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Last updated: October 29, 2022

DEFINITIONS

As used in these Terms of Service (“Terms of Service”, “Terms”) to guide you:

“Website”, “app”, “site”, “application”, “PWA”, “Progressive Web Application”, “Service” means this platform

“User”, “You”, “Client”, “Customer” means any individual who accesses the Services, individually or on behalf of their Organization as a team member;

“Data” means any information collected from individuals, generally, apply to any information;

“Personal Data” means any personal information collected from an individual that identifies a natural person concerning an identified or identifiable natural person (i.e. e-mail, date of birth, name).

“GDPR” refers to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

“CODER.EARTH”, “we”, “us”, “me” and “our” refer to ŁUKASZ MAKUCH

OVERVIEW

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from this site.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including but not limited to the information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
- “Local Storage”, “Session Storage”, “IndexedDB” and other web platform mechanisms are used to identify you and provide you the service
- “OAuth”, “OpenID” and similar technologies are used to identify you by obtaining your e-mail address and your unique user identifier.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (sometimes including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

In order to provide you the service, we collect information about every single operation you perform on the site, even if you undo them.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

USE OF GOOGLE USER DATA

This application accesses, uses, and stores Google user data such as the unique identifier of the Google user, their e-mail address and full name. We do it in order to accurately identify the user so that we can provide them with the Service. Sometimes the collected data may be used to communicate with them, for instance to inform them about changes applied to the service and/or new offers.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to provide the service and fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Stripe to process payments -- you can read more about how Stripe uses your Personal Information here: https://stripe.com/en-pl/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at hello@coder.earth or by mail using the details provided below: