Last updated: March 2024
The following is for general website/mobile application (the “Site”) usage information and. 9th Stratum Publishing LLC (“Company,” “We,” “Us” or “Our”) created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate Our firm commitment to disclosing Our current policies regarding privacy and the confidentiality of Your personal information. In addition, We take further measures to enhance the protection of privacy and personally identifiable information, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information, which may include Your Personal Data, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please contact Us via information@stratum-nine.com if You have questions about Our privacy practices that are not addressed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the Terms and Conditions made available on the Site. By using the Services, You agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree with or You are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, You should immediately stop using the Services. All capitalized terms used herein and not specifically defined shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Policy applies to information We collect:
When You interact with Our advertising and applications via third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personally Identifiable Information
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (i.e., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit(s), the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. This information is typically collected to facilitate the Services We provide. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device. Your activity and interaction with Our Application will be monitored and used by Our software to improve the Service and machine learning services.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, APIs, pixels, scripts and local storage to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technology We use may include, but is not limited:
Cookies can be “Persistent Cookies” or “Session Cookies”. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about Cookies on Terms Feed website.
We use both Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features, as well as to enable Us to be compliant with legal obligations. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user Accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services while remaining legally compliant.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow Us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering Your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter Your preferences every time You use the Website. These Cookies also enable Our Services to function properly by providing fonts and enabling Users to view the Website as intended.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify You as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device You use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how Our users react to them.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to (and maintained on) computers located outside of Your state 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 Company 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.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (i.e., a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in good faith if We believe that such action is necessary to:
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is one hundred per cent 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of Our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made Your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. You may opt-out of certain Google Analytics features through Your mobile device settings, such as Your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy:https://policies.google.com/privacy. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us. We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You. Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Payments
We provide paid products within the Service. As a result, We will use the third-party services of Stripe as Our payment processor. We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. The Authorize.net Privacy Policy can be viewed athttps://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy.html.
Behavioral Remarketing
The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed or visited Our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how You use Our Service so that We can improve Our Service to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:
Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:
You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for more information. We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on Our Service with these third-party vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.
Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous
We may use third-party Service Providers to provide better improvement of Our Service. We use an invisible captcha service named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google. The reCAPTCHA service may collect information from You and from Your Device for security purposes. The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google:https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights. You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that We may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try Our best to respond to You as soon as possible. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
CCPA Privacy
This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which We may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months. Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by Us but reflects Our good faith belief to the best of Our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Age (forty (40) years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Collected: No.
Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Collected: No.
Examples: Interaction with Our Service or advertisement.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Approximate physical location.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Collected: No.
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Collected: No.
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
Collected: No.
Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Collected: No.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how We use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section. If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes We will update this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed but reflects Our good faith belief to the best of Our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been used or disclosed. When We disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Sale of Personal Information
As defined in the CCPA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer's personal information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit. Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold but reflects Our good faith belief to the best of Our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return. We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:
Share of Personal Information
We may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under (sixteen) 16 Years of Age
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than (sixteen) 16 years of age.
Your Rights under the CCPA
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:
Only You, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.
Your request to Us must:
We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if We cannot:
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within forty-five (45) days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional forty-five (45) days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice. Any disclosures We provide will only cover the twelve (12)-month period preceding the verifiable request's receipt. For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily usable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
We do not sell personal information. In the event that We would do so, You would have the right to opt out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from You, We will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to opt-out please contact Us. The Service Providers We partner with (for example, Our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If You wish to opt out of the use of Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, You may do so by following the instructions below. Please note that any opt-out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that You use.
Website
You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by Our Service Providers by following Our instructions presented on the Service:
The opt-out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If You change browsers or delete the cookies saved by Your browser, You will need to opt out again.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third-party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for the Use by children. The Service will not knowingly collect and store persistent identifiers such as cookies or IP addresses from Children in the event any Children obtain access.
Your California Privacy Rights (California's “Shine the Light” law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with Us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. If You would like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of eighteen (18) who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted. The Service does not authorize individuals under the age of eighteen (18) to access the Services.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service will contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. Theseother sites’ privacy practices may differ from Ours. If You submit Personal Information to any of those sites, Your information is governed by their Privacy Policy. We encourage You to carefully read the Privacy Policy of any site You visit.
The Website presently has or may have in the future, links to social media pages on Our website including, but not limited to, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. Please check their Privacy Policy and terms of conditions before visiting their website mentioned below.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/about/basics/privacy-principles
YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Instagram: https://privacycenterinstagram.com/policy
Data Security
The safety and security of Your information also depends on You. Where We have given You (or where You have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Application, You are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask You not to shareYour password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although We doOur best to protect Your personal information, We cannot guarantee the security of Your personal information transmitted to the Application. Any transmission of personal information is at Your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in the Application. By using the Website, You agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless in any event regarding Your transmission of data or Your use of the Application under this section.
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 Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” 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 they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us via email: information@stratum-nine.com.