Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Diamond Buzz® website located at the URL https://diamondbuzz.blog, (including, without limitation, both mobile and desktop versions of our website and also applies to your use of all features, content, downloads and other services that we make available through this website and/or that post a link to this Privacy Policy  (collectively, referred to herein as the “Site”), regardless of how you access or use the Site, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise. The Site is owned, operated and controlled by Lilya Khachkavanktsyan IE, TIN 20121505, Mamikonyants 3, suite 107, Yerevan, 0014 Armenia, tel: +37495161016.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to our data collection activities offline or otherwise outside of our Service (unless otherwise stated below). In addition, please review the Site’s Terms and Conditions which govern your use of the Site. By using our Site, you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions and our collection, use and sharing of your information and data, and other activities, as described below.

Scope of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and manage the personal information that you provide to us when using the Site or otherwise, as well as our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies, without limitation, to any individual or entity that (i) uses the Site, (ii) creates an account (as defined in our Terms and Conditions), or (iii) otherwise provides any personal information to us.

When you access or use the Site, or otherwise provide any information to us, you agree to this Privacy Policy, including the manner in which we use your information, whether or not you have an account with Diamond Buzz. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, or to any changes we subsequently make to this Privacy Policy, you must immediately stop using the Site or otherwise provide any information to us.

The Site contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected on or through any such third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties or the content of their websites. Such third parties have their own privacy policies and you should review those privacy policies to determine their privacy practices.

Information We Collect

We collect the following information:

• Contact and Account Information: Your name, email address, username, password and any other contact and/or Account information that you provide us either through our Site or otherwise;
• Service Provider Information: Information about the mobile or internet service provider you are using with your computer, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or another device (a “Device”) to access the Site and/or send us messages.
• Messages: The date, time and content of any messages you send to us;
• Usage Information:
  • IP address or another unique identifier (“Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Site, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier;
  • your Device functionality (including browser, operating system, hardware, mobile network information);
  • the URL that referred you to our Site;
  • the areas within our Site that you visit and your activities there, including remembering you and your preferences;
  • your Device location;
  • your Device characteristics;
  • certain other Device data, including the time of day, among other information, and any other information you or your Device provides to us; and
  • other technical information collected from the servers utilized by you or your vendors, such as information and data that is automatically collected upon visiting the Site (i.e., webpage HTTP headers (home server domain names, internet protocol address, operating system type, browser type and language) and information on what pages you access on and other information about the way(s) in which you use the Site).
• Location Information: based on derivations made from the IP address from which you connect (including, for example, precise location data such as GPS and WiFi information).
• Other: Other information you provide to us when you use the Site or otherwise interact with us.
• The information listed above which we aggregate and/or anonymize so that it is not linked to you.

How We Collect Information

We may collect this information through various forms and in various places on the Site, including if you create an account, through contact forms, or when you otherwise interact with the Site.

Ways that we collect information include but are not limited to the following:

• Directly from you. For example, from the forms you complete to create an account with us or contact us.
• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Site.
• From third parties that provide us with outside records for various purposes, including to enhance our ability to serve you, determine your location, tailor our content to you and offer you opportunities that may be of interest to you.
• From the maintenance and analysis of Website server logs.
• From “cookies” (small text files placed by us on your computer(s)), single-pixel GIF image files (also called “Web beacons”), Website server log analysis and other similar technological means. See the “Use of Tracking Technologies” section below.

Use of Tracking Technologies

We may use various developed methods and technologies to collect Usage Information (“Tracking Technologies”). Tracking Technologies may set, change, alter or modify settings or configurations on your Device.  A few of the Tracking Technologies include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods later developed):

Cookies –  A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to visit the Site. At all times, you are free to decline our cookies. To do so please update your Settings. Please be aware that if you disable or remove cookies on your Device, some parts of our Site may not function properly, and that when you revisit our Site your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. The below list details the cookies used on our website.

Web Beacons – Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our Site’s pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a page or email can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Site, to monitor how users navigate the Site, to count how many emails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.

Embedded Scripts – An embedded script is a programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on.  The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third-party service provider is active only while you are connected to the Site, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

Browser Fingerprinting – Collection and analysis of information from your Device, such as, without limitation, your operating system, plugins, system fonts and other data, for purposes of identification.

