Privacy Policy
Twisted Clay Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 05/26/2021
Welcome to Twisted Clay, LLC (“Twisted Clay”, “us”, “our” or “we”). We
produce content, videos, training materials, products, services and/or
other materials (collectively along with our titles, features, content,
software, updates, audio content, video files, downloadable content, add-
ons, and/or modified versions, “Content”), made available on our websites,
which includes without limitation twistedclayonline.com among others
(collectively the “Site(s)”), and various mobile applications (“Apps”).
To do that, we need information about you. Protecting your privacy is
important to us. We only use your information where we have a legal
basis to do so. This Privacy Policy will help you understand what
information we collect, how we use it and what choices you have with the
Sites, purchase any of our Content, subscription services or additional
offerings, participate in our events or promotions, and more generally use
any of our other products or services (collectively with the Content, Apps,
and Site, the “Services”).
By using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in our
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy,
please do not use the Services. We reserve the right to modify or amend
the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time. Your continued use of
our Services following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy will
mean you accept those changes. If we intend to apply the modifications or
amendments to this Privacy Policy retroactively or to personal information
already in our possession, we will provide you with notice of the
modifications or amendments.
Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply
only to information gathered by us through our Services. It does not apply
to any information you provide to third-party platforms used to access the
Services. Please review their privacy policies carefully to understand what
information they may collect, process, and use from you.
You should also read our Terms which set out the contract between you
and us.
1. The information we collect
about you
This Privacy Policy covers our use of any information that can or could be
used to identify you (“Personal Data”).
We may collect and use the following Personal Data to provide the
Services to you and fulfill the Terms:
When you sign up for our Services you give us Personal Data
voluntarily by providing it to us, for example when you sign up for an
account. We collect and use that information in order to
authenticate you when you register an account and use the Services,
to make sure you are eligible and able to receive the Services, and so
that you receive the correct version of the Services. Depending on
which of the Services you use, that may include your name, mailing
address, phone number, residency, gender, date of birth (as needed
to verify eligibility), and email address. We may collect this
information through various forms and in various places on the
Service, including at account creation and registration, newsletter
sign-up forms, “contact us” forms, or when you otherwise interact
with the Service. We use that information to fulfil those Services to
you and to provide related customer support to you.
As a general policy, no personally identifiable information, such as
your name, address, or e-mail address, is automatically collected
from your visit to the Sites or download and install the Apps.
However, we may automatically and passively collect and use certain
information from your device whenever you visit, use, or interact
with our Service, including: the Internet Protocol address (IP
address) of the machine which accessed the Services, general
location information, the date and time of your visit, the path taken
through the Services, content preferences, the browser and
operating system being used, a list of files downloaded or viewed,
the amount of time spent accessing files, any errors encountered,
crash reports which may be automatically generated when or if our
Services crash and includes information about the system and the
crash, and other similar data.
You also give us Personal Data when you make a purchase through
us, subscribe to our publications or Subscriptions, or communicate
with us. Providing this information is completely voluntary on your
part; however, it may be required to use or access some of our
Services and Subscriptions. For example, if you choose to contact us
via email, we may retain your email and email address along with
any other associated information. Doing so is completely voluntary
on your part, and you have the choice about whether and what
information to disclose via your email.
We may use third-party vendors to process online payments and
provide platforms for us to provide you with the Content and
Services. If we utilize such vendors, the third-party payment vendor
will collect payment and other personal information (such as your
payment card information, email address, mobile phone number,
billing and shipping address) to complete your purchases, but only
with your permission. The vendor may also use cookies to track your
activity and for other purposes. The third-party vendor that provides
the platform for the Content and Services, as applicable, may collect,
use, disclose, store, process, and transfer personally-identifiable
information when you interact with its services through the Services.
This vendor may also use cookies to track your activity and other
purposes. Twisted Clay is not responsible for, and assumes no
liability for, the privacy and information collection and use practices
of these or any other third-party vendors. Please review the third-
parties privacy and other applicable policies carefully. If you do not
agree to the collection and use of this information by our third-party
vendors, please do not use the online payment, message or
comment features, and not use access the Content.
