Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Hydra Media SRL (“TickingTales,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) values the privacy of our customers and online visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, storage, and sharing of information when you interact with us, including when you visit our website at https://tickingtales.com (the “Site”).

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. By providing us with your information, including when you visit our Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

a. Personal Information

TickingTales collects personal information about you, which may include:

  • Name (if applicable)
  • Address (if applicable)
  • Telephone number (if applicable)
  • Email address (if applicable)
  • Username and password (if applicable)
  • If applicable, details of your specific shopping or consuming histories or tendencies
  • If you post a photograph on social media and tag us or post a comment on our social media pages, we will collect the photograph or content of that message. Please note that if you choose to post photographs on social media and tag us or post a comment on any of our social media pages, any information you post will be visible to any other visitors to that social media page. We are not responsible for any personal information you include in such posts or for any use of such information by any other visitor to the social media page.
  • Inferences we may draw from any of the information above to create a profile of you, your lifestyle, and interests.

This information is collected and stored electronically when you subscribe or register an account with us or contact us.

Where permitted by applicable law, we may combine your personal information with other non-personally identifiable information we have collected from you. We may also combine your personal information with information we receive about you from other sources, such as our service providers.

b. Information Collected Automatically

In addition, information about your device’s hardware and software is automatically collected by TickingTales when you use the Site. This information may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Type of operating system
  • Language preference
  • Access times and dates
  • Search queries
  • Device IDs
  • Geographic location
  • Other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information.

We may also collect information regarding traffic patterns, the actions taken on our Site, including the user’s click-stream and session replay information, and your interaction with our Site and advertisements. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain the quality of the Site, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site, and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.

We may also receive similar data from our business partners, including our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, or other related companies, online advertising networks, and from social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and X, subject to your registration and privacy settings with such third-party social media platforms.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences, and other information.

We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

Types of Cookies TickingTales May Use:

  • Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for you to browse the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Site. Without these cookies, certain aspects of the Site may not be available to you.
  • Functional Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you have used the Site in the past and allow the Site to remember the choices you have made. These cookies allow us to improve how the Site works for you and tailor the Site to your preferences.
  • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, such as which pages you most often visit on the Site, the time you spend on the Site, which links you click on, and any issues encountered. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Site. All information collected is aggregated and does not identify you.
  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies track your online activity to help deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests and measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They also limit how many times you see a certain advertisement. We may share the information collected through these cookies with others, such as advertisers.

We may place cookies on your device to identify one page request from another using a common technique called “HTTP-header cookies.” These cookies do not contain any personal information. They indicate that a page request is from someone who has already visited the site. Your browser may be set up to warn you whenever a site sends your browser a cookie. If a pop-up message asks you to accept or reject the use of cookies, you may choose to accept or decline it. Please note, however, that this site will not work without them.

We may also use third-party cookies, such as Google Analytics, which sets cookies on the Site to help analyze how visitors use the Site. If you would like to opt out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on.

Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools, such as pixels, to help improve your experience with the Site.

Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet, or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.

First and Third-Party Cookies

TickingTales uses two main types of cookies: first-party and third-party. First-party cookies are cookies that we use, and third-party cookies are those placed by our business partners, including social media sites and search engines.

Below are cookies that may be used on our Site.

Can I Disable Cookies?

It is possible to turn off your cookies through your website browser settings; however, this will affect the functionality and experience of our site.

For Google Chrome:

  1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
  2. Select “Settings.”
  3. Click “Show advanced settings.”
  4. In the “Privacy” section, click the “Content settings” button.
  5. In the “Cookies” section, select the relevant options.

For Mozilla Firefox:

  1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the “Firefox” button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click “Options.”
  2. Select the “Privacy” panel.
  3. Set “Firefox will” to “Use custom settings for history” and select the relevant option.

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Choose the menu “Tools” then “Internet Options.”
  2. Click on the “Privacy” tab.
  3. Select the appropriate setting.

For Safari:

  1. At the top of the window, click on the “Safari” tab.
  2. Click on the “Privacy” tab.
  3. Select “Prevent cross-site tracking.”

For Opera:

  1. At the top of the window, click on the “Opera” button.
  2. Highlight “Settings” and click “Preferences.”
  3. Select the “Advanced” tab, click “Cookies,” and select the relevant options.

Web Beacons and Pixels


A pixel is a small HTML code snippet embedded in a website or email that collects data on user behavior and interactions.

We may use pixels on certain parts of the Site and in HTML-formatted emails sent to you. These pixels help us measure the success of our marketing campaigns, gather statistics about Site usage, and track the activities of users on the Site and email recipients. For example, we may use pixels from Meta and Google to create targeted advertisements and assess their effectiveness. For more information on interest-based advertising, please refer to Section 2 (Interest-Based Advertising).

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2. Interest-Based Advertising

We may gather information about your online activities on our Site to deliver ads that are relevant to your individual interests. Additionally, we may obtain such information from third-party websites where our ads are displayed.

You may encounter certain ads on other websites because we collaborate with advertising partners, including ad networks, for remarketing and retargeting efforts. These partners enable us to direct our messaging to users based on demographics, interests, and context. They track your online behavior across websites, including our Site, by collecting data through automated means, such as third-party cookies and web beacons. This data is then used to display ads that are personalized to your interests