Privacy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how Submissive Women Speak 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 will process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal information?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination 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.

Why do we need your personal information?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information so as 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 data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please don't use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

The personal data you supply when you register to use our Site, including your name, postal address, email address, phone number, username, password and demographic information (such as your gender);
the personal data that may be included in any movie, comment or other submissions you upload or post to the Site.
The personal data you provide in connection with our rewards program and other promotions we run on the Site.
The personal data you provide when you report a problem with our Site or when we offer you customer support.
the personal data you provide when you make a purchase through our Site.
The personal data you supply when you correspond with us by telephone, email or otherwise.

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to connect 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 details you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your preferences 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 supply in this manner at any time by amending the right settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your personal 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 version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information regarding your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We don't use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. However, we may do this in order to satisfy obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and offer you an opportunity to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more interactive and personal 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 Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which can be 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 sites.

Cookies we use

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 accessible through our Site and to let you use some of its attributes. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide 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 recalling the changes you make to other sections of our Site that you may customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes each time you visit our Site.
Analytics and Performance Cookies	These cookies are used to gather 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 sites 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 monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to improve how our Site functions. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.
Targeted and advertising cookies	These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing 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 think will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party sites. You may disable cookies which remember your surfing habits and target advertisements at you by seeing 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 applicable to you. Even in case you do decide to remove cookies by the firms listed in the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this list, which means 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 link your account or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You may typically reject or remove cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, 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 might experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. For instance, we may be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might need to log in each time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements 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 scrolled 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.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

to operate, maintain, and improve our Site, products, and services;
to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our Site;
to operate and administer our rewards program and other promotions you participate in on our Site;
to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
to send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming promotions, and other news, including information about products and services offered by us and our affiliates. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell you how to "opt-out." Please note, even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if you have one) and our business dealings with you;
to process payments you make via our Site;
as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
for analysis and study services; and
as described in the "Sharing of your Personal Data" section below.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

Third Parties Designated by You: We may share your personal data with third parties in which you have provided your consent to do so.
Third Party Service Providers: We may share your personal data with our third party service providers who provide services like information analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
Third Party Sites: Our Site may contain links to third party websites and features. This Policy does not cover the privacy practices of these third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we do not accept any liability or responsibility for their websites, policies or features. Please read their privacy policies before you submit any data to them.

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you publish user-generated articles to our Site, including through our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you disclose or post 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 information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it is printed 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 given your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name along with your feedback 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.

International Data Transfer

Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other areas 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 data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the internet isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the security of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

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.

Your Rights

Opt-out: You may contact us anytime to opt-out of: (I) direct marketing communications; (ii) automatic decision-making and/or profiling; (iii) our collection of sensitive personal data; (iv) any new processing of your personal data that we may carry out beyond the original intent; or (v) the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. Please be aware that your use of some of the Site may be ineffective upon opt-out.
Access: You will access the information we hold about you at any time via your profile/account or by calling us directly.
Amend: You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.
Move: Your personal data is portable, i.e., you to have the flexibility to move your information to other service providers as you desire.
Erase and forget: In certain conditions, for example once the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your information.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests concerning the personal data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you began before requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are dedicated 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 regard to your personal information, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact the regional data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.