Tin Technologies Inc. Privacy Notice

Last updated August 23, 2023

Welcome! We are Tin Technologies, Inc., and we help consumers save time and money while shopping online or in person. This Privacy Notice explains how Tin Technologies, Inc. (“Tin,” “we,” “us,” or “our,”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information (as defined below) in connection with our websites (the “Sites”), mobile application (the “App”), desktop and mobile browser extensions, and the related content, platform, services, products, and other functionality offered on or through our services (collectively, the “Services”). It does not address our privacy practices relating to Tin job applicants, employees and other personnel.

Tin is the controller of the personal information we hold about you in connection with your use of the Services. This means that we determine and are responsible for how your personal information is used.

I. WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean any data or information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular natural person or household or any other data or information that constitutes “personal data”, “personal information,” or “personally identifiable information.”

II. OUR COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information in a variety of ways. For example, you may provide us your personal information when you register for an account, make an online purchase at a partner retailer, post a review, send us messages, subscribe to our mailing list, newsletter, or other forms of marketing communications, participate in a survey, redeem a promotion, or use some other feature of our Services.

We may link or combine your activities and information collected from you on our Sites and App with information we receive from third parties, as well as information we collect automatically through tracking technologies (defined below). This allows us to provide you with a personalized experience regardless of how you interact with us.

Personal Information Collected from You

We may collect the following categories personal information submitted to us by individuals through the Services:

Contact Information, including first and last name, phone number, email address, your country or region, and communication preferences. We use this information to fulfill your request or transaction, to communicate with you directly, and to send you marketing communications in accordance with your preferences.
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Account Information, including first and last name, email address, user ID and password, profile information, affiliations, purchase history information, and any other information you provide to us. We use this information to administer your account, provide you with the relevant Services, communicate with you regarding your account and your use of the Services, and for customer support purposes.
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Inquiry and Communications Information, including information provided in custom messages sent in chat messages or to a Tin email address. This includes contact information provided on our Services. We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, and to communicate with you, to enhance the services we offer to our users and to manage and grow our organization.
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Newsletter and Marketing Emails, including email address and applicable interests and communication preferences. We use this information to manage our communications with you and send you information about products and services we think may be of interest to you. If you wish to stop receiving email messages from us, simply click the “unsubscribe link” provided at the bottom of the email communication. Note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain Services-related email communications (e.g., account verification, technical or legal notices).
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Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information, including information provided when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, or information included in any questions submitted through surveys or content of any testimonials. We use this information to administer and facilitate the Services, to respond to your submission, to communicate with you, to conduct market research, inform our marketing and advertising activities and improve and grow our business.
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Information Collected Through the Use of the Services, including information in any form that you choose to upload or transmit through your communications with us or your use of the Services (collectively, “User Content”). User Content and any information contained in the User Content, including personal information you may have included, is stored and collected as part of the Services. We use the User Content to provide you with the Services. We also may collect information about your shopping practices, including but not limited to pages and products that you have browsed, pricing information, location data, whether you made a purchase, and if so, the price for which the item(s) were purchased, and whether and which Codes (as such term is defined below) you used and whether such Code(s) were valid. We may also collect information about your purchase history on retailers’ digital properties and Codes that you found using our Services (even if you do not use such Codes) in order to share this information with other users.
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Email Inbox Information. With your permission, we may directly access the content of your Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or other email provider account in order to scan for discount codes, delivery and package tracking numbers, and other personalized coupons (together, “Codes”) that may be stored in your email inbox and that may be redeemed by you to earn savings at various online and in-person retailers, and to otherwise provide the Services to you. Your email inbox information also helps us identify products and Services that you may be interested in. Your email inbox information is parsed on Tin servers and we store only the Codes necessary to provide our Services to you. See Additional Limits on Use of Your Google Information for more information.
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Feedback Information. We may also collect feedback and ratings you provide relating to our services or products. We use this information to communicate with you, to conduct market research, inform our marketing and advertising activities and improve and grow our business.
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Business Representative Contact Information. If you are a business representative, we collect your information in connection with the performance of the agreement or potential agreement with us. This information may include your first name, last name, company contact information (e.g., email, phone, address), job title, and any other information related to the performance of the agreement with us.
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Other Information that you provide to us online, by phone or in person, and use this information to respond to your request, provide you the requested services, and to inform our marketing and advertising campaigns.

