This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use describes how Amazon Underworld (“we”, “us”, or “the Company”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you use our services, access our website, or interact with us. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting the information you entrust to us. By using Amazon Underworld, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
Our website address is: https://amazonunderworld.org/

1. Information We Collect

We collect different types of information to provide and improve our services, including:

  • Usage Data: Information about how you interact with Amazon Underworld, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on our site/application, clicks, and other usage statistics. This data is collected by third-party platforms like Google Analytics and/or Microsoft Clarity.
  • Device Data: Information about the device you use to access our services, such as unique device identifiers, device model, and mobile network information. This data is collected by third-party platforms like Google Analytics and/or Microsoft Clarity.
  • Communication Information: The content of your communications with us, such as emails.

2. How We Use Your Information

Utilizamos as informações coletadas para diversas finalidades, incluindo:

  • Providing and Maintaining Our Services: To operate, maintain, and improve Amazon Underworld, process your transactions, and manage your account.
  • Communication: To send you notifications about news, service updates, and other relevant information (you can opt out of receiving our communications). This is collected by third-party platforms like Substack.
  • Analysis and Improvement: To analyze the use of our services to understand trends, optimize performance, and develop new features.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and respond to fraudulent or unauthorized activities and to protect the security of our users and Amazon Underworld.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with legal, regulatory, and tax obligations.

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell or provide your data to other institutions. We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers: With companies that provide services on our behalf, such as payment processing, hosting, and data analysis. These providers are required to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was contracted.
  • Third-Party Tools and Services: As detailed in the section below, we may integrate third-party functionalities that may collect and process user data according to their own privacy policies.
  • Alliance Partners: With carefully selected partners to offer complementary services, always with your consent when required by law.
  • Legal Compliance and Law Enforcement: When required by law, such as in response to a subpoena, court order, or legal process, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, as well as that of our users or the public.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, or other business transaction involving all or part of our organization.

4. Uso de ferramentas e serviços de terceiros

To enrich your experience and provide advanced features, Amazon Underworld integrates and uses various third-party tools and services. When you interact with these features, certain information may be collected and processed directly by these third parties, in accordance with their own privacy policies. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of these providers to understand how they handle your data.
Examples of third-party tools we may use include:

  • Datawrapper e Flourish: For creating and displaying interactive data visualizations. When you interact with embedded charts, maps, or other visualizations, these tools may collect usage data (such as clicks and interactions) to improve their service and provide performance metrics. They do not collect personally identifiable information unless otherwise specified by you or the functionality.
    • Datawrapper Privacy Policy: https://www.datawrapper.de/privacy
    • Flourish Privacy Policy: https://flourish.studio/privacy/
  • Substack: For managing newsletters, blog publications, or subscription content. If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter or access content via Substack integrated with Amazon Underworld, your contact information (such as email) and content interaction data may be processed by Substack.
    • Substack Privacy Policy: https://substack.com/privacy

We do not control the privacy practices of these third parties and are not responsible for them. We strive to choose reliable partners, but the responsibility for protecting your data when interacting with these tools lies with the privacy policies of the respective providers.

5. Content License (Creative Commons CC BY 4.0)

All original content published on Amazon Underworld, including text, images, graphics, and other media, unless otherwise indicated, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).
This means you are free to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

For more information about the CC BY 4.0 license, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

6. Interaction with Our Portal

Comments:

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, in addition to the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if any) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.


Media:

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.


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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

7. Your Privacy Rights

You have rights regarding your personal information, including:

  • Access and Rectification: The right to access and request the correction of your personal information.
  • Deletion: The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
  • Objection and Restriction: The right to object to the processing of your information or request the restriction of its use in certain circumstances.
  • Data Portability: The right to receive a copy of your information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: If the processing of your information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, please contact us through the communication channel provided below.

8. Data Security

We implement technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, and destruction. However, no data transmission over the internet or storage system is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

9. Data Retention

We will retain your aforementioned data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

10. Links to Third-Party Websites

Our service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of any third-party website or service you visit.

11. Children’s and Teenagers’ Privacy

Amazon Underworld is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. The content may be of a violent nature and is not recommended for these individuals. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

We may update our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and the “Last Updated” date at the top of the policy will be revised. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

13. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via email: [email protected]