Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 1, 2025 | Last Updated: April 11, 2026
By accessing or using ShowUs, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you disagree, please discontinue use of our platform.
We collect information to provide, improve, and personalise our services. This includes:
a) Personal Information You Provide
- Registration Data: Your name, email address, username, password, and country when you create an account.
- Profile Information: Optional details such as a profile photo, bio, and social media links.
- User-Generated Content: Contest titles, descriptions, images, videos, and other content you submit.
- Voting Data: Records of your votes within contests.
- Communications: Messages you send to us via email or contact forms.
b) Information Collected Automatically
- IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited.
- Time and date of your visit, time spent on pages, and click patterns.
- Device identifiers and, where permitted, approximate location data.
c) Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyse traffic, and serve relevant advertising. Specifically:
- Essential Cookies: Required for the platform to function (e.g., session management, login state).
- Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our site. This data is aggregated and anonymised.
- Advertising Cookies: We use Google AdSense and may partner with other advertising networks. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites across the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our platform.
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
- Enable you to create contests, submit entries, participate in challenges, and vote.
- Personalise your experience based on your activity and preferences.
- Send transactional emails (e.g., account confirmation, password reset) and platform notifications.
- Send marketing communications where you have opted in — you may opt out at any time.
- Serve relevant advertisements through Google AdSense and other advertising partners.
- Monitor usage patterns to detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, or security issues.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions.
- Analyse platform performance and conduct internal research and development.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:
- With Your Consent: When you have explicitly agreed to share your information.
- Service Providers: Trusted third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, including cloud hosting (Render.com), media storage (Cloudinary), payment processing (Paystack), and email delivery. These parties are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for the services they provide to us.
- Advertising Partners: Google AdSense and other ad networks receive cookie and usage data as described in Section 1(c) to serve relevant ads. No personally identifiable information is shared with advertisers without your explicit consent.
- Analytics Providers: Google Analytics receives aggregated, anonymised data about site usage.
- Legal Requirements: If required by law, court order, or governmental authority, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ShowUs, our users, or the public.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Contests, entries, usernames, vote counts, and profile information you choose to make public on ShowUs are visible to all visitors, including users who are not logged in. Please exercise caution about what personal information you include in public content. ShowUs is not responsible for how other users or third parties use information you voluntarily make public.
We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymise your personal data within a reasonable period, except where retention is required by law or legitimate business interests (e.g., fraud prevention, legal disputes).
We implement industry-standard technical, administrative, and physical safeguards — including HTTPS encryption, secure database access controls, and regular security reviews — to protect your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security. You use the platform at your own risk and are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials.
- Access and Correction: You may access and update your personal information at any time through your account settings.
- Account Deletion: You may delete your account from your profile settings. Upon deletion, your personal data will be removed subject to our retention policy.
- Data Portability and Erasure: Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to request a copy of your data or request its deletion. Contact us at showus25@gmail.com to exercise these rights.
- Marketing Opt-Out: You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us directly.
- Cookie Preferences: You may manage cookie settings through your browser. See Section 1(c) for advertising opt-out options.
ShowUs is not directed at or intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or the applicable age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take prompt steps to delete it. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at showus25@gmail.com.
ShowUs is operated from Nigeria. If you access our platform from outside Nigeria, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in Nigeria or other countries where our service providers operate. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your home country. By using our platform, you consent to this transfer and processing.
Our platform may contain links to third-party websites, contest sponsors, or social media platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you by email or through a notice on the platform. Your continued use of ShowUs after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
- Email: showus25@gmail.com
- Platform: showus.fun
- Location: Nigeria
We will respond to all legitimate requests within a reasonable timeframe.