PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
American Black Bear LLC, including its officers, employees, and agents (“we” or “us” or “our”), the operator of blackmansreign.com (“Black Man’s Reign” or “BMR”) website and mobile application (collectively, the “Site”) and its related events and activities respects the privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). The Black Man’s Reign Privacy Policy may be found below. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, mobile apps and engage with other related services. Your use of the Black Man’s Reign Site, its mobile application and services constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the BMR Privacy Policy, of the BMR Terms and Conditions and of the BMR Membership Rules & Community Guidelines. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with all of these terms. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.
Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.
Changes to the Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site. You waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.
You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.
Collection of Information
We believe very strongly that private information should remain private. We do not sell your information to third parties. We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal information
Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site, or our mobile application, or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site and our mobile application, such as online chat and message boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site and our mobile application.
Site Profile Information
Black Man’s Reign permits users to submit adult-oriented personal information for use in the Black Man’s Reign Profile. Membership is restricted to persons 18 years of age and older. This information is also stored for the purposes of member self-publishing, interaction and to customize the user's Black Man’s Reign site experience. By registering for Black Man’s Reign profiles and submitting your user information, you understand that the information provided in the profile, including your photograph, may be forwarded by members to other members.
Black Man’s Reign will not knowingly collect profile information from those under the age of 18.
Control of Your Password
Do not disclose your password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose control over your personal information. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. To change your password, you can do so at any time through the ‘settings’ page then click “Change Password”.
User Communication Tools
Black Man’s Reign provides an internal messaging service as well as an internal instant messaging service which may permit users to publish certain personal information on the Black Man’s Reign Site. Conversations and information in those communication channels are not monitored or tracked. Users are responsible for the content created in those channels and participate in those channels with the understanding that the Site administrators and owners are not responsible for what the recipients of those communications do with information provided by others users.
Community Tools
Black Man’s Reign provides many venues for member interaction and community. In some cases, use of such tools (e.g. chat rooms, group forums, message boards) may reveal a user's member name or e-mail address and may permit users to publish certain personal information on the Black Man’s Reign Site. In all cases, users affirmatively choose to expose or place this information in public areas (e.g. profile page) of the Black Man’s Reign Site, and thereby agree that such information may be viewed by or forwarded to anyone. Users who do not want this information to be publicly available should not post in public areas of the Black Man’s Reign Site. Users are responsible for the content created in those channels and participate in those channels with the understanding that the Site administrators and owners are not responsible for what the recipients of those communications do with information provided by others users.
Derivative Data
Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. If you are using our mobile application, this information may also include your device name and type, your operating system, your phone number, your country, your likes and replies to a post, and other interactions with the application and other users via server log files, as well as any other information you choose to provide.
Financial Information
Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g. valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site or our mobile application. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, Paypal and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
Mobile Device Data
Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.
Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys
Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.
Social Networking Data
BMR does not link to or share user information with social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat.
Off Site Links
The Site allows for posting of links to other sites. The Site owner and its operators are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of such sites.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site or our mobile application to:
Cookies
Our Web site may set cookies to administer our site, to gather broad demographic information, to deliver content requested by you or specific to your interests, to customize our Website for you, and to save your username and city so that you don't have to enter it each time you visit. We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site and our mobile application to help customize the Site and our mobile application and improve your experience. Keep in mind that anyone using your Web browser would be able to access the Black Man’s Reign Site or mobile application as you if you choose to store your member name and password. Black Man’s Reign's Web servers also may set session ID cookies that are used to allow our servers to deliver information you request (e.g., search results). Members who do not want to receive cookies can instruct their Web browsers to refuse them; however, doing so may prevent most parts of Black Man’s Reign's site or mobile application from working (e.g., anything that requires login, including member chat, etc). While cookies set by Black Man’s Reign may be used to collect personally identifiable information and can be traced to an individual user, this personally identifiable information is used only for internal purposes.
Internet-Based Advertising
Additionally, we may use third-party software to serve ads on the Site and our mobile application, implement email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us.
Website Analytics
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics and others to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site and our mobile application through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site and our mobile application, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, and our mobile application, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors.
You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
Third Party Websites
The Site and our mobile application may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site or our mobile application, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site or our mobile application.
Security of information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. We can’t guarantee the security of the Service's servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet and any transmission is at your own risk. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
Policy for children
Our services are not available to anyone who is not at least 18 years of age. If you are not at least 18 years of age, you are not permitted to become a Member. We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact page on our site.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Interactions with Other Users
If you interact with other users of the Site or our mobile application those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs.
Online Postings
When you post comments, contributions or other content to the Site or our mobile application your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site and our mobile application in perpetuity. Other users disseminating your posted information off site is a violation of our Terms of Service, however we cannot control the activity of our users with information that is posted in common areas of the website or mobile application.
Third-Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site or our mobile application. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and our mobile application and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Affiliates
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions, in which case we will require those partners to honor this Privacy Policy.
Other Third Parties
We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis in which case we will require those entities to honor this Privacy Policy. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Sale or Bankruptcy
If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.
OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
Account Information
You may at any time review or change the information in your account by navigating to the ‘settings’ page.
Users can control what demographic information other site users can view by navigating to ‘settings’ and then ‘privacy’ and make certain selections that can limit the demographic information shared in public areas of the site. The user understands that making some of these selections will limit their ability to interact with other users on the site.
You may terminate your account by:
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
Emails and Communications
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Site or our mobile application, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Site or our mobile application. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Site or our mobile application, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.
Contacting Us
If you have questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy please contact us using our ‘Contact’ page.