We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect
directly from you on our Service with outside records from third
parties for various purposes, including to enhance our ability to
serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities
that may be of interest to you.
In addition, please note, our Services may use third-party platforms
to access the Services and/or we may provide third party interfaces
or links on the Service to facilitate your sending a communication
from the Service. When you use these third-party platforms, the
third-party platforms may or may not provide us with information
about you. We are not responsible for the terms, policies,
disclosures or actions of any third-party platforms.
Users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal
information (e.g., user name, e-mail address, phone number) on
bulletin boards, social medial, comments sections, in feedback to us,
or in the chat areas, that information can be collected and used by
others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.
You are responsible for the personal information you choose to
submit in these instances. You acknowledge and agree that you
have no expectation of privacy concerning the transmission of any
user generated content or communications, including without
limitation e-mail, chat, text, or voice communications. Because voice,
chat, text, and other communications and user generated content
may be viewed and/or heard by other users, users should avoid
revealing any personally identifiable information in those
communications.
We may collect certain personal information from you during the
course of our normal business operations if you do business with us
and/or are employed by us. For example, we may collect certain
personal information about you (such as, without limitation, name,
email address, date of birth, address, and phone number) either
directly from you or from your representative, or from third parties
authorized by you.
2. How we use the information
we collect about you
We have and rely on a legitimate interest in using your Personal Data as
follows:
Use of Information by Us. We may use your information:
to provide you with our Services;
to improve our Services and to customize your experience with the
Services;
to maintain your account with us;
for internal business purposes;
for any purposes disclosed at the time you provide your
information;
any purposes provided for in our Terms;
to provide technical and customer support to you;
to offer new or additional features for our Services;
to enforce our Terms;
to send you materials by email or via notifications, or other
commutations;
to carry out anti-fraud or other measures prohibited under our
Terms;
and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Third Parties. We may engage vendors, agents, service providers, and
affiliated entities to provide services to us. In providing their services, they
may access, receive, maintain or otherwise process data on our behalf.
Our contracts with these service providers do not permit use of your data
for their own marketing and other purposes.
Legal Matters; Safety. We may, without your consent, access and
disclose your information, any communications sent or received by you,
and any other information that we may have about you as may be
permitted or required by law or to prevent or investigate suspected fraud
or activity that appears to us to be illegal or may expose us to legal
liability. Additionally, we may disclose your information and/or
communications in situations that we believe to be: (i) emergencies
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or property
if we believe that your information in any way relates to that threat; or (ii)
your conduct that we believe is inappropriate and inconsistent with
generally accepted norms of behavior.
3. Who we share information
with
We will not share any Personal Data that we have collected from or
regarding you except as described below:
Information Shared with Our Service Providers. We engage external
service providers to work with us to administer and provide the Services.
As part of that they may process your Personal Data on our behalf. These
external service providers have access to your Personal Data only for the
purpose of performing services on our behalf, in compliance with this
Privacy Policy, and we make sure each one is contractually obliged not to
disclose or use your Personal Data for any other purpose. The service
providers we use may help us to:
run, operate and maintain our Services through third party platform
and software tools;
perform content moderation and crash analytics;
run email and mobile messaging campaigns;
perform Service and marketing analytics;
provide payment attribution and process payments for purchases;
and
provide technical and customer support.
Some external service providers may also collect information directly from
you (for example, a payment processor may request your billing and
financial information) as a third party service in accordance with their own
privacy policy. Such external service provider does not share your financial
information, like credit card number, with us, but it may share limited
information with us related to your purchase, like your zip or postal code.
Information Shared with Other Users. When you use the Services,
information about you may be shared or visible to other users in certain
instances and therefore become publicly available, including without
limitation: your username, submitted content and questions, basic
location, and public messages.
