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Privacy Policy⚓︎

Effective date: 2024-07-23

Please Note:

StarCat Brands builds multiple products/services. These Terms of Service apply to all products/services built by StarCat Brands, unless otherwise noted within the individual project/product.

A full list of products/services can be found on the StarCat Brands Homepage or at https://about.starcatbrands.com/general/service_domains/.

StarCat Brands Privacy Statement⚓︎

Thank you for entrusting us with your projects and your personal information. Holding onto your private information is a serious responsibility, and we want you to know how we’re handling it.

The Short Version⚓︎

We collect your information only with your consent; we only collect the minimum amount of personal information that is necessary to fulfill the purpose of your interaction with us; we don’t sell it to third parties; and we only use it as this Privacy Statement describes.

Of course, the short version doesn’t tell you everything, so please read on for more details!

What information StarCat Brands collects and why⚓︎

Information from website browsers⚓︎

If you’re just browsing the website(s), we collect the same basic information that most websites collect. We use common internet technologies, such as cookies and web server logs. This is stuff we collect from everybody, whether they have an account or not.

The information we collect about all visitors to our website includes the visitor’s browser type, language preference, referring site, additional websites requested, and the date and time of each visitor request. We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

Why do we collect this?⚓︎

We collect this information to better understand how our website visitors use our services, and to monitor and protect the security of the website(s).

Information from users with accounts⚓︎

If you create an account, we require some basic information at the time of account creation. You will create your own user name and password, and we will ask you for a valid email account. You also have the option to give us more information if you want to, and this may include “User Personal Information.”

“User Personal Information” is any information about one of our users which could, alone or together with other information, personally identify him or her. Information such as a user name and password, an email address, a real name, and a photograph are examples of “User Personal Information.”

User Personal Information does not include aggregated, non-personally identifying information. We may use aggregated, non-personally identifying information to operate, improve, and optimize our website and service.

Why do we collect this?⚓︎
  • We need your User Personal Information to create your account, and to provide the services you request.
  • We use your User Personal Information, specifically your user name and email address, to identify you on our services.
  • We will use your email address to communicate with you, if you’ve said that’s okay, and only for the reasons you’ve said that’s okay. Please see our section on email communication for more information.
  • We limit our use of your User Personal Information to the purposes listed in this Privacy Statement. If we need to use your User Personal Information for other purposes, we will ask your permission first.

What information StarCat Brands does not collect⚓︎

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers, genetic data, health information, or religious information. Although StarCat Brands does not request or intentionally collect any sensitive personal information, we realize that you might store this kind of information in your account, such as in an application. If you store any sensitive personal information on our servers, you are consenting to our storage of that information on our servers, which are in the United States.

We do not intentionally collect information that is stored in your applications or other free-form content inputs. Information in your applications belongs to you, and you are responsible for it, as well as for making sure that your content complies with our Terms of Service. StarCat Brands employees do not access applications unless required to for security or maintenance, or for support reasons, with the consent of the application owner.

If you’re a child under the age of 13, you may not have an account on any StarCat Brands service. StarCat Brands does not knowingly collect information from or direct any of our content specifically to children under 13. If we learn or have reason to suspect that you are a user who is under the age of 13, we will unfortunately have to close your account. Please see our Terms of Service for information about account termination.

How we share the information we collect⚓︎

We never share, sell, rent, or trade User Personal Information with third parties for their commercial purposes.

We do not disclose User Personal Information outside of the StarCat Brands umbrella, except in the situations listed in this section or in the section below on Compelled Disclosure.

We may share certain aggregated, non-personally identifying information with others about how our users, collectively, use our services. For example, we may compile statistics on the usage of HTTP content types across our services. However, we do not sell this information to advertisers or marketers.

We do not host advertising on our services. We may occasionally embed content from third party sites, such as YouTube, and that content may include ads. While we try to minimize the amount of ads our embedded content contains, we can’t always control what third parties show.

We may share User Personal Information with your permission, so we can perform services you have requested.

We may share User Personal Information with a limited number of third-party vendors who process it on our behalf to provide or improve our service, and who have agreed to privacy restrictions similar to our own Privacy Statement. Our vendors perform services such as payment processing, customer support ticketing, network data transmission, and other similar services. Please see our Subprocessors list for more information on these third parties.

We may share User Personal Information if we are involved in a merger, sale, or acquisition. If any such change of ownership happens, we will ensure that it is under terms that preserve the confidentiality of User Personal Information, and we will notify you on our website or by email before any transfer of your User Personal Information. The organization receiving any User Personal Information will have to honor any promises we have made in our Privacy Statement or in our Terms of Service.

Our use of cookies and tracking⚓︎

Cookies⚓︎

StarCat Brands uses cookies to make interactions with our services easy and meaningful. We use cookies (and similar technologies, like HTML5 localStorage) to keep you logged in, remember your preferences, and provide information for future development of our services.

A cookie is a small piece of text that our web server stores on your computer or mobile device, which your browser sends to us when you return to our site. Cookies do not necessarily identify you if you are merely visiting our website(s); however, a cookie may store a unique identifier for each logged in user. The cookies our services set are essential for the operation of the website, or are used for performance or functionality. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your computer or device. If you disable your browser or device’s ability to accept cookies, you will not be able to log in or use our services.

Analytics⚓︎

We want to process as little personal information as possible when you use our website. That's why we've chosen Fathom Analytics for our website analytics, which doesn't use cookies and complies with the GDPR, ePrivacy (including PECR), COPPA and CCPA. Using this privacy-friendly website analytics software, your IP address is only briefly processed, and we (running this website) have no way of identifying you. As per the CCPA, your personal information is de-identified. You can read more about this on Fathom Analytics' website.

The purpose of us using this software is to understand our website traffic in the most privacy-friendly way possible so that we can continually improve our website and business. The lawful basis as per the GDPR is "Article 6(1)(f); where our legitimate interests are to improve our website and business continually." As per the explanation, no personal data is stored over time.

Tracking⚓︎

“ Do Not Track” is a privacy preference you can set in your browser if you do not want online services to collect and share certain kinds of information about your online activity from third party tracking services. We do not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site beyond our basic Fathom Analytics tracking. Because we do not share this kind of data with third party services or permit this kind of third party data collection on our services for any of our users, and we do not track our users on third-party websites ourselves, we do not need to respond differently to an individual browser’s Do Not Track setting.

Please see our section on email communication to learn about our use of pixel tags in marketing emails.

How StarCat Brands secures your information⚓︎

StarCat Brands takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect User Personal Information from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction; maintain data accuracy; and help ensure the appropriate use of User Personal Information. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

No method of transmission, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

StarCat Brands' global privacy practices⚓︎

Information that we collect will be stored and processed in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Statement. However, we understand that we have users from different countries and regions with different privacy expectations, and we try to meet those needs.

We provide the same standard of privacy protection to all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location, and we are proud of the levels of notice, choice, accountability, security, data integrity, access, and recourse we provide. We have appointed a Privacy Counsel and we work hard to comply with the applicable data privacy laws wherever we do business. Additionally, we require that if our vendors or affiliates have access to User Personal Information, they must comply with our privacy policies and with applicable data privacy laws.

Resolving Complaints⚓︎

If you have concerns about the way StarCat Brands is handling your User Personal Information, please let us know immediately. We want to help. You may email us directly at hello@starcatbrands.com with the subject line “Privacy Concerns.” We will respond within 45 days at the latest.

How we respond to compelled disclosure⚓︎

StarCat Brands may disclose personally-identifying information or other information we collect about you to law enforcement in response to a valid subpoena, court order, warrant, or similar government order, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our property or rights, or those of third parties or the public at large.

In complying with court orders and similar legal processes, StarCat Brands strives for transparency. When permitted, we will make a reasonable effort to notify users of any disclosure of their information, unless we are prohibited by law or court order from doing so, or in rare, exigent circumstances.

How you can access and control the information we collect⚓︎

If you’re already a user of our services, you may access, update, alter, or delete your basic user profile information by editing your user profile on StarCat ID, editing your personal information within the Service(s) or contacting hello@starcatbrands.com.

Data Retention and Deletion⚓︎

StarCat Brands will retain User Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.

We may retain certain User Personal Information indefinitely, unless you delete it or request its deletion. For example, we don’t automatically delete inactive user accounts, so unless you choose to delete your account, we will retain your account information indefinitely.

If you would like to cancel your account or delete your User Personal Information, you may do so by emailing hello@starcatbrands.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile (within reason) within 30 days.

Your User Personal Information may also be stored in our backups system(s), which are not automatically purged when your account or service(s) are cancelled. Our backups system(s) follow a rotating backup schedule; your User Personal Information will be deleted from backups within 90 days.

How we communicate with you⚓︎

We will use your email address to communicate with you, if you’ve said that’s okay, and only for the reasons you’ve said that’s okay. You have a lot of control over how your email address is used and shared on and through our services.

Depending on your email settings, StarCat Brands may occasionally send notification emails about new features, requests for feedback, important policy changes, or offer customer support. We may also send marketing emails, but only with your consent. There’s an unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each of the emails we send you.

Our emails might contain a pixel tag, which is a small, clear image that can tell us whether or not you have opened an email and what your IP address is. We use this pixel tag to make our email more effective for you and to make sure we’re not sending you unwanted email. If you prefer not to receive pixel tags, please opt out of marketing emails.

Changes to our Privacy Statement⚓︎

Although most changes are likely to be minor, StarCat Brands may change our Privacy Statement from time to time. We will provide notification to Users of material changes to this Privacy Statement through our Website at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our home page or sending email to the email address specified in your StarCat Brands account. For changes to this Privacy Statement that do not affect your rights, we encourage visitors to check this page frequently.

You can find a history of revisions and sign up to get notified of future changes to this and all StarCat Brands policies by following the steps on our Updates page.

Contact Us⚓︎

Questions regarding StarCat Brands' Privacy Statement or information practices should be directed to legal@starcatbrands.com.