Effective Date: August 28, 2024
Introduction
PACTM LLC ("we," "us," "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we might collect from you or that you might provide when you visit www.fetishfinder.com (the "Platforms") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
On this Platform.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Platform.
It does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any nonparty; or
Any nonparty, including through any application or content (including advertising) that might link to or be accessible from or through the Platform.
lease read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you disagree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Platform. By accessing or using this Platform, you agree to this privacy policy. We may change this policy on one or more occasions (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Individuals Under the Age of 18
This Platform is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. No one under the age of 18 may provide any information to or on the Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Platform or through any of its features, register on the Platform, make any purchases through the Platform, use any interactive features of this Platform, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any username you might use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about an individual under 18, please contact us at [email protected].
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We collect various types of information to provide, improve, and secure our services. This includes personal data that you provide directly to us, data we collect automatically when you use our Platform, and data we obtain from third parties. Below is a comprehensive overview of what we collect and how we collect it.
1. Personal Data You Provide to Us
We collect personal data directly from you when you interact with our Platform, including:
Account Registration Data:
Full Name: Used to verify your identity and personalize your account.
Username or Alias: Your chosen name for displaying on the Platform.
Email Address or Telephone Number: Used for account management, communication, notifications, and as a method for two-factor authentication.
Password: Used to secure your account (stored in an encrypted format).
Date of Birth: Used to confirm you meet the minimum age requirement to use our services.
Identity Verification Data (for Creators, Collaborators, and Certain Fans):
Government-Issued ID: A copy of your passport, driver’s license, or other government-issued identification document is required to verify your identity and age.
Selfie with ID: A photo of you holding your government-issued ID might be required for further verification, especially for creators, collaborators, and fans in jurisdictions where legal verification is required.
Social Security Number (or equivalent): Required for tax reporting purposes (for US creators).
Financial Data:
Payment Card Information: Includes card number, expiration date, and security code (processed by our third-party payment processor Segpay).
Billing Address: Required for processing payments and maintaining financial records.
Bank Account Information: For creators, used to transfer earnings from monetized content.
Tax Information: Includes Social Security Number (SSN) or Tax Identification Number (TIN) for tax reporting purposes.
Content and Interaction Data:
Uploaded Content: Includes all media (photos and videos) and descriptions you post as a creator.s
Interaction Data: Includes comments, messages, and other interactions you have with fans or creators on the Platform.
Preferences and Interests: Includes your selections, follows, and content preferences to personalize your experience.
2. Data We Collect Automatically
When you interact with our Platform, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:
Technical Data:
IP Address: Used to identify your geographic location and improve security.
Device Information: Includes information about the device you use to access our Platform, such as the model, operating system, and browser type.
Log Files: Automatically generated logs of your interactions with the Platform, including access times, pages viewed, and referral URLs.
Usage Data:
Browsing History: Tracks the pages and content you view on our Platform.
Interaction Data: Records how you interact with the Platform, such as clicks, scrolls, and navigation paths.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, remember preferences, track usage across sessions, and analyze website traffic. You can manage your cookie preferences in your browser settings, but disabling cookies might affect your ability to use certain features of our Platform.
3. Data We Collect from Third Parties
We may also collect information about you from third-party sources, including:
Payment Processors:
Transaction Data: Includes information about payments made to or from your account, provided by Segpay.
Fraud Prevention Data: Information related to potential fraudulent activities detected during payment processing.
Social Media Platforms:
Linked Accounts: If you link your social media account with the Platform, we may receive certain profile information from that platform, such as your handle, profile picture, and followers.
4. User Contributions and Public Data
If you choose to interact with public areas of the Platform (e.g., posting comments or participating in live chats), others might collect and use any information you disclose. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your content or information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to operate, maintain, and enhance our Platform, as well as to ensure compliance with legal obligations and protect the safety of our community. Below is a detailed explanation of the purposes for which we use your information:
1. To Provide and Manage Our Services
Account Creation and Management: We use your registration data to create and manage your account, verify your identity, and provide you with access to the Platform’s features.
Content Hosting and Distribution: We process and store the content you upload and distribute it according to your preferences and the Platform’s guidelines.
Facilitating Transactions: We use your financial data to process payments, distribute earnings to creators, and manage billing and invoicing.
2. To Ensure Legal Compliance and Security
Age and Identity Verification: We use the information provided during the verification process to confirm that creators and certain fans meet the Platform’s legal requirements.
Compliance with Legal Obligations: We process your data to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes, including tax reporting, record-keeping, and responding to legal requests from authorities.
Fraud Prevention and Security: We use your data, including technical and usage data, to monitor for fraudulent activity, secure user accounts, and protect the Platform from unauthorized access and abuse.
Content Moderation: We use AI tools alongside human review for content moderation, compliance monitoring, and fraud detection. These tools analyze your interactions, uploaded content, and other relevant data to ensure compliance with our policies. If content or accounts are flagged or removed by our AI systems, you have the right to request a manual review by contacting our Content Moderation Team. We are committed to ensuring that moderation decisions are fair, transparent, and subject to human oversight where appropriate.
3. To Personalize and Improve User Experience
Personalized Recommendations: We use your interaction data to provide personalized content recommendations, helping you discover content that aligns with your interests.
Customizing User Experience: We analyze your usage data to tailor the Platform’s interface and features to your preferences, improving the overall user experience.
4. To Communicate with You
Service-Related Communications: We use your contact information to send you important updates about your account, transactions, and the Platform’s terms and policies.
