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Privacy Policy

This page explains how sporeus.com handles personal information.

A. Introduction

The privacy of our visitors matters to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information. By using this site, and by accepting cookies on your first visit, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on every subsequent visit.

B. Information We Collect

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

  1. Information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. Information about your visits to and use of the site, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and site navigation paths;
  3. Information you provide when registering, such as your email address;
  4. Information you provide when creating a profile on the site (for example, name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education, and employment);
  5. Information such as your name and email address that you provide when subscribing to our emails or newsletters;
  6. Information you provide while using any of the services on the site;
  7. Information generated while you use the site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. Information relating to any purchase of goods or services, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and payment details;
  9. Information you submit to the site for the purpose of public posting, including username, profile picture, and post contents;
  10. Contents and metadata of any communications you send through the site or by email;
  11. Any other personal information you choose to send to us.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

C. How We Use Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

  1. Administer the site and our business;
  2. Personalise the site for you;
  3. Enable your use of the services available on the site;
  4. Supply goods or services purchased through the site;
  5. Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect payments from you;
  6. Send you non-marketing communications that you specifically request;
  7. Send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can unsubscribe at any time);
  8. Send you marketing communications about our business or selected third-party businesses we think may interest you, by post, email, or similar technologies u2014 only with your explicit consent (you can opt out at any time);
  9. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
  10. Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the site;
  11. Keep the site secure and prevent fraud;
  12. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing use of the site (including monitoring private messages sent through the site’s private messaging service); and
  13. Other purposes.

If you submit personal information for publication on the site, we will publish it and use it in accordance with the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can limit the publication of your information on the site and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the site.

We will not, without your explicit consent, supply your personal information to any third party for direct marketing.

D. Disclosing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent we are required to do so by law;
  2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset we are selling (or considering selling); and
  5. To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure and where, in our reasonable opinion, that court or authority would be likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as set out in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.

E. International Data Transfers

  1. Information we collect may be stored and processed in, and transferred between, any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data-protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
  3. Personal information you publish on the site or submit for publication on the site may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

F. Retention of Personal Information

  1. This Section F sets out our data-retention policies and procedures, designed to ensure we meet our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
  3. Without prejudice to Article F-2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date or time stated.
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    1. To the extent we are required to do so by law;
    2. If we believe the documents may be relevant to ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
    3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

G. Security of Personal Information

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
  2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
  3. All financial transactions on our site are protected by encryption technology.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
  5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access the site confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in).

H. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on the site. You should check this page occasionally to make sure you understand any changes. We may notify you of changes by email or through the private messaging system on the site.

I. Your Rights

You may instruct us, at any time, not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will offer you the opportunity to opt out of having your personal information used for marketing purposes.

J. Third-Party Websites

The site includes links to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

K. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

L. Cookies and Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand site usage. GA4 sets cookies only after you accept on the consent banner shown on your first visit. Functional cookies (such as the language preference used by our multilingual setup) are essential for the site to work and are not subject to consent. Advertising cookies, if introduced in the future, will also be gated by your consent.

M. Advertising

This site may display third-party advertising via Google AdSense or partner ad networks. Google and its advertising partners (including Google Marketing Platform / DoubleClick) use cookies such as the DART cookie to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.

  • You can review Google’s use of cookies for personalized advertising at Google Ad Policies.
  • You can opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ad Settings.
  • For broader opt-out from third-party ad networks, see aboutads.info (US) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU).
  • If you choose Reject on the Sporeus consent banner, we transmit ad_storage, analytics_storage, ad_user_data, and ad_personalization signals as “denied” to Google; personalized advertising and measurement cookies will not be used in that case.

Advertising revenue helps cover Sporeus’s content production and hosting costs. Sporeus is not responsible for the contents of third-party ads; ad creatives are selected by Google and its partners.

N. Your Rights under GDPR / KVKK

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Turkey’s Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK), you have the following rights:

  • To know whether personal data about you is processed and request information about that processing;
  • To access your data and request a copy;
  • To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
  • To request erasure of your data;
  • To request data portability to another controller;
  • To object to automated decision-making (including personalized advertising);
  • To withdraw consent at any time (withdrawal does not affect lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal);
  • To be notified in the event of a data breach.

To exercise your rights, contact info@sporeus.com. We respond within 30 days. You can also reset your consent at any time by clearing the local storage entry (key: sp_consent_v1) for sporeus.com in your browser settings.

You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing your browser’s local storage for sporeus.com.

For more information, contact us at: info@sporeus.com

Last updated: May 2026. This policy covers Sporeus’s active data-processing systems (MailPoet newsletter, Sporeus Forum, analytics, and the cookie consent flow).