Policies

PrideScoop Community Guidelines

Welcome to PrideScoop! We are a social media platform driven to provide a safe space for members of the LBGTQ community and allies to connect and communicate. We are always working to ensure that we align our actions with that purpose. These Community Guidelines should help you understand how to act within the community and help you understand what to expect from others on the site.

We encourage your feedback and aim to respond to your comments as soon as possible. While we do moderate this community, we welcome open discussion.

To help everyone enjoy the site, we ask that when you post, you keep in mind the following:

  • PrideScoop is a forum to discuss LGBTQ issues. We welcome people of all identities, as long as they are welcoming to the LGBTQ community, and expect that you respect that other people in the community have had different life experiences and may have a different perspective to yours.
  • We don’t allow user content that is derogatory toward anyone on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, age or disability. Defamatory, harassing, indecent, offensive, profane, discriminatory, misleading, unlawful or threatening content are also prohibited. Personal attacks, name-calling, trolling and other abusive content seeking to embarrass, or bully will not be tolerated.
  • User content that promotes self-harm, terrorism, or images that glorifies violence will be removed from the site.  Content that threatens violence, constitutes illegal porn or revenge porn will also be removed.
  • Spamming on this site will not permitted.
  • Accuracy of information matters. PrideScoop is not a place for fake news, and we will remove posts that spread misinformation.
  • The PrideScoop community is a public place. Don’t post personal information that you would not be comfortable sharing with a stranger. We recommend that you don’t post any information that may identify you or anyone else, such as your address, email address or phone number.
  • We reserve the right to delete comments at our discretion and block any repeat offenders. We will remove content that is fraudulent, deceptive or misleading.
  • We encourage our users to be active in helping our moderation team by flagging posts that are in violation of these Community Guidelines.

To report a violation of our Community Guidelines, contact us at support@pridescoop.com

 

TERMS OF SERVICE

Welcome to www.pridescoop.com (the “Website”), which is owned and operated by PrideScoop LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”). We are a social media platform driven to provide a safe space for members of the LBGTQ community and allies to connect and communicate. Whether you want to debate the pressing news of the day or just chat with like-minded friends, we’re here to give you the place to do so.

Your access to and engagement on pridescoop.com is governed by these terms and conditions (the “Terms”). We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time with or without notice to you. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to periodically review this webpage and these Terms. Your continued use of the Website after such modifications will constitute acknowledgement and acceptance of the modified Terms.

Please also review our privacy policy which can be found at https://pridescoop.com/pridescoop-policies/

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS.  IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT OUR WEBSITE.

User Content

Our Website is made possible by its users. You retain all rights to your content but also remain responsible for any content you generate while on our Website and remain subject to any applicable laws or regulations. We encourage you to be an active user. However, as you engage our Website and interact with fellow users, it is important to us that you will not post comments, messages, links, or other information (collectively, “User Content”) that:

  1. is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory or includes graphic descriptions of sexual or violent content;
  2. victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
  3. infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any person or entity;
  4. impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, or;
  5. contains confidential personal information including, but not limited to, social security numbers, state ID numbers.

We reserve the right to remove any and all content at our discretion that we believe violates these Terms, harms our users, or is against our values and interests, with no notice.

 

Third-Party Websites and Information

Like any social media platform, our users can link to other websites on the Internet or refer to information, products or services made available by unaffiliated third-parties.  We are not responsible for the accuracy of any information contained on links appearing on our Website. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the contents of third-party websites.  No link appearing on this Website should be taken as an endorsement for any content appearing on a third-party website.

Your Intellectual Property Rights

As already mentioned, you retain intellectual property rights in your User Content.  That being said, by using our Website, you also grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide right to copy, distribute, display, publish, translate, adapt, modify and otherwise use User Content for any purpose whatsoever, regardless of medium.

As we respect the intellectual property rights of others, we ask you to do the same.  In instances where we are notified of alleged infringing User Content, a decision may be made to remove access or disable access to such materials, in compliance with the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512(c).  We may also make a good faith attempt to contact the person who submitted the affected material so that they may make a counter-notification.

If you believe that your copyright has been infringed by User Content provided on this Website, you should send notification to our DMCA notification address at support@pridescoop.com.

