Privacy Policy

Webcafe Commerce LLC DBA _cafe_ ("TechSnif," "we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit or interact with our websites and other products and services that reference this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services").

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through your use of the Services and does not apply to information collected offline or through any other means.

Contact Information:
Webcafe Commerce LLC DBA _cafe_
548 Market St. #796608
San Francisco, California 94104
press@mail.techsnif.com

Information We Collect

This section explains what information we may collect directly from you (either on a voluntary basis or through automated means) and what information may be collected (or we may receive) from other sources. Some of this information may be considered "personal information" under various applicable laws. We consider information that identifies you as a specific, identified individual to be personal information (such as your name, telephone number, and e-mail address), as well as additional information, including IP addresses and cookie identifiers, where required by applicable law. And, if we combine information that we consider to be non-personal with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information under this Privacy Policy.

Note that we may de-identify personal information so that it is non-personal, such as by aggregating it or transforming it into information that does not identify you. We will treat de-identified information as non-personal to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Please see the supplemental notices further below for additional information that may apply to you based on your location.

We, or service providers that assist us in providing, maintaining, and operating the Services, may collect the following types of personal information from you:

Information That You Provide

We may collect information that you choose to provide to us, such as when you contact us, submit feedback, or subscribe to our newsletter(s). This may include information such as your name, e-mail address, and any other information you choose to provide.

Automated Information

Using technologies that are widely used on the Internet, such as cookies, web beacons, and other technologies ("Cookies"), we may automatically collect information about your computer or mobile device and online activity when you access the Services. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser; they are used to record how you navigate our websites on each visit. When we refer to cookies, this term includes all means by which we may store information on an end-user's device and/or retrieve information that is stored on such end-user's device beforehand, including through equivalent server-side tracking. The information collected by these cookies and similar technologies may include your:

IP address
Unique cookie identifier and information obtained through cookies
Unique device identifier and device type
Domain, browser type and language, operating system, and system settings
Country and time zone
Previously visited websites
Information about your interaction with our Services such as click behavior and indicated preferences
Access times and referring URLs

When you access TechSnif through public machine-facing interfaces such as our public API, official CLI, or official MCP tooling, we may also collect standard request metadata associated with those interactions, such as IP address, user agent, request path, timestamps, and related operational or security logs. We use this information to provide, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and protect the Services, including detecting abuse and enforcing our Terms of Service.

Location Information

When you use the Services, we may collect information about your location separately from other information that you provide to us explicitly. For instance, we may use your IP address to help determine your approximate geographic location.

Information from Other Sources

We may combine the information that we collect with information that we obtain from other sources, such as our affiliates, business partners, and service providers. For example, we may ask a service provider to supply us with demographic information or updated contact information for you. For more information about the third parties from which we collect your personal data, please contact us at the contact information below.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information that we collect about you for these purposes:

To provide you the Services;
To contact you to provide information about TechSnif or other products or services in which we believe you may be interested, including newsletters and promotional emails;
To respond to your requests, questions, and comments;
To personalize content and experiences, including providing recommendations based on your preferences;
To maintain, protect, optimize or improve our Services and operations, including to personalize and improve your experiences;
To detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
To perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Services;
To compile aggregate data about traffic and interaction with the Services;
To identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activities;
To process any information regarding your use of our Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers or other corporate transactions;
For internal business purposes, such as improving our Services and to comply with legal requirements and our business practices;
As we believe is necessary to protect our rights and the rights of others, including by enforcing our Terms of Service; and
As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.

We also do research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to help us operate our Services and for other business purposes. This research is based on the information you provide to us and on your use of our Services.

Sharing Your Information

We share non-personal information, such as aggregated statistics and de-identified information, with third parties to the extent permitted by applicable law. TechSnif also shares personal information as provided in this Privacy Policy.

We may share the information that we collect about you through the Services in these ways:

Affiliated Brands & Companies

We may share your information between various brands owned by Webcafe Commerce LLC or under common control.