ETag, or entity tag – A feature of the cache in browsers.  It is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL. If the resource content at that URL ever changes, a new and different ETag is assigned. Used in this manner ETags are a form of Device Identifier. ETag tracking may generate unique tracking values even where the consumer blocks HTTP and/or HTML5 cookies.

We may use Tracking Technologies for a variety of purposes, including:

• Necessary. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies that we consider are strictly necessary to allow you to use and access our Site, including cookies required to prevent fraudulent activity, improve security or allow you to make use of Site functionality.
• Performance. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the Site, which help in delivering a better user experience for you.
• Analytics. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies to understand how visitors interact with the Site. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

There may be other Tracking Technologies now and later devised and used by us in connection with the Site. Further, third parties may use Tracking Technologies in connection with our Site, which may include the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. We may not control those Tracking Technologies and we are not responsible for them. However, you consent to potentially encountering third-party Tracking Technologies in connection with the use of our Site and accept that our statements under this Privacy Policy do not apply to the Tracking Technologies or practices of such third parties.

How We Use the Information Collected

We may use your information for various purposes, including:

• to enable you to create an Account on the Site;
• to fulfil your orders;
• to provide customer support;
• to contact you with regard to your use of the Site and, at our discretion, changes to the Site and/or Site’s policies;
• to enhance or localize content and services that you use;
• for internal business purposes; and
• for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

How and When We Disclose Information to Third Parties

We may share non-personal information, such as aggregated user statistics, with third parties. Further, we may share your Device Identifiers with third parties along with data related to you and your activities. We do not share the personal information that we have collected directly from you on our Site with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We may share the information we have collected about you, including personal information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information and as described below or otherwise in this Privacy Policy. Diamond Buzz may disclose your information as follows:

(a) Third Parties Providing Services on Our Behalf

We may use third-party vendors to perform certain services on behalf of us or the Site, such as (a) to assist us in Site operations; (b) to manage a database of customer information; (c) hosting the Site; (d) designing and/or operating the Site’s features; (e) tracking the Site’s activities and analytics; and (f) other services designed to assist us in maximizing our business potential. We may provide vendors with access to your information to carry out the services they are performing for you or for us. Third-party analytics and other service providers may set and access their own technologies on your Device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you. We are not responsible for those third-party technologies or activities arising out of them.  However, some third parties may offer you certain choices regarding their practices. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of or compliance with any third parties’ opt-out options.

(b) Administrative and Legal Reasons

We may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including Device Identifiers and Personal Information) to third parties: (i) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, governmental request or legal process if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law; (ii) to protect and/or defend the Site’s Terms and Conditions or other policies applicable to the Site, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) to protect the safety, rights, property or security of the Site or any third party; and/or (iv) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues. Further, we may use IP addresses or other Device Identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in our discretion, subject to applicable law. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

Third-Party Content, Links to Third-Party Sites and/or Third-Party Apps Appearing on the Site

The Site may contain content that is supplied by a third party, and those third parties may collect Usage Information and your Device Identifier when pages from the Site are served to you. In addition, when you are on the Site you may be directed to other sites that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the data collection and privacy practices employed by any of these third parties or their services and they may be tracking you across multiple sites and may be sharing the results of that tracking with us and/or others. For example, if you “click” on a link, the “click” may take you off the Site onto a different site. These other sites may associate their Tracking Technologies with you, independently collect data about you, including Personal Information, and may or may not have their own published privacy policies.

Third-party applications may also be available via the Site. The owners of these applications (“Third-Party Owners”) may collect Personal Information and other data from you and may have their own policies and practices. We are not responsible for how Third-Party Owners or their applications collect or use your information and they may be tracking you across multiple sites and may be sharing the results of that tracking with us and/or others. These Third-Party Owners may have their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies and ask you to agree to the same. We are not responsible for these third-party privacy policies or the practices of Third-Party Owners. Be sure to review any available policies before submitting any personally identifiable information to a third-party application or otherwise interacting with it and exercise caution in connection with these applications. We also encourage you to note when you leave our Site to review the third-party privacy policies of all third-party locations and exercise caution in connection with them.

Changing Your Information and Communications Preferences

You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided to us. You may provide updates and changes by contacting us using the form available here or by updating your Account. You may also contact us at info@diamondbuzz.blog.

To request a copy of your information or that your data be deleted from the Site, please contact us at info@diamondbuzz.blog.

