- PRIVACY NOTICE -

Flat Black Mafia, LLC

Effective Date: October 25, 2019

1. Introduction

Welcome to the Flat Black Mafia, LLC (“FBM,” “we,” or “us”) Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”). Flat Black Mafia recognizes the importance of your privacy and values your trust. As such, we take several steps to protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how a User’s personal information (such as first and last name, email address, postal address and phone number) (“Personal Information”) provided or collected on or through the Service will be collected and used and how you can control the collection, correction or deletion of such information. By using the Flat Black Mafia Service, you consent to the current version of this Privacy Policy. All capitalized terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings given to them in the Flat Black Mafia Terms of Use Agreement.

2. What Types of Information Flat Black Mafia Collects

When you use the Flat Black Mafia Service, we will collect certain information. The types of information we will collect are:

(a) The certain registration information you provide including but not limited to your first and last name, email address and username;

(b) Transaction information you provide when you request information or purchase a product or service from us or through the Service, including but not limited to your postal address, telephone number, and payment information;

(c) Information you provide in public forums (such as any message boards, blogs, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience (“Public Forums”)) on or through the Service;

(d) Information sent to another User or group of Users using our message, chat, post or similar functionality, where we are permitted by law to collect this information;

(e) Email or other communications sent to Flat Black Mafia including, but not limited to, your email address, the content of your email messages and any responses; and

(f) Certain location information provided when you use or visit any part of the Service, including location information associated with your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, where we are permitted by law to process this information.

Flat Black Mafia may also acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you have provided or we have collected automatically. We may combine your Personal Information with information collected from these sources in order to improve your interaction and experience with the Service. In certain instances, you may have the right to authorize or deny a third party’s ability to share your information with us before we can acquire it as well as opt-out of such information bundling.

The Service allows you to connect to third-party services, such as Facebook. Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us through a third-party, the information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party. All information collected by Flat Black Mafia is covered by this Privacy Policy and any information a third-party may collect is subject to the third-party’s privacy practices.

3. How Flat Black Mafia Uses Your Information

Cookies. When you use the Service, one or more cookies may be sent to your computer that identifies your web browser. A cookie does not collect Personal Information about you. Cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions and you can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please see your web browser instructions for further information, including how to disable cookies.
Log information. When you access the Service certain information (such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, URLs, domain names, pages viewed, keywords, the date and time of your request and other similar information) may be automatically reported by your browser. The servers we use automatically record the information that your web browser sends whenever you visit a web page (except that no data is sent when on a secure website (https)). This data is collected and aggregated making any Personal Information anonymous. This data is used to improve the Service for the User and help resolve any problems with our software.
In addition, we use cookies, bookmarks and log file information to:

(a) Administer purchases, customer service, surveys, and promotions;

(b) Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you information about features or products on our sites and applications or changes to our policies;

(c) Maintain, protect, improve and provide custom, personalized content and information as well as any requested products or services;

(d) Send you marketing information including events and promotions;

(e) Monitor the effectiveness of the Service and our performance, including certain aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and traffic;

(f) Diagnose or fix technology problems reported by our Users;

(g) Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may be illegal or violate our policies; and

(h) Protect Flat Black Mafia rights or property or the rights or property of Flat Black Mafia Users. Flat Black Mafia will seek your consent to use any information we collect in a manner other than the purpose for which it was collected as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
If you remove your User Content, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content. Flat Black Mafia may monitor any posted User Content and remove any information or material for any reason or no reason or upon the request of any third party, including without limitation if Flat Black Mafia deems such information or material a potential or actual violation of any applicable law or our Terms of Use Agreement.

By providing your email address you consent to our using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail, except as otherwise required by applicable law. Flat Black Mafia may use your email address to communicate with you about our Service. We may also use your email address to send you other messages, such as updates, notices or changes to features of the Service. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt-out by following instructions in the email itself or on the Service. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates or improvements.

4. How Flat Black Mafia Shares Your Information

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will only share your Personal Information in limited circumstances, including:

(a) Sharing certain information about you and your User Content as an anonymous individual with third parties for the purposes of routine operations such as analyzing the use of the Service, diagnosing technical problems, maintaining security and personalizing content.

(b) Upon your election or direction to share your Personal Information with a third party for offers or promotions for third party products or services or for services such as social networking sites. When such information is shared with a third party, the information received by that third party becomes subject to the third party’s privacy practices.

