Privacy Policy

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We may collect and process the following data:

1. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Us and when you report a problem with our site. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• This information is collected with your consent, and because our legitimate interest in being able to provide services to you, or to communicate with you over any issue you have.

2. VISITS TO OUR SITE, IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

3. TREND INFORMATION

• Information that we collect, and then publish on our website, from public sources, such as social networks and online services, designed to show currently trending brands, celebrities and topics. We do not collect or publish any private user related information from any such services. All of the information we collect and publish has already been made public and we do not collect any sensitive data (race, religion, sexual orientation etc).
• We collect this trend information in order to provide this website to you. This website is intended to help you understand what themes are currently trending online. We do not use this trend data for marketing or advertising. Our basis for collecting and publishing this data (within the European Union) includes article 89 of the GDPR which covers archiving purposes in the public interest. Providing public access to useful trend information also constitutes a “legitimate interest”.

TREND INFORMATION: Use of YouTube API Services

PopRanker uses YouTube API Services to retrieve publicly available YouTube channel and video information for analytics and reporting features within the PopRanker website. For questions around this, you can contact us using our contact page.

The YouTube API Data that PopRanker may access, collect, store and display includes publicly available information such as:

PopRanker does not ask users to sign in with a Google or YouTube account. PopRanker does not request Google or YouTube OAuth permissions from users. PopRanker does not access private YouTube account data, YouTube Analytics API data, YouTube Reporting API data, private playlists, private videos, private subscriptions or other authorised YouTube account data.

PopRanker does not allow users to upload, modify, delete, like, comment on, subscribe to, manage playlists, or otherwise act on YouTube content through the app.

PopRanker uses YouTube API Data to show sorted, filtered and searchable lists of publicly available YouTube channels and videos, including headline metrics such as subscribers, views and likes where available.

PopRanker may cache or store limited YouTube API Data to operate the website efficiently, improve performance, and provide analytics and reporting features. Stored YouTube API Data is refreshed or deleted in accordance with the YouTube API Services Developer Policies. Public YouTube API Data retrieved without user authorisation is not stored for more than 30 calendar days unless it has been refreshed within that period or unless a shorter period is required.

PopRanker does not sell YouTube API Data, does not provide an API that redistributes YouTube API Data, and does not share YouTube API Data with third parties except service providers needed to host, secure, maintain and operate the website.

PopRanker uses YouTube API Services and is subject to the Google Privacy Policy.

For questions or complaints about PopRanker's privacy practices, YouTube API data use, or data deletion/exclusion requests, please contact the PopRanker developer using our privacy and YouTube API data contact form. Alternatively, you may contact us by email using info [at] popranker {dot} com.

Deleting or excluding data from PopRanker does not delete or alter data held by YouTube. To delete or change data on YouTube, you must use YouTube's own services or settings.



WHERE DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us or our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

• In addition, we share our traffic data with Google Analytics to help us better monitor our website usage and to improve our service to you.
• We do not transfer your data in bulk outside of the EU. However, our website is available globally and users outside of the EU may access it.

ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION

All of the trend data we hold is published on our website, which you can view.
We do not hold other personally identifiable data beyond the data explained above under (1) and (2). Such data can be requested from us, although we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee, depending on the work that may be required to obtain it.

DELETING YOUR INFORMATION

We showcase public trending brands, celebrities and topics on our website. We do not track private information. If you are a brand or celebrity and wish to hide information, we recommend changing privacy settings across your social and other accounts - we will not show or track any information when it has been made private.
You may also contact us to request deletion of personal data at this link.

CONTACTING US

You may contact us at this link.