Information Shared with Our Partners. We may also share information
about you with our business and promotional partners to further those
interests. However, personally identifiable information is never sold or
leased to any third parties.
Information Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of
Others. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials or
private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We only share
information about you to government or law enforcement officials or
private parties when we reasonably believe necessary or appropriate: (a)
to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas and warrants);
(b) to protect our property, rights, and safety and the property, rights, and
safety of a third party or the public in general; and (c) to investigate and
stop any activity that we consider illegal, unethical, or legally actionable.
Information Disclosed in Connection with Business
Transactions. Information that we collect from our users, including
Personal Data, is a business asset. If we are acquired by a third party as a
result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, or if
assets related to a business unit are acquired by a third party as a result
of a transaction, or if our assets are acquired by a third party in the event
we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, some or all of our assets,
including your Personal Data, will be disclosed or transferred to a third
party acquirer in connection with the transaction.
4. Cookies
We use cookies and local storage to monitor aggregate usage and web
traffic of our Services, customize and improve our Services, help you
navigate our Services, deliver content specific to your interests.
We also use “web beacons” (also known as web bugs, pixel tags, or clear
GIFS) which are small graphics with a unique identifier that may be
included on our Services for example to deliver or communicate with
cookies, to track and measure the performance of our Services, to
monitor how many visitors view our Services, and to monitor the
effectiveness of our advertising. Unlike cookies, which are stored on a
user's hard drive or Device, web beacons are typically embedded invisibly
on web pages (or in an email).
Types of Cookies
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are essential to
enable you to use the Services, for example moving around our
websites and using their features (e.g. cookies that enable you to log
into the Services).
Performance Cookies: These are cookies which collect information
about how and when you and other visitors interact with our
Services (e.g. pages viewed most often) and the information
collected by these cookies is used to improve how our Services work.
Functionality Cookies: These are cookies that allow our Services to
remember choices you have made (such as your login information)
and provide you with content and features which are customized to
you. For example, providing you with relevant content by using a
cookie to remember which region you are in.
Advertising Cookies: These are cookies which are used to deliver
adverts to you which are more relevant to you and your interests.
We may also share this type of information with third parties for
these purposes.
The types of cookies described above may be “session
cookies” or “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are only stored on your
device whilst you are using the Services, and are deleted when you log off
from the Services or close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on
your device for a period of time after you log off from the Services or close
your browser.
Third Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third parties when you use the Services as
some third party service providers that we engage (including third party
advertisers) may place their own cookies on your hard drive or Device.
These cookies may provide information to those third parties about your
browsing habits or may be used for security. Some also help to serve you
with advertisements which are more relevant to you. Similarly, if you visit
or use third party websites or services linked from our Services, those
third parties may place cookies or similar technologies on your device.
For more information about what cookies or similar technologies those
third parties use, please review the third party services’ cookie policies.
Cookies Settings
You may decline cookies that are not Strictly Necessary by clicking
“Decline” in the cookie banner at the bottom of your screen. Additionally,
although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can change
your browser options to stop automatically accepting cookies or to
prompt you before accepting cookies. However, if you don’t accept
cookies, you may not be able to access all portions or features of the
Services.
5. How we keep your Personal Data safe
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent your Personal
Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized
way, improperly altered or disclosed. We also limit access to your Personal
Data to employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a
business need to know. They will only process your Personal Data on our
instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put
in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and
will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are
legally required to do so.
6. How long we will keep your
Personal Data
We keep your Personal Data for as long as we need to provide the
Services to you and fulfil the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and
our Terms. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information
with and who carry out services on our behalf.
When we no longer need to use your Personal Data and there is no need
for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will
either remove it from our systems or anonymize it so that it can no longer
be associated with you. When removing Personal Data, we will take
commercially reasonable and technically feasible measures to make said
Personal Data irrecoverable or irreproducible.
7. Your rights and choices
If for any reason you are concerned that any information you provided to
us is not correct and you wish to change or delete it, you have the ability
to review and update your personal information to the extent we have it.
