Your privacy is important to nbamaniacs. In this privacy statement we explain what personal data we collect from our users and how we use it. We encourage you to read these terms carefully before using this website.
When you provide us with personal information through the site https://www.nbamaniacs.com, nbamaniacs respects your privacy and the rights recognized by the regulations on the protection of personal data. Therefore, it is important that you understand what information we collect about you during your visit and what we do with that information. Your visit to https://www.nbamaniacs.com is subject to this Privacy Policy on the Processing of Personal Data.
Those OVER THIRTEEN YEARS OLD may access https://www.nbamaniacs.com without the prior consent of their parents or guardians. In the case of minors under thirteen years of age, the consent of their parents or guardians is required for the processing of their personal data. Under no circumstances will data relating to the professional or economic situation or the privacy of other family members be collected from minors without their consent. If you are under thirteen years of age and have accessed this website without notifying your parents, you must not register with Disqus (our comment system) or Spot.IM (our old comment system) as a user. If you want to read in detail the conditions of use of the website and comments click here.
On this website, the personal data of users is respected and taken care of. Before reading the entire legal paragraph (written simply) as a user you should know that your rights are guaranteed.
1. What data is collected on nbamaniacs?
To make it clear from the beginning: nbamaniacs does not ask you for identifiable information such as name, email or telephone number since we do not sell products and we do not even have a contact form. But by simply browsing https://www.nbamaniacs.com you are already sharing data with us.
What data do you share with us when browsing https://www.nbamaniacs.com? Non-identifiable data that may include IP addresses, geographic location (approximately), a record of how the services and sites are used, and other data that cannot be used to identify the user. Non-identifying data also includes data related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This website uses the Google Analytics analysis service.
In any case, the categories of data that are processed are identifying or non-identifying data and in both cases they are categories of data that are not especially protected.
If, in addition to browsing, you use the Disqus comment system installed at https://www.nbamaniacs.com, you will provide personal data such as IP, email address, name, geographic location or social media accounts to Disqus.
If, in addition to browsing, you subscribe to any of our subscription options, you will provide personal data such as IP, email address, name, geographic location to Memberful, Mailchimp and Stripe. You will also give your debit or credit card details to Stripe.
2. Who stores the data?
Data collected due to browsing on nbamaniacs, emails sent to nbamaniacs and subscription to nbamaniacs
The data that nbamaniacs collects directly (browsing data and subscriptions to our subscription service) is stored by nbamaniacs through its controller and controllers and processors.
The data that nbamaniacs collects indirectly (receiving emails) is stored by nbamaniacs through its controller.
Responsible for the processing of your data collected by nbamaniacs in a manner direct and indirect
- Identity of the Responsible: Elio Martínez Ortega
- Trade name: nbamaniacs
- Address: Avenida Amazonas Central, 2-4 Aranjuez 28300 Madrid (Spain)
- Email: info@nbamaniacs.com
- Activity: media outlet that reports on the NBA and basketball in general.
For data processing, we implement all the technical and organizational security measures established in current legislation. You can contact us at the email above to delete all data we may have received from you. WE DO NOT SHARE DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES except Memberful, Stripe and Mailchimp.
Responsible for the processing of your data collected by controllers and processors
- Controller and Processor Identity 1: Memberful, LLC (subscriptions)
- Controller and Processor 2 Identity: Stripe (subscription payments)
- Controller and Processor 3 Identity: Mailchimp, The Rocket Science Group LLC (emails
Memberful, Stripe and Mailchimp are North American companies with headquarters in the United States that comply with the European GDPR as you can see in the three links above. Stripe and Mailchimp are part of the Privacy Shield between the United States and Europe.
Memberful collects the subscriber's name and email when they subscribe for free or paid, and perhaps the url from which the subscriber came. Memberful stores data in a secure and encrypted database to provide the subscription service to subscribers. Memberful does NOT use the data for any other purpose. Memberful allows users to stop receiving emails, change personal data or delete personal data by simply contacting info@nbamaniacs.com so that nbamaniacs can immediately execute the necessary steps to delete all user data in Memberful.
