Privacy Policy

Who we are

Crypto Stics (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates the Crypto Stics website (the “Website”).

About this privacy notice

We use your data to provide and improve the Website. Using the Website, you agree to this Policy’s collection and use of information. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions accessible from Crypto Stics.

This Privacy Notice explains how Website collects, uses, and discloses data about you and processes information that identifies or can be used to identify you (sometimes referred to as “personal data” or “personal information” under applicable privacy and data security laws, and from now on “personal data”) when you use our Website (s), mobile apps, and other online products or Website that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Website”) or when you otherwise interact with us. Occasionally, we partner with third parties to provide you with products, promotions, or other experiences. We will show you the privacy policies belonging to those third parties when they receive information about those experiences. Their privacy policy will govern the collection of your personal data in addition to this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will inform you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website before the change becomes effective, and we will update the “effective date” at the top of this privacy policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when posted on this page. Please come back and check from time to time for the latest information on our privacy practices.

What personal data do we collect, and how

Personal data you provide to us.

We collect data you provide directly to us. Account data. If you sign up for a Crypto Stics account (“Account”), we will collect data you give us related to your Account, including your name, email address, username, and password. Purchase data. Make a purchase from a third party after clicking on an affiliate link through Crypto Stics. We will receive data about the purchase to manage our business relationship. Other data you share through the Website. You may provide us with data when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your Account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, provide feedback, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Website.

Data that indirectly identifies you and automatically collects data.

When you access or use the Website, we collect data that indirectly identifies you, and we automatically collect other data about you, including: 

Log Data. We automatically receive and record information from your device or web browser when interacting with the Website. For example, we collect your internet protocol (IP) address, mobile device ID, time zone setting, language preference, operating system, platform, internet Website provider (ISP), and links you have clicked on or shared with others, including through email and social media. If you sign up for an Account, we create a user ID that indirectly identifies you. We use this information to collect data about your activities through the Website. We associate information that indirectly identifies you with your Account (if you have one) and other information we have collected about you. <

Cookies. When you visit the Website, we will set certain “cookies” and similar tracking technologies on your device, including cookies and web beacons. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see our “Cookie Policy” section.

Location data.

We use your IP address to infer your approximate location. We may also collect the language option or country you choose. When we provide certain websites, such as a version of our Website that is localized to your country, we link location data to other information we have collected about you to do so.

Special category data.

When we conduct or carry out surveys, and you participate in our research or surveys, we may collect sensitive personal data about you, for example, information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation. We will get your explicit consent for collecting, using, or sharing this data as the law requires.

Aggregated data

We analyze and aggregate personal data we collect, such as the number and frequency of your visits to the Website, to produce anonymized metrics and statistical information that does not identify you as an individual.

We combine information about you with information about other users to create audience segments of aggregated data, for example, statistical, demographic, and usage data. If we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data, we treat the combined data as personal data and deal with it by this Privacy Policy.

How we collect personal data

You may give us your personal data directly, for example, when you create an Account, fund us by donation, subscribe to our newsletters, posts or comments, enter a competition, participate in a promotion or survey, ask for user support, or contact us for any reason.

We automatically collect personal data when you interact with our Website. We collect information about your devices, browsing actions, and interests using cookies and similar technologies. Our “Cookies policy” section provides more details on how this works.

Third parties who provide advertising and related Websites (such as analytics providers and ad networks) may give us your personal data so that we can compare it to personal data we hold to determine if you are the same individual (this is sometimes called “cookie-matching”). We may collect data from unaffiliated third parties to better understand you and provide information and offers that may interest you. For example, we may receive information about your interests or preferences and contact information, such as email address.

If you access our Website using your Facebook or Google credentials, we will automatically collect certain information, such as your user ID. We will use any information collected from Facebook or Google, including the user ID Facebook or Google attributes to you, only by Facebook’s or Google’s policies and your preferences selected through Facebook or Google.

What we use your data for:

We use the data we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our Website. We also use the data we collect to: 

Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, and respond to your comments, questions, and customer service requests;

Communicate with you about products, Websites, offers, and events offered by Crypto Stics and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;

Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Website and personalize and improve the Website;

Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of Crypto Stics and others.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by submitting such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.

Crypto Stics will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and according to this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Third-Party Sites

Our sites and apps may include links to third-party sites, apps, and social media platforms (“Third-Party Sites”). Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share your data. We do not endorse or control Third-Party Sites, each of which may be governed by its own terms of Website and privacy policy, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies and terms so that you understand how they process information about you. You are solely responsible for all liability for any damages or other harm, whether to you or third parties, resulting from your use of Third-Party Sites. Please take all precautions to protect yourself when accessing third-party sites, particularly when downloading or purchasing anything.

