Privacy Policy

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LSMF Tech Ventures Limited, Exo Vrisis 64, 8047 Paphos

At Brickfact, accessible from www.brickfact.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Brickfact and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Brickfact website and to the Brickfact apps for iOS and Android. The sections “Brickfact accounts and the app” and “Google user data” below explain what we process when you use the app or sign in.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect:

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name and email address.

How we use your information:

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Send you emails
Find and prevent fraud

Brickfact accounts and the app:

You can use the Brickfact app without signing in. When you first open it, the app creates an anonymous account with Google Firebase Authentication so that it can store your settings and data. To use your collection on several devices and on this website, you can sign in with Google, with Apple or with a sign-in link sent to your email address. Depending on how you sign in, we receive:

Sign in with Google: your name, email address and profile picture, and an identifier for your Google account.
Sign in with Apple: your name and email address. If you hide your email address, Apple gives us a relay address instead.
Sign-in link: your email address. We send the link through our email provider Resend. For sending, we keep the address encrypted and only until the email has been handed over, and our delivery records do not contain it.

We store the following with your account:

your profile: email address, nickname, profile picture, region and language, and when you signed up and were last active
your collection: the purchases, gifts and sales you record, with prices, dates, condition and notes, and your watchlist and price alerts
for push notifications: an identifier for your device, its model and operating system version, a push token from Firebase Cloud Messaging and your notification settings
your ratings of deals

We use this data to provide your account and the features you use, for example to sync your collection between the app and the website and to send the notifications you have switched on (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). It is stored with Google Firebase and in the database behind our apps and website. Your collection is private and is not shown to other users.

You can delete your account in the app under Profile > Delete account. This deletes your sign-in account and your profile details. To have all other data linked to your account deleted as well, including your collection, watchlist, price alerts and profile picture, write to [email protected].

Google user data:

If you sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with us, together with an identifier for your Google account, after you agree on Google’s consent screen. Brickfact only asks for this basic profile information. We do not access any other data in your Google account, such as your emails, contacts, calendar or files.

We use this data only to create your Brickfact account, to sign you in on the website and in the apps, to show your name and profile picture in your profile, and to contact you about your account. We store it with Google Firebase together with the rest of your account. We do not sell it, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers that host Brickfact for us, or where the law requires it.

We keep this data until you delete your account or ask us to delete it, as described above. You can remove Brickfact’s access to your Google account at any time in your Google account settings.

Brickfact’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Log Files:

Brickfact follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons:

Like any other website, Brickfact uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. For more general information on cookies, please read "Cookies" article from the Privacy Policy Generator.

Our Advertising Partners:

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Amazon-Partnerprogramm:
Based on our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. DSGVO), we are participants in the Amazon EU affiliate program, which was designed to provide a means for websites to earn advertising fees by placing advertisements and links to Amazon.de (so-called affiliate system). Amazon uses cookies to track the origin of orders. Among other things, Amazon can recognize that you have clicked the affiliate link on this website and subsequently purchased a product from Amazon. For more information on data use by Amazon and opt-out options, please see the company's privacy policy: under this link
Awin-Partnerprogramm:
Based on our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. DSGVO), we are participants in the affiliate program of Awin (AWIN AG, Eichhornstraße 3, D-10785 Berlin), which was designed to provide a medium for websites by means of which advertising costs can be earned through the placement of advertisements and links (so-called affiliate system). Awin uses cookies to track the origin of orders. Among other things, Awin can recognize that you have clicked the affiliate link on our online offer and subsequently purchased a product from one of the affiliated merchants. For more information on data usage by Awin and objection options, please refer to the company's privacy policy: under this link.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies:

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Brickfact.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Brickfact, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Brickfact has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies:

Brickfact's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information):

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights:

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information:

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Brickfact does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Set-page usage analysis

We use self-hosted PostHog on our Hetzner server in Germany to analyse clicks, section visibility and masked interaction recordings on public set pages reached from Google. Collection starts automatically on eligible pages. Recordings are sampled at 20%. We collect browser and device information and a random identifier that resets on a full page load. Inputs and text are masked, account pages are excluded, and recordings are not linked to your Brickfact account. Stored analytics omit IP addresses and URL query strings. A Google-landing flag is stored for the tab; opting out is saved in your browser. You can disable this measurement here without affecting access to the website.