CHIKARA KARATE LLC (“CHIKARACLUB”, “us”, “we”, “our” or “us/us”), a company incorporated in the USA, EIN 30-1329528, operates the CHIKARACLUB.COM website (including all content and functionality available through the CHIKARACLUB.COM domain name and any region or region-specific domains or subdomains) and the CHIKARACLUB.COM application (collectively referred to as the “Site”).

CHIKARA is committed to ensuring the privacy and protection of information provided to us by users. The following privacy policy governs CHIKARA’s practices for the collection, use, processing, disclosure, transfer and retention on the Site. This policy should be read with any other policies or terms developed by CHIKARA from time to time and posted on the site or elsewhere on the site (including the CHIKARACLUB.COM Terms of Use if you are a subscriber).

This policy may change from time to time and, if it does, the latest version will be made available on our site or our application (and, where appropriate, brought to your attention).

Key points

• CHIKARA KARATE LLC is responsible for the processing of personal information processed through your use of our site.
• The type of personal information processed by us includes information you provide when using our site or services, technical information about your device, settings and use of the site, information we receive from third parties, such as other website providers, advertising networks, social networking companies and health and fitness clubs and, where applicable, information related to your role as an instructor.
• We use your data, among other things, to provide you with our site and services or information about them, tailor our services to you, analyze our services, provide (or allow others to provide) targeted advertisements, comply with any legal or regulatory obligations, and (if you are an instructor) evaluate your performance and provide information related to your role.
• You agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may send you marketing materials related to our services from which you may unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to chikaraclub@gmail.com or by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of any marketing email.
• We share data with our service providers and other third parties to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, to provide you with information, to send you advertising and (where appropriate) to run credit and background checks.
• Depending on where you are located, you have a number of rights that you can exercise in relation to our use of your personal data, and you can exercise these rights by sending your request by email to chikaraclub@gmail.com.

You can find information about us and how we collect, use and store your personal data in each section of this policy:

Terms used in this privacy policy

In this policy:

“You” means you, the person using our services or visiting the site.

“Group Companies” means CHIKARA KARATE LLC which provides goods and services related to online karate training.

“Services” means the CHIKARACLUB.COM subscription service. The Services may be provided on our desktop site or through our app.

Information we collect about you

We will collect and process the following information about you:
Information about you that you give us when you browse or use the site, correspond with us by phone, SMS, email, social media or otherwise. It includes information you give when:

• You register to use our site.
• You subscribe to our Services;
• Place an order on our site;
• Participate in discussion forums or other social networking features on our site;
• Enter a contest; and
• Contact us or report a problem with our site.
• The information you give us includes your name, address, country, date of birth, email address and phone number, credit card information (which is collected for payment, but not retained) if you subscribe to our Services or place an order on our site, personal description and photographs, videos, images or comments, your fitness interests and your preferences such as your marketing preferences.

This information is necessary to provide the Services to you. If you do not provide such information, you may delay or prevent us from providing the Services. 

Information we collect during visits

In connection with each of your visits to our site, we will automatically collect the following information:

• Technical information, including the IP address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone settings, location data, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
• Information about your visit, including the full URL, clickstream to, from and from our site (including date and time), pages or products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, duration of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), methods used to browse the page; and
• Information about how you use the Services, including, but not limited to, video consumption and playback, login and logout, and playback error.
• Our site may also contain social media features, such as the Facebook Like button. These features may collect your IP address, the page you are visiting on our site and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are also governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature.
• For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our cookie policy and cookie statement.
• Social Media: If you connect with us through certain social media platforms or if you choose to use features on this site or the CHIKARACLUB.COM websites that connect to your online profiles or social media accounts (“Social Media Accounts”), we may collect any information that you allow through your settings on those Social Media Accounts. For example, if you log into our site using your Facebook account and you have allowed Facebook to share your profile information with us, we may collect that information. The information we receive from your Social Media Accounts includes email address, first and last name, location (city and country), gender, date of birth, likes, interests, number of connections, profession, publications or other social activity. The information that your social networking platform may provide through your Social Networking Account may change from time to time. Please review your social media account privacy settings to control what information is shared with us.

