Privacy Policy

Stokescontests.com ("Stokescontests.com") operates https://Stokescontests.com and may operate other websites. It is Stokescontests.com's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

We provide this privacy statement explaining our online information practices, so that you can decide whether and how to interact with the Site and the Services. By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline. Please also review our Terms of Service section that governs the use and the users of the Site.

Introduction

Stokescontests.com collects personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User entry page of a specific giveaway. The information we want from you, if you choose to enter a giveaway, is your address and email address to contact you if you are a winner. The email address you use for signing up is stored on our servers. If you sign up to one of the checkboxes on a giveaway page, such as our Images or Freebies newsletters, all we use is your email address and country to match it up with the specific freebies newsletter of either Canada, United States, or United Kingdom

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Stokescontests.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stokescontests.com's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stokescontests.com's visitors use its website. From time to time, Stokescontests.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Stokescontests.coms websites choose to interact with Stokescontests.com in ways that require Stokescontests.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Stokescontests.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at Stokescontests.com to provide their home address and email address. In each case, Stokescontests.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Stokescontests.com. Stokescontests.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always choose not to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

UPDATE:

Comments: Due to GDPR's consent requirement, Stokescontests.com has added this updated Privacy Policy.

Websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data:

For users who enter a giveaway on our website, we also store the personal information they provide.

Other 3rd party devils:

Shop: If you buy services or goods (advertisement, subscriptions, shop items, asset issuer pages, premium plugins, etc) by credit card or bank transfer, your personal details might be collected by 3rd parties to facilitate the transaction and prevent fraud.

Aggregated Statistics

Stokescontests.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Stokescontests.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Stokescontests.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Stokescontests.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Stokescontests.com's behalf or to provide services available at Stokescontests.com's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Stokescontests.com's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Stokescontests.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Stokescontests.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Stokescontests.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Stokescontests.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a user of a Stokescontests.com website and have supplied your address and email address, Stokescontests.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Stokescontests.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Stokescontests.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Stokescontests.com uses cookies to help Stokescontests.com identify and track visitors, their usage of Stokescontests.com website, and their website access preferences. Stokescontests.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Stokescontests.com's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Stokescontests.com's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Stokescontests.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Stokescontests.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Stokescontests.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Stokescontests.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Mobile Device Privacy

The following applies to our site, when viewed on a mobile device: When accessed with a mobile deivce, our site may collect information automatically, such as the type of mobile device you have, device identifiers, and information about your use of the site. Regardless of the device you use to access the site, it will also collect information you provide, as well as information about your interaction with the site and its content.

If location services are activated on your mobile device, our site may collect information about the location of your device. Your mobile network service providers may collect device-specific information, such as a device identifier, when you use our website or one of our mobile applications. This information collected by your mobile network service will not be associated with your user account with us, or with your personally identifiable information.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Stokescontests.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Stokescontests.com's sole discretion. Stokescontests.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an https://Stokescontests.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Last Updated

These terms were last updated on the 29th of May 2018.