Privacy Policy & Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for Blackboxparty.com, an App by Firefly Systems LLC

Firefly Systems LLC, the creator and owner of the Blackboxparty.com website (the “Website”) and BlackBox Party app (the “App”), a Virginia corporation, respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices and procedures regarding the collection, use, maintenance, protection, and disclosure of your information when you use our Website and App. The Terms and Conditions outline our practices and procedures for ticketing, subscriptions, and refund, among other matters.

Introduction

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide in connection with our Website and/or our App, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

• This policy applies to information we collect:
• On or through this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us submitted through or in connection with this Website or the App.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Use offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and clients) that does not link to this policy; or
• Any third party (including our affiliates, clients/hosts, and other related companies), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or the App.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding information about you and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website or the App, you indicate that you have read and understand this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Policy Updates), so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Who We Are

Firefly Systems LLC owns and operates the Website https://BlackBoxParty.com and the BlackBox Party App, platforms that connect people for entertainment purposes. We advise users to interact on our Website and App with discretion as we are not liable for interactions outside our platform. Be careful with the information you share and always prioritize personal safety.

Information We Collect and Share

When you sign up for an account on Blackboxparty.com or through the BlackBox Party App, we collect or may collect the following information:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your date of birth to confirm you are at least 18 years old
• Your city and country of residence
• Any other information you choose to provide in your profile, including photos and videos

This information is used to create and maintain your account, facilitate communication between users, and enable hosts to promote their events. We also use this information to improve our services and comply with legal obligations.

In addition to the above, our Website and App collect details about your device and usage, such as:

• Your IP address
• Your browser type
• The pages you visit on our Website
• The time and date of your visit on our Website
• The links you click on our Website

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

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. However, certain features of our Website or other services may not work optimally if you delete or disable cookies. For further details, see below, or consult the help menu in your browser. 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.
• 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.
• Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails 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).

We may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

We do not share your information with any third parties except as required by applicable law, court order, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request  or as necessary to provide our services. This may include our employees, contractors, and service providers who need access to your information to support our services.

Information You Post

Our App also allows users to post and share content, including images (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). By posting, you confirm that you have the rights and permissions to share this content and that it does not violate any laws or third-party rights. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk, so if you don’t want it to be public, please don’t post it. We reserve the right to remove any content that we deem inappropriate or unlawful.

Although we limit access to certain pages or you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, 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.

Additional Information for California residents:

This section supplements the information contained in the other sections of this Privacy Policy and applies solely to clients, visitors, users, and others who reside in the state of California (“consumers” or “you”) and for whom we have data that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) as may be amended or supplemented from time to time. This Privacy Policy, including this additional information, is provided to comply with the CCPA and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.

Where noted in this Privacy Policy, the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication from most of its requirements.

Ownership of Content:

The Website and all of its contents including, but not limited to, all text and images (“Content”) are owned and copyrighted by Firefly Systems LLC. or others with all rights reserved unless otherwise noted. Any Content that is a trademark, logo, or service mark is also a registered and unregistered trademark of Firefly Systems LLC or others. Your use of any Content, except as provided in these terms of use, without the written permission of the Content owner is strictly prohibited.

Advertising

We may partner with ad networks and other ad serving providers (“Advertising Providers”) that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated platforms, this helps support our services and keep them free for users. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information Advertising Providers collect about your use of the Website and App over time, including information about relationships among different browsers and devices.  This type of advertising is known as interest-based advertising. To provide relevant ads, we and our Advertising Providers may collect certain types of information, including:

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. Usage patterns and interactions with ads
• Details of your visits to our Website or App, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

We use third-party services, such as Google AdMob, to serve ads in our App. These parties may use the collected information to personalize the ads you see. You can view Google’s privacy policy here.

If you wish to opt-out of personalized advertising, you can do so by adjusting your device settings or using the opt-out options provided by our advertising partners.

Please note that even if you opt-out of personalized advertising, you will still see ads, but they may be less relevant to you.

We are committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations related to advertising, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to protect the privacy of children under 13.

We may update our advertising practices and this privacy policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this section periodically to stay informed about our advertising practices.

By using our App, you consent to our advertising practices as described in this section.

