Last Updated: December 12, 2019
The table below is a part of Vimeo’s Privacy Policy. It describes the categories of personal information we receive when you use our services or visit our websites, our purposes for collecting that information, and the third parties we share it with. For more information on rights that California users have, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
| What it includes | Account information means information that forms part of your account profile. This includes your name or username, contact information (including email address and location), Vimeo account ID, and any personal characteristics you might choose to add to your profile (like your pronoun preferences). If you use Vimeo to seek employment opportunities, your account information may include (at your option), employment history and status. We may, in certain cases, enrich the information you've provided with data we receive from third parties. Some enriched data may include inferences about your use of other platforms. |
| Sources | We collect most account information directly from you. For example, to register, you must provide an email address and a screen name. We may provide other opportunities to directly provide personal information, such as in your user profile. We may receive certain account information, like your email address, from a third-party platform if you choose to authenticate your account using third-party log-ins. We may also receive enriched data from third-party platforms where we advertise and third-party analytics vendors. |
| Purposes | We use account information to:
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| Third-Party Disclosures | We share account information with select third parties for numerous business objectives:
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| What it includes | Payment information means payment card information, bank accounts, PayPal information, and other payment-related information. |
| Sources | You provide payment information to our authorized payment processing vendors when you make a purchase. We may obtain certain payment information from those vendors for certain limited purposes, such as investigating fraud. If you use one of our monetization products, you must provide a bank account or other financial account to receive monies, and you may need to provide us with your tax information, which could include your taxpayer identification number. |
| Purposes | We use payment information to fulfil orders, pay amounts owed to you, prevent fraud and other abuse, handle chargebacks and refunds, and provide support. |
| Third-Party Disclosures | Your payment information is collected directly by our payment processing vendors; we do not directly collect such information in the first instance. This information will be disclosed to other parties in the financial payments system solely for the purpose of processing your transactions and complying with PCI (payment card industry) and legal requirements. We may also disclose certain financial information to our auditors and advisors for planning, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, tax filings, and legal compliance. |
| What it includes | Automatically collected information means technical and activity information that is collected when you access our services. It includes the public IP address of the device you are using, geolocation that is derived from the IP address, information about your device and Internet service provider, information about your viewing activities and actions on our services, and information about the website you last visited or search query that you entered before being directed to our service. |
| Sources | We collect this information directly when you use our websites and apps. We also collect it through third parties who may include cookies, pixels, and similar technologies on our services. We may also receive this information from our authorized vendors and business partners. |
| Purposes | We use automatically collected information to: provide services to you, manage interactions on our services, fulfill orders, complete transactions, manage advertising spend, manage preferences, implement security measures, provide customer support, quality assurance, and debugging, prevent fraud and other abuse, and improve our services. |
| Third-Party Disclosures | We share automatically collected information with authorized vendors, including:
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