Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how www.8against8.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, 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.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal information?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, 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 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 so as to provide you with 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 see our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we need under applicable law to process your information. You keep 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:

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through 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'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 right settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For 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 website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've 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 do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. But we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by law, in which case we will 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 drive of your 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 computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more interactive and personal 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 are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (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.

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 crucial to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to let you use some of its features. For example, they let you 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 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 details and recalling the modifications you make to other parts of our Site that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes 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 doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the number 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, whether they have 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 utilize Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only used to enhance 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 surfing habits to enable us to show advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third-party advertisers can place cookies to allow them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests when you're on third party sites.

You may disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they might not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the firms listed at the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still get some cookies and tailored adverts from companies which are not listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you link your accounts or participate with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You may typically reject or remove cookies via 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 might experience some inconvenience in your usage of our Site. By way of instance, we may be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in every 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, date and time, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled 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 companies 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:

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, including via our rewards 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 confidential or confidential once it's printed 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 might 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.

International Data Transfer

Your data, including personal data that we gather from you, may be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data security 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, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to make certain that your information 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 transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.

Retention

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 allowed 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'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests regarding the personal data related to the specific email address that 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 event, 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 alteration or deletion.

Complaints

We are dedicated 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 through the information listed on our website. We'll 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, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

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