The Website may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools, which let you share your actions on our Website with other media and vice versa. Using such features enables sharing information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. We also use the analytics tools the social media platforms provide to help us understand how people interact with our social media presence, identify trends, and do joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes, we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote specific content.

We also use the analytics tools the social media platforms provide to help us understand how people interact with our social media presence, identify trends, and do joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes, we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote specific content.

We receive aggregated statistical information from social media platforms about the performance of our posts and promoted content, such as the number of views and kinds of viewers. This data is aggregated and anonymized by the social media platform before being made available to us.

We also use the paid advertising and paid content tools provided by the social media platforms to help us carry out advertising campaigns for our ad partners and to promote our content on social media platforms. For example, we use the “Promoted Pins” tool on Pinterest to promote editorial or paid content to visitors to Pinterest. Again, we receive only aggregated statistical information from social media platforms about interactions with our ads and paid content, such as the number of views, number of times shared, and so on.

We process information provided by social media platforms based on our legitimate interest in interacting with our audience on social media and using social media to promote our content.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features or your use of social media platforms, please visit the privacy policies of the respective entities at the following links:

Cookie Policy

What is a “cookie”

Cookies are small data text files sent from a server during browsing. Cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used by websites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. Using cookies automatically identifies your browser whenever you interact with a site. When we talk about “cookies” in this Privacy Policy, we mean cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies and similar technologies allow us to collect the following types of personal data:

  • A unique ID assigned to your device
  • IP address
  • Device and browser type
  • Operating system
  • Referring URLs
  • Content viewed or other actions taken through our Website
  • Time and date of those actions
  • Country and language selected

Browsers and devices have tools to disable cookies on sites and apps. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to access all the features of our Website. Keep our essential cookies (described below) active for a better user experience and to help us keep improving and developing our products and Website.

Session cookies remember you during your session on our Website. They are deleted when you log out of the Website and close your browser. Session cookies are used to ensure you are served content correctly, to balance and monitor the load on our servers, and for other technical matters essential to the operation of our Website. You can configure your device to reject these cookies, but our Website will probably not work correctly if you do.

Consent cookies are used by our consent management platform, which we employ to record your preferences about third-party cookies described below and to store and share your preferences with those third parties. These cookies are essential for compliance with the legal obligations imposed on us and on third parties with whom we have a business relationship to ensure we request your consent, record your consent preferences, and act on such consent preferences.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies are used by us and third parties who process data for data analytics purposes (for example, Google Analytics) so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our Website and for monitoring, auditing, research, and reporting. 

 We have activated Google’s IP anonymization function on our Sites. This will cause your IP address to be cut by Google within Member States of the European Union or other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Sites, to compile reports on Site activity, and to provide us with other Websites relating to Website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. 

 Concerning Google Analytics, you can read about how Google uses data gathered for that purpose here.

Third-party cookies: advertising and affiliate links

Our ad partners and our affiliate links partners collect personal data from you for the purposes they disclose through our cookie consent management platform.

Ad partners include ad networks such as third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors, and research firms.

Affiliate link partners pay us when you buy things from them or another third party after clicking on an affiliate link in our content.

Our ad partners use third-party cookies to serve ads and target you with tailored (or personalized) ads when you use the Website and visit Third-Party Sites. They also use cookies to measure traffic on the Website (for example, to track ad views).

Ad partners and affiliate links partners may view, edit, or set their own cookies on your mobile device or web browser when you interact with our Website. They use cookies to track your use of our Website and your online activities. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies so that you understand how they process information about you.

We provide links to their privacy policies in our consent management platform, which you can access here.

You can decide who you will allow to set these third-party cookies on your browser or device by going to our consent settings center. You can change your mind and revisit your consent choices anytime by returning there.

Privacy information for EEA and UK users

Information for UK/EU Users (including legal bases)

We will use your personal data only for the purposes for which we collect it unless we consider that we need to use it for another reason compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for another purpose, we will explain the legal basis we rely on.

Legal rights for EEA and UK users

If you are an EU or UK resident, you have certain rights in respect of the information that we hold about you. Below is a short overview of those rights: 

Access. With some exceptions designed to protect the rights of others, you have the right to a copy of the personal data we hold about you. Where the data you have given to us, you have the right to receive your copy of it in a standard electronic format and to provide copies of it to other people if you wish. 

Correction. You have the right to have the personal data we hold about you corrected if it is factually inaccurate. This right does not extend to opinion matters, such as views expressed in editorial content. 