(c) When certain trusted third parties (i) perform functions on our behalf, such as shipping, credit card processing, marketing services, and customer service, or (ii) provide services to us, such as processing Personal Information, data hosting, storage and maintenance. We will share your Personal Information with these third parties only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services and these third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information for purposes other than those requested by us or required by law. We require all such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your data and handle such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy. All credit card transactions are secure and comply with the payment card industry security standards.

(d) When we share Personal Information with third parties in connection with a sale of the business or part of the business (including a merger, acquisition or divestiture, dissolution or any other form of a sale of some or all of Flat Black Mafia's assets). Flat Black Mafia will do its best to protect the confidentiality of any Personal Information transferred in connection with such a transaction and connection with such a transaction, we will provide notice before any such Personal Information becomes subject to a privacy policy different than this Privacy Policy.

(e) When we share Personal Information (i) to enforce our Terms of Use Agreement or other rules, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (ii) to take precautions against liability or to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (iii) to protect the security or integrity of our site or the safety and security of our Users and other third parties, (iv) to exercise or protect our rights and property or the rights and property of our Users and third parties, (v) to conform to the law or comply with legal process or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, (vi) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, or (vii) to assist government enforcement agencies.

Flat Black Mafia will not rent or sell your Personal Information to others and will not share it with others except as provided herein.

We note that the Service may include links to third party sites not owned or controlled by Flat Black Mafia. These third-party sites may use cookies or other methods to collect certain data or Personal Information from you. Flat Black Mafia’s Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such third party services, information or content and we are not responsible for such third parties’ actions or policies. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Flat Black Mafia Service and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your Personal Information.

5. How You Can Control Your Information

Flat Black Mafia provides certain options to control the collection, use, and sharing of your information such as:

(a) Reviewing, updating, correcting or deleting your Personal Information on file with us, including your account information;

(b) Changing your subscriptions, updates or alerts options, including any offers or promotions for products or services; and

(c) Requesting access to the Personal Information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it or request third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same.

These options may be exercised (or information reviewed) by contacting us at flatblkmafia@gmail.com or following the instructions on the Service or provided in our notices or correspondence provided to you. Please be aware that, if you do not allow us to collect Personal Information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain products or services to you, and parts of the Services may not be available to you. If you have questions regarding the specific Personal Information about you that we process or retain, please contact us at flatblkmafia@gmail.com.

If User Content posted on the Service contains your Personal Information including without limitation your image, name, address or other forms of identifiable information, without your consent, please contact us at the information below.

Privacy Policy

Flat Black Mafia
410 Historical Way, Baltimore MD 21230
Email to legal@flatblackmafia.com

Please be aware that the collection, use, and sharing of information contemplated in this Privacy Policy may involve a transfer of such information to the United States and possibly other jurisdictions that may not have laws and rules regarding Personal Information similar to your current jurisdiction.

6. Children’s Privacy

The Service is not intended for use by children under the age of eighteen (18) and we do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) or knowingly allow such persons to register. No one under thirteen (13) is allowed to provide any Personal Information to Flat Black Mafia or to post any such information to or through the Service. If you are under the age of thirteen (13), do not send any information about yourself to us (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address). If it comes to our attention that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of thirteen (13), we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have received or unknowingly collected any information from or about a child under the age of thirteen (13), please contact us at flatblkmafia@gmail.com. If you are under eighteen (18) years of age you may use the Service only if you either are an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in the Terms of Use Agreement, and to abide by and comply with the Terms of Use Agreement.

7. Data Security, Integrity and Processing

Flat Black Mafia uses commercially reasonable physical and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information and the security of our systems. However, please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect and we cannot ensure, warrant or guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical or technical safeguards and any information you transmit to Flat Black Mafia is transmitted at your own risk. From time to time, Flat Black Mafia will review the security procedures in place to consider appropriate new options.

In addition, for your privacy and security protection, we offer security measures to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your account information and for controlling access to your email communications from Flat Black Mafia, at all times.

Flat Black Mafia may operate in additional jurisdictions and may transfer your Personal Information to trusted third parties outside of the United States for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We will take reasonable steps to safeguard your Personal Information wherever we transfer, store or process it.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Flat Black Mafia may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change our Privacy Policy, all such changes will be posted on our website for your reference. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

It is our policy to provide notifications to you via email, hard copy notice, or through posting of such notice on our Service. Such a method of notice will be determined in our sole discretion unless otherwise required by law; however, you may opt-out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

9. General

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our practices or other questions relating to this website, please contact us at info@flatblackmafia.com.