Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 1st, 2022

This Privacy Policy constitutes an integral part of myQuiz Terms & Conditions and describes how WaveAccess USA (“we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes personal data about our customers and visitors of www.myquiz.org (“you” or “your”). Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, all capitalized terms shall have the meaning given to them in myQuiz Terms & Conditions.

We recognize the importance of privacy concerns especially in the digital environment. With this in mind, we have adopted this Privacy Policy. On www.myquiz.org (hereinafter – “Website”) we collect personal information in two forms. One form is information that we expressly request you to provide in order for us to provide you with the Service. The second form is anonymous information that we automatically collect from your computer, phone or other device.

When we refer to personal data (or personal information) we mean any information of any kind relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Please mind that according to CCPA personal information does not include de-identified or aggregated consumer information.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our privacy practices. By continuing to use www.myquiz.org (“myQuiz”) you accept and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use this Website.

If you are under 18, we suggest that you review this information with your parents or a legal guardian.

If you are a parent or legal guardian of a user under the age of 18, by allowing your child to use the Service, you enter into the Terms and accept this Privacy Policy on behalf of your child and are responsible for your child’s activity on the Service. If you allow your children to use the Service, we encourage you to educate yourself and your child on privacy concerns. We recommend, as a starting point, the following guide published by the federal government,
http://www.onguardonline.gov/articles/0031-kids-privacy.

We are committed to the principles outlined in the the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (hereinafter - “COPPA”) and other data privacy laws that have been established to protect the privacy of minors, and we will never knowingly solicit, nor will we accept, personally identifiable information from users known to be under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.

If we assume that you are under 13 years of age, we reserve the right not to allow you creating an Account and (or) to suspend your Account (if already created) and to promptly delete from our records all personal information obtained from your Account until receipt of a valid consent of your parent or guardian allowing you to use the Service under the Terms, including this Privacy Policy, and under the parental or legal guardian’s control.

IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT NOTICE

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) California residents shall have the right to request:

  • the categories of personal information that is processed;
  • the categories of sources from which personal information is obtained;
  • the purpose for processing of user personal data;
  • the categories of third parties with whom we may share your personal information;
  • the specific pieces of personal information that we might have obtained about a particular user provided that the data given in the request is reliable enough and allows us to identify the user.

Please navigate through this Privacy Policy to find more information on this.

What information we process. Sources of information

  • Registration and contact information: We do not receive your personal information from any third parties. We collect and process only information that you provide when you (a) register to use myQuiz; (b) become our customer (for example, by buying, downloading or otherwise using our products or services); (c) communicate with us via the Website (submit enquiries, questions, comments, feedback, or contact requests, etc.); (d) contact us by email or phone; (e) subscribe to our marketing communications. Specifically, this information may include:

    For quiz organizers who administer quizzes using our Website: full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information,

    For quiz players who are playing the quiz for its duration: nickname, full name, email address, as well as phone number and other information that either quiz organizers or players (collectively – “Users”) may provide at their discretion when contacting us via the Website, phone or any other means of communication.

    We do not collect any personal information from visitors of our Web-site. Visitors who do not create a Website Account can visit our Website anonymously.

Of note, we do not access or store your credit card sensitive authentication data, such as a cardholder’s CID (card identification number), CVV, PIN (personal identification number) or a card’s magnetic stripe data. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Non-sensitive information is kept safe and secure subject to PCI Security Standards for the purposes of processing your Service subscriptions only. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

  • Your content: Certain aspects of myQuiz user experience involve uploading posts and photos for use in the Social Media Wall experience or in other interactive experiences.
  • Technical and usage information: We may automatically collect information on how you interact with myQuiz. This may include registration referral, referrer URL, the date of registration, IP addresses, the time of last log in and visit, information from cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”), as well as other types of usage data (see definitions below).
  • Information from third parties: From time to time, we may receive personal data from other legitimate sources and third parties such as WaveAccess group of companies, data aggregators, marketing partners, public sources or social networks. We may also receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or other services we provide within the WaveAccess group of companies.

The mandatory information to be completed on myQuiz is marked in a special way – by *. Failure to provide mandatory information may make it impossible for us to offer you our products or services, or perform a respective action you are requesting. You are free to provide any non-mandatory information at your discretion.

Under no circumstances we collect or process special categories of personal data such as your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic or biometric data.

Purposes of processing of your information

We may process your information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, facilitate and support the services we provide to you;
  • To perform our obligations under the Terms: https://myquiz.org/terms-and-conditions;
  • To manage your registered user account;
  • To receive, respond to and follow up on your enquiries and requests about our products and services;
  • To provide you with information about our products and services, for example, to notify you about any changes;
  • To send you marketing communications which you have subscribed to or requested from us;
  • To perform direct sales and marketing activities, including retargeting/remarketing campaigns;
  • To analyze how users engage with myQuiz in order to make your experience of our website better and assist in our marketing efforts to improve our services;
  • To secure our systems and applications;
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contract concluded between you and us and the contracts we are about to enter into;
  • To enforce our legal rights and comply with the law.

