Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy for THE HOTJEM. THE HOTJEM (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.thehotjem.com (the “Site”) and THE HOTJEM is part of THE HOTJEM MEDIA, LLC. Some of our other sites and services have their own policies. Everything that we do is guided by our values and your interests – including our editorial approach and how we collect and utilize data.

We use your personal data for many reasons, from understanding how our visitors and users engage with our site to informing our marketing and advertising. Eventually, this enables us to publish the articles that you read on our sites and apps.

These are the main reasons why we collect and use data about our users:

• To show you journalism that is relevant to you and to improve your experience on our site
• To provide the services you sign up for, such as subscriptions
• To carry out marketing analysis and send you communications when we have your permission, or when permitted by law
• To enable us to show advertising on our sites
• We think carefully about our use of personal data, and below you can find the details of what we do to protect your privacy. This policy covers, among other topics:

Information about your rights and our obligations

• Clarity about our dealings with you and transparency about how we collect and use your personal data
• Commitments on how we protect your personal data
• Commitments on how we will facilitate your rights and respond to your questions.
• We will continue to examine how we can provide more clarity to our users about our use of data.

By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Content

• About this privacy policy
• Who we are and how to contact us
• What data do we collect?
• How do we collect your data?
• How and why we use your data
• Security of your personal data
• Marketing
• What are your data protection rights?
• Cookies and similar technology
• Online advertising
• Advertising that we place on our site or on other sites
• Contact us for information about how we use your personal data
• Privacy policies of other websites
• Changes to our privacy policy
• How to contact us
• How to contact the appropriate authorities

About this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. It explains how we (THE HOTJEM Media & Co.) collect, use, share and transfer your personal data when you use the services provided on thehotjem.com (“our sites”) and our related mobile applications (“our apps”).

Personal data is any information about you by which you can be identified. This can include information such as:

• Your name, date of birth, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number; credit/debit card details;
• Information about your device (such as the IP address, which is a numerical code to identify your device that can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based); and
• Information relating to your personal circumstances and how you use our sites, apps and services.

Who we are and how to contact us

The data controller for our sites and apps is THE HOTJEM MEDIA, LLC located in Texas, USA.

E-mail: info@thehotjem.com. This means that we are responsible for deciding how and why we hold and use your personal data. If you want to contact us, you can find our contact details in the “How to contact us” section below.

What data do we collect?

While using our site, we collect personal data when you sign up for our services and when you browse our sites or use our apps. This information is used to improve our publications and other services, display advertising and analyze how visitors use our sites or apps.

THE HOTJEM collects the following data:
• Personal identification information ( your “email address, your name)

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). When you use our sites or apps, we may also use cookies or similar technology to collect extra data otherwise referred to as log data which includes information such as:

• Your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address – a numerical code to identify your device and which can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based;
• Your browsing history of the content you have visited on our sites, including information on how you were referred to our sites via another website; and
• Details of your devices, for example, the unique device ID, unique advertising ID and browsers used to access our content (browser type), browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data. We will not collect special categories of data – such as information about your race, political opinions, religion, health or sexual orientation – unless you have chosen to provide that information to us.

How we collect your data

You directly provide THE HOTJEM with most of the data we collect. We collect personal data and process data when you:

• Subscribe or sign up for our newsletters and our editorial emails
• Have to contact us using the “Contact Form” on our site https://thehotjem.com/contact/
• Become a supporter or registering for an account on thehotjem.com;
• Contribute to fund and support THE HOTJEM;
• Pay for a subscription, purchase or place an order for any other products/services;
• Attend our events or events we advertise and promote;
• Voluntarily enter our competitions and complete surveys or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email;
• Post in our online community;
• Sign up for marketing communications;
• Use mobile devices to access our content;
• Access our sites, through your browser’s cookies and other similar technology; and
• When you contact us via email, social media, our apps or similar technologies or when you mention us on social media.

