Privacy Policy
The following Privacy Policy covers our websites, TheDigitalAcid.com (referred to as “The Digital Acid”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). It is our goal to bring you information tailored to your personal interests but, at the same time, protect your privacy. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
By using The Digital Acid, submitting information or using any of our products and/or services, you are agreeing with and accepting the terms and the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with and accept this Privacy Policy, please do not use The Digital Acid, provide information to us or use our products and/or services.
This Privacy Policy covers The Digital Acid’s collection and use of any personal data that we gather when you are on The Digital Acid and when you are using our services. Also, this Privacy Policy covers The Digital Acid’s use of any personal data that our business partners may share with us. This Privacy Policy does not cover personal data (if any) that may be collected elsewhere, including without limitation offline and on other sites linked to and from The Digital Acid as well as the practices of third parties that The Digital Acid does not control or own, or individuals that The Digital Acid does not employ or manage.
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time so check back often. Your continued access of The Digital Acid or provision of your personal data to us or continued use of our products or services (as the case may be) following the posting of changes or revisions to the terms of our Privacy Policy will constitute your agreement with and acceptance of the changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting TheDigitalAcid.com. This Privacy Policy is written to better explain how we collect and use your personal data. This Privacy Policy is a binding contract and you must agree to it to the same extent as our Terms & Conditions in order to use our services.
2. Personal Data You Provide to Us
The Digital Acid generally collects personally identifying information (such as, for example, your name, email address, contact address, phone number, payment information, date of birth, etc.) with your specific knowledge and consent. This includes but is not limited to when you place orders with us and complete a survey. You can choose not to provide us with certain personal data, but we may not be able to process your orders, transactions, or applications, or you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features such as posting on our forums.
3. Public Areas
When you post, contribute or share any content to a public area of The Digital Acid such as our thedigitalacid.com comment sections, the content you submit will be made available to the general public. To protect your privacy, we would recommend that you exercise caution when submitting, sharing or posting on such public area any personal data or sensitive information such as but not limited to your full name, address, phone number, or any other information that would allow other users or third parties to locate you or obtain information about you. You are entirely responsible for your use of our websites, for all of the contents that you submit or post on our websites, for any and all activities that occur under your account, and for ensuring, protecting and safeguarding the confidentiality and the security of your account. We shall not be held liable for any claims, loss or damage resulting from a breach of the foregoing, or your use of and contributions on our websites, or any unauthorized use of your account.
4. Personal Data We Collect When You Buy from Us
In order for you to place an order with us, you must provide us your name, e-mail address, mailing address, date of birth, Paypal information and telephone number. If you do not provide the required personal data to us or if the data provided is inaccurate, we may not be able to process your order. We will use your personal data to process your order and for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy, and we will not disclose any personal data that you provide to us except in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
5. Automatic Information
Our servers may automatically collect automatic and/or aggregate information about your computer or electronic device when you visit our websites, including without limitation the website that referred you, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the type and configuration of the internet browser of your computer or electronic device, browsing preference such as language settings and font size, geo-location information and operating system of the computer or electronic device used for accessing our websites, and other usage and traffic information. The Digital Acid uses this automatic and/or aggregate information to analyze trends, gather and prepare statistics or demographic information and administer our websites so that we may provide improved web experiences to our users. Such automatic and/or aggregate information is not collected in a manner that would identify you personally. We may provide automatic and/or aggregate information, which are not personal data, to our partners about how our users, collectively use our websites. We may share this information with our partners, so that they may further understand the usage of their areas and our websites so that they too can provide you with a better web experience. There may also be occasions when we are legally required to disclosure or provide access to our database in order to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings or otherwise comply with any applicable laws or regulations, court order or lawful requests from any government authority. In those instances, the data is provided only for that purpose. For the avoidance of doubt, this Privacy Policy in no way restricts or limits our collection and use of such automatic and/or aggregate information.
6. Use and Provision of Personal Data
We may collect, use, store and provide your personal data for any of the following purposes, including:
To enhance or improve user experience, the Digital Acid and/or our products and/or services, or to facilitate our performance of our services or any services offered on the Digital Acid.
To register, verify, process and maintain your account on The Digital Acid.
