Last Updated: March 19, 2024
Abyiss LLC, operating under the name Abyiss ("Abyiss", "the Company", "we", "us", "our") is committed to safeguarding your ("you", "your") privacy and providing you with this updated Privacy Policy (this "Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and manage the information gathered when you use or access our website, products, services, or applications that refer to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services"). Your use of the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service, demonstrating our pledge to protect your privacy rights.
By using or accessing our Site, Products, or Services or engaging with us, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") outlines our general practices for protecting your Personal Data on the Abyiss.com website and associated services (collectively, "the Site"). It includes the kinds of information we collect, how we utilize it, and the choices you have regarding our use of your Personal Data. Personal Data refers to any information that can be used to identify you specifically. Anonymized information that cannot be used to identify a specific individual, and which may be used for any legal purpose, does not fall within the scope of Personal Data.
Abyiss LLC reserves the right to modify this Policy at any given time and will do so periodically. Each modification will become effective upon its publication to the Site. Your continued usage of the Site following any such modification signifies your acceptance of any changes to this Policy. It's therefore crucial that you review this Policy on a regular basis. If you have any inquiries concerning this Policy, please contact us at support@abyiss.com. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, you are advised to deactivate your account and cease using the Services.
Blockchain Participants
Please note that by virtue of the public nature of the blockchain, the holdings and transactions associated with your cryptocurrency wallet address will be publicly available and accessible to third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, your public sending address (including, but not limited to, cryptographically secure non-fungible tokens, and other blockchain based tokens), the public address of the receiver, the amount sent or received, and any other data a user has chosen to include in a given transaction. Information stored on the blockchain may not be able to be modified or deleted due to the immutable nature of the blockchain. Transactions and addresses may reveal information about the user's identity and information can potentially be correlated now or in the future by any party who chooses to do so. Please consider how privacy and transparency on the blockchain works.
Coverage
This Policy encompasses the entirety of the Site. However, it does not extend to entities not owned or controlled by Abyiss LLC, which includes advertisers or content developers. The Company may incorporate links to third-party sites on the Site. These third-party sites operate under their own privacy policies, not under this Policy. As such, we bear no responsibility or liability for the content and activities on these third-party sites. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party site you engage with, both on and off the Site.
1. OUR GATHERING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We gather personal information in relation to your visit to and utilization of the Service. This collection comprises of information you provide while using the Service, data from third parties, and information gathered automatically such as via the use of cookies and other technologies.
Personal Information Gathered from Individuals
The following personal information may be gathered from individuals who submit to us via the Services:
Account Details. To use specific aspects of our developer platform or governance portal Services, you may need to create an account for the Services. This may involve collecting your email address, social media handle, and when applicable, public blockchain address associated with your crypto wallet (refer to Crypto Wallets section below for more information). We may also collect your usernames and passwords for using our developer platform Services. We utilize this information to manage your account, provide the relevant services and information, communicate with you about your account, the Service, and for customer support.
Token Details. Should you choose to trade using our Services, we may receive certain token transaction and event-related information, including your public blockchain address associated with your self-hosted crypto wallet, types of crypto wallets, quantities of digital assets and token balances, token ownership data, and other transaction and event-related information (e.g., transfers of digital tokens between wallets, the corresponding smart contracts, paid amounts, and metadata describing the transaction, and/or properties of a digital asset).
Interactions. If you engage with us through any paper or electronic form (i.e., a “contact us” form, email), we may gather your name, email address, phone number, or any other personal information you choose to give us. We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, to communicate with you, to enhance the services we provide to our users, and to manage and grow our business.
Marketing Emails. Should you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you regular updates about the Service, such as information about new opportunities available. We use this information to manage our communications with you and send you details about products and services we believe you may find interesting. If you wish to stop receiving email messages from us, simply click the “unsubscribe link” provided at the bottom of the email communication. Please note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain service-related email communications (e.g., account verification, confirmations of transactions, technical or legal notices).
Event and Webcast Details, including registration information, call-in specifics, attendee badge data, company information, and contact details. We use this data to administer and facilitate the Services and improve and expand our business.
