Privacy Policy

When using thepassportbros.org, you trust us with your personal data. We're committed to keeping that trust. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your information, including personal information, in conjunction with your access to and use of thepassportbros.org's website. We may change or add to this Privacy Policy, so we encourage you to review it periodically. If you see an undefined term in this Privacy Policy (such as “thepassportbros.org Site(s)”), it has the same definition as in our Terms of Use. thepassportbros.org is located in the United States. Information collected on our website and applications is stored in the United States; therefore, your information may become subject to U.S. law. By using the thepassportbros.org Site(s), you consent to the transfer of your data overseas and across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. The laws governing data in your home country may differ from those in the countries to which data is transferred. By accessing and using our website and mobile applications, you consent to the transfer of your data in this manner.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1.1. Information You Provide To Us

1.1.1. Information that is necessary for the use of thepassportbros.org's website

We ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use thepassportbros.org's website or mobile applications, which is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us (for example, placing an order or enrolling in a subscription program) and to allow us to comply with various legal obligations. Without this information, we may not be able to provide you with all of the requested services.

  • Account Information. When you sign up for a thepassportbros.org account, we require certain information such as your e-mail address, username, and password. If you choose to register by using a third-party account (such as your Facebook account), please see “Information We Collect from Third Parties” below. You may also provide optional information as part of your thepassportbros.org profile, including additional contact information, location, etc.
  • Order Information. When you place an order on our website or sign up for a subscription service, we may request that you provide additional information such as your billing and shipping addresses and phone number.
  • Payment Information. To facilitate processing of payments on our website, we require you to provide certain financial information (for example, your credit card number). Payment card numbers are not stored by thepassportbros.org.
  • Communications with thepassportbros.org. When you communicate with thepassportbros.org via our website or mobile applications (for example, for customer service inquiries), we collect information about your communication and any information you choose to provide.
  • Essential Cookies. Certain tags or cookies are necessary in order for thepassportbros.org's Site(s) to operate correctly. These essential cookies are further described in our Cookies Policy.
1.1.2. Information you choose to provide to us

You may choose to provide us with additional personal information in order to obtain a better user experience when using the thepassportbros.org Site(s). This additional information will be processed based on your consent or thepassportbros.org's legitimate interests, as specified below:

  • Additional Profile Information. You may choose to provide additional information as part of your thepassportbros.org profile, such as gender, first and last name, personal description, photographs, videos, forum posts, etc. This information, if you choose to provide it, will be part of your public profile page and will be publicly visible to others. thepassportbros.org processes this information based on your consent; however, thepassportbros.org also processes your thepassportbros.org Account username based on its legitimate interest in preserving and maintaining forum threads and posts that comply with thepassportbros.org's Forum Rules. thepassportbros.org has a legitimate interest to ensure the ongoing management of its business and to maintain an acceptable and uninterrupted experience for other forum users. Based on this legitimate interest, and unless your username contains personally-identifiable information (i.e., your first and last name), thepassportbros.org will accommodate customer requests for erasure of forum posts at our discretion.
  • Other Information. You may otherwise choose to provide us information when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your thepassportbros.org Account or profile, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, or use other features on the thepassportbros.org Site(s). This information is processed based on your consent.

1.2. Information We Get from Your Use of Our Site(s) and Services

When you use thepassportbros.org's Site(s), we automatically collect information, including personal information, about the services you use and how you use them, such as information about how you use or interact with our website, view or interact with our ads and content, and information about your computer or mobile device. This information may include:

