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Privacy Policy

We explain what data we collect, why, how it's used, and your rights. TLDR: Cookies make the site functional, and your contact info, if you subscribe, is used to deliver content and services. You can block cookies, remain anonymous, and unsubscribe to delete your data. We will never sell your data.

Introduction

Purpose

Welcome to a website owned and managed by MC Tech Space Inc. ["We," "Us," "Our"]. This document ["Privacy Policy"] describes how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and otherwise process and handle (collectively, "Process") your data. By accessing or using our website and services or otherwise interacting with us, you are deemed to have read, understood, and agreed to our processing of your data as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Types of data we collect and how we obtain it

We obtain information about you when you disclose it to us in the course of using our services, such as:

  • your name and email address when you register a user account
  • your date of birth, identification information, and other details about you when we verify your identity and age
  • any profile data you share with us, including profile pictures, gender, marital status, interests, preferences, feedback, survey responses, etc.
  • information shared with us when you contact us for assistance or support
  • your billing information when you subscribe to any of our paid services and transaction records of payments made to or from you concerning such services
  • your marketing and communications preferences, which include your preferences about receiving marketing from us or third parties
  • any information you share when you upload content to a website hosted by us

We collect contact information when you communicate with us through specific channels of communication, such as:

  • your email address when you communicate with us through email
  • your mailing address when you communicate with us by post
  • your social media handle when you communicate with us via social media

We gather technical information relating to you when you use our services, such as:

  • your internet protocol (IP) address
  • records of when you logged in or logged out of your account

We also collect technical information aggregated from all our users, such as:

  • browser type and version
  • device type
  • time zone, country, and city
  • operating system and platform
  • user demographics and statistical data
  • other aggregated data about the devices and software used to access our website and services.

We may also obtain information about you where it is publicly available or where required or permitted by law.

How we use data

We only use your data where permitted by law.

Most commonly, we will use your data to perform a contract entered into with you, where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, and where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Our use of your data includes the following general purposes:

  • register you as a user and customer, including creating your user account
  • verifying your identity and age to ensure you can use our services
  • providing support or assistance to you and responding to your queries
  • processing and managing your payments, fees, and charges, and collecting and recovering money owed to us if you subscribe to our paid services
  • providing you with marketing or other communications per your preferences
  • responding to your messages by email, post, social media, or other channels of communication
  • hosting your website and providing you with other products or services that you have purchased
  • managing our relationship with you, such as notifying you about changes to our services, updates to the terms and conditions of any service, or asking you to leave a review or participate in a survey, participate in competitions or lucky draws
  • administering and protecting our business and the services, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, hosting data, and other functions
  • delivering this website and other websites hosted through us

We will only use your data for the purposes we collected it.

Advertising

If you have elected to receive our advertising messages, we will direct relevant advertisements to you and make suggestions or recommendations about goods or services that may interest you.

Aggregated technical information

We study aggregated technical information to understand our users better and improve our products and services. For example, we may prioritize how we optimize features based on which features are the most widely used. Aggregated data does not directly reveal your identity. However, it may indirectly identify you if combined with other data. We treat the combined data as personal data governed by this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, often including an anonymous unique identifier, sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are required to use our service. We use cookies to record current session information but do not use permanent cookies. You must log in again to your account after a certain period to protect yourself against others accidentally accessing your account contents.

How we share data

We may share your data from time to time, as detailed below. We take reasonable measures to ensure that third parties with whom we collaborate protect your data.

We do not sell your data.

Integration with third parties

We integrate with third-party platforms to provide you with a seamless range of features and services. Where you request integrations with third parties, we may share data with them as required to facilitate and implement them.

Data storage

Our servers are in Vermont, USA. By using our services, you consent to transferring and storing your data on our servers. Occasionally, we may use third-party vendors and hosting partners to store data. These third-party vendors and hosting partners may be in a country other than the USA or your country of residence. By using our services, you also agree to allow us to share data from you with our third-party vendors and hosting partners so that we can provide you with our services.

Vendor assessments

We rely on third-party vendors for infrastructure, professional advice, and other critical aspects of its business operations. We have vendor selection processes to assess vendors for suitability, including how vendors handle personal data. We ensure that it has legally binding arrangements with vendors to ensure that personal data disclosed to vendors is protected to the same standards that we offer and in compliance with all applicable personal data protection laws.

Disclosures required by law

We may disclose your personal data under special circumstances, such as when required by applicable law or regulation or when your actions violate the Terms of Service.

You may withdraw your consent to our use of your data at any time. However, please note that we collect personal data when we believe it is necessary to provide you with our services. Accordingly, if you withdraw your consent to our use of your data, we may not be able to offer such services to you.

For example, if you withdraw your consent to our use of your billing information, we will be unable to process payments from you. Consequently, we cannot offer you our paid services and will cancel any paid services you have with us.

Access and correction of your data

The personal data we hold about you must be accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your data changes during your relationship with us. You may request access to your data and correction of incomplete or inaccurate data at any time.

Retention of personal data

We retain your data (i) where necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it; (ii) where necessary for business or legal purposes; or (iii) where required or permitted by law.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking or enabling those links may allow third parties to collect or share your data. We do not control these third-party websites and cannot be responsible for their products and services, information, materials, and practices, including security practices. If you access any third-party website, service, or content, even through a link from our website, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Changes

We may periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about significant changes in how we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your primary account holder information or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions

Please send any questions about this Privacy Policy to [email protected].