Privacy Policy (original) (raw)

This Privacy Policy explains how CryptoSlate collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit CryptoSlate.com, subscribe to our communications, contact us, interact with our content, or use our services.

This Policy is intended to provide transparency for users globally, including additional disclosures for individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California, and Brazil.

Overview

CryptoSlate is a crypto news, data, charts, reviews, and directory website. We collect limited personal information to operate the website, publish and distribute content, communicate with readers, measure site performance, protect against misuse, remember user-selected settings, and support advertising, analytics, affiliate, newsletter, sponsorship, and business activity.

We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of the website, and from service providers, business partners, public sources, or other third parties. The information we collect depends on how you interact with CryptoSlate.

Who We Are

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “CryptoSlate,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Zenzio Incorporated, doing business as CryptoSlate, the operator of CryptoSlate.com.

Business address:

Zenzio Incorporated (d.b.a. “CryptoSlate”)
2733 N Power Rd #483 Ste 102
Mesa, AZ 85215-1699 United States

Privacy contact: [email protected]

Privacy questions and data rights requests should be sent to [email protected].

Personal Information We Collect

The categories of personal information we may collect include:

Category Examples Primary Purposes
Identifiers Name, email address, IP address, cookie IDs, subscription identifiers, and similar contact or online identifiers. To communicate with you, provide requested services, manage subscriptions, prevent misuse, secure the website, remember privacy choices, and operate CryptoSlate.
Internet or network activity Pages viewed, referring URLs, device type, browser type, operating system, approximate location, session activity, cookie identifiers, local storage identifiers, and interaction data. To measure traffic, improve performance, understand navigation patterns, personalize site experience, support analytics, detect abuse, and support advertising where permitted.
Commercial or subscription information Newsletter subscription status, transaction-related records, affiliate interactions, sponsored content interactions, product or service interests, and business relationship records. To manage subscriptions, paid or requested services, affiliate and sponsorship activity, campaign measurement, business relationships, and records.
Communications Messages you send to us, newsletter preferences, support requests, feedback, survey responses, form submissions, and similar communications. To respond to inquiries, provide support, manage preferences, improve our services, and maintain records.
Professional or business information Company name, job title, media or partnership information, business contact details, and similar information provided in an editorial, advertising, research, sponsorship, or business context. To manage editorial, advertising, sponsorship, partnership, research, directory, and business communications.
Approximate geolocation Approximate location inferred from IP address, device information, review-region settings, or service provider data. To localize content, support site security, comply with legal requirements, operate review or regional features, and support analytics or advertising where permitted.
Inferences Interests or preferences inferred from site activity, newsletter engagement, advertising interactions, chart or interface choices, or similar interactions. To improve content, measure engagement, personalize site experience, and support contextual or interest-based advertising where permitted.
Sensitive personal information We do not ask you to provide sensitive personal information through the website. If you voluntarily provide sensitive information, it may be processed only as necessary for the purpose for which you provided it or as required by law. To process your request, comply with law, or protect rights and security. We do not intentionally use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics.

Some information may be considered personal information under one law and not another. We treat information as personal information where required by applicable law.

How We Collect Personal Information

How We Use Personal Information

If GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar laws apply, our legal bases may include:

Legal Basis When We Use It
Consent When you subscribe to optional communications, choose non-essential cookie categories, participate in optional surveys or promotions, allow certain analytics or advertising technologies where required, or otherwise give us permission to process your information.
Contract When processing is necessary to provide requested services, manage subscriptions, process transactions, or respond to service-related requests.
Legitimate interests When processing is necessary to operate and secure the website, prevent abuse, maintain business records, understand site performance using permitted data, support business communications, remember user-requested site-experience settings, or improve our services in a way that does not override your rights.
Legal obligation When processing is necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, tax obligations, accounting rules, or lawful requests from authorities.
Legal claims and protection When processing is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, enforce our terms, or protect the rights, safety, and security of CryptoSlate, users, partners, or others.

Cookies, Analytics, Advertising, and Similar Technologies

CryptoSlate and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, server logs, tags, SDKs, embedded scripts, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, analyze traffic, prevent abuse, provide charts and interactive features, support advertising, and manage privacy choices.

We use Cookiebot by Usercentrics as our consent management platform together with custom controls in our WordPress theme. Where consent is required, our Cookiebot-controlled analytics, advertising, personalization, and optional preference technologies are configured not to load until you make a choice through the cookie banner or cookie preferences panel. Because some website features are delivered through WordPress plugins, embedded chart providers, or user-requested site controls, we also maintain separate technical controls and audits for those technologies.

You can accept all categories, reject non-essential categories, or manage categories individually through the Cookiebot banner or preferences panel. Closing the banner, scrolling, or continuing to browse does not count as consent where consent is required.

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the footer of our website. This link opens the Cookiebot preferences panel where available.

