Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 08, 2025
At Checkthese.com, we respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle data related to Admit Defeat Pro and visitors to our website (checkthese.com/adp/). Please read it carefully.
1. Admit Defeat Pro and End-User Data
Admit Defeat Pro is a script provided to website owners to detect ad blockers and encourage users to whitelist their sites. As a client-side tool, it operates on your website and does not collect or transmit personal data to Checkthese.com from your site’s visitors.
- No End-User Data Collection: Admit Defeat Pro does not collect personal information (e.g., names, emails, IP addresses) from your website visitors.
- Your Responsibility: If you configure Admit Defeat Pro to display custom messages or media, you are responsible for ensuring compliance with privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) applicable to your website and its users.
2. Data We Collect from Customers
When you purchase or use Admit Defeat Pro, we may collect the following information from you:
- Domain Name: The domain where Admit Defeat Pro is installed, to verify your license and provide support.
- Payment Status: Information confirming your payment (e.g., transaction ID) via Bitcoin Lightning, Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Verus, to manage your subscription.
- Usage Status: Data on whether and how Admit Defeat Pro is active on your domain, to ensure proper functionality and updates.
- Email: Your email address, if provided, to contact you regarding your purchase, updates, or support inquiries.
We use this data to deliver the service, manage licenses, and communicate with you. It is not shared with third parties except as noted below.
3. Website Analytics (Histats.com)
We use Histats.com to analyze how visitors interact with checkthese.com/adp/. Here’s how it works:
- Histats.com: This website uses Histats.com web analytics, which employs first-party cookies only. These cookies are owned by Checkthese.com and do not identify you across other sites.
- Data Collected: Histats tracks usage (e.g., pages visited, time spent) via first-party cookies. EU IP addresses are anonymized.
- Purpose: To optimize our website and analyze usage.
- Legal Basis: Your consent per Article 6.1(f) GDPR (legitimate interests), with pseudonymization for privacy.
- Data Storage: Anonymized data is stored on Histats’ EU servers for 12 months, then deleted monthly.
- Opt-Out: Set an opt-out cookie to stop Histats tracking.
- More Info: See https://www.histats.com.
4. Data Sharing
We do not sell or trade your data. We may share it only in these cases:
- Histats: For analytics, as described above.
- Legal Requirements: If required by law or to protect our rights.
5. Data Retention
Customer data (domain name, payment status, usage status, email) is retained for as long as your license is active and up to 12 months after expiration, unless you request deletion. Histats data is retained for 12 months, as noted above.
6. Your Rights
You may have rights under privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of your data (e.g., email, domain name). Contact us via live chat to exercise these rights.
7. Security
We use reasonable measures to protect your data from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, no system is fully secure.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy. Changes will be posted here with the updated date. Continued use of our site or service after changes indicates acceptance.
9. Contact Us
For privacy questions, reach out via live chat on checkthese.com/adp/.