Personal Data processed for the following purposes and using the following services:

• • Advertising

    • Google AdSense

      Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Freestar

  • Analytics

    • Google Analytics

      Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Google Analytics 4

      Personal Data: number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data

  • Commercial affiliation

    • Amazon Affiliation

      Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

  • Contacting the User

    • Mailing list or newsletter

      Personal Data: email address; first name; last name

  • Displaying content from external platforms

    • Google Calendar widget and Google Programmable Search Engine

      Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

  • Handling payments

    • PayPal, Stripe and ChargeBee

      Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

  • Hosting and backend infrastructure

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloudinary

      Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

  • Infrastructure monitoring

    • New Relic

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

  • Interaction with support and feedback platforms

    • Zendesk Widget

      Personal Data: email address

  • Managing contacts and sending messages

    • Mailgun

      Personal Data: email address

  • Managing support and contact requests

    • Zendesk

      Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

  • Platform services and hosting

    • Webflow

      Personal Data: Usage Data

  • Registration and authentication

    • Google OAuth, Twitter OAuth and Facebook Authentication

      Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

  • Registration and authentication provided directly by start.me

    • Direct registration

      Personal Data: email address; first name; last name

  • Spam and bots protection

    • Cloudflare Bot Management

      Personal Data: app information; Application opens; browser information; browsing history; city; clicks; country; county; custom events; device information; device logs; geography/region; interaction events; IP address; keypress events; language; latitude (of city); launches; longitude (of city); metro area; motion sensor events; mouse movements; number of sessions; operating systems; page events; page views; province; scroll position; scroll-to-page interactions; search history; session duration; session statistics; state; touch events; Trackers; Usage Data; video views; ZIP/Postal code

  • Tag Management

    • Google Tag Manager

      Personal Data: Usage Data

  • Traffic optimization and distribution

    • Cloudflare

      Personal Data: Cookies; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

Information on opting out of interest-based advertising

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar initiatives. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.

Users may also opt out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

Further information about the processing of Personal Data

• • Skimlinks

    Our website contains some affiliate marketing links, which means we get paid commission on sales of those products or services we write about. Our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. We use Skimlinks and more information about their data collection is set out in their privacy policy at http://skimlinks.com/privacy-policy.
    
    If you no longer want Skimlinks to store data about the websites you visit, the links you click and the Merchants you buy from, you can simply opt-out here (https://optout.skimlinks.com/). This will mean Skimlinks will not drop Skimlinks cookies when you browse websites in our Publisher or Merchant network.

  • Other Third-Party advertising

    We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website.

Contact information

• • Owner and Data Controller

    start.me BV, Waalsdorperweg 16, 2597 JB, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
    E-mail: privacy@start.me
    Telephone: +1 (205) 964-8726
    
    The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is Arjen Robijn (Founder & CEO of start.me B.V.).
    
    Partners of Explorads Ltd.

    Owner contact email: privacy@start.me