How your information will be used

Utilizamos la información que tenemos sobre usted de las siguientes formas.

1. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we process data for the following purposes based on our legitimate interests:
   • to administer our site and for internal operations, such as troubleshooting, data analysis, security, testing, research, statistics and surveys;
   • provide you with information about other goods and services we offer similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about;
   • provide you with the latest health and fitness related information and offers if you live outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), the United Kingdom or Brazil, unless you opt-out (see Marketing Opt-Out);
   • customize your experience on the site;
   • to provide (or allow third parties to provide) targeted advertising through websites you visit about goods or services that may be of interest to you (see more about this below in the “Disclosure of Your Information” section and in our Cookie Policy and Cookie Statement) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of that advertising. Similarly, we may also use your information to exclude you from some targeted advertising groups, e.g., if we already know that you are a CHIKARACLUB.COM subscriber, we may not include you in some advertisements that encourage new members to sign up;
   • to track the progress and number of participants in contests and promotions.
     
2. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we will process the data when necessary to fulfill our contract with you:
   We collect, store and use your personal information, including your name, email address, login details and payment information, as well as information about how you use and access the Services, because it is necessary to provide the Services requested by you in accordance with the contract entered into between you and us when you agree to our Terms of Use. This includes:
   • make the Services available to you;
   • provide Services you request and respond to your inquiries;
   • administer the Services and process your payment at the place of purchase of Services (including, without limitation, using third party service providers to process such payment);
   • notify you about changes in our services; and
   • service and account management requirements, such as when we need to contact you for reasons related to the Services (for example, when we need to send you a password reminder, to notify you about updates to the Services or modifications to our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy).
     
3. We will process the data for the following purposes based on your consent:
   • participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so. This includes contact forms or any public forum features we provide on our site, such as community forums, comment submissions or chat features.
     
4. We will process the data when necessary to comply with all legal requirements.
   • For example: If you have a paid subscription to use the Services and you live in the European Union.
   • If we receive a request for information from a regulator, we may also need to process your personal information to respond to that request.

Disclosure of your information

For some of the purposes for which we use personal data (see above), we will contract with a third party. If such third party needs access to personal data to perform its task, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we will share the data with the third party, we will ensure that the third party only uses the data in accordance with our instructions. These third parties are data processors acting on our behalf, but we remain responsible for your data.
We will engage organizations that provide services to us (including CHIKARA KARATE LLC Companies) as suppliers, service providers and other partners that support our business worldwide. These third parties provide services such as providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our services are used, measuring the effectiveness of advertisements and services, providing customer support, facilitating payments, or conducting academic research and surveys. These partners are required to comply with strict confidentiality obligations in a manner consistent with this policy and the contracts we enter into with them.

Analysis and advertisers

Where we are entitled to do so under applicable personal data regulations, we will share your personal information with:

• Search engine and analytics providers such as AWS and Google Analytics help us improve and optimize our site. We want our site and advertising to be as relevant and interesting to you as possible.
• Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant advertising to you and others, including targeted audiences. These third-party advertising companies collect, store and use data by integrating cookies and other tracking programs on our Services. In some cases, these third parties will also use the data they collect for their own purposes, for example, they may aggregate your data with other data they retain and use it to inform advertising-related services provided to other customers and work with other advertising companies and share information collected with those companies as part of the process. Please see our Cookie Policy and Cookie Statement for more information about third party advertising companies that collect, use, process and store data about you, and the use of cookies and other tracking technologies on our Services;
• Social networks or other similar platforms so that we can provide you with relevant content through that platform, or exclude you from receiving content that does not apply to you. For example, we may share your email address with Facebook so that we can include you within (or exclude you from) a custom audience to which we (or a third party on our behalf) provide content on Facebook, or we may create an audience of other Facebook users based on your Facebook profile information.
• Other third parties. Where we are entitled to do so under applicable personal data regulations, we will also share your personal information with:
  • Companies CHIKARA KARATE LLC ;
  • the following selected third parties:
    or business partners, authorized distributors, CHIKARA KARATE LLC licensed clubs that provide services to us to enable us to perform our contract with you or subcontractors to provide you with information about promotions and offers, or for any of the other purposes described in the “How Your Information Will Be Used” section above;
    or credit reference agencies in order to assess your creditworthiness when this is a condition for entering into a contract with you.
• Disclosure in certain circumstances
  Where we are entitled to do so under applicable personal data regulations, we also disclose your personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:
  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality agreements;
  • if CHIKARA or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
  • si tenemos la obligación de divulgar o compartir su información personal para cumplir con cualquier obligación legal,
  • in order to enforce or apply the terms of use of our website (……….. the Terms of Use ……); or to protect the rights, property or safety of any CHIKARA KARATE LLC Company, our customers or third parties. this includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
  • in the event that you have otherwise consented to our doing so.

