Privacy Notice
Last updated October 20, 2022
PRIVACY NOTICE Last updated October 20, 2022 This privacy notice for Stupid Simple SEO, LLC("Company," "we," "us," or "our"),describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"),such as when you:
● Visit our website at https://nichefinder.io,or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
● Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us atmike@stupidsimpleseo.co.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with Stupid Simple SEO, LLC and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do w receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific categories of third parties.
How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by filling out our data subject request form available here, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESSYOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOURPERSONAL INFORMATION?
5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKINGTECHNOLOGIES?
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFICPRIVACY RIGHTS?
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THEDATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
● Names
● Email addresses
● Usernames
● Passwords
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.
Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number, and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here:https://stripe.com/privacy.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our intern analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information we collect includes:
● Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we recording log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called "crash dumps"), and hardware settings).
● Device Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
● Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device's location, which can be either precise orimprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
● To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
● To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
● To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
● To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
● To fulfil and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfil and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
● To enable user-to-user communications. We may process your information if you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
● To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time. For more information, see "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?" below).
● To save or protect an individual's vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESSYOUR INFORMATION?
InShort: We only process your personal information whenwe believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis)to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, toprovide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations,to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, thissection applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order toprocess your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legalbases to process your personal information:Consent. We may process your information ifyou have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal informationfor a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
● Performance of a Contract. We mayprocess your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfillour contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at yourrequest prior to entering into a contract with you.
● Legitimate Interests. We mayprocess your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieveour legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh yourinterests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process yourpersonal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
● Send users information aboutspecial offers and discounts on our products and services
● Legal Obligations. We may processyour information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legalobligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatoryagency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information asevidence in litigation in which we are involved.
● Vital Interests. We may processyour information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vitalinterests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involvingpotential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this sectionapplies to you.
We may process your information if you havegiven us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personalinformation for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission canbe inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legallypermitted under applicable law to process your information without yourconsent, including, for example:
● If collection is clearly in theinterests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
● For investigations and frauddetection and prevention
● For business transactions providedcertain conditions are met
● If it is contained in a witnessstatement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle aninsurance claim
● For identifying injured, ill, ordeceased persons and communicating with next of kin
● If we have reasonable grounds tobelieve an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
● If it is reasonable to expectcollection and use with consent would compromise the availability or theaccuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposesrelated to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of thelaws of Canada or a province
● If disclosure is required tocomply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating tothe production of records
● If it was produced by anindividual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and thecollection is consistent with the purposes for which the information wasproduced
● If the collection is solely forjournalistic, artistic, or literary purposesIf the information is publicly available andis specified by the regulations
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOURPERSONAL INFORMATION?
InShort: We may share information in specific situationsdescribed in this section and/or with the following categories of thirdparties.
Vendors,Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers.We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers,contractors, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for usor on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Wehave contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to helpsafeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anythingwith your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. Theywill also not share your personal information with any organization apart fromus. They also commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retainit for the period we instruct.
The categories of third parties we may share personalinformation with are as follows:
● Website Hosting Service Providers
● Payment Processors
We also may need to share your personalinformation in the following situations:
BusinessTransfers. We may share or transfer your informationin connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of companyassets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business toanother company.
5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
InShort: We may use cookies and other trackingtechnologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar trackingtechnologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refusecertain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
InShort: We keep your information for as long asnecessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unlessotherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal informationfor as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice,unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice willrequire us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of timein which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate businessneed to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymizesuch information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because yourpersonal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securelystore your personal information and isolate it from any further processinguntil deletion is possible.
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
InShort: We aim to protect your personal informationthrough a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonabletechnical and organizational security measures designed to protect the securityof any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards andefforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over theInternet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure,so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or otherunauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security andimproperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we willdo our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personalinformation to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should onlyaccess the Services within a secure environment.
8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
InShort: We do not knowingly collect data from or marketto children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from ormarket to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you representthat you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minorand consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn thatpersonal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected,we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly deletesuch data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collectedfrom children under age 18, please contact us at mike@stupidsimpleseo.co.
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
InShort: In some regions, such as the European EconomicArea (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and Canada, you have rights that allow yougreater access to and control over your personal information. You may review,change, or terminate your account at any time.
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, andCanada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. Thesemay include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personalinformation, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict theprocessing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to dataportability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object tothe processing of your personal information. You can make such a request bycontacting us by using the contact details provided in the section "HOWCAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
We will consider and act upon any request inaccordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and youbelieve we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also havethe right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. Youcan find their contact details here:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are located in Switzerland, the contactdetails for the data protection authorities are available here:https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Withdrawingyour consent: If we are relying on your consent toprocess your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consentdepending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent atany time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by usingthe contact details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUTTHIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note that this will not affectthe lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable lawallows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted inreliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emailsthat we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section"HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
You will then beremoved from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you —for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for theadministration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or forother non-marketing purposes.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review orchange the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
● Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
Upon your request to terminate your account,we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our activedatabases. However, we may retain some information in our files to preventfraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legalterms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Cookiesand similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set toaccept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set yourbrowser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to removecookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services ofour Services. To opt out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on ourServices visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
If you have questions or comments about yourprivacy rights, you may email us at mike@stupidsimpleseo.co.
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operatingsystems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT")feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not tohave data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Atthis stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNTsignals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browsersignals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice notto be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we mustfollow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revisedversion of this privacy notice.
11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFICPRIVACY RIGHTS?
InShort: Yes, if you are a resident of California, youare granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, alsoknown as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who areCalifornia residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free ofcharge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosedto third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses ofall third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediatelypreceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like tomake such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using thecontact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside inCalifornia, and have a registered account with Services, you have the right torequest removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. Torequest removal of such data, please contact us using the contact informationprovided below and include the email address associated with your account and astatement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is notpublicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may notbe completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups,etc.).
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
InShort: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary tostay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time totime. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised"date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either byprominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to beinformed of how we are protecting your information.
13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about thisnotice, you may email us at mike@stupidsimpleseo.co.
14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THEDATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country,you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collectfrom you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update,or delete your personal information, please email us at mike@stupidsimpleseo.co