Filing a Notice of Infringing Material

To file a Notice of Infringing Material, we ask that you provide the following information:

  1. Reasonably sufficient details about the nature of the copyrighted work in question, or, in the case of multiple alleged infringements, a representative list of such works. This should include, title(s), author(s), any U.S. Copyright Registration number(s), URL(s), etc.
  2. The URL that contains the allegedly infringing material or a reasonable description of the User Content if a URL is not sufficient.
  3. Your contact information so we can contact you about your DMCA notice, including your address, telephone number and email address.
  4. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the allegedly infringing material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  5. A statement, under the penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are either the copyright holder or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holder.
  6. Your physical or electronic signature.

Filing a Counter-Notice of Infringing Material

If material that you have posted to our Website has been removed as a result of a DMCA notification, you may file a counter-notification that contains the following information:

  1. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
  2. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material in question.
  3. Your address and telephone number and email address.
  4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in which your address is located, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification in compliance with section 512(c)(1)(c) of the DMCA, or an agent of such person.
  5. Your physical or electronic signature.

You may send counter-notification to our DMCA counter-notification address at support@pridescoop.com.

Registration

In order to access some of the services on this Website, you may be asked to set up an account and password.  Our account registration page requests certain personal information from you, including but not limited to name, email address and birthdate (“Registration Info”).  You will have the ability to maintain and periodically update your Registration Info as you see fit.  By registering, you agree that all information provided by you as Registration Info is true and accurate and that you will maintain and update this information as required in order to keep it current, complete and accurate.  Furthermore, if you register for an account on our Website, you agree that you are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your password, and that you are fully responsible for all activities that are incurred under your account.  Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain access to your password and account.

Disclaimer

ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT POSTED BY USERS, WILL BE RELIABLE, ACCURATE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE. THIS WEBSITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL OR OTHER MISTAKES, INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAHICAL ERRORS.

THE USE, DOWLOADING OR OTHER ACQUISITION OF ANY CONTENT THROUGH THIS WEBSITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH ACTIVITIES.

Limitation of Liability and Indemnification

In no event shall we or our affiliates be liable to you or any third-party for any special, punitive, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of use, profit loss, whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the use of this Website or any website referenced or linked to from this Website.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees that may arise from your use or misuse of this Website, a breach of these Terms or User Content posted on this Website. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

Termination of Use

You agree that we may, at our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of this Website with or without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of these Terms.

Governing Law

This Website (excluding any Third-Party websites) is controlled by us from our offices in New Jersey, and the statutes and laws of New Jersey shall be controlling, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles hereof.  You agree and submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the Superior Court of New Jersey, County of Passaic or the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey at our discretion.

Savings Clause

If any part of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intention of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.

No Waiver

Any failure by us to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms or related rights shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us regarding your use and operation of this Website. These Terms may not be altered, supplemented or amended by the user of any other documents. To the extent that anything in or associated with this Website is in conflict or inconsistent with these Terms, these Terms shall take precedence.

If you have any questions regarding these Terms, contact us at support@pridescoop.com.

September 13, 2021

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 21, 2021

Who We Are

PrideScoop (“Our”, “We”, or “Us”) is a social media platform driven to provide a safe space for members of the LBGTQ community and allies to connect and communicate.

We are the controller of our customer’s personal information and are responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of this information. This privacy policy governs the use of our website: https://pridescoop.com. When you use the website, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information as stated in this policy, so we encourage you to read it carefully. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, you are welcome to contact us at support@pridescoop.com.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE NO NOT USE THIS SITE OR ITS SERVICES.

Our Principles

PrideScoop strives to be open to all those who come to the site with an open mind and engage in constructive conversations. PrideScoop will not tolerate harassing, hateful, or otherwise harmful content and reserves the right to remove any content that does not positively contribute to the site.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

When you use this website, we collect various types of data to provide services and continually improve our platform. You consent to our collection of data through your use of this website. The data collected includes Personal Data, Social Network Data, Usage Data, and Cookies, each of which is detailed below.

Personal Data

We ask users to provide certain personally identifying information (“Personal Data”) to create user profiles, to make purchases from our website, or to contact us with questions. This Personal Data includes, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address
  • Location Information
  • Birthday
  • Gender

Your decision to disclose Personal Data is completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide Personal Data, but if you do not do so, you may be prevented from using certain aspects of our website.

Social Network Data

We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include your name, social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture, and any other public information. If you do not want us to access this information, you may change your privacy settings on other social networking sites and apps.

