Privacy policy

Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement describes how Image Mela manages personal data and personal information, and respects your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors and users of our websites to regularly review our Privacy Policy.

Personal Information Collection

As a visitor to the website, you can engage in many activities without providing any Personal Information. However, when you register to use Image Mela website and order products or services as an Image Mela Buyer, we may collect the following Personal Information from you:

Contact information such as your name, phone and fax numbers, address and email address; and Billing information such as the number, expiration date, card type and billing address of your credit card;

Demographic information such as your job title, job description and company name and company type; and Profile data, including your username and password, details about your purchases and the content that you license from us. If you submit content to Image Mela for licensing, you may be asked to provide the following information:

Contact information such as your name, phone number, primary address, and email address.

Payment and contributor information including, but not limited to, payout method, payout email, desired display name.

How Your Personal Information Is Used?

Image Mela collects your information in order to provide services to you, comply with our legal obligations, and to improve our products and services. We do not sell, rent or share your personally identifiable information to or with third parties in any way other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Image Mela may use this information to:

Authenticate and provide access to the Image Mela websites, mobiles applications, and services.

Process your financial transactions.

Send you order / renewal confirmations.

Respond to customer service requests, questions and concerns.

Administer your account.

Send you requested product or service information.

Keep you informed about special offers and services of Image Mela and selected third parties.

Administer promotions and sweepstakes you enter and notify you of the results.

Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of our Terms of Service.

Meet our research and product/service development needs and to improve our website, services and offerings; and Customize your experience, including targeting our services, search results, and offerings to you. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, transparent images, and/or third-party sources to create a summary of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and/or your membership usage history, to information in the summary, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers, to improve the content of the website for you and/or to determine your preferences.

In certain situations, Image Mela may be required to comply with legal obligations to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Where required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on Image Mela), and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request. We may also disclose information about you in order to comply with our legal obligations if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.

Information Sharing with Service Providers / Agents

Image Mela uses one or more outside credit card processing companies to bill you for our goods and services. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Information Sharing with Service Providers / Agents

Data Retention and Data Portability

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active and your information is needed to provide you services, as necessary to validate or enforce the licenses to use content, or as required to fulfill our legal obligations. If you wish to delete your account you may request at info@imagemela.com. After deleting your account Image Mela will not use your personal information for any purpose.

Changes in Privacy Policy

Image Mela reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice by email or on the home page of the Website when we make material changes to this Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective.

Children

We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not enter information on this website or engage our services. If you believe a child of yours under the age of 18 has entered Personal Information, please contact info@imagemela.com to have the data removed and terminate the child's account.

Privacy Complaints

info@imagemela.com