This policy covers ellementsalign.com and the Brand New Thoughts Community Scroll that runs on it, both operated by Entertaining Ellements (“we”, “us”). It explains what we collect, why, who else sees it, and how to make us delete it.
The short version: we collect what an account and a paid submission actually require, we do not sell your information, and you can have your account and your submissions removed by asking.
We do not ask for your date of birth, phone number, physical address or any government identifier. We do not buy personal information about you from data brokers.
We do not use your submissions to train machine-learning models, and we do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
We keep your sign-in session in your browser’s local storage rather than in a tracking cookie. Clearing your browser data signs you out.
Third parties we rely on may set their own cookies: Google when you sign in with a Google account, Stripe during checkout, and YouTube if you press play on an embedded video. Video embeds load from youtube-nocookie.com and only after you click, so a page you merely scroll past does not hand YouTube a cookie.
We may show advertising on articles, served by Google AdSense. Where we do, the following applies:
We share only what each of these needs to do its job, and none of them are permitted to use your information for their own marketing:
We will also disclose information if we are legally required to, or where it is necessary to investigate fraud or a threat to someone’s safety.
Some things are public because that is the point of them: your handle, display name, avatar and bio on your profile page; artwork and messages accepted into the broadcast or the gallery; and comments on articles. Forum threads are visible only to signed-in members. Treat anything you submit for broadcast as permanently public, because once it has aired it may exist in recordings and in other people’s screenshots that we cannot recall.
Account and profile information is kept while your account exists. Submissions and their moderation history are kept while they are on the site. Payment records are kept for as long as tax and accounting rules require, which is generally seven years. Aggregate traffic statistics are kept indefinitely because they identify nobody.
Whatever jurisdiction you are in, you can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or send you a copy. Write to lacedmediacorp@gmail.com from the email address on the account and we will act within 30 days.
If you are in California, the CCPA gives you the rights above plus the right not to be discriminated against for using them. We do not sell personal information, so there is no sale to opt out of. If you are in the UK or the EU, the UK GDPR and GDPR give you those rights plus the right to object to processing and to complain to your data protection authority; we process your information to perform our contract with you, to meet legal obligations, and on the basis of our legitimate interest in running and securing the site.
This site is not for children. You must be at least 13 to hold an account, at least 16 in the UK and EU, and at least 18 to make a purchase or to enter payment details. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, write to us and we will delete it.
Data is encrypted in transit. Access to the production database is limited to the site’s operator. No system is perfect, and we do not claim otherwise. Our providers store and process data in the United States, so if you are outside the US your information will be transferred there.
We will update this page when what we do changes, and the effective date at the top will move. Material changes will be announced on the site.
Entertaining Ellements
lacedmediacorp@gmail.com
See also the Terms of Service.