: you can submit your complaint regarding our processing of your personal data.
7.2 How to exercise your rights? If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us by email at or by post (you can find our postal address at the end of this Privacy Policy) and explain your request in detail.
7.3 Requests regarding the Service Data. If we receive a request from a data subject asking to exercise data subject's rights with regard to the Service Data, we will forward such a request to the respective data controller (our client).
7.4 Complaints. If you would like to launch a complaint about the way in which we process your personal data, we kindly ask you to contact us first and express your concerns. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
7.5 Non-discrimination. We do not discriminate against you if you decide to exercise your rights.
8. Non-Personal Data
8.1 What non-personal data do we collect? In order to analyze DropInBlog, we automatically collect certain technical non-personal data about your use of DropInBlog. Such non-personal data does not allow us to identify you. The non-personal data includes the following information:
- The device type that you use;
- The browser that you use;
- Your operating system;
- The web pages that you visit.
8.2 Your feedback. If you contact us, we may keep records of any questions, complaints, recommendations, or compliments made by you and the response, if any. Where possible, we will de-identify your personal data.
8.3 How do we use non-personal data? We will use non-personal data for the following purposes:
- To analyze what kinds of users visit and use DropInBlog;
- To examine the relevance, popularity, and engagement rate of the content available on DropInBlog;
- To investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse; and
- To develop and provide additional features to DropInBlog.
8.4 Aggregated and de-identified data. In case your non-personal data is combined with certain elements of your personal data in a way that allows us to identify you, we will handle such aggregated data as personal data. If your personal data is aggregated or de-identified in a way that it can no longer be associated with an identified or identifiable natural person, it will not be considered personal data and we may use it for any business purpose.
9. CCPA Disclosure
9.1 If you are based in the state of California (US), you are protected as a consumer by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) with respect to your personal data (the CCPA uses the term "personal information" which is equivalent to the term "personal data" used in this Privacy Policy).
9.2 What is personal information under the CCPA? Under the CCPA, the term "personal information" refers to information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly with a particular consumer or household based in California.
9.3 Types of personal information that we collect. In the past 12 months, we have collected and disclosed to third parties for our legitimate business purposes, the following categories of personal information relating to California residents:
- Identifiers and personal information categories:
- Accounts: first name, email address, and password.
- Contact form: blog URL, name, and email address.
- Inquiries: full name and email address.
- Payment processing: full name and payment information.
- Browsing: IP address and cookie-related data.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information: cookie-related data and analytics data.
- Geolocation data: IP address.
9.4 Your rights regarding your personal information. As a California resident, you have certain rights granted by the CCPA with regard to your personal information:
- To receive information about the personal information that we collected from you;
- To request us to delete your personal information that we hold about you; and
- To remain free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights.
9.5 Making requests under the CCPA. If you have not found sufficient information in this Privacy Notice, you can submit your requests for exercising your rights to us by email at with "CCPA request" in the subject line.
10. Cookies
10.1 What should you know about cookies? A cookie is a small piece of data typically consisting of letters and numbers. When you visit a website, that website may send a cookie to your browser. Subsequently, the browser may store the cookie on your computer or mobile device for some time.
10.2 Our cookies. We use cookies on DropInBlog, including:
- Essential technical cookies that are strictly necessary to ensure the correct functioning of DropInBlog and provide the services requested by you;
- Preference cookies that allow us to remember your preferences;
- Marketing cookies that allow us to create, implement, and examine our marketing campaigns; and
- Statistics cookies that allow us to generate statistical reports about how you use DropInBlog.
10.3 Cookie consent. When you visit DropInBlog, we may ask you to provide us with your consent to our use of all cookies via a cookie consent banner.
10.4 Disabling cookies. If we ask you to provide your consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you have the freedom not to provide such consent. If you would like to refuse our use of non-essential cookies later, you can do it at any time by declining cookies in your browser or device.
11. Blog Content & Affiliate Links
11.1 Blog Content. We enjoy creating interesting blog articles. Our team of writers, editors, and researchers strive to deliver the highest quality content. Our goal is to inform, and to be as unbiased and accurate as possible. If you come across any errors, please don't hesitate to reach out.
11.2 Affiliate Links. Naturally, our articles link to many external websites. Some of these links are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase through them. If you like what we're doing, we'd appreciate it if you used these links for your purchases. This helps us generate a bit of revenue to support our content team in creating more great articles.
12. AI Voice Code of Conduct
12.1 Text-to-speech Content Requirements. All content released through your text to speech integration (BlogVoice) and associated metadata must be originally created by the publisher, appropriately licensed from the third-party rights holder, used as permitted by the rights holder, or used as otherwise permitted by law. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that you have appropriate rights to all content on your posts that are using AI Voice.
12.2 Forbidden Text-to-speech Uses. You may not use our text-to-speech features:
- To deceive or intentionally misinform people;
- For the purpose of false advertising;
- To claim to be from any person, company, government body, or entity without explicit permission;
- To impersonate any person without explicit permission;
- To enhance the authority or credibility of content in connection with financial, health, legal, political, or spiritual matters;
- To create, incite, or disguise hate speech, discrimination, defamation, terrorism, or acts of violence;
- In applications that are sexually explicit;
- To exploit or manipulate children;
- To make unsolicited phone calls, bulk communications, posts, or messages;
- To disguise policy positions or political ideologies; or
- To disseminate unattributed content or misrepresent sources.
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13. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us by:
Email:
Postal address: Function Company LLC, DBA DropInBlog, 30 N Gould St, Ste 24467, Sheridan, WY 82801, the United States of America.