BS After Dark its affiliates, sponsors, partners, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, and representatives (collectively, “BS After Dark”) take our obligations regarding your data very seriously, and we are committed to complying with the regulations set out in the United States and countries around the world, including the European Union’s recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)and also complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce.
This Privacy Policy (including our cookie policy) applies when you use the products and services we make available to you on "BS After Dark, or any other websites or software applications operated by "BS After Dark", and any communications between you and BS After Dark on any media or any other formats. By using our services you agree and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your choices on how we use, collect, and share data are described and explained with these goals by discussing the following topics:
- Our community networks, products, services.
- What type of information is personal.
- Our use of cookies and similar technologies.
- Whom we share your information with and why.
- What information we collect, why, and how we use it.
- Data we receive from users in other countries and states.
- How you can keep your information secure.
- Data Retention and how we keep your information secure.
- Your right to control our use and storage of the information.
- Our policy regarding children.
- Changes to our privacy policy.
- How to contact us.
Here in this privacy policy, we refer to our community forums, activities, blogs, and other public services and offerings as our “Network.” Any software or products that we have to offer, for example, downloadable content is “Content” and “Subscriptions”. The services we offer are “Services”, and the internet sites provided by us are our “Websites”. The service you use to conduct transactions, such as buying or reselling products, services, content, and or subscriptions is our “Store”. Collectively, the above Community, websites, store, products, services, content, and or subscriptions, along with all other offerings provided by BS After Dark is considered our “Network”. This Privacy Policy applies to all components of our network, including our website http://www.bsafterdark.com.
DATA WE COLLECT.
We collect your personal data in a few different ways: data you provide to us; data we collect about you from third parties; and data we automatically collect when you use BS After Dark. If we combine or associate data from other sources with data that we collect through BS After Dark, we will treat the combined data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We consider personal information to be any information relating to you, including your name, identification numbers (such as social security number, employee number, driver’s license number), your location data, online identifiers, and any information relating to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
You have the right to request this information from us at any time, provided that certain information is provided for the proper use of our network. As a result of your request to have information removed, you potentially could terminate your rights to any products, services, content, and or subscriptions offered by BS After Dark. If you would like us not to collect or use your personal information, or if you would like us to correct your personal information, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. we will do our best to provide or remove this information as quickly as possible.
DATA YOU PROVIDE.
Depending on the manner in which you use our networks, we may collect a variety of information and data that could include:
Account Data.
When you log into or register to any one of our networks, for example, our communities, websites, store, products, services, content, and or subscriptions, we may request your email address, username, zip code, password, and other security information to contact you when we introduce new products, and features, or to let you know if a problem has been discovered or corrected, and also to provide you with information that you request from us.
An account also allows you to access other features of BS After Dark, including buying digital content, watching videos, message boards, allowing BS After Dark account holders to watch your streams, access your content, engaging with third party services by linking your account to such services, engaging with any other products or services that we or our partners may offer from time to time, and entering sweepstakes, and contests and other promotions offered by BS After Dark (each, a “ Promotion ”).
Payment Data.
When you purchase products, services, content, and or subscriptions, or any other goods or services provided by BS After Dark, we may collect your billing information, including your name, address, telephone number, payment card number, and payment account details. If we use an outside third-party processing service provider, this third-party may collect the same or similar information. We use this information to help verify your purchases, fulfill orders, notify you of recent updates and products you might enjoy, and to assist our customer support services, including identifying and resolving general issues and problems experienced by you and other users. After we receive this information, we will obtain, store, and remove it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the laws of the United States and the European Union.
By making purchases on the Networks, you are authorizing us or our provider to collect, store, and use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the laws of the United States and the European Union for a reasonable time in order to verify your purchase, provide you with refunds if applicable, and to identify purchasing trends on an aggregate basis.
Identity Data.
