First Version Dated October 2020
Oda, Inc. (dba Oda) (together with our affiliates, “Oda”, “we”, “our” or “us”) has adopted this “Privacy Policy” to describe how we collect, use and share your personal information in connection with our website (the “Site”), our mobile application (the “App”), the Oda Speaker and any other Oda products, services or digital platforms that link to this Privacy Policy (together with the “Site” and “App”, the “Oda Service”), and in the context of certain offline activities described in this Privacy Policy.
We provide important information for California residents in Section 11.
Personal information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us when you use the Oda Service or otherwise includes:
Automatic Collection. We, our service providers and our third party partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity over time on the Oda Service and other online services, including:
Cookies and Similar Technologies. The following cookies and similar technologies may be used to facilitate automatic data collection:
Third Party Platforms. You may be able to access posting and sharing tools on the Oda Service that allow you to post information to a social media or third party platform. By using these tools, you acknowledge that some account information may be transmitted from the applicable platform account to us; our treatment of that information is covered by this Privacy Policy. Additionally, when you use one of these tools, the social media or third party platform may be collecting information about your online activity through its own tracking technologies, subject to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to read the privacy and other policies of any third party platform you use in connection with the Oda Service.
We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.
Service delivery. We may use your personal information to:
Research and development. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Oda Service and our business. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Oda Service and promote our business.
Marketing and advertising. We and our third party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:
Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:
We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
Affiliates. Our affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Payment partners. Third party companies that may offer financing options when you purchase Oda products and services. For example, if you apply for or otherwise take part in a financing offer through our financing partner, Affirm, you will be asked to provide personal information to Affirm, either directly or through the Oda Service. The use of that information by Affirm will be subject to Affirm’s terms, conditions and privacy policies.
Other users and the public. Other Oda users or the public, when you provide content to your public user profile or voluntarily disclose in a manner that other users or the public can view. In addition, your username will be displayed to other users through the Oda Service, and other users can contact you through the Oda Service. Content that you post publicly on, through or in connection with the Oda Service, including on third party services such as a social media platform, may also be public. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to them. Please be aware that any information you post publicly can be cached, copied, screen captured or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines) before you have a chance to edit or remove it.
Service providers. Other companies and individuals that provide services or perform tasks on our behalf to help us operate the Oda Service or our business, such as, for example, customer support, hosting, analytics, mobile application metrics, email delivery, marketing and database management services, music integration services, our extended warranty service providers and payment processor. These third parties may use your personal information only as authorized under our contracts with them.
Advertising Partners. Third party advertising companies and social media companies that may assist us and other parties with customer research, management of customer and prospective customer databases, promotional mailings or other targeted promotions. These partners may collect information about your activity on the Site and other online services to help us advertise our and other services, and/or use hashed customer lists that we share with them to deliver ads on their platforms to our customers and similar users on their platforms.
Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Law enforcement and others. Law enforcement, government authorities and privacy parties, when we believe in good faith it is necessary or appropriate for the compliance and operations purposes described above.
Business transferees. Relevant participants in business transactions (or potential transactions), such as corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, Oda or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In any of these cases user information, including personal information, could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired or accessed by a third party.
For other purposes. We may also share your personal information for other purposes described in this Privacy Policy or with your consent.
Opt-out of marketing communications. If you have provided us with your email address and you would like to stop receiving marketing emails about Oda from us, click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our email communications. It may take up to 72 hours to process your unsubscribe request. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may contact you for non-marketing reasons related to the Oda Service or your subscription, such as for password recovery purposes or service calls that you have requested.
Account information. If you have purchased a membership or otherwise signed up for an account, then you may access your Oda account at any time once logged on, and you may modify, update and change your account settings through your account on the Oda Service. When you update information, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. You can also delete your account by emailing us at [email protected]. Please note that we will need to verify that you have the authority to delete the account. Also, some information may remain in our records after your deletion of such information from your account, and public activity on your account prior to deletion may remain publicly accessible.
Cookies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Oda Service may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Advertising choices. Like many companies online, we use services provided by Google, Facebook and others that help deliver interest-based ads to you. Your choices for limiting collection and/or use of your personal information by these companies include:
Please note that we also may work with companies that offer their own opt-out mechanisms and may not participate in the opt-out mechanisms that we linked above. Note also that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt-out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Choosing not to share your personal information. If you do not provide information that we need to provide the Oda Service, we may not be able to provide you with the Oda Service or certain features. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Oda Service when we request it.
The Oda Service may contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. We do not control websites or other online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and online services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and online services you use.
We employ a number of technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
The Oda Service is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.
We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the effective date of this Privacy Policy and posting the modified Privacy Policy. We may also provide notification of changes via email if we have your email address, through the Oda Service or in another manner that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective when posted (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Oda Service after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our information handling practices, please contact us by email at [email protected] or postal mail at the below address:
Oda, Inc.
Attn: Legal
295 East 8th street, Basement
New York, NY 10009
This section applies only to California residents and is immediately effective at the time this Privacy Policy is posted. It describes how we collect, use and share Personal Information of California residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA.
Your California privacy rights. As a California resident, you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.
How to exercise your rights. You may exercise your California privacy rights described above as follows:
Personal information that we collect, use and share. We are required to explain the categories of Personal Information we collect by reference to the categories specified by the CCPA, as defined here , which are described in the list below. For each category, we list the type of data we collect and the source of that data as described in the section above entitled Personal Information We Collect. We have not sold your personal information in the preceding 12 months.