Privacy Policy

To provide the best service to you, we may collect your personal information during your usage of our website. Data will be collected and used in accordance with the Privacy Policy. The collected data will be retained only for as long as the purpose for which it was shared remains valid.

Your privacy is very important to us, and we assure that care will be taken in all steps to uphold it. We recommend you read and comply with the Privacy Policy and by accessing the website and its services, we infer that you agree to its contents.

This Privacy Statement describes how PicsForest manage personal information and respect your privacy. This policy may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of our sites to regularly review our Privacy Policy.

PicsForest is made up of different legal entities. This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the PicsForest group of companies. We may refer to "PicsForest", as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice.

What data is collected?

The following information will be collected by us when you register to use the PicsForest site and order products or services as a PicsForest subscriber

    •    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

    •    job title, job description and company name and company type

    •    Profile data, including your username and password, details about your purchases and the Content that you license from us.

If you submit content to PicsForest for licensing, you may be asked to provide the following information:

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

    •    PicsForest may verify this information by asking you to either: a) upload a scan of a government issued ID (which will be stored securely on our servers);

    •    Payment and contributor information including, but not limited to, payout method, payout email, desired display name, content focus, camera equipment, and information about your skill level and creative process.

Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

PicsForest or third party agents contracted by PicsForest may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services.

As a visitor to the Site, you can browse or use the Site without providing any Personal Information

We do not encourage children below 18 years of age to submit their data and personal information into the Site.

Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences

You may get in touch with us to know about the Personal Information that you have submitted to us. Refer to details on contact us page.

Both contributors and users have the right to access and correct, or delete your Personal Information and privacy preferences at any time.

How Your Personal Information Is Used

PicsForest 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. PicsForest may use this information to:

    •    Authenticate and provide access to the PicsForest websites, mobiles applications, and services.

    •    Process your financial transactions.

    •    Send you order / renewal confirmations.

    •    Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users.

    •    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 PicsForest and selected third parties.

    •    Run promotions

    •    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 Site, services and offerings; and

    •    Customize your experience, including targeting our services, search results, and offerings to you.

In exceptional situations, PicsForest may be required to comply with legal obligations to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including meeting 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 PicsForest), 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.

Information Shared with Service Providers

Any credit card, billing information submitted by you will strictly be used only for the purpose of processing financial transaction. We may use Banks/Service Providers 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.

We also share Personal Information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the Personal Information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for PicsForest.

We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.

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.

Third Party Advertising

We may use third parties to assist us with analyzing data provided by you to help us with marketing or customer service assistance. For any other purpose what is prescribed above, we shall not share any of your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies and trackers to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

    •    Links to third party sites

Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of PicsForest. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.

    •    Social Media

Our Web sites may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

PicsForest will only use your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement and will not use your personal information for a purpose that is materially different without your express authorization.

Changes in Privacy Policy

PicsForest reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion.