BEE ME Privacy Policy
Last updated on November 17, 2023.
The Bee Mee (“Bee Mee”, “us”, “our”, “we”) Privacy Policy is designed to help you better understand the information we collect and the different ways we may use or share it.
This policy applies to your use of the Bee Mee services. By “Bee Mee services,” we mean our website(s)s, platform, or other products or services that link to this policy. Additional terms and conditions may also apply to your relationship with Bee Mee, depending on how you choose to interact with us. Please read this entire policy to make sure you fully understand it. You should also be sure to carefully review other terms potentially applicable to your visit and your use of the Bee Mee services (including, but not limited to Ready Player Me) and confirm that you understand and agree to them, before using the Bee Mee services.
Bee Mee, our affiliates and owners operate and support the Bee Mee services from different locations around the world. Please see “How to Contact Us” below to learn more about sending us any privacy-related questions or concerns you may have.
Information We Collect
We generally collect information in three ways: (1) you voluntarily provide information to us, such as by creating an account, making purchases, or signing up for email alerts, (2) we collect information automatically from your use of the Bee Mee services, such as through cookies and software or our contests and events, and (3) other parties, such as social networks, may provide information to us. Each of these methods is described in more detail below.
(1) Information You Provide
You may provide your personal information to us when you choose to use the Bee Mee services. Because we change our offerings and features from time to time, the options you have to provide us with information may also change. Some of the most common examples of situations in which you may provide information to us include:
• Account creation
• Using the Bee Mee services’ social features (see “When You Use Social Features of the Bee Mee Services”);
• Purchasing something from us or otherwise engaging in a transaction with us;
• Entering online competitions or registering for or participating in special events;
• Entering contests or sweepstakes, participating in any of our promotions, or accepting any prizes from us;
• Signing up for email alerts or subscribing to receive other information from us;
• Completing a survey; and
• Contacting us for any reason, such as by email, including for technical support or customer service.
The specific types of information you may be able to provide us will often vary depending on the Bee Mee services you are using and how you interact with them.
To Create a Basic account allowing you to like and comment on videos Bee Mee utilizes a variety of SSO services such as Google or Facebook logins. The information collected is limited to name and email address and age. To become a performer on Bee Mee, you may be required to obtain a Meta Park Pass™. The Meta Park Pass™ will act as your passport allowing you access to certain functionalities of Bee Mee and the Bee Mee Site, Software and Services. The Meta Park Pass™ is a third-party Proof of Humanity verification provided by Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. If you do not have a Meta Park Pass™, you will be provided with the information required to obtain one through the Liquid Avatar Mobile App. Access to services provided by Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. is restricted in certain jurisdictions and if you reside in those jurisdictions, you will not be able to obtain a Meta Park Pass™, and as such, will not be permitted to access Bee Mee. The jurisdictions Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. restricts from includes, but is not limited to, the restricted jurisdictions listed in the Terms of Service. You acknowledge that Meta Park Pass™ is not provided by Bee Mee, but is provided through the Liquid Avatar Mobile app, directly, which is a third-party service. You must agree to the Liquid Avatar Mobile App policies, including a separate privacy policy, in order to qualify for the Meta Park Pass™ and the Bee Mee Parties are not responsible for any communication or actions you undertake with Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. or any other third party.
If you’d like to make a purchase, we may ask you to provide billing information (like your credit card/payment card or other form of payment details to enable the transaction. Sometimes we ask for other information like your phone number, email address, postal address, and billing address. We’ll also collect information when you choose to share it with us directly in any other way, including by sending it as part of a communication with Bee Mee (like through Support requests) or other users of the Bee Mee services (like through in-platform chat or forum posts).
(2) Information We Collect Automatically
We collect some information automatically when you visit Bee Mee or access the Bee Mee services. We typically aggregate this data and use it in statistical form to determine trends among groups of users, rather than using it to identify individuals. If a combination of information that we collect does identify you as an individual, we will treat the combined information as personal information.
We collect information through technologies such as web browsers, cookies, log files, web beacons, and our back-end servers collect usage data transmitted from the Bee Mee services. We use the information for purposes such as modifying or improving features, managing marketing and advertising initiatives, addressing technical issues, preventing fraud or misuse of our services, and conducting data analytics. The type of information that we automatically collect may vary, but generally includes:
• Technical information about your computer, the device, hardware, or software you use to access the Internet or our services, which may include, but is not limited to information such as IP address or other transactional/identifier information (such as device make and model, information about device operating systems and browsers, or other device or system related specifications);
• Usage information and statistics about your interaction with the Bee Mee services, which may include the URLs of our websites that you have visited, URLs of referring and exiting pages, page views, time spent on a page, number of clicks or taps, platform type, the application you used or the game you played, how long you used or played it and when, and other usage statistics;
• Crash reports, which may be automatically generated when a game or application crashes and includes information about your system and the crash;
• Information that facilitates a safer and more personalized experience, such as your display name or other user identification provided in connection with your use of the Bee Mee Services, saved preferences, and device identifiers or usage information for authentication and fraud prevention purposes; and
• The location of your device, such as may be derived from your device’s IP address. Please note that if certain features on the Bee Mee services are provided by third parties, those third parties may also use automated means of data collection and may record information about your use of the Bee Mee services or others’ websites over time. These features are subject to those third parties’ privacy notices and policies.
Fraud Prevention & Anti-Cheat:
Providing users with a fair, balanced, and competitive experience on Bee Mee is extremely important to us. We strictly enforce prohibitions against cheating, hacking, account stealing, and any other unauthorized or fraudulent activity on the Bee Mee services. When you use the Bee Mee Services, buy our products or other services, perform, or otherwise interact with Bee Mee on or through the Bee Mee services, we may use a variety of anti-cheat and fraud prevention technologies to help us identify and prevent malicious activity. These services may collect and analyze data about the game binary or your computer to detect cheating and may be provided directly by Bee Mee or by third parties.
Information collected During Purchases
If you choose to make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your email address, name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card information) and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.” Credit card numbers are not stored on the Site.
Public Posts
If you choose to post comments or dialogue in any way through the Bee Mee services, including public or private chat, forums, group walls, personal posts and any other dialogue of this nature, we may collect, monitor, filter and moderate to confirm that the that all users must agree to follow, are not violated. This information may also be collected for training purposes.
Marketing
You may be asked by Bee Mee if you would like to receive marketing information on our various products and services, such as offers that may be attractive to you. Such marketing messages, should you choose to opt-in, may be delivered to you via email, SMS, digital messaging, or text message through internal and external messaging services. You may change your mind about receiving these offers at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of each email or by changing your preferences to withdraw your consent to receive these personal messages. Users of the Bee Mee services may be informed of offers available to them within the Bee Mee services. Notifications of such offerings during the use of the Bee Mee services are not subject to change via preference settings or by unsubscribing.
(3) Information We Receive from Others
In some cases, other parties provide us with information about you, or allow us to collect information about you. We generally collect information from other parties in four ways: (1) you interact with Bee Mee using a service that is not controlled by us, such as a social network, (2) you choose to use any available social feature of the Bee Mee services, (3) you access Bee Mee services through another party, such as a mobile device operator, or (4) you link a third party account. In some cases, we are not able to control the amount or type of information that other parties, like social networks, make available to us. In those cases, we use only the data that we need to provide the types of services our users want and expect. Although we cannot control your privacy settings at those websites or how those other parties protect your privacy, once we receive information about you through those websites, we will treat it in accordance with this policy.
When You Interact with Bee Mee on Third Party Services
When you interact with Bee Mee on a website or app not controlled by Bee Mee, that website or app may allow Bee Mee access to certain information about you. For example, social networks may provide us with information from your profile on their services or other information that you agreed the social network or other party could provide to us.
When You Use Social Features of the Bee Mee Services
When you choose to use any social features provided through the Bee Mee services, you allow Bee Mee to receive information about you from third parties (like social networks). Our social features promote and facilitate interaction among users. You may be able to use these features to find out if your friends are actively using the Bee Mee Services and using any of the features, to find out if they used the features in the past, and to invite them to join with you.
If you choose to use any of our social features, you may be asked to log into a social network through the Bee Mee Services. The social network may then provide Bee Mee with information such as your social network user ID. icons & profile pictures (where applicable),, and the user IDs and of your connections, but as previously stated, Bee Mee is not able to control what information social networks choose to provide to us.
When You Link a Third Party Account to Your Bee Mee Account
If you choose to link a third party account, such as a social media account, to your Bee Mee account, the third party will provide Bee Mee with information about that account. Because those organizations determine what information they will collect from you, it may vary according to their services, but is likely to include details such as your third party account display name and user ID, as well as associated device information, name, and email address.
(4) How We Use and Share Information
As a general matter, we use and share the information we collect (either individually or in combination with other information collected as described in this policy) to help us provide, improve, customize, analyze, and market the Bee Mee services where we have an appropriate basis and right to do so. Bee Mee’s use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
(a) Use
We rely on several different legal bases to process personal information for the purposes disclosed in this policy. These often depend on the exact nature of your relationship with Bee Mee, but common examples include:
Performance of a contract, including:
• To verify that you are a real person and not a bot or machine created algorithm;
• To verify your age in order to ensure minors do not access inappropriate content;
• To allow you to manage your user account;
• To operate, maintain and improve the Bee Mee Services;
• To give you access to the Services or restrict your access when required;
• To provide technical support;
• To communicate with you, respond to your requests, or provide you with updates and information;
• To better understand our users and their preferences;
• To personalize your experience, save your preferences, authenticate our users, and provide similar user-experience features;
• To detect security incidents, malicious, fraudulent or illegal activity;
• To develop, deliver, and improve our products, services, and other offerings, some of which may be offered in partnership with other parties;
• To communicate with you about the services, including changes to features, notification of updates or maintenance activities;
• To manage and customize advertisements or promotional offers;
• For security purposes;
• For internal purposes such as auditing and data analysis;
• To provide services that are subject to terms you have accepted, such as enforcing our licenses, agreements, and policies, which may include reasonable monitoring to detect and prevent misuse or fraud, keep our systems fair for all users, and otherwise protect and defend the Bee Mee services;
• When you give consent, which you can withdraw at any time; and
• To comply with legal obligations.
We store personal information for as long as we reasonably need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. For example, when you access the Bee Mee Services, we will store the information automatically collected during your use of the Bee Mee Services for as long as needed to provide the Bee Mee services you requested, enforce any applicable terms that govern your use of the Bee Mee services, and maintain appropriate records to reflect our delivery of the Bee Mee services to you. We periodically review the personal information we retain to determine whether continued storage is proper.
(b) Sharing
Service Providers. We share personal information with service providers that we’ve engaged to help support the Bee Mee services by performing certain services on our behalf and under our instructions. For example, if you make a purchase on the Bee Mee services, we’ll generally share your billing information with a third-party payment processor to enable your transaction. Other common examples include partners that assist with cloud storage, email marketing of products and services offered by Bee Mee, Customer Support ticketing, and monitoring and securing the Bee Mee services. These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose personal information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.
Affiliates. We may share personal information we collect with agents, affiliates and owners to support the Bee Mee services worldwide. These Services include Agora Lab, Inc. and ReadyPlayer.Me. This section may be updated at any time in the event other affiliate systems begin to provide services.
Bee Mee Account Services, including customer service. If you sign into a third-party developer’s application using your Bee Mee account, you may choose to share details about your Bee Mee account. These third-party developers’ uses of this Bee Mee account information are governed by limitations in our agreements with them. Personal information that you choose to share with them, or which is not provided by Bee Mee is subject to the third-party developers’ privacy notices and policies, which may differ from Bee Mee’s practices as described in this policy. Please review third-party developers’ privacy policies carefully, and ensure you understand and are comfortable with how they handle your information, before using your Bee Mee account to access their products or services. Bee Mee will have no liability for the use or security of your personal information on or by any third parties.
Social Features. We may share, or provide you with opportunities to share, information about yourself with other users of the Bee Mee services as described in this policy. We also provide services that allow our users to communicate with Bee Mee and each other, in which case in-platform information may be shared. For example, we may share information such as your in-platform username and avatar.
Security Related Services and Legal Requirements. We may disclose information about you: (i) if we are required to do so by law, legal process, or a reasonable request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (ii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, or (iii) if necessary to protect the vital interests of another individual (such as to prevent death, bodily harm, or serious damage to property). We reserve the right to transfer information about our users in the event we sell or transfer all or substantially all our business or assets.
Change of Control: if Bee Mee Sells or otherwise transfers part of or the whole of Bee Mee or its assets to another organization (e.g. during the course of a transactions like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, sale of assets), then your information may be sold or transferred as part of the transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments Bee Mee has made in this Privacy Policy.
