Privacy Policy

Anonym, Inc. Site and Services Privacy Policy

Last Updated:  May 17, 2024

Your information privacy is important to us.  We provide this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information and data when you use the anonymco.com website (“Site”) and any related services offered by us on the Site (“Services”). It also applies to job applicants. The Site and Services are provided by Anonym, Inc. (“Company” “we” “our” “us”).

This Privacy Policy does not apply to Anonym’s collection of Personal Information outside of the Services, including without limitation Anonym’s audiences, machine learning, or measurement solutions (“Solutions”). With respect to all Solutions, Anonym’s customers, not Anonym, determine how and why Personal Information is processed; to that effect, Anonym will enter into agreements compliant with applicable law.

This Privacy Policy also explains your choices for managing your information preferences, including opting out of certain uses of your Personal Information (defined below).  This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Site and Services. 

BY USING THE SITE OR SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.  

1. Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following categories and types of “Personal Information”: 

  • Contact Information: your first and last name, mailing address, email address, and phone number; 

  • Other identifying information: IP address, social media user names, passwords and other security information for authentication and access; 

  • Internet or other electronic activity: your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate within our Site and Services and which elements of our Site and Services you use the most; 

  • Commercial information:  products viewed on our Site; 

  • Job applicant information:  We collect and verify resumes, employment eligibility, education, and employment history from job applicants.  This includes information about your skills and qualifications for the position; and

  • Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude. 

  • Information we collect automatically. Please see the “Cookies” section below.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We use your Personal Information for the following categories of use:

  • Transactional Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, and job applicant information (where applicable) to: 

  • Process your requests and respond to you;  

  • Communicate with you about our products and services when requested; and

  • Process your application if you apply for a job with us.

  • Analytical Purposes: We use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history, and commercial information to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.

  • Marketing and Promotional Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet or other electronic activity to:

  • Inform you of our new products, services and offers; and 

  • Provide you with other information from and about our Company, including personalized marketing communications. 

  • Maintenance and Improvement of the Site and Services: We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet activity and browsing history to: 

  • Provide you with the Site and Services, including to send you alerts about your account;

  • Handle your customer services requests; and

  • Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our stores, the Site, and the Services.

  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, internet activity and browsing history, and inferences to protect the Site and services, our Company, and others and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.

3. Sources of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from the following sources: 

  • We collect information directly from you. We collect contact information and job applicant information directly from you. 

  • We collect information from you passively. We collect internet or other electronic activity passively using tools like browser cookies. This activity is further described in the Cookies and Advertising and Online Tracking sections below.

4. Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share Personal Information 

Service Providers

We have a business relationship with other businesses whom we believe trustworthy and who have confirmed that their privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”).  For example, we contract with Service Providers to provide certain services, such as hosting and maintenance, data storage and management, and marketing and promotions. Service Providers also include companies who help us evaluate your job application.  We only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf.  Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information involved, in order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.  Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.

Our Affiliates

We may share Personal Information with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with our Company.  

Corporate Transactions

If our Company is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information in connection with such transaction.  You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if, in our discretion, it will result in the handling of your Personal Information in a way that differs materially from this Privacy Policy.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law.  We may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate in order to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of our company or of any third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

5. Cookies

We use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and web browser) and may use anonymous identifiers (a random string of characters that is used for the same purposes as a cookie).  We use cookies and other similar technologies to analyze use of and improve the Site and Services and as described in the “How We Use Personal Information” section of this Privacy Policy.  Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.  You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however, certain features of the Site or Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies.  Some of our Service Providers (defined above) may use their own cookies, anonymous identifiers, or other tracking technology in connection with the services they perform on our behalf.

We use Google Analytics on the Site and Services to analyze how users use the Site and Services, and to provide advertisements to you on other websites.  For more information about how to opt out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

6. Managing Your Information Preferences

You can review, correct, update, or change your Personal Information by e-mailing us at privacy@anonymco.com.  You can also opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by following the link provided at the bottom of all marketing e-mails you receive from us.  You are able to opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us, however, you cannot opt out of receiving all e-mails from us, such as e-mails about the status of your account.  If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at that same address. 

7. Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us.  However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the Site or Services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Site or Services, and you do so at your own risk.

8. Links

Our Site and Services may contain links to other websites or allow others to send you such links.  A link to a third party’s website does not mean that we endorse it or that we are affiliated with it.  We do not exercise control over third-party websites.  You access such third-party websites or content at your own risk.  You should always read the privacy policy of a third-party website before providing any information to the website.

9. Children’s Privacy

The Site and Services are intended for users who are 18 years old or older.  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 child under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our records.  California users under the age of 18 may request the removal of their content or information publicly posted on the Site or Services by e-mailing us at  privacy@anonymco.com.  Please note that most of the user content that appears on our Site or Services is stored and controlled by third party providers; thus, complete and comprehensive removal of the content may not be possible.

