SideStage Privacy Policy
Last Updated and Effective: May 2024
In order to provide a marketplace platform for SideStage™ live-stream video calls and other products and services through our website (SideStage.com), mobile application, and through the services we provide (collectively, the website, application, and services referred to as our “Site”), and continue to make them better, the SideStage marketplace platform offered by saambaa LLC (“we”, “SideStage”) collects information from you. If you’re a resident of California or Nevada, you should read this policy and the applicable sections below for residents of California and Nevada.
This Privacy Policy explains how SideStage collects, stores, uses, transfers, and discloses your information.
From time to time, SideStage may revise this Privacy Policy. We will give you notice by posting the revised Privacy Policy on our Site and updating the “Last Updated and Effective” date at the top of this Privacy Policy; we may also notify you in other ways, such as through the contact information you have provided. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately on posting the updated Privacy Policy unless otherwise stated or as required by applicable law (for example, notice and opt-in or opt-out consent may be required). By continuing to use our Site, you agree to the revised Privacy Policy to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
Please also review the applicable Terms of Service, which also apply to use of our Site.
You should read the policy in full, but here are a few key things:
Table of Contents
1. Scope of SideStage Privacy Policy
> This Privacy Policy applies to all aspects of our Site as well as to information we may collect offline.
This Site may link to or incorporate websites or content hosted and served by others over which we have no control, such as third party websites, online properties, platforms, social media, or systems, which are each governed by the privacy policy and business practices of the third party. You understand and agree that SideStage is not responsible for the security, privacy, or business practices of any third party.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information from you directly, automatically when you visit the Site, and sometimes from third parties. Some of this information may be considered “personal information” under various applicable laws. We consider information that identifies you as a specific, identified individual to be personal information (such as your name, phone number, e-mail address), and we treat additional information, including IP addresses and cookie identifiers, as “personal information” where required by applicable law. And, if we combine information that we consider to be non-personal with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information under this Privacy Policy. Note that we may de-identify personal information so that it is non-personal, such as by aggregating it or converting it to a code, sometimes using a function known as a “hash.” We will treat de-identified information as non-personal to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
(a) Information You Provide
SideStage may collect personal information from you when you:
(b) Information from Third Parties
We may also obtain information, such as contact details (for example, name and email address), country, IP address, purchase histories, marketing preferences, cookie information, hardware and software information and other technical information about you from third parties, such as analytics companies, Social Media Platforms, and other third party business partners, such as a SideStage Partner. For example, if you discuss becoming a Talent User through a SideStage Partner, we will collect your name, email address, phone number, and the social media usernames you provide relating to that relationship from the SideStage Partner.
We and our third party business partners may collect information about your visits to and activity on our Site and other websites and services. We may combine that information with other personal information we have collected from or about you. We may share certain of this information with third party business partners for similar purposes.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
(a) Cookies and Tracking
When you visit our Site, we and third-party advertising and analytics companies and other third party business partners may use a variety of tracking and other technologies that automatically or passively collect certain information whenever you visit the Site or otherwise interact with us or our content (“Usage Information”).
We use these technologies for a number of reasons, including to save your preferences for future visits to our Site, keep you logged in between visits, and to provide you with improved services. The information we collect may include (but is not limited to):
The methods that may be used to collect Usage Information include the following:
(b) “Do Not Track” Signals
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, SideStage does not currently alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. For information about “do not track” from The Future of Privacy Forum, click here.
4. How We Use Information
We may combine information that we have received from you with information from other sources to operate, tailor content, personalize, adjust, and improve our Site. We use your information:
5. How We Share Information
We share non-personal information, such as aggregated statistics and de-identified information, with third parties to the extent permitted by applicable law. SideStage also shares personal information as provided below in more detail. We do not share personal information with any third party to use for its own marketing or promotional purposes without your consent.
(a) Our Affiliates
We share information with our affiliates, as relevant, who use it for the same purposes for which we use it. More information about SideStage affiliates can be found here.
