DivX.com Privacy Policy
DivX, LLC (“Company”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the Personal Data (as defined below) we collect from users of our websites, located at www.divx.com (“Site”) and of our software products and services.
This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use located at https://www.divx.com/terms-of-use, governs your use of the Site and the Company’s software products and services. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given in our Terms of Use.
1. User Consent.
By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, either by clicking a box indicating your acceptance or by accepting another document referring 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 purchase our software products, our vendor collects all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name.When you create an account to register your DivX product on our Site, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, device information, and password.
When you create an account in our Support Forums, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, device information, and password. When you contact us via email, we collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, and any information that you submit to us. When you sign up for our email newsletter, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your email address. When you participate in one of our surveys, we collect your survey responses. When you create an account and purchase protected DivX content using the DivX Player, the DivX Player application tracks and logs requests to view the protected content in order for us to enforce the usage rights set by the content owner. In order for your copy of the protected content to play using the DivX Player, a unique identifier is inserted into your copy of the protected content. |
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 purchase our software products, our vendor collects all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, billing information, and shipping information.When you create an account to register your DivX product on our Site, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, device information, and password.
When you create an account in our Support Forums, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, device information, and password. When you contact us via email, we collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, and any information that you submit to us. When you sign up for our email newsletter, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your email address. |
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 purchase our software products, our vendor collects all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, billing information, and shipping information.When you create an account to register your DivX product on our Site, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your device information.
When you create an account in our Support Forums, we collect Personal Information from you, such as your device information. |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, 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. This information is only collected if you subscribe to our email newsletter. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | When you contact us via telephone and leave a voicemail, our system records your voicemail. |
You can decline to provide us with your Personal Information, however this may limit your ability to access certain features of our site and our software. To provide a safe and enjoyable experience for our users, some areas of our site 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 identityOther processing necessary to comply with professional, legal and regulatory obligations | 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.To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
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.To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
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.To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products. |
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you. |
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”);
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- Our online store and product downloads are managed by cleverbridge AG, located at Gereonstrasse 43-65, 50670 Cologne, Germany. Cleverbridge AG’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.cleverbridge.com/?scope=opprivacy
- We use a third-party payment processor, FastSpring, to process payments in our online store, located at 801 Garden St. #201, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Any personal information provided during the checkout process is collected and used by FastSpring in accordance with their privacy policy, which can be found at https://fastspring.com/privacy/.
- 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/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 website and software advertisements are managed by diDNA, Inc. The diDNA, Inc. privacy policy can be found here: https://didna.io/privacy-policy/
- Our email newsletter is managed by Intuit Mailchimp, located at 405 N Angier Ave, Atlanta, GA 30308. Intuit Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/
- 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 our Site. 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 analyze usage patterns on our site. 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 use Mixpanel, an analytics service to analyze usage in our software. Mixpanel’s ability to use and share information collected by Mixpanel about your use of DivX Software is restricted by Mixpanel’s Terms of Use, available at https://mixpanel.com/terms/, and Mixpanel’s Privacy Policy, available at https://mixpanel.com/privacy/. You can opt-out of Mixpanel at https://mixpanel.com/optout/. To track opt-outs, Mixpanel will place a persistent opt-out cookie on your computer. If you get a new computer, install a new browser, erase or otherwise alter your browser’s cookie file (including upgrading certain browsers), you might also clear the Mixpanel opt-out cookie.
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 Web site, application, or advertisement) |
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
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties 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 Web site, application, or advertisement) |
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.
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 and Pixel Tags.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a web
site. “Pixel Tags” are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier that function similarly to Cookies that are used to track
internet usage patterns. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded
invisibly in Web pages.
We use Cookies and Pixel Tags on our site to collect anonymous usage data. We do not connect this anonymous data to
users’ Personal Information. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If
you choose to disable Cookies, some areas of our Site may not work properly.
Third-Party Analytics
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. More information regarding how Google uses cookies and how to manage them can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
We use a Facebook Pixel, a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”) to analyze usage patterns on our site. 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.
We use Mixpanel, an analytics service to analyze usage in our software. Mixpanel’s ability to use and share information collected by Mixpanel about your use of DivX Software is restricted by Mixpanel’s Terms of Use, available at https://mixpanel.com/terms/, and Mixpanel’s Privacy Policy, available at https://mixpanel.com/privacy/. You can opt-out of Mixpanel at https://mixpanel.com/optout/. To track opt-outs, Mixpanel will place a persistent opt-out cookie on your computer. If you get a new computer, install a new browser, erase or otherwise alter your browser’s cookie file (including upgrading certain browsers), you might also clear the Mixpanel opt-out cookie.
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. If you have signed up for our newsletter, we will periodically send you free newsletters and e-mails that directly promote the use of our Site or 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 Use 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 GDPR.
If you are a resident of the European Union, you have a number of important rights free of charge under the General Data Protection Regulation. In summary, those include rights to:
Right to Access | The right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Information (the right of access). |
Right to Rectification | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your Personal Information. |
Right to be Forgotten | The right to require us to delete your Personal Information—in certain situations. |
Right to Restriction of Processing | The right to require us to restrict processing of your Personal Information—in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data. |
Right to Data Portability | The right to receive the Personal Information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations. |
Right to Object | The right to object:
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Right Not to be Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. |
In addition, if you feel that you have been denied these rights, you have the right to file a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, and contact information for your appropriate Data Protection Authority, please see the European Data Protection Board website here.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us using the information below.
12. 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:The categories of Personal Information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold; and
The categories of Personal Information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your Personal Information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your Personal Information, we will refrain from selling your Personal Information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale of your Personal Information. |
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.
13. 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.
14. Contact Us
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)
15. Do You Need Extra Help?
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16. Affiliate Links.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC (“Amazon”) Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. When you click an affiliate link and leave our website, Amazon may collect information about you and any purchases you make through our affiliate links in accordance with its own privacy policies.
Amazon Services LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Amazon Services LLC’s Privacy Notice can be found here: https://services.amazon.com/privacy-policy.html. Amazon.com’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/privacy/.
17. Links to other websites.
Our provision of a link to any other website or location, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its contents. When you click on such a link, you will leave our Site and go to another site. During this process, another entity may collect Personal Information from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of data after you click on links to such outside websites.
18. 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.
19. 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 this Site and/or via email prior to any changes becoming effective.
This Privacy Policy was last revised on September 17, 2024