Usage Data

We also collect information about your access to and use of this website (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data includes:

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address
  • Browser type and version
  • Which pages of the site you visit
  • The time and date of your visit
  • The amount of time you spend on particular pages
  • Information about the device you use to browse the website
  • Other diagnostic data

When users post any content on the site, that data is also collected.

Cookies

Tracking Cookies are bits of data which include unique anonymous identifiers, sent to your browser by the website and stored on the device you use to access the website. There are two types of cookies: session cookies (which hold your information and preferences for a single visit to the website) and persistent cookies (which hold your information and preferences for multiples visits to the website). You can check and adjust your browser’s settings to limit or even refuse cookies.

When you access our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in persistent cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you come back.

If you visit our login page, we will set a session cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Cookies may be used to authenticate your identity, to determine if you are logged onto our website, for personalization, for security, for targeted advertising, or for analysis of the performance of our website and services.

Use of Data

PrideScoop uses the above forms of data in order to do the following:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our website
  • Administer user accounts
  • Correspond with you
  • Notify our users about changes to the website or this privacy policy
  • Provide technical support to users
  • Monitor use of the website
  • Deliver advertising that is appropriately targeted to users
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues with the website
  • Resolve users’ disputes and help with troubleshooting
  • Keep in contact with our users to provide news and information

Sharing of Data

User privacy is of the utmost importance to PrideScoop. However, in order to make our user experience the best it can be, we do have to share certain information.

When you use the website, other users will be able to see information you make available, such as comments and pictures. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Personal Data is also subject to disclosure when legally required. We will share information when required, for instance when mandated by law or in response to a request from a court or other government agency. We will also disclose data to protect our own legal rights and to prevent or investigate wrongdoing in connection with the website.

To administer our website, take orders for goods, protect the security of our company, user information may be shared with third-party processors as needed.  For example, we do not process payment information in-house.  Rather, when PayPal takes Your payment information, they are a third-party processor.  They process Your payment and remit funds to us.

We may also share data with third-party advertising companies to run and manage ads and to produce ads that appear when you visit the website. These companies may use information about your visit to our website and other websites that are contained in Cookies to offer personalized advertisements about goods and services that might interest you. We cannot control the activities of such other advertisers or web sites. You should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party advertisers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

Embedded content from other websites

Content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Security

We take the security of your information seriously. Still, it is impossible for any entity to maintain absolute security over the data it maintains. We will utilize commercially appropriate means to protect our users’ Personal Data, but cannot guarantee its security.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Data Transfers

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those where you reside or access the website.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your use of the website and consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Minors

This website is not designed for use by children under age 13, and we do not knowingly solicit personal data from anyone under age 13. If you are under age 13, do not access or use this website. If you become aware that we have collected data of anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at support@pridescoop.com so that we may delete that data.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

PrideScoop may process your Personal Data for the following reasons:

  • We need to perform a contract with you
  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
  • To comply with the law

Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data on file with us. If you are seeking to access, update or delete your Personal Information, please contact us to assist you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format. You can contact us for a copy of the information we possess on you.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Please note that we do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.  You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals (“Service Providers”) to perform business-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Website is used.  These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Changes to this Policy

PrideScoop reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users about significant changes in how we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in our email list and updating any privacy information on this page. Any changes to this Privacy Policy become effective immediately upon publication. Your continued use of the site and services available through our site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

 

List of Cookies and their Uses and Durations

Cookie Domain Type Description Duration
_ga .pridescoop.com Analytics The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 2 years
_gid .pridescoop.com Analytics Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 1 day
tk_or .pridescoop.com Analytics The tk_or is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack. 5 years
tk_r3d .pridescoop.com Analytics JetPack installs this cookie to collect internal metrics for user activity and in turn improve user experience. 3 days
tk_lr .pridescoop.com Analytics The tk_lr is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack. 1 year
_gat_gtag_UA_192664787_1 .pridescoop.com Analytics Set by Google to distinguish users. 1 minute
mailchimp_landing_site pridescoop.com Functional The cookie is set by MailChimp to record which page the user first visited. 1 month
PHPSESSID pridescoop.com Necessary This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. session
AWSELB 56935.cometondemand.net Necessary Associated with Amazon Web Services and created by Elastic Load Balancing, AWSELB cookie is used to manage sticky sessions across production servers. session
peepso_last_visited_page pridescoop.com Other Remembers the last page visited when logged into site 30 minutes
AWSELBCORS 56935.cometondemand.net Performance This cookie is used by Elastic Load Balancing from Amazon Web Services to effectively balance load on the servers. session

 

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