Effective date: January 28, 2019
When I Came Out (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://whenicameout.com/ website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Our Privacy Policy for When I Came Out is based on the Privacy Policy Template from Privacy Policies.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://whenicameout.com/
Information Collection And Use
Types of Data Collected
While using our Service, you may choose to provide us with certain personal information (“Personal Data”). Submitting a story using the submission form is voluntary, and sharing personal information is optional when submitting a story. Personal information may include, but is not limited to:
- Gender
- Age
- Sexual and/or gender identity
We do not ask you to provide contact information or other identifying information when submitting a story. When submitting a coming out story to the site, you choose the level of detail that you feel comfortable sharing and may choose to omit or alter details that you feel could personally identify you.
Use of Data
When I Came Out uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, 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.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
When I Came Out 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.
Disclosure Of Data
Legal Requirements
When I Came Out may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of When I Came Out
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security Of Data
The security of your 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.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites 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.
Cookies & Tracking
This website uses the cookies & tracking technologies outlined below.
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our website to function and as such are automatically installed. For example:
- Helping route the website to your browser efficiently using our IT infrastructure.
- Saving your data on multi-page forms/checkouts (if any).
- Letting you share or like our content on social networks like Facebook and Twitter if the relevant widgets are present on our pages. If you are logged into a social network, these widgets will automatically let you share content to your account if you choose.
Preference Cookies
These cookies save your preferences for any customization of the website and are installed if you make a customization.
Statistical Cookies
These cookies help us determine user behavior on the website by reporting on your session. These technologies do not cross-reference your browsing with data from other websites. If you are located in the European Economic Area, we ask each tool to only use a session cookie (i.e., one that instructs the browser to clear it once you’ve finished your session).
Technologies used:
- Google Analytics (Privacy Policy | Opt Out) for tracking general & custom behavior on the website. We use all options that Google Analytics provides for maximizing your privacy including instructing it to anonymize your IP address, transmitting data by an SSL connection only, and manually stripping out any personally identifiable information before transmitting to Google Analytics.
Third Party Tracking/Marketing Cookies
These cookies cross-reference your browsing with data from other websites to provide us with more accurate aggregated reports and to enable us to serve you personalized ads, including ads based on your browsing behavior on this website. This functionality is aggregated; we do not use any provider that allows us to see your specific data or to create an ad specifically for you. If you are located in the European Economic Area, we do not use these cookies.
Technologies used:
- Google Analytics Doubleclick (Privacy Policy | Opt Out) for providing us aggregated reporting of your demographics & interests as determined by Google from any Google accounts you have, as well as allowing us to serve you ads on third party websites based on your browsing behavior. If you opt into data sharing with Google, your visits to the website across different devices where you’re logged into Google will be tied together in a set of aggregated, anonymized usage reports. Google does not show us this data on an individual basis
- Google AdWords (Privacy Policy | Opt Out) as above but this also allows Google to deduplicate your browsing sessions to this website across multiple browsers/devices for the purposes of tracking conversions.
- Facebook Ads (Privacy Policy | Opt Out) allows us to serve you ads based on your browsing behavior on our website as well as see aggregate reports that deduplicate your browsing sessions to this website across multiple browsers/devices.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time.
We will let you know via a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: support@whenicameout.com.