To process, verify, operate, manage, administer and maintain membership programs for our users, including but not limited to The Digital Acid VIP Membership Program, The Digital Acid Referral Program, etc.
To process your orders and/or transactions on the Digital Acid and/or for our products and/or services.
To conduct and process any contests, sweepstakes and/or surveys that we may from time to time organize in relation to The Digital Acid, our business, products and/or services, and to announce the winners of the relevant contests and/or sweepstakes (as the case may be) on The Digital Acid or any other medium/channels as may be required under the applicable laws.
To communicate with you about changes/revisions to our Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, our websites or respond to inquiries.
To send e-mails and/or other communications about our websites and/or other fashion, cultural content, art, music, design and/or lifestyle products and/or services, related news, or updates for thedigitalacid.com provided that we have obtained your explicit consent to do so.
To detect, investigate, identify and protect against and/or preventing fraudulent transactions and other misuses of our websites and/or other activities on the Digital Acid which may violate our Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions or may be illegal.
To enforce our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
To provide third party service provider(s) engaged by us to provide services for or in relation to The Digital Acid, to process data on our behalf, to provide information technology support to us and/or conduct maintenance of our servers, data banks and databases, including but not limited to IT contractor(s), website analytic service provider(s), data processor(s) and service provider(s) for database management systems.
To purchaser(s)/assignee(s) as part of any re-organization, merger, transfer or sale of our business.
To comply with or as permitted by any applicable laws or regulations, court order or lawful request from any government authority.
7. Cookies
In order to distinguish you from other users—especially other users on the same network as you— we would use cookies to track your specific computer or electronic device. Cookies are small computer text files that are sent from a website to the browser of your computer or electronic device and are stored on your device. Generally, cookies do not recognize you personally and are not harmful to your device. Cookies are used by websites that you visit and browse to improve your website browsing experience and provide the website operators with non-personal data or analytical information to help improve the quality of their websites for their users’ website browsing experience. For example, we use cookies to save your device’s browsing preferences and settings. For these reasons we require that you keep cookies enabled when using our websites. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies on your computer or electronic device, you may find that some of the features and functionality of our websites may not work properly. Additionally, our cookies may be accessible by third parties or provided by third parties including, for example, Google via Google AdSense on our websites. We do not have any control over and are not responsible or liable for such third parties’ collection and use of the cookies. Please refer to those third parties’ relevant policies regarding their collection and use of cookies for further information.
8. Third Party Websites
The Digital Acid may contain links to third party websites, advertisers or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites, advertisers or services or their use of your personal data. If you access a third party website from our websites, you do so at your own risk and you understand that neither this Privacy Policy nor our Terms & Conditions apply to your use of such sites. We would encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of use of any third party website, advertisers or service that you visit or use before providing your personal data to those third parties, and we shall not be liable in relation to your activities on or with those other third party websites, advertisers or services.
9. Third Party Access to Your Personal Data
Without prejudice to the provisions in Clause 6 above, we endeavor to do our best to protect your personal data from being accessed by third parties. However, since we may employ outside maintenance personnel or use third party service providers to provide website, information technology and/or data processing services to us or to host our material, there are third party entities which may have custody or access to your information. Because of this, it is necessary that you permit us to give access to your personal data to such third party entities to the same extent that you authorize us to do so. For greater certainty, every authorization which you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you also grant to any third party entities that we may hire, contract, instruct or otherwise retain the services of for the purpose of operating, hosting, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise improving or preserving our websites or its underlying files or systems, or for data processing on our behalf, or for providing information technology support to us, and/or for conducting maintenance of our servers, data banks and/or databases (as the case may be). To the fullest and maximum extent as is permitted under the applicable laws, you agree not to hold us liable for the actions of any of these third parties, even if we would normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and that you must take legal action against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionable wrong against you.
Additionally, we may store your personal data or share them with other third parties as set out in Clause 6 for the relevant purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy. Please refer to Clause 6 above for further information regarding our purposes of use and transfer of personal data and the relevant data transferees that may be involved. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the following is a non-exhaustive list of other entities that we may store, share, or transfer your information with in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy:
Amazon Services LLC Associates Program
Google AdSense
Google Analytics with Remarketing
Google Display Network Impression Reporting
Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
Google DoubleClick Services
Google Adwords
Google Personalized Advertising (Interest-Based)
10. Marketing & Communication
When registering for The Digital Acid Forum or The Digital Acid account, you will be given the option to opt-in to receiving our promotional and direct marketing materials and/or updates through the Digital Acid newsletter and The Digital Acid’s ‘new in’ and promotional emails. If you would prefer to opt-out from these e-mails, you can do so at any time by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the e-mail.
