Privacy Policy
Important Information
By using this website, you agree and are hereby bound to the following:
Carefully read the following Privacy Policy, as well as the published Terms of Use Agreement, related to using the capex.info website.
Who We Are
We are CAPEX, the “Charlotte Area Power Exchange” organization, a non-profit BDSM-centric organization dedicated to providing education, support and a social network for its contributors in a safe, responsible and discretion-conscious environment. Our website address is: https://capex.info.
For any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, CAPEX can be contacted through this website’s contact page as indicated in the website navigation, or by sending postal mail to the address listed on the website’s contact page.
How We Collect Data
Submitted Content
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Contact forms are provided as a simple way to communicate with us, and each form will collect various pieces of information relevant to the communication. Most information is voluntarily provided by you while completing the form; however, additional information such as your IP address and browser information is also collected to help combat misuse of the forms.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content
Articles 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. CAPEX is not responsible for any information collected by third-party content. This website may use analytic scripting to track information about the visitors of the website. Analytical information is anonymous, but may track geolocation, browser information, user actions and other related information. The information collected is intended to help us better understand the needs of users visiting our website, and for future enhancements to the website.
What We Do With Your Data
Data Dissemination & Retention
Information collected and retained by this website will NOT sold to any third party. Information may be shared with the organization’s Board of Directors, affiliated organizations and third-party services contracted by the organization as needed for the maintenance, upkeep and growth of the website and/or organization, or as mandated by a duly executed subpoena of law. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. Confidential or secure information, such as credit card payment information, is not retained on the website or it’s database at any time. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data Protection and Loss
Every attempt to protect data is made, including the use of security measurements with software updates, secure passwords, limited administrative access, secure sockets layer certificate use and transmission, hosting security plans and backup plans for the website and its data. In the case of any data breach, the organization will reach out to it’s contributors, as well as anyone that may be affected by the data breach. Every attempt to notify affected individuals will be made in a timely manner.
Your Data, Your Rights
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, which may also close any accounts established on your behalf with the website. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
This document was last updated on March 2, 2020