Stripe collects the subscriber's name, email, debit or credit card details when subscribing for free or paid, the amount paid, the date of payment, and perhaps the url from which the subscriber arrived. . In some cases you can collect the subscriber's address if the subscriber wants to receive the subscription by postal mail. also collect the IP address, device type, operating system, browser, device resolution, device manufacturer, model and language. Stripe stores data in a secure, encrypted database to process subscriber payments. Stripe does NOT share data with marketing companies or unaffiliated companies. Stripe allows users to stop receiving emails, change personal data, and delete personal data contacting them.
Mailchimp collects the subscriber's name and email when they subscribe for free or paid and may collect the url from which the subscriber arrived in addition to the IP. Memberful stores data in a secure and encrypted database to provide the subscription service to subscribers. Memberful explains everything in detail in their privacy policy and your addendum to data processing.
Data collected after posting comments on nbamaniacs
Disqus, company that manages comments on nbamaniacs. Disqus is a North American company based in the United States that complies with the European GDPR:
- Be part of the initiative Do Not Track to not track users between various websites. You can activate this option in your Disqus account from here.
- Disqus provides us with analysis data such as visitors, number of comments and type of comment use in an anonymized form for analytical uses.
- Since May 24, 2018, Disqus has not provided us with data such as the email or full IP of the commenters, it does so in an anonymized manner solely with the aim of giving us tools to prohibit access to commenters who do not comply with the rules.
- You can choose an option on Disqus that provides complete privacy in which Disqus does not collect or collect any personal data from here.
- Of course you can also completely delete your Disqus account from here or request the data that Disqus has about you from here.
You can see in detail the Disqus privacy policy here.
Spot.IM, a company that managed comments on nbamaniacs between October 2017 and June 2018. Spot.IM is a multinational with headquarters in Israel and the United States that complies with the European GDPR. You can see in detail Spot.IM privacy policy y Your GDPR compliance policy here.
Spot.IM is responsible for the storage, management and use of that personal data and you can log into your Spot.IM user account to access, modify, delete or delete any of your personal data.
3. How is your data collected at nbamaniacs?
When you visit https://www.nbamaniacs.com you can send us data in two ways:
- Browsing.
- Posting comments.
- Subscribing.
There is no other method of sending us data except by emailing us outside of https://www.nbamaniacs.com.
Navigation
When browsing https://www.nbamaniacs.com non-identifiable data may be collected, which may include IP addresses, geographic location (approximately), a record of how the services and sites are used, and other data that cannot be used to identify the user. Non-identifying data also includes data related to your browsing habits through third-party services. This data is collected through Google Analytics.
By providing this information, the user gives their consent for their information to be collected, used, managed and stored by https://www.nbamaniacs.com, only as described in the Legal Notice and in this Privacy Policy.
Posting comments
When a user of https://www.nbamaniacs.com uses the comment system to comment on a post, they are not providing personal information to nbamaniacs, they are doing so to Disqus or Spot.IM, the comment systems we use at nbamaniacs.
The way in which Disqus and Spot.IM collect your data is based on a form in which you provide the information they ask for, usually name and email. If you prefer to use Spot.IM through your account on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Disqus, you will have to share your identification on these networks with Spot.IM, although Spot.IM does not have access to your passwords.
By the way, you can read our terms of use comments here.
Content embedded from other websites
nbamaniacs may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, tweets, Instagram, etc.). Content embedded from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account or are connected to that website.
Subscription
You can subscribe to nbamaniacs through the service we offer with the companies Memberful, Mailchimp and Stripe. The way Memberful, Mailchimp and Stripe collect your data is based on a form in which you provide the information they ask for, usually name and email. You have everything specified in point 2 of this privacy policy.
