Effective Date: October 01, 2023
This policy explains what information we collect when you use DrunkLab’s sites (based at vlomingo.com, vilkus-62.com dl.ge, drunklab.com, drunklabstore.com and it’s sub-domains *.dl.ge, *.drunklab.com, *.drunklabstore.com), services, products, and content (“Services”). It also has information about how we store, use, transfer, and delete that information.
Information We Collect & How We Use It
DrunkLab doesn’t make money from ads. So we don’t collect data in order to advertise to you. The tracking we do at DrunkLab is to make our product work as well as possible. So, to give you the best possible experience in using DrunkLab, we collect information from your interactions with our Services. Some of this information, you actively tell us (such as your email address, which we use to track your account or communicate with you). Other information, we collect based on actions you take while using DrunkLab, such as what pages you view (including how much of a given page and for how long) and your use of product features (like button click and etc.). This information includes records of those interactions, your Internet Protocol address, information about your device (such as device or browser type), and referral information (how you got to a particular page).
We use this information to:
- provide, test, improve, promote and personalize the Services;
- fight spam and other forms of abuse;
- generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how people use the Services.
When you create your DrunkLab account, and authenticate with a third-party service (like Twitter, Facebook, Apple or Google) we may collect, store, and periodically update information associated with that third-party account, such as your lists of friends or followers. We will never publish something through one of your third-party accounts without your express permission.
Information Disclosure
DrunkLab won’t transfer information about you to third parties for the purpose of providing or facilitating third-party advertising to you. We won’t sell information about you to a third-party.
We may transfer your account information with third parties in some circumstances, including: (1) with your consent; (2) to a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards; (3) with academic or non-profit researchers, with aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonymization; (4) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; (5) when we have a good faith belief that doing so will help prevent imminent harm to someone.
If we are going to share your information in response to legal process, we’ll give you notice, so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we’re prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.
Public Data
Search engines may index your DrunkLab user profile page, public interactions and post pages, such that people may find these pages when searching against your name on services like Google, Yandex or Bing. Users may also share links to your content on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
Data Storage
DrunkLab uses third-party vendors and hosting partners, such as Amazon, OVH, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, for hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology we need to run DrunkLab. By using the Services, you authorize DrunkLab to transfer, store, and use your information in the Germany, France, Poland, Netherland, Finland and any other country where we operate.
Third-Party Embeds
Some of the content that you see displayed on DrunkLab is not hosted by DrunkLab. These “embeds” are hosted by a third-party and embedded in a DrunkLab page, so that it appears to be part of that page. For example: YouTube videos, Imgur or Giphy gifs, Twitter tweets or some images. These files send data to the hosted site just as if you were visiting that site directly (for example, when you load a DrunkLab blog post page with a YouTube video embedded in it, that video appears because of a pointer to files hosted by YouTube, and in turn YouTube receives data about your activity, such as your IP address and how much of the video you watch).
DrunkLab doesn’t control what data third parties collect in cases like this, or what they ultimately do with it. So, third-party embeds on DrunkLab are not covered by this Privacy Policy. They are covered by the privacy policy of the third-party service (so, when you watch a YouTube video embedded in a DrunkLab blog post, the use of data about your interactions with the video would be covered by YouTube’s privacy policy).
Please be careful when you see embedded forms on DrunkLab asking for your email address or any other personal information. Make sure you understand who you are submitting your information to and what they say they plan to do with it. We suggest that you do not submit your email address or other personal information to any third-party through an embedded form.
When posting on DrunkLab, you may not embed a form that allows submission of personal information by users. You must link offsite to a page that allows such submissions by users, and that page’s appearance must be distinct enough from DrunkLab to ensure it does not cause confusion among users over to whom they are submitting personal information. Failure to do so may lead DrunkLab to disable the post or take other action to limit or disable your account.
Tracking & Cookies
We use browser cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you return to our Services. We use them in various ways, for example to log you in, remember your preferences (such as default language), evaluate email effectiveness, allow our paywall and meter to function, and personalize content and other services. Without cookies, our metered paywall would not work, so they are necessary to DrunkLab’s basic functionality.
DrunkLab saves data about the URLs you visit on DrunkLab, but we do not otherwise track your visits or activities off DrunkLab Services. We track your interactions within the DrunkLab Services (which encompasses vlomingo.com, vilkus-62.com, dl.ge, drunklab.com, drunklabstore.com, and custom domains hosted by DrunkLab).
Some third-party services that we use to provide the Service, such as Google Analytics, may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by DrunkLab only and not the use of cookies by third parties.
