We are committed to protecting your privacy and any personal information you share with us. As
part of this effort, we process personal information in accordance with the EU’s General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection regulations applicable to us. That is why
we would like to explain in this privacy policy which data of yours will be processed when you
visit our website, contact us or make use of our services, for what purpose we process your
personal data and what rights you have with regard to the processing of your personal data. We
have outlined our privacy policy below. It is recommended that you read this privacy policy
carefully.
This privacy policy may be changed from time to time. The latest version of this privacy policy
will be placed on our website. In case of significant changes that may have material impact on
you, we will strive to inform you directly. The latest version of this privacy policy is dated 19
July 2022.
WHO ARE WE AND HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?
We offer a digital fantasy chat service for adults designed as a forum for chat with animators, a
place to have discussions of a sexual nature, and to share photos and other information. The party
responsible for the processing of your personal data (the data controller) is Skyloop Digital Ltd.
, which also operates under the trade name of flingpals.com.
If you have any questions or wishes in connection with your personal data, you may contact our
data protection officer: [email protected]
TO WHOM DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?
This privacy policy applies to persons who visits and/or make use of the website and/or the
services. While some functionality of the website can be accessed without registering for an
account, such as browsing and learning more about our services, you need an account for additional
functionality. This privacy policy also applies to persons contact us, via email, text, and other
(electronic messages) or when you interact with our company's advertising and applications on
third-party websites and services.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Below is an overview of the purposes for which we process your personal data. In this overview, we
indicate the personal data we use for a specific purpose, what the legal basis is for processing
these data, and how long we store the data. To keep things organized, we have grouped everything
by type of data stream.
Registration
In order to use our services, you have to create an account. When you register for such an
account, we ask you to provide personal data, including your email address, your gender, date of
birth, region, and your chat preferences. We request you to make a username and password for your
account as well.
We process these personal data in order to enable you to access and use the service, including
uploading, downloading, collaborating on, and sharing content. We need this personal data for the
performance of a contract in connection with the use of service to which you are a party (Article
6.1(b) of the GDPR. Without this personal information, it is not possible to make use of our
services.
Account
After you signed up, you can complete your profile with optional information, such as body type,
eye color, hair color, height. You can also upload photos, sexual preferences and any other
optional information you provide about yourself. Based on your profile settings, you will receive
chat suggestions. You can chat with other users and also set certain visibility preferences. You
may also provide information to be published or displayed ("posted") on areas on the website that
are visible for or transmitted to other users of the website or third parties (collectively, "user
contributions"). We process we process this personal data based on your consent (Article 6.1(a)
GDPR). Where it concerns special categories of personal data, we process this personal data based
on your explicit consent to the processing of those personal data (Article 9.2(a) GDPR).
We store your personal data for as long as you have an account and will delete your data within
twelve months after you deactivate your account. We have a legal obligation to retain financial
records for tax purposes for a period of 7 years. However, we will continue to use your email
address to contact you for our services until you have opted out.
Contact
To provide (international) customer service we may collect your personal data to respond to your
questions you submit through email or the contact form on the website, including helping you with
any issues which may arise regarding our website and/or services. For this purpose, we may process
your account details as well as your purchase history and the nature of the question, complaint or
claim. The processing of these personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate
interests pursued by us (Article 6.1(f) GDPR), namely being able to serve you efficiently and to
optimize our customer service.
Your personal data is stored for a period of 1 month after responding to your message or
resolving your complaint.
(Promotional) emails
if you have signed up for our emails, we can send promotional (personalized) communications, such
as providing you with information about our services, features, newsletters, offers, promotions,
contests, surveys and events. We can also send you technical notices, updates, security alerts.
The processing of your personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests
pursued by us (Article 6.1(f) GDPR), namely direct marketing and optimize our services. Recipients
may at any time unsubscribe (opt-out) for such communications. We retain your email address for as
long as you are subscribed and no longer than 1 month after you unsubscribe.
Email tracking,
We included email tracking and link tracking features in our emails by embedding a small
transparent image pixel in the outgoing email. This pixel sends us a notification in the event the
email is opened.
The processing of these personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests
pursued by us (Article 6.1(f) GDPR), namely, to analyse the reach and effectiveness of the mails
sent by us. The information is retained for two months.
Profiling
We may also send you personalized advertising mails depending on among other things your place of
residence, your account activity, behavior when using the website and service and your
preferences. We also use this information to recognize you when you return to the website and to
customize the website to your individual interests, for example to provide you with chat
suggestions you might be interested in. The processing of your data is only based on your consent
(Article 6.1(a) GDPR). The personal data is stored for a period of 6 months.
Transactions
To use certain parts of our website, you need a paid subscription or a credit bundle. By placing
an order through the website, we collect your personal data to handle your orders, such as the
date and time of your order, what kind of order you placed, your order number, and your account
information. We use this personal data to process and complete transactions, and send you related
information, including purchase confirmations and invoices. The processing of your personal data
in this context is necessary for the performance of a contract in connection with the use of
service to which you are a party (Article 6.1(b) GDPR). Also, we may process your personal data
because this is necessary to comply with statutory obligations, such as tax obligations (Article
6.1(c) GDPR). We have a legal obligation to retain financial records for tax purposes for a period
of 7 years.