We collect and processes personal data on the following legal basis:

  • Consent. The collection of personal data based on your consent will be done by ticking the relevant checkbox on a data collection form, or by using “Consent Forms”. Individual consents will be documented and stored in our systems. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at privacy@myquiz.org.
  • Contract. We may collect and process your personal data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (including for the purposes of providing you our Services), or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
  • Legitimate interest. We may collect and process personal data if it is considered to be of our legitimate interest (for example to develop our products and services and grow our business). When we are relying on legitimate interest as a basis for processing we will always ensure the privacy interests of the data subjects do not override this interest.
  • Special circumstances. We may collect, process and share your personal data for the purposes of:

    Law Enforcement and Safety. We may access, preserve and share your information when we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to: (i) respond to a legal request or otherwise to take action because we believe it is required or advisable under the law; (ii) detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; (iii) respond to your requests for customer service; or (iv) limit our legal liability or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ourselves, any User, a third party or the general public including as part of investigations.

    Business Transfer. If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of the Website or our assets to another entity, your personal information, and any other information collected through the Website may be among the items sold or transferred.

    Security Notice. If we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that circumstance. To the extent you have given us your email address, we may notify you by email. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.

Categories of third parties with whom we may share your personal information

Under no circumstances we sell, rent, or trade your information with any third parties.

We may share your information with following third parties only to the extend it is necessary to achieve the purposes outlined in the section “How we use your information”:

  • WaveAccess group of companies within to maintain and provide our services and products, and to maintain and improve myQuiz (a list of companies WaveAccess group is: WaveAccess, WaveAccess USA, WaveAccess Services); as well as the following groups of third-party service providers:
  • Business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of any agreement we enter into with you or we are about to enter into to provide the best service to you;
  • Analytics services and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website and services;
  • Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others (subject to relevant consent).

The list of such third-party service providers is as follows:

Entity name Services performed Entity location Link to Privacy Policy
Microsoft Cloud storage provider U.S.A. azure

We do not control or influence these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used.

We may share your information when it is required by mandatory legal obligations and to comply with any subpoena, court order, ongoing or prospective legal proceedings, or other governmental request. We may also share your information to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety (for example, for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

We require all third parties to respect the security of personal data and to treat it in accordance with the legal requirements and in accordance with our instructions.

Where we store your information

WaveAccess USA is a part of an international WaveAccess group of companies with offices in the USA, Denmark and the United Kingdom. In this regard, your information collected through the Web-site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which we or our service providers maintain facilities. We or our service providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer personal data to jurisdictions outside of your home country and outside of European Economic Area (EEA) as necessary for the purposes of processing. You are entitled to learn about the legal basis of data transfers to a country outside the EU and about the security measures we take to safeguard your information.

By accepting the Terms and this Privacy Policy you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. or to any other country in which we or our service providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy. For the purposes of data storage, we recourse to the services of the hosting organizations. We encrypt your personal data before sending it to the hosting organizations for the purposes of its storage. Please note that we cooperate only with those hosting organizations that have passed our security and reliability check.

How we protect your information

We are committed to protecting your information. We use reasonable measures (technical and organizational) designed to protect personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, copying, modification or destruction, and from unintentional loss, misuse and alteration. We use a variety of information security techniques, including access restrictions, secure servers, firewalls, antivirus programs, intrusion detection system, and system penetration testing.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a data breach where and within the period we are legally required to do so. We also require that third parties to whom personal data is transferred also provide such reasonable security measures.

How you can control your information

You have the following rights in relation to the processing of your information:

  • Right to request access. You may obtain confirmation as to whether or not we process your information, learn about the details of such processing and obtain a copy of the information that we process.
  • Right to request correction. You may verify the accuracy of your information and ask us to update or correct it. We may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Right to request erasure. You may ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with the law. However, we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  • Right to object to processing. At any time on grounds relating to your particular situation you have a right to object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party).
  • Right to withdraw consent. If you have previously provided us with your consent to collect and process your personal data, you can change your mind and withdraw such consent at any time. You may withdraw your consent by contacting us at privacy@myquiz.org. You may withdraw your consent from marketing communications by following the “Unsubscribe” link in any of those emails.
  • However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before withdrawal. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time of withdrawal.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at privacy@myquiz.org. We will process your request free of charge and as early as possible, but always within one month. Note that before acting on any such request, we will need to verify your identity and may ask you for additional information. We may not be able to honor your request if we won’t verify your identity. If you request us to delete or stop processing your personal data, in most cases there will be no way to continue providing you Services, therefore, you may be advised to cancel your Account and (or) stop using the Services.

If you suggest that in course of your child’s use of the Service your child may have provided us with certain personal information and would like to review the information we might have collected from your child (i.e., his or her username and password), or if you would like to ask us to make no further use of, or delete, the information that you suggest we might have collected from your child, please contact us at privacy@myquiz.org as described in the above paragraph.

How long we keep your information

We keep your information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes outlined in the section “How we use your information”. We may retain your information if required to do so by law or upon an order of a state authority.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to third-party websites that are not administered by WaveAccess USA and are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and security practices of the linked third-party websites before providing them any personal data.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting the updated version on myQuiz. When we post changes, we revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We strongly encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often to stay informed about our privacy practices.

If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use or share your information, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on myQuiz, and if required by applicable law we will request your consent for such changes.

Contact Information

If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, or you have any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at: privacy@myquiz.org

If you still have any questions after reading, please contact us:

WaveAccess USA, Inc.
Nevada, USA 10161 Park Run Drive, Suite 150
Las Vegas, Nevada 89145
Phone: +1 866 311 24 67
E-mail: hello@myquiz.org
www.wave-access.com