We collect, process and retain personal data to the extent it is necessary to provide users with our service. This
privacy policy applies to information we collect:
- on this Website,
- in e-mail, text and other communications between you and this Website,
- through mobile applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction
between you and this Website, or
- when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or
advertising include links to this privacy policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our
affiliates and subsidiaries); or
- any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including
advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website. Clicking on those links or enabling those
connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and
are not responsible for their privacy statements.
The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be
identified by (“Personal Information”). It does not include data that has been anonymized or pseudonymized.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as
follows:
Persons who visit the Website without logging in or registering “unregistered users”
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, which we pseudonymize (a technique that replaces or removes
information in the dataset that identifies an individual), browser type and version, time zone setting and location,
operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
- User Submitted Data includes data collected at your direction for a specific function, for example a contest or survey.
- Usage Data includes aggregated information about how you use our Website, products and services.
Persons who choose to create a private account “private account users”
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, which we pseudonymize (a technique that replaces or removes
information in the dataset that identifies an individual), browser type and version, time zone setting and location,
operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
- User Submitted Data includes data collected at your direction for a specific function, for example your interests,
preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our Website, products and services.
Persons who choose to create an account “registered users”
- Identity Data includes, username or similar identifier, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes email address.
- Financial Data in case of purchases includes payment card details.
- Transaction Data in case of purchases, it may include details about payments to and from you and other details of
products and services you have purchased or received from us.
- Technical Data includes pseudonymized internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time
zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this
Website.
- User Submitted Data includes data collected at your direction for a specific function, for example your username and
password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our Website, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and
your communication preferences.
We may also collect, use and share your data to produce and share aggregated insights that do not identify you.
Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data does not
directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage
of users accessing a specific Website feature, to generate statistics about our users, to calculate the percentage of
users accessing a specific Website feature, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, or to publish visitor
demographics.
We do not collect special categories of Personal Information about you (this includes details about your race or
ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health
and genetic and biometric data). However, particular preferences and sexual orientation depend on how you use our
Website and services. The processing of such Sensitive Personal Information may be necessary to provide some of our
service to you.
How is Your Personal Information Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. Information that you provide when carrying out search queries on our Website or by filling in forms
on our Website, in particular at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting
material, taking part in surveys, entering a contest or promotion sponsored by us, when reporting a problem with our
Website, or requesting further services.
- Automated technologies or interactions. See “Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” for details of
how we may automatically collect your personal data.
User Contributions
We may provide areas on our Website where you can post information about yourself and others and communicate with
others, upload content (e.g., pictures, videos, audio files, etc.), and post comments or reviews of content found on the
Website. You should be aware that any Personal Information you submit, display, or publish in public areas of our website
is considered publicly available and can be read, collected, used, and disclosed by others. We cannot control who reads
your posting or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise
discretion and caution with respect to your Personal Information. To request removal of your personal information from
our website, please use the Contact Us form on this Website.
Information Collected Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain
information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including information such as your IP address, browser
type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information, search
terms, and cookie information.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). Cookies are small text files that are stored in your web browser or downloaded to your
device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to
another website that recognizes that cookie, and allow a website to recognize a user’s device.
We currently use the following types of cookies:
Cookies that are strictly necessary: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. These
include, for example, cookies that enable a user to log in to our Website and to check if a user is allowed access to a
particular service or content.
Analytical cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and
explore our Website. These cookies help us to improve our Website, for example by ensuring that all users are able to
find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: These cookies are not essential, but help us to personalize and enhance your online experience on
our Website. This type of cookies allows us to recognize you when you return to our Website and to remember, for
example, your choice of language.
Targeting cookies: These cookies record the visit of a user on our Website, the pages a user has visited and the links a
user has followed in order to enable us to make our Website more relevant to the users' interests.
We do not require that you accept cookies and you may withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time by
adjusting your browser’s privacy settings. However, if you decline to accept cookies, some functionality on our Website
may be disabled and you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser
setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you close your
browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires or you delete your cookies. Expiration dates are set in the
cookies themselves; some may expire after a few minutes while others may expire after multiple year
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also known as
clear gifs, pixel tags, single-pixel gifs and web bugs) that are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in
function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies.
Analytics. We use third party analytics and advertising tools and technologies, in particular Google Analytics and
DoubleClick provided by Google, Inc., USA (“Google”). These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of
information, including IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, onsite behavior and usage
information, feature use metrics and statistics, usage and purchase history, media access control address (MAC Address),
mobile unique device identifiers, and other similar information via the use of cookies. The information generated by
Google Analytics and DoubleClick about your use of the Website (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and
stored by Google on servers in the United States. Because we activated IP anonymization for Google Analytics and Double
Click, Google will anonymize the last octet of a particular IP address. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address
is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating
your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity and managing advertising content. #
Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including
advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies
alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use
our Website. Unless expressly stated otherwise, our website does not provide any Personal Information to these third
parties, however they may collect information, including Personal Information, such as internet protocol (IP) address,
browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the
devices you use to access this Website. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or
other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an
advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. #
How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the applicable local law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal
data in the following circumstances:
For purposes of providing the services, customer management and functionality and security as is necessary to perform
the services provided to you under our term and conditions and any other contract that you have with us.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights
do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Where you declare your valid consent to use it.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which
we are using your data.