Cookiebot may store your consent state in a first-party cookie named CookieConsent for up to 12 months so the website can remember and respect your choices. Cookiebot also maintains proof-of-consent records, which may include your consent state, consent date and time, URL, browser user agent, anonymous encrypted consent key, and an anonymized IP address. We do not maintain a separate raw-IP consent logging system for Cookiebot consent records.

Some choices are browser- or device-specific. If you clear cookies, use another browser, use another device, or change privacy tools, you may need to make your choices again.

Our Cookiebot categories are:

First-Party Site-Experience Settings

Some CryptoSlate controls store limited first-party cookies or local storage so the website can remember choices you make, such as dark/light mode, chart range, chart type, chart scale, TradingView chart display choices, news grid/list view, dismissed notices, hidden glossary definitions, newsletter modal status, or similar interface choices.

Examples may include theme, localStorage.theme, cryptoslate_news_view, cryptoslate_coin_tradingview_range, cryptoslate_coin_tradingview_type, cryptoslate_coin_chart_range, cryptoslate_coin_chart_type, cryptoslate_coin_chart_scale, crypto_tokensky_event, crypto_newsletter_modal, crypto_newsletter_modal_subscribed, crypto_newsletter_inline_subscribed, blueprint_modal_subscribed, and crypto-glossary-*.

These settings are used to provide the interface choice you requested or to avoid repeatedly showing the same prompt. They are not intended for cross-site advertising. Some may continue to operate when you reject optional Cookiebot categories. A review-region cache such as cs_review_geo_v1 may be treated as Preferences/Functional storage and cleared if you reject that category.

Some first-party post-view or interaction keys, such as crypto-post-viewed-{postId}, may be used to avoid duplicate display behavior, support site analytics, or support content measurement depending on the page context and configuration. Where such storage is used for analytics, personalization, advertising, or cross-session measurement, we classify and control it according to the applicable Cookiebot category and legal requirements.

Analytics and Product Measurement

If you allow Statistics cookies where consent is required, we may use Google tag or Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Contentsquare, and similar tools to understand site performance and reader interactions. These tools may help us measure traffic, diagnose technical issues, understand navigation patterns, improve pages, charts, reviews, and other site features, and evaluate whether content is useful to readers.

Microsoft Clarity may collect behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay data for site optimization. Contentsquare may help us understand page interactions and user experience on selected pages. Google tag or Google Analytics may help us measure traffic, referrals, and engagement. These tools should not load through our consent manager unless Statistics consent is granted where consent is required.

Some analytics may be treated as service-provider or processor measurement, while other measurement, attribution, or ad-related analytics may be treated as sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising under certain privacy laws depending on configuration and use.

Advertising and Monetization Partners

If you allow Marketing cookies where consent is required, and if you have not opted out through a recognized opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control, we may use advertising, affiliate, sponsorship, ad measurement, identity, demand, exchange, and monetization partners, including HypeLab and, where configured, Freestar, Sevio/ID5, Ad Inserter-served third-party ad code, or similar partners.

These partners may process identifiers, internet or network activity, approximate location, page views, ad views, interactions, and inferences to deliver, measure, attribute, personalize, or support ads and monetization. Under some privacy laws, this activity may be considered a sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising.

Where required, Marketing-controlled advertising technologies are disabled until you consent or are disabled when you opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. Because some advertising code may be delivered through WordPress plugins or partner configuration, we use Cookiebot settings, custom controls, plugin configuration, and audits to manage these technologies.

Embedded Chart and Market Data Providers

We use embedded chart and market data tools, including TradingView, to provide charts and market functionality on coin, company, product, and related pages. TradingView widgets and similar embedded tools may receive technical information needed to display, operate, and secure the widget, such as the page URL, widget type, displayed symbol, browser or device information, and IP address. These providers may also use cookies or similar technologies under their own privacy terms.

Some embedded chart or market data tools are treated as part of the core site experience because they provide the interactive chart or market feature requested by the user. We do not control the independent processing practices of third-party embedded providers. If you want to limit third-party embedded content, you may use browser settings, privacy extensions, or the privacy controls available from the relevant third party.

We use a conservative Google Consent Mode setup. Where consent is required, Google tags are configured not to load before your consent choice and are configured to respect your selected consent state. Before a user choice is known, Google consent settings are set to deny advertising and analytics storage while allowing security storage needed for site safety.

Cookiebot may provide a Cookie Declaration or preferences panel that lists cookies and similar technologies detected on the site, their category, purpose, provider, and duration where available. The Cookiebot scan may change as site features, vendors, and plugins change.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings, device settings, privacy extensions, and industry opt-out tools. Browser or device controls may not affect all technologies, and deleting cookies may also delete your Cookiebot consent choice.

