Privacy Notice

Last Modified: July 1, 2025

Introduction

This Privacy Notice aims to give you information on how we process your personal data through your use of the website www.studsinstone.com (hereinafter the “Site“) including any data you may provide when you regisyer for a username and password to access the images, text, graphics, (“Content”) provided on the Site. Studs in Stone (hereinafter “we“, “us“, or “our“) operates the Site and is the controller of the information collected or provided via the Site.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully, as your access to and use of our Site signifies that you have read, understand, and agree to all terms within this Privacy Notice. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your Personal Information.

Our Policy Towards Minors

The Site is forbidden of access to persons under the age of 18 or the applicable age of majority in the jurisdiction from which the Site is accessed (“minors“), and we therefore prohibit minors from using the Site. As indicated throughout this Privacy Notice, some users may be asked to provide some information to us and our service providers to verify that you are over the age of majority required to have access to the Site and to view the content. We do not knowingly process Personal Information from minors. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a minor who has provided us with Personal Information, then please contact us at to have that minor’s Personal Information deleted. If we become aware that a minor has provided us with Personal Information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate that person’s account.

Scope

This Privacy Notice applies to Personal Information we collect on the Site and in your communications with via e-mail, online forms, support chats online or by phone, text, and other communications with the Site. It does not apply to Personal Information collected by: our affiliates and/or subsidiaries; or any third-party application or content, such as third-party advertisements, that may be accessible on the Site. Clicking on third-party links may allow third parties to process Personal Data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

The Data We Process About You

For greater certainty, the terms “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” mean any information or data regarding a user which can lead to identify such user, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person or user. It does not include data that has been anonymized or aggregated.

We may, depending on whether if you are an unregistered or a registered user on the Site, process different kinds of Personal Information about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Profile Data: We process your username, password, and email address. This also includes your preferences in receiving communication for marketing purposes from us and our third parties. If you choose to register through a third-party platform, we will collect certain Personal Information from those platforms.

Identity: When registering for certain features of the Site we process identity information you submit to us (this may include your first and last name, date of birth and/or other information derived from government-issued identification documents or other similar documentation), allowing us to verify your age and/or identity and record checks.

Technical Data: Includes information about the network that you connect your device to, including your IP address, device characteristics, user agent, and information from cookies and similar technologies. See section “Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies” for more details.

Sensitive Personal Information. We do not actively collect Sensitive Personal Information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, or information about your health, sexual orientation, gender identification, etc. (“Sensitive Personal Information“); however, depending on how you use our Site, you might nonetheless reveal and share that kind of information.

Activity data: We process information about how you use the Site, types of content that you view or interact with, and how you interact with it and advertisements, including the pages you visit and search history. This also includes what you click on, your comments on videos, messages that you send and metadata about content and messages.

Online Forms and Communication Data: We process information that you submit through online forms provided on the Site or information send to us via email, online or phone support communications or such as information provided in the context of support or privacy requests or any other inquiries, reporting and moderation of content, and our internal complaint handling system. When you engage with support staff, in addition to the aforementioned information, we may ask you to provide additional information about your issue/request, which may include, but not be limited to, information about your device, such as information about your hardware/software, and screenshots.

We may process your data to produce and share aggregated insights that do not directly or indirectly identify you and are not associated with you. Such aggregate information is not Personal Information.

Purposes for Which We Use Your Personal Information

We process your Personal Information for the following purposes:

Provision of services: to present the Site and its contents, interactive features, and to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us. We also collect and use Personal Information you provide us if case may be, to verify your participation eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;

Age and Identity verification: In some cases, we process identifiers and will use third party service providers to process biometric information for the purpose of verifying your identity and the authenticity of the identifiers you provide to us while registering for an account on the Site;

Compliance: to enforce our terms and conditions and to comply with our legal obligations, to respond to content reports, and to comply with applicable content moderation and complaint handling obligations. In certain jurisdictions, this includes our legal obligation to verify the age of users having access to the Site;