Personal Information from Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from third parties that we often combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual.

We may receive the same categories of personal information as described above from the following third parties:

Your Employer or Company: If you interact with our Services through your employer or company, we may receive your information from your employer or company, including another representative of your employer or company. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service.
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Other Users or Individuals who Interact with our Services: We may receive your information from other users or other individuals who interact with our Services. For example:
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- If you engage in one of our communications hosted on third-party platforms such as TikTok or Instagram, we will be able to see any public communications made within that platform.

- We may use referral promotions (such as digital gift cards to use at other merchants, including through third party service providers that facilitate digital gift card services) to encourage our users to tell their friends (each, a “Referred Person”) about the Service. As explained in the “Our Disclosure of Personal Information” section below, we may also share certain information about a Referred Person with the user who referred them in order to appropriately credit them for the referral.

Social Media: When an individual interacts with our Services through various social media networks, such as when someone “follows” us on Instagram or shares our content on Google, Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks, we may receive some information about individuals that they permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon an individual’s privacy settings with the social network, and may include your profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, country, and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties. Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information, linking, or connecting them to other services. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Services, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you messages about products and services that may be of interest to you.
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Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services solely on our behalf, such as marketing providers, collect personal information and often share some or all of this information with us. The information may include contact information, demographic information, information about your communications and related activities, and information about your orders. We may use this information to administer and facilitate our Services, your orders, and our marketing activities.
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Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products or services on our Services. We may use this information to administer and facilitate our Services, your orders, and our marketing activities.
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Information we receive from authentication services you connect to our Services: Some parts of our Services may allow you to log in through a third party or authentication service (such as Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo) via an oAuth connection token. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us, which could include your [name, email address, address book and contacts, or other information. The data we receive is dependent on that third party’s policies and your privacy settings on that third-party site. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Services. We may also send you service-related emails or messages (e.g., account verification, customer support, changes, or updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices).

We may offer Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint authentication as a log-in method if you access the Services through an Apple or Android device equipped with authentication technology. We are only notified as to whether the authentication was successful and cannot access the data associated with the enrolled fingerprint. For more details, please refer to the fingerprint security guides offered by your device provider.

Other Sources: We may also collect Personal Information about individuals that we do not otherwise have from, for example, publicly available sources, third-party data providers, brand partnerships, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Services, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you email messages about products and services that may be of interest to you.

Through the provision of our Services, we may also process deidentified information that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular consumer or household. Tin commits to maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information, except in instances where necessary for determining whether the deidentification process used by Tin satisfies the requirements under applicable law.

Additional Limits on Use of Your Google Information

Our Services use certain Google services, such as the Google Gmail API. You can connect your Gmail account using OAuth authentication, a secure mechanism to give Tin access to your Google account data without letting it know your password. Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Notice to the contrary, if you provide Tin access to your Google Gmail data, Tin’s use of that Google Gmail data will be subject to the following additional restrictions:

The Services will only use access to read, write, modify, or control email messages, metadata, headers, and settings to provide a web email client that allows users to compose, send, read, and process emails.
The Services will not transfer this Gmail data to others unless doing so is necessary (i) to provide and improve the features of the Services we provide to you, (ii) to comply with applicable law, or (iii) as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
We will not use or share this Gmail data for serving advertising, including retargeting, personalized, or interest-based advertising.
We will not allow humans to read this data unless:

we have your affirmative agreement for specific messages;
doing so is necessary for security purposes (such as investigating a bug or abuse);
it is necessary to comply with applicable law; or
the data has been aggregated and anonymized and is used only for our own internal operations purposes.

