Oystle.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) has created this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) because we understand the importance of how information you provide to us is used and shared. This Privacy Policy describes our information collection and use practices concerning our website located at oystle.com (the “Website”) and the services made available through the Website (the “Services”).
By visiting Oystle.com, and/or accessing and/or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use.
The Information We Collect and/or Receive
In the course of operating our Website, providing the Services, and/or interacting with you, we collect and/or receive the following types of information:
- Contact Information: When you contact us via the Website, email, or by mail, or when you sign up to receive newsletters or updates about our articles, you may be asked to provide certain information, including your name, email address, and phone number (collectively, the “Contact Information”).
- Other Information: In addition to Contact Information, we may collect or receive the following additional information (“Other Information”):
- From Your Activity: We automatically collect certain information when you visit the Website and/or access and/or use our Services, including IP addresses, browser type, language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, and similar information concerning your use of the Website and the Services (“Activity Information”).
- From Cookies: We use “cookie” technology to collect Activity Information. Cookies are small packets of data that a website stores on your computer or mobile device to remember information about your visit. We may use session cookies and persistent cookies. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.
- From Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- Third-Party Analytics: We may use third-party analytics services to evaluate your use of the Website and the Services. These services collect data such as IP addresses, browser type, operating system, and more. By accessing and using the Website and/or the Services, you consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers.
For more details on the analytics providers we use, please refer to Google’s Privacy & Terms and Safeguarding your data.
The Information Collected by or Through Third-Party Advertising Companies
We may share Other Information about you with third parties approved for ad distribution and optimization. These third parties may use cookies, pixel tags, and/or other technologies to collect information for ad tailoring, targeting, analyzing, managing, reporting, and optimizing. You may manage this tracking through the Do Not Track functionality in your web browser.
Affiliate Marketing
oystle.com participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
How We Use and Share Your Information
You authorize us to use the Contact Information and Other Information (collectively, the “Information”) to provide our Website and Services, solicit your feedback, inform you about our products, services, and those of our third-party marketing partners, and to improve our offerings.
We may use and share the Information as follows:
- Agents, Providers, and Related Third Parties: We may engage other companies and individuals to perform business-related functions on our behalf, such as providing technical assistance, order fulfillment, customer service, and marketing assistance. These entities will have access to the Information only as necessary to perform their functions and as permitted by law.
- Aggregated Information: We may analyze the Information in aggregate form to operate, maintain, manage, and improve our Website and Services. This aggregate information does not identify you personally and may be used for marketing purposes. We may share this information with affiliates, agents, business partners, and other third parties.
- Business Transfers: As we develop our businesses, we may sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Information may be part of the transferred assets.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose the Information when required by law, court order, government or law enforcement authority, or regulatory agency, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others.
We will take reasonable measures to ensure that any party receiving your personal information from us undertakes to retain and use such information only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and to generally protect your privacy.
Information Collected Through the Website that is Not Covered by this Privacy Policy
You may voluntarily post and share information, including comments and reviews, through blogs, forums, and other similar features available on the Website. None of the information provided through the use of these features is protected by this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information (including personal information) that you provide using any such features. All such information is public and may be viewed, collected, used, modified, and/or disclosed for any purpose by us and the public.
Accessing and Modifying Personal Information and Communication Preferences
You may access, review, and make changes to your personal information by following the instructions on the Website or Services or by contacting us. Additionally, you may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of any marketing email. You cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to your account. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely manner. However, it may not always be possible to completely remove or modify information in our subscription databases.
Security of Your Information
We take commercially reasonable security measures to ensure that your information is treated securely and is protected from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Unfortunately, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. Particularly, email sent to or from the Website and/or the Services may not be secure. We do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure of your information.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links to Third-Party Sites
The Website and the Services may contain links to external websites. We encourage you to review the privacy and security policies of any externally linked websites accessed through the Website or the Services. We assume no responsibility or liability for the information collection and disclosure practices of any external websites. Please check the privacy policies of these external websites before submitting any personal information to them.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect, receive, maintain, or use personal information from children under 13 years of age, and no part of any of the Website and/or the Services is directed to children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide any personal information through the Website and/or the Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Privacy Policy by instructing their children not to provide personal information on the Website, the Services, or any other website without their permission. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child’s account.
DO NOT TRACK
We do not respond to or honor “do not track” (DNT) signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy and Practices
This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 3, 2024. We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically, so review it periodically. We will post any changes on the Website and/or the Services, and the revised Privacy Policy will be effective when posted. By visiting the Website, and/or accessing and/or using the Services after changes, you are deemed to have accepted such changes.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or to report a privacy issue, please contact us at [email protected].
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 3, 2024.