Your privacy is important to Torrent. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Torrent collects, and the ways in which Torrent uses that personal information.
1. Personal Information Collection
Torrent may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:
At torrent.news, if you sign up to receive our newsletter, you provide your email address. That is the only information we have for you and all we need to operate the torrent.news (“Website”) or the Torrent Newsletter (“Newsletter”); we do not collect any information on other visitors to the website.
We use third third-party vendors, identified below, to help with hosting of the website and delivery of the newsletter.
2. Legal Basis for Collection of Information
Torrent asserts the following legal grounds for the collection of data:
Explicit Consent
When you sign up for the newsletter or any other account at torrent.news, you provide explicit consent for Torrent to collect the above listed personal information.
Legitimate Interests
Finally, torrent.news may have additional legitimate interests, including account maintenance and administrative purposes, for the collection of the above listed personal information.
3. Using Personal Information
Torrent may use your personal information to:
Administer the newsletter
Enable your access to and use of the website
Send to you the newsletter and account-related email
Send you marketing communications
Where Torrent discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. Except for the third-party vendors that collect your data separately when you sign up, Torrent has never shared any of its user data with any third parties.
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified in this privacy policy, Torrent may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.
4. Data Processors
Torrent uses the following data processors with respect to the personal information collected:
Squarespace manages the hosting of torrent.news: Squarespace Privacy Policy
Mailchimp manages the creation and delivery of all newsletters sent from Torrent, and all related data, including open rates: Mailchimp Privacy Policy
Google Analytics provides data concerning site visitors and activity at the website: Google Analytics Privacy Policy
5. Data Retention Policy
Data will only be retained until you request us to delete it pursuant to this privacy policy.
6. Securing Your Data
Torrent will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
7. Cross-border Data Transfers
Information that Torrent collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Torrent operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.
8. Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register with the Website or Newsletter. If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on Torrent. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.
9. California Online Privacy Protection Act Notice
(1) Torrent does not track users, who interact with its website across the web, and therefore does not use “do not track” signals.
(2) Torrent does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information from users on any Torrent website for third party use through advertising technologies.
10. GDPR Compliance
Torrent seeks to fully comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Pursuant to this regulation, you have the following rights on this website:
Right to be forgotten: You may cancel your account at any time. If you wish your data to be permanently deleted, you may contact us at admin@torrent.news and it will be deleted within 72 hours.
Right to object: We have never performed any data science projects on user data and do not anticipate doing so in the future. If, at some point in the future we determine a use for any sort of data science project on our user data, we will notify you in writing before doing so. In that event you may remove your contact data from any such project by emailing us at admin@torrent.news with the subject line “Opt Out of Data Science”.
Right to access and rectification: You can contact us at admin@torrent.news at any time to access copies of all user data we retain for you. We will remove, update, or change any personal information about you from our servers immediately upon your request.
Right of portability: We only retain your email address. Nevertheless, we will provide that information to you upon your request.
Right of restriction: You can make a request for restriction or suppression of your personal data through the contact information at the end of this privacy policy.
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, if located in the European Union, you shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.
In addition to the above, an “unsubscribe” option is automatically included in the footer of every newsletter sent from Torrent. This allows you to easily unsubscribe from the newsletter. In the event you unsubscribe, we will immediately stop sending you the newsletter.
11. Updating This Statement
Torrent may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.
12. Other Websites
Torrent.news and the newsletter contains links to other websites and embedded links to other content on the Internet. Torrent is not responsible for the contents of those third party websites or responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.
13. Contact Torrent
We take your feedback seriously. If you have any questions, complaints, or requests concerning your data, this privacy policy, or Torrent’s treatment of your personal information, please email: admin@torrent.news