Castle Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 26, 2024 This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the Service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
Words whose initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions will have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in the singular or plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or otherwise administrative authority.
- Company (referred to as “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this agreement) refers to Castle.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing history on that website, among its many uses.
- Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cell phone, or digital tablet.
- Personal Data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person.
- Service refers to the website.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company. Refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, provide the Service on the Company’s behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to automatically collected data generated by the use of the Service or by the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collection and Use of Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected:
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- Usage data
- Name and surname
- Phone number
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when you use the Service. Usage Data may include information such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, time spent on these pages, device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, without limitation, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile device’s operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and store certain information. The tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it refuses cookies, our Service may use cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also called clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that allow the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other website-related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and checking system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary/Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with the services available on the Website and to allow you to use some of its features. They help authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide these services to you.
- Cookies Policy / Cookie Acceptance Notice Type: Persistent cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These cookies identify whether users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
- Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences each time you use the website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding them, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- Provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring the use of our Service.
- Manage your Account: Manage your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data you provide may give you access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to you as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: The development, fulfillment, and performance of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you purchased or any other contract with us through the Service.
- Contact you: Contact you by email, telephone, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications from a mobile application about updates or informative communications related to contracted functionalities, products, or services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for its implementation.
- Provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or requested information about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- Manage your orders: Fulfill and manage your orders with us.
- Improve our Service: We may use feedback you provide to us to improve our Service.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact you, to process payments, to provide advertising and marketing, and for administrative and technical support purposes.
- For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
- With Other Users: When you share personal information or interact with public areas of the Service with other users, that information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Service.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Service, or when we are legally required to retain this data for longer periods.
Data Transfer
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operational offices and any other locations where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to such transfer. — Let me know if you need any more adjustments!