Daily Email Newsletter

If you subscribe to a newsletter or submit a signup form, we collect the information you provide, such as your email address and any form fields, to send the requested communications, manage subscriptions, prevent abuse, maintain suppression records, and measure email performance where permitted.

We may use newsletter or email service providers, including Substack and, where used, Kit, Blueprint, or similar providers. These providers may process your email address, subscription status, email engagement, and related technical information to deliver the newsletter and manage your subscription. Their processing may also be governed by their own privacy policies and terms.

You can unsubscribe from the daily newsletter using the unsubscribe link available in each newsletter email. Newsletter unsubscribe options may also be available through newsletter subscription pages on CryptoSlate.com or provider-managed pages.

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

We do not sell personal information for money. However, some advertising, analytics, affiliate, sponsorship, and monetization activities may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising under certain privacy laws. You can exercise applicable opt-out rights through the Cookie link in our footer or by contacting us at [email protected].

International Data Transfers

CryptoSlate is operated by Zenzio Incorporated in the United States, and our service providers and partners may process personal information in countries other than where you live. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.

When required by law, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, which may include standard contractual clauses, data processing agreements, adequacy decisions, consent, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Information Type Typical Retention Period
Newsletter and communication records Until you unsubscribe or request deletion, plus a reasonable period for suppression, audit, abuse-prevention, and legal records.
Contact and support messages For as long as needed to respond, maintain business records, resolve disputes, and comply with legal obligations.
Analytics and log data For a limited period appropriate to security, analytics, reporting, troubleshooting, and operational needs, subject to vendor settings, consent choices, and legal requirements.
Cookie, local storage, and advertising identifiers For the period set by the applicable cookie, local storage key, advertising partner, browser, device, vendor control, or consent preference. Cookiebot consent choices are generally re-prompted at least every 12 months.
First-party site-experience settings For the duration needed to remember the interface choice or suppress repeated prompts. Some settings may persist until you change the setting, clear browser storage, or the setting expires.
Transaction and business records For the period required for accounting, tax, audit, legal, compliance, and business recordkeeping purposes.

When personal information is no longer needed, we will delete, anonymize, aggregate, or otherwise handle it in accordance with applicable law.

Depending on your location and how you interact with CryptoSlate, you may have the right to:

You can manage cookie and privacy choices by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the footer of our website. This link opens our Cookiebot preferences panel when available. You can also submit privacy requests by contacting us at [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

You can unsubscribe from our daily email newsletter by using the unsubscribe link in each email.

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, the UK GDPR, and related data protection laws.

Subject to applicable limitations, these rights may include:

We process personal data under the legal bases described in the “Legal Bases for Processing” section above. Where consent is required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we ask for consent before those technologies are intended to load. Where we rely on legitimate interests, we balance our interests against your rights and expectations.

For users in the EEA or UK, optional Cookiebot categories are intended to be opt-in. Rejecting optional categories should keep Statistics, Marketing, and Preferences inactive, except for Necessary technologies and limited first-party site-experience settings described above that are used to provide interface choices you requested or to operate the site.

If we transfer personal data outside the EEA or UK, we use lawful transfer mechanisms where required, such as standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, or other safeguards recognized by applicable law.

CryptoSlate has not appointed a data protection officer. GDPR and UK privacy requests should be sent to [email protected].

California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents and supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy. It describes our practices under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

Categories of Personal Information

In the past 12 months, we may have collected, disclosed, sold, or shared the following categories of personal information as described below. “Sale” and “sharing” are used as defined by California law.