(5) Your Choices and Controls
We seek to provide you with meaningful choices about the personal information you share with Bee Mee, as well as the ways we may use or share that information. We’ll generally only ask you for personal information that is necessary to provide the Bee Mee services you request. You can choose not to give us personal information we request, but if you decide not to, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Bee Mee services and some features may not work as intended.
We may also seek your prior consent to process your information in certain ways. You aren’t required to provide consent if you do not want your personal information to be processed for the requested purposes and may withdraw your consent at any time. Any withdrawal of consent is only effective on a goingforward basis and will not impact processing we undertook while relying on your consent. We provide you with the ability to request access to, and correction or deletion of, your personal information. You can update your account information or request that we delete your Bee Mee account directly through the Bee Mee services at any time. If you would like to request access to personal information associated with your Bee Mee account, please see the “How to Contact Us” section below. Other examples of your choices include:
• You can browse our site without providing any personal information. We may collect some limited information automatically, as described above.
• You may opt out of receiving our outside marketing messages at any time by using the opt-out mechanism provided in the message.
• You can change your privacy settings on other parties’ websites, such as social networks, which will stop or limit our receipt of information from those other websites. You also may choose not to use any social features we make available. If you choose to use any such features, you should refrain from posting personal information that will be visible to others, such as including your email address in a forum or during a chat.
• You may change your browser settings or take other steps to block, manage, or delete cookies. Not all of our websites and online services currently respond to browser “do not track” signals, so you will need to use your browser settings to effectively manage cookies. In some cases, blocking or disabling cookies may cause our sites, and applications not to work as intended and some features may not be available.
• You can limit interest-based advertising by opting out at www.aboutads.info/choices/ or www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. If you are located in Europe, more information is available at www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
• If you are under the age of 18 and use our sites, apps, or other online services, you may request that we remove certain content that you have previously provided, such as deleting or editing comments you have posted. You also may ask us to assist you in removing or anonymizing content you have posted by contacting us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section of this policy. Please be aware that taking these steps may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted on our websites, online services or applications. We also may not be able to remove content you post if applicable law requires us to maintain the posting or if another party has re-posted the content to a website, app, or other online service that we do not own or control.
You may also exercise and amend your choices by sending an email to us as detailed in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
EEA and UK Residents. If you are an EEA or UK resident, you may have the right to access your information, the right to correct your information, the right to request deletion of your personal information, the right to request restricted processing of your personal information, the right to a portable copy of the personal information you have provided, and the right to object to processing of your personal information, such as for direct marketing. For more information about exercising these rights, send an email to the address specified in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
EEA and UK residents may contact Bee Mee’s data protection officer with any questions or concerns about our handling of personal information. EEA and UK residents also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority if they have concerns about Bee Mee’s handling of personal information.
California Residents. If you are a California resident and are not a job applicant, employee or employee of another company interacting with us in your job, you have the right to ask us what personal information we have collected and shared about you, the right to request deletion of your personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. For more information about exercising these rights, send an email to the address specified in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
Sales of Information. Bee Mee only uses the personal information we collect to help provide, support, and improve the Bee Mee services as described in this policy, and we do not sell this information to third parties.
(6) How We Protect Information
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information from accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use and other unlawful forms of processing.
We take commercially reasonable measure to help safeguard your personal information from loss, disclosure, alteration, misuse and unauthorized access, theft and destruction. This includes, when required or appropriate and feasible, obtaining written assurances from third parties that may access your data that they will protect the data with adequate safeguards.
When using the Bee Mee services, we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to the Bee Mee services. If we learn of an incident that may qualify as a breach under applicable law, we will notify you consistent with applicable laws.
(7) Storage of Your Personal Information
We use Google Web Services to store your information in order to provide it with the highest level of protection, however Google does not necessarily have servers inside every jurisdiction. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you provide your explicit permission to store your information on systems outside your jurisdiction when they are not available inside your jurisdiction and to transfer that data to your jurisdiction when systems become available to do so.