User Content. You may upload or transmit audio, videos, images, data, or information through your communications with us, your posts in the forum, and when you use the Services in other ways (collectively, "User Content"). We may collect this information, and details about this content, such as when you created this content, along with other information about you, including your social media handle and crypto wallet details. Please note that Abyiss LLC may, but is not obligated to, monitor, record, and store User Content to protect your safety or the safety of other users, assist with regulatory or law enforcement efforts, or to protect and defend our rights and property. For more information, please see our Terms of Service.
Employment Application Details, including your contact and demographic data, educational and work history, employment interests, information obtained during interviews, and any other information you choose to provide, if you apply for a job with us.
Automatically Collected Personal Information
Much like most digital platforms, we, along with our third-party providers, may automatically gather personal information from your device, browsing behaviors, and website usage patterns when you visit or interact with our Services. This information may include log data (e.g., internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, browser ID, the entered URL and the referring page/campaign, date/time of the visit, the duration spent on our Services, and any errors that might occur during your visit to our Services), analytics data (e.g., the digital path you took to access our Service, through our Services, and when exiting our Service, as well as your usage and activity on our Service) and location data (such as your general geographic location based on the log data we or our third-party providers collect).
To manage cookies, you may modify your browser settings to: (i) notify you when you receive a cookie, allowing you to choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) automatically reject cookies. Please be aware that doing so might negatively affect your experience using our Services, as some features and services may not function properly or at all. Depending on your device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. Furthermore, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you will need to do so on each browser on each device you actively use. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.
For more information about these practices and your choices regarding cookies, please refer to our Cookie Notice.
Personal Information from Third Parties
We also acquire personal information from third parties, which we frequently integrate with the personal information we collect either automatically or directly from you.
We may receive the same categories of personal information as described above from the following third parties:
Other Users or Individuals who Interact with our Services: We may receive your information from other users or individuals who interact with our Services. For instance, if you participate in one of our communities hosted on third-party platforms, such as Discord, we can view any public communications made within that platform.
Business Partners: Your information may come to us from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products and/or services through our Service.
Social Media or Third-party Platforms: When you interact with our Services through various social media networks, like when you follow us on Twitter or other social networks, we may receive some information about you that the social network allows to be shared with third parties. The data we receive is dependent on your privacy settings with the social network, and may include your profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, and any other information you allow the social network to share with third parties. You should always review and, if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before linking or connecting them to other services.
Crypto Wallets: When you connect your crypto wallets such as MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet, we receive information such as your wallet address, crypto wallet types (including amounts and balances), and any related transaction and technical information associated with your crypto wallet address, including network information regarding transactions. We use this information to manage your account and provide you with the relevant Service.
Service Providers: Our service providers perform services solely on our behalf, such as marketing providers, collecting personal information and often sharing some or all of this information with us.
Information from Other Sources: We may also collect personal information about individuals from other sources like publicly available sources such as permissionless blockchains, third-party data providers, blockchain analytics providers, customers, third-party digital wallet providers, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. This information may include contact information, social media account information, general location, domains, crypto wallet address and related information, token ownership information (e.g., transfers of tokens between wallets), the corresponding smart contracts transactions paid and metadata describing each transaction and its properties as a digital asset, transaction recipient information, interest-in-services information, and employment-related information. We may integrate this information with the information we collect from you directly. We use this information to provide the Services, contact individuals, process employment applications and screen job applicants, send advertising or promotional materials or personalize our Services, and better understand the demographics of the individuals with whom we interact.
2. OUR USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the personal information we collect to:
Fulfill or meet the reason for which the information was provided, such as to fulfill our contractual obligations, or to deliver the Services; Manage our business and its everyday operations; Authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in and/or ensure the security of your account; Communicate with individuals, including via email and social media; Invite individuals to complete surveys about our company and the Services; For marketing and advertising purposes, including to market to you or offer you updates on products or services we think that you may be interested in through email; Enable you to communicate and share files with users you designate; Test, improve, update, and monitor the Services, or diagnose or fix technology problems; Facilitate customer benefits and services, including customer support through our command center services; Identify and analyze how individuals use our Services; Conduct research and analytics on our customer and user base and our Services; Improve and personalize our Services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with; Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets, and business; Evaluate your candidacy for employment, communicate with you during the application process, and facilitate the onboarding process if you are applying for employment; Fulfill or enforce our legal or contractual obligations and requirements (including in relation to our Terms of Service), resolve disputes, carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties; Audit transactions conducted in connection with our services; Prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud, or unlawful or criminal activity; or For any other lawful purpose, or other purpose that you consent to or for which you provide your information.
