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Angel Studios Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2/07/2022

Welcome to Angel Studios! Angel Studios, Inc. (“Angel Studios” or “we”, “us” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, use, protect and disclose Personal Data in connection with your use of our websites including, without limitation, https://angel.com and any other website that includes a link to this Privacy Policy, along with the features, functionalities, applications, browser extensions and other services available through those websites (collectively, our “Websites”); your use of our mobile applications distributed on our Websites and the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, including, without limitation, Angel Studios, The Chosen, Dry Bar Comedy, and any other mobile application that includes a link to this Privacy Policy, along with all features, functionalities, applications, browser extensions and other services available through our mobile applications (collectively, our “Apps”); and personal information we obtain from any third party site connected to our Websites or our Apps or where we post content or invite your feedback or participation, including, without limitation, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn (collectively, “Third Party Sites” and, together with our Websites and Apps, our “Platform”). This Policy also applies to any personal information we collect or receive in connection with any other interactions we have with you outside of our Platform in connection with our business operations (our “Operations”).

PLEASE NOTE, THIS POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO THE COLLECTION, USE, PROTECTION, OR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA BY OUR AFFILIATE, VAS PORTAL, LLC (“ANGEL FUNDING”), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ANGEL FUNDING WEBSITE, LOCATED AT HTTPS://INVEST.ANGEL.COM, OR ANGEL FUNDING’S OPERATIONS. ANGEL FUNDING’S PRACTICES WITH RESPECT TO THE PERSONAL DATA IT COLLECTS ARE PROVIDED IN THE ANGEL FUNDING PRIVACY POLICY, AVAILABLE AT HTTPS://INVEST.ANGEL.COM/PRIVACY.

You can access and interact with our Platform in many ways, including from a computer or mobile device. This Policy applies regardless of how you access or interact with our Platform. Depending on how you interact with our Platform, there may be some cases where we need to provide you with additional information about how we collect, use, protect or disclose your Personal Data and/or what options you have regarding our collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data. We may provide this additional information through notices on our Platform or via direct communications with you. If we do this, unless we tell you otherwise, the additional information provided in those notices will apply in addition to what is described in this Policy.

Please read this Policy carefully. If you do not want us to collect, use or disclose your Personal Data in the ways described in this Policy, please do not use or otherwise interact with our Platform, provide us with your Personal Data or authorize any third party to make your Personal Data available to us. By using or interacting with our Platform, you acknowledge that you understand that we may use your Personal Data as described in this Policy. Please note, as described in this Policy, we may receive your Personal Data from third parties that have not expressly told you that they will provide your Personal Data to us. If you have any questions about how we collect, use, protect or disclose your Personal Data in connection with our Platform, please contact us by email at privacy@angel.com.

PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Our primary goals in collecting Personal Data are to provide and improve our Platform, conduct our Operations, communicate with people and enable visitors to our Platform to easily navigate and enjoy them.

When we refer to “Personal Data” in this Policy, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes or is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific person. This might be information that directly identifies someone, such as their name, or it may be information that identifies someone only when combined with other information available to us, such as a person’s activity on our Platform when associated with their username. Please note, except as provided under applicable laws, Personal Data does not include information that is publicly available through government records or information that has been deidentified or aggregated in a way that it cannot be used to identify a specific individual.

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

Depending on how you access, use or otherwise interact with our Platform, we, or third parties acting on our behalf, may collect the following categories of Personal Data about you:

Other Information We Collect

We, or third parties acting on our behalf, collect certain information about the device you use when you visit or otherwise interact with our Platform and through the use of cookies, pixels and other web technologies (collectively, “Usage Data”). Usage Data, by itself, generally does not identify the specific person using the device that generated it. This means that Usage Data usually will not be considered Personal Data and our use of such Usage Data is not subject to this Policy unless required pursuant to applicable law. However, if we link Usage Data directly with other Personal Data or other information that could identify you, we will treat the linked Usage Data as Personal Data and use the linked Usage Data as described in this Policy.

Depending on how you interact with our Platform, the Usage Data that we, or third parties acting on our behalf, may collect may include:

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

A large portion of the Personal Data we, or third parties acting on our behalf, collect is directly from you and other users who provide their Personal Data to us directly. In some cases, we may collect Personal Data from third parties in the ways described in this Policy.

Directly from You

When you access, use or otherwise interact with our Platform, or otherwise engage with us in connection with our Platform, such as requesting more information about us, communicating with us, accessing, using or otherwise interacting with our Platform, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Data. Some of the Personal Data we request with respect to certain features of our Platform may not be required; however, we will let you know if specific Personal Data is required to use those features. If you do not provide us with the Personal Data required to use a certain feature on our Platform, you will not be able to use that feature, especially those features where we are legally required to collect the Personal Data and those where it is impossible for the feature to operate without the required Personal Data (e.g., collecting your payment information in order to process an order you place in the Angel store).

From Third Parties

We, or third parties acting on our behalf, may collect Personal Data about you from third parties, including, without limitation, online and offline sources, entities affiliated with us, our service providers, social media platforms, advertising networks and other public or commercial sources (collectively, “Third Party Sources”). The collection of Personal Data from these Third Party Sources can occur in a variety of ways, including, without limitation:

Please note, we may combine the Personal Data and other content and information we receive about you from multiple sources, including, without limitation, Personal Data we collect directly from you and one or more Third Party Sources.

HOW WE COLLECT USAGE DATA

We, and third parties acting on our behalf, collect Usage Data in a variety of ways. Some Usage Data, such as the IP address of a device attempting to access, use or interact with our Platform, is necessary for us to make certain portions of our Platform available. Other Usage Data, such as information about which features of our Platform are popular, helps us improve and advertise our Platform. This section describes the primary ways Usage Data is collected in connection with our Platform.

