Privacy Policy
soEmo.co.uk takes no responsibility on what members do outside of the websites reach and will have no influence on anything being done outside of the website that is illegal or offensive.
soEmo.co.uk and all affiliates are to not under any circumstance be held responsible for any User's actions.
soEmo.co.uk can read, delete or change at any time any usernames, profiles, comments, private comments, user images, lyrics, bands, or forum topics/posts on this server. This is to ensure the security and cleanliness from spam throughout the soEmo.co.uk community.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
On 25th May 2018 GDPR comes into force across Europe. This replaces the 1988 Data Protection and represents a wholesale change in data protection legislation, reflecting the "online revolution" which has taken place in the interim.
soEmo.co.uk is committed to processing personal information about its customers in ways that comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, and to being clear with customers about what it does with their personal data.
We are committed to keeping your information up to date as far as reasonably possible. However, if you believe that we have made an error, then please contact us and we will use reasonable endeavours to correct.
This site is an online community. The information we collect that is required for each account is:
- Email Address
- IP Address
- First Name
- Gender
- DOB (Date of Birth)
- Country
- Town/State/Region
IP addresses and certain other pieces of computer identification are stored on the server for monitoring of activity in the interest of detecting abuse and multiple accounts. These pieces of information will never be shared with another party except in the event of reporting abuse to an ISP or in the event of a court order to comply with a criminal investigation.
Email addresses are also used to prevent users from creating
multiple soEmo.co.uk accounts.
Your email address may be used for account activation/recovery. Your email address is also used for notifications from soEmo.co.uk.
Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their notification account settings.
Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join soEmo.co.uk.
A user's email address is not shared or displayed to other members through the soEMO.co.uk service.
In addition, these addresses are never released to other parties unless otherwise stated.
One example is if a user expresses interest in joining the YouTube channel
they will be asked for their email address via a private message and this will be passed onto YouTube.
Users' are only required to enter their first name, but can also provide their surname which is directly revealed to other members on their profile.
We collect age information in order to keep in compliance
with internet laws and practices.
A user's date of birth is
hidden for other users, only his or her calculated age can be shown to the users.
Users from the UK can optionally provide the first part of their UK postcode.
This is never revealed to other members or third parties. It is solely used
for the browse members function available to enrich the service.
User passwords are stored in an encrypted format in our database so there is no way we can view the actual password. As a result, forgotten passwords cannot be recovered and must be reset.
Users under the age of 13 are NOT allowed to create accounts on this site. Users can upload personal information to their profiles, which becomes published online. We do not sell any user information or pass on any of the information we collect unless we are asked by law enforcement officials to release information. While the site is monitored in order to keep things in order, we do not take responsibility for anything that users publish on the site. This service is provided as-is, and we do not make any claims as to the quality of service.
Cookies by soEmo.co.uk
By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
They do not identify you as an individual user, just the computer used. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or create viruses on your computer. It does not give soEmo.co.uk access to your computer.
Cookies employed by the soEmo.co.uk server are for keeping your session active, preventing spam and enriching the service. They do not track your web activity outside of soEmo.co.uk.
We use the following cookies on our website:
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Google Analytics stores IP address anonamously on its servers in the US, and neither soEmo.co.uk or Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.
These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session.
Third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application, or customising the application for you. Because of how cookies work, soEmo.co.uk cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by soEmo.co.uk. For example, when you share or Like a page using a social media sharing button on the soEmo.co.uk, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our site, you can set your browser so that it will not download cookies onto your computer. For details see www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Doing so will still allow you to navigate through the majority of our site but possibly not all of it. If you wish to register on a password protected area of our website you will need to allow "per-session" cookies. These are temporarily used while you are visiting the site but deleted when you close your browser or log out.
You can find out more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.
External Links
soEmo.co.uk contains links to sites. soEmo.co.uk is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on soEmo.co.uk.
Advertisements
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, advertisers may store or retrieve other cookies than the ones employed by soEmo.co.uk.
soEmo.co.uk incorporates Google AdSense,
which uses cookies to serve ads on soEmo.co.uk.
Google's use of the DoubleClick DART cookie
enables it to serve ads to our users based on visits to this and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
soEmo.co.uk cannot govern the policies and privacy statements of
these advertisers. Advertisements may at certain times contain objectionable content.
soEmo.co.uk has very little control over the content of the advertisements. If
you notice an objectionable advert you have the option of reporting the advert.
DO NOT use programs or other unfair means to click the advertisements on this
site. soEmo.co.uk takes this matter VERY seriously and will PERMANENTLY ban you
from the entire server and possibly report your actions to your ISP. There is
NO INCENTIVE to users for clicking on the advertisements. Click on the advertisements
if the product interests you or if you wish to help contribute to supporting the
server.
Access to Personal Information
To make a request to soEmo.co.uk for any personal information we may hold we need you to contact us by email: info@soemo.co.uk
Our dedicated server is with OVH. You can view their personal data protection information here: www.ovh.co.uk/personal-data-protection/gdpr.xml
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: info@soemo.co.uk
Last revision 23.05.2018