1. Who we are
The AltcoinBeacon (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the altcoinbeacon.com website (the “Website”) under whole ownership provision of Legendary Labs Pty Ltd ACN 682 746 372.
2. About this privacy notice
We use your data to provide and improve the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms & Conditions accessible from The AltcoinBeacon.
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 hereinafter “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. From time to time 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 will receive information in connection with those experiences. Their privacy policy will govern the collection of your personal data, in addition to this Privacy Policy.
3. 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 let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website, prior to the change becoming effective by updating the published date of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Please come back and check from time to time for the latest information on our privacy practices.
4. What personal data we collect and how
4.1 Personal data you provide to us.
We collect data you provide directly to us. Account data. If you sign up for an AltcoinBeacon account (“Account”), we will collect data you give us related to your Account, including your name, email address, username and password. Purchase data. If you make a purchase from a third party after clicking on an affiliate link through The AltcoinBeacon, we will receive data about the purchase for the purpose of managing 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 us with feedback, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Website.
4.2 Data that indirectly identifies you and automatically collected 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 you interact 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 also 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.
4.3 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 Website, such as providing you with a version of our Website that is localized to your country, we link location data to other information we have collected about you in order to do so.
4.4 Special category data.
When we conduct research 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 our collection, use, or sharing of this data as required by law.
5. Aggregated data
5.1 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.
5.2 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 in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
6. How we collect personal data
6.1 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.
6.2 We automatically collect personal data when you interact with our Website. We collect information about your devices and browsing actions and interests by using cookies and similar technologies. Our “Cookies policy” section provides more details on how this works.
6.3 Third parties who provide advertising and related Website (such as analytics providers and ad networks) may give us your personal data so that we can compare it to personal data we hold in order to determine if you are the same individual (this is sometimes called “cookie-matching”). We may collect data from unaffiliated third parties so we can better understand you and provide you with information and offers that may be of interest to you. For example, we may receive information about your interests or preferences as well as contact information, such as email address.
6.4 If you access our Website using your Facebook or Google credentials, we will automatically collect certain information, such as your Facebook or Google user ID. We will use any information collected from Facebook or Google, including the user ID Facebook or Google attribute to you, only in accordance with Facebook’s or Google’s policies and your preferences selected through Facebook or Google.
7. 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 to respond to your comments, questions and customer service requests;
Communicate with you about products, Website, offers, and events offered by The AltcoinBeacon 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 The AltcoinBeacon and others.
8. Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The AltcoinBeacon will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with 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.
9. Third-Party Sites
9.1 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 data about you. 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 protections necessary to protect yourself when accessing Third-Party Sites, particularly when downloading or purchasing anything therefrom.
9.2 The Website may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on our Website with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of 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 provided by the social media platforms to help us to understand how people interact with our social media presence, to identify trends and to carry out joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote certain content.
We also use the analytics tools provided by the social media platforms to help us to understand how people interact with our social media presence, to identify trends and to carry out joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote certain content.
We receive aggregated statistical information from social media platforms about the performance of our posts and promoted content, such as numbers of views and kinds of viewers. This data is aggregated and anonymized by the social media platform prior to 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 the social media platforms. For example, we may use the “Promoted Pins” tool on Pinterest to promote editorial or paid content to visitors to Pinterest. Again, we receive from the social media platforms only aggregated statistical information about interactions with our ads and paid content, such as number of views, number of times shared and so on.
We process information provided to us by the social media platforms on the basis of our legitimate interest in interacting with our audience on social media and using social media to promote our content.
10. Cookie policy
10.1 What is “cookie”
Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server during a browsing session. Cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used by web sites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. The use of cookies automatically identifies your browser whenever you interact with a site. When we talk about “cookies” in this Privacy Policy, we mean not just cookies, but all 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 that allow you to disable cookies on sites and apps. If you disable cookies you may not be able to access all the features of our Website. We suggest that you 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 when you close your web browser. Session cookies are used to ensure you are served content correctly, to balance and monitor 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, or at all, if you do.
Consent cookies are used by our consent management platform we employ to record your preferences about third party cookies described below, and to store and share your preference 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 by third parties who process data for us 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. 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 Website 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.
10.2 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 links 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 to you and to target you with tailored (or personalized) ads when you are using the Website and when you 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 activities elsewhere online. 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 by 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 at any time by returning there.