Emails
When a user sends an email to nbamaniacs, they are providing personal information for which nbamaniacs is responsible. This information may include personal data such as your IP address, name, physical address, email address, telephone number, and other information. The information you share with nbamaniacs is entirely up to you as nbamaniacs does not have user email data, does not have an email list and will not email you except to respond to an email you have previously sent.
4. Why do we collect data?
The great crux of the matter. We explain it in two subsections.
Navigation data
We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track the movements of users around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
The analysis data serves us to improve our operation and we do not obtain a direct financial return from it.
Customs and preferences data
nbamaniacs is funded by advertising. This helps us create new content and keep it free for all users. When you visit our website, your browser automatically sends information to our advertising partners. This information includes the URL of the page you are visiting and your IP address. Our partners may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there.
With this data our advertising partners show you personalized advertising so that the ads you see are relevant to you. This advertising is of greater economic return for nbamaniacs since it has greater interest for the user.
However, we also give the option for the user to deactivate the personalization of ads displayed on https://www.nbamaniacs.com. If ad personalization is turned off, our advertising partners will not collect or use your information to personalize the ads shown to you. You will see ads, but they may not be as relevant. Ads may be based on the context of the website you are visiting, your current search terms, or your general location, but not on your interests, search history, or browsing history.
Subscription data
nbamaniacs needs your email and name for a free subscription as we use that data to contact you. nbamaniacs also needs your payment details for a paid subscription, although we never know your credit or debit card details.
5. How will your data be used?
Navigation data
nbamaniacs may use the personal information that you provide us in a dissociated way (without personal identification) through Google Analytics for internal purposes, such as the preparation of statistics. Thus, nbamaniacs may collect, store or accumulate certain non-personal information regarding your use of https://www.nbamaniacs.com, such as information that indicates which of our pages are most popular.
We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track the movements of users around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
There are other purposes for which we process your IP:
- To ensure compliance with the conditions of use and applicable law. This may include the development of tools and algorithms that help this website to guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data it collects.
- To support and improve the services offered by this website.
- We also collect other non-identifying data obtained through some cookies that are downloaded to the user's computer when browsing this website, which is detailed in the cookie policy.
- To manage social networks. nbamaniacs has a presence on social networks. The processing of data carried out on people who become followers on the social networks of the official pages of https://www.nbamaniacs.com will be governed by this section. As well as those conditions of use, privacy policies and access regulations that belong to the social network that applies in each case and previously accepted by the user. It will process your data for the purposes of correctly managing your presence on the social network, informing about activities, products or services of https://www.nbamaniacs.com, as well as for any other purpose that the regulations of social networks allow. In no case will we use the profiles of followers on social networks to send advertising individually.
In accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) 2016/679, Elio Martínez Ortega (nbamaniacs) will be responsible for the processing of data corresponding to Users of the website.
nbamaniacs does not sell, rent or transfer in exchange for any consideration personal data such as name, username, email or telephone number that serve to identify the user - nor will it do so in the future - to third parties without prior consent in case that this would change our policy.
The programmatic advertising that you may see on this website is based on the consent requested from you. here , without in any case the withdrawal of this consent conditioning the execution of the subscription contract.
The vast majority of programmatic advertising you see on https://www.nbamaniacs.com comes through Google networks. Google explains in its privacy policy and conditions how it uses information from websites or applications that use our services. This Google policy can be consulted here.
Comment data
The nbamaniacs commenting system, Disqus, allows nbamaniacs to:
- Read published and deleted comments.
- View an anonymized IP and email address from which all comments are written.
- Read the username of all posted comments.
nbamaniacs' old commenting system, Spot.IM, allowed nbamaniacs to:
- Read published and deleted comments.
- Read the IP from which all comments are written.
- Read the username of all posted comments.
Spot.IM and Disqus do not allow nbamaniacs to:
- Read in any way the email of users who have posted comments.
- Read personal data (name, surname, social media account) of users who have posted comments.
- See them likes that a user has given.