Category Examples Sources Purposes Categories of Recipients Sold or Shared? Retention
Identifiers Name, email address, IP address, cookie IDs, device or browser identifiers, subscription identifiers. You, your device, service providers, business partners, public sources. Site operation, communications, security, subscriptions, analytics, advertising, business records. Service providers, analytics providers, email providers, advertising and monetization partners where applicable, professional advisers, authorities where required. May be sold or shared for advertising, affiliate, sponsorship, or monetization activity depending on your choices, configuration, and applicable law. As described in the retention section or the applicable cookie, storage, consent, or vendor setting.
Internet or electronic network activity Pages viewed, referral URLs, browser and device information, interaction data, cookie IDs, local storage IDs, ad interactions, newsletter engagement. Your device, cookies, analytics tools, advertising partners, service providers, newsletter providers. Analytics, security, site performance, personalization, advertising, attribution, fraud prevention, content improvement. Service providers, analytics providers, advertising and monetization partners, embedded tool providers, newsletter providers. May be sold or shared for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising depending on your choices, configuration, and applicable law. As described in the retention section or the applicable cookie, storage, consent, or vendor setting.
Commercial or subscription information Newsletter subscription status, transaction-related records, affiliate interactions, sponsored content interactions, product or service interests. You, service providers, business partners, affiliate or sponsorship partners. Subscription management, payments, campaign measurement, partnership management, business records. Service providers, email providers, payment processors where applicable, advertising and affiliate partners where applicable, professional advisers. May be sold or shared for advertising, affiliate measurement, or monetization activity depending on your choices, configuration, and applicable law. As described in the retention section, generally for as long as needed for the relationship, request, suppression, audit, legal, or business record.
Communications Messages, support requests, feedback, form submissions, newsletter preferences, survey responses. You, service providers, business partners where applicable. Responding to requests, support, subscription management, business communications, records, service improvement. Service providers, email providers, professional advisers, business partners where needed to respond to your request. Not sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising unless the communication is tied to advertising, affiliate, or monetization activity described in this Policy. For as long as needed to respond, maintain records, resolve disputes, comply with law, or manage suppression records.
Professional or employment-related information Company name, job title, business contact details, media, advertising, editorial, sponsorship, or partnership information. You, public sources, business partners, service providers. Business communications, editorial work, partnerships, sponsorships, advertising relationships, directory or research activity. Service providers, business and editorial partners, professional advisers. No, unless used in a context that qualifies as sale or sharing under California law. For as long as needed for the business relationship, request, recordkeeping, legal, or compliance purpose.
Approximate geolocation Approximate location inferred from IP address, device information, review-region settings, or service provider data. Your device, service providers, analytics tools, advertising partners where permitted. Security, localization, review-region features, analytics, advertising where permitted, compliance. Service providers, analytics providers, advertising partners where applicable, embedded tool providers. May be sold or shared for advertising depending on your choices, configuration, and applicable law. As described in the retention section or the applicable cookie, storage, consent, or vendor setting.
Inferences Interests, preferences, or audience segments inferred from site activity, newsletter engagement, advertising interactions, or interface choices. Site activity, analytics providers, advertising partners, newsletter providers, service providers. Content improvement, analytics, personalization, advertising measurement, ad delivery, monetization where permitted. Analytics providers, advertising and monetization partners, service providers, newsletter providers where applicable. May be sold or shared for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising depending on your choices, configuration, and applicable law. As described in the retention section or the applicable cookie, storage, consent, or vendor setting.
Sensitive personal information Not intentionally collected through the website. If you voluntarily provide sensitive information, we process it only as necessary for your request or as required by law. You, if voluntarily provided. Processing your request, compliance, security, legal obligations. Service providers, professional advisers, authorities where required. No. Only as long as necessary for the purpose provided or required by law.

California Rights

California residents may have the right to:

You may submit a California privacy request by contacting us at [email protected].

We do not sell personal information for money. Some advertising, analytics, affiliate, sponsorship, and monetization activities may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California law because they may involve making identifiers, internet activity, approximate geolocation, or inferences available to advertising or measurement partners.

You can opt out of sale or sharing by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the footer of our website and using the Cookiebot controls. You may also contact us at [email protected] with the subject line “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.”

For California residents, Global Privacy Control and similar valid opt-out preference signals are treated as requests to opt out of sale or sharing for advertising purposes on the browser or device where the signal is detected. When a valid signal is detected, our local consent logic disables Advertising/Marketing-controlled sale or sharing activity. This does not necessarily disable Statistics/Analytics technologies unless you also reject Statistics in the Cookiebot controls or the applicable analytics activity is treated as sale or sharing under our configuration.

Where required, we provide a way to confirm whether your sale or sharing opt-out has been processed, such as a Cookiebot preference status, privacy settings indicator, or an “Opt-Out Request Honored” notice.

We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics.

You may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may require proof of authorization and may also ask you to verify your identity directly with us, unless an exception applies.

Brazil LGPD Privacy Notice

This section applies to individuals in Brazil and supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy. For purposes of Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, CryptoSlate may act as a controller of personal data when we determine the purposes and means of processing.

Subject to applicable limitations, individuals in Brazil may have the right to:

We process personal data for the purposes described in this Policy and rely on lawful bases available under applicable law, which may include consent, contract performance, legitimate interests, legal obligations, regular exercise of rights, fraud prevention, protection of credit where applicable, and other lawful bases recognized by the LGPD.

To exercise LGPD rights, contact us at [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity and request information necessary to process your request.

Children's Privacy

CryptoSlate is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age required by applicable law. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at [email protected], and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, system, or method of transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that personal information will always remain secure.

CryptoSlate may link to or embed third-party websites, services, wallets, exchanges, applications, social media platforms, videos, charts, forms, newsletters, or other content that we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party services you use.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice where required by law.

Your continued use of CryptoSlate after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated Policy, subject to any consent requirements under applicable law.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise privacy rights, contact us at:

CryptoSlate
Zenzio Incorporated (d.b.a. “CryptoSlate”)
2733 N Power Rd #483 Ste 102
Mesa, AZ 85215-1699 United States
Email: [email protected]