LimeX provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of (i) this website, located at limex.me, (ii) any other website owned and operated by LimeX, Inc. or its affiliates, (each a "Site," and collectively, the "Sites"), and (iii) any LimeX-owned or affiliated mobile device application (the "App(s)"). The Sites and Apps are collectively referred to as the "Services."
In this Privacy Policy, "you" or "your" means the person using the Services and the company (if any) on whose behalf you are acting, and "we," "us," "our," or the "Company" means LimeX and its affiliates.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site. Please review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
Before using the Services or submitting any personal information to LimeX, please review this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us at alphabuilder@limex.com if you have any questions. By using the Services, you accept our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Sites or otherwise use the Services.
About LimeX Services
LimeX offers a microblogging social network that provides you with access to content created and provided by individuals who offer information about finance, investing, trading, and market trends. Much of the content on LimeX is free, but access to some premium content may require a paid subscription. The LimeX Shop is an e-commerce store where users may shop for LimeX merchandise.
Information Collection and Use
We collect personally identifiable information to provide you with the Services, to communicate with you, and to manage your registered user account, if you have one.
Information we collect — We may collect the following categories of personal information about you through the Site, including but not limited to:
- Registration information: To use certain features of the Services, you will need to register and create an account. When you create an account, you will be asked for basic registration information, such as an email address, username, and password.
- Identification information: You may also be asked to provide identification information to confirm your identity, including your first and last name, username, address, and phone number.
- Financial information: When you subscribe to the Services, or purchase something from LimeX Shop, we will collect your credit card information, such as your payment card number and authentication details. Please note, however, that we store only a tokenized version of such information and do not maintain payment card information on our servers.
- Commercial information: We may retain a history of the products you browse, services you use, or channels you subscribe to using the Services.
- Third-party credentials: You may also enter certain passwords, usernames, account numbers, and other account information for websites, apps, products, or services provided by third-party service providers.
- Information from Third-Party Services: In order to display information to you through the Services, we may collect, on your behalf, your account and other personal information from Third-Party Services that you register under your account via the Services.
- Technical and navigational information: We collect information about your interaction with our Site, including which browser you use, pages visited, average time spent on our Site, IP address, unique device identifier for mobile devices, operating system version, and app version.
- Location information: If you choose to use location-enabled Services, we may collect location information from your device.
- Social media information: We have pages on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Vimeo, YouTube, and LinkedIn. When you interact with our Social Media Pages, we will collect personal information that you elect to provide to us.
- Email open/click information: We may use pixels in our email campaigns that allow us to collect your email and IP address as well as the date and time you open an email or click on any links in the email.
- Other information: We may request or receive other personal information such as feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas to provide you with other benefits or to improve upon the Services.
Use of Contact Information
In addition, we may use your contact information to market to you and provide you with information about our products and services, including, but not limited to, our Services. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such information from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications.
We may aggregate personal information and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and add features to our Services, and for other similar purposes.
We may also use your contact information for the following purposes:
- To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
- To analyze how you interact with our Services;
- To maintain and improve the Services;
- To develop new products and services;
- To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks; and
- To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or other third parties.
Log Data
When you visit our Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, how you got to our Site, the webpages you visit, the search terms you use, and any advertisements you click on. We use Log Data to monitor the use of the Services, and for the Services' technical administration.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Service Providers — We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without limitation, hosting and maintenance. We will share your personally identifiable information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement — LimeX cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law.
Business Transfers — LimeX may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, dissolution, transition of service to another provider, or in the event of bankruptcy.
Affiliates — LimeX may share personal information with our current and future affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with LimeX.
Other Users — Your full username and your image (if you decide to upload one) for which you registered on Twitter are displayed to people in the LimeX network to enable you to connect with people on LimeX, as specified in your privacy settings on Twitter.
Personal Information — Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not, without your permission, sell, publish, or share your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
Advertising
Ad Serving — We may serve ads on the Services. Such ads may be delivered to you by a web advertising vendor. Users can subscribe to the Services to remove ads.
Advertising and Cookies — Some of our third-party advertising partners may distribute cookies to users in advertisements that are provided to us. LimeX has no access to or control over these cookies once we have received the advertisements.
Affiliate Advertising — We participate in affiliate advertising and allow affiliate links to be encoded on some of our pages.
Text Messages — By providing your telephone number to our customers to use the Services, you consent to receive information from us via SMS and/or MMS messages sent through an automated telephone dialing system ("Text Service"), even if you have opted in to the National Do Not Call List, any state Do Not Call List, or the internal Do Not Call List of any company.
Third Party Data Collection
We may offer a number of separate products and services offered by third parties advertised by you on our Site and through the Services. If you choose to use these separate products and services, their use of your information is subject to the applicable third party's privacy policy and terms of service.
You should also be aware that some content delivered through the Services originates with third parties. Please review the terms of use and privacy policy of the originators of such content.
Security
LimeX takes commercially reasonable steps to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical, and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, but we cannot and do not assure that these measures will be sufficient to protect against all efforts to gain unauthorized access to the information.
We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site.
Links to Other Websites
Our Site contains links to other websites not operated or controlled by LimeX, including social media services. We do not exercise control over third party websites. The information that you share with the Third-Party Services will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third-Party Services and not by this Privacy Policy.
Our Policy Towards Children
The Site is not directed to persons under 18 and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at alphabuilder@limex.com.
Data Retention
We will keep your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law, whichever is the longer.
To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we use your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
California Privacy Rights
California law permits visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. California residents may have the right:
- To know the categories of personal information that LimeX has collected about you, the business purpose for collecting your personal information, and the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
- To access the specific pieces of personal information that LimeX has collected about you;
- To know whether LimeX has disclosed your personal information for business purposes, the categories of personal information so disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information;
- To have LimeX, under certain circumstances, delete your personal information;
- To opt out of the "sale" of your personal information; and
- To be free from discrimination related to the exercise of these rights.
International Users and Data Transfers
LimeX is based in the U.S. If you are accessing our Site from or in the EU, UK, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that your personal data will be transmitted to our servers in the U.S. as necessary to provide you with the information that you requested, administer our contract with you, or to respond to your requests as described in this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
To request access to personal data relating to you which is processed by LimeX, and/or if you have any questions about the handling of personal information, please send an email to alphabuilder@limex.com.
Privacy Notice
This document mirrors the official Lime FinTech policy. If you have any questions about it, contact us at alphabuilder@limex.com.