With the data that we can read from Disqus or Spot.IM what we do is:
- Analyze the number of comments by days, months or years.
- Analyze the number of likes for days, months or years.
- Analyze behavior and engagement of the commentators with the news we publish.
Subscription data
The subscription system, powered by Stripe and Memberful, allows us to collect the following information:
- Name
With this data the only thing we do is:
- Contact you to send you emails regarding your subscription
The data collected by sending emails for contact purposes
A special case of data processing at nbamaniacs refers to the email messages that users send in order to contact our team of editors or Elio Martínez. Users can ask questions about the content published on the blog, send suggestions or any other purpose.
Although there is no data collection form, for contact purposes, users can send email messages. For this purpose nbamaniacs uses the Gmail (Google) email system. User messages for this purpose are stored in the nbamaniacs Gmail Suite account and the corresponding data (e-mail and name) under the Google privacy policy.
The data stored in the nbamaniacs Gmail Suite account is neither transferred nor shared with anyone; You can exercise your legal rights, as specified in this privacy policy.
Legitimation for the treatment of your data
The legal basis for the processing of your data is consent. To contact or make comments on this website, consent with this privacy policy is required.
6. Who will we share your data with?
We will not communicate your personal information to third parties, except in the manner established in this Privacy and Data Processing Policy or in the notices established for each case in which your personal data is collected.
nbamaniacs may disclose any information, including personal data, that it considers necessary to comply with legal obligations.
To which recipients will your data be communicated?
The tools we use to manage your data are hired by third parties.
To provide services strictly necessary for the development of the activity, https://www.nbamaniacs.com, shares data with the following providers under their corresponding privacy conditions:
Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files located on your computer, to help https://www.nbamaniacs.com analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of https://www.nbamaniacs.com will be directly transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Users of this website have the possibility of preventing Google Analytics from using their data by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js). You simply have to download it depending on the browser you use and activate it.
Hosting: Tecnocratica Data Center, SL, domiciled in Spain. More information in: https://www.tecnocratica.net/datacenter. Tecnocratica Data Center, SL processes the data for the purpose of providing its hosting services to nbamaniacs.
Web platform: Automattic Inc., domiciled in the USA. More information in: https://es.wordpress.com/ (Automattic Inc.). Automattic Inc. processes the data for the purpose of providing its web platform services to nbamaniacs.
Leading comments: Disqus, with address at 717 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Disqus complies with the European GDPR and processes the personal data that users transfer as controller and is the one who manages that data, not nbamaniacs . It's the comment system we use at nbamaniacs. In point 3 of this Privacy Policy you can read how Disqus manages data. You can read the Disqus privacy policy here.
Old comment platform: Spot.IM, with address at New York 1460 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. More information at https://www.spot.im/about/. Spot.IM complies with the European GDPR and processes the personal data that users transfer as controller and is the one who manages that data, not nbamaniacs. It's the comment system we used at nbamaniacs. Spot.IM's privacy policy is here y your GDPR policy here.
Clickio: Its company name is ALZ Software Limited, a company operating under the laws of England located at Unit 2.05, 12-18 Hoxton Street, London, United Kingdom, N1 6NG. Clickio complies with the European GDPR and is the one who provides nbamaniacs with the consent tool to obtain the consent or rejection of Users being able to see personalized ads.
Membership platform: Memberful, LLC. All Memberful data and how it processes the data it obtains is collected in point 2 of this privacy policy.
Platform sending emails known as newsletters: Mailchimp. All Mailchimp data and how it processes the data it obtains is collected in point 2 of this privacy policy.
Subscription collection management platform: Stripe. All Stripe data and how it processes the data it obtains is collected in point 2 of this privacy policy.
Gmail Suite: This service stores email messages sent by users for contact purposes.
7. Tool for the User to accept or reject personalized ads
As we explain in point 4 of this Privacy Policy, nbamaniacs is financed through advertising, which allows us to create new content and maintain it free of charge for users. When you visit our website, your browser automatically sends information to our advertising partners. This information includes the URL of the page you are visiting and your IP Address.
