This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how theguildoferoticartists.com in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an instance, 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 so as to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal foundation we need under applicable law to process your data. You keep the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please don't use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your preferences on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information that you supply 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 site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data about your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We don't use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we'll inform 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 disk of your 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 our Site.
We use two broad categories 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 Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may 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 crucial to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its attributes. For instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be supplied, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other sections of our Site which you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information about 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 websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they've 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 use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to improve how our Site works. You can find out more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites. You may disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they might not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed in the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this list, 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 media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you join your accounts or participate with our articles 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 remove or reject 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 preferences.
If you don't accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. For example, we might not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might need to log in every 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 sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms 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 publish user-generated articles to our Site, such as via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be available 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 is published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we do not associate such opinions with your personal information. For those who have provided your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name along with your comments on our Site. We'll 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 reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same degree of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, processing or leasing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the internet isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any accounts you might 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 for you to use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted 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 their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you would like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests regarding the personal data associated with the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started before requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our site. We'll reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our website.