Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how thenonband.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal data?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.

Why do we need your personal data?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We want certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal foundation we need under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't consent to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the details you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your preferences on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may reverse our access to the information you supply in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data about your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we will inform you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more interactive and personal experience on the Site.

We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Essential Cookies

These cookies are crucial to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its attributes. For instance, they allow you to log into secure areas of the Site and assist the content of the pages you request load quickly. With no cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other sections of our Site that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and to prevent you having to reevaluate your tastes every time you visit our Site.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to gather information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they've visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to track the level of activity on our Site.

We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to enhance how our Site works.

You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

Targeted and advertising cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our permission, third-party advertisers can place cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you're on third party sites.

You may disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they might not be relevant to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed in the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies that are not listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you link your accounts or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You may typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

If you don't accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. By way of instance, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in every time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you publish user-generated articles to our Site, such as via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be confidential or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal data. For those who have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name together with your comments on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

International Data Transfer

Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, processing or leasing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web is not completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests regarding the private data associated with the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you started before requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We will respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any case, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our site.