How and why we use your data

THE HOTJEM uses personal data collected through our sites and apps for a number of purposes, including the following:

• To provide the services you sign up for, such as sending out subscriptions and contact you with newsletters. We also use the personal data for related internal administrative purposes – such as our accounting and records – and to make you aware of any changes to our services.
• To send marketing communications or promotional materials (special offers on other products and services) we think you might like and other information when we have your permission, or when permitted by law
• To personalize our services (for example, so you can sign in), remembering your settings, displaying personalized advertising as well as measuring how effective our online adverts are, recognizing you when you sign in on different devices and tailoring our marketing communications based on what you read on our site.
• To carry out marketing analysis, for example we look at what you have viewed on our sites and what products and services you have bought (including what you have looked at and what products or services you have bought on our other platforms, to better understand what your interests and preferences are, and to improve our marketing by making it more relevant to your interests and preferences. To improve our marketing communications, we use a similar technology to cookies to confirm whether you have opened a marketing email or clicked on a link in the email.
• To sell advertising space on our sites as advertising remains one of the key funding sources of our journalism. Today, digital advertising underpins much of our investment in high quality journalism. To find out more about our advertising standards, please click this link: https://thehotjem.com/advertise/.
• For statistical purposes such as analyzing the performance of our sites and to understand how visitors use them.
• To respond to your queries and to resolve complaints.
• For security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites are safe and secure and used in line with our terms of use.
• To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

If you agree, THE HOTJEM will share your data with our partner companies so that they may offer you their products and services.

Legal grounds for using your personal data

We will only use your personal data where we have a legal ground to do so. We determine the legal grounds based on the purposes for which we have collected and used your personal data. In every case, the legal ground will be one of the following:

• Consent: For example, where you have provided your consent to receive marketing emails from us. You can withdraw your consent at any time. In the case of marketing emails you can withdraw your consent by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.
• Our legitimate interests: Where it is necessary for us to understand our readers, promote our services and operate our sites and apps efficiently for the creation, publication and distribution of news, media and related content both online and in print form, globally. For example, we will rely on our legitimate interest when we analyze what content has been viewed on our sites and apps, so that we can understand how they are used. It is also in our legitimate interest to carry out marketing analysis to determine what products and services may be relevant to the interests of our readers.
• Performance of a contract with you (or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you): For example, where you have purchased a subscription from us and we need to use your contact details and payment information in order to process your order and deliver your subscription.
• Compliance with law: In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal data.
• Updating your personal data and your profile page on our sites

Personal data that we receive about you from other organizations

Adding to or combining the personal data you provide to us.

When you sign up to any of our services, we may add to the personal data you give us by combining it with information shared with us by other trusted organizations. This includes, for example, information about the region that you are located in, so that we can show you the prices for subscriptions or other products in your local currency. We may also add information to improve the accuracy of your delivery address when we send out mail. We may also obtain information from partners whose offers we include in some of our marketing communications and we use this information to ensure that we do not send you irrelevant marketing.

We also use information on the content you have viewed on our sites and apps and your interaction with the content to add you to groups with similar interests and preferences, so that we can make our online advertising more relevant. Sometimes we use data about your interests or demographics that third parties have collected from you online to add to these groups. Please refer to our cookies policy for more information on how we use cookies.

Information shared by event partners

When you register or book a ticket for a THE HOTJEM event advertised or organized by an event partner, your registration data may be shared with us by the event partner.

Using children’s personal data

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal data about children under 13. Some of our services may have a higher age restriction and this will be shown at the point of registration.

Security of your personal data

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational controls to protect your personal data against unauthorized processing and against accidental loss, damage or destruction and while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

How long we keep your personal data

We keep your personal data for only as long as we need to. How long we need your personal data depends on what we are using it for, as set out in this privacy policy. For example, we may need to use it to answer your queries about a product or service and as a result may keep personal data while you are still using our product or services. We may also need to keep your personal data for accounting purposes, for example, where you have bought a subscription. If we no longer need your data, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

Who we share your personal data with

If you are going to one of our events hosted by an event partner, we may share your personal data with that partner for event administration purposes.

We do not share your personal data with other people or organizations that are not directly linked to us except under the following circumstances:

• We may share your data with other organizations that provide services on our behalf such as dealing with online payments and other forms of payment processing, i.e. credit card transactions and preventing fraud.
• We may also share your data with our advertising partners, as set out in the section about Online Advertising below.
• We may reveal your personal data to any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other organization if we are required to do so to meet a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of anyone else.
• We may reveal your personal data to any other organization that buys, or to which we transfer all, or substantially all, of our assets and business. If this sale or transfer takes place, we will use reasonable efforts to try to make sure that the organization we transfer your personal data to uses it in line with our privacy policy.

Any organizations which access your data in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by strict contractual restrictions to make sure that they protect your data and keep to all data privacy laws that apply. We may also independently audit these service providers to make sure that they meet our standards.

We will not share your personal data with anyone else for their own marketing purposes unless we have your permission to do this.

