Privacy Policy

Stored. Tech LtdPrivacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is Stored. Tech Ltd's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including via our platform, Stored., and its associated services.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth),your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use an app or online service.

In the event our platform contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our platform.

This policy is effective as of 10 January 2024.

Last updated: 10 January 2024

Information We Collect

Information we collect falls into one of two categories: “voluntarily provided” information and“automatically collected” information.

“Voluntarily provided”information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using our app and its associated services.

“Automatically collected”information refers to any information automatically sent by your device in the course of accessing our app and its associated services.

Log Data

When you access our servers via our platform, we may automatically log the standard data provided by your device. It may include your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your device type and version, your activity within the platform, time and date, and other details about your usage.

Additionally, when you encounter certain errors while using the platform, we automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying todo when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information — for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter, marketing emails, or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone Number

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

  • Register for an account
  • Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys
  • Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
  • Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
  • Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
  • When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

  • to provide you with our app and platform's core features and services
  • to enable you to customise or personalise your experience of our website
  • to contact and communicate with you
  • for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our app, associated     applications, and associated social media platforms
  • for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and     information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
  • to enable you to access and use our app, associated platforms, and associated social media channels
  • to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
  • for technical assessment, including to operate and improve our app, associated platforms, and associated social media     platforms

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, If you consent to us accessing your social media profiles, we may combine information sourced from those profiles with information received from you directly to provide you with an enhanced experience of our app and services.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information as part of creating an account with us, we may retain this information for the duration your account exists on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

  • a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
  • third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation)     IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
  • our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
  • our existing or potential agents or business partners
  • sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
  • credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or     services we have provided to you
  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
  • third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
  • third parties to collect and process data
  • an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business

Third parties we currentlyuse include:

  • Google Analytics
  • Sendinblue
  • Webflow

International Transfers of Personal Information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in Netherlands, or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities.

The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our app, associated platform or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.

Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you.

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example serving particular content to your device), we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

Use of Cookies

Our privacy policy covers the use of cookies between your device and our servers. A cookie is a smallpiece of data that an app may store on your device, typically containing a unique identifier that allows the app servers to recognise your device when youuse the app; information about your account, session and/or device; additional data that serves the purpose of the cookie, and any self-maintenance information about the cookie itself.

We use cookies to giveyour device access to core features of our app, to track app usage andperformance on your device, to tailor your experience of our app based on yourpreferences, and to serve advertising to your device. Any communication ofcookie data between your device and our servers occurs within a secureenvironment.

Please refer to our CookiePolicy for more information.

Business Transfers

If we or our assets areacquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enterbankruptcy, we would include data, including your personal information, amongthe assets transferred to any parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that suchtransfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may, to the extentpermitted by applicable law, continue to use your personal informationaccording to this policy, which they will be required to assume as it is thebasis for any ownership or use rights we have over such information.

Limits of Our Policy

Our app may link toexternal sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have nocontrol over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot acceptresponsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we maychange our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, currentacceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide tochange this privacy policy, we will post the changes here and on our website.

If the changes aresignificant, or if required by applicable law, we will contact you (based onyour selected preferences for communications from us) and all our registeredusers with the new details and links to the updated or changed policy.

If required by law, wewill get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt outof, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

 

Additional Disclosures for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Compliance (EU)

Data Controller / Data Processor

The GDPR distinguishesbetween organisations that process personal information for their own purposes(known as “data controllers”) and organisations that process personalinformation on behalf of other organisations (known as “data processors”). We,Stored. Tech Ltd, located at the address provided in our Contact Us section,are a Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide tous.

Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information

We will only collect anduse your personal information when we have a legal right to do so. In whichcase, we will collect and use your personal information lawfully, fairly, andin a transparent manner. If we seek your consent to process your personal information,and you are under 16 years of age, we will seek your parent or legal guardian’sconsent to process your personal information for that specific purpose.

Our lawful bases depend onthe services you use and how you use them. This means we only collect and useyour information on the following grounds:

Consent From You

Where you give us consentto collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose. You maywithdraw your consent at any time using the facilities we provide; however thiswill not affect any use of your information that has already taken place. Youmay consent to providing your name and contact details for the purpose ofentering a giveaway or promotion. While you may withdraw your entry at anytime, this will not affect any selection or judging that has already takenplace. If you have any further enquiries about how to withdraw your consent,please feel free to enquire using the details provided in the Contact Ussection of this privacy policy.

Performance of a Contract or Transaction

Where you have enteredinto a contract or transaction with us, or in order to take preparatory stepsprior to our entering into a contract or transaction with you. For example, weneed technical information about your device in order to provide the essentialfeatures of our platform.

Our Legitimate Interests

Where we assess it isnecessary for our legitimate interests, such as for us to provide, operate,improve and communicate our services. For example, we collect technicalinformation about your device in order to improve and personalise yourexperience of our app and associated platforms. We consider our legitimateinterests to include research and development, understanding our audience,marketing and promoting our services, measures taken to operate our servicesefficiently, marketing analysis, and measures taken to protect our legal rightsand interests.