Reward Program: Blackbox Party In-App Coins

Blackbox Party offers a reward program where users can earn in-App “coins” by participating in various activities within the App. These “coins” can be used to access in-App services, and occasionally, Hosts may request to redeem these coins for a monetary value. In the context of this Agreement, the term “Host(s)” refers to individuals such as event managers, promoters, planners, club owners, or other professionals in the entertainment industry responsible for organizing and managing events or activities within our Website and/or App.

Please note that the in-App coins are not securities, and any redemption for monetary value is not guaranteed and is subject to our discretion and applicable terms and conditions. For more details about the Blackbox Party in-App coins, their usage, and redemption, please visit our Reward Program Page.

Data Handling Procedures

We follow secure data handling procedures to protect the personal and sensitive data you provide us. These include secure storage methods and restrictions on data access. We protect your data by implementing procedures such as:

• Corporate Access Controls (separation of duties)
• Technological Access controls
• Standard Encryption Algorithms
• Data is encrypted at Rest
• Data is encrypted while in transit (Https / AES)
• Separation of Data.

Data Retention and Deletion

We keep your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, you may delete your account through your account settings. After termination or deletion of your account, we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, such as a court order, or response to any government or regulatory request, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Ticketing, Subscriptions, and Refunds

Purchasing Tickets

When you purchase tickets for events hosted on Blackboxparty.com, please be aware of the following:

Liability for Taxes: Hosts are solely responsible for determining their applicable tax reporting requirements and remitting the correct tax to the appropriate tax authority. Firefly Systems LLC does not offer tax advice and hosts are encouraged to consult with a tax professional.

Non-Refundable Tickets: All ticket purchases made through Blackboxparty.com are final and non-refundable. We encourage you to carefully review your order before proceeding with the payment.

Host-Initiated Refunds: In exceptional cases, if a host and partygoer mutually agree upon a refund, the host holds the sole responsibility for initiating this refund. This transaction is considered separate from Firefly Systems LLC, and we will not be involved in processing or mediating such refunds.

Ticketing Costs and Transaction Fees:

Application Transaction Fee: We collect a fee of $1.23 for every ticket transaction.

Payment Processor Fee: Our payment processing partner charges a fee of 2.9% of the transaction amount plus $0.30 for each transaction.

Passing on Fees to Partygoers: Hosts have the option to pass on the application transaction fee, the payment processor fee, or both to the partygoer. If opted, these fees will be clearly disclosed to the partygoer during the ticket purchasing process.

Application fees charged during the ticket purchasing process are non-refundable under any circumstances. This policy stands firm regardless of any separate agreements made between hosts and partygoers for ticket refunds.

Subscriptions

For hosts opting to subscribe to our premium features:

Non-Refundable: Subscription fees are non-refundable. Upon cancellation, you will lose immediate access to any premium features associated with your subscription.

Responsibility of Hosts: It is the responsibility of the host to manage their subscription, and any requests for refunds or cancellations need to be handled in accordance with our Terms and Conditions.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

Our Website is not intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13).  If you are under thirteen (13), do not use or provide any information on this Website/App or through any of its features, register on the Website/App, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. . If we discover that a child under thirteen (13) years has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete it.

Third-party Links and Tools

The Website may provide links to third-party websites or apps. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites or apps, and they are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policies of other websites or apps that you use to learn about their data practices.

The Website also includes integrated social media tools or “plug-ins,” such as links to social media pages offered on third party websites. If you interact with these features on the Website, those companies may collect data about you and may use and share such information in accordance with your account settings, including by sharing such data with the general public.

Your interactions with third-party companies and your use of their features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide those features. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of any accounts you create and use.

Limitation of Liability

Firefly Systems LLC shall not be liable for any damages arising out of or in connection with the use of or inability to use the Website. In no event shall Firefly Systems LLC be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, incidental, or consequential damage (including loss of business, revenue, profits, use, data or other economic advantage) however it arises, whether for breach or in tort, even if Firefly Systems LLC has been previously advised of the possibility of such damage. You have sole responsibility for adequate protection and backup of data and/or equipment used in connection with the Website and will not make a claim against Firefly Systems LLC for lost data, work delays or lost profits resulting from the use of the materials. You agree to hold Firefly Systems LLC harmless from, and you covenant not to sue Firefly Systems LLC  for, any claims based on using the Website. 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

 We reserve the right to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website or send you an email with an update with the notice’s effective date. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Us

For questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

By using our Website and App, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please refrain from using our Website and App.