If you send us a request to make changes, we will make good faith efforts to make the requested changes in our then-active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases and that residual data may remain on backup media or for other reasons. When you edit your Personal Information or change your preferences on the Site, information that you remove may persist internally for our administrative purposes. Please note that we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to your account or use of our Site, such as administrative and Site announcements. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or practices described in it, you should contact us using the form available here or at info@diamondbuzz.blog.

EU and UK Users

If you are in the EU or UK, you have certain additional rights and protections under the law regarding the collection and processing of your personal data. We will comply with applicable data protection laws anytime that we transfer your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Some of the ways we will do so are:

• Where the transfer of your personal data is to a country that has officially been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
• Using the EU Model Clauses, which are specific contracts approved by the European Commission giving personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
• Transferring data to US-based providers if they are part of the Privacy Shield, which requires similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are in the EU or UK, we will collect and process your personal data:

• To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g. processing payments for and fulfilment of the services you have ordered);
• When we have a legitimate interest in collecting and processing your personal data in order for us to run a successful commercial organization (e.g. to communicate with you about updates regarding your order; to ensure that our Site is secure; to tell you about changes to our Site; to improve our Site; for business reasons (for example to develop our business or if we are thinking of selling our business); for operational purposes);
• To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.

Recipients

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Service providers to assist us in Site operations, manage a database of customer information, host our Site, design and/or operate the Site’s features for us, track our Site’s activities and analytics, enable us to perform other administrative services or assist us in maximizing our business potential.
• Third parties, such as third-party jewellery brands, when you access pages from our Site and click on a link linking you to third-party websites and/or apps.
• Internet cookie data recipients, such as Google Analytics.
• Social media companies.
• Data aggregators.

Your Rights and Choices Regarding the Use of Your Personal Information

We provide a number of choices about how you may control the use, collection and storage of your personal information, and want you to be aware that you have all of the following rights regarding your personal information:

• To have access to any personal information we hold about you.
• To ask us to erase the personal information we hold about you.
• To restrict the way that we process your personal information.
• To have a copy of any personal information which we hold about you.
• To have your personal information provided to a third-party provider of services.
• To object to our processing of your personal information.
• To complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

You have the ability to correct, update or modify your personal information by updating your information on the Site. Please note that some information may remain in our records even after you request deletion of your information. Additionally, there may be limits to the amount of information we can practically provide. For example, we may limit an individual’s access to personal information where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual’s privacy or where doing so would violate others’ rights.

Please contact us at info@diamondbuzz.blog with any questions or requests in regards to any of the above or to make requests regarding your personal information.

California Residents

As of January 1, 2020, California residents are provided with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes further how we comply with the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and your rights under that law. Any capitalized terms used but not defined in this section shall have the meanings given to them in the CCPA.

The table below explains the categories of information that we have collected in the past 12 months, the sources of that information, the purpose for that collection, use and sharing, and the categories of third parties with whom we share that information.

Categories of Sources

We collect this personal information from the following categories of sources:

• Consumers, including you;
• Service providers;
• Third-party sources, including social media.

Why We Use and Disclose California Information

We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes as further described in this Privacy Policy. These business purposes include, without limitation:

• Our commercial purposes, including authentication, providing you with the information you request, identity resolution, fraud prevention and facilitating transactions.
• Our business purposes as identified in the CCPA, include:
  • Auditing related to our interactions with you;
  • Legal compliance;
  • Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
  • Debugging and improving our services;
  • Performing services (for us or our service provider) such as account servicing and analytics;
  • Internal research for technological improvement;
  • Internal operations;
  • Activities to maintain and improve our services; and
  • Other one-time uses.

Recipients of California Personal Information

We may disclose the categories of personal information designated above to the categories of third parties listed below for business purposes including but not limited to:

• Service providers to assist us in Site operations, manage a database of customer information, host our Site, design and/or operate the Site’s features for us, track our Site’s activities and analytics, enable us to perform other administrative services or assist us in maximizing our business potential.
• Third parties, such as third-party jewellery brands, when you access pages from our Site and click on a link linking you to third-party websites and/or apps.
• Internet cookie data recipients, such as Google Analytics.
• Third parties for legal and administrative reasons.
• Social media companies.

