Privacy Policy

Introduction

Please read this privacy policy carefully, as your access to and use of our websites means that you have read and understood all the terms of this privacy policy.                                                                                           We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.

Scope

This privacy policy applies to information we collect:

on the Websites and in your email correspondence with the Websites,
through our mobile apps, which provide ad-hoc interactions between you and the Websites without using a browser, or
when you interact with our ads and apps on third party websites and services if those apps or ads contain links to this privacy policy.

The data we collect about you

We may collect various types of personal information about you, depending on whether you choose to create an account with us. Individuals who visit websites without logging in or registering (“unregistered users”):

Contact Information: We collect email addresses or any other information that you voluntarily provide to us at your direction for a specific function, such as a contest or survey.
Website Activity Data: We collect information about how you use our websites, products and services and interact with our content and ads, including the pages you visit on our websites, your search history and the referring web – the page from which you went to our websites. We collect information about your browser and operating system, the devices you use to access the Websites, and your time zone settings. We also collect online identifiers. Specifically, we collect information about Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and set cookies as described below in the section on cookies and automatic data collection technologies.
Individuals who choose to create an account on Pornhub (“registered users”) and individuals who choose to upgrade their account on EmpireOfPornGames.com to a premium account in order to have access to content found on EmpireOfPornGames Premium (“Premium Users” ):

We collect the same categories of information from registered users as described above for unregistered users.
Contact Information: We collect a username or similar identifier as well as an email address.
Billing and Business Information: If you make a purchase, we collect payment card details and related information necessary to process your payment. We also collect information about payments to and from you, as well as information about products and services that you have purchased or received from us.
Personal Information Submitted by the User: We collect information that you submit to personalize your account or for a specific function, such as date of birth, age, gender, your interests, preferences, reviews, responses to surveys, your preferences in receiving from us marketing materials and our third parties and your communication preferences, as well as any other information that you voluntarily provide us at your direction for a particular function.
User input including audio / video information: We provide areas on our websites where you can post information about yourself and others, communicate with others, upload content (e.g. images, video files, etc.), and publish comments or reviews of found content. on sites.
Please be careful when making user contributions. By providing user input, you make that content and information publicly available. User contributions may be read, collected, used and disclosed by others, and we have no control over who has access to your user contributions or what other users can do with information you voluntarily post or submit.

We may use your data to receive and exchange aggregated information that does not directly or indirectly identify you and is not associated with you. Such aggregate information is not personal information.

Our websites are not directed to persons under the age of 18 or the appropriate age of majority in the jurisdiction from which the websites are accessed (“minors”), and we prohibit minors from using the websites. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from minors. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a minor who provided us with personal information, please contact us at SupportEmpireOfPornGames@gmail.com to remove that minor’s personal information.

Sources from which we collect personal information

We collect personal information in the following ways:

Directly from you: We collect the categories of information listed above directly from you.
Automated technologies or interactions. As explained in the section below on Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies, we set cookies and other automatic methods for website activity data when you visit websites or other websites that are owned by our group.

The purposes for which we use your personal information

Service Provision: We use identifiers, website activity data and additionally only for registered and Premium users, contact information, billing and business information, and user input to present our websites and their content to you including any interactive features on our websites to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us, and to verify your eligibility and to deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes.
Customer Management (registered and Premium users only): We use IDs and contact information, as well as billing and business information to manage the account of premium users and registered users, to provide customer support and notify the registered user of their account or subscription …, including expiration and renewal notices and change notices on our websites or any products or services we offer or provide through them.
Content and Marketing Customization (unregistered users only and registered users only): we use identifiers and contact information, website activity data, personal information provided by the user, and user input to analyze your use of or interest in the content of our websites , products or services to develop and display content and advertising on our websites tailored to your interests.
Analytics: We use identifiers and website activity data to determine if the users of our websites are unique or the same user uses the websites multiple times, and to track aggregate metrics such as the total number of visitors, viewed pages, demographic patterns.
Functionality and Security: We may use any of the categories of data we collect to diagnose or correct technology problems, to verify your payment information, and to detect, prevent and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal activity, or intellectual property infringement …
Compliance: We may use any categories of data we collect to enforce our terms and conditions and comply with our legal obligations.
We will use the contact information and personal information provided by the user in any other way that we can describe when you provide the information (for example, for a competition); or for any other purpose with your consent provided separately from this privacy policy.

Our legal framework in accordance with EU law

In accordance with EU law, we have the following legal grounds for processing your personal data for the purposes described in the section Purposes for which we use your personal information:We process personal data for the purpose of providing services, managing customers, certain content customization (for example, based on your chosen preferences, favorites and ratings), as well as functionality and security, since processing is necessary to fulfill a contract, in particular, it is necessary to provide services or products that you have requested, or provide our websites and services in accordance with our terms and conditions and any other agreement that you have with us.We process personal data in order to customize advertising, marketing and analytics in our legitimate interests.We process personal data to ensure functionality and security, because it is is necessary for our legitimate interests, and in some cases because the processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

We process personal information in certain circumstances where you have given your consent to such processing. Disclosure of your personal information

We disclose personal information

Public: When you submit User Generated Content, including audio / video content, you are using our websites and services to make the information publicly available.
Within Our Corporate Group: We may disclose any of the categories of personal information to members of our corporate group (including affiliates and related entities) to the extent necessary for our purposes listed in the sections above.
Service Providers: We disclose the categories of personal information we collect to our authorized service providers who provide certain services on our behalf. These services may include payment processing and order fulfillment, risk and fraud identification and remediation, customer service, marketing and advertising, content customization, analytics, security or hosting of our websites, or maintaining the functionality of our websites. These service providers may have access to personal information necessary to perform their functions, but they are not allowed to share or use such information for any other purpose.
Successors: We may disclose all categories of personal information we collect to a purchaser or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding.
To comply with the law or protect our rights or the rights of third parties: We access, store and share your personal information with regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies or others if we reasonably believe that such disclosure is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation , legal process or government request, (b) enforcing applicable terms of use, including investigating potential violations, (c) detecting, preventing or otherwise resolving illegal or suspected illegal actions, security or technical problems, (d) protecting against damages to rights, the property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; or (e) to maintain and protect the security and integrity of our websites or infrastructure. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or rights available to us at our sole discretion.

