Welcome to ReviewCatalyst and our website at https://reviewcatalyst.net. At ReviewCatalyst, we take the protection of your data very seriously. In the following, we explain what information we collect when you use our website and services, and how it is used.

Our use of your Personal Data is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), other applicable U.S. state privacy laws, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") where applicable. We process your Personal Data in accordance with these regulations.

Personal Data is any information about personal or factual circumstances that relate to a person. This may include name, date of birth, email address, postal address or telephone number, but also online identifiers such as IP addresses or device IDs.

"Processing" is any operation or set of operations that is performed on Personal Data, whether or not it is done automatically. The term is broad and covers virtually any handling of data.

The responsible party within the meaning of the CCPA and the GDPR is:

Beacon Media Holdings LLC
d/b/a ReviewCatalyst
("ReviewCatalyst", "we", "us", or "our")

If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at support@reviewcatalyst.net or through our website contact form.

According to the CCPA and the GDPR, we should have at least one of the following legal bases to process your Personal Data:

To fulfil contractual obligations
The purposes of the data processing are primarily based on the service we provide.

In connection with our legitimate interests
Where necessary, we process your data beyond the actual performance of the contract to protect legitimate interests of us or third parties. Examples include:

Based on your consent
If you have given us your consent to process Personal Data for specific purposes.

To comply with legal obligations
Processing to comply with our legal obligations.

In the context of our business relationship, you are only obliged to provide Personal Data that is required for the establishment, implementation and termination of a business relationship or that we are legally obliged to collect. Without this data, we usually have to refuse to conclude a contract or can no longer fulfil an existing contract and may have to terminate it.

Each time you visit our website, our system automatically collects the following data from the visiting device and stores it in a log file:

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in ensuring the security and functionality of our website.

The hosting services used by us for the purpose of operating our website is Hetzner of Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Deutschland. Hetzner processes inventory data, contact data, content data, usage data, metadata and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors of our website and services, on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of the website and services in conjunction with the provision of contractual services.

We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to your web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage. There are different types of cookies:

Essential Cookies - Essential cookies are cookies required to provide a correct and user-friendly website.

Non-essential Cookies - Non-essential Cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyze your behavior on a website ("analytical" cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you ("advertising" cookies).

As set out in applicable U.S. state privacy laws and the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive ("PECD"), we need to obtain consent for the use of Non-essential Cookies. For further information on the cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy. The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

Our website uses a cookie consent tool to obtain your consent to the storage of cookies and to document this consent. When you enter our website, the following Personal Data is transferred to us:

The basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

Please note that if you use a link from our website to a third-party website, that third-party may also set new cookies that are not covered by this policy. In such cases, we recommend that you read the cookie policy on the third-party website itself.

We use content or service offers of third-party providers on the basis of our legitimate interests in order to integrate their content and services ("services").

This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, as without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore necessary for the display of this content.

The following provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, together with links to their privacy policies:

The processing of Personal Data depends on the nature of your contact. In addition to your name and email address, IP address or phone number, we usually collect the context of your message, which may also contain certain Personal Data. The Personal Data collected when you contact us is used to process your request, and the legal basis is your consent.

As part of the registration process, users provide their:

The data provided will be used for the purposes of creating and using the account and providing and/or using our services. In the context of the use of our registration and the use of your account, the legal basis for the data processing is the fulfilment of our contractual obligations and, in individual cases, the fulfilment of our legal obligations as well as consent.

We process the Personal Data that arises when you use our services in order to provide our contractual services. In particular, this includes our support, correspondence with you, invoicing, fulfilment of our contractual, accounting and tax obligations. Accordingly, the data is processed on the basis of the fulfilment of our contractual obligations and our legal obligations.

Important notice for business users: When using our services, you become the data controller and we become the data processor in accordance with Chapter 4 of the GDPR. Where we process your Personal Data as data processor or in other words on behalf of you, we will process the Personal Data involved in your use of our services in accordance with your instructions and shall use it only for the purposes agreed between you and us.

We ensure that access by our employees to your data is only available on a need-to-know basis, restricted to specific individuals, and is logged and audited. We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our employees and enforce privacy and protection safeguards strictly.

Further, please be advised that:

We process data in the context of administrative tasks and the organization of our business and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In this context, we process the same data that we process in the provision of our contractual services. The processing bases are our legal obligations and our legitimate interest.