Your Rights and Choices 

As applicable under the CCPA, from January 1, 2020, if you are a California resident, you may make requests to us as set out below. We will review all requests received and determine the extent to which and how to respond. We will not discriminate against any California resident who makes such requests.

Right to access/know – You may request from us a list of (i) the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and “sell” (for the purposes of the CCPA) about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which we collected your personal information; (iii) our purposes for collecting or selling your personal information; (iv) the categories of your personal information that we have either “sold” (for the purposes of the CCPA) or disclosed for a business purpose; and (v) the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information.

Right to delete your personal information – You may request to delete your account and the personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you.

Right to opt-out from the sale of your personal information – You may request, at any time, to direct us to stop “selling” (for the purposes of the CCPA) your personal information. We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the consumer who is at least 13 but not yet 16 years of age or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt out of future sales at any time by clicking the following link Do Not Sell My Personal Information.

Right to non-discrimination – You have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

Making requests – To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Emailing us at info@diamondbuzz.blog; or
• Visiting https://diamondbuzz.blog/contact/

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

You may also submit such requests through an authorized agent. To designate an authorized agent, please send us a notarized power of attorney/notarized letter authorizing said agent. Requests from agents who do not submit such proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf will be denied.

Other California Privacy Rights 

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email at info@diamondbuzz.blog.

Virginia, Colorado and Connecticut Residents

Virginia, California and Connecticut residents are provided with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes further how we comply with the requirements of the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), and the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) and your rights under that law.

Your Rights and Choices 

As applicable under the CDPA, CPA and CTDPA, if you are a Virginia, California or Connecticut resident, you may make requests to us as set out below. We will review all requests received and determine the extent to which and how to respond.

Right to access/know – You may request from us a list of (i) the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and “sell” about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which we collected your personal information; (iii) our purposes for collecting or selling your personal information; (iv) the categories of your personal information that we have either “sold” or disclosed for a business purpose; and (v) the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information.

Right to delete your personal information – You may request to delete your account and the personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you.

Right to opt-out from the sale of your personal information – You may request, at any time, to direct us to stop “selling” your personal information. We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the consumer who is at least 13 but not yet 16 years of age or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt out of future sales at any time by clicking the following link Do Not Sell My Personal Information.

Making requests – To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Emailing us at info@diamondbuzz.blog; or
• Visiting https://diamondbuzz.blog/contact/

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

You may also submit such requests through an authorized agent. To designate an authorized agent, please send us a notarized power of attorney/notarized letter authorizing said agent. Requests from agents who do not submit such proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf will be denied.

Nevada Residents

If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information to third parties who intend to license or sell that personal information.

As of our current data handling practices, Diamond Buzz does not sell your personal data, as defined by Nevada Law, for monetary compensation to third parties for their own purposes. However, to honour your rights, we maintain a do-not-sell list for Nevada residents. If, in the future, we were to engage in the sale of personal information as defined by Nevada Law, your name would be included on this list to prevent such sales.

If you are a Nevada resident and would like to place your name on our do-not-sell list, please email us at info@diamondbuzz.blog, and we will ensure that your personal information is not sold to third parties.

Data Retention

We will retain your information as long as needed to enable you to access the Site or otherwise interact with you and for as long as you or we can bring a legal claim.

After you have terminated your use of our services, we may store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format.

No Information Collected From Children

The content and services provided by us or our sponsors and advertisers, including without limitation the Site, are not intended for anyone under the age of 18 and you should not access such content or services if you are under the age of 18. No information is knowingly collected or retained from children under the age of 13, either inside or outside the Site. No part of the Site is designed to attract anyone under the age of 13. Children are not eligible to use any services provided by us and we ask that children under the age of 13 not submit any personal information to us or visit the Site. We will delete any personal information collected that we later determine to be from a user younger than the age of thirteen (13).  If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed personal information to us, please contact us by using the contact form available here or by email at info@diamondbuzz.blog.

Security

We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, mobile networks, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, including Personal Information, and you use our Site and provide us with your information at your own risk.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your personally identifiable information. Our security procedures mean that we will occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you. You are responsible for protecting against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer/mobile device. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy. However, we will not use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than promised at the time it was collected without your consent. To the extent any provision of this Privacy Policy is found by a competent tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be severed to the extent necessary for the remainder to be valid and enforceable.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an email to info@diamondbuzz.blog.

Effective date: September 15, 2023