by Matthew Russell - Posted 4 years ago
Whats up, my Vigilante Old Souls? I wanted to talk to you about something very important, your data. How do we handle your personal data? What do we do with it? Why do we need it? What do we get?
Let me start by stating that I believe that all we really have is our word. I take statement very seriously and live by it. When I say that we are doing all we can to protect you, you can take a sigh of relief, knowing that we are there for you.
CryptoComics Marketplace was started as a platform for the user. Our main demographic are the Indy Comic Creator. If we were to do anything to hurt this group (or any other) then we would be out of business faster than a hot knife through butter.
Since Data Privacy has become a hot button with most Americans due to the recent senate hearings (Back in April, Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the Senate to talk about Facebook Data privacy and the use of Facebook with the Russian Election fraud), lawmakers have been scrambling to pass appropriate laws.
As lawmakers were scrambling, developers were doing the same in order to keep up. In order to not loose brand reputation and consumer’s trust (both immeasurable to any business conscience) we have to pick up the slack. We must go above and beyond any other business and take it a step further than the laws require.
The main questions were 1) What is the necessary data to do our job? 2) How do we protect that data? 3) How do we collect that data ethically? 5) How do we show what data we are collecting?
There is some basic info that we really do need to be able to accomplish anything. For starters, your name is always good. It doesn’t even need to be your real name.
If you don’t want your real name to be displayed anywhere, we have a solution for you too. 1 word; pseudonym. Pen Name, nom de plume, or literary double, alias, stage name, AKA, and handle. Whatever you want to call it, use that as a “User Name”. Mine is “M. Scott Russell.” I’ve been using that since High School.
We do require an email as well. This is not so we can spam you, it is because we need a way for you to log in and have your own account. We will not share or sell this to anyone. Why would we sacrifice your trust for a few cents!?!
Besides the info that you use to fill out your Profile section, not much. We don’t need any more data than that. If you ever want to check to see the data that we have on you, check your profile. Everything is there.
As far as sharing this out, nope. I will not do it. CryptoComics Marketplace will not take part in giving your info away.
If we are ever contacted by another company concerning a member of the CryptoComics family, we will personally reach out to you.
For example; XYZ Entertainment want to talk about licensing your comic for a show/movie, we will get ahold of you personally to ask that we give them your name/email/phone number. If the answer is no, XYZ doesn’t get that info. If we can’t get ahold of you for any reason, XYZ doesn’t get that info.
We do, however, use session tracking to gleam a little insight as to what you do on the CryptoComics Marketplace.
Google Analytics helps with this tracking. For anyone out there that has to build and maintain a website, Google Analytics is a key factor.
We can sign into our Google Analytics account and see the natural progression of CryptoComics Members. We do not get specifics, as far as who did what, but we get an overall session evaluation of members as a whole.
We get to see behavior patterns of our users. Sales Funnels, Click through rate, drop off points, City/country of origin, new users vs return visitors, and referral sources are all made available.
I especially like to check out the devices used (mobile devices, computer monitors, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and so on).
All this info helps us to optimize the platform to better suit your needs. If we find out that 99% of our users use iPhones, guess what we are going to be spending a large majority of our development time.
By using Google Analytics, we get a plethora of information but nothing about a single user. Your info is kept out of our hands.
Google Analytics uses a JavaScript cookie to track you. This is a quote directly from https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
"When using the recommended JavaScript snippet, cookies are set at the highest possible domain level. For example, if your website address is blog.example.co.uk, analytics.js will set the cookie domain to .example.co.uk. Setting cookies on the highest level domain possible allows measurement to occur across subdomains without any extra configuration."
So, in the end, yes we do use cookies, but only in the capacity of Google Analytics.
