Last modified: 06 November 2023

 

Introduction

The Miss Universe Organization ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.missuniverse.com/  (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

 

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

 

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or 

• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

 

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@missuniverse.com.

 

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see your own state privacy rights for more information.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");

• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as cookie information and website analytics; and/or

• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

 

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

 

The information we collect on or through our Website, e-commerce store and mobile application may include:

• Information that you provide to us on by filling in forms on our Website, e-commerce store, mobile application and other digital channels. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.

• Information that you provide to  Top Drawer Merchandise (“e-commerce partner”), when you are redirected to our e-commerce store. This includes information such as name, email contact number, address (we collect your address only if you choose to make a purchase). 

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

 

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies  

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Click here https://www.missuniverse.com/cookie-settings for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

 

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. 

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). 

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your e-mail subscription.

• To provide you with the details and facilitate the process on becoming a National Director

• To facilitate your application to obtain Press Credentials.

• To facilitate your application to become our partner.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.

• To register to access or transact on our e-commerce store or other digital platforms.

• To allow us to provide you with marketing material if you opted for it.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form). For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual. 

 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries for the purpose which you provided it.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. This includes the service provider managing our e-commerce store or other digital platforms.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Miss Universe Organization's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Miss Universe Organization about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

• Personal and online identifiers (such as first and last name, email address, phone number or unique online identifiers)

• Communications with you (such as customer support messages, or general enquiries)

• Online Activity Information (such as browsing history, search history, video viewing history, and other interactions with a website or email application or advertisement)

• Geolocational information (such as State or Country)

• Other information about you linked to the personal information.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information: 

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data such as the registration form. You can also always opt-out by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes at https://www.missuniverse.com/communication-settings or by sending us an email with your request to privacy@missuniverse.com. 

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes at https://www.missuniverse.com/communication-settings or by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@missuniverse.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. 

• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, which information does not include your name or sensitive information, you can opt-out by using third party opt-out for ad networks such as http://preferences-mgr.truste.com
  http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
  http://www.aboutads.info/
  https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners. 

 

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

 

Residents of certain states, such as California, may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

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Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an email at privacy@missuniverse.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.

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Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about California residents' privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa. 

 

California Privacy Rights

As a California resident you have the following rights regarding personal information about you, subject to our ability to verify your request and certain other limitations:

• Right to Know: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for copies of specific pieces of your personal information collected in the preceding 12 months or at your option;

• Right to Delete: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the deletion of personal information that you have provided to us. Certain information that we hold about you may not be deleted. We are not permitted to delete information that we need to operate our business, administer our employees, protect our legal obligations and rights, or to provide security for our employees, our systems and our company;

• Right to Correct: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of processing the personal information;

• Right to Opt Out of Sale and Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information and the disclosure of your personal information for cross-context advertising;

• Right to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to tell us not to process sensitive personal information except for the purpose for which it was originally collected; and

• Non-Discrimination: California law prohibits discrimination against you for exercising your privacy rights.

 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: 

privacy@missuniverse.com