Deletion. In some circumstances, you have the right to have personal data that we hold about you erased (the “right to be forgotten”). This right is only sometimes available where we still have a valid legal reason to keep the data (for example, because we are obliged to do so by law). 

Objection. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on “legitimate interests” as our legal basis. Still, we can continue processing if our interest outweighs your objection.

Withdrawing consent. If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time; in this case, we will stop that processing unless we have another legal basis on which to continue.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights, email SEO4MORE@HOTMAIL.COM

To protect your privacy and that of others, we will ask you to prove your identity before we take any steps in response to a request you have made. If a third party is making a request on your behalf, we will ask them to prove that they have your permission to act for you.

We may contact you to ask you for further information to help you exercise your legal rights or to speed up our response. We will try to respond to requests within one month, and we will let you know if we need to take longer, for example, because your request is complicated. We may have an overriding lawful basis for processing your personal data, or certain exemptions may apply. If we refuse your request, we will explain why.

Complaints

You have the right to complain about data privacy matters to the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk) or the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence. You can contact the ICO on 0303 123 1113. We invite you to raise your concerns with us first so that we can resolve them.

Privacy Information for California Residents

California Privacy Rights

This section provides you with our practices regarding collecting, using, and disclosing your personal data in the 12 months before our last update to this Policy (see the date at the top). It also explains your rights regarding the personal data we collect (as outlined in the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act or the “CCPA”).

Categories of Information We Collect:
  • Online identifiers (e.g., IP address, ADID/IDFA, cookie IDs, internal identification numbers).
  • Location data (e.g., your city, state, or country information).
Categories of Sources:
  • You
  • Your device
  • Data partners.
Purpose of Collection
  • To communicate with you, including processing your requests for products/Websites and/or information.
  • To register your Account.
  • To improve our Website, including a better understanding of our customer base, meeting our diversity and inclusion goals, and helping our business partners do the same.
  • To enforce our User Agreement and for the administration and protection of our business.
  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal and regulatory processes.
  • If you opt-in to do so, we may use your name and email address for our marketing purposes and to help our business partners with their marketing.

We may share your personal data with government entities when required by law. As a California resident, you have the right to know what personal data we collect, disclose, and “sell” about you (as that term is used in the CCPA).

Additionally, you have the right to access, delete, and opt out from the “sale” of your personal data.

Specifically, California residents may request that we Inform you about the categories of personal data we collect or disclose about you, the categories of sources of such data, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal data, and the categories of third parties with whom we share/disclose personal data. Such information is also set forth above in this Privacy Policy. Provide you access to and/or a copy of the specific personal data we collected about you (also called a data portability request). Delete specific personal data we have about you.

The CCPA further gives you the right not to be discriminated against (as provided in applicable law) for exercising your rights.

Note for non-California residents: We will seek to honor requests to exercise the above rights made by non-California residents to the extent required by applicable law. Please note that California law may exempt specific data from access, portability, and deletion requests. For example, we need to retain specific data to provide the Website to you. Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal data. You may also make a verifiable consumer request for your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or deletion twice within 12 months. You can submit your access or deletion request by signing into your Account. You can find instructions on how to proceed at our consent settings center or contact us at SEO4MORE@HOTMAIL.COM.

Please note that the verifiable consumer request must Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal data or an authorized representative. Please describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal data if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal data relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require creating an Account with us. We will only use personal data provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

California Notice of Right to Opt-Out of “Sale”

California residents may opt out of the “sale” of their personal data. California law broadly defines “sale” in a way that may include allowing third parties to receive specific data, such as cookies, IP addresses, and/or browsing behavior, to deliver targeted advertising on our Website or other sites and apps. Advertising, including targeted advertising, enables us to provide you certain content for free and allows us to provide you content relevant to you. Depending on what Website you use, we may sell (as defined by California law) the following categories of data for such advertising purposes:

  • Online Identifiers and Internet Activity Information
  • Contact details
  • Demographic information
  • Inferences about personal preferences and attributes drawn from profiling

If you would like to opt out of our use of your personal data for such purposes, you may contact us at SEO4MORE@HOTMAIL.COM. This will cause data to cease to be added to any cookies or other tracking technologies set on our Website or block them entirely. Please note that you will need to opt out again if you visit one of our Websites from a different device or browser or if you clear your cookies. Please note that we do not knowingly sell the personal data of minors under 16 years of age without legally required affirmative authorization.

California Shine the Light Disclosure

Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83- 1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask for a notice identifying the categories of personal customer data that we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address: 111 E. 18th Street, New York, NY 10003, Attn: Office of the General Counsel.

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