All of the above is optional for the User who visits nbamaniacs through a consent tool. Clickio, a partner of nbamaniacs, has developed a user consent tool for publishers based on the reference design that Google has shared its guide on Cookiechoices.org according to the rules of the RGPD.
If ad personalization is turned on, our partners will use your information to make the ads you see relevant to you.
If ad personalization is turned off, your information will not be collected or used to personalize the ads shown to you. You will see ads, but they may not be as relevant. Ads may be based on the context of the website you are visiting, your current search terms, or your general location, but not your interests, search history, or browsing history.
In the tool that nbamaniacs uses from Clikio, a pop-up window appears for this reference design that gives a general notice and requests consent from users. The user can click on the link and get more details, including the full list of all advertising partners who might have access to the data.
If the user accepts, personalized ads can be published.
If the user rejects it, a second window is displayed, informing that the ads will still be on the site, but will not be personalized. This warning language also states that cookies will continue to be used on the site. This is similar to the previous “cookie notification banner,” which does not require opt-in consent.
To comply with the GDPR, nbamaniacs advertising partners will not serve personalized ads to European users unless there is prior consent confirmed through this tool.
Clickio acts as a data processor for nbamaniacs. Clickio undertake to process personal data from the publisher's website only on behalf of the publisher and only in accordance with the publisher's instructions. Clcikio serves advertising impressions through ad exchanges and suppliers explicitly approved by nbamaniacs.
Change your privacy settings by clicking here.More information on how Clickio and its tool are GDPR compliant here.
8. What rights do you have over your data?
Anyone has the right to obtain confirmation about whether nbamaniacs processes personal data. Interested persons have the right to:
- Request access to personal data concerning the interested party
- Request rectification or deletion
- Request the limitation of your treatment
- Oppose the treatment
- Request the portability of the data
Interested parties may access their personal data, as well as request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes that were collected. In certain circumstances, the interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims.
In certain circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation, interested parties may object to the processing of their data. nbamaniacs will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons, or the exercise or defense of possible claims. As an interested party, you have the right to receive the personal data that concerns you, that you have provided us and in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit them to another person responsible for the treatment when:
- The treatment is based on consent.
- The data has been provided by the person concerned.
- The treatment is carried out by automated means.
By exercising your right to the portability of data, you will have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from responsible to responsible when technically possible.
Interested parties will also have the right to effective judicial protection and submit a claim to the supervisory authority, in this case, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, if they consider that the processing of personal data that concerns them violates the Regulation.
How long will we keep your data?
The personal data provided via email will be kept until its deletion is requested by the interested party.
In the case of IP obtained through Google Analytics, the data will be kept for 26 months.
nbamaniacs does not have any other type of user data.
Data that we can read but we don't have of the comment system Disqus or Spot.IM is owned and maintained by Disqus and Spot.IM for as long as you want to use their comment system on nbamaniacs and other websites around the world that use it. You can modify, delete or delete all your Disqus and Spot.IM data through your Disqus or Spot.IM user account.
Data security and secrecy
https://www.nbamaniacs.com se compromete en el uso y tratamiento de los datos incluidos personales de los usuarios, respetando su confidencialidad y a utilizarlos de acuerdo con la finalidad del mismo, así como a dar cumplimiento a su obligación de guardarlos y adaptar todas las medidas para evitar la alteración, pérdida, tratamiento o acceso no autorizado, de conformidad con lo establecido en la normativa vigente de protección de datos.
This website includes an SSL certificate. It is a security protocol that makes your data travel in an integral and secure way, that is, the transmission of data between a server and web user, and in feedback, is fully encrypted or encrypted.
https://www.nbamaniacs.com no puede garantizar la absoluta inexpugnabilidad de la red Internet y por tanto la violación de los datos mediante accesos fraudulentos a ellos por parte de terceros.