To help create and maintain a trusted environment and as may be required by applicable laws, we may collect identity verification data (such as images of your government-issued ID, passport, national ID card, or driving license, as permitted by applicable laws) or other authentication data. When you connect to our networks from your web browser, we may collect your internet IP address, type of browser, and operating system you used. We may also collect the date and time you accessed our pages and services, where you visited, along with the search terms you used to find us. We collect this information in the aggregate to get a better idea of how our users are finding us and what search criteria they are using. By using our network or any feature, function or aspect of it, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use this information in accordance with this privacy policy and the laws of the United States and the European Union.
Communications Data.
When communicating with us by filling out surveys, providing feedback, comments, chatting, emailing, or contacting us through any other means. When you communicate with us, we collect all the data that you volunteer. Such communication is voluntary and is not required to use on BS After Dark, but we may use the data you provide to develop or improve our services.
Third-Party Data Collection.
When you connect to our networks through a third-party, we often have the ability to collect information about you from these third parties, depending on the third-party’s terms of service and the privacy settings you have specified. For example, we may have access to your full name, profile picture, user ID, login, email address, physical location, gender, birthday, groups and affiliations, and posts to your friends. If you do not want us collecting or using this information, you can often disable this feature through the settings on the third-party website service you are using. If we have collected this information and you do not want us to use it or store it, please let us know immediately and we will take steps to ensure it is removed from our servers.
These third-party services have their own privacy policies which apply to their collection, use, and sharing of personal data. We encourage you to read their privacy policies carefully before you decide to create or otherwise connect your account through any authorized third-party service. BS After Dark does not have any control over the protection and privacy of the data you provide to any third-party service and is not responsible for how any such service collects and uses the data you provide to them.
Automated Data.
When using BS After Dark or when communicating, we may use cookies, tags, scripts and similar technologies (collectively "Cookies") to automatically record and store certain data. Cookies enable our systems to recognize you, your devices, and to provide you with the best possible services. For more information about cookies, how we use them, and how to control the use of cookies, including information on how to opt-out of cookies, please read our cookie policy available here----------------- .
Social Media Data.
Our Network may include social media functions and features, for example, a Facebook “Like” button or Twitter “Share” feature. Through this functionality, we may collect your IP address, page or location you are visiting on our websites or in certain products, services, content, and or subscriptions.
These social media functions are often hosted by third-parties, and in these cases, or in the case that we provide a link to such social media services and functions, your interactions and the privacy of the information you provide is subject to and governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. By using our Network or any feature, function or aspect of it, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the laws of the United States and the European Union.
Communications.
BS After Dark communicates with you by posting notices on our websites and other third parties services such as but not limited to Discord, Twitter, and other social media services. In addition, we may also use your email address to:
- contact you in connection with a Promotion, such as if you are selected as a winner;
- respond to your support questions, comments, feedback, surveys;
- confirm your purchase transactions
- notify you of major changes to our services or to contact you about your use of our services, including the content that you posted; and
- send you promotional messages from us or our partners or to messages about our services, including news, general information, and customer support.
You can stop receiving our marketing or other promotional emails anytime by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of such emails. Please note that you cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from us, including transactional, security, legal notice or other important information.
Advertising.
We use third-party analytics services (“ Third Party Analytics ”), such as Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics to provide site metrics and other analytics services. These Third-Party Services may employ advertising and purchase incentives, which are embedded in our content, services, and subscriptions, or provided in conjunction with them. We may permit these third-parties to serve these advertisements and collect information about how you use our content, services, and Subscriptions, including the device you use, your operating system, your login information, wireless carrier, and the geographical location.
We use information from these third-parties mainly to deliver relevant advertising to you, verify your location and use of our products, assess other consumer interests, improve the design and development of new products, and services. In these cases, we will have written agreements with these third parties so that we know what information is being collected, how it is used, where it is stored, and to ensure that these third-parties are operating with the laws and regulations of the United States and the European Union.
Security.
We use data for security, fraud prevention, and investigations. Your data and communications may be used if we think it is necessary for security purposes to investigate possible fraud or other violations of our terms of service this privacy policy and/or any other of BS After Dark terms or rules.