(b) Third Parties Providing Services on our Behalf
We use third parties to perform certain services on our behalf, such as hosting the Site or Site features, providing website usage analytics, fulfilling orders, processing payments, sending email or other communications, providing marketing assistance and data analysis or enhancement, running promotions, or performing other administrative services. We may share information about you with these third parties to allow them to execute, deliver, or improve the services that they provide for you and for SideStage.
(c) SideStage Partners
We may disclose your information to the SideStage Partner who introduced you to us in connection with the services that the SideStage Partner is providing and for the SideStage Partner’s business purposes (for example, record-keeping and tax reporting).
(d) Employment Applications
If you apply for a job with SideStage or any of our subsidiaries or affiliates, we or our service providers may ask you to provide self-identifying information (such as veteran status, gender, and ethnicity) in conjunction with laws and regulations enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other regulatory agencies. Providing such self-identifying information is voluntary, but if you do provide such information, we and our service providers may submit that information to the appropriate government or regulatory agencies to fulfill reporting requirements and use that information to defend against employment-related complaints.
(e) Sweepstakes, Contests, and Other Promotional Activities
If you participate in a Promotion, we may disclose your information to third parties or to the public in connection with conducting and administering the Promotion, for example, to select a winner, provide a prize, as required by applicable law (such as publishing a list of winners), or as permitted by the applicable terms and conditions or official rules.
(f) When You Request That We Share Your Information
We may share information when you request us to do so, for example, if you opt-in to receive a communication from a third party or if you engage with a Social Media Platform or other third party application or feature through which information about you is shared.
(g) Administrative Reasons, To Enforce and Protect Legal Rights
(h) Protecting Others
We will disclose your personal information to third parties when we believe the disclosure is necessary to protect rights, property, or safety of another. For example, we disclose personal information relating to a Site account if we in good faith believe that a Site account is being used in ways that are harmful to another or contrary to the applicable Terms of Service.
(i) Business Transfers
In evaluating or engaging in a sale of assets, merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other transaction, we reserve the right to disclose, transfer, or assign your personal information and communications. By providing your personal information, you agree that we may transfer such information to the acquiring entity without your further consent.
6. Children and Parents
Our Site is intended for a general audience and not for use by anyone younger than the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children younger than the age of 16 without the consent of a parent or legal guardian; if we learn that we have done so, we will promptly remove the information from our active databases. If you are a parent or legal guardian who believes that we have collected or used their child’s personal information, please contact us by sending an email to hello@sidestage.com.
7. Your Choices
(a) Marketing Preferences
To stop receiving promotional email communications from SideStage, click on the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of the promotional email. As noted above, we may send you email communications relating to your account or use of the Site even if you have unsubscribed.
(b) Third Party Advertising and Analytics Companies and Your Choices
SideStage works with network advertisers, ad agencies, and other advertising partners to serve SideStage ads online. We may use information we have learned about you to target ads to you and to allow third parties to target ads to you. We also use analytics providers to provide us with information regarding the use of the Site and the effectiveness of our advertisements. These third parties may set and access their own tracking technologies on your device (including cookies and web beacons), and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, including Usage Information. We and our third party advertising and analytics providers may collect personal information over time when you visit the Site or other online websites and services.
We may share non-personal information, including information that has been de-identified, aggregated user statistics, and Usage Information, directly or indirectly through third party business providers, with third party advertising companies, analytics providers, and other third parties, including for the purpose of serving you more relevant ads. We may retain third party providers to help us perform these tasks. For example, we may share personal information with third parties who combine and link information from SideStage with information from other sources. These third party providers may then make non-personal information available to third party advertisers, including information about your interests and preferences, to enable them to serve you more relevant ads.
Opting out through these mechanisms does not block all online advertising; you will continue to receive generic advertisements.
8. Accessing Personal Information and Retention Period
(a) Accessing Your Account
Please note that if you choose not to provide us with certain personal information, we may not always be able to provide you with the relevant SideStage product or service that you request. For example, without providing an email address, you will not be able to create a Site account.
(b) Retention Period
When you request that we delete your personal information, we will take commercially reasonable steps to remove it from our active databases but will keep original information consistent with our business practices to the extent permitted by applicable law (for example, for purposes of dispute resolution, enforcement of agreements, complying with legal requirements, recordkeeping, backup, and document retention).
