PrisonPlanet.com
– EU Privacy Notice
Effective date: May 25,
2018
Introduction:
The data controller for
PrisonPlanet.com (the “Site”) is Free Speech Systems LLC (“Free
Speech Systems”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed
to fulfilling our responsibilities under the European Union’s
General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in relation to the
collection, retention, use, and other processing of personal data
that is obtained when EU data subjects visit and interact with the
Site. This Privacy Notice sets forth how we process EU personal data
in our role as a data controller (i.e., when
we are responsible for determining the purpose and means of the
processing).
This Privacy Notice
covers:
How
and Why We Use Your Personal Data
How
We May Share Your Personal Data
How
We Protect Your Personal Data
How
Long We Retain Your Personal Data
How
We Use Cookies and Other Similar Technologies
How
We Transfer Your Personal Data
Free Speech Systems may
collect and process the following information when you visit the
Site.
Contact data.
You may provide us with your contact details, such as name, email
address, physical address, phone number, email address, or other
similar information, which we may use to respond to you or for
administrative purposes.
Log data.
As with most websites and technology
services delivered over the Internet, our servers automatically
collect information when you access or use our Site and record that
data in log files. This log data may include your Internet Protocol
(IP) address, the address of the web page visited before using the
Site, browser type and settings, the date and time the Site was
used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language
preferences, and cookie data.
Device
Information. Free
Speech Systems may obtain
information about devices that access the
Site, including the type of device, its operating system, device
settings, unique device identifiers, and crash data.
Authentication
Data. To verify the identity of registered
users on the Site we may collect a user name, password, password
hint(s), and other similar authentication information.
Other
Information You Provide. This
includes emails and other communications that you send us or
otherwise contribute, such as customer support inquiries and
reviews. If you purchase a product, this will include information
that is necessary to complete your purchase such as your credit card
information. Please be aware that information you post on public
parts of our website may be visible to anyone.
Note
that our Site is dynamic. We may introduce new features, which may
involve new or different personal data processing activities. If we
make a material change to how we process your personal data, we will
notify you and may also modify this Privacy Notice.
How
and Why We Use Your Personal Data
We may use the personal
data we obtain to:
Communicate with you
Provide you with customized services
Ensure the security and integrity of our Site
Maintain and promote the Site
Analyze and learn about how the Site is accessed
and used
Manage our customer and partner relationships
Enforce our legal terms and policies
Protect our and others’ interests, rights, and
property
Comply with
applicable legal requirements.
We process your
personal data pursuant to the following legal bases:
You have consented
to the use of your personal data. When you consent, you can change
your mind at any time.
The processing is
necessary for us to provide you with the services and products you
request, or to respond to your inquiries.
We have a legal
obligation to process your personal data, such as to comply with
applicable tax and other government regulations or to comply with a
court order or binding law enforcement request.
To protect your
vital interests, or those of others.
We have a
legitimate interest in using your personal data. In particular, we
have a legitimate interest in the following cases:
To analyze and
improve the safety and security of our Site. This includes
implementing and enhancing security measures and protections and
protecting against fraud, spam, and abuse.
To maintain and
improve the Site.
To operate the
Site and provide you with certain tailored advertising and
communications to develop and promote our business.
To anonymize
personal data and subsequently use the anonymized information.
How
We May Share Your Personal Data
We may share your
personal data:
With our
affiliates or business partners when it is reasonably necessary or
desirable, such as to help provide services to you or analyze and
improve the Site.
With our service
providers that perform services on our behalf. For example, we may
use third parties to help us provide customer support, ship your
order, provide loyalty rewards, authorize and process your payments,
manage our advertisements on other websites, send marketing and
other communications on our behalf, or assist with data storage.
In order to follow
the law or protect rights and interests. For
example, we may disclose your personal data if we determine that
such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with the law,
protect our or others’ rights, property or interests (such as
enforcing our Terms of Use), or prevent fraud or abuse. In
particular, we may disclose your personal data in response to lawful
requests by public authorities, such as to meet national security or
law enforcement requirements.
If we are involved
in a reorganization, merger, acquisition, or sale of some or all of
our assets.
How
We Protect Your Personal Data
We
maintain appropriate technical and organizational safeguards designed
to help protect personal data from unauthorized disclosure or access
and accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, or alteration.
Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard personal data, we
cannot guarantee the security of your information obtained through
the Site.
How Long We Retain
Your Personal Data
We will store your
personal data for no longer than is necessary for the performance of
our obligations or to achieve the purposes for which the information
was collected, or as may be permitted under applicable law. To
determine the appropriate retention period, we will consider the
amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data; the potential risk of
harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data; the purposes
for which we process the data and whether we can achieve those
purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements.
Unless otherwise required by applicable law, at the end of the
retention period we will remove personal data from our systems and
records or take appropriate steps to properly anonymize it.
How
We Use Cookies and Other Similar Technologies
To
improve our Site, Free Speech Systems may use the following “cookies”
to track your visit:
Provider | Purpose |
Google Publisher Tags | To track and log user actions for advertising |
Google IMA | To manage advertisements on our Website. |
Disqus | To enable comment and discussion features on our |
Google Analytics | To measure effectiveness of advertising and users’ |
Alexa Metrics | To measure effectiveness of advertising and users’ |
VigLink | To track and log user actions for advertising |
Facebook Impressions | To enable the site to work with social media |
Google+ Platform | To enable the site to work with social media |
Facebook Connect | To enable the site to work with social media |
Personal Data
Transfers
If we transfer your
personal data out of the European
Economic Area (“EEA”) to countries not
deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of
personal data protection, the transfer will be based on one of the
following safeguards recognized by the European Commission as
providing adequate protection for personal data, where required by EU
data protection legislation:
Contracts approved
by the European Commission which impose data protection obligations
on the parties to the transfer.
The EU – U.S.
Privacy Shield Framework (for transfers to third parties in the
United States that have self-certified to the Framework).
Please contact us if
you want further information on the specific mechanism we have used
to transfer your personal data.
The GDPR provides EU
data subjects with certain rights regarding their personal data.
Subject to certain conditions, you may ask Free Speech Systems to
take the following actions in relation to your personal data that we
hold:
Provide you with
information about our processing of your personal data and give you
access to your personal data.
Update or correct
inaccuracies in your personal data.
Delete your
personal data.
Transfer a
machine-readable copy of your personal data to you or a third party
of your choice.
Restrict the
processing of your personal data.
Object to our
processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Object to reliance
on our legitimate interests as the basis for processing of your
personal data.
You can submit these
requests by email to [email protected]
or our postal address provided below. We
may request specific information from you to help us confirm your
identity prior to processing your request. Applicable law may
require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline your
request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you
would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal data
or our response to your requests regarding your personal data, you
may contact us at [email protected]
or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your
jurisdiction. You can find information about your data protection
regulator here.
Free
Speech Systems can be contacted via e-mail sent to
[email protected]
or at the following address:
Free
Speech Systems LLC
ATTN:
PRIVACY INQUIRY
3005 S
Lamar Blvd.
Austin,
TX 78704
United
States of America