Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 02, 2025

Welcome to The Crypto Times (“we,” “us,” “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and users (“you”). This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information when you visit our website, cryptotimes.io (the “Website”).

This policy has been prepared to comply with global best practices and major privacy regulations, including the GDPR. By using our Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our service to you. The types of personal information we may collect are:

Information You Provide to Us:

  • Comments: When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your email address, and your IP address to help with spam detection.
  • Newsletter Subscription: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you updates, news, and marketing communications. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email.
  • Contact Forms & Inquiries: If you contact us via a form or email (info@cryptotimes.io), we collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide to respond to your query.
  • Contests and Promotions: If you participate in a contest, we may collect your name, email address, and, if you win, your contact number and residential address to deliver your prize.

Information We Collect Automatically:

  • Log Files: Like most websites, we use log files. This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamps, and referring/exit pages. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather demographic information for our legitimate interests in maintaining and improving the Website.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to understand user behavior, manage the Website, and personalize your experience. For more detail, see the “Cookies and Advertising” section below.

How We Use Your Information (Legal Basis for Processing)

We use your information for the following purposes, based on a specific legal justification:

  • To operate and maintain the Website: (Legitimate Interest)
  • To provide and improve our advertising: (Consent / Legitimate Interest)
  • To send you newsletters and promotional materials: (Consent)
  • To respond to your comments and inquiries: (Legitimate Interest)
  • To analyze user behavior and improve our content: (Legitimate Interest)
  • To administer contests and promotions: (Performance of a Contract)

We will never sell your personal information to third parties.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and Online Advertising

We use various technologies to run our site and show you relevant ads.

  • What are Cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by a website. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings.
  • Advertising Partners: We partner with third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. Our partners include, but are not limited to:
    • Google AdSense
    • Ezoic
    • Direct Advertisers
  • How Ad Partners Use Data: These partners may use cookies (like the Google DART cookie) and web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other websites to provide personalized advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This may include your IP address, ISP, and the browser you used.
  • Third-Party Control: The Crypto Times has no access to or control over these cookies used by third-party advertisers. We recommend you consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers (such as Google and Ezoic) for more detailed information.
  • Opting Out: You can opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. You can also visit aboutads.info to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising by many third-party vendors.

Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR & Global Standards)

As a user of our Website, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@cryptotimes.io.

Data Security and Retention

We use administrative and technical measures to safeguard your personal information. However, no system is 100% secure. We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, or country where the data protection laws may differ. As we use international service providers (like Google), your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected such information, we will take steps to delete it.

Ezoic Services

This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP address
  • Operating system type and version
  • Device type
  • Language preferences
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)

Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@cryptotimes.io.