9. Data Security
SideStage takes commercially reasonable security measures to protect the information submitted to us. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and you use our Site and transmit information to us at your own risk. If you have any questions about security on our Site, contact us by emailing us at hello@sidestage.com.
10. Notice to California Residents
(a) California Privacy Notice
This California Privacy Notice is effective as of January 1, 2020.
This notice supplements SideStage’s privacy policy and applies only to California residents. This California Privacy Notice sets forth disclosures and rights for California consumers regarding their personal information, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Terms used in this California Privacy Notice have the same meanings given in the CCPA and the regulations of the Attorney General implementing the CCPA, unless otherwise defined.
This notice provides information about the categories of information that we collect from California residents generally, the sources of the information, the purposes for which we use the information, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose the information for business purposes and to whom we sell Personal Information as defined by CCPA (and information on how to opt-out).
SideStage collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("Personal Information").
The following are the categories of Personal Information that we have collected from our users over the last 12 months (and examples of the types of information those include), the categories of sources from which that information was collected, the business or commercial purpose(s) for which the information was collected, the categories of third parties with whom we disclose the information for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom this type of personal information is sold.
We may also collect and/or use additional types of information after providing notice to you before collection and obtaining your consent (to the extent such notice and consent is required by the CCPA).
Category of Personal Information Collected |
Categories of Sources from which the Information was Collected |
Business or Commercial Purpose(s) for which Information is Collected |
Categories of Third Parties to whom this type of Personal Information is Disclosed for a Business Purpose |
Categories of Third Parties to Whom this Type of Personal Information is Sold |
Identifiers |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information as detailed in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section: |
We may disclose this type of information to as detailed in in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section and HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION Section: |
Third party advertising business partners may have access to this data, including to better serve you more relevant advertisements, and this may be considered a sale under CCPA under certain circumstances. |
Any categories of personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80 |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information as detailed in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section: |
We may disclose this type of information to as detailed in in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section and HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION Section: |
Third party advertising business partners may have access to this data, including to better serve you more relevant advertisements, and this may be considered a sale under CCPA under certain circumstances. |
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information as detailed in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section: |
We may disclose this type of information to as detailed in in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section and HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION Section: |
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Commercial information |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information as detailed in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section: |
We may disclose this type of information to as detailed in in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section and HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION Section: |
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Professional or employment-related information |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information as detailed in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section: |
We may disclose this type of information to as detailed in in
the HOW WE USE INFORMATION Section and HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION Section: |
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Internet or other electronic network activity information |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information for: |
We may disclose this type of information to: |
Third party advertising business partners may have access to this data, including to better serve you more relevant advertisements, and this may be considered a sale under CCPA under certain circumstances. |
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer |
We may collect this type of information from: |
We may use this type of information for: |
We may disclose this type of information to: |
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You have the right to request that we disclose to you what Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, and sell, including the right to request that we provide to you the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you in the prior 12 months (“Right to Know”) and you have the right to ask us to delete the Personal Information we collect about you (“Right to Delete”), subject to exceptions set forth in the CCPA. California residents also have the right to opt-out from the sale of their Personal Information. These rights are subject to some limitations, such as when we are retaining data to comply with our own legal obligations. You will not be required to create an account with us in order to submit a request. More information on each of these rights is below.
If you would like to authorize an agent to act on your behalf in submitting a request to know, request to delete, or request to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information, you may do so by following this link and submitting a signed Declaration of Authorized Agent us by email at hello@sidestage.com. Please keep in mind that if we do not receive adequate proof that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf, we may deny the request.
When you request access to the Personal Information we have collected or deletion of your Personal Information, we will typically provide the requested information within 45 days, and we will notify you within that time period if we need additional time to process your request. When you opt-out from the sale of your Personal Information, we will honor your request as soon as feasible, but no later than 15 days from the date we receive your request.
If you are a California resident and would like to request the categories and/or specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you in the prior 12 months, please contact us by email at hello@sidestage.com, providing your first and last name and stating the nature of your request. You may also call us toll-free at 1-800-232-9021
We will provide the requested information free of charge up to two times in a 12-month period, but please note that where we receive unfounded, excessive, or repetitive requests, we may elect to decline the request. Note also that we will not retain information we do not ordinarily retain in the course of our regular business practices.