Compliance with Law

In some cases, we may havea legal obligation to use or keep your personal information. Such cases mayinclude (but are not limited to) court orders, criminal investigations,government requests, and regulatory obligations. If you have any further enquiriesabout how we retain personal information in order to comply with the law,please feel free to enquire using the details provided in the Contact Ussection of this privacy policy.

International Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)

We will ensure that anytransfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area(EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards,for example by using standard data protection clauses approved by the EuropeanCommission, or the use of binding corporate rules or other legally acceptedmeans.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Restrict: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing ofyour personal information if (i) you are concerned about the accuracy of yourpersonal information; (ii) you believe your personal information has beenunlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain the personal informationsolely for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv) we are in the process ofconsidering your objection in relation to processing on the basis of legitimateinterests.

Objecting toprocessing: You have the right to object to processing ofyour personal information that is based on our legitimate interests or publicinterest. If this is done, we must provide compelling legitimate grounds forthe processing which overrides your interests, rights, and freedoms, in orderto proceed with the processing of your personal information.

Dataportability: You may have the right to request a copy ofthe personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will providethis information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You mayalso have the right to request that we transfer this personal information to athird party.

Deletion: You may have a right to request that we delete the personalinformation we hold about you at any time, and we will take reasonable steps todelete your personal information from our current records. If you ask us todelete your personal information, we will let you know how the deletion affectsyour use of our app, website or products and services. There may be exceptionsto this right for specific legal reasons which, if applicable, we will set outfor you in response to your request. If you terminate or delete your account,we will delete your personal information within 30 days of the deletion of youraccount. Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties maystill retain copies of your personal information that has been made public atleast once, like certain profile information and public comments, even afteryou have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.

Additional Disclosures for California Compliance (US)

Under California CivilCode Section 1798.83, if you live in California and your business relationshipwith us is mainly for personal, family, or household purposes, you may ask usabout the information we release to other organisations for their marketingpurposes.

To make such a request,please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy with“Request for California privacy information” in the subject line. You may makethis type of request once every calendar year. We will email you a list of categoriesof personal information we revealed to other organisations for their marketingpurposes in the last calendar year, along with their names and addresses. Notall personal information shared in this way is covered by Section 1798.83 ofthe California Civil Code.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “DoNot Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to haveyour online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser “DoNot Track” signals.

We adhere to the standardsoutlined in this privacy policy, ensuring we collect and process personalinformation lawfully, fairly, transparently, and with legitimate, legal reasonsfor doing so.

Cookies and Pixels

At all times, you maydecline cookies from our site if your browser permits. Most browsers allow youto activate settings on your browser to refuse the setting of all or somecookies. Accordingly, your ability to limit cookies is based only on yourbrowser’s capabilities. Please refer to the Cookies section of this privacypolicy for more information.

CCPA-permitted financial incentives

In accordance with yourright to non-discrimination, we may offer you certain financial incentivespermitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or qualitylevels for the goods or services we provide.

Any CCPA-permittedfinancial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to the value of yourpersonal information, and we will provide written terms that describe clearlythe nature of such an offer. Participation in a financial incentive programrequires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

California Notice of Collection

In the past 12 months, wehave collected the following categories of personal information enumerated inthe California Consumer Privacy Act:

  • Identifiers, such as name, email address,     phone number account name, IP address, and an ID or number assigned to     your account.
  • Demographics, such as your age or gender. This     category includes data that may qualify as protected classifications under     other California or federal laws.
  • Commercial information, such as products or     services history and purchases.
  • Inferences, such as information about your     interests, preferences and favourites.

For more information oninformation we collect, including the sources we receive information from,review the “Information We Collect” section. We collect and use thesecategories of personal information for the business purposes described in the“Collection and Use of Information” section, including to provide and manageour Service.

Right to Know and Delete

If you are a Californiaresident, you have rights to delete your personal information we collected andknow certain information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months.In particular, you have the right to request the following from us:

  • The categories of personal information we have     collected about you;
  • The categories of sources from which the     personal information was collected;
  • The categories of personal information about     you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The categories of third parties to whom the     personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The business or commercial purpose for     collecting or selling the personal information; and
  • The specific pieces of personal information we     have collected about you.

To exercise any of theserights, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy.

Shine the Light

If you are a Californiaresident, in addition to the rights discussed above, you have the right torequest information from us regarding the manner in which we share certainpersonal information as defined by California’s “Shine the Light” with thirdparties and affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes.

To receive thisinformation, send us a request using the contact details provided in thisprivacy policy. Requests must include “California Privacy Rights Request” inthe first line of the description and include your name, street address, city,state, and ZIP code.

Contact Us

For any questions orconcerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the followingdetails:

Lee Hart
hello@joinstored.com