Privacy Policy

Users may be subject to different protection standards, and broader standards may therefore apply to some. Users can contact the Owner to learn more about the standards that apply to them.

This document has a dedicated section for Users in the European Union and their rights under the GDPR, and a dedicated section for Users in the United States and their rights under applicable US state laws.

Section 07 explains the different role we play for the visitors to sites our customers run on Masher Sites.

Among the types of Personal Data this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, are:

• Account data: your name, email address, password and two-factor authentication settings, provided when your control panel account is created.
• Purchase data: your name, email address, the pack you bought and your order number, passed to us by our payment processor. We never receive or store your full card details.
• Site data: the domain names you connect, your DNS settings, your site style and categories, the ad codes you place in ad zones, and the articles, images and other content you or your tools publish to your sites.
• API data: the API keys that let NewsMasher, RSSMasher, AIMasher and other connected tools publish into your sites, and records of what they published.
• Usage Data: IP addresses, browser and device details, pages requested and the time of each request, collected automatically in server logs when anyone visits this website, the control panel or a hosted site.
• Communications: what you send us when you email support.

Unless stated otherwise, the Data we ask for is required to provide the Service. Users who are unsure which Data is required are welcome to contact the Owner.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data they publish or share through this Application.

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or destruction of the Data, including two-factor authentication for control panel accounts and encrypted API access for publishing. Data may be accessible to people involved in operating this Application (administration, sales, legal, system administration) and to the external service providers listed in section 06, acting as Data Processors.

Place of processing

Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices, on the servers that host this Application, and wherever the parties involved in processing are located. Depending on where you live, this may mean your Data is transferred to a country other than your own, including the United States.

Retention time

Personal Data is kept for as long as the purpose it was collected for requires: account and site data for as long as your account and sites are active, purchase records for as long as tax and accounting law requires, and server logs for a limited period used to keep the service secure and running. Data may be kept longer where the law requires it.

We use Personal Data to:

• Create your control panel account and keep it secure
• Process your purchase and provision your sites
• Host your sites, connect your domains and serve your pages to visitors
• Receive and publish content sent by the tools you connect
• Show you statistics about your sites in the control panel
• Answer support requests
• Comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests, and detect fraud and abuse

We do not use your Data for advertising, and we do not sell it.

Personal Data is processed by the following service providers, each under its own privacy policy. All are located in the United States.

Analytics and advertising on this website

MasherSites.com uses the tools below to learn which pages, ads and links bring visitors and sales. We never sell your data.

When you click a buy button, the page adds the ad or link that brought you and these tools' visitor IDs to the PayKickstart checkout address, so your purchase can be matched to that visit. We will list any new tool here before it goes live.

Each news site hosted on Masher Sites belongs to the customer who runs it. For the personal data of that site's visitors, the customer is the data controller and Launch Ninjas, Inc. acts as a data processor, hosting the site and serving its pages on the customer's instructions.

• We collect server logs (IP address, browser, page requested, time) from visitors to hosted sites, to serve and secure the sites and to show the site owner visit statistics.
• Ads and other code a customer places in a site's ad zones, including Google ads, are the customer's choice. Those ad networks may set their own cookies on visitors' devices under their own policies.
• Customers are responsible for their own site's privacy notice and for any consent their visitors' laws require, including for ads they add.

Visitors to a hosted site with privacy questions should contact the owner of that site. We will help site owners answer requests about data we hold for them.

We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personal information to third parties for advertising, marketing or data brokerage purposes. We share information only as described below.

Service providers

The providers in section 06 may access information only as needed to perform their services for us, and are obliged to protect it.

User-directed publishing

When you connect a tool such as NewsMasher, RSSMasher or AIMasher, that tool sends content into your site through our API on your instructions. What you publish on your sites is public.

Legal requirements

We may disclose information when the law requires it, or when we reasonably believe disclosure is needed to:

• Comply with legal obligations, court orders or government requests
• Protect our rights, property or security
• Prevent fraud, abuse or security incidents
• Protect the safety of users or the public

Business transfers

If our business is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable privacy obligations.

Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical and organizational safeguards to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work continually to protect the information entrusted to us.

This section applies to Users in the European Union under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and, for those Users, supersedes anything in this policy that conflicts with it.

Legal basis of processing

We process Personal Data where it is necessary to perform our agreement with you (your account, purchase and sites), where the law requires it, where it serves our legitimate interests in keeping the service secure and working, or where you have given consent.

Your rights under the GDPR

How to exercise these rights

Email [email protected]. Requests are free of charge and answered as early as possible, and always within one month.

This section applies to residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska, Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Montana.

Categories of personal information collected in the past 12 months

Your rights

• Right to know and access: confirm whether we process your information and get access to it.
• Right to correct: have inaccurate information corrected.
• Right to delete: have your information deleted.
• Right to a copy: receive your information in a portable format, where technically feasible.
• Right to opt out of sale or sharing: we do not sell or share personal information, but you may still tell us not to.
• Right to non-discrimination: we will not treat you differently for exercising your rights.

We honor Global Privacy Control signals as opt-out requests. Email [email protected] to make a request; we respond within the time the law requires.

MasherSites.com sets cookies for the analytics and advertising tools listed in section 06: RapidMetrics (_rm_uuid), the Meta Pixel (_fbp, _fbc) and Google Analytics (_ga and _ga_ followed by an ID). They remember your visit and the ad or link that brought you. It also stores your light or dark mode choice in your browser's local storage, which never leaves your device.

The control panel at members.mashersites.com uses the session cookies needed to keep you logged in. PayKickstart's checkout pages and any ads you place on your own sites may set their own cookies, under their own policies.

Legal action

Personal Data may be used by the Owner in court, or in the steps leading to possible legal action, arising from improper use of this Application. The Owner may be required to reveal personal data at the request of public authorities.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance, this Application and its service providers may keep system logs of interactions with it, including IP addresses.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this policy at any time. We will post the change on this page with a new effective date and, where we can, email account holders. Where a change affects processing based on consent, we will ask for consent again where required.