Please note that we will take steps to verify your identity in order to fulfill your request.
In order to have us provide specific pieces of information, we will require a signed declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose Personal Information is the subject of the request.
If we are unable to verify that the individual submitting the request is the same individual about whom we have collected information (or someone authorized by that individual to act on their behalf), we will not be able to provide the requested information.
The CCPA also provides a right to request that we delete personal information we have collected about you and for us to direct service providers to do the same, with certain exceptions as set forth in the CCPA. Note that you may also delete certain Personal Information you have provided to us through your online account.
When processing a request to delete, we may erase some information and we may de-identify some information (when we de-identify information, we implement technical safeguards and business processes that prohibit re-identification, business processes to prevent inadvertent release of de-identified information, and will make no attempt to re-identify the information).
If you are a California resident and would like to request that we delete your information, please contact us by email at hello@sidestage.com and provide your first and last name and state the nature of your request. You may also call us toll-free at 1-800-232-9021
To ensure that we do not delete your personal information in response to a fraudulent request, once you submit the request, we will follow up to confirm that you want your information to be deleted. Please note that we will take steps to verify your identity in order to fulfill your request.
If we are unable to verify that the individual submitting the request is the same individual about whom we have collected information (or someone authorized by that individual to act on their behalf) we will not delete the information but we will process the request as a “Do Not Sell” request.
The CCPA also provides a right to California residents to request to opt-out of the sale of Personal Information. SideStage engages in online advertising practices that may potentially be considered “sales” under the CCPA.
If you are a California resident and would like to opt-out of the sale of Personal Information, please contact us by email at hello@sidestage.com and provide your first and last name and state the nature of your request. You may also call us toll-free at 1-800-232-9021
In addition, as we discuss in the Your Choices section, some of the companies we work with for analytics and advertising purposes are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. For information from NAI about opting out, click here. For information from DAA about opting out, click here, and for information about DAA’s AppChoices application, click here. You may opt-out from interest-based advertising on your mobile device through your mobile device settings.
SideStage does not knowingly sell Personal Information of minors younger than 16 years of age without affirmative authorization.
California consumers have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising CCPA rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
Contact for More Information
You can contact us for more information by email at hello@sidestage.com or writing to us at:
saambaa LLC
550 West B Street, 4th Flr
San Diego, CA 92101
(b) Other California Rights/YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents who provide us personal information have the right to request and obtain from us once each calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding year. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately preceding calendar year.
We do not share our customers’ personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your express consent. For inquiries regarding our disclosure policy, please send us an email at hello@sidestage.com, or write to us at: saambaa LLC, c/o SideStage Customer Service, 550 West B Street, 4th Flr, San Diego, CA 92101. You must include the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject field of the email or include it in your writing if you choose to write to us at the designated mailing address. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly or that do not have complete information.
(c) California Residents Younger than 18 Only
If you have created an account on our Site, you may request that we remove content or information that you have publicly posted by sending us an email at hello@sidestage.com that includes: your mailing address and a detailed description of the content or information. At our option, we may either remove your personal information (but not other content) or remove all the content and information, subject to legal requirements and exceptions.
11. Notice to Nevada Residents
SideStage does not currently sell your covered information as those terms are defined under applicable Nevada law. However, you may still submit an opt-out request and we will honor that request as required by Nevada law if SideStage were to ever engage in such a sale in the future. If you are a Nevada resident and would like to opt-out of future sales of your covered information, please submit your request by email to hello@sidestage.com. Your request must include your full name, username (if any),street address, city, state, zip code, and an email address so that we can contact if needed regarding this request. You may also be required to take reasonable steps as we determine from time to time in order to verify your identity and/or the authenticity of the request. SideStage will respond to your request within 60 days either confirming that your request has been processed or indicating that we need an additional 30 days to complete it.
12. Contact Us
Additional Questions
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us using the information below.
hello@sidestage.com
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