Our Services’ use of information received, and the Services’ transfer of information to any other app, from Google APIs will adhere to Google’s Limited Use Requirements.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect information you provide to us and information about how you access and use the Services when you visit our services, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, related technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “tracking technologies”) and we may use third-party partners or technologies to collect this information. Information we collect automatically about you may be combined with other personal information we collect directly from you or receive from other sources.

We, and our third-party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:

Information about the computer, tablet, smartphone or other device you use, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device type/model/manufacturer, operating system, date and time stamp, and a unique ID that allows us to uniquely identify your browser, mobile device, or your account (including, for example, a persistent device identifier or an Ad ID), and other such information. We may also work with third-party partners to employ technologies, including the application of statistical modeling tools, which permit us to recognize and contact you across multiple devices.
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Information about the way you access and use our Services, for example the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our Services, how frequently you access the Services, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access the services from multiple devices, and other browsing behavior and actions you take on the Sites.
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Information about how you use the Services, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, the ads you view and click on, and other similar actions. We may also collect information you provide to us or information about how you use the Services and may record your mouse movements, scrolling, clicks and keystroke activity on the Services and other browsing, search or purchasing behavior, including through third-party tools. These tools may also record information you enter when you interact with our Services.
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Information about your location, such as general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address.
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Analytics information. We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the services and to understand more about the demographics of our users. You can learn more about Google’s practices here and view its opt-out options here.
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All of the information collected automatically through these tools allows us to improve your customer experience. For example, we may use this information to enhance and personalize your user experience, to monitor and improve our Sites and Services, and to improve the effectiveness of our Services, offers, advertising, communications and customer service. We may also use this information the data collected through tracking technologies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Services; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) identify you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Services; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance our Services.

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies; however, doing so may negatively impact your experience using the Services, as some features and Services may not work properly. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.

We and our third-party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about tracking technologies, please see Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising below.

Additional Uses of Personal Information

We may use personal information we collect to:

Fulfill the reason the information was provided, such as to fulfill our contractual obligations or to deliver the Services you have requested, including to scan the content of your email inbox and to present Codes to you across third party properties, including based off your interests;
Manage our company’s and its day-to-day operations;
Verify your identity and entitlement to products or Services, when you contact us or access our Services;
Communicate with individuals, including via email, text message, or social media;
Request individuals to complete surveys about our organization, organizations we partner with, and our Services;
For marketing and advertising purposes, including to market to you or offer you through email information and updates on products or services we think that you may be interested in;
Administer, improve and personalize our Services, including by analyzing how individuals use our Services, recognizing an individual, and remembering their information when they return to our Services;
Facilitate customer benefits, including customer support;
Help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets and business, including by monitoring the Services and diagnosing or fixing technology problems;
To enforce our Terms of Use, to resolve disputes, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties;
Prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity;
Comply with contractual and legal obligations and requirements; and
For any other lawful purpose for which you provide personal information, or other purpose that you consent to.

Where you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide you with additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry or the personal information that we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time.

III. OUR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may also share, transmit, disclose, grant access to, make available, and provide personal information with and to third parties, as follows:

Your Employer / Company: If you interact with our Services through your employer or company, we may disclose your information to your employer or company, including another representative of your employer or company.
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Marketing Providers: We coordinate and share personal information with our marketing providers in order to communicate with individuals about the Services we make available.
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Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, analytics services, and administrative services.
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Contests and Survey Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in delivering our contests or survey offerings and processing the responses.
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Ad Networks and Advertising Partners: We work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on our Services, on other websites and services, and across other devices. These parties may collect information directly from a browser or device when an individual visits our Services through cookies or other data collection technologies. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. Please see the Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising section.
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Business Partners: From time to time, we may share personal data with our business partners or we may allow our business partners to collect your personal information. Our business partners will use your information for their own business and commercial purposes, including to send you any information about their products or services that we believe will be of interest to you.
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Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership.
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Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
- in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
- to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
- to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies;
- to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
- to protect the health and safety of us and others; or
- as otherwise required by applicable law.

With Your Consent: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with their consent or direction. For example, with an individual’s consent or direction we may post their testimonial on our Sites or service-related publications.

