This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how thepunklounge.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we'll process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We want certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can reverse our access to the information that you provide in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. By way of instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We don't use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and provide you with an opportunity to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to let you use some of its attributes. By way of instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. With no cookies, the services that you have asked for can't be provided, and we only use these cookies to supply you with these services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the modifications you make to other sections of our Site which you may customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to track the level of activity on the Site. We utilize Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only utilized to enhance how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our permission, third party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party websites. You may disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed in the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies that aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you join your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You can typically reject or remove cookies through your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. By way of example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might want to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, such as through our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be private or confidential once it's published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we don't associate such opinions with your personal information. For those who have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you live, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to protect personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the aforementioned rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests concerning the private data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are committed to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We'll respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.