This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how www.shagster.net in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, 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 the way 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 which, 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 telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal foundation we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not consent 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 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'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may reverse our access to the information 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 personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data regarding 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 automated decision-making. But we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll notify you of any such processing and offer you 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 site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply 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 Siteand (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 sites.
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 let you use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and assist the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we just 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 information and remembering the modifications you make to other parts of our Site that you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and 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 regarding visitors 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 purpose. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site functions. You can find out 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 show advertising which is 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 with our consent, third-party advertisers can set cookies to enable them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests when you're on third party websites. You can disable cookies that remember your surfing habits and target advertising at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed in the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertisements are included in this list, which means you may still get some cookies and tailored adverts from companies which aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you link your accounts or engage 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 instructions 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 in your use of our Site. By way of example, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want 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, date and time, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites 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, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose 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 information, 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 do not associate such feedback with your personal data. For those who have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name together with your comments 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 data, including personal data that we gather from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, processing or leasing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We seek 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 information via the internet isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you believe that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as 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, he or she 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 may only implement requests concerning the personal 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 case, within one month of your request. Please note that we may have 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 regarding 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 will 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, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our website.