Payments are made via third party service providers. To make the payment, you are automatically
redirected to the secure environment of your chosen payment provider. You will automatically be
redirected back to the Website once the payment has been successful. We refer you to the Privacy
Statement of these payment providers for more information about this.
Analytics
We use third-party analytics tools to help measure traffic and usage trends for the website and
app. These tools collect information sent by your device or our website, including the web pages
you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the website and the
service. The tools use cookies. We collect and use this analytics information with analytics
information from other users so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular
individual user. For more information, please read our cookie policy.
Use of the website
We automatically collect generated data about your use of the website. This information consists
of your IP address (an unique number, which makes it possible to recognize your device); account
activity (including storage usage, number of log-ins); data displayed or clicked on (including UI
elements, links); and other log information (including browser type, IP address, date and time of
access, cookie ID, and referrer URL ). We require this information in order for the website to
work as optimally as possible (for example, to display content correctly and to keep the website
secure), the processing of these personal data is therefore necessary for the purposes of the
legitimate interests pursued by us (Article 6.1(f) GDPR) and are stored for twelve months.
Remarketing
Advertising is only effective if it is relevant to you. We, our ad networks and media agencies
may therefore use your personal data to create customer profiles and display personalized
advertisements on the website and other websites. This is based on your previous visits to our
website and third-party websites. Your surf, search and purchase behaviour will be collected on
the basis of cookie techniques, your IP address and the advertisement number that is linked to the
device you are surfing with. We will only do this if you have consented to cookies (Article 6(a)
GDPR). Please read the Cookie Policy to find out more. The personal data are stored for a period
of 12 months.
Security
We process personal data in order to secure our systems and data, investigate and prevent
fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access to the Website, and other illegal activities.
Furthermore, we may process personal data in order to comply with statutory obligations and
requests of authorities and to avoid and settle claims. For these purposes, we may process all
types of personal data as described in this Privacy Policy for these purposes.
The processing of these personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests
pursued by our company (Article 6.1(f) GDPR), namely security and business interests of the
company. Furthermore, we may have to process personal data to meet with statutory requirements as
provided by Article 6.1(c) GDPR.
DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
To provide the services, we share your personal data with service providers. These service
providers process your personal data on behalf of us. The processing by service providers is
governed by a so-called data processing agreement in which we have ensured that the service
provider shall only process the personal data on our instructions. Third parties are:
- external hosting providers, including cloud providers for the storage and management of
data;
- third parties that provide tools for analytical purposes (as described above);
- other specific tasks that have been outsourced include IT support, email marketing, customer
service, moderation services (such as the chat function).
We may also provide your personal data to external parties acting as a data controller. These
parties may include:
- payment-service providers to (a) process payments; (b) prevent, detect, and investigate fraud
or other prohibited activities; (c) facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or
refunds; and (d) for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit or debit cards. We
may share your credit or debit card number with payment service providers or card networks to
monitor card transactions at participating merchants and track redemption activity for the
purposes of providing card-linked services.
- buyers or other successors in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all the company's assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in
which personal information held by us about the website's users is among the assets transferred.
- Legal advisors or debt collection agencies.
- Governmental authorities if we are obliged to do so on the basis applicable laws and / or
regulations or by means of a court order or a legal verdict.
- Third parties for analytical and lead generation purposes.
DO WE TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA?
Some of our service providers are also located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the
Republic of Kosovo where the company's content servers are located, and the company's central
database is operated. To comply with EU data protection laws around international data transfer,
WE only allow service providers outside the EEA to process your personal data in accordance with a
contract entered into between us and the service provider, incorporating the European Commission’s
Standard Contractual Clauses, which ensure that adequate data protection arrangements are in place
(Article 46.1(c) GDPR). For more information on where and how the relevant document may be
accessed or obtained, please contact us.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data and the processing
thereof:
Right to access
you have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are
being processed, and, where that is the case, access to your personal data and additional
information about the processing of your personal data.
Right to rectification
you have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you.
Right to be forgotten
you have to right to ask us to erase your personal data (right to be forgotten) for example if
the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were
collected; you withdraw consent on which the processing is based, and where there is no other
legal ground for the processing; or the personal data have been unlawfully processed.
Right to restriction
you have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data, for example when
you have contested the accuracy of your personal data.
Data portability
you have the right to receive your personal data which you have provided to us in a structured,
commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another
controller, where the processing is based on your consent or on a contract.
Right to object
you have the right to object to processing of personal data which is based on our legitimate
interests. We shall no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling
legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for
the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you always have the right to
object to processing of personal data for such marketing. In that case, we shall no longer process
your personal data for such purposes.
Withdraw consent
where the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to
withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of
processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You may send your request to [email protected] We will respond to your request without undue delay
and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two
further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. We
will inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with
the reasons for the delay.
If we do not take action on your request, we will inform you without delay and at the latest
within one month of receipt of the request of the reasons for not taking action. In that case, you
also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority and to seek a judicial
remedy.
COMPLAINTS?
In case you suspect a breach of data protection legislation and the matter is not solved amicably
between us in negotiations, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory
authority in your country.
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