Where we store your information and international transfers

Individuals (especially within the EEA or UK) should note that we and other third party recipients of your personal information, such as the CHIKARA KARATE LLC Companies or our service providers will not be located within your jurisdiction or within the EEA or UK, and may transfer your data to such locations.

For example, personal data may be transferred to CHIKARA KARATE LLC Group Companies at 759 SW Federal Highway suite 304. Stuart FL. ZIP 34994 in connection with the purposes stated above. Our video platform provider Vimeo is headquartered at 330 West 34th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10001. In the event that we transfer your data to a third party in another country, steps will be taken to protect your personal information in a manner consistent with applicable privacy laws, including (as applicable) EU Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), the GDPR as adopted in UK law and the UK Data Protection Act 2018. These steps may include:

• ensure that the European Commission has issued an adequacy decision in the case of transfers outside the EEA, or the UK Government in the case of transfers outside the UK, which means that the recipient country is deemed to provide adequate protection for such personal data;
• establish model contractual agreements with the recipient that have been approved by the European Commission (or the UK government for transfers outside the UK). These standard contractual clauses include certain safeguards to protect personal data; and
• take all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Data Retention

We retain the personal information we collect only if we need it to support justifiable business requirements or when our lawful purposes for using the information require us to retain it. Subject to special circumstances or applicable laws requiring otherwise, after account closure, we will only retain your personal information for a period of 2 years after account closure. When we no longer need the personal information, we or our third party providers will delete or securely archive the information. For more information about where and how long your personal information is stored, and for more information about your rights of deletion and portability, please contact us at chikaraclub@gmail.com.

Security of your information

To help protect the privacy of the data and personally identifiable information you transmit through the use of our site and portals, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on secure servers or secure services controlled by third parties on our behalf (see “Disclosure of Information” above). All payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

We continually update and test our security technology. We limit access to your personal information to those employees who need to know it to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we train our employees on the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We are committed to taking appropriate disciplinary action to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

For more information about the measures we take in these cases to protect your personal information, please contact us at any time by e-mail at chikaraclub@gmail.com.

Linked sites

The site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the reliability of the content or privacy practices of such other websites.

Public forums

Podemos brindarle funciones de chat, mensajería instantánea, tablones de mensajes, foros comunitarios o grupos de noticias a través del sitio o de otro modo. Recuerde que cualquier información que divulgue en áreas públicas del sitio se convertirá en información pública y será accesible al público. No pretendemos (pero nos reservamos el derecho de) supervisar, moderar o seleccionar el contenido de las publicaciones de los usuarios. No asumimos responsabilidad alguna por dicho contenido y usted debe ser cauteloso al considerar si divulga su información personal en el sitio a través de foros públicos o privados.

Minors

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 10 (or the applicable age for valid consent in your jurisdiction, if different) and the Site and App are not directed to children under the age of 13 (or the applicable age for valid consent in your jurisdiction, if different). We recommend that parents and guardians play an active role in their children’s online activities and interests.

Please contact us at chikaraclub@gmail.com if you are aware that we may have inadvertently collected personal information from a minor.