We may also share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual. For example, if you are user who has been referred to Tin by another user and has signed up using their unique referral link, we may share with your referrer certain information in an anonymized format related to your use of the Services as it may be relevant to their eligibility for any benefits, incentives, or rewards as a result of the referral.

IV. THIRD PARTY DATA COLLECTION AND ONLINE ADVERTISING

The following section does not relate to or include Gmail-related data, which is handled in accordance with the Google’s Limited Use Requirements.

We may participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on your browsing history. We permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party services to collect information about your use of our Services over time so that they may play or display ads on our Services, on other websites or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, and similar technology, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the Sites, AdID, precise geolocation and other information. We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or phone number) with our third-party advertising partners to help identify you across devices. We and our third-party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. We may also use services provided by third parties (such as social media platforms) to serve targeted ads to you and others on such platforms. We may do this by providing a hashed version of your email address or other information to the platform provider.

We may engage in the following:

Social Media Widgets and Advertising. Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, Instagram, or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.
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Social Media Platforms. We may display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and other social media forums. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. We may share a unique identifier, such as a hashed email address or phone number, with these platform providers or they may collect information from visitors to our Sites through a first-party pixel, in order to direct targeted advertising to you or to a custom audience on the social media platform. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them. If you do not want to receive targeted ads on your social networks, you may be able to adjust your advertising preferences through your settings on those networks.
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Third Party Partners. We work with a variety of third-party partners to provide advertising services. For example, we use Google Analytics to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our Services on your browser or mobile device, log in to your account on our Services, or otherwise engage with us. We share a unique identifier, like a hashed phone number or email address, with Google to facilitate the service. Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our users interact with our Services and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google's website, “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located here. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here.

We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Services. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available here, or by visiting NAI’s online resources here.

To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources and/or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources, here or here. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some — but not all — interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by visiting here and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.

Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.

V. CONTROL OVER YOUR INFORMATION

You may control your information in the following ways:

Access to Your Device Information. You may control the Services’ access to your device information through your “Settings” app on your device. For instance, you can withdraw permission for the Services to access your network devices and to integrate with your other applications.
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Email Communications Preferences. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in such communications. You may not opt out of Services-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices).
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Push Notifications. You can stop receiving push notifications from us by changing your preferences in the iOS or Android notifications settings menu.
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SMS Text Messaging. You may opt-out of receiving promotional SMS text messages at any time. Please note that unsubscribing from promotional text messages will not prevent you from SMS texts from Tin directly relating to your use of the Services, such as for account login (e.g. we may send you a security verification code). To unsubscribe from promotional SMS texts, you can reply STOP to any one of our promotional text messages. For more information, see our Terms of Use.
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Modifying or Deleting Your Information. On the “Settings” page of the App, you may edit your personal information, connect or disconnect email accounts, or delete your Tin account. If you want to stop using Tin, deleting the Tin app will automatically delete the Tin browser extension. You may uninstall the Tin App the same way you uninstall other mobile apps. If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at notice@shopwithtin.com. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances.

VI. DATA RETENTION

We will usually store the personal information we collect about you for no longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and in accordance with our legitimate business interests and applicable law. However, if necessary, we may retain personal data for longer periods of time, until set retention periods and deadlines expire, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements set by a legislature, regulator or other government authority.

To determine the appropriate duration of the retention of personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal data and if we can attain our objectives by other means, as well as our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other applicable obligations.

Once retention of the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes outlined above, we will either delete or deidentify the personal data or, if this is not possible (for example, because personal data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store the personal data and isolate it from further processing until deletion or deidentification is possible.

VII. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Services are not directed to, and we do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 18. If an individual is under the age of 18, they should not use our Services or otherwise provide us with any personal information either directly or by other means. By using the Services, you confirm that you are at least 18 years or older. If a child under the age of 18 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. If we learn that any personal information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 18, we will promptly delete that personal information.

VIII. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES OR SERVICES

Our Services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Except where we post, link to or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.

IX. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify individuals by email to their registered email address, by prominent posting on our Services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.

X. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to notice@shopwithtin.com.

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