The privacy of your data—and it is your data, not ours!—is a big deal to us. In this policy, we lay out: what data we collect and why; how your data is handled; and your rights with respect to your data. We promise we never sell your data: never have, never will.
This policy applies to all products built and maintained by Anstrex LLC including Anstrex Native, Anstrex Push, Anstrex Pop, and Anstrex Dropship.
Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need. Here’s what that means in practice:
When you sign up for an Anstrex product, we ask for identifying information such as your name, email address, and maybe a company name. That’s so you can personalize your new account, and we can send you product updates and other essential information. We may also send you optional surveys from time to time to help us understand how you use our products and to make improvements. With your consent, we will send you our newsletter and other updates. We sometimes also give you the option to add a profile picture that displays in our products.
We’ll never sell your personal information to third parties, and we won’t use your name or company in marketing statements without your permission either.
If you sign up for a paid Anstrex product, you will be asked to provide your payment information and billing address. Credit card information is submitted directly to our payment processor and doesn’t hit Anstrex servers. We store a record of the payment transaction, including the last 4 digits of the credit card number, for purposes of account history, invoicing, and billing support. We store your billing address so we can charge you for service, calculate any sales tax due, send you invoices, and detect fraudulent credit card transactions. We occasionally use aggregate billing information to guide our marketing efforts.
We store on our servers the content that you upload or receive or maintain in your Anstrex product accounts. This is so you can use our products as intended, for example, managing your products and customers on Anstrex Dropship. We keep this content as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we’ll delete the content within 60 days. Rest assured that this data is stored with highest level of care and security. You can learn about our data security and encryption policy in the section titled "How We Secure Data" in this document.
For most of our products, we log the full IP address used to sign up a product account and retain that for use in mitigating future spammy signups. We also log all account access by full IP address for security and fraud prevention purposes, and we keep this login data for as long as your product account is active.
We collect information about your browsing activity for analytics and statistical purposes such as conversion rate testing and experimenting with new product designs. This includes, for example, your browser and operating system versions, your IP address, which web pages you visited and how long they took to load, and which website referred you to us. If you have an account and are signed in, these web analytics data are tied to your IP address and user account until your account is no longer active. The web analytics we use are described further in the Advertising and Cookies section.
We use CAPTCHA across our applications to mitigate brute force logins and as a means of spam protection. We have a legitimate interest in protecting our apps and the broader Internet community from credential stuffing attacks and spam. When you log into your Anstrex accounts and when you fill in certain forms, the CAPTCHA service evaluates various information (e.g., IP address, how long the visitor has been on the app, mouse movements) to try to detect if the activity is from an automated program instead of a human. The CAPTCHA service then provides Anstrex with the spam score results; we do not have access to the evaluated information. In addition, we may deploy CAPTCHA service to all our users in case of large scale DDOS attacks by bad actors.
Anstrex runs contextual ads on various third-party platforms such as Google, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Users who click on one of our ads will be sent to the our public web sites. Where permissible under law, we may load an ad-company script on their browsers that sets a third-party cookie and sends information to the ad network to enable evaluation of the effectiveness of our ads, e.g., which ad they clicked and which keyword triggered the ad, and whether they performed certain actions such as clicking a button or submitting a form.
We also use persistent first-party cookies and some third-party cookies to store certain preferences, make it easier for you to use our applications, and perform A/B testing as well as support some analytics.
A cookie is a piece of text stored by your browser. It may help remember login information and site preferences. It might also collect information such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, duration of visit, content viewed, and other click-stream data. You can adjust cookie retention settings and accept or block individual cookies in your browser settings, although our apps won’t work and other aspects of our service may not function properly if you turn cookies off.
When you email Anstrex Support with a question or to ask for help, we keep that correspondence, including your email address, so that we have a history of past correspondence to reference if you reach out in the future.
We also store information you may volunteer, for example, written responses to surveys. If you agree to a customer interview, we may ask for your permission to record the conversation for future reference or use. We will only do so with your express consent.
We offer optional desktop apps for some of our products such as Shopify App for Anstrex Dropship or Chrome Browser Extension for Anstrex Dropship. When creating such apps, we comply with the suggested best practices recommended by the respective platforms while adhering to our privacy policies detailed in this document.
To provide products or services you’ve requested. We use some third-party sub-processors to help run our applications and provide the Services to you. We also use third-party processors for other business functions such as managing newsletter subscriptions, sending customer surveys, and providing our company storefront.
We may share your information at your direction if you integrate a third-party service into your use of our products. For example, we may allow you, at your option, to connect your Advertising accounts to one of our products so that you can aggregate and analyze the data from multiple providers .
No human from Anstrex looks at your content except for limited purposes with your express permission, for example, if an error occurs that stops an automated process from working and requires manual intervention to fix. These are rare cases, and when they happen, we look for root cause solutions as much as possible to avoid them recurring. We may also access your data if required in order to respond to legal process (see “When required under applicable law” below).
To exclude you from seeing our ads. Where permissible by law and if you have a Anstrex account, we may share a one-way hash of your email address with ad companies to exclude you from seeing our ads.