With respect to the confidentiality of the processing, Elio Martínez Ortega will ensure that any person who is authorized by nbamaniacs to process the client's data (including its staff, collaborators and providers), will be under the appropriate obligation of confidentiality (whether it is a duty contractual or legal).
When a security incident occurs, upon becoming aware of nbamaniacs, it must notify the User without undue delay and must provide timely information related to the Security Incident as it is known or when reasonably requested by the User.
Accuracy and veracity of data
As a User, you are solely responsible for the veracity and correctness of the data you send to https://www.nbamaniacs.com or https://disqus.com or https://stripe.com or https://memerberful. com exonerating nbamaniacs from any responsibility in this regard.
Users guarantee and are responsible, in any case, for the accuracy, validity and authenticity of the personal data provided, and undertake to keep it duly updated. The user agrees to provide complete and correct information when contacting nbamaniacs or using the Disqus and Spot.IM comment system or when subscribing using the services of Memberful, Stripe and Mailchimp.
Acceptance and consent
The user declares to have been informed of the conditions on the protection of personal data, accepting and consenting to the processing thereof by Elio Martínez Ortega (nbamaniacs) in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy.
Revocability
The consent given, both for the treatment and for the transfer of the data of the interested parties, is revocable at any time by communicating it to nbamaniacs in the terms established in this Policy for the exercise of ARCO rights. This revocation will in no case be retroactive.
9. Last point of the nbamaniacs Privacy Policy
Our principles regarding your privacy:
- We never request personal information except when you want to use the comment system, in which case you must identify yourself with a username, email or social network username on Disqus or Spot.IM, our comment systems. The data you provide is the property of Disqus or Spot.IM respectively as they act as the controller of the data.
- The personal information that you provide to subscribe to nbamaniacs with a free or paid subscription is NEVER shared with third parties other than Memberful, Stripe and Mailchimp, companies detailed in point 2 of this privacy policy and essential for us to offer our service. subscription.
- The personal information that you leave simply with your visit is captured by our advertising partners and by the analytics system (Google Analytics). You can choose not to receive personalized ads by clicking
here - We never share personal information of our users with anyone, except to comply with the law or in case you have your express authorization.
- We never use your personal data for a purpose other than that expressed in this privacy policy.
It is necessary to warn that this Privacy Policy could vary depending on legislative or self-regulation requirements, so users are advised to visit it periodically.
nbamaniacs has adapted this website to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 regarding the protection of natural persons (GDPR).
Principles that we will apply to your personal information
In the processing of your personal data, we will apply the following principles that meet the requirements of the new European data protection regulation:
- Principle of legality, loyalty and transparency: we will always require your consent for the processing of your personal data (in case we request it in the future) for one or more specific purposes of which we will inform you in advance with absolute transparency.
- Data minimization principle: nbamaniacs does not ask you for data of any kind if you are not a subscriber. To use the comment system you have to give your personal data to Disqus or Spot.IM. If you become a paid or free subscriber we will use your data solely to be able to offer you our subscription services.
- Principle of limitation of the conservation period: the data will be kept for no longer than necessary for the purposes of the processing.
- Principle of integrity and confidentiality: your data will be treated in such a way that adequate security of personal data is guaranteed and confidentiality is guaranteed in accordance with the policies of our partners Google, Clikio, Disqus, Spot.IM, Memberful, Stripe and Mailchimp .
Commercial post office
In accordance with the LSSICE, https://www.nbamaniacs.com does not practice SPAM in any way. If we send an email it is because you have given us your consent to do so.
In accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and electronic commerce, https://www.nbamaniacs.com undertakes not to send commercial communications without properly identifying them.
Changes to the privacy policy
nbamaniacs reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to legislative or jurisprudential developments, as well as industry practices. In such cases, nbamaniacs will announce the changes introduced on this page with reasonable advance notice of their implementation.
Document updated on 17-06-2020.