If you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill your request or respond to your inquiries. We may provide you with additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or the personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information you provided at that time.
3. OUR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We disclose personal information in the following ways:
Affiliates: We may share personal information with other companies owned or controlled by Abyiss, and other companies owned by or under common ownership as Abyiss, which also includes our subsidiaries (i.e., any organization we own or control) or our ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that owns or controls us) and any subsidiaries it owns. This is particularly applicable when we collaborate in providing the Services.
Blockchain Participants: If you participate in our Services, due to the public nature of the blockchain, the holdings and transactions associated with your crypto wallet address will be publicly available and accessible to blockchain participants and other third parties, as well as any other information you choose to provide or make public.
Contests, Sweepstakes, and Survey Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in delivering our contests, sweepstakes, or survey offerings and processing the responses.
Ad Networks and Advertising Partners: We work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on our Services, on other websites and services, and across other devices. These parties may collect information directly from a browser or device when an individual visits our Services through cookies or other data collection technologies. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information.
Marketing Providers: We coordinate and share personal information with our marketing providers in order to communicate with individuals about the Services we make available.
Customer Service and Communication Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in providing our customer services and facilitating our communications with individuals that submit inquiries.
Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, IT services, analytics services, conducting cryptocurrency transactions, employment application-related services, payment processing services, and administrative services.
Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may participate in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement: in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process; to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies; to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud; to protect the health and safety of us and others; or as otherwise required by applicable law.
With Your Consent: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with their consent or direction. For example, with an individual's consent or direction we may post their testimonial on our Sites or service-related publications.
4. CONTROL OVER YOUR INFORMATION
You may control your information in the following ways:
Email Communications Preferences: You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in such communications. You may not opt-out of service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices).
Modifying or Deleting Your Information: If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at support@abyiss.com. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances, especially in relation to information on the blockchain.
5. CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Services are not directed to, and we do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 16. If an individual is under the age of 16, they should not use our Services or otherwise provide us with any personal information either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 16 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child's parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. If we learn that any personal information, we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly delete that personal information.
6. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES OR SERVICES
Our Services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Except where we post, link to or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.
7. REGION-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES
Nevada: If you are a resident of the State of Nevada, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. Although we do not currently sell covered information, please contact us at support@abyiss.com with the subject line “Nevada Opt Out Request” to submit such a request.
European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland: If you are located in European Economic Area (Member States of the European Union together with Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please see the Additional European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland Privacy Disclosures section for additional European-specific privacy disclosures.
8. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify individuals by email to their registered email address, by prominent posting on our Services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.
9. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to support@abyiss.com. Abyiss LLC, registration number 85-3292267, is committed to addressing any inquiries or concerns you may have regarding the handling of your personal information.
ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND SWITZERLAND PRIVACY DISCLOSURES
These Additional Disclosures set out information about how we use your personal data when you access our Service from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom ("UK"), and Switzerland. Please ensure that you have read and understood these Privacy Disclosures before you access or use the Services.
Personal Data: When we use the term “personal data” in these Privacy Disclosures, we mean information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Controller: Abyiss LLC, a company duly incorporated and organized under the laws of United States of America is the “controller” responsible for the processing of personal data in connection with our Services. This means that we determine and are responsible for how your personal data is used.
Legal Bases for Processing
We only process and retain your personal information as permitted under applicable law. For example, we will only process your information where we have established a lawful basis to do, as follows:
When it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party, or to take steps at your request prior to agreeing a contract: This applies to any processing where you sign a contract with us, for example when you become our customer, participate in our affiliate or premium partner program, or deliver services to us as a vendor or contractor. This may also include our Terms of Service.