To help you troubleshoot or squash a software bug, with your permission. If at any point we need to access your content to help you with a support case, we will ask for your consent before proceeding.
To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding restricted uses. Accessing a customer’s account when investigating potential abuse is a measure of last resort. We want to protect the privacy and safety of both our customers and the people reporting issues to us, and we do our best to balance those responsibilities throughout the process. If we discover you are using our products for a restricted purpose, we will take action as necessary, including notifying appropriate authorities where warranted.
When required under applicable law.
Anstrex LLC is a U.S. company and all data infrastructure are located in the U.S.
Finally, if Anstrex LLC is acquired by or merges with another company — we don’t plan on that, but if it happens — we’ll notify you well before any of your personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
At Anstrex, we strive to apply the same data rights to all customers, regardless of their location. Some of these rights include:
Many of these rights can be exercised by signing in and updating your account information.
If you have questions about exercising these rights or need assistance, please contact us at [email protected] or at Anstrex LLC, 19214 Clay Rd Suite R PMB 97183 Katy TX 77449 USA. If an authorized agent is corresponding on your behalf, we will need written consent with a signature from the account holder before proceeding.
If you are in the EU or UK, you can contact your data protection authority to file a complaint or learn more about local privacy laws.
All data is encrypted via SSL/TLS when transmitted from our servers to your browser. All the third party data such as customer personal data for Anstrex Dropship including the Name, Address, Email, and Telephone Numbers are encrypted using strongest data encryption algorithms and practices. Every customer sharing third party personal data has its own key to encrypt the data. The disks storing the data keys are encrypted as well. Our servers decrypt the data to send it to you when you need it. The database backups are also encrypted. In addition, we go to great lengths to secure your data at rest and in transit. All our data stores are within a private network with no public access. No person at Anstrex will have direct access to the encrypted data without customer's explicit approval.
In many of our applications, we give you the option to trash content. Anything you trash in your product accounts while they are active will be kept in an accessible trash can for about 25 days (it varies a little by product). After that time, the trashed content cannot be accessed via the application and we are not able to retrieve it for you. The trashed content may remain on our active servers for another 30 days, and copies of the content may be held in backups of our application databases for up to another 30 days after that. Altogether, any content trashed in your product accounts should be purged from all of our systems and logs within 90 days.
If you choose to cancel your account, your content will become immediately inaccessible and should be purged from our systems in full within 60 days. This applies both for cases when an account owner directly cancels and for auto-canceled accounts. Please refer to our Cancellation policy for more details.
Our products and other web properties are operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, UK, or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to and stored in the United States. By using our websites or Services and/or providing us with your personal information, you consent to this transfer.
Anstrex seeks to ensure that it retains only data necessary to effectively conduct its program activities and work in
fulfilment of its mission. The need to retain data varies widely with the type of data and the purpose for which it was
collected. Anstrex strives to ensure that data is only retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was
collected and is fully deleted when no longer required. This policy sets forth Anstrex’s guidelines on data retention and is to
be consistently applied throughout the organization.
Scope
This policy covers all data collected by Anstrex and stored on Anstrex owned or leased systems and media, regardless of
location. It applies to both data collected and held electronically (including photographs, video and audio recordings) and data
that is collected and held as hard copy or paper files. The need to retain certain information may be mandated by federal or
local law, federal regulations and legitimate business purposes, as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Reasons for Data Retention
Anstrex retains only that data that is necessary to effectively conduct its program activities, fulfill its mission and
comply with applicable laws and regulations. Reasons for data retention include:
Data Duplication
Anstrex seeks to avoid duplication in data storage whenever possible, though there may be instances in which for
programmatic or other business reasons it is necessary for data to be held in more than one place. This policy applies to all
data in Anstrex’s possession, including duplicate copies of data.
Retention Requirements
Anstrex has set the following guidelines for retaining all personal data as defined in the Institute’s data privacy
policy.
Data Destruction
Data destruction ensures that Anstrex manages the data it controls and processes it in an efficient and responsible manner. When the retention period for the data as outlined above expires, Anstrex will actively destroy the data covered by this policy. If an individual believes that there exists a legitimate business reason why certain data should not be destroyed at the end of a retention period, he or she should identify this data to his/her supervisor and provide information as to why the data should not be destroyed. Any exceptions to this data retention policy must be approved by Anstrex’s data protection offer in consultation with legal counsel. In rare circumstances, a litigation hold may be issued by legal counsel prohibiting the destruction of certain documents. A litigation hold remains in effect until released by legal counsel and prohibits the destruction of data subject to the hold.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued guidance that personal data transferred out of the EU must be treated
with the same level of protection that is granted under EU privacy law. UK law provides similar safeguards for UK user data that
is transferred out of the UK. Accordingly, Anstrex has adopted a data processing addendum with Standard Contractual Clauses to
help ensure this protection.
We may update this policy as needed to comply with relevant regulations and reflect any new practices. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will refresh the date at the top of this page and take any other appropriate steps to notify users.
Have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy, your data, or your rights with respect to your information? Please get in touch by emailing us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to try to answer them!