Your Privacy Matters.
At StarAzure, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you.
Some key points about our privacy policy:
- We do not sell anything on our site
We do not collect any credit card or other financial related information from you as we do not sell anything.
- We do not collect or store address
Unless we send you a special request to deliver to you, a gift or reward, we never ask for or collect your address. You do not need to provide us an address to use our website
- We need to verify and store your email id
To prevent spam, we allow only users with a valid email address to use our site. We encourage social media login but we also provide the option for you to use your valid email address to sign up.
Data We Collect
Data You Provide To Us
Registration
To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address and a password.
Profile
You have choices to upload a profile image and a brief bio. These fields are completely optional but we encourage you to use these fields to get more attention. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
Posting and Uploading
We collect and store the data you provide us when you post a deal, comment on a post, cast votes and navigate pages of StarAzure. When you upload a profile picture or images related to a deal, we store them on our servers or third party providers who offer storage of images.
Service Use
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., a deal or a user profile) or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device type) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. Please do not use StarAzure, if you do not agree to our cookie policy.
Your Device and Location Using Google Analytics
Insights That Do Not Identify You: Like most modern websites, StarAzure uses analytics to collect user data and behaviour. When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings.
Messages
We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. We may at our discretion, scan any/all messages and content to support and protect our site. For example, we may use information in the messages and content you provide to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement.
Other
Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify users by displaying a message on StarAzure and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
User Support
We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).
Legal Disclosures
It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of StarAzure
Change in Control or Sale
We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
Your Choices & Obligations
Data Retention
We retain your personal data, posts, comments as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services.
What data do we collect
We retain posts, comments as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services.
When you login using facebook or google, we request your permission to use your profile picture, display name, id and email.
Why do we need to collect information
When you login using facebook or google, we need to retain some information listed above so your login and user experience is enhanced for subsequent vists. This data is used for the purpose of login authentication. Your profile picture and display name is visible publicly on your profile. You may login to your account and remove your profile picture and update your username.
Account Closure and Data Deletion
You can request account deletion by visiting the help section on our site and choose contact subject "other" with a message containing the email you want removed. When you request a closure of your account, your profile will not be visible to others. Your facebook or google login information will be deleted. However, we will not be able delete your account, posts, comments, votes and other activities. Deleting this data may break the functionality of our site. For example, a post you posted may have comments and votes from other users so we cannot remove the post. You have the option of logging into your account and update your display name and delete your profile picture. Information you have shared with others will remain visible after you close your account. Your messages sent to others, comments, replies and votes will remain visible even after your account is closed.
Other Important Information
Security
We implement security safeguards designed to protect our site and your data, such as encryption, tokens, HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us or post on StarAzure. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Effective and Last Updated: August 1, 2020.