Service Providers

We partner with third parties to assist with many aspects of the Services, such as hosting web services, analytics, and sending emails. These third parties may provide services related to any of the purposes described in How We Use Your Information, and we may share with them any types of information described in Information We Collect. We may also receive information collected by these third parties and combine it with the information we have collected. Some of these third parties may be located outside the United States or the nation in which you reside. Our key service providers include:

Cloudflare: For hosting, content delivery, and security
Google Analytics 4: Website analytics and usage tracking (consent-gated via cookie banner)

Other Third Parties

We may disclose your personal information if we believe it is necessary to protect and defend our rights, property, or safety or when we believe the disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of another, including for the purpose of enforcing our Terms of Service, or where the law and/or government authorities require. This disclosure may include legal requests from a jurisdiction outside of the United States when we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law, regulation, court order, or other legal request or process in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally-recognized standards.

Parties to a Business Transaction

We may disclose or transfer your information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, or any other transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets to another company.

Other Disclosures

We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.

Cookies and Local Storage

We use cookies and local storage technologies to:

Remember your preferences (such as dark mode and reading settings)
Store bookmarked articles locally on your device
Measure site traffic and usage via Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics uses cookies (such as _ga) to distinguish unique users and track sessions. These cookies are only set after you accept our cookie consent banner. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but some features may not work properly.

We may use certain web analytics services, including Google Analytics, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our Services. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data collected through our Services, visit Google's partner policy. You may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Third-Party Links and Services

TechSnif contains links to other sites. Please be aware that TechSnif is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal data. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by TechSnif.

Although this Privacy Policy will apply to our use of information collected about you, we do not control the privacy practices of our third-party partners. As a result, we want you to be aware that when you use third-party offerings linked from our Services, you may be providing information to both us and our partner, and you should review the partner's privacy policy to be sure that you know how it will use any data that it collects.

Security

We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the personal information you provide on this website against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use and other unlawful forms of processing. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and you use the Services and transmit information to us at your own risk. If you have any questions about security on our Services, please contact us as provided below.

How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep the personal information we collect for the duration of our relationship with you, plus a reasonable period in order to take into account the applicable legal retention requirement or statute of limitation period, or otherwise as required for our business purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

If you consent to receive marketing communications, we will keep the information necessary to send you these communications for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose to retain the data, as long as permitted by law, or until you request we delete the data if such a right exists in your jurisdiction.

At the end of the retention period, your personal information will be deleted completely or anonymized so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical and analytical purposes.

Data Transfers

Your information will be collected, processed, and stored directly on or transferred to servers in the U.S. In addition, it may be transferred to other countries where TechSnif, its affiliates, or third-party business partners maintain facilities or business operations, which may include countries outside Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) or European Economic Area (EEA). No matter where the information is located, TechSnif takes commercially reasonable measures to safeguard your privacy rights in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the collection, processing, storage and transfer of your information, please do not provide your information to us and stop using our Services.

Your Choices and Rights

Communications Preferences

You are free to withdraw your consent and opt out of receiving marketing emails and/or newsletters from TechSnif by following the instructions in any such email you receive or by contacting us at press@mail.techsnif.com. Please note that if you do opt out, it may take a few days to process your request and that you may continue to receive promotional or marketing materials during this time. Opting out will not preclude us from sending you other types of non-promotional messages.

Google Analytics Opt-Out

You may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to:

Request access to your personal data that we hold;
Request correction of the personal data we hold about you if it is incorrect, out of date or incomplete;
Request erasure of your personal data, for example where the information is no longer necessary for the purpose which it was collected for, or you withdraw your consent;
Object to processing of your personal data;
Request the restriction of processing of your personal data;
Request that we transfer your personal data to another organization, where it is technically feasible; and/or
Withdraw your consent at any time and request we discontinue any consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that consent.

When exercising any of the rights listed above, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected from unauthorized use. Please see the supplemental notices below for more information relevant to your jurisdiction, if applicable.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at press@mail.techsnif.com.

Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of 13 on our Services, we will delete the information from our records, unless we have a legitimate interest or are under a legal obligation to postpone deletion.

Supplemental Notices to Residents of California and Certain U.S. States

The following is a list of categories of personal information which may have been collected from consumers or users of the Services within the last twelve (12) months, along with the categories of third parties to whom each category of personal information was disclosed. The categories and examples provided below are those defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended, the "CCPA"). This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information may have been collected about consumers. We will update this disclosure from time to time as appropriate.