We have a legitimate interest which we believe outweighs your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. This applies to the following processing activities: When we communicate with you: To respond to your inquiries and, on some occasions, keep records in case of complaints or legal claims. When you use our Services: To respond to your inquiries and, on some occasions, keep records in case of complaints or legal claims.
When you access and use our Services, we process technical and analytics data to see if and how our Services can be improved, so that we can offer you a better user experiences in the future. Global Suppression List: Avoid contacting you again if you have withdrawn your consent to marketing-related activities. Marketing to existing customers (unless you have consented to such marketing): To find, customize and offer products and services we hope you find useful and relevant, i.e., provide you with excellent customer service. Sharing personal information with other parties: To run our business efficiently and securely. Your consent: Wherever you clearly consent to the processing, for example
when you sign up for our newsletters or events. Here, your consent is implied, meaning that you consent by submitting a particular form. We also rely on your consent for using cookies and other technologies on our website and here you explicitly agree to these. Note that your default setting depends on your location (country), as the rules for using such technologies vary across jurisdictions. We are subject to a legal obligation: For any processing where we need to comply with laws and regulations related to bookkeeping, accounting, taxation and employment, for example for keeping records.
Data Retention
We will usually store the personal information we collect about you for no longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, and in accordance with our legitimate business interests and applicable law. For example, if your personal information is subject to the EU GDPR or UK GDPR, the criteria used to determine the period for which personal data about you will be retained varies depending on the legal basis under which we process the personal data:
Contract. Where we are processing personal data is based on contract, we generally will retain your personal data for the duration of the contract plus some additional limited period of time that is necessary to comply with law or that represents the statute of limitations for legal claims that could arise from our contractual relationship.
Legitimate Interests. Where we are processing personal data based on our legitimate interests, we generally will retain such information for a reasonable period of time based on the particular interest, taking into account your fundamental interests and your rights and freedoms.
Consent. Where we are processing personal data based on your consent, we generally will retain your personal data until you withdraw your consent, or otherwise for the period of time necessary to fulfill the underlying agreement with you or provide you with the applicable service for which we process that personal data.
Legal Obligation. Where we are processing personal data based on a legal obligation, we generally will retain your personal data for the period of time necessary to fulfill the legal obligation.
Legal Claim. We may need to apply a “legal hold” that retains information beyond our typical retention period where we face threat of legal claim or intent to establish a claim. In that case, we will retain the information until the hold is removed, which typically means the claim or threat of claim has been resolved.
In all cases, in addition to the purposes and legal bases, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data.
Storing and Transferring Your Personal Information
Security. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, change or damage. We will never send you unsolicited emails or contact you by phone requesting your account ID, password, credit or debit card information or national identification numbers.
International Transfers of Your Personal Information. The personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the jurisdiction you are in where we and our third-party service providers have operations, including in the United States. If you are accessing our Services from the EEA, UK or Switzerland, your personal information will be processed outside of the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
In the event of such a transfer, we ensure that: (i) the personal information is transferred to countries recognized as offering an equivalent level of protection; or (ii) the transfer is made pursuant to appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. If you wish to enquire further about these safeguards used, please contact us using the details set out at the end of this Privacy Notice.
Marketing and Advertising
From time to time, we may contact you with information about our services, including sending you marketing messages and asking for your feedback on our services. Most marketing messages we send will be by email. For some marketing messages, we may use personal data we collect about you to help us determine the most relevant marketing information to share with you.
We will only send you such messages if you have given us your consent to do so. You can withdraw your consent at a later date by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our marketing emails or by contacting us at support@abyiss.com.
Profiling
We may analyze personal data we have collected about you to create a profile of your interests and preferences to help us better understand and improve your use of the services, and so that we can contact you with information that is relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively send product updates. We may also use personal data about you to detect and reduce fraud. The entering of personal data in our systems is optional and occurs only if consent is given to one of the purposes detailed in the Our Collection and Use of Personal Information section of the Privacy Notice; it automatically implies that Abyiss LLC personnel across the world, tasked with data processing, will be able to view the data, as well as to change and to update it.