We will also be using your personal data for our direct marketing. Please refer to Clause 6 above for further information regarding the relevant purposes of use of personal data for our direct marketing and the classes of marketing subjects concerned. We would use your personal data for direct marketing in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy, and we will not use or provide your personal data to third parties for direct marketing unless we have obtained your explicit or written consent to do so (as the case may be).
11. Law Enforcement
We may disclose your personal data to a third party to comply with or as permitted by any applicable laws or regulations, court order or lawful request from any government authority. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, unless there are any prohibitions/ restrictions under the applicable laws, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either.
12. Security of Information
We use SSL certificates to help secure the Digital Acid. However, we make no representations as to the security or confidentiality of your personal data. You understand and agree that no transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It is in our interest to keep our websites secure, but we recommend that you use anti-virus software, firewalls, and other precautions to protect yourself from security threats.
13. California Online Privacy Protection Act
It is our intent to comply with the California Business and Professions Code §§ 22575-22579. If you are a California resident you may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Various provisions throughout this Privacy Policy address the requirements of the act. In summary, you must presume that we collect electronic information from all visitors. You may contact us at thedigitalacid@gmail.com with any questions.
14. Amendments
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, and the amended version will be posted on our website in place of the old version. We will also include the date that the currently displayed Privacy Policy took effect to help you determine whether there have been any changes since you last used the website. The changes in this Privacy Policy become effective as soon as the changes are published on the website. If you continue to use the website after the changes become effective, it will signify your agreement to be bound by such modifications or revisions.
If you do not agree with the revised/updated Privacy Policy, you must immediately cease using our website and service.
Severance If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed to be severed from this Privacy Policy. Such unenforceability or invalidity shall not in any way affect the enforceability and/or validity of the remaining provisions of this Privacy Policy which shall continue in full force and effect.
15. Contact
Any inquiries about your rights under this Privacy Policy, or any other matters regarding your privacy, can be directed to thedigitalacid@gmail.com. You have the right to request access to and/or correction of your personal data held by us. If you wish to make such a request, please contact us by email at [thedigitalacid@gmail.com] and marked “Attention: Personal Data Access / Correction Request” on your correspondence.
We intend to use your personal data for direct marketing as set out in this Privacy Policy, however, we cannot so use your personal data without your consent or indication of no objection. Should you choose not consent to such use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, please indicate your objection by ticking the opt-out box below. You can also inform us through email or any written format at any time if you would like us to cease use of your personal data for any direct marketing purpose as stated in this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you have not checked the below opt-out box to indicate your objections to such direct marketing, but have clicked the below button to confirm you have read, understood, agreed, and accepted the above, this constitutes your indication of no objection to our use of your personal data for direct marketing.
The information contained on https://www.thedigitalacid.com website (the "Service") is for general information purposes only.
The Digital Acid assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents of the Service.
In no event shall The Digital Acid be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. The Digital Acid reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modifications to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice.
The Digital Acid does not warrant that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components.
16. Affiliate Disclaimer
This affiliate disclosure details the affiliate relationships of The Digital Acid with other companies and products.
Some of the links are "affiliate links", a link with a special tracking code. This means if you click on an affiliate link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission.
The price of the item is the same whether it is an affiliate link or not. Regardless, we only recommend products or services we believe will add value to our readers.
By using the affiliate links, you are helping support the Service, and we genuinely appreciate your support.
Affiliate advertising programs that the Service uses are:
* Amazon Services LLC Associates Program
The Digital Acid is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com or endless.com, MYHABIT.com, SmallParts.com, or AmazonWireless.com.
Pages on this Service may include affiliate links to Amazon and its affiliate sites on which the owner of this Service, The Digital Acid, will make a referral commission.
17. External Links Disclaimer
http://www.thedigitalacid.com website may contain links to external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with The Digital Acid.
Please note that The Digital Acid does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites.