Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Fugue Magazine (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is dedicated to safeguarding your personal data and upholding your rights and expectations regarding privacy and data protection. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our website, fuguemagazine.com (the “Website”), in accordance with applicable privacy legislation including, but not limited to, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). We value your trust and are committed to maintaining transparency and accountability in all our data practices.
2. Scope of Policy and Data Controller Role
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected, processed, or stored through your use of fuguemagazine.com. Under applicable data protection laws, the data controller responsible for your data is Fugue Magazine. If you have questions or concerns about our data practices, you may contact us at [email protected].
This Policy applies to visitors, users, and subscribers of fuguemagazine.com whether or not an account has been created.
3. Categories of Data Processed
We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:
a. Usage Data: Information about how you interact with the Website, such as your IP address, browser type and version, device identifiers, pages viewed, location data, language preferences, and time spent on different parts of the Website.
b. Account Data: Information you provide when registering or managing an account, including your name, email address, login credentials, mailing address, and phone number.
c. Profile Data: Data derived or provided voluntarily, such as reading habits, content preferences, past orders or downloads, subscription history, survey responses, and submitted writings or reviews.
d. Communication Data: Information exchanged through support requests, inquiries, and email correspondence, including message content, contact details, and metadata.
e. Technical Data: Device and system information such as hardware specifications, operating systems, referral URLs, system settings, and error diagnostics.
f. Transaction Data: Information related to purchases and payments made via fuguemagazine.com, including billing details, payment method, transaction amounts, shipping address, and order confirmations.
g. Preference Data: Your choices related to newsletters, targeted offers, stored preferences, and consent to marketing communications or cookie settings.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
We process your personal data only when legally permitted under one or more of the following bases:
– Contractual necessity: To provide services or complete transactions initiated by you.
– Legitimate interests: For improving user experience, preventing fraud, managing support, and maintaining security and functionality of fuguemagazine.com.
– Consent: Where required, particularly for marketing communications or non-essential cookies.
– Legal obligations: Where processing is necessary for compliance with legal or regulatory requirements.
Where consent is relied upon as the lawful basis for processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting [email protected] or using available tools on the Website.
5. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may exercise the following rights concerning your personal data:
– Right of Access: Obtain confirmation whether your personal data is being processed, and access to that data.
– Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
– Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
– Right to Restriction: Request limited processing of your data under certain circumstances.
– Right to Object: Object to the processing of your data based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
– Right to Data Portability: Request a copy of your personal data in a machine-readable format for transmission to another controller.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We may ask you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
6. Security Measures
We implement and maintain robust security measures to protect your personal data, including but not limited to:
– Encryption at rest and during transmission;
– Role-based access controls and authentication protocols;
– Secure data storage with firewalls and intrusion detection systems;
– Regular system audits and backup procedures;
– Staff training in data protection and incident response protocols.
While we strive to protect your personal information, no security system is completely impenetrable. We encourage you to use unique passwords and take care in safeguarding your own account credentials.
7. International Transfers
If your data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or other jurisdictions with privacy laws, such transfers are done in compliance with legal safeguards including Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions from the European Commission, or your explicit consent, as applicable. We take appropriate steps to ensure that your data receives the same level of protection regardless of the jurisdiction in which it is processed.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations. Data retention periods include:
– Account Data: until you delete your account or after two years of inactivity.
– Transactional Data: retained for at least seven years for tax and audit obligations.
– Communication Data: retained for up to three years for customer service and recordkeeping.
– Preference and Profile Data: retained for one year from last interaction unless anonymized.
– Usage and Technical Data: retained for up to two years or as collected via anonymized analytics.
After expiration of relevant retention periods, personal data is securely erased or anonymized.
9. Cookie Policy
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on fuguemagazine.com to enhance website functionality and improve user experience. The categories include:
– Essential Cookies: Required for the operation of fuguemagazine.com and its secure areas.
– Functional Cookies: Remember preferences and enhance personalization.
– Analytics Cookies: Help us understand visitor behavior and website performance using aggregated statistics.
– Performance Cookies: Optimize loading speeds, responsiveness, and error reporting.
10. Cookie Management and Compliance with GDPR & CCPA
You can manage your cookie preferences directly through the cookie management banner provided at your first visit to fuguemagazine.com or by adjusting your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Under the GDPR and CCPA, consent is required for the use of non-essential cookies, and you may withdraw consent at any time.
California residents may also opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under CCPA. We do not sell personal data within the meaning of CCPA. Should this practice change, we will update our policy and provide appropriate opt-out mechanisms as required by law.
11. Special Protections for Children Under 13
fuguemagazine.com is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from individuals under 13. If you believe that a child under 13 has provided us with personal data, please contact us at [email protected] so that we can take appropriate action to delete such data.
12. Policy Updates & User Notifications
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements or our data practices. Substantial or material revisions will be communicated through notifications on fuguemagazine.com or, where appropriate, via email. Continued use of the Website constitutes your acknowledgment of the current policy.
13. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal data, please contact:
Fugue Magazine
Email: [email protected]
Website: fuguemagazine.com
We are fully committed to complying with all applicable data protection regulations, including the GDPR and CCPA. Your privacy is important to us, and we welcome any feedback or inquiries about how we protect and respect your personal information.