Cookies and automatic data collection technologies

When you navigate and interact with our websites, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect data about website activity.

We use cookies, which are small text files that are stored in your web browser or downloaded to your device when you visit a website.

We currently use the following types of cookies, which are set by website domains or other domains that we own or control:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are essential for our websites to function. These include, for example, cookies that allow a user to enter our websites and check if the user is allowed to access a particular service or content. Functional cookies: These cookies help us personalize and improve your online experience on our websites. This type of cookie allows us to recognize you when you return to our websites and remember, for example, the language you selected. Analytics cookies: These cookies enable us to recognize and count the number of users, and to see how users use and explore our websites. These cookies help us improve our websites, for example by ensuring that all users can easily find what they are looking for. Targeting and advertising cookies: These cookies record the user’s visits to our websites, the pages the user visits and the links the user follows, so that we can make our websites more relevant to the interests of the user and help us display advertisements. be interesting to the user. Targeting and advertising cookies are used only for unregistered users and registered users.

Cookies can be either session or persistent. The session cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires or until you delete the cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Websites. These include, for example, cookies that enable a user to log in to our Websites and to check if a user is allowed access to a particular service or content. Functionality cookies: These cookies help us to personalize and enhance your online experience on our Websites. This type of cookies allows us to recognize you when you return to our Websites and to remember, for example, your choice of language. Analytics cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and explore our Websites. These cookies help us to improve our Websites, for example by ensuring that all users are able to find what they are looking for easily. Targeting and Advertising cookies: These cookies record visits of a user on our Websites, the pages a user visits and the links a user follows in order to enable us to make our Websites more relevant to the user’s interests and to help us serve ads that might be of interest to the user. Targeting and advertising cookies are only used for unregistered users and registered users. 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. 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 Websites may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

Do Not Track: Our systems do not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Use of Google Analytics. We use Google as a service provider to collect and analyze information about how users use the Websites, including by collecting website activity data through first-party cookies set by our domains, and third-party cookies set by Google. Because we activated IP anonymization for Google Analytics, Google will anonymize the last octet of a particular IP address and will not store your full IP address. Google will use the information only for the purpose of providing Google Analytics services to us, and will not use this information for other purposes. The information collected by Google Analytics may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States pursuant to standard contractual clauses approved by the EU. You can learn more on how Google uses data here, and you can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on Pornhub are provided or served by third parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use Pornhub. Unless expressly stated otherwise, Pornhub does not provide any personal information to these third parties, however they may collect information, including your IP address, advertisements you click, time zone setting and location, and information about your browser, operating system and devices you use to access Pornhub. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. They may track users across different websites and over time.You can set your browser to refuse all third-party cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.

Your 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 Websites 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 Websites.
As explained in the section Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies, you may set your browser to refuse some or all cookies. In addition, you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us using the opt-out link provided in our emails. If you are a Registered User, we may continue to send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications, such as emails about your account or orders, administrative notices, and surveys.
You may use your account settings to delete your user contributions and audio/video information.

You may also delete and deactivate your account with us at any time. If you do so, your profile will no longer be accessible by you. If you later choose to have an account with us, 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

Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information

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 we hold about you and how such personal information is used (right to access);
to correct inaccurate personal information concerning you (right to data rectification);
to delete/erase your personal information (right to 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 the 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);
in some cases, to restrict our use of your personal information (right to restriction of processing); and
to withdraw your consent at any time where our processing is based on consent.
You may exercise your right to access and deletion using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Additionally, you may, at any time, send us an e-mail at support@pornhub.com to exercise your above rights in accordance with the applicable legal requirements and limitations. If you are located in the European Economic Area or the UK, you have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Please note that unless you have created an account with us, we may not have sufficient information to identify you and therefore may not be in a position to respond to your request. Additionally, in some cases in order to adequately verify your identity or your authorization to make the request, we may require you to provide additional information.

Note that some requests to delete certain personal information will require the deletion of your user account as the provision of user accounts are inextricably linked to the use of certain personal information (e.g., your e-mail address).

Transfers of Your Personal Information to Other Countries

Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, by using the Websites you consent to the transfer of information that we collect about you, including personal information, to other countries in which we, members of our corporate group (including affiliates and related entities) or our service providers are located. When we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with the applicable laws. Where relevant, our transfers outside the EEA are made pursuant to standard contractual clauses approved for use by the European Union.

Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as your account is active, or 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 a number of factors, including what personal data we are processing, the risk of harm from any unauthorised disclosure, why we are processing your personal data and whether we can achieve this outcome by another means without having to process it.

Where we no longer need to process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we will delete your personal information from our systems.

Where permissible, we will also delete your personal information upon your request as explained above in the section “Your Rights Related to Your Personal Information”.

Third-Party Links and Sites

If you click on a link to a third party site, you will be taken to websites we do not control. This policy does not apply to the privacy practices of these websites. Read the privacy policy of other websites carefully. We are not responsible for these third party practices.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may modify or revise our privacy policy from time to time. If we change anything in our privacy policy, the date of change will be reflected in the “last modified date”. We may attempt to notify you of any material changes as required by law. Please also periodically review the most up-to-date version of our privacy policy, which will be posted at this location, so you are aware of any changes.