Modifying or Deleting Your Personal Information
If you have a DrunkLab account and have any troubles modifying or deleting account details, please contact us [email protected].
To protect information from accidental or malicious destruction, we may maintain residual copies for a brief time period (generally several weeks). But, if you delete your account, your information and content will be unrecoverable after that time. DrunkLab may preserve and maintain copies of your information beyond this time period when required to do so by law.
Data Security
We use encryption (HTTPS/TLS) to protect data transmitted to and from our site. However, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, so we can’t guarantee security. You use the Service at your own risk, and you’re responsible for taking reasonable measures to secure your account.
Email from DrunkLab
Sometimes we’ll send you emails about your account, service changes or new policies. You can’t opt out of this type of “transactional” email (unless you delete your account).
When you interact with an email sent from DrunkLab (such as opening an email or clicking on a particular link in an email), we may receive information about that interaction.
We won’t email you to ask for your password or other account information. If you receive such an email, please forward it to us at [email protected] so we can investigate.
Changes to this Policy
DrunkLab may periodically update this Policy. We’ll notify you about significant changes to it. The most current version of the policy will always be here https://dl.ge/privacy-policy/.
Questions
We welcome feedback about this policy at [email protected].
Data Protection Statement for European Union Users
Description of Processing Activity
DrunkLab collects and stores personal information about its users to customize their reading experience and enable personalized distribution of content. It shares minimal data with its service providers.
Purposes of Processing
- Provide, test, promote, and improve the Services;
- Gather usage statistics of services;
- Provide customized reading experience;
- Publish and distribute user-generated content;
- Fight spam, fraud, and other abuse of services.
Legal Bases
Where DrunkLab collects and stores personal data about non-users mentioned in user-generated content, it does so under performance of contract obligations to users who use the Services to publish content on websites hosted by DrunkLab. In such cases, users authoring such user-generated content containing personal data of third parties are responsible for that content. DrunkLab will consider related complaints in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation’s rights of the data subject, as well as rights of expression and access to information.
Public Nature of Personal Data
Logged-in users may choose to interact publicly with the Services in the form of clapping for a post, sharing links on connected social media accounts, or writing original posts. Where such personal data may reveal special category protected data, it is processed on the basis that it is manifestly made public by the user. Additional information on potential consequences of such processing can be found below. If you do not agree to this public usage, do not create an account or use these features of the Services.
Search engines may index your DrunkLab user profile page, public interactions (such as claps or highlights), and post pages. Users may also share links to your content on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
Categories of Personal Data Collected
Logged out users:
- IP address;
- Browser information.
DrunkLab is hosted in EU. By using the Services, you authorize DrunkLab to transfer, store, and use your information in the EU and any other country where we operate. Where your data is disclosed to our processors, it is subject by contract to at least the same level of data protection as that set out in this statement.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [email protected].
California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures
Beginning January 1, 2020, the CCPA gives you certain rights with respect to the processing of your personal data (known as “personal information,” as described in the CCPA).
This section provides additional privacy disclosures and informs you of key additional rights as a California resident:
Right to Know Request
Under the CCPA, you have a right to request information about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information over the prior 12 months, and ask that we provide you with the following information:
- Categories of and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
- Categories of sources from which we collect personal information.
- Purposes for collecting, using, or selling personal information.
- Categories of third parties with which we share personal information.
- Categories of personal information disclosed about you for a business purpose.
- If applicable, categories of personal information sold about you and the categories of third parties to which the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to which the personal information was sold.
To make a verifiable request for information about the personal information we have collected about you, please email us at [email protected].
Right to Delete Request
Under the CCPA, you also have a right to request that we delete personal information, subject to certain exceptions. To delete all personal information linked to your DrunkLab account please email us at [email protected], be ready to identify your Right to manage account.
General Requests under CCPA
If you do not have a DrunkLab account, we will not have enough information about you to verify your Right to Know and Right to Delete requests since we do not keep sufficient information to reidentify and link you to a DrunkLab data. You may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information twice per 12-month period. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.
Requests made through Agents
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney document, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your Rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
DrunkLab may disclose certain data from the following categories of personal information to the categories of recipients listed above in the ‘Categories of Recipients’ for one or more business purposes:
Under the CCPA, a “sale” means providing to a third party personal information for valuable consideration. Since DrunkLab doesn’t make money from ads, we don’t collect data to facilitate nor enable third parties to advertise to you. At this time and pending final regulations and guidance interpreting the CCPA, we don’t believe any of our data practices constitute a “sale” under the CCPA.
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