GiDifans.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Gidifans.com
By using our website, you could share with us some of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect from you, how we use such information, with whom it may be shared, and your rights and choices with regard to controlling your information when you visit our site.
This privacy policy is provided pursuant to the UE Regulation on data protection (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter “GDPR”). By using our website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this privacy policy. If you do not accept the provisions set forth herein, we invite you not to use our website.
1. Personal Data Collection
We are collecting two types of data:
(a) The data we collect automatically when you use our services
(b) personal data that you choose to share with us.
Data we collect automatically when you use our services
We’re receiving data from your browser or device each time you access our website. Browsers and devices send this information to websites to identify themselves. This may include:
(a) Your IP address.
(b) Date and time of access to our service.
(c) Hardware, software, or browsers you use and information about your computer’s operating system.
(d) Language settings.
(e) Information on your clicks and pages that have been shown to you.
We are working with third-party advertising companies that serve ads on our website. These companies may use some tools, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about users’ online activities. for more information about cookies and your settings.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy.
We also use Google Analytics’ tracking tool to understand how visitors engage with our site.
Learn more about them and how to opt-out: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Personal data that you choose to share with us
You do not need to create an account in order to access information on our website. However, if you decide to participate in commenting, you may be required to fill your name on the comment form. Therefore, we ask you to pay attention to what you make public.
If you contact us through our contact page, we will ask you for your name and email address. We keep this data you provide to us strictly confidential and do not sell, share, transfer, or distribute it to any third party.
2. Personal Data Use
We may process your data (depending on your interaction with us) for a variety of reasons that are permitted under data protection laws and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, which may include the below purposes.
Our website, GiDifans.com, uses cookies and local storage to distinguish you from other users. This allows us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and keep developing our services.
We may process your data (depending on your interaction with us) for a variety of reasons that are permitted under data protection laws and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, which may include the below purposes.
(a) To manage our business needs, such as monitoring, analyzing, modifying, and improving our website’s functionality and performance.
(b) To respond to your questions, comments, complaints, requests, and other communications.
(c) To track your return visits and use of our website.
(d) To grow our business.
(e) To accumulate and report aggregate, statistical information in connection with our website and user activity, or to provide reporting for our clients, business partners, etc.
With your consent, including:
(a) To display advertising based on your use of GiDifans and other websites, services, and platforms you have used or visited.
(b) To enhance the services and their usage as well as understand the effectiveness of the advertisements we promote to users through the collection of data by means of cookies and similar technologies.
The user’s data will be lawfully and properly processed, adopting all necessary safety measures in order to prevent unauthorized accesses, distributions, changes, or eliminations of data.
3. Personal Data Sharing
The third parties we might share your data with are:
(1) Services suppliers who carry out services on our behalf, and commercial partners who provide services and features. Third-party companies are bound by confidentiality agreements and do not have the authorization to use your data for other purposes than those communicated by GiDifans.
(2) Competent authorities in order to ensure compliance with any applicable laws, in the event of assessed breaches of contractual provisions with us, we must protect the rights, properties, and safety of our company, our users, or other parties, as well as identify and solve safety problems.
(3) Third parties within a merger or acquisition. Should GiDifans be involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, winding up, bankruptcy procedure, or the purchase of all or part of its activities by another company, we could share data that concerns you with such a company before and after the transaction’s closing.
We could also share with third parties, such as advertisers, aggregate data that is not personally identifiable or made anonymous. For more information on data collected by third parties within our services, please refer to the advertisement section.
4. Advertisement
Advertising allows us to offer you our content for free and to keep improving our website. For us to be able to provide a free service, we could allow other companies to use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies within our services. Such companies could collect data on the conditions of use of our services over time and combine them with comparable data collected from other services and companies. Such data could be used, among other things, to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain contents, or better understand your online activities.
Our current list of advertisers:
(1) Google AdSense – Privacy Policy
(2) BandsInTown – Privacy Policy
Such parties can include their own Web beacon or a Web beacon owned by a third party in advertisements visualized by GiDifans in order to set and read their cookies, save cookies in the user’s device, and collect the user’s online activities in relation to Websites and online services.
The use of companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), or other equivalent organizations that are compliant with the NAI Code of Conduct is preferred. It is possible to access the opt-out page managed by NAI by clicking on the following link: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Please remember that the opt-out option will not prevent you from seeing advertisements. However, the advertisements offered by such companies will not be targeted on the basis of your web preferences anymore.
For more information, please read our Cookie Policy.
5. Retaining Your Personal Information
GiDifans stores data until it is necessary to provide its services. The data retention period changes on the basis of circumstances such as the nature of the data, the reason for collection and processing, and relevant legal requirements. In any event, the criteria used to determine the data retention period are based on compliance with the terms allowed by any applicable laws and the principles of processing minimization and rational management of the archives. We will only keep data that is necessary to comply with legal obligations and for a period not longer than that required for such compliance.
6. User Rights
The user can exercise at any moment the rights set out in article 7 of the Privacy Code and in articles 15 and following of the GDPR, including the right to receive confirmation of the existence of personal data that concern him, to assess their content, accuracy, and location (also with reference to any third country), to ask for a copy of such data, to ask for their integration, update, correction, and, when allowed by the applicable law, the restriction, cancellation, transformation into anonymous form, or blocking for law infringement.
The user can also contact us if he believes that GiDifans does not have the right to use certain data or if he has doubts about how his data is processed or this policy. In any event, you have the right to complain to a data protection authority if you believe that our collection and use of your data is carried out in violation of the applicable law.
7. Minors
GiDifans is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, you may not use our website, including providing any information about yourself. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected information from someone under the age of 16, please contact us. If you are a parent or the guardian of a person under the age of 16, please do not allow such a person to use GiDifans.
8. Transfer of personal data
Your personal data could be transferred, transmitted, or stored outside of the EEA, but in the event of data transfers, GiDifans uses standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and based on adequacy decisions of the European Commission in relation to some countries, depending on the case, for the transfer of data from the EEA to the United States and other countries.
9. Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us