Support and Assistance: We process your communication data to respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and resolve any issues you may encounter on the Platform.
5. To Enhance and Develop Our Platform
Platform Improvement: We analyze usage and technical data to improve the Platform’s functionality, security, and performance, including developing new features and services.
Research and Development: We use anonymized or aggregated data to enhance our systems, conduct research, and develop new technologies that improve the Platform’s capabilities.
6. For Marketing and Promotional Purposes
Marketing Communications: With your consent, we may use your contact information to send you promotional materials, newsletters, and updates about new features or content on the Platform.
Referral Programs: If you participate in our referral program, we use your data to track referrals, calculate rewards, and manage program-related communications.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated or anonymized information that does not identify any individual without restriction. We may also disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this policy:
To Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates: We share your information with our subsidiaries and affiliates to support and enhance our business operations.
To Contractors and Service Providers: We disclose your personal data to contractors, service providers, and other third parties who assist us in operating our Platform, such as payment processors (e.g., Segpay) and analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics). These parties are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for specified purposes.
In Connection with Business Transfers: In Connection with Business Transfers:If we undergo a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or other corporate change, your personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction. Any successor entity will be bound by the terms of this policy.
To Fulfill the Purpose for Which You Provide It: We use your data to fulfill the specific purposes for which you provided it, such as processing transactions, delivering services, or responding to your inquiries.
For Any Other Purpose Disclosed: We may use your data for additional purposes that we disclose when you provide your information.
With Your Consent: We will disclose your information with your consent where required.
We may also disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:
To Comply with Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information to comply with legal processes, such as court orders, subpoenas, or regulatory requests.
To Enforce Our Terms and Policies: We may use your information to enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
To Law Enforcement: In circumstances where the content you upload or the activities on the Platform might involve illegal activities, we may share your personal information with law enforcement or regulatory authorities as required by law. This may include IP addresses, account information, and transaction records, among other relevant data.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Safety: We may disclose your information if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Consent to Personal Information Transfer
We are based in the United States of America. We may process, store, and transfer the personal information we collect, in and to a country outside your own, with different privacy laws that might or might not be as comprehensive as your own.
By submitting your personal information or engaging with the Platform, you hereby consent to this transfer, storing, or processing, including transferring your information across international boundaries to jurisdictions anywhere in the world as permitted by law.
If you are a Canadian resident or otherwise located in Canada, please note that personal information transfers outside of Canada might result in your information becoming accessible to foreign jurisdiction’s law enforcement or other authorities.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (UK), please note that your information will be transferred outside of those areas, including to the United States. Nevertheless, whenever we transfer your personal information out of the EEA, Switzerland, or UK, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that the recipient nonparty agrees to contractual clauses or other appropriate safeguards.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Platform might become inaccessible or not function properly. You can opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Promotional Offers from Us. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own or nonparties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form) or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of a purchase or other transactions.
Residents of certain jurisdictions, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom might have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights and Your EEA/UK Privacy Rights for more information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Platform and visiting your account profile page.
You may also email us at [email protected] to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you have provided us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We might not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access and to provide you with the personal information we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law might allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal information we hold about you, or we might have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous under our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
If you delete your content from the Platform, copies of your content might remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Platform users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Platform, including content, is governed by our Terms of Service.
Residents of certain jurisdictions, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom might have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights and Your EEA/UK Privacy Rights for more information.
Your State Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether we process their personal information.
Access and delete certain personal information.
Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for:
targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
sales; or
profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights might vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please email us at [email protected]. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please provide a detailed explanation of why you believe the decision was incorrect or unsatisfactory and any additional information or evidence that supports your appeal via mail to PACTM LLC, Attn: Chief Privacy Officer, 318 North Carson Street #208, Carson City, Nevada 89701. On receipt of your appeal, we will acknowledge its receipt within ten business days. The appeal will be reviewed by a senior member of our data protection or compliance team who was not involved in the initial decision. We may contact you for further information or clarification if necessary. We will provide a written response to your appeal within 30 days of receipt. If additional time is required to review your appeal, we will notify you of the extension and the reasons for it. If your appeal is upheld, we will take the necessary steps to rectify the issue and inform you of the actions taken. If your appeal is denied, we will provide a detailed explanation of the reasons for the denial and inform you of any further options available, such as contacting the relevant state authorities or data protection agencies.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: [email protected]. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
Your EEA/UK Privacy Rights
If you live in the EEA or the UK, the following terms apply to you.
Legal Basis for Processing
We may process your personal data because you have given us permission to do so (for example, by sending data through the Platform’s contact or signup forms), because the processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights, or because we need to process your personal data to perform a contract with you or comply with the law.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws concerning your personal data. Your rights may include the following:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully, or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons that will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation that makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information that override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processingyour personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information that you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to honor your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will let you know and keep you updated.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We store all information you provide to us on our secure servers behind firewalls. Our payment processor (Segpay) encrypts all payment transactions using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Platform. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Platform.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information through the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Platform.
Data Retention
Except as otherwise permitted or required by law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Typically, this means retaining data for a minimum of seven years. We may also retain data longer if required to protect the rights and safety of our users, comply with legal obligations, or resolve disputes. Under some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We may use that anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
We adhere to the principle of data minimization, collecting only the information necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy. We periodically review the data we hold and ensure that unnecessary data is securely deleted or anonymized.
Withdrawing Your Consent
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at [email protected]. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we might not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Our policy is to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Platform home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting the Platform and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at [email protected].