Last updated: 02 January 2025

Privacy Policy

At GOJU RYU PORTAL (”GRP”), we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our website and subscribers to our Portal. In particular, we want you to know that GRP is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes. We don’t do that sort of thing. This Privacy Policy provides detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, and how we keep it secure.

By using our Website (https://www.gojuryuportal.com) and Portal, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Personal Data and Content

You will be asked to provide us with Personal Data, which may include your name, email address and other details when you:

  • Sign Up or subscribe to our Portal
  • Purchase items
  • Send us contact and profile information
  • Send us support requests
  • Add comments or ratings
  • Join and participate in our forum, or like exchange, hosted within the GRP
  • Vote in hosted polls
  • Participate in hosted competitions, surveys or feedback requests

If you participate in our forum, you will create additional user-generated content, which is used for the forum only. We do not intentionally share information about one member with another member of the GRP, nor should we be held liable for doing so. We will only share the first name, nickname, or alias name of the member making a comment to align comments with real members.

We will only use information held about you for the following purposes:

  • To understand usage patterns and improve our Website and Portal
  • To allow us to troubleshoot and improve our Website and Portal
  • To better communicate with you by responding to your requests
  • To inform you of news and updates with regards to our Website and Portal through email
  • To notify you about changes to our Website and Portal
  • To market to you regarding special offers, price changes and events that may be scheduled
  • To verify credentials and prohibit scamming, phishing and attempted cyber penetrations of our servers
  • To allow you to participate in the forum with other users

Legal basis for the collection of information

GRP asserts the following legal grounds for the collection of data:

  • Explicit Consent: When you sign up for the Services and Content (free or paid), user forums, or any other account at our Website, you provide explicit consent for GRP to collect the above-listed personal Data and Content. Contract: If you enter an agreement with GRP for the provision of Services and Subscriptions, GRP will be required to collect the above-listed personal Data and Content.
  • Legitimate Interests: GRP may have additional legitimate interests in collecting the above-listed personal information.

Anonymous Usage Information

We do not collect personally identifiable information or information stored on our website or Portal. Should you have any questions about the anonymous usage information we collect, please contact us, and we’ll be happy to answer them. Please note that because none of the usage data we collect can be personally identified, we cannot process any requests to remove information that may have previously been submitted, as we cannot identify any individual user data.

GDPR Compliance

GRP seeks to fully comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under this regulation. Consequently, you have the following rights on this website:

  1. Right to be forgotten: You may cancel your account anytime. If you wish your data to be permanently deleted, you may contact us, and it will be deleted within 72 hours.
  2. Right to object: We have never performed any data science projects on user data and do not anticipate doing so in the future. If, at some point in the future, we determine a use for any data science project on our user data, we will notify you in writing before doing so. In that event, you may remove contact data from any such project by contacting us with the subject line “Opt-Out of Data Science”.
  3. Right to access and rectification: You can contact us anytime to access copies of all user data we retain for you. We will remove, update, or change any personal information about you from our servers immediately upon your request.
  4. Right of portability: We only retain your name and email address. Nevertheless, we will provide that information to you upon your request.
  5. Right to Restriction of Processing: Besides the above, an “unsubscribe” option is automatically included in the footer of all communications sent from the Website and your GRP Account. This allows you to unsubscribe from any general communications easily. If you unsubscribe, we will immediately stop sending you general communications. We will only send you information about changes in your GRP account, such as changes to email addresses and passwords or suspected security breaches.                                           

HTTPS — Secure Website Traffic

Our website traffic is served over HTTPS, including our website and portal.

Financial information

We do not collect or hold any financial information on our web servers.

You control your information

If you want us to delete any information we hold on you, contact us with your request. At minimum, to remain a subscriber to or an Account with the Portal, we will need your full name and a valid email address. When your subscription to our Portal ends, and you do not wish to renew it, we can delete all the information held on you at your request.

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