Cultural Resources Privacy Policy and Terms

These terms govern your use of Culture, including our iOS application (“the app”) and the website located at www.worldcultures.com (“the site”) which are made available by Cultural Resources, LLC. (“Cultural Resources” or “we” or “us”).

Your privacy is important to us. These “Terms” and this “User Agreement” (the “Agreement”) outline the type of information that is collected through the apps and how that information is used and protected. The “Agreement” is a legal contract that describes the conditions under which users (“you”) are permitted to use the apps.

By using the app and the site you agree to be bound by this contract. If you do not accept the Agreement, please do not use this product.

Changes to the Agreement

Cultural Resources may change this agreement periodically so please review it on occasion before using the app or the site. We will make the most recent version of the Agreement available on the Website along with the most recent date when it was modified.

By using the app or the site after we modify the Agreement, you accept the new version of the Agreement. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use the apps and/or please feel free to delete your account.


Privacy Policy

The Information You Provide Us

When you register for a Culture account, the only required information is your Apple ID.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Product

Each time you log into and/or use our product, we automatically collect information about your activity, which we use to continually customize our product, analyze technology performance and refine our private communications with you. This information may include the following:

  • Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Platform, including the type of browser that you use; the time, duration and frequency of your access; Platform pages viewed; your IP address; and the page you visited before visiting our Platform.

  • Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device that you use to access our Platform, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers and mobile network information. 

  • Location information: We may collect information about the location of your device each time you use our Platform based on your consent to the collection of this information.

  • Web and Mobile Usage Analytics: We may use internal or third-party analytics technologies, such as Google Analytics, to track your activity, such as page views, clicks, time on page, and other standard usage information. The security of this information is guaranteed by our third-party analytics partners.


Our Use of Your Information

We may use our information to analyze the performance of our product and to personalize your experience. These activities may include:

  • Monitor trends and analytics about your usage, to help our product team refine the experience for all users

  • Display relevant information to you, such as the topics you have searched for previously

  • Suggest content that you may be interested in

  • Detect potential fraud or abuse

  • Perform administrative, legal or accounting work

  • Communicate with you about topics that we feel may be of interest


Data Retention

You may cancel your Culture account and/or paid subscription at any time. These options may be available in your Account Settings and can also be done by contacting us using the Contact option on our website.

Culture reserves the right to indefinitely preserve a record of your user-provided information and your product usage analytics, even after you have ceased to use the product. We preserve this information for the following purposes:

  • So you can use our Platform

  • To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to;

  • To provide you with a refund, if entitled

  • To better understand the traffic to our Platform so that we can provide all members with the best possible experience

  • To detect and prevent abuse of our Platform, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and

  • To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete it or anonymize it.

Marketing Lists

From time to time, we may obtain lists of people who may be interested in our products and services from third-parties. We may use these lists to send direct marketing promotions by email. If, after receiving such an email, you do not wish to receive future promotions via email, please follow the instructions in the Right to Opt In and Opt Out section below.

Third Party “Linked-to” Websites

When you are in our apps you may be able to visit or link to other sites not operated by us. We do not control such sites and we are not responsible for the information practices of these sites. This Agreement does not address the information practices of those other websites, and we encourage you to read the posted privacy policies of such sites.

Legally Compelled Disclosures

We may disclose user information when compelled to do so by government authorities or otherwise as required or permitted by law, such as to respond to court order and subpoenas. We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interfering with our rights or property, other customers or users of the website, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

Data Rights

We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us any time by using the Contact option available on our website. 

You can opt out from receiving marketing communications that we may send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.

We do not currently collect data about the user, only their usage, within the app, however we reserve the rights to collect user data through the app in the future, at which point the user will be able to review and update their information in the settings menu on the app. Additionally, since the app does not track, it does not prompt users with “Do Not “Track” requests.

The app does not currently use cookies, however we reserve the rights to implement them in the future, at which point this document will be amended.

Other Technologies

Use of other Technologies: We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf. These entities may use other methods, such as the technologies described below, to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services.

PIxel Tags: Pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels), are small pieces of code that can be embedded on websites and emails. Pixels tags may be used to learn how you interact with our site pages and emails, and this information helps us and our partners provide you with a more tailored experience.

Device Identifiers: A device identifier is a unique label that can be used to identify a mobile device. Device identifiers may be used to track, analyze and improve the performance of the Platform.

Local Storage: Local storage is an industry-standard technology that enables the storage and retrieval of data on a computer, mobile phone or other device. Local storage may be used to store member preferences on devices.

Revisions to this Policy: We may add or modify our Cookie Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. If we make any material change to our Cookie Policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email, or displaying a prominent notice on our Platform. By continuing to use the Platform after the changes have gone into effect, you agree to the revised Cookie Policy.

Business Transfer

In the event that Cultural Resources or all or a portion of its business, or one or more of its divisions, is acquired by one or more third parties as a result of acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.


Prohibited Uses

You agree that you will not:

  • Post copyrighted material to our apps without written permission from the copyright holder.

  • Impersonate any person, including a Cultural Resources employee or agent when using our apps.

  • Violate any local, state, or national law through our apps

  • Harass people through or on this site

  • Collect or store data about other people using our apps

  • Use any device, software routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our apps

  • Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of our apps.

  • Use our apps in any manner other than as expressly authorized in this Agreement

  • Use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content in our apps.

  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell or resell any portion of our apps’ code or content.


Scope of License

In exchange for acceptance of this Agreement, you are authorized to use the Site, but only for personal and noncommercial purposes unless such purposes are expressly granted in an agreement beyond this Agreement with our apps.

The apps contain material that is protected by copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights and the Website itself is protected as a collective work under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. You may not download, modify, publish, transmit, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit, any component of the apps.