If you would like to do so, please contact us as set forth below or
otherwise view and update your information in your Account profile. You
may also contact us to request access to, transfer of, or erasure of your
personal information to the extent we have any. Specify the nature of
your request and the information that is subject to your request.
We reserve the right not to allow access to your information or to limit
your rights (e.g. if such disclosure is prohibited by law or if the rights of
another individual might be violated). In some instances, this may mean
that we are able to retain your personal information even if you withdraw
your consent or request transfer or erasure. Please note that changes or
access you request may not be effective immediately. Please also note
that despite any request for removal of or change to personal
information, we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping
purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain
within our databases and other records, which will not be removed or
changed.
8. Legal Grounds
We rely on the following legal grounds to use your data:
Where it is needed to provide you with our Service.
Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as: managing our
products and services, and providing our Service to you.
To comply with our legal obligations.
With your consent or explicit consent, where applicable.
For a public interest.
9. Your Rights Under Data
Protection Laws.
Here is a list of the rights that individuals have under data protection laws.
They don’t apply in all circumstances. If you wish to use any of them, we’ll
explain at that time if they are engaged or not.
The right to be informed about the processing of your personal
information.
The right to have your personal information corrected if it is
inaccurate and to have incomplete personal information completed.
The right to object to processing of your personal information.
The right to restrict processing of your personal information.
The right to have your personal information erased (the “right to be
forgotten”).
The right to request access to your personal information and to
obtain information about how we process it.
The right to move, copy or transfer your personal information (“data
portability”).
Rights in relation to automated decision making which has a legal
effect or otherwise significantly affects you.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding these rights please
contact us via the contact information below.
10. Children
Unless stated otherwise for a particular Service, children are not allowed
to use the Services, and we do not collect Personal Data from them. We
define “children” as anyone under 18 years old. If a parent has any further
questions or concerns about his or her child's use of the Services, we
encourage the parent to contact us via the contact information below.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Any Personal Data that we collect is covered by the Privacy Policy in effect
at the time such information is collected. We may make changes to this
Privacy Policy from time to time. You will be given reasonable notice of
any material change.
12. Third Parties
In using our Services you may access links to websites and services that
are owned or operated by third parties (each, a “Third Party Service”). Any
information that you provide on or to a Third Party Service or that is
collected by a Third Party Service is provided directly to the owner or
operator of the Third Party Service and is subject to the owner’s or
operator’s privacy policy. We’re not responsible for the content, privacy, or
security practices and policies of any Third Party Service. To protect your
information we recommend that you carefully review the privacy policies
of all Third Party Service that you access.
13. Disclosures Specific to
California Residents
The CCPA grants California residents certain privacy rights regarding the
personal data we collect. We are committed to respecting these rights and
complying with the CCPA. Under the CCPA you have the right to request
that we disclose to you what personal data we collect, use, disclose, and
sell. The CCPA also gives California residents a right to opt-out from the
sale of their personal data. You also have the right to request deletion of
personal data that is in our possession, subject to certain exceptions.
Please note that your request to delete data may impact your use of the
Services in some cases, and we may decline to delete information for
reasons set forth in this Privacy Policy or as permitted by the CCPA. Finally,
you have a right to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights
under the CCPA.
We do not sell your Personal Data. The information listed in Section 1 falls
under the following California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) categories:
identifiers, commercial information, Internet or other electronic network
activity information, geolocation data, and visual information.
14. Non-United States Users
Please note that the Services are directed towards users who reside in the
United States. By using the Services, you consent to the collection,
storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United
States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the
United States, where permitted by law. Some of these countries may not
offer the same level of privacy protection as your own. Therefore, you
should not provide personally identifying information through the
Services. If you provide such information, you acknowledge that it is
necessary to internationally transfer and process it in the United States.
You also agree that you are responsible for compliance with applicable
laws, including local laws regarding online conduct and content and U.S.
export laws and regulations.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact via
email at: potter@twistedclay.co.