Your Rights in Respect of Your Personal Information
In accordance with applicable privacy law, you have the following rights in respect of your personal information that we hold:
(a). Right of access. You have the right to obtain: (i) confirmation of whether, and where, we are processing your personal information; (ii) information about the categories of personal information we are processing, the purposes for which we process your personal information and information as to how we determine applicable retention periods; (iii) information about the categories of recipients with whom we may share your personal information; and (iv) a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
(b). Right of portability. You have the right, in certain circumstances, to receive a copy of the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that supports re-use, or to request the transfer of your personal data to another person.
(c). Right to rectification. You have the right to obtain rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you without undue delay.
(d). Right to erasure. You have the right, in some circumstances, to require us to erase your personal information without undue delay if the continued processing of that personal information is not justified.
(e). Right to restriction. You have the right, in some circumstances, to require us to limit the purposes for which we process your personal information if the continued processing of the personal information in this way is not justified, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you.
(f). Right to withdraw consent. There are certain circumstances where we require your consent to process your personal information. In these instances, and if you have provided consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal information before your withdrawal.
You have the right to provide instructions regarding the retention, deletion and disclosure of your personal information after your death. In the absence of instructions from you, it is possible for your heirs to request the disclosure or deletion of your personal information.
You also have the right to object to any processing based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your particular situation. There may be compelling reasons for continuing to process your personal information, and we will assess and inform you if that is the case. You can object to marketing activities for any reason.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. If you are based in the European Union, information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available here. If you are based in the UK or Switzerland, your local data protection authorities are the UK Information Commissioner's Office and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner If you wish to exercise one of these rights, we kindly ask you to contact us at support@abyiss.com. Due to the confidential nature of data processing we may ask you to provide proof of identity when exercising the above rights. This can be done by providing a scanned copy of a valid identity document or a signed photocopy of a valid identity document.
Cookies and Similar Technologies Used on Our Services
Our Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels and Local Storage Objects (LSOs) like HTML5 (together “cookies”) to distinguish you from other users of our Services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Services and also allows us to monitor and analyze how you use and interact with our Services so that we can continue to improve our Services. It also helps us and our partners to determine products and services that may be of interest to you. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information about these practices and your choices regarding cookies.
Tracking Technologies Used in Our Emails
Our emails may contain tracking pixels that identify if and when you have opened an email that we have sent you, how many times you have read it and whether you have clicked on any links in that email. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our marketing email campaigns, make the emails we send to you more relevant to your interests and to understand if you have opened and read any important administrative emails, we might send you. Most popular email clients will allow you to block these pixels by disabling certain external images in emails. You can do this through the settings on your email client - these generally give you the option of choosing whether emails will display "remote images", "remote content" or "images" by default. Some browsers also give you the option of downloading and installing extensions that block pixels and other tracking technologies.
Processing Method
Personal data will be processed with IT-based tools and/or processed manually for the length of time needed to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. In particular, personal data collected for the purposes outlined in the Our Collection and Use of Personal Information section of the Privacy Notice will also be processed with the usage of automated mechanisms based on procedures and logics that are strictly related to the purposes specified.
Cookie Notice
Last Updated: June 25, 2023
Unless otherwise expressly stated, terms in this notice have the same meaning as defined in the Privacy Notice.
1. SCOPE OF NOTICE
This Cookie Notice supplements the information contained in the Privacy Notice and explains how we and our business partners and service providers use cookies and related technologies in the course of managing and providing our online services and our electronic communication to you. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies and related technologies described in this Cookie Notice to collect personal information, or to collect information that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. For more details about how we process your personal information, please review the Privacy Notice.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
As is common practice among websites, our Services use cookies, which are tiny files downloaded to your device that allow us and our third-party partners to collect certain information about your interactions with our email communications, websites and other online services, and that improve your experience. We and our third-party partners and providers may also use other, related technologies to collect this information, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, `“cookies”`).
We use the following types of cookies:
(a) Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the Services function. The legal basis for our use of strictly necessary cookies is our legitimate interests, namely being able to provide and maintain our Services.
