Privacy Policy

WHO WE ARE

Our website address is https://vikingalternative.com.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, protect and use the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you (“User”, “you” or “your”) provided on the https://vikingalternative.com website and any of its products or services (collectively, “Website” or “Services”) owned and operated by VikingAlternative.com, “us”, “we” or “our”). It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.

Collection of personal information

We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, make a purchase, and fill out any online forms on the Website. When required this information may include your email address, name, address, or other Personal Information. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the Website’s features.

COLLECTION OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you visit the Website our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, the information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.

MANAGING PERSONAL INFORMATION

You are able to access, add to, update, and delete certain Personal Information about yourself. The information you can view, update, and delete may change as the Website or Services change. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services. Some information may remain in our private records after your deletion of such information from your account. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.

USE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

Any of the information we collect from you may be used to improve our website; improve customer service and respond to queries and emails of our customers; process transactions; send notifcation emails such as password reminders, updates, etc; run and operate our Website and Services. Nonpersonal information collected is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding Website traffic and usage. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.

BILLING AND PAYMENTS

We use third-party payment processors to assist us in processing your payment information securely. Such third-party processors’ use of your Personal Information is governed by their respective privacy policies which may or may not contain privacy protections as protective as this Privacy Policy. We suggest that you review their respective privacy policies.

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through our Website or Service. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through our Website or Service without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us through our Website or Service, please contact us.

NEWSLETTERS

We offer electronic newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any time. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting us. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.

COOKIES

The Website uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate our Website and Services. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the Website and Services.

There are three types of cookies used on VikingAlternative.com:

Our content management system uses cookies to track information required to operate the site, which includes allowing members to log in, comment, and interact with their membership.

This site uses Google Analytics to track site usage to help improve services for all. The Google Analytics tracking cookie has zero remarketing (not used to track once you leave the site) and utilizes the IP anonymization feature to protect individual privacy.

This site also uses a tracking cookie (getBeamer) to deliver the latest ‘unseen’ news through that floating icon on the bottom right of the screen. This is a session cookie and does not track you once you leave VikingAlternative.com.

If you would like to disable VikingAlternative.com from using any cookies with your browser, be aware that disabling cookies will render your browser unable

to login to the site and therefore unable to interact with your membership. If you still desire to disable cookies, VikingAlterntive.com suggests you read

more about managing your own cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

AFFILIATES

We may disclose information about you to our a􀁾liates for the purpose of being able to offer you related or additional products and services. Any

information relating to you that we provide to our a􀁾liates will be treated by those affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Website contains links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites or third parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that may collect personal information.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of personal information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed.

Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and our Website cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party, despite best efforts.

DATA BREACH

In the event we become aware that the security of the Website has been compromised or the user’s Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate

measures, including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as noti􀁻cation to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is otherwise required by law. When we do we will post a notice on the Website, and send you an email.

CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy relating to the Website or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this privacy policy on the Website. When we do we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.

ACCEPTANCE OF THIS POLICY

You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to use or access the Website and its Services.

UPDATE: GDPR Statement

The EU General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. For those in the EU who would like to have their collected data, as described above, compiled and sent to you, please reach out to VikingAlternative.com by email. We do not collect any data on any individual or organization that is not in a current business relationship with us. Non-members do have the right to control their cookie-based interaction in accordance with the above cookie policy.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us. This document was last updated on May 21st, 2020