10. Processing in the United States

Please be aware that your Personal Information and communications may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, or country.  If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store all information in the United States unless specified in a separate agreement or order between you or Anonym.  The laws in the United States may not be as protective of your privacy as those in your location.  By using the Site or Services, you are agreeing to the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of your Personal Information and communications will be governed by the applicable laws in the United States.

11. Special Note for Residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland

With respect to all Personal Information processed by Anonym as part of the Solutions, Anonym is a processor, as such term is defined by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). For the Site and Services, Anonym is the data controller, as defined by the GDPR, with an address at:

Anonym, Inc.

210 S. Ellsworth Ave, #690

San Mateo, CA 94401

The legal bases of our processing of Personal Information on the Services are performing the services you request and for our legitimate interests. These interests include: direct marketing, personalizing and providing the Services, evaluating marketing campaigns, securing and protecting our Services, looking into suspicious activity, investigating violations of our policies or Terms & Conditions, and preventing harm to you or others. But we rely on (1) legal necessity when we use your information to comply with legal obligations or (2) your consent when using non-essential cookies, transferring Personal Information to the United States, and engaging in other activities not addressed elsewhere in this policy. We also use the information we collect about you to pursue the following purposes, which are necessary for the performance of the contract between us to provide you with the products or services you request:

  • To enable you to register to the Site and Services;

  • To send you transaction-related emails or push notifications; 

  • To offer you the features for which you provide information;

  • To handle any request you may have to our consumer services such as resolving your problem or question, manage any complaints or deal with any feedback you may provide us;

  • For statistical analysis of aggregated data to help us segmenting our offering and develop our products and services;

  • To better understand the way in which the Site and Services are working, to offer better experience to you when using the Site and Services, to create statistics in relation to the use of the Site and Services, and our other services and offerings in general; and/or

  • To help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer the Site and Services.

Based on your consent, we also use:

  • your browsing data on the Services to better understand your profile, interests, preferences to enhance your user experience and facilitate your experience; and

  • your Personal Information and we may combine these with third-party data to send you personalized emails and push notifications tailored to you and your interests.

In order to comply with our legal obligations, we may also use some of your Personal Information to detect and prevent illegal uses, abuse, spam, fraud, security incidents and other harmful activity or government or court orders.

You may have certain rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, and/or Swiss data protection legislation (collectively, “European Privacy Laws”) with respect to your Personal Information, such as the right to:

  • request access to and be provided with information on the processing of your Personal Information;

  • request corrections of your Personal Information if such Personal Information proves inaccurate or incomplete;

  • request your Personal Information to be deleted (i) if it is no longer necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, (ii) should you decide to withdraw your consent where you gave it, (iii) should you object to its processing for direct marketing purposes, (iv) should you identify that it would have been unlawfully processed, (v) should we be under a legal obligation to erase it to comply with European Privacy Laws and always provided we are not under a legal obligation to keep it;

  • restrict the processing of your Personal Information (i) if you contest its accuracy; (ii) if the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure; (iii) if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim, (iv) if you object to profiling;

  • object to the processing of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes or to any processing which we would have based on our legitimate interest (e.g. profiling);

  • receive Personal Information which you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another provider provided it is processed based on your consent or our contract; 

  • withdraw consent for processing for which you have previously provided consent; and

  • lodge a complaint with your relevant data protection authority.

If you wish to exercise any of your above rights with respect to Personal Information we have about you as a controller, please reach out to us by any of the ways mentioned in the “Managing Your Information Preferences” section of this Privacy Policy. 

We have appointed IT Governance Europe Limited to act as our EU Representative. If you wish to exercise your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or have any queries in relation to your rights or privacy matters generally please email our Representative at eurep@itgovernance.eu or post your request or query to:

IT Governance Europe, The Mill Enterprise Hub, Stagreenan, Drogheda, Co. Louth, A92 CD3D, Ireland.

When contacting our Representative please ensure you include our company name, Anonym, Inc. in any correspondence.

You also have a right to make a complaint to a data protection supervisory authority, in the member state or country where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.  The UK supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): www.ico.org.uk. If you are in the EU, you can find your local data protection authority here.  If you are in Switzerland, you can find your local data protection authority here.

Regarding the transfer by Anonym as a processor of Personal Information to countries outside the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland, we have entered, or will enter, into so-called “Standard Contractual Clauses” approved by the Commission of the European Union for international transfer of personal information to controllers or processors established in third counties as the case may be, when appropriate. 

If you would like further information about our processing or transfer of Personal Information from the EU, UK, or Switzerland, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer at dpo@anonymco.com. Please include “Attention Data Protection Officer” in the subject line of your email. 

Your Personal Information will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, usually the duration of our agreement with the applicable customer plus 99 days, unless a longer retention period is needed to:

  • Respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;

  • To show that we treated you fairly; or

  • To keep records required by law.

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.  

12. Privacy Policy Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.  If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Site.  Those changes will go into effect on the “Last Updated” date above.  By continuing to use the Site or Services, you are consenting to the revised Privacy Policy.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you may contact us at privacy@anonymco.com. We will maintain a copy of any complaint received for six years from the date it was received.