Clown Media Group

The United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK-GDPR)

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a Member State of the European Union but left on the 29th June 2019.

As the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no longer a Member State of the European Union then the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) no longer applies to British citizens.

However, our Privacy Policy addresses the requirements and applies to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Member States of the European Union, the United States, and the rest of the world.

The purpose of data protection regulation is in place to regulate how organisations and businesses use data they collect on their audience, readership, user(s), subscriber(s), and/or visitor(s) to their respective websites, social media, newsletters, advertisements, and any other forms of digital access and that applies to non-digital interactions with customers and users of goods and services.

We Clown Media Group digital web platform want to set out in simple and easy to follow terms and conditions, which includes data protection and how we collect and use information from visitors to our digital news platform and associated external platforms such as our blogs and social media sites we use to promote our digital news platform and the content we include on our news digital platform.

The most important point we like to make, is that we have never, or do not collect information to sell to third parties for any profit or revenue stream.

What we do with data and information we collect is to form a picture on how well the Clown Media Group digital web platform is doing across the Internet.

Who We Are

Our website address is: Clown Media Group

What personal data that can be collected

Introduction

When you use an Internet Browser to browse the Internet data is collected on what websites and activity you are searching for on the actual company's Browser for example: Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Edge, Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, and countless others you may use of preference to search for information and websites on Internet.

Furthermore, any activity using other products connected to any company offering extensions to their Browsers will collect data.

So, before you look at our website your computer has collected quite a lot of data and information about you.

Remember data and information collected on you across the Internet will follow you and depending on what you are looking at, things like adverts will show based on your viewing habits and interests whether for business or pleasure.

Let's break this section down into two parts

Automatically when a visitor looks at our digital news platform, we can see their ISP (Internet Server Provider) address number, which can give us the geographic location and we can extract personal information to identity the visitor.

When a visitor is looking around our digital web platform COOKIES will be transferred onto the visitor's computer, which will create a link between our servers and the visitor's computer, which helps with navigation like using the backward and forward arrows on the search engine bar, thus allowing quicker times if the visitor chooses to navigate around our Clown Media Group digital web platform.

Please note: When filling out contact, subscribing or any other third-party, external and/or digital web platform apps whether on our digital web platform or others may autofill your name, email and/or physical address and any other details and/or information you provide.

Good housekeeping when finishing browsing the Internet

Important to know and do this each time you finish browsing the Internet is to always CLEAN your computer with your ANTI-VIRUS programme, and Windows DISC CLEANUP tool, which will remove COOKIES, including Clown Media Group digital web platform.

We respect and make secure data and information we collect from visitors to our digital web platform and external sites including social media accounts.

What Data and Information we actually use

The purpose of collecting data and information is to see how we are communicating and interacting with our audience, visitor(s), user(s) and readership.

All the data and information we collect is only for our digital web platform and not for any commercial gain to outside person(s), organisation(s), business(es) or any other group.

We use general geographic information, which means we see a collective group of where people have seen or accessed our digital web platform.

We can see how many times our digital web platform and each page within is viewed/visited.

Subscribing to our Newsletters and other content we send through email or post

To keep our readership update to date with new content on our digital web platform by emailing single, several or by a newsletter or through the postal service if a physical address is supplied.

We use MailChimp to allow anyone to subscribe and in the process, we have access to your name and email address.

At anytime anyone who becomes a subscriber on our newsletter or email database can unsubscribe where your name and email address and any other information you provide will be deleted and no newsletters or emails will be sent to you.

Third party and External websites and products

There are several third party and external websites and other products we use that collects data and information.

What constitutes as Third-Party websites and products we use

We use social media accounts and profiles, which collects general data and information, but for the respective social media provider they can access in depth data and information, that shows your name, address, mobile and/or your telephone number and any other data and information you give that social media provider when setting up or during your account/profile is still active.

We use advertising companies where we revenue on each click of these adverts displayed across our digital web platform, who can access general and in-depth data information, especially when you click on their respective advert and make a purchase of a product(s)/good(s) or service(s).

We use affiliate companies where we earn commission on purchase(s) who can access general and in-depth data information, especially when you click on their respective advert and make a purchase of a product(s)/good(s) or service(s).

We use Disqus for visitors to leave comments on our pages as part of our interaction with our visitor's, readerships, or subscribers. Using Disqus will enable them to see your ISP, name you provide while leaving comments, likes or sharing on social media. Disqus has a tick box to tell them you do not want them to sell your details.

We use AddThis for our visitors, readership, or subscribers to share our content on social media, through emails and printing off a copy. AddThis will be able to identify visitors, readership, or subscribers on what content you share on our digital web platform.

What constitutes to external websites and products we use

On our digital web platform may link with external websites within content that we place on our digital web platform and these respective external websites can collect your data and information.

On our digital web platform may have video content from web platforms such as, YouTube or sourced from any other external websites can collect your data and information.

Disclaimer

We are not responsible for third-party or external digital web platforms which the Clown Media Group do not have any control over or input as to how they use the data and information they collect on you.

Please note: That when you leave comments or share our content that it becomes public and can be seen globally by the whole population of Earth.

Adverts both from the Adsense programme which we are apart of and affiliate programmes by third-party companies will show adverts that are tailored to what you are searching for or looking at across the Internet.

Third-party and External digital web platforms have their own Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies on the usages of their respective websites(s) and product(s), which we do not have any control over or input as to how they use the data and information they collect on you.

Analytics

The purpose of analytics is to collect data and information, which provides a general outlook at how well our digital web platform and the content we put on our digital web platform.

The data and information display a national geographical location, gender, and an ISP address, which with enough investigation can identify a visitor, user and/or readership.

The programmes that can give us analytical data and information are Google's Adsense advertising platform, Disqus, AddThis, Facebook, Twitter and on our own software analytical Server programmes.

We do and can pay for advertising campaigns of content on our digital web platform, which gives us data and information of visitors and/or users details to interact and can invite the respective visitor(s) and/or user(s) to become a 'liked' member or to subscribe to our newsletters or other content sent by email.

Disclaimer

We are not responsible for third-party or external digital web platforms which [we] do not have any control over or input as to how they use the data and information they collect on you.

The Data and Information we are not interested in:

We are not interested in the ISP address of our visitor(s), and/or user(s) to our Clown Media Group digital web platform.

We are not interested in identifying our visitor(s) and/or user(s) to the Clown Media Group digital web platform.

We have never and do not intend to use any data and information to sell to third parties as a form of a revenue stream to the Clown Media Group digital web platform.

What rights you have over your data

You can contact us any time to request any data and information we have on you, organisation, business, or any other group.

We can upon request delete data and information we hold on any visitor(s), user(s), and/or readership.

Please contact us: Email

The Clown Media Group: Postal Address on the footer portion of our digital web platform.

Please note:We do hold the right to keep data and information for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How we protect your data and information

This section we'll break it down into two common areas:

Data and information on social media is readily available when you connect and interact with our social media accounts and profiles.

Data and information on our own servers have sufficient protection to make sure data and information is secure.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If you think or feel we have had a data or information breach from our digital web platform or member of our staff employed directly by us, then the following procedures will be undertaken.

Once notified of a potential data or information breach, we will instigate an investigation.

Depending on what we undercover from our internal investigation we will provide you with information on our findings.

Depending on what we find out in our investigation the necessary prevention steps to stop data or information breaches happening in the future.

If we find illegal behaviour whether internally or externally, we will work with law enforcement to bring to justice to those acting illegally to access or misuse data or information we hold on our user(s), visitor(s), and/or readership.

Disclaimer

Whilst we have a robust security system on our servers, we cannot be liable or held responsible for people doing illegal activity in trying to access our server system.

We will work with law enforcement and law enforcement agency in bringing culprits to justice.

Settings

You cannot change your Browser settings on our digital web platform, but you can by clicking on the links below of the most popular Internet Browsers most used.

You should always set your own level of privacy within search engine browser(s) and never rely on digital web platforms to control what data and information is collected about you.

For these settings, please click on the Browser(s) you choose to use to view the Internet - so you can adjust your preferences on what you want Websites to access from you.

The most popular Browsers to use are the following:

Edge | Chrome | Firefox

If you are using Apple's Safari Browser, then click on Settings and Privacy controls within the Safari Browser to modify your preference settings while surfing the Internet.

Browsers and Search Engines have their own Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies on the usages of their respective browser(s) and product(s), which the Clown Media Group do not have any control over or input as to how they use the data and information they collect on you.

The Information Commissioner Office

The Information Commissioners Office regulates data protection laws in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Information Commissioner's Office in the UK

Subject to Change

Our data protection, privacy policy and terms and conditions are subject to change without notice.