Privacy Policy

Last Modified: February 16, 2024. This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 16, 2024 (“Effective Date”). The privacy of your personal information is important to us. You can visit most of our websites and use our applications without providing any personal information. When personal information is requested, we strive to collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal information in a manner consistent with the laws of the countries in which we collect personal information. We do not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties.

Who we are

Our website address is SameSexAttraction.org. Our email address is (info@SameSexAttraction.org). Our mailing address is Century Publishing, LLC, 7533 S Center View CT Suite R, West Jordan, UT 84084. Learn more about SameSexAttraction.org.

Consent to Privacy Policy

By using this website or our applications, you expressly consent to the application of this Privacy Policy to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of all your Personal Information as described. If you disagree with any of the conditions of this Privacy Policy or our Rights and Use policy, do not use our websites, applications, or other properties. We reserve the right to change this Agreement at any time, so please check for changes to this Agreement each time you use this site. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to this Agreement means that you accept those changes.

What personal data we collect and how we use it

We collect your Personal Information in an effort to provide you with a superior experience and, as necessary, to administer our business. It allows us to provide you with easy access to the information, products, and services that may be of most interest to you. For example, we use your Personal Information to:

  • Provide you with information, services, and products.
  • Communicate with you about information, services, and products that may be of interest to you.
  • Customize and enhance our websites and advertising.
  • Make communications necessary to notify you regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues.
  • Conduct research and perform analysis in order to measure, maintain, protect, develop and improve our products and services for you the customer.
  • Manage our business.

Who we share your data with

Protecting the privacy and security of your Personal Information is one of our top priorities. We do not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties. We will not share your Personal Information except in limited circumstances, including the following:

  • Law enforcement officials and as required by law. We may release Personal Information to third parties when it is necessary to (a) comply with the law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce or apply the terms of any of our policies or user agreements; or (c) protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our employees, our customers, users, and/or others.
  • Third-Party Providers. We may provide personal information to third parties for their use in performing internal functions on our behalf (for example, payment processing, maintenance, security, data analysis, hosting, and so forth). In such instances, the providers will be contractually required to protect personal information from additional use (including for marketing purposes) or transfer in accordance with this Privacy Policy and industry standards.
  • Co-branded offerings. In some instances, we may offer a service or feature that is co-branded by us and a third party company. If you provide information in connection with such a co-branded service or feature, that information may be shared between us and the third party. Although our treatment of your information is governed by our privacy policy, the third party’s treatment of your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy.
  • Other websites operated by us. In some instances, we may operate a website on behalf of a third party. If you provide information in connection with a third party website maintained and/or operated by us, that information may be shared between us and the third party. Although our treatment of your information is governed by our Privacy Policy, the third party’s treatment of your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy.
  • Sales, Mergers, and Acquisitions. If we becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets, Personal Information may be provided to the entities and advisers involved subject to a confidentiality agreement, and we will provide notice before any Personal Information is finally transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Email subscriptions

If you subscribe to receive emails from the site, the Personal Information you provide may include your first name, surname, email address, and other information. We retain that information indefinitely or until you unsubscribe.

Site registration

If you register on our website, we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We retain that information indefinitely or until you delete your registration.

Anonymous and aggregated information

We collect two basic types of information—Personal Information and Anonymous Information—and we may use this information to create a third type of information, Aggregated Information. For example, when you visit our sites or use our applications, location information may be provided either by a mobile device interacting with one of our sites or applications, or by association with your IP address. Usage, viewing, and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address, may also be collected when you visit our sites, use our applications, or open emails we send to you.

Comments

When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comments, your profile picture (if you provide one) may be visible to the public in the context of your comment. The comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Read the Gravatar service privacy policy.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you have rights to edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Third-party sites and services

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) and links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any third-party sites. For your own protection, you should review the policies of other sites to ensure they meet your personal privacy expectations. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you have visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. This site may receive data about users from third parties, including advertisers.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics cookies to measure user-interactions. Read the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Children’s Privacy

The site is not directed to, or intended for use by, children (defined as anyone under thirteen [13] years old). Children should not use or submit any information through the website or its applications. If you are under the age of 13, you may only use the site or applications with permission from your parents or guardians. We do not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from users under the age of 13. If a child under 13 submits information through the site or applications, and we become aware that the person submitting the information is a child, we will attempt to delete this information as soon as possible. Parents can contact us at the email address above to request access to, change, or delete their child’s personal information.

How we protect your data

We take significant and appropriate security measures, including physical, technological, and procedural measures, to help to safeguard your Personal Information and to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure. In addition, we use industry-standard technology, such as firewalls and encryption in the transmission of certain sensitive Personal Information, designed to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your Personal Information, and, as technology develops, we intend to take additional measures to improve security.

Submission of content and Right to Privacy Waiver

Unless prohibited by law, your participation in the posting of any information, comment, photo, or other content on our websites or applications constitutes your consent for us to use said content for any purpose, including promotion, advertising, or commercial purpose in any media now known or later developed, without payment or consideration to you or any other person. Though we are under no obligation to monitor your content submissions, we reserve the right to do so at our sole discretion. We also reserve the right to block or remove any content we deem inappropriate, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, defamatory, libelous, tortious, illegal, threatening, or otherwise objectionable. Since we do not review all content submitted through every feature on every site or application, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to take protective measures in the event you inform us about a person who is a victim of harm or abuse or is at risk of becoming a victim of harm or abuse. When we become aware of content that we consider to be offensive, we will make a good-faith effort to block or remove such content. See our Rights and Use policy.