Last Updated: February, 2020
Digital-Asylum.com (“DA”) respects the privacy rights of our members and online visitors, and has adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how we collect, store and use the information you provide to us.
What Does This Privacy Policy Apply To?
This Privacy Policy applies to all Websites operated under the digital-asylum.com domain including https://digital-asylum.com and sub-domains (collectively, “DA Websites,” “DA Sites,” “Websites,” or “Sites”). By using this Website or contacting the administrators, you consent to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy and to our processing of personal information for the purposes stated below. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, please do not use the Website.
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect information from you on a voluntary basis when you:
- create an account to participate in community features
- participate in online discussions
- participate in contests, events, or promotions
- send questions or comments
- fill out online forms or surveys
To register an online account on our Website, you must, at a minimum, provide your email address, date of birth, location, and create a password. To participate in other programs, you may be required to provide your first and last name, city, country, postal code, gender, email address, and other personal information.
We may also collect information from you at other points on the Websites, as described below:
Message Boards, Forums, Blogs and Social Networking
We may provide message boards, blogs, or other public forums on the Websites for exchanging information and social networking. Please note that any information, user content or any other materials that you post on our Website, including any personal information that you choose to make public, will be available for any user of that service to read, and are therefore no longer private and may be disclosed without limitations as to use by a third party. If you post information, materials or other content on the Websites or other public forum, you are providing information that can be collected and used by others that you do not know, for their own purposes, including the distribution of unsolicited communications.
If you wish to review, correct, or delete content or information you have publicly posted through our message boards, forums, or blogs, you may do so by visiting the individual post and selecting the “Edit” or “Delete” options. Alternatively, you may contact us with your request. Please note that removal of this content or information from public view does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal. After your removal request has been honored, we may retain copies of the content or information you have previously posted on our servers. Additionally, we are not required to remove your posted content or information if it has been rendered anonymous or if we are required by law to retain it.
Online Surveys
In order to improve the user experience on our Websites or for research purposes, we may employ online surveys for visitors to volunteer anonymous demographic information about themselves and provide us feedback about why they visit our Websites. Information collected through these surveys is anonymous; we cannot identify who is submitting the information or tie it to other personally identifiable information a user may have provided us through another means.
Regardless of the activity, we will only collect information to the extent it is reasonably necessary to fulfill your requests and our legitimate organizational objectives. If you do not want to submit personal information when requested, you will not be able to access certain areas on our Websites or take advantage of certain features of our Websites. However, you are not required to provide personal information to us in order to use our Websites.
Social Media
You may also engage with us on or through third-party social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter (or third-party social media plug-ins and applications). When you engage with us on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile (e.g., name, email address, photo, gender, birthday, location, your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the ‘likes’ you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the application. We may also obtain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., content viewed and information about advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on) from your interaction with our content.
When you provide information from your social media account, it can help enable us to do things like (1) give you exclusive content, (2) personalize your online experience with us within and outside our Websites (and or applications), and (3) contact you through the social networking Websites or directly to send you the latest news and updates. By doing so, you consent to the use of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. When you provide personal information to us through an application, on our Websites, or on social networking websites, it may be publicly viewed by other members of these websites and we cannot prevent further use of the information by third parties.
Through some social networking websites’ privacy settings, you can control what data you share. For more information about how social networking websites handle your personal information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use.
Tracking Pixels, Cookies and IP Addresses
Tracking pixels, sometimes called “web bugs,” “pixel tags,” “clear GIFs,” or “web beacons” are file objects, usually a graphic image such as a transparent one pixel-by-one pixel GIF (Graphics Interchange Format, one of the two most common file formats for images on the Web), that are placed on a web page or in an email message to monitor user behavior. The pixel tells us the IP address of the computer that fetched our page, the URL of the page the pixel is on, the time the page was viewed, the type of browser used, and it can also identify a previously set cookie value, and how and where a user accessed a website. This anonymous information is returned by the pixel to our website and we may use this information to accurately count visitors across our Websites and understand how they navigate and use our network of Websites. We do not combine information gathered through tracking pixels with your personal information.
