Privacy Policy
Pursuant to our Terms of Use, this document describes how
we treat personal information related to your use of the Website, including information you
provide when using it.
We expressly and strictly limit use of the Website to
adults over 18 years of age or the age of majority in the individual’s jurisdiction, whichever
is greater. Anyone under this age is strictly forbidden from using the Website. We do not
knowingly seek or collect any personal information or data from persons who have not attained
this age.
Data Collected
Browsing the Website
You can use the search function, view articles, videos and pictures, and
access other parts of the Website without having an account, in which case only your IP address,
country of origin and other information about your computer or device (such as web requests,
device type, browser type, browser language, referring URL, operating system and date and time
of requests) will be recorded for log file information, aggregated traffic information and in
the event that there is any misappropriation of information and/or content. If you have an
account on the website and are logged in, the information may be associated with your
account.
Registering on the Website
Registration of an account is required for using many parts of the Website,
including purchasing access to certain content and using many other features. We request
additional information at the time of your registration, including, without limitation, your
name, email address and a password. Your IP address is recorded automatically. We may ask for
further information to fill out your profile details. Some of this information may be used to
provide you the Website and may become publicly available through your profile or through other
use of the Website. If you intend to make your content available on the Website, we will collect
additional information necessary to confirm your authority, confirm your compliance with law and
to make available where necessary on the Website for others.
Usage Information
We may record information about your usage of the Website such as pageviews,
clicks, mousemoves, duration of video views, portions of videos viewed, search phrases,
referrers and other various statistics. If you have registered and are logged in, we may
associate that information with your account.
Uploaded Content
Any personal information or content you voluntarily publicly disclose online,
including animations, pictures, videos, comments and your profile page or any other User
Submissions, becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others.
Other Information
You may have the ability to make comments on content and engage in other
social activities. Any such activities may be visible to the public.
Correspondences
We may keep a record of any correspondence between you and us.
Cookies
When you use the Website, we may send cookies to your computer to uniquely
identify your browser session. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
Payment Information
We do not knowingly or intentionally store payment information. Credit cards, debit cards or bank account information are not stored by our website, but third party payment processors.
Data Usage
We may use your information to provide you with certain features and to create
a personalized experience on the Website. We may also use that information to operate, maintain
and improve features and functionality of the Website, including building a recommendation
system for the Website.
We may use your e-mail address or other personal information to send
commercial or marketing messages. We may use your e-mail for non-marketing or administrative
purposes.
We use cookies, web beacons and other information to store information so that
you will not have to re-enter it on future visits, provide personalized content and information,
monitor the effectiveness of the Website and monitor aggregate metrics such as the number of
visitors and page views (including for use in monitoring visitors from affiliates). They may
also be used to provide targeted advertising based on your country of origin and other personal
information.
We may aggregate your personal information with personal information of other
members and users, and disclose such information to advertisers and other third-parties for
marketing and promotional purposes.
Your username may be displayed to other visitors of the Website alongside
content on the Website in relation to your uploaded content and other similar features.
We may use your information to run promotions, contests, surveys and other
features and events.
Disclosures of Information
We may be required to release certain data to comply with legal obligations or
in order to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements. We may also release certain data to
protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users and others. This includes providing
information to other companies or organizations like the police or governmental authorities for
the purposes of protection against or prosecution of any illegal activity, whether or not it is
identified in the Terms of Use.
If you upload any illegal or unauthorized material to the Website, or you are
suspected of doing such, we may forward all available information to relevant authorities,
including respective copyright owners, without any notice to you.
We may also share your information with third parties for the purposes of
payment processing and any such information will also be subject to their privacy policies.
Miscellaneous
If you have an account on the Website and have a password giving you access to
certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping the password confidential. Anyone
else with your password may access your account and other personal information.
While we use commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical
safeguards to secure your information, the transmission of information via the internet is not
completely secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information or content you
transmit to us. Any information or content you transmit to us is done at your own risk.