Please note, we have not yet developed a response to browser “Do Not Track” signals and do not change any of our data collection practices when we receive such signals. We will continue to evaluate potential responses to “Do Not Track” signals in light of industry developments or legal changes.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

We use Personal Data for various purposes to operate and improve our Platform and to conduct our Operations. The primary purposes for which we use Personal Data are:

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we, or third parties acting on our behalf, collect in connection with our Platform for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Please note, we may use and disclose aggregated, anonymized or de-identified information collected in connection with our Platform and other information that does not identify any individual (“Anonymized Data”) for any lawful purposes, which may include, without limitation, purposes not described in this Policy. Except as otherwise required under applicable laws, our use and disclosure of such Anonymized Data is not subject to this Policy.

SHARING PERSONAL DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES

To operate our Platform and conduct Operations, we may share certain Personal Data that we, or third parties acting on our behalf, have collected, with certain third parties. The third parties that we may share Personal Data with include:

THIRD PARTY INFORMATION COLLECTION

Based on the nature of our Platform, third parties may collect information from or about you through or in connection with our Platform. In addition to other information provided in this Policy, including, without limitation, the section titled “How We Collect Usage Data” the categories of third parties that may collect information about you through or in connection with our Platform include:

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We offer you several choices with respect to how we use your Personal Data. The mechanisms available to you to control the Personal Data are:

To request deletion of your Personal Information, please submit a request to us by emailing us at privacy@angel.com. Only you, or a party that you authorized on your behalf, may make a request related to the deletion of your Personal Data. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child. Your request for deletion must:

We cannot respond to your request or delete your Personal Data if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you.

Making a request does not require you to create an account with us and we will only use Personal Data provided in connection with a request for deletion to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

We endeavor to respond to deletion requests within a reasonable time period after we receive a deletion request. If we are unable to fully comply with your request to delete your applicable Personal Data, our response will explain the reasons why we are unable to fully fulfill your request.

If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Data. We maintain commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain the security and privacy of Personal Data we collect and use in connection with our Platform. Nevertheless, when disclosing Personal Data, you should remain mindful that there is an inherent risk in the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms. Although we take precautions to protect against the risk of unauthorized access to your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information, including your Personal Data, that you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not direct or target any piece of our Platform to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected the Personal Data of anyone under the age of 13, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian of someone under the age of 13 and discover that your child has submitted Personal Data to us, please contact us at privacy@angel.com. We will make reasonable efforts to remove such information from our databases.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, under California’s Shine the Light Law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) you have the right to request the following information regarding our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes: (i) the categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year; (ii) the names and addresses of the third parties that received the information; and (iii) if the nature of the third party’s business cannot be determined from their name, examples of the products or services they marketed. This information may be provided in a standardized form that is not specific to you.

You are permitted to obtain this information from us once a year, free of charge. To make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:

Angel Studios

Attn: CA Privacy Rights Request
295 W Center St
Provo Utah 84601

EUROPEAN USER RIGHTS

If you are located in the EU, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data. Following is a summary of those rights and additional information applicable to our collection and use of your Personal Data.

Data Controller

When you provide us with your Personal Data in connection with our Platform, we serve as a data controller. When we act as a data controller we determine how your Personal Data will be utilized, in accordance with this Policy.

Legal Basis for Processing

We rely on several legal bases to process your Personal Data. These legal bases include where:

If you have any questions about or would like further information about the legal bases we rely on to collect and use your Personal Data, please contact us at privacy@angel.com.

Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulation

If you are located in the EU, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights in respect of your Personal Data that we hold:

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please email us at privacy@angel.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

Retention of Personal Data

We reserve the right to retain any Personal Data as long as it is needed to: (1) fulfill the purposes for which we collected the Personal Data; and (2) comply with applicable law.

Transfers of Personal Data

If you are located in the EU, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, the Personal Data we collect may be stored and processed in any country in which we or our affiliates, suppliers, third party electronic payment processors, and/or agents maintain facilities, including, without limitation, the United States of America. The United States of America has not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the EU, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom. We rely on appropriate safeguards and derogations for specific situations as set forth in applicable laws to protect Personal Data transferred from the EU, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom to third countries and international organizations.

Obligations to Data Protection Authorities (DPAs)

We will respond diligently and appropriately to requests from DPAs about this Policy or compliance with applicable data protection privacy laws and regulations. We will, upon request, provide DPAs with names and contact details of the individuals designated to handle this process. With regard to transfers of Personal Data, we will (1) cooperate with inquiries from the DPA responsible for the entity exporting the data and (2) cooperate with its decisions, consistent with applicable law and due process rights. With regard to transfers of data to third parties, we will comply with DPAs decisions relating to it and cooperate with al DPAs in accordance with applicable legislation.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Personal Data collected in connection with the use and operation of our Platform is stored and processed in the United States. If you access, use or otherwise interact with our Platform or otherwise engage with us from outside the United States, please be advised that your personal information may be initially collected by servers located in the United States or, if initially collected outside the United States, transferred to the United States. Please note, the United States has not been assessed as having adequate privacy laws by some countries and economic regions.

CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

Because the methods used to protect your Personal Data and the services we provide are continually evolving, this Policy may change at any time. Unless otherwise noted, those changes will be effective as soon as they are posted. If changes are made to this Policy, we will make it known on our Platform or by email and will indicate the last date it was updated above. Please check back periodically to see if our Policy has been updated.

Your continued use of our Platform after any changes to this Policy become effective, constitutes your continued acknowledgement that you understand that we may continue to use your Personal Data as described in this Policy.

CONTACT US

We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about privacy. Please email us at privacy@angel.com or contact us via the Contact Us page on the Angel Studios website with any questions or feedback you have pertaining to our privacy practices.