Privacy Policy

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use, store, and process information, including personal information, about you to provide, understand, improve, and develop the Website, to protect us and our users and to comply with our legal obligations. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results.

For the avoidance of doubt, we do not accept that we are a joint controller of personal data of any third parties (other than you) available or contained in any user Submission uploaded by you pursuant to the Terms of Service, and disclaim any and all liability in connection with the Third Party Personal Data.

Provide, Improve, and Develop the Website.

  • Enable you to access and use the Website.
  • Enable you to communicate with other users.
  • Operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Website, such as by performing analytics and conducting research.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Send you service or support messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications.
  • To operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Website, and personalize and customize your experience (such as making suggestions or ranking search results), we conduct basic profiling (customer segmentation) based on your interactions with the Website, your search and viewing history, your profile information and preferences, and other content you submit to the Website.

Lawful bases: we rely on the following three lawful bases to process your personal data for the specific purpose of providing, improving and developing the Website as described above.

  1. we process this information in order to adequately perform the contract with you;
  2. our legitimate business interests in processing your personal data, specifically for the purpose of improving the Website and our users’ experience with it, which we have determined can only be achieved by processing your personal data. We consider the processing of your personal data to be proportionate with your interests, rights and freedoms;
  3. to the extent necessary to perform our contract with you and customise your experience, consent to process special categories of data.

Protect us and our Users and Comply with Legal Obligations.

  • Detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
  • Conduct security investigations and risk assessments, including any reports third parties may file about you or the content you have uploaded pursuant to the Terms of Service.
  • Comply with our legal obligations, including assistance in the prevention of crimes, such as blocking child sexual abuse material or non-consensual sexual acts.
  • Resolve any disputes with any of our users and enforce our agreements with third parties.
  • Communicate with you regarding any abuse reports (if you do not submit them anonymously), or any copyright infringement takedown requests or counter notifications (which cannot be submitted anonymously) that you may file pursuant to the Terms of Service.
  • Enforce our Terms of Service and other terms and policies.

Lawful bases: we rely on the following three lawful basis to process your personal data:

  1. legal obligations to which we are subject, which may include disclosing your personal data to a third party or competent national authorities.
  2. consent to process certain special categories of personal data to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes set out above, such as transferring limited categories of your personal data to third parties against whom you have filed a copyright infringement takedown request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (hereinafter referred to as the “DMCA”) or to whom you are responding with a copyright counter-notification, in accordance with the Terms of Service and as further described below,
  3. legitimate interests in protecting our business, which includes protecting the Website and our reputation as a law-abiding business to the extent appropriate. We consider the processing of your personal data to be proportionate with your interests, rights and freedoms.