(8) Children’s Privacy
The Bee Mee services are intended to be appropriate for general audiences and are not directed to children. A child is considered to be under the age of 13 or under the age of online consent in the jurisdiction the child resides in. Bee Mee does not intentionally collect personal information from children without seeking any required parental approval in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations, such as the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
We will be provided with age-related information on our Users at the time of account creation, which includes date of birth and age verification in order to help us comply with laws like COPPA. In the event you are over the age 13 or you reside in a jurisdiction where the age of online consent is greater than 13 years of age, as per these Terms of Use,you are required to review all policies with your parent or guardian, and where necessary, you’re your parent or guardian accept the policies on your behalf before Bee Mee will allow you access to the Bee Mee Services.
(9) Location Based Services
If you request or agree to location-based services, which may be available to you (however would be restricted from Children) you must consent to the collection of real-time geolocation information. This information may be used to provide services such as tagging, check-in, location based advertising and other services that can only be provided when your location is known and will be collected in combination with other user identifiers associated with your device. You always have the ability to stop location-based data collection at any time by updating your preferences within the settings on your device.
(10) Transfers of Information
Bee Mee is a company with operations around the world. By using the Bee Mee services, you acknowledge and agree that although we try to keep your data in your local jurisdiction, it is not always possible. It is also not always possible to process your information within your jurisdiction and as such, may be processed outside your jurisdiction, including in other jurisdictions that may have different data protection frameworks than your region. To learn more about what regions we may utilize to process and store your data, see “How to Contact Us” below.
We’ve implemented and maintain a framework consistent with applicable law and this policy for transfers of information outside the country of collection. For example, when we transfer personal data collected in the European Union to locations outside the European Economic Area, we rely on transfer mechanisms adopted by the European Commission to help establish adequate safeguards, like Standard Contractual Clauses. We may also need to transfer your information to provide the Bee Mee services to you in accordance with our existing agreements with you, such as the Terms of Services.
(11) California Privacy Rights
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, provides you with specific rights regarding your Personal Information. For the purposes of this section, Personal Information does not include (i) information that is lawfully made available from federal, state or local government records; (ii) de-identified or aggregated data; or (iii)information excluded from the scope of the CCPA. For clarity, these rights are granted only to the extend that you are a California consumer. The rights in this section are not intended to grant you additional rights, but only your rights under the CCPA to the extent that we are considered a CCPA business with respect to the applicable Personal Information.
In order to provide the Bee Mee Services, we may process data that we receive from you. If you are a California resident, you may have certain CCPA rights pertaining to such information. Under the CCPA, when we act as a “service provider” (not as a “business” or “third party”) over such information, we only process your information through the Bee Mee Services as necessary to provide the Bee Mee Services to our users. If you wish to exercise any of your rights under CCPA regarding your information, please contact us.
Information We Collect, How we Collect It and How We Use It
California consumers may access, delete and control certain uses of their information as set for below.
In the past 12 months and ongoing through your use of the Bee Mee Services we have and will collect some or all of the categories of Personal Information described in the table below. The table below further describes the business or commercial purpose(s) for which the Personal Information was collected and will be collected and the entities to whom such information may have been disclosed.
Category | Examples | Purposes (Bee Mee may not use each data type in the "Examples" column for each purpose listed out) | Disclosed to |
---|---|---|---|
Identifiers | Name, alias, region, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers | To provide products and services; to enable commenting and communities; for internal reporting; to serve you content recommendations and targeted advertising performed on behalf of our clients; to enhance the information we may have on you; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise of privacy rights. | Service providers |
Customer records information | Name, address, telephone number, other similar information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | If you have opted in with Bee Mee: To communicate with you the information you have requested i.e.: for surveys, sweepstakes, and contests; marketing and promotions; for internal reporting; to serve you content recommendations and targeted advertising; for lead generation services performed on behalf of our clients; to enhance the information we may have on you; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise of privacy rights. | Service providers |
Commercial information | Records of products or services purchased, purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | To serve you content recommendations and targeted advertising. To conform to music licencing and financial regulations. | Service providers |
Geolocation data | Location tracking information by country on a macro level only | For internal reporting, to serve you content recommendations and targeted advertising; security and fraud prevention. | Affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners |
Inferences | Inferences at a macro level only drawn from any of the categories described above to create a profile about consumers reflecting preferences and characteristics. | For internal reporting, to improve services offering by region and activity. To improve relevancy of information and advertising displayed. | Affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners |