Privacy Policy

This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: email address; Cookies; Usage Data.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.

Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published, or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. An updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations, the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;

• provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;

• processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;

• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the user's location, data transfers may involve transferring the user's data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred data, users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.

If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

• Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.

• Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Services, as well as for the following purposes: Contacting the User, Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Analytics and Heat mapping, and session recording.

Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and about the specific Personal Data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Ezoic

The owner uses Ezoic to provide personalization and analytic services on this website, as such Ezoic's privacy policy is in effect which can be found here. Ezoic provides the owner with optimized placeholders for third-party advertisers to make use of. Ezoic is a verified Google Adsense partner and, thus, is linked to the Google Adsense network. View the following paragraph on Google Adsense for more information concerning the usage of data for advertising purposes.

Google Analytics (outdated since July 2023)

The owner uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. Text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website on behalf of the operator of this website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to the website and internet usage to the owner. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent cookies from being saved or delete them by making the appropriate settings in your browser. Also included are related services such as Google Analytics with anonymized IP, Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reports.

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.

Personal Data processed: browser information; city; device information; latitude (of city); longitude (of city); number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data.

Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

Google Ads

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. The operator of the services of Google Ads is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Ads will set a cookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Every Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot, therefore, be tracked via the websites of Ads customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The owner learns the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, the owner will not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

Google Adsense

We use third-party advertisements to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (in our case Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Miami plumbing ads to persons in Miami, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing fishing ads to someone who often visits fishing sites).

Google Fonts (Google LLC)

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it. Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)

This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Application in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data. Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.

Personal Data processed: Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Hotjar / heatmap services

Heat map services show the areas of a page in which the mouse is moved most frequently or which are clicked most frequently. In this way, the main areas of interest can be identified. With these services, the data traffic of the website can be monitored and analyzed and user behavior can be tracked. Some of these services can record user sessions and later view them visually.

Hotjar Heat Maps & Recordings (Hotjar Ltd.) Hotjar is a session recording and heat map service from Hotjar Ltd. Hotjar takes into account generic Do Not Track headers. This means that the browser can prohibit the Hotjar script from collecting user data. This setting is available in all major browsers. Hotjar's opt-out information can be found here. Personal data collected: cookies; Usage data; Different types of data, as described in the privacy policy of the service.

Squarespace

The Owner collects personal data that serves as the basis for our website analytics. This includes: Information about your browser, your network and your device, websites that you called up before visiting this website, and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of the website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn more about traffic and activity on this website.

The User’s payment information is subject to storage as historical data on the servers of Squarespace. The Data is solely used by the Owner of this website and only for the agreed-upon payments made on www.colorbux.com.

newsletter / email

If you have registered for our newsletter with your email address, we save and use your email address to send you our newsletter with information and advertising about us until you have unsubscribed from our newsletter. For our newsletter service, we use the Squarespace newsletter service. If you enter your email address to receive the newsletter, it will first be saved by Squarespace for the purpose of sending the owner an email in which he/she can confirm the registration for the newsletter dispatch (“double opt -In"). After such confirmation, the email address will be permanently saved at Squarespace until you have unsubscribed from receiving the newsletter or until we delete it. Squarespace saves the date of registration as well as the IP address under which the registration was made. Your IP address will not be used further. We would like to point out that the data that is collected and used via Squarespace is stored and processed on computers in the USA. With your consent to the receipt of our newsletter, you agree to this. In addition, we have concluded a data processing contract with Squarespace based on the so-called EU standard contract clauses. No other disclosure of your email address to third parties will take place. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. A unsubscribe link is included in every email with our newsletter. You can also revoke your consent to the use of your email address for the future at any time. Please use the contact options below.

Facebook

A cookie (pixel) is placed by Facebook. It enables the Owner of this website to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular, it enables the Owner to see how the users move between devices when accessing the website and Facebook, to ensure that the Owner’s Facebook advertising is seen by the users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analyzing which content a user has viewed and interacted with the user on the Owner’s website. Functionalities included in this service are Facebook Remarketing, Facebook Custom Audience, Facebook Audience Network, Facebook Lookalike Audience, Facebook Lead Ads, Facebook Messenger Customer Chat, and Facebook Ads Conversion Tracking.

PayPal

The use of payment services such as PayPal is governed by the respective service. The Owner does not collect Data concerning the services of payment solutions. The Owner will still be informed by PayPal of occurring payments.

iubenda

iubenda provides the Owner of the website with custom cookie opt-in solutions. The service enables the integration of a seamless consent solution to all tracking cookies and marketing functionalities. Included in the service are the iubenda CCPA Cookie (usprivacy) and the iubenda Consent Solution Local Storage.

The rights of Users

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.

In particular, Users have the right to do the following:

• Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.

• Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.

• Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.

• Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

• Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.

• Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.

• Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of, or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

• Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

Alternatively, the User may manually change their consent by adjusting the chosen parameters here.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

How “Do Not Track” requests are handled

This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.

Owner and Data Controller

COLORBUX - Fischbachstrasse 2, CH-8162 Steinmaur

Owner contact email: [email protected]

Latest update: July 12, 2023
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