Original Publication: July 27, 2023
Last Updated: October 10, 2023
This privacy policy describes the policies and procedures on the collection and disclosure of your information when you access The Radical Intellect website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access this website.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Device means any device that can access this website such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the website. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the website to perform services related to the website in analyzing how it is used.
- Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of this website or from the website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to The Radical Intellect, accessible from www.theradicalintellect.com.
- We/Us/Our refers to the site personnel of The Radical Intellect.
- You/Your means the individual accessing or using this website, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the website, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- Usage data
- Information from third-party social media services
The information you provide during registration is solely confined to the login, profile, commenting, and forum functions of this website and is in no way deliberately shared with any commercial or third-party entities.
The website may use your email address for the following purposes:
- To manage your account: To manage your registration as a user of this website. The email you provide can give you access to different functionalities of our website that are available to you as a registered member.
- To contact you: To contact you by email regarding website functionalities when necessary or reasonable for their implementation; to contact you with site-wide or forum subscription notifications; to contact you if we update our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Discussion Guidelines, or Cookies Policy.
- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us such as email confirmation and password reset functions.
Your email address is not publicly visible and can be changed at any time through your account settings. We will never send you any electronic communications with product solicitation nor will we share your email address with any third-parties.
Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when using this website. Collection of this data is purely for security purposes and is in no way sold or shared with any third-party entities.
Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access our website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website or when you access this website by or through a mobile device.
Information From Third-Party Social Media Services
You have the option of sharing additional information with our website through your profile such as your personal website or social media accounts. If you choose to provide such information and personal data, during registration or through editing your profile, you are giving the website permission to store it in a manner consistent with this privacy policy. Any information you willingly provide is subject to public display in your profile until it is otherwise removed by you or a site administrator. Note that we will never contact you through any third-party or social media services.
Retention of Your Personal Data
This website will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
This website will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including personal data, is processed at our service provider’s data center and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
This administrators of this website will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Deletion of Your Personal Data
You have the right to request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you.
You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to your account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us that you cannot otherwise remove yourself.
Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the administrators of this website may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
The administrators of this website may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of this website
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with this website
- Protect the personal safety of the registered members of this website or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or browser cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our website may use cookies.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session cookies
- Administered by: www.theradicalintellect.com
- Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent cookies
- Administered by: www.theradicalintellect.com
- Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
- Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent cookies
- Administered by: www.theradicalintellect.com
- Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.
Children’s Privacy
Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact an administrator. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this privacy policy.
You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact us.