If you make a purchase, your payment will be processed via our payment service provider Stripe, Inc. of 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, California 94103. Payment data will solely be processed through Stripe and we have no access to any Payment Data you may submit. The legal basis for the provision of a payment system is the establishment and implementation of the contract.

If you have given us your separate consent to process your data for marketing and promotional purposes, we are entitled to contact you for these purposes through the communication channels for which you have given your consent.

You may give us your consent in a variety of ways, such as by checking a box on a form asking for permission to send you marketing information, or sometimes your consent is implied from your interactions or contractual relationship with us. In cases where your consent is implied, it is based on the assumption that you could reasonably expect to receive a marketing communication based on your interactions or contractual relationship with us.

Direct marketing is typically by email, but may include other less traditional or new channels. These forms of contact are managed by us or by our contracted service providers. Any direct addressed marketing sent or conducted by us or on our behalf will provide you with the opportunity to opt out or exclude yourself.

For business reasons, we analyze the data we have on business transactions, contracts, enquiries, browsing behavior etc., whereby the group of persons concerned may include contractual partners, interested parties, and users of our services.

The analyses are carried out for the purpose of business evaluations and market research. The analyses serve us alone and are not disclosed externally and processed using anonymous analyses with summarized and/or anonymized values. Furthermore, we take the privacy of users into consideration and process the data for analysis purposes as pseudonymously as possible and, if feasible, anonymously (e.g., as summarized data).

We are present on social media, including Facebook and LinkedIn. If you contact or connect with us via social media platforms, we and the relevant social media platform are jointly responsible for the processing of your data and enter into a so-called joint controller agreement. The legal basis is our legitimate interest, your consent or, in some cases, the initiation of a contract.

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties

Within ReviewCatalyst, those who have access to your information are those who need it to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations.
 

Processors used by us may also receive data for these purposes. These are companies in the areas of IT services, telecommunications, and sales and marketing. If we use processors to provide our services, we take appropriate legal precautions and corresponding technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of Personal Data in accordance with the relevant legal provisions.

Data is only passed on to third parties within the framework of the legal provisions. We only pass on user data to third parties if this is necessary, for example, for contractual purposes or due to legitimate interests in the economic and effective operation of our company, or if you have consented to the transfer of data.

To the extent necessary, we process and store your Personal Data for the duration of our business relationship, which includes, for example, the initiation and execution of a contract.

In addition, we are subject to various retention and documentation obligations, which result, among other things, from the statutory minimum retention periods and other retention periods prescribed in this sense, e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law. Depending on the document and the legal regulation, the periods specified there for storage and documentation are two to six years.

Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of content or contact requests that you send to us. In addition, we have taken numerous security measures ("technical and organizational measures"), such as encryption or access only when necessary, to ensure the most complete protection of Personal Data processed through this website.

Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can always have security vulnerabilities, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. Databases or records containing Personal Data may be breached inadvertently or by unlawful intrusion. If we learn of a data breach, we will notify all affected individuals whose Personal Data may have been compromised as soon as possible after the breach is discovered.

We may transfer your Personal Data to other companies as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In order to provide adequate protection for your Personal Data when it is transferred, we have contractual arrangements regarding such transfers. We take all reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data we transfer.

We do not process special category data unless it is necessary for the use of our services and explicit consent has been given.

We do not request Personal Data from minors and children and do not knowingly collect such data or share it with third parties. Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

Automated decision making is the process of making a decision by automated means without human involvement. Automated decision making does not occur in our services.

We do not sell your personal information.

Under the CCPA, applicable U.S. state privacy laws, and the GDPR, you may exercise the following rights:

If you have any questions about the type of Personal Data we hold about you, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us.

If you believe that the data we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and you wish to request that it be rectified or erased, or object to its processing, please contact us.

You may withdraw any consent you have given at any time by contacting us. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

If you would like to make a request for information about your data, you can inform us in writing. We will respond to requests for information and correction as quickly as possible. If we are unable to respond to your request within thirty (30) days, we will tell you why and when we will be able to respond to your request. If we are unable to provide you with the personal information you have requested or to make a correction, we will tell you why.

You have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of Personal Data with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. However, we would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you contact any supervisory authority.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 16, 2026 and is the current and valid version. We may revise this policy from time to time due to changes in our practices or applicable law. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Beacon Media Holdings LLC d/b/a ReviewCatalyst
Contact: support@reviewcatalyst.net
Website: https://reviewcatalyst.net