Introduction
Welcome to TubeCrush.net. We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
1. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We process personal data on the following legal bases:
- Consent: When you provide consent for us to use your data.
- Legitimate Interests: For purposes such as improving our services and maintaining site security.
- Legal Obligation: To comply with legal requirements.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, and other contact details when you contact us or fill out forms on our website.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and information about your visit, such as pages viewed and time spent on the website, collected through cookies and similar technologies.
- Photos: Submitted by users, subject to removal upon request.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our website.
- To notify you about changes to our website.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so.
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website.
- To monitor the usage of our website.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
4. Photo Removal
If you are featured in any of the photos on our site and you object to its presence, you may request its removal by visiting the ‘Photo Removal Request’ page on our website or emailing us. Upon receipt, we will email you back within 24 hours to verify your identity by requesting a recent photograph.
5. Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Types of Cookies
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies.org.
Flash Cookies – If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer and you use TubeCrush’s audio or video players, Google Analytics may store additional data on your computer. This data is known as a Local Shared Object or Flash cookie. This helps us analyze the popularity of our media files, including how many times each file is played, how many people watch videos to the end, and how many people stop watching halfway through. Adobe’s website offers tools to control Flash cookies on your computer.
Managing and Deleting Cookies – If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to your browser’s help section or the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. You can search in your cookie folders for ‘TubeCrush’ to find our cookies and the Google Analytics cookies if you wish to delete them. More information about cookies, including how to block or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.
6. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the site. It counts the number of visitors and provides information about their behavior, such as the typical length of stay on the site or the average number of pages viewed.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Under GDPR, you have the following rights:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing:Â See section 4. Photo Removal
Legal Statement
Our website’s aim is to respect individuals’ privacy rights while celebrating the attractiveness of subjects in the photos we receive and publish. Taking photos of people on the London Underground or in public places where there is no expectation of privacy is not illegal. However, if you are featured in one of our posts and wish to have your photo removed, please refer to the Photo Removal section above.
For more information on the laws regarding taking photos of people, please visit: Country-specific consent requirements.
Communication with people featured in photos and photo submitters
Please note that any communication between individuals featured in photos on Tubecrush.net and those who submitted the photos is conducted at the individuals’ own risk. Tubecrush.net shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages arising from such communications, including any harm suffered due to the actions or behavior of the individuals involved.
Our Trademarks
Tubecrush “RTM”
Tube Crush “RTM”
We have registered our brand with the intellectual property office. Our brand should not be used without our permission – to contact a member of our team to discuss this in more detail please email tubecrush@gmail.com.