Summary
We don't ask you to create an account, and we don't sell personal information. We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site, and our hosting provider receives standard technical data when you load a page. If you email us, we use your message only to reply.
Information Collected
Server logs
Our hosting provider automatically records standard request data, such as IP address, browser type, page requested, referring page, and time. This is used to deliver and secure the website and to diagnose errors.
Fonts
The fonts on this site are served from our own server, so loading a page doesn't send your IP address to a third-party font service.
Your browser's local storage
If you switch between light and dark mode, the choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the key csn-theme. It stays on your device and isn't sent to us. You can clear it at any time in your browser settings.
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message. We use it only to reply and to improve the site, for example by fixing an error you reported.
Analytics, Advertising, and Email
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4, a service from Google LLC, to see which pages people visit, how they arrive (for example, from search), and roughly where visitors are located by country or region. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies, such as _ga and _ga_*, and collects data such as pages viewed, time on page, device and browser type, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses. We use this information only in aggregate, to improve our guides, and we don't use it to identify you.
Google processes this data under the Google Privacy Policy; see also how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can opt out at any time with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
We have applied to show ads through Google AdSense. Ads are not live yet. Once they are:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies at aboutads.info.
- Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland will be asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before personalized ads are shown.
See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
We don't run a newsletter and don't collect email addresses through the site. If you email us, we use your message only to reply. If we start a newsletter, we'll update this policy first and name the provider.
Sharing
We don't sell or rent personal information. Data is shared only with the service providers described above, or where required by law.
Retention and Security
Server logs are kept for as long as our hosting provider's standard retention period. We keep emails only as long as needed to handle the conversation. The site is served only over HTTPS.
Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, including California under the CCPA/CPRA, you may have the right to know, access, correct, or delete personal information about you. Email hello@startcryptonow.com with your request. We don't knowingly collect information from children under 13.
Changes
We'll post any changes on this page and update the date at the top.