Some of our webpages use social plug-ins from other organizations (such as the “Facebook Recommend” function, Twitter’s retweet function, Google+ function). These other organizations may receive and use personal data about your visit to our sites or apps. If you browse our site or view content on our apps, information they collect may be connected to your account on their site. For more information on how these organizations use personal data, please read their privacy policies.

Communications

How we may contact you

From time to time we may send you service emails, for example, telling you your subscription is coming to an end or thanking you when you contribute or place an order with us.

Marketing communications and editorial newsletters

If we have your permission, we may send you materials we think may interest you, such as new THE HOTJEM offers and updates. Depending on your marketing preferences, this may be by email, phone, SMS or post.

You can decide not to receive these emails at any time and will be able to “unsubscribe” directly by clicking a link in the email.

Market research

 Sometimes we may contact you for market research purposes, for example about a survey. You can opt out from being contacted in this way by signing into your The HotJem account and going to the tab “Emails and marketing”.

Responding to your queries or complaints

If you have raised a query or a complaint with us, we may contact you to answer your query or to resolve your complaint.

What are your data protection rights?

THE HOTJEM would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights.
Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request THE HOTJEM for copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that THE HOTJEM correct any
  information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request THE HOTJEM to complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure- You have the right to request that THE HOTJEM erases your personal data, under certain conditions. You also have the right to ask us to restrict how it is used. There may be exceptions to the right to erasure for specific legal reasons which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request.
• The right to restrict processing – Where applicable, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for certain purposes.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to THE HOTJEM’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that THE HOTJEM transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If your request is complicated or if you have made a large number of requests, it may take us longer. We will let you know if we need longer than one month to respond. You will not have to pay a fee to obtain a copy of your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: info@thehotjem.com.

Cookies and similar technology

When you visit our sites or when you use our apps, we may collect personal data from you automatically using cookies or similar technology. Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier that are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your device or computer’s hard drive thereby enabling us to recognize and remember you.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

This privacy policy includes our cookie policy, where you can find details of our key advertising partners.

Online advertising

 Advertising on our sites that is based on cookies and similar technology We use personalized online advertising on our sites. This allows us to deliver more relevant advertising to people who visit thehotjem.com. It works by showing you adverts that are based on your browsing patterns and the way you have interacted with our sites and apps. It then shows you adverts which we believe may interest you.

Since the creation of our publication business, our journalism has been funded in part by advertising. Our editorial content is not influenced by the advertising we display and our writers, columnists and journalists are free to, and often do, challenge the activities of companies and organizations that advertise and sponsor content that appears in THE HOTJEM sites and publications.

When you browse our sites or use our apps, some of the cookies and similar technology we place on your device are advertising cookies, so we can understand what sort of pages you are interested in. We can then display advertising on your browser based on these interests. For instance if you have been reading a lot of food and drink articles, we may show you more advertisements for food and drink.

We do not collect or use information such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number for personalized online advertising.

We may also share online data collected through cookies and similar technology with our advertising partners. This means that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on thehotjem.com. We may also show you advertising on thehotjem.com website based on your browsing patterns on other sites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.

Online retargeting is another form of online advertising that allows us and some of our advertising partners to show you advertising based on your browsing patterns and interactions with a site away from our sites.

For example, if you have visited the website of an online clothes shop, you may start seeing adverts from that same shopping site displaying special offers or showing you the products you were browsing. This allows companies to advertise to you if you leave their website without making a purchase.

Advertising that we place on our site or on other sites

We also use personalized online advertising to promote our own products and services. This means that you may see advertising for our products and services on our sites (and our other platforms, such as thehotjemmedia.com) and when you are on other, third party websites, including social media platforms.

Contact us for information about how we use your personal data

If you have any questions about how we use your personal data or if you have a concern about how your personal data is used, please contact the Data Protection Officer.

Email: info@thehotjemmedia.com

Complaints will be dealt with by the Data Protection Manager, and will be responded to within 30 days. If you have a question about anything else, please see our Contact us page here.

Privacy Policies of other websites
THE HOTJEM website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 5, 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future. THE HOTJEM keeps its Privacy Policy under regular review and places any updates or changes here which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. If the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details. If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt out of any new uses of your data.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

How to contact us
If you have any questions about THE HOTJEM’s Privacy Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: info@thehotjem.com

How to contact the appropriate authority
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that THE HOTJEM has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact our business center THE HOTJEM MEDIA, LLC.
Email: info@thehotjemmedia.com