Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we use automatic data collection technologies, if available in your jurisdiction, to collect Platform activity data.
We use cookies, which are small text files that are stored in your web browser or downloaded to your device when you visit a Platform.
We currently use the following types of cookies, which are set by the Platform’s domains, or by other domains we own or control:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Platform. These include, for example, cookies that enable a user to log in to our Platform and to check if a user is allowed access to a particular service or content.
Functionality cookies: These cookies help us to personalize and enhance your online experience on our Platform. This type of cookies allows us to recognize you when you return to our Platform and to remember, for example, your choice of language.
Analytics cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and explore our Platform. These cookies help us to improve our Platform, for example by ensuring that all users are able to find what they are looking for easily. Additionally, we are using third party session recording technologies that help us better understand our users’ experience, however, the recording data is pseudonymized.
Targeting and Advertising cookies: These cookies record visits of a user on our Platform, the pages a user visits and the links a user follows in order to enable us to make our Platform more relevant to the user’s interests and to help us serve ads that might be of interest to the user.
Analytics, Functionality and Advertising / Targeting cookies can be switched off at any time by accessing the ‘Manage cookies’ option that is located at the footer of our Platform. However, if you decline to accept these cookies, some functionality on our Platform may be disabled and can interrupt your access to certain parts of our Platform.
Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires, or you delete your cookies. Expiration dates are set in the cookies themselves; some may expire after a few minutes while others may expire after multiple years.
Do Not Track: Our systems do not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals.
Use of Google Analytics. We use Google as a service provider to collect and analyze information about how users use the Platform, including, by collecting Platform activity data through first-party cookies set by our domains, and third-party cookies set by Google. Because we activated IP anonymization for Google Analytics, Google will anonymize the last octet of a particular IP address and will not store your full IP address. Google will use the information only for the purpose of providing Google Analytics services to us and will not use this information for any other purposes. The information collected by Google Analytics may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States pursuant to standard contractual clauses approved by the EU. You can learn more on how Google uses data here, and you can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page or by accepting only necessary cookies.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on PornMD are provided or served by third parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you click to view, access, or use any of the third-party feature on PornMD or directed to such third-party Platform. Unless expressly stated otherwise, PornMD does not provide any personal information to these third parties, however, when you click on a third-party internet-based advertising, they may collect information, including your IP address, advertisements you click, time zone setting and location, and information about your browser, operating system, and devices you use to access PornMD to provide targeted content.
You can set your browser to refuse all third-party cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
- Unless we request, you can choose not to provide us with certain Personal Information, but that may result in you being unable to use or access certain features of our Platform because such information may be required in order for you to ask a question or initiate other transactions on our Platform
- You may at any time, delete certain personal information that you have provided to us by contacting us at the email address/contact form provided in the Platform.
- The cookie banner can be utilized to customize your cookie preferences. The cookie banner will record when you have consented to our cookies. Your cookie banner selection will be kept only for the specific session. The cookie banner specifically controls the Functionality, Analytics, and Advertising cookies set by using our website. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third party websites linked from our website. You may access the cookie banner anytime by clicking on the ‘Manage cookies’ option that is located at the footer of our Platform.
