Privacy Policy - Linear Fox

Linear Fox Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2024

("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Linear Fox This Privacy Policy applies to our website, https://www.linearfox.com/ and its associated subdomains (collectively, our "Service") alongside our application, Linear Fox. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

A. Definitions and key terms

  • Cookie: small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information. Don’t share any cookies & tokens with anyone!
  • IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
  • Third-party service: refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
  • Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
  • Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by Linear Fox or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.

B. Information we collect

How you engage with us, the services you use, and the decisions you make will all affect the personal information we collect. When you use our service, we may get information about you in a variety of ways and from a variety of sources, including information you voluntarily supply, information that also is automatically gathered, information from third parties, and information that we infer or create from other data.
  • Name / Username
    • We collect your display name and username.

  • Phone and Email Address
    • If you add a phone to your account or email address, we collect that information. Its required if have any issues with your account or other.

  • Device Information & IP
    • We collect information about the device you use to access our Service, such as the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
    • We also collect IP Address for security purposes and to prevent abuse.

  • Password
    • Your password is encrypted and stored in our database. No one can access your password except you, but don’t share it with anyone!

  • Payment and Billing Information
    • We collect information about your payment and billing information from third-party payment processors, such as Stripe, PayPal, and Apple Pay. We recommend you read their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect, use, and share your information.

  • Third-Party Authentications
    • We may collect information about you from third-party services, such as Github, Google, Web3 Wallets [MetaMask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, etc.].
    • We never store your private keys, and we never have access to your private keys.

  • Cookies
    • As further described below, we automatically collect information from cookies (such as cookie ID and settings) in connection with our Service.

  • Sentry Application Performance Monitoring and Error Tracking
    • We use Sentry to monitor and track errors that occur within our project. This helps us identify and fix bugs quickly, and ultimately improves the performance and reliability of our project. Sentry collects information such as error and performance data, including crash reports, stack traces, and device information. We do not collect any personal information through Sentry, and we do not use Sentry for any other purpose than monitoring and fixing errors within our project.

C. Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

We receive some information from the third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your email address to us to show interest in becoming our customer, we receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to us. We also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

D. Cookies

We use "Cookies" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.
Linear Fox provides a great deal of transparency regarding how we use your data, how we collect your data, and with whom we share your data. To that end, we provide this page that details how we use cookies.
Provider of Cookie Cookie Name Description Cookie Duration
.linearfox.com exp Expiry date of the auth token in date up to 7 days
.linearfox.com expiry_timestamp Expiry date in unix timestamp up to 7 days
.linearfox.com username Username of the user Expires when exp date is reached
.linearfox.com userid Unique ID of the user Expires when exp date is reached
.linearfox.com token A JWT token that is used to authenticate the user ~ 7 day or ~ 1 day
account.linearfox.com secret_token A token to secret private data / write and read ~ 1 Hour
Cloudflare __cfduid HTTP Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic. 1 year
Google Analytics _ga Used to distinguish users. 1 year
Google Analytics _ga_* To store and count page views. 1 year
Stripe __stripe_mid To provide fraud prevention. 1 year

E. Information about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in GDPR Section we are going to explain exactly how and why is this data collected, and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.

F. Information security

We work hard to protect Linear Fox and our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold. In particular: - We encrypt many of our services using SSL. - We offer you two-step verification when you access your Linear Fox Account. - We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems. - We restrict access to personal information to Linear Fox employees, contractors, and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

G. Children's Privacy

Linear Fox does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for our services or send any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

H. Research Site

Research site / web is a open-source side project with included database however its requires Linear-Fox account connection to work properly. Linear-Fox account will automatically logs when client is login side projects. This is to prevent abuse of the system and to prevent spamming. Linear-Fox account will not be used for any other purposes other than to prevent abuse of the system.

I. Feedback and Security Vulnerability Reporting

We value your feedback and are committed to ensuring the security of our services. If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback regarding our Privacy Policy or the security of Linear Fox, please contact us at feedback@linearfox.com. We will be happy to help you resolve your issue.

If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability in Linear Fox, we appreciate your help in responsibly disclosing it to us. Please report any security vulnerabilities to our security team at feedback website. We kindly request that you do not publicly disclose the vulnerability until we have had an opportunity to investigate and address the issue.

II. International Data Transfers

Linear Fox is based in Hungary, but our services are provided globally. As such, we may transfer personal data to, and process it in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.
We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal data will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy when transferred internationally. These safeguards include implementing the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal data between our group companies and third-party service providers, which require all such recipients to protect personal data that they process from the EEA in accordance with European data protection laws.

III. Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention periods depend on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected.
When personal data is no longer necessary for these purposes, we securely delete or anonymize it. If this is not possible (for example, because your personal data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Do you have any questions about this Privacy Policy? Contact us at support@linearfox.com