PRIVACY POLICY

1. Introduction

Welcome to Grimsy ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (grimsy.top) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

• Identity Data: Username, display name, and email address that you provide to us directly during registration.
• Security Data: Encrypted passwords and authentication tokens (such as email verification codes). We do not store your passwords in plain text.
• Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including your movie reviews, ratings, favorites, watchlists, and comments.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new user and authenticate your identity.
• To manage our relationship with you (e.g., notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy).
• To enable you to partake in interactive features of our service (e.g., posting reviews, following users).
• To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).

4. Third-Party Services

5. Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience. These are split into two categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the website to function (e.g., keeping you securely logged in). You cannot opt-out of these.
• Analytics Cookies: Used by Google Analytics to help us improve Grimsy. These are optional. We will not set these cookies unless you click "Accept" on our cookie banner.

You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies for this site, which will re-trigger the consent banner.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data ("Right to be forgotten").
• Object to processing of your personal data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@grimsy.top.