Lost or stolen information

You should not share your username or password with anyone and should keep them secure. Notify us immediately at chikaraclub@gmail.com if your username or password is lost, stolen or used by someone without permission. Upon notice, we will cancel that username or password and update our records accordingly. We recommend that different passwords be used for all of your online accounts.

Marketing opt-out option

If you do not live in the UK or EEA, you have the right to decline (or unsubscribe from) our use of your personal information for marketing communications. If you do so, your name will be flagged in our records and you will be excluded from any such future contact unless you subsequently request or agree to future contact. 

If you live in the UK, Brazil or the EEA, you must opt-in to (or consent to) our marketing communications, and you may withdraw that consent in the same way as you may opt-out as set out below, as well as through the method set out in “withdrawal of consent” below.

It can be “excluded”:

• using the contact information provided for this purpose by mail;
• using the “unsubscribe” option at the bottom of any electronic communication we send you; or
• by sending an e-mail to chikaraclub@gmail.com

Your rights

Depending on your country of residence, you may have specific rights over your personal data.

Right of access

You may have the right to request access to certain personal data that we hold about you, including any information that we have shared with our Group Companies for direct marketing purposes, subject to certain limited conditions and exceptions set out in applicable data privacy laws.
If you wish to do so, please send your request by email to …and, to the extent we are required to do so under applicable law, we will process your request.
We will be as open as we can with you, in connection with your request, but, on occasion, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may not hold personal information about you or we may need to withhold your personal information. These circumstances may include where the information is not personal information about you, is commercially sensitive, is legally privileged, relates to the personal information of another person, or its disclosure could affect the safety or security of our employees or customers. In these circumstances, we will withhold the information, but we will explain why.

Right of correction

You may request that we correct (rectify) the record of your personal data maintained by us if it is inaccurate or out of date.

Withdrawal of consent

If we rely on your consent to use your personal information in a particular way, but you subsequently change your mind, you can withdraw your consent by contacting us at … and we will stop doing so. However, if you withdraw your consent, this may affect our ability to provide our services to you (for example, we may not be able to provide you with marketing information).

Other rights

Residents of the EEA, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Brazil may also have special additional rights under data protection legislation in the EEA/European Union, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Brazil, respectively, including the right to: 

• Request information about the existence and purpose of the processing; categories of personal data concerned; who else outside CHIKARA KARATE LLC Companies might have received the data from us; what the source of the information was (if not provided directly); and how long it will be stored;
• Obtain information about the possibility to refuse processing that is based on your consent (and the consequences of doing so), as well as to delete personal information for the use of which you have previously given your consent (assuming we only need it for those purposes);
• Request that we delete or stop processing such data, subject to certain exceptions;
• Request that we anonymize, block or delete unnecessary or excessive personal information, including personal information processed in violation of the law. Of course, it is our intention never to collect excessive personal information and to comply with the law;
• Review decisions we may have made based on automated data processing;
• Ask us not to process your personal information for the legitimate interests we have set out above. In certain circumstances, we may not be able to stop using your personal information, but if that is the case, we will inform you and explain why;
• Receive the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and transmit that data to another data controller; and
• File a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you have concerns about how we handle your personal data. The local authority differs from country to country. Alternatively, you can lodge an appeal through the courts if you believe your rights have been infringed.
• If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please send your request to chikaraclub@gmail.com.

Contact us

To exercise your unsubscribe privileges, access your user information, obtain more information about this Privacy Policy or inform us about other matters related to your experiences with CHIKARA or the site, please contact us by mail or email chikaraclub@gmail.com.

Changes to this policy

We may update or change this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting an updated policy on our site and (where appropriate) notifying you by postal mail or e-mail. Such a change will be effective immediately upon posting on the site. Where we are required to do so by applicable law, we will request your consent to such changes and give you the opportunity to unsubscribe.

Language

This policy may be translated into other languages. You agree that if there is any inconsistency between the translation and this policy, the Spanish language shall prevail.