We may release information concerning your use of our Network, including but not limited to, posted public postings, registration information, network records, and geographic and tracking data, when (a) we believe in good faith that such release is appropriate; (b) to comply with the law (for example, pursuant to a statutory demand, subpoena, warrant, or court order); (c) to protect against fraud, abusive, or unlawful use of our software or services, and to protect our rights and property (including the rights and property of our third-party business partners and affiliates); (d) to enforce any contract between you and us, including with our third-party business partners and affiliates; and (e) if we reasonably believe that a situation involving danger of death or injury to any person requires disclosure.
We take prudent security measures to protect you and the information we collect from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and destruction. These measures include encrypting your information, keeping sensitive information stored on secured servers employing firewalls, transmitting sensitive information (such as a credit card number) entered on our site or mobile application using secure socket layer technology (SSL), and periodically reviewing our data collection practices and networks and our physical security measures. We enforce physical access controls to our office and files, and we authorize access to personal data only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities. However, no system of security is ever completely secure or error-free. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you transmit to BS After Dark or any other network site, and you do so at your own risk.
Data Retention.
We will keep your information for as long as your account is active or the information is needed to provide you services, or as long as it may be required to fulfill our legal obligations.
Business Transfer or Corporate Change.
If there is a business transfer or corporate change, such as a merger, acquisition, or sale, we may transfer or assign the data that we have collected from you in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction (e.g. due diligence). This means that the person or entity buying our business or a part of our business will continue to have the right to use your data in the ways described in this privacy policy unless you agree otherwise. For those persons or entities who do not become an affiliate, such parties will not have the legal right to continued access to, or use of, your data.
Children’s Privacy.
No feature, function, or aspect of the network is intended for children under the age of thirteen regardless of the territory or country in which you reside. If you are under the age of thirteen we request that you do not submit any personal information to us. If we later learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from a child under the age of thirteen, regardless of where that child resides, we will remove this information from our records as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child as provided above, please contact us immediately at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will promptly take the necessary steps to remove all such information.
Account Closure.
You can close your account at any time and for any reason. However, if you close your account you will immediately lose all promotional points, rewards, or other benefits associated with your account as well as any status that you may have attained and automatically be withdrawn from any promotions, rewards or prizes.
Except as otherwise noted above, we generally delete your account data within thirty (30) days of closure. However, we may keep data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, including to comply with requests by law enforcement, meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms of Service, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from our communications. We may also retain aggregated data (information about our users that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual user) and other anonymized data for regulatory compliance, industry and market analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, and advertising, and other business purposes.
Privacy Policy Changes.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. In such cases, we will post changes conspicuously in the Community and other areas of our Network so that you can remain aware of what information we collect, why and how we use it, and our disclosure policies. All modifications to this Privacy Policy become effective on the day they are posted, unless stated otherwise and supersede all previous privacy policies. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy regularly and print out a copy for your records.
International Users & Privacy Shield.
BS After Dark is based in the United States. Regardless of your location, you consent to the processing and transferring of your data in and to the United States and other countries. Please note that the laws of the United States and other countries governing data collection and use may not be as comprehensive or protective as the laws of the country where you live.
BS After Dark has applied and will comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States. BS After Dark has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the
Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/ .
BS After Dark is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. BS After Dark complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU including the onward transfer liability provisions. The US Federal Trade Commission has investigatory and enforcement powers over BS After Dark's compliance with the Privacy Shield Framework.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, BS After Dark commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. If you have inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, you should first contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, you have the right to submit your complaint with your local data protection authority in your country of residence. You can find the contact details of your country’s data protection authority here:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to pursue binding arbitration through the Privacy Shield Framework as described in Annex I to the Privacy Shield Principles available at www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=7-RECOURSE-ENFORCEMENT-AND-LIABILITY.
Contact Us.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please Contact Us here! http://bsafterdark.com/index.php/contact-us