Category	Examples	Categories of Third Parties
Identifiers	Name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.	Service providers, affiliates, government regulators, our legal advisors and parties involved in a legal process, to an entity involved in the sale of our business, and third parties when you agree to or request that we share your information with them.
Personal information (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))	A name, address, telephone number, email address. Some personal information in this category may overlap with other categories.	Service providers, affiliates, government regulators, our legal advisors and parties involved in a legal process, to an entity involved in the sale of our business, and third parties when you agree to or request that we share your information with them.
Internet or similar network activity	Browsing history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website or advertisement.	Service providers, affiliates, analytics companies, government regulators, our legal advisors and parties involved in a legal process, to an entity involved in the sale of our business.
Geolocation data	Approximate physical location derived from IP address.	Service providers, affiliates, analytics companies, government regulators, our legal advisors and parties involved in a legal process, to an entity involved in the sale of our business.
Inferences	Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, behavior, and interests.	Service providers, affiliates, analytics companies, government regulators, our legal advisors and parties involved in a legal process, to an entity involved in the sale of our business.

California and certain other U.S. states provide their state residents with rights to (as applicable):

Confirm whether we process their personal information.
Access and delete certain personal information.
Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising, sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state.

You may also have the right (for example, under California Civil Code § 1798.83) to periodically request and obtain from us the details of any personal information we shared with a third party for the third party's direct marketing purposes during the prior calendar year.

To exercise any of these rights or appeal a decision regarding the same, please contact us at press@mail.techsnif.com.

We do not sell your covered information as defined under applicable Nevada law.

Supplemental Notices to Residents of the UK and EEA

In the event TechSnif collects personally identifiable information from individuals in the EEA and UK through the Services, it is the controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the UK GDPR, and "personal information" as used in this Privacy Policy is "personal data," as defined in Article 4(1) of the GDPR and UK GDPR.

Basis for Processing

We will only ever process your data if we have a lawful basis to do so. The lawful bases we rely on are:

Contract: Where we process your data to fulfil a contractual arrangement we have made with you or because you have asked us to carry out a service before entering into a contract.
Consent: Where we have asked you to provide permission to process your data for a particular purpose, for example, to send you marketing messages or to set analytics cookies.
Legitimate Interests: Where we rely on our interests as a basis for processing. Generally this is to provide you with the best version of the Services in the most secure and appropriate way, including providing requested support, monitoring and protecting the Services, or establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
Legal Obligation: To process your information for compliance with any legal obligation to which TechSnif is subject.

Your Rights Under GDPR

Subject to applicable law, you may be able to exercise any of the following rights in relation to your personal information:

Right to know what information we have about you: This is known as the "right of access" and gives you the right to find out what, if any, personal information we have about you, how we process it, and to request a copy of the personal information.
Right to correct your information: This is known as the "right of rectification" and gives you the right to ask that we correct or complete any personal information we have about you.
Right to delete your information: This is known as the "right to erasure" or "right to be forgotten" and gives you the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
Right to change how we use your information: This is known as the "right to restrict processing" and gives you the right to ask us to change how we use your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to move your information: This is known as the "right to data portability" and gives you the right to ask to receive your personal information from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have it transmitted to another controller.
Right to stop us from using your information: This is known as the "right to object" and gives you the right to ask us to stop using your personal information when applicable.
Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling: You have the right to be free from decisions we may make that are based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, if they produce a significant legal effect on you, unless such decision-making or profiling is necessary for entering into or performing a contract between you and us, or is made with your explicit consent.
Right to withdraw consent: If we rely on your consent to use your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect our use of your data before we received notice that you wished to withdraw your consent.
Right to file a complaint: If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handled your personal information, you can report it to the supervisory authority that is authorized to hear those concerns in your jurisdiction, although we invite you to contact us with any concern as we would be happy to try and resolve it directly.

You may exercise your rights by contacting us at press@mail.techsnif.com. The requests above will be considered and responded to in the time period stated by applicable law. Certain information may be exempt from such requests. We may require additional information from you to confirm your identity in responding to such requests.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

This policy is effective as of the date set forth above. Changes made in the future will be posted on this page. Please check this page for any updates or changes.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us via email at press@mail.techsnif.com or via mail at:

Webcafe Commerce LLC DBA _cafe_
Attention: Privacy
548 Market St. #796608
San Francisco, California 94104

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