1. Introduction
Stories & Spectrum is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.
2. Information We Collect
We obtain information from or about you in connection with our services. The information which we collect and the purpose for which we use them depends on specific services under Stories & Spectrum. We may obtain the following information from or about your usage of our services:
- Contact or registration information : Name, email address, phone number and address.
- Customer service information: questions, inquiries, and other messages you address to us directly through online forms, email and comments.
- Demographic and interest information: Sexual orientation, gender, nationality, interests, age, date of birth, interests, hobbies, health and wellness information (to the extent which is permitted by applicable law). This information may be collected in connection with registering for the service, events, participating in surveys or other opportunities.
- Financial and transactional information: order information, credit card number, payment account information to process payment and keep records of your transactions with us.
- User-generated content: articles, blogs, comments, photos, videos, reviews, feedback and testimonials.
- Survey information: contact information, demographic information, user-generated content collected if you participate in surveys. Surveys are voluntary and may request any of the demographic, statistical and interest information above, in addition to product ownership, purchase history or intentions, political views, religion, and union or guild membership
- Sweepstakes information: contact information and user generated content collected if you participate in a sweepstakes or contest, including information needed for you to participate and information required to fulfill your prize
- Social media information: contact information, location, photos, user-generated content, demographic information that we may obtain if you link your account or access our service through a third-party login
- Any other information you may provide to Stories & Spectrum in connection to your usage of service.
Our service may collect the following information automatically:
- Device information and identifiers: IP address; time zones, browser type and language; operating system; ISP provider; platform type; device type; software and hardware attributes;and unique device, advertising, telecommunications carrier, and app identifiers.
- Internet network and device activity data: information about files you download, domain names, landing pages, browsing activity, content or ads viewed and clicked, dates and times of access, pages viewed, products, goods or services viewed, forms you complete or partially complete, search terms, uploads or downloads, the URL that referred you to our Services, the web sites you visit after this web site; if you share our content to social media platforms; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers, whether you open an email and your interaction with email content, access times, error logs, and other similar information
- Geolocation information: country, city, state and ZIP code associated with your IP address
- Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. You can control or disable cookies via your browser settings.
3. How We Use Your Information
Depending on the services you use and the manner in which you use them, we may use your information to:
- To provide the services you request: processing and fulfilling your transactions, maintaining and servicing your account, sending communications that you have requested, admitting your entry into promotions, sweepstakes and surveys.
- Communicate with you: sending newsletters, updates, or promotional content (with your consent), and providing customer service and technical support.
- Personalize your experience: customizing certain features, delivering relevant content, sending you personalized newsletters, promotions and content, customizing advertising based on your activity and creating inferences about you and your audience that can be used for targeted marketing.
- Republish the information you provide pursuant to our Terms of Service
- Improve our services and develop new services
- Fulfill our marketing, advertising and third-party marketing purposes.
- Bug detection and error reporting
- Audit customer interaction on the service
- Security, fraud and legal compliance: verifying your identity, combating spam and malware risks, protecting and defending our services and users
4. How we disclose your information
We may disclose the information collected from or about you usage of our services as set forth below:
- Service providers: We may provide access to information to vendors that perform services on our behalf.
- Information you provide publicly: We do not control who will have access to information you declare publicly or how they will use it and take no responsibility for such information Such information include comments, submitted articles and blogs, photographs and user profiles.
- Other parties at your request: we shall disclose information to other individuals or our partners at your request.
- For marketing purposes: we may disclose your information to third=parties whose offerings might interest you such as advertisers and retailers.
- For legal purposes:  By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that we may access, retain, and disclose the information we collect and maintain about you if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, retention or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (; (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; and/or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of Stories & Spectrum.
5. Grounds for processing your information
- Where we need it to fulfill our Terms of Service
- Where processing is in our best interest to secure, improve and protect our services from misuse
- Where we have obtained your consent to send you marketing and other commercial communications
- To protect vital interest of our users such as health and mental wellbeing
- For our editorial activities
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties, except:
- To comply with legal obligations.
- To trusted service providers assisting us in website operations (e.g., hosting services).
6. Data Security
- We implement measures to secure your information. However, no method of online transmission is completely secure.
7. Your Rights and choices
- You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data.
- You have the ability to accept or decline certain cookies for analytics and targeted advertising.
- You can unsubscribe from newsletters at any time.
8. Third-Party Links
- Our site may include links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices.
9. Changes to this Policy
- We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.
- Changes will be posted on this page with the updated date.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this policy, contact us or email us via info@storiesandspectrum.com
