Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 21, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to BreakoutFear.com ("we," "our," or "us"). At BreakoutFear.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected to BreakoutFear.com.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using BreakoutFear.com, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our website.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

  • Register for an account
  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Participate in contests, surveys, or promotions
  • Request customer support
  • Leave comments on articles
  • Interact with us via social media

The personal information we may collect includes:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Username and password
  • Profile information
  • Payment information (if applicable)
  • Social media identifiers
  • Any other information you choose to provide

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

When you visit BreakoutFear.com, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This information may include:

  • Device information (such as your IP address, browser type, operating system)
  • Usage data (such as pages visited, time spent on pages, referring/exit pages)
  • Location information (general geographic location based on IP address)
  • Browser cookies and similar tracking technologies
  • Device identifiers

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our website and services
  • Process transactions and send related information
  • Send administrative information, such as updates, security alerts, and support messages
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
  • Deliver personalized content and recommendations
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our website
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, or other illegal activities
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Send you marketing communications about products, services, offers, promotions, and events

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

BreakoutFear.com uses cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities. These technologies help us analyze website traffic, customize content, measure promotional effectiveness, and provide a better user experience.

4.1 Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly
  • Preference Cookies: Enable the website to remember your preferences
  • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
  • Marketing Cookies: Used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements

4.2 Your Cookie Choices

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

4.3 Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers feature a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that signals to websites that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret DNT signals, we currently do not respond to DNT browser signals or mechanisms.

5. Third-Party Services and Advertising

5.1 Third-Party Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, plugins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

5.2 Advertising Partners

We work with third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit BreakoutFear.com. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. The information they collect does not include your name, address, email address, or telephone number.

5.3 Analytics Partners

We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with our website. These services may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

6. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information in the following situations:

6.1 With Your Consent

We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your consent.

6.2 Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.

6.3 Business Transfers

We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

6.4 Legal Obligations

We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

6.5 Vital Interests and Legal Rights

We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in litigation.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and review our information collection, storage, and processing practices to update our physical, technical, and organizational security measures. We will notify affected users of any breach of security that may affect their personal information in accordance with applicable laws.

8. International Data Transfers

Our servers are located in various countries around the world. If you access our website from outside these locations, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information, in other countries.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

9. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it so that it can no longer be associated with you.

10. Your Privacy Rights

10.1 Account Information

If you have an account with us, you can review, update, or delete certain personal information by logging into your account settings.

10.2 Marketing Communications

You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails. Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you service-related communications.

10.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies.

10.4 Rights for EEA, UK, and California Residents

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

For EEA and UK Residents: Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR, you have rights including:

  • The right to access your personal data
  • The right to rectification of inaccurate personal data
  • The right to erasure of your personal data
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object to processing of your personal data
  • Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling

For California Residents: Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), you have rights including:

  • The right to know what personal information we collect about you
  • The right to delete personal information we have collected from you
  • The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information
  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights
  • The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information
  • The right to correct inaccurate personal information

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at help@breakoutfear.com.

11. Children's Privacy

BreakoutFear.com is not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you believe that a child under 18 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at help@breakoutfear.com.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: help@breakoutfear.com