You may link to the homepage of the Website as long as the link does not cast us in a false or misleading light. Please let us know if you link to the Website by contacting us at info@worldcultures.com.

You may not frame the content of the Informational Site. You may not use the metatags or any other “hidden text” that incorporates the Cultural Resources Trademarks or our name without our express written consent.


Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold Cultural Resources, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and agent, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of this Website, your violation of this Agreement, or your violation of any rights of a third party.

Modifications to Service

Cultural Resources reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service or any part of it with or without notice. Cultural Resources will not be liable to you or to any third party for modification, suspension or discontinuance of the apps.


TRIAL VERSION

If the Application was provided to You for trial use for a limited period of time, you agree that after the trial period ends, you will either not have access to the app or purchase a subscription. 

 

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Although our Application is free to download, our Application offers subscriptions (hereinafter referred to as “Subscription”), which enable You to access all features of the Application. By signing up for a Subscription, You agree that your subscription will be automatically renewed and, unless You cancel your subscription, You authorize us to charge your account for the renewal term. The period of auto-renewal and the price of subscription will be the same as your initial subscription period and price, unless otherwise disclosed to You at the time of sale. You can manage your subscriptions in your app store account settings. You should be aware that deleting the Application from your device does not always result in the cancellation of your subscription. 

Subscriptions are subject to the payment terms and conditions of the third party payment processor (e.g. Stripe) or mobile platform (e.g. iOS Platform) from which You make your purchase. Cultural Resources does not control or manage the payment process. Please review the relevant terms and conditions of the applicable platform provider before signing up for any Subscriptions.

ALL PURCHASES ARE FINAL. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CULTURAL RESOURCES IS NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REFUND FOR ANY REASON, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MONEY OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR UNUSED SUBSCRIPTIONS WHEN AN ACCOUNT IS CLOSED, WHETHER SUCH CLOSURE WAS VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.


TERM AND TERMINATION

This Agreement is effective from the date You install or otherwise use the Application until terminated. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by unsubscribing from the app through the iOS App Store.

If you'd like to place your subscription on hold and stop any further payments, you can do so right within your Apple account.

To cancel your Culture app subscription purchased via Apple iTunes:

  1. Access Settings in your device;

  2. Scroll down and tap iTunes and App Store;

  3. Tap your Apple ID then tap View Apple ID and enter your password;

  4. Now, tap Subscriptions and select Culture;

  5. Tap Cancel Subscription to confirm your cancellation.

Uninstalling the Application does not result in refund of the amount paid for the Application/Subscription. Cultural Resources reserves the right to terminate this Agreement in its sole discretion, or request that You remove the Application from your device for any reason, including but not limited to Cultural Resources reasonable conclusion that You have breached the terms of this Agreement. Promptly upon termination, You must cease all use of the Application and destroy any and all copies of the Application in your possession or control.

Termination will not limit any of Cultural Resources’s other rights or remedies in law or equity. If any of the platforms disable the ability to use the Application on your device pursuant to your agreement with such platform, any associated license rights with Cultural Resources shall terminate as well.


RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

Except as expressly licensed to You in this Agreement, Cultural Resources reserves all right, title and interest in the Application. This license is limited to the intellectual property rights of Cultural Resources and does not include any rights to other intellectual property or patents.

Cultural Resources retains all rights, titles, and interests in and to its intellectual property rights, whether registered or not, and all Applications thereof, except of the copyright of the third-party technology. Cultural Resources software is protected by applicable laws and treaties throughout the world.


Security

Our Commitment

We employ technical and organizational measures designed to appropriately protect your information that is under our control and that we process on your behalf from unauthorized access collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal, both during transmission and once we receive it. We store all information that you provide to us on secure servers. We train employees regarding our data privacy policies and procedures, and permit authorized employees to access information on a need to know basis, as required for their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and test for network vulnerabilities. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

We may make content or services from other Websites available to you from links located in the apps. These other Websites are not subject to this Agreement. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy at each such Website to determine how that site protects your privacy.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your email address, we may notify you by email. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use another method to notify you in this situation, please email us.

Your Commitment

In exchange for your access to the Website and Application you agree not to take any steps that are intended to or could damage, inhibit or prevent operation of the Website or that could cause injury to yourself, to us, or to anyone else.

Without limitation, you agree not to attempt to:

  • Modify the app or website or make it possible for you or someone else to access the apps without using an interface that we provide (including through the use of spiders or robots, except to facilitate the creation of public search engines that catalog publicly accessible portions of the apps);

  • Introduce viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

  • Damage, disable, overburden, impair or gain unauthorized access to the apps of our servers, computer network, or user accounts.

  • Collect information about other users for the purpose of sending, or to facilitate or encourage the sending of, unsolicited bulk or other communications, or for any other purpose not explicitly authorized by us;

  • Use our servers, networks, or after facilities for any purpose not explicitly authorized by us, including for the transmissions of messages not authorized by us, or to interfere with or cause damage to the apps or website or any other service operated by us or any other party in any way.

  • Take any other action that we, in our exclusive discretion, believe may damage or injure you, us, or any third party.

Where you have a password, which enables you to use our services, you are responsible for keeping this password complex, secure, and confidential. If you would like to update or change your password, you may select the “Forgot your password?” link on the login page. You will be sent an email that allows you to reset your password.

 

Right to Opt In

You have the right to “opt-in and “opt-out” of certain of our uses of your Personal Information. For example, on the website, you may be able to elect to or not to receive correspondence from us, and you may be able to click an “unsubscribe” link in the footer of every email. You can also email us using the Contact link in our product. In this email, please say if you would like to opt-out of receiving all email promotional correspondence from Cultural Resources in general. You may also opt-out of Cultural Resources’s promotional emails by clicking on an opt-out link within the email you receive.