Grove Privacy Policy
DivX, LLC (“DivX”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the Personal Information (as defined below) we collect from users of Grove.
This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Service, governs your use of Grove. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given in our Terms of Service.
1. User Consent.
By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, either by clicking a box indicating your acceptance or by accepting other terms, such as the Terms of Service and the Beta Program Agreement, which refer to this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. The data we collect and use.
“Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you or your household, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address of your computer or Internet Service Provider (ISP), as well as any other nonpublic information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing information.
We collect and use Personal Information as described below:
Categories of Personal Information |
Specific Types of Personal Information Collected |
Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) |
When you register for an account with Grove or our support forums, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, and password. |
Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. |
When you register for an account, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, and password. |
Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies). |
When you participate in one of our surveys, we collect your survey responses. |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement). |
Our email newsletter uses single-pixel or transparent image HTML-based emails, which allows us to track how many people open the emails we send out. Our email newsletter also uses a Facebook Pixel, a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc., to help track website traffic. This information is only collected if you subscribe to our email newsletter. |
Geolocation data |
When you create and upload content to Grove, we collect location data to display your video in Grove. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information |
When you create and upload content to Grove, we store your videos in our servers. |
You can decline to provide us with your Personal Information, however this may limit your ability to access certain features of Grove. To provide a safe and enjoyable experience for our users, some areas of Grove are accessible only while logged into an account. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you whether you are required to provide the information to us.
3. How and Why We Use Your Personal Information.
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to disclose their legal grounds for the collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information. In general, we only use your Personal Information if we have a proper reason for doing so, for example:
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
- For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
- Where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use (process) your Personal Information for and our reasons for doing so:
What we use your Personal Information for |
Our reasons |
To provide products or services to you |
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract. |
To prevent and detect fraud against you or the Company |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you. |
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g. policies covering security and internet use |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you. |
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training and quality control |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you. |
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information. |
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g. in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price. |
Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to system |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you. |
Updating and enhancing customer records |
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract. |
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
Marketing our services to existing and former customers. |
For our legitimate interests, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former customers. |
4. Who We Share Your Personal Information With.
We share Personal Information with:
- Our affiliates, including any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control with the Company (collectively, “Affiliates”);
- Service providers we use to help deliver our products and/or services to you, such as payment service providers, online store fronts, marketing agencies, or forums;
- Our surveys are administered through TYPEFORM SL, located at C/Bac de Roda, 163 (Local), 08018 – Barcelona (Spain). TYPEFORM SL’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt/
- Our Support Forums are managed by Zendesk, Inc., located at 1019 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Zendesk, Inc.’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.zendesk.com/company/customers-partners/privacy-policy/
- Our email newsletter is managed by The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp, located at 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308. The Rocket Science Group LLC’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy
- Our toll-free number is managed by LogMeIn, Inc., utilizing Grasshopper (“Grasshopper”). Grasshopper’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy
- We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), and Google Adsense, an advertising service provided by Google, to collect anonymous data. Google uses anonymous data to help analyze the use of Grove. Google’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
- We use a Facebook Pixel, a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”) to help track website traffic from our mailing list. Facebook’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. More information about how Facebook uses Cookies and how to manage them can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
We only allow our service providers to handle your Personal Information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your Personal Information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your Personal Information to provide services to us and to you.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations or to protect the rights or property of the Company or users of the Services.
We may also need to share some Personal Information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
5. Personal Information Collected, Sold, or Disclosed in the Preceding 12 Months.
Information Collected:
In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
Categories of Personal Information |
Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) |
Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. |
Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement) |
Geolocation data |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information |
Please see The data we collect and use for more information regarding the specific types of Personal Information we collect and use.
Information Sold:
We have not sold any Personal Information in the preceding 12 months.
Information Disclosed
We have not disclosed any Personal Information in the preceding 12 months.
6. Where Your Personal Information is Processed.
The Company is based in the United States. Your Personal Information may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be different than the laws in your country.
7. Cookies.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer or device’s hard drive while you are viewing a website or app. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser or device’s help file directions. If you choose to disable Cookies, some areas of Grove may not work properly.
We use Cookies on Grove as follows:
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), and Google Adsense, an advertising service provided by Google, to collect anonymous data. Google uses anonymous data to help analyze the use of Grove. Google’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
More information regarding how Google uses cookies and how to manage them can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
More information about Google Adsense can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/adsWe use a Facebook Pixel, a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”) to help track website traffic from our mailing list. Facebook’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
More information about how Facebook uses Cookies and how to manage them can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/.
You can opt out of Facebook and other participating companies’ Cookies and other advertising tracking tools through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe or through your mobile device settings. Please note ad blockers and tools that restrict cookie use may interfere with these controls.
8. Integrity and Retention of Your Personal Information.
We aim to make it easy for you to keep your Personal Information accurate, complete, and up to date. You can update your account information as needed through the account settings menu or by sending an e-mail to us at divx-support@divx.com. We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
9. Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information.
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information:
Grove: If you have registered for Grove, you may revoke your consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information at any time by Contacting Us. Please note that upon erasure of your Personal Information, you will permanently lose access to all DivX services, registered devices, user data and content, and purchased content from prior to the erasure date. You will also lose all history of purchases and any support cases completed prior to the erasure date.
Newsletter: If you have signed up for our newsletter, we will periodically send you free newsletters and e-mails that directly promote the use of Grove, the purchase of our software products and may contain advertisements for third party companies. When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly at privacy@divx.com. Should you decide to opt-out of receiving future mailings, we may share your e-mail address with third parties to ensure that you do not receive further communications from third parties. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you notices of any updates to our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.
10. Changes to Your Personal Information.
You may change any of your Personal Information in your account by editing your profile within your account or by sending an e-mail to us at divx-support@divx.com. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by us, but please note that we may be required to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by applicable law.
11. Your Rights Under the CCPA.
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You |
You have the right to know:
Please note that we are not required to:
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Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose |
In connection with any Personal Information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: |
Right to Deletion |
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
Please note that we may not delete your Personal Information if it is necessary to:
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Protection Against Discrimination |
You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:
Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your Personal Information. |
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us using the information below.
12. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure.
The Company is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We also require you to enter a password to access your account. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Despite these measures, you should know that Company cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information and mistakes may happen.
Please contact us by mail, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are as follows:
DivX, LLC
Attn: Privacy Rights Administrator
4350 La Jolla Village Drive
Suite 950
San Diego, CA 92122
privacy@divx.com
1-844-858-2288 (toll free)
14. Do You Need Extra Help?
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please Contact Us.
15. Privacy of Minors.
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information such parent should Contact Us at privacy@divx.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 with Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to delete such Personal Information from our files.
16. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision in accordance with the Terms of Use. We will notify you by means of a notice on Grove and/or via email prior to any changes becoming effective.
This Privacy Policy was last revised on February 18, 2020.