We use “cookies” to enhance your experience on our Websites and to understand how you interact with our Websites, products and services. Cookies are pieces of information that we place on your computer to help us accurately understand how many users are visiting a particular site, how often they visit that site and what content they are most interested in viewing. For example, a cookie will allow us to remember certain things based on your Internet Protocol or “IP” address (an IP address is the string of numbers that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent across the Internet), such as the time and duration of your visits, how you navigated through our content and where you exited a particular site. To learn more about how we use cookies, please visit our Cookie Policy.
Our Websites collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our membership, and to audit the use of our Websites. When visitors request pages on one of our Websites, our servers log the visitors' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, or to protect our Services, Websites, members, or others.
Log Files
Other information passively collected by the website is in the form of log-files that record Website activity and gather statistics about users’ browsing habits. These entries are generated anonymously, and help us determine (among other things) how many and how often users have visited our Websites, which pages they visited, and other similar data. We also use the log file entries for tracking errors encountered on the Websites so we can improve the online services and content we provide.
Who is Collecting My Information and How Will It Be Used?
We, or our third party partners and service providers, collect information you provide through our Websites or when you interact with us. We may use your personal information for our internal research and demographic studies, so we can constantly improve our content and services. The demographic information (e.g., age and gender) you provide us is collected by us and may be disclosed in aggregate to third parties. This aggregate demographic information cannot be used to personally identify you or your computer.
Third parties who fulfill online services such as hosting or surveys may collect the personal information you provide through our Websites. These third parties will not use your personal information for any purpose other than to provide the related services, and have agreed to maintain confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal information.
With Whom Does Digital Asylum Share My Personal Information?
We may share your information with its related entities including our membership and administration. We may also share personal information with third party service providers who assist us with operating our Websites or provide us with various services (e.g. payment processing, community operations, email services, or technical support). These entities will not use your personal information for any other purpose than that for which it was received by us, and they agree to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all information (personal or otherwise) they receive from us.
We may also disclose your personal information in order to fulfill a service to you. For example, if you request printed materials, we may use your personally identifiable information in order to fulfill the request. This means that we may share the information for printing purposes or mail carriers. Additionally, if you make a purchase on one of our Websites, your credit card data will be submitted to a third party payment processing company as necessary to complete your purchase (for example, to process your credit card). Credit card data is never received or stored directly on our website. In the event that such data is shared, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure applicable third parties adequately protect the data.
We may disclose personal information in the good faith belief that we are required to do so by law including, but not limited to, disclosure to law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose you or us to legal liability.
Except as set forth herein, we do not sell or rent personal information collected from and about our visitors or members to third parties.
International Transfers of Information
The Digital Asylum servers reside in the United States. If you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information (e.g., through email, account creation, participating in online surveys, or by contacting us), such information may be transferred across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.
If you reside in the European Union or in countries with laws governing data collection and use that differ from the United States, please note that by providing us with your personally identifiable information, you are expressly consenting to the transfer of your personally identifiable information to the United States as well as other jurisdictions where the website operates or provides services.
Linking to Third Party Websites
To provide relevant information not found on our Websites, we may provide links from our Websites to third party Websites. We encourage our users to read third party Websites' privacy policies before submitting personal information on those sites.
Opt-Out
If you do not want us to send you information about content, services, or events, you may opt-out of receiving such communications at the time of registration. After registration, you may opt-out by following the link provided in our emails or by contacting us. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to contact you with updates relating to your account, the Terms of Use, the Code of Conduct or this Privacy Policy.
Safeguarding Your Personal Information
We only collects personal information to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve legitimate organizational purposes and to facilitate your requests. We take appropriate steps to ensure the security and integrity of any information you provide to us by using industry standard security processes and technology. When you provide information to us, such information is collected through secure and encrypted connections hosted by our backend technology and servers.
Review, Update and Removal of Personal Information
If you have registered an account, you may at any time review or update the contact information we have for you or inform us that you want us to remove your information from our database by contacting us. Please be sure to include in your message the email address you used to register so that we can verify your request.
Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits visitors of our Websites who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share our customer’s personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. Additionally, you may make a request to “be forgotten” from our Websites. Upon such a request we will remove all information regarding your account.
To make such requests, please contact us.
Questions and Complaints
Any questions or complaints about the website or this Privacy Policy can be addressed by contacting us.
We reserve the right to change this statement at any time. Please visit this page from time to time to check for changes. For additional information about our Websites, please see our Terms of Use.