Purposes for Which We Use Your Personal Information
In general, we use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information and
Sensitive Personal Information, for following purposes:
Provision of services (Registered Members and Private Account Users Only): to present our Website and its contents to
you, including any interactive features on our Website, and to provide you with information, products or services that
you request from us; we also collect and use Personal Information to verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in
connection with contests and sweepstakes;
Customer management (Registered Members Only): to manage a registered users’ account, to provide customer support and
notices to the registered user about his account or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices, and notices
about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it;
Customization of content (Registered Members and Private Account Users Only): to perform research and analysis about
your use of, or interest in, our Website content, products, or services, in order to develop and display content and
advertising tailored to your interests on our Website and other sites;
Analytics: to determine whether users of the Website are unique, or whether the same user is using the Website on
multiple occasions, and to monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, demographic
patterns;
Functionality and security: to diagnose or fix technology problems, and to detect, prevent, and respond to actual or
potential fraud, illegal activities, or intellectual property infringement;
Compliance: to enforce our terms and conditions and to comply with our legal obligations;
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; or for any other purpose with your consent provided
separately from this privacy policy.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We do not disclose your Personal Information except in the limited circumstances described here.
We may disclose your Personal Information to members of our corporate group (that is, entities that control, are
controlled by, or are under common control with us) to the extent this is necessary for the purposes of provision of
services, customer management, customization of content, advertising, analytics, verifications, functionality and
security, and compliance.
Service providers. To our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may
include fulfilling orders, processing credit card payments, risk and fraud detection and mitigation, providing customer
service, performing business and sales analysis, customization of content, analytics, security, supporting our Website
functionality, surveys and other features offered through our Website. These service providers may have access to
Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any
other purposes.
Legal successors. To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization,
dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy,
liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets
transferred. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to
which we transfer your personal information uses it in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy.
We access, preserve and share your Personal Information with regulators, law enforcement or others where we reasonably
believe such disclosure is needed to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request,
(b) enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities, security or technical issues, (d) protect against harm to the
rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; or (e) to maintain and protect the
security and integrity of our Website or infrastructure. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or
right available to us, in our sole discretion.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without
restriction. We also may share aggregated information with third parties for conducting general business analysis. This
information does not contain any Personal Information and may be used to develop content and services that we hope you
and other users will find of interest.
Financial Information
Financial information (including Personal Information) that you have provided to us will only be shared with our third
party processors in order to initiate and complete any orders placed on your account. All credit card transactions and
such are processed with industry standard encryption through third party processors who only use your financial
information and Personal Information for that purpose. All financial data and related Personal Information will not be
shared by us with third parties except with your authorization or when necessary to carry out all and any transactions
requested by you with the understanding that such transactions may be subject to rules, terms, conditions and policies
of a third party. All such information provided to a third party is subject to their terms and conditions.
Transfers of Your Personal Information to Other Countries
Whenever in the course of sharing information we transfer Personal Information to countries outside of the European
Economic Area and other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, we will ensure that the information is
transferred in accordance with this privacy policy and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.
By using the Website you consent to the transfer of information that we collect about you, including personal
information, to any country in which we, members of our corporate group (that is, entities that control, are controlled
by, or are under common control with us) or our service providers are located.
Retention of Personal Information
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including
for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the
personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for
which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable
legal requirements.
Where we no longer need to process your Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we will delete
your Personal Data from our systems.
Where permissible, we will also delete your Personal Data upon your request. Information on how to make a deletion
request can be found under “Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information”.
The period for which we keep your Personal Information that is necessary for compliance and legal enforcement purposes
varies and depend on the nature of our legal obligations and claims in the individual case.
How We Protect the Security of Your Personal Information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to safeguard your
Personal Information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to
access Personal Information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption in
the transmission of your Personal Information between your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help prevent
unauthorized persons from gaining access to your Personal Information. Please be advised, however, that we cannot fully
eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of Personal Data.
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times. We are not
responsible for circumventions of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Choices About How We Collect, Use and Disclose Your Personal Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us.
You can choose not to provide us with certain Personal Information, but that may result in you being unable to use
certain features of our Website because such information may be required in order for you to register as a member;
purchase products or services; participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate
other transactions on our Website.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you
disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
You may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie or of Google Analytics by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or by
downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at Google Analytics opt-out page.
When you register on our Website. If you no longer want to receive commercial or promotional emails or newsletters from
us, you will need to avail yourself of the unsubscribe mechanism set out in the applicable communication. It may take up
to seven days for us to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail
communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity
to opt out of receiving them. Please note that opting out of receipt of promotional email communications will only
affect future activities or communications from us. If we have already provided your information to a third party before
you have changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change you preferences directly with that
third party.
If you submit Personal Information, you may delete and deactivate your account with us at any time. If you deactivate
and delete the information of your account, your Personal Information and any and all other account related information
including, but not limited to, user profile data, sharing data and any other data, or content specifically associated
with your account will no longer be accessible by you. After deleting and deactivating your account, if you choose to
have an account with us in the future, you will have to sign up for a new account as none of the information you
previously provided or saved within your account will have been saved.
Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information
Subject to local law, you have certain rights regarding the Personal Information we collect, use or disclose and that is
related to you, including the right
- to receive information on the Personal Information concerning we hold about you and how such Personal Information is
used (right to access);
- to rectify inaccurate Personal Information concerning you (right to data rectification);
- to delete/erase your Personal Information (right to erasure/deletion, “right to be forgotten”);
- to receive the Personal Information provided by you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to
transmit those Personal Information to another data controller (right to data portability)
- to object to the use of your Personal Information where such use is based on our legitimate interests or on public
interests (right to object); and
- in some cases, to restrict our use of your Personal Information (right to restriction of processing).
If we ask for your consent to use your Personal Information, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Note that in
case of a withdrawal of your consent you may no longer able to use several functionalities of our Website and our
services.
You may, at any time, contact us using the Contact Us form below to exercise your above rights in accordance with the
applicable legal requirements and limitations. If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have a right to
lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Note that some requests to delete certain Personal Information will require the deletion of your user account as the
provision of user accounts are inextricable linked to the use of certain Personal Information (e.g., your e-mail
address). Also note that it is possible that we require additional information from you in order to verify your
authorization to make the request and to honor your request.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT NOTICE
As of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides California residents
(“Consumer(s)”) certain rights with respect to their personal information, as this term is defined under the CCPA. In
addition to the rights we state under this policy and subject to the exceptions found under the CCPA, Consumers have the
right to:
Opt-out of the sale of their personal information, should we sell their personal information;
Be informed of certain information concerning our collection and use of their personal information;
Request that we delete certain personal information we collected from them;
Appoint an agent to exercise their rights provided for by the CCPA, provided that a duly executed notarized power of
attorney is presented and provided that the agent has information deemed sufficient to allow us to verify the identity
of the Consumer in question and to locate his/her information in our systems;
Not be subjected to discrimination for the exercise of these rights. We will not deny California residents the use of
our service, neither will we provide a different level or quality or services for exercising any of their CCPA rights,
unless as permitted under the CCPA.
This Website does not sell nor has it sold in the past 12 months personal information to third parties for monetary or
other valuable considerations. We may however disclose certain personal information with third parties, service
providers and entities within our corporate group in order to enable them to perform certain services on our behalf and
namely to make the Website work properly. Regardless, we respect the California residents’ right to exclude personal
information from such sharing arrangements and to thereby opt-out of any future sale of their personal information.
If the CCPA is applicable to you and you would like to exercise your rights, please contact us using the Contact Us form.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may modify or revise our privacy policy from time to time. Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes
are made to this privacy policy, you are expected to periodically review the most up-to-date version found at
http://www.rankmyporn.com/privacy so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
If we change anything in our privacy policy, the date of change will be reflected in the “last modified date”. You agree
that you will periodically review this privacy policy and refresh the page when doing so. You agree to note the date of
the last revision to our privacy policy. If the “last modified” date is unchanged from the last time you reviewed our
privacy policy, then it is unchanged. On the other hand, if the date has changed, then there have been changes, and you
agree to re-review our privacy policy, and you agree to the new ones. By continuing to use the Website subsequent to us
making available an amended version of our privacy policy in a way that you can easily take notice of it, you thereby
consent to such amendment.
Enforcement; Cooperation
We regularly review our compliance with this privacy policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns
regarding this privacy policy or our treatment of Personal Information by contacting us through this Website at
http://www.youporn.com/contact. When we receive a formal written complaint, it is our policy to contact the
complaining party regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the collection, use and disclosure of
Personal Information that cannot be resolved by an individual and us.
No Rights of Third Parties
This privacy policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any Personal
Information relating to users of the Website.
Our Policy Towards Minors
Our Website is not directed to persons under the age of 18 or the applicable age of majority in the jurisdiction from
which the Website is accessed and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors. If you become aware that
your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us on Contact Us below. If we become aware that
a minor has provided us with Personal Information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate that person’s
account.
No Error Free Performance
We do not guarantee error-free performance under this privacy policy. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with this
privacy policy and will take prompt corrective action when we learn of any failure to comply with our privacy policy. We
shall not be liable for any incidental, consequential or punitive damages relating to this privacy policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our information-handling practices, please contact us at
http://www.youporn.com/contact.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation law in the European Union effective May 25, 2018,
users can request a copy of their personal identifying data as well as get us to delete their personal data. You
can do so by contacting us at http://www.youporn.com/contact.