(b) Functional cookies. These enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. The legal basis for our use of functionality cookies is our legitimate interests, namely being able to provide and maintain our Services.
(c) Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our Services, and to see how visitors move around our Services when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our Services work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. If you are accessing our Services with a European IP address, you have been asked to consent to the use of these cookies. You are free to deny your consent.
(d) Targeting cookies.Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Services, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are used to track visitors across our Services. If you are accessing our Services with a European IP address, you have been asked to consent to the use of these cookies. You are free to deny your consent.
3. WHAT WE COLLECT WHEN USING COOKIES
We and our third-party partners and providers may use cookies to automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit or interact with our email communications and Services. For example, we may collect log data about your device and its software, such as your IP address, operating system, browser type, date/time of your visit, and other similar information. Our emails may also contain tracking pixels that identify if and when you have opened an email that we have sent you, how many times you have read it and whether you have clicked on any links in that email. We may also collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools to help us measure usage and activity trends for our online services and better understand our customer base. We also may collect location data, including general geographic location based on IP address or more precise location data when a user accesses our online services through a mobile device.
When you access our Services from a mobile device, we may collect unique identification numbers associated with your device or our mobile application (including, for example, a UDID, Unique ID for Advertisers (“IDFA”), Google AdID, or Windows Advertising ID), mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, phone number, and depending on your mobile device settings, your geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (e.g., latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device, or we may be able to approximate a device's location by analyzing other information, like an IP address.
We may also include or engage in the following as part of our Services:
Social Media Widgets and Advertising. Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.
Social Media Platforms. We may display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media forums. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. We may share a unique identifier, such as a user ID or hashed email address, with these platform providers or they may collect information from our website visitors through a first-party pixel, in order to direct targeted advertising to you or to a custom audience on the social media platform. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them. If you do not want to receive targeted ads on your social networks, you may be able to adjust your advertising preferences through your settings on those networks.
Third Party Partners. We work with a variety of third-party partners to provide advertising services. For example, we use Google Analytics to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our Services on your browser or mobile device, log in to your account on our Services, or otherwise engage with us. We share a unique identifier, like a user ID or hashed email address, with Google to facilitate the service. Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our users interact with our Services and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google's website, “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can learn about Google Analytics' currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Services. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, or by visiting NAI's online resources at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
You can learn more about our analytics providers' practices at the following URLs:
Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Microsoft Clarity: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement
SumSub: https://sumsub.com/privacy-notice/
4. HOW WE USE INFORMATION COLLECTED VIA COOKIES
We use cookies for a variety of reasons outlined below:
If you create an account with us, we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain in order to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember you. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
The Services offer newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
The Services may offer payment capabilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data through a form, such as those found on the contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In order to provide you with a great experience on the Services, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the Services run when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a website page.
We use cookies to provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Services, monitor online usage and activities of our Services, and facilitate the purposes identified in the How We Use Your Personal Information section of our Privacy Notice.
We may also use the information we collect through cookies to understand your browsing activities, including across unaffiliated third-party sites, so that we can deliver information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
Tracking technology used in emails helps us measure the effectiveness of our marketing email campaigns, make the emails we send to you more relevant to your interests and help us understand if you have opened and how you interacted with our email.
Please note that we link some of the personal information we collect through cookies with the other personal information that we collect about you and for the purposes described in our Privacy Notice.
5. YOUR CHOICES ABOUT COOKIES
If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to change the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser to: (i) notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Be aware that disabling cookies may negatively affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionalities and features of the Services.
Depending on your device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. In addition, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you will need to do so on each browser on each device you actively use. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.
Online Ads: To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) resources and/or the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) online resources, at https://www.aboutads.info/choices, orhttps://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/, or if you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland:https://youronlinechoices.eu/. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some — but not all — interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by visiting https://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.
Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third parties' opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA's Principles.
If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you may take advantage of Your Online Choices. This service allows you to select tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. As such, it is recommended that you make use of this resource in addition to the information provided in this document.
6. OTHER
By using the Site, you consent to having your personal information and data transferred to and processed in the United States. Please contact us with any questions or concerns regarding our policy at this address: support@abyiss.com.