  • Usage Information. We collect information about your interactions with our website and mobile applications such as the pages or content you view, your searches, and other actions on thepassportbros.org's Site(s).
  • Device Information. We automatically collect device information when you access our website or mobile applications, even if you have not created a thepassportbros.org account or logged in. That information includes, among other things: your IP address, operating system version, device type, system and performance information, and browser type. Additionally, certain services include a unique application number. This number and information about your installation may be sent to thepassportbros.org when you install or uninstall a certain service or when a service periodically contacts our servers, such as for updates.
  • Log Data. Like most websites today, our web servers keep log files that record data each time a device accesses those servers. The log files contain data about the nature of each access, including IP addresses, internet service providers, files viewed on our website, operating system versions, device type, and timestamps.
  • Local Storage. thepassportbros.org may collect and store information – including personal information – locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies thepassportbros.org may set and access cookies on your computer. We may also set and access device identifiers which may include your IP address, user agent information (e.g., browser version, OS type, and version), and device-provided identifiers. thepassportbros.org also lets other trusted businesses use cookies or similar technologies for advertising, analytics, and research purposes on some of the thepassportbros.org Site(s). If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, review our Cookies Policy .
  • Payment Transaction Information. thepassportbros.org, or its third-party agents, collects information related to your payment transactions, including the payment instrument used, date and time, payment amount, payment instrument expiration date, and billing post code; PayPal or Amazon Pay e-mail address (if such payment method is used); your address; and other related transaction details. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and thepassportbros.org for provision of payment services.
  • Location Information. When you use our services, we may collect information about your precise or approximate location as determined through data such as your IP address to offer you an improved user experience for things such as personalized content, language preferences, advertising, or search results.

1.3. Information We Collect From Third Parties

thepassportbros.org, or its third-party agents, may collect information, including personal information, that others provide about you when they use thepassportbros.org 's Platform(s), or obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through thepassportbros.org 's Site(s). We do not control, supervise, or respond for how the third parties providing your information process your personal data, and any information request regarding the disclosure of your personal information to us should be directed to such third parties.

  • Third-party Services. If you link, connect, or login to your thepassportbros.org account with a third-party service (e.g., Facebook), the third-party service may send us information such as your registration and profile information from that service. This information varies and is dependent on the privacy policies or settings for those accounts.
  • Advertising Partners. Online advertisers or third parties may share information with us to measure, report on, or improve the performance of ads on the thepassportbros.org Site(s), or to determine what kinds of ads to show you on or off the thepassportbros.org Site(s). You can adjust whether we receive information from our advertising partners in your Privacy Settings located in the thepassportbros.org footer or mobile application settings.
  • Google Analytics. thepassportbros.org partners with Google Analytics to capture how you use and interact with the thepassportbros.org website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market thepassportbros.org products and services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking techniques to determine the popularity of products and services and online activity. Additionally, thepassportbros.org uses that information for site optimization, fraud and security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Google collects and uses your data, see their Privacy Statement at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7318509?hl=en.
  • Other Sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data or fraud detection information, from third-party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive fraud warnings from service providers for fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. Additionally, we may receive information about you and your activities on and off the thepassportbros.org Site(s) through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions from our partner advertising networks.

2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

thepassportbros.org (or our third-party agents) uses, stores, and processes information, including personal information, about you to provide, understand, improve, and develop thepassportbros.org 's Site(s), create and maintain a secure environment, and comply with our various legal obligations.

2.1. Provide, Improve, and Develop thepassportbros.org's Site(s) and Services

We use the information we collect to provide, improve, and develop thepassportbros.org 's Site(s) by, for example:

  • Enabling you to access and use thepassportbros.org 's Site(s);
  • Operating, protecting, improving, and optimizing thepassportbros.org 's Site(s), services, and experience, such as by performing analytics and conducting research, part of which may include contacting you via the contact information you have provided to us;
  • Offering you a personalized experience by, among other things, ranking search results or showing customized ads based on your searches and preferences;
  • Contacting you via contact information you have provided to us regarding order information, subscription status, or other thepassportbros.org Account related questions or support;
  • Enabling you to access and use our payment services (e.g., PayPal, Amazon Pay, etc.) to place orders or sign up for subscriptions;
  • Sending you service or support messages.

2.2. Create and Maintain a Secure Environment

We use the information we collect to ensure thepassportbros.org 's Site(s) are secure by, for example:

  • Detecting and preventing fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activities;
  • Conducting investigations and risk assessments;
  • Verifying or authenticating information or identifications provided by you;
  • Conducting checks against databases and other information sources;
  • Complying with our legal obligations;
  • Resolving disputes with any of our users and enforcing our agreements with third parties; and
  • Enforcing our other policies, such as our Terms of Use and various other policies.

2.3. Provide a Personalized Experience and Improve Our Advertising and Marketing

We use the information we collect to provide a custom user-experience through things such as:

  • Sending promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you, unless you indicate a preference to opt-out of receiving these communications (you can opt out of marketing communications at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in such e-mails);
  • Personalizing, measuring, and improving advertising to be more tailored to your interests; and
  • Administering referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by thepassportbros.org or its third-party business partners.

3. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We work with various third-party partners who help us provide and improve our products and services. We are not in the business of selling our customers ' data or personal information to others. Additionally, we impose strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the data we provide. We have summarized how we share the information we collect below.

3.1. With Your Consent

We may share your information at your direction or as described at the time of sharing, such as when you authorize a third-party application or website to access your thepassportbros.org Account.

3.2. Profiles and Other Public Information

Some of thepassportbros.org 's Site(s) let you publish information, including personal information, that is visible to the general public. For example:

  • Parts of your profile page, such as your username, your description, public photographs, and forum posts are publicly visible to others.
  • If you submit content in thepassportbros.org 's public forums; on social media posts, product reviews, other users ' accounts; or use similar features on thepassportbros.org 's Site(s), that content is publicly visible.

Information you share publicly on thepassportbros.org 's Site(s) may be indexed through third-party search engines. If you change your settings or delete public-facing content, these search engines may not update their databases. We do not control the practices of third-party search engines, and they may use caches containing your outdated information.

3.3. Interactions Between Members on our Sites

Some of thepassportbros.org 's Sites(s) (e.g., BodySpace) allow you to communicate with other Site users via private direct message or other means, in which case thepassportbros.org will share such communications with the intended recipient. You should consider who you choose to share information with, because people who can see your activity and/or communications on the thepassportbros.org Site(s) can choose to share it with others on and/or off our Site(s), including to people and businesses outside the audience you may have intended. For example, when you send a message to specific members, they can screenshot or re-share that content to others across or off our Site(s) or in-person. Also, when you comment on someone else 's post, react to their content, or post a review on a product, your comments and reactions are visible to anyone who can see the other person 's content.

3.4. Compliance with Laws, Responding to Legal Requests, Preventing Harm, and Protection of thepassportbros.org 's Rights

thepassportbros.org may disclose your information, including personal information, to courts, law enforcement, or governmental authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with our legal obligations; (ii) comply with legal process and to respond to claims or demands asserted against thepassportbros.org; (iii) respond to verified requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability; (iv) to enforce and administer our Terms of Use or other agreements; (v) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of thepassportbros.org, its employees, or members of the public.

3.5. Service Providers

thepassportbros.org uses a variety of third-party service providers to help us provide services related to the thepassportbros.org Site(s) and our services. Service providers may be located inside or outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”). For example, services providers may help us: (i) conduct fraud prevention and risk assessments; (ii) perform product development, maintenance, and debugging; (iii) provide customer service, advertising, payment, and transactional services; (iv) help us track website analytics, such as conversion and traffic metrics; and (v) verify information against public databases. thepassportbros.org may need to share your information, including personal information, in order to ensure the adequate performance of our contract with you (e.g., name and billing address to complete a transaction and ship your order). We enter into confidentiality and data processing terms with third-party service providers to ensure they comply with high levels of confidentiality and best practices in privacy and security standards.

3.6. Aggregated Data, Analytics, and Advertising Partners

thepassportbros.org may share aggregated information (i.e., information about our users that we combine so that it no longer identifies or references an individual user) and other anonymized information for regulatory compliance, industry and market analysis, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other business purposes. We also provide aggregated statistics and insights that help our vendors and partners understand how people are engaging with their content, listings, products, and other content on the thepassportbros.org Site(s).

thepassportbros.org also provides advertisers and product vendors with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing on thepassportbros.org 's Site(s); however, we do not share information that personally identifies you (e.g., information such as your name or e-mail address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us permission. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers and/or product vendors (e.g., that an ad or product campaign was seen by a male between the ages of 25 and 34 who lives in Germany and likes to travel) to help them better understand their audience, including their preferences and wants.

3.7. Social Media Platform(s)

Where permissible according to applicable law (and in accordance with your privacy settings), thepassportbros.org may use certain limited personal information about you, such as your e-mail address, to hash it and to share it with social media Site(s), such as Facebook or Google, to generate leads, drive traffic to our Site(s), or otherwise promote our products and services or thepassportbros.org 's Site(s). These processing activities are based on our legitimate interest in undertaking marketing activities to offer you products or services that may be of interest to you. The social media Site(s) with which we may share your data are not controlled or supervised by thepassportbros.org; therefore, any questions regarding how your social media platform service provider processes your personal data should be directed to such provider.

3.8.Linked Third-party Accounts

You may link your thepassportbros.org Account with your account at some third-party social networking services, such as Facebook. When you create this link, the limited information you provide to us from the linking of your accounts may be stored, processed, and transmitted by thepassportbros.org. The publication and display of information that you provide to thepassportbros.org through this linkage is subject to your privacy settings and authorizations on the thepassportbros.org Site(s) and the third-party website. We only collect your information from linked third-party accounts to the extent necessary to ensure the adequate performance of our contract with you, or to ensure that we comply with applicable laws, or with your consent.

4. THIRD-PARTY PARTNERS & INTEGRATIONS

The thepassportbros.org Site(s) may contain links to third-party websites or services, such as third-party integrations or third-party branded services. thepassportbros.org does not own or control any of these third-party partners and when you interact with them, you may be providing information directly to the third-party providers, thepassportbros.org, or both. These third-party providers will have their own rules about the collection, use, and disclosure of information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the other websites you visit.

5. GLOBAL OPERATIONS

To facilitate our global operations, thepassportbros.org may transfer, store, and process your information within our family of companies, our agents, or with service providers based in various countries, including, but not limited to, Europe, North and South America, India, and Asia Pacific. These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in our Terms of Use. By using our products or services, you authorize us to transfer and store your information outside your home country, including in the United States, for the purposes described in this policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information in such countries may not be equivalent to those of your home country.

6. SECURITY

We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. Some of the safeguards we use to protect your information include firewalls and data encryption; compliance certifications (e.g., annual re-certification of compliance with Payment Card Industry 's Data Security Standards); information access control; and thorough security and breach response policies and procedures. In the event of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your thepassportbros.org account, please contact us following the instructions in the “Contact Us” section below.

7. ACCOUNT DATA RETENTION

If you hold an account with thepassportbros.org, we do not delete the data in your account, unless we receive a request from you to do so. You are responsible for the control and time periods for which you retain this data. We keep information only so long as we need it to provide the thepassportbros.org Site(s) to you and fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, including our Terms of Use. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we 'll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can 't identify you.

8. SAFETY OF MINORS

Use of thepassportbros.org 's Platform(s) is not intended for and may not be used by individuals under the age of 18 located in the United States or under the age of 18 if located outside of the United States (or under a lower age if permitted by the laws of their residence). thepassportbros.org does not knowingly collect personal data from minors or allow them to register accounts. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal data from a minor, we may delete this information without notice. If you have reason to believe this has occurred, please contact us on our contact us page.

10. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

thepassportbros.org reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with this provision. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on the thepassportbros.org Site(s) and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If the changes are significant, we may also provide you with notice of the modification by e-mail or get your consent, as required by law. If you disagree with the revised Privacy Policy, you may cancel your thepassportbros.org Account. If you do not cancel your account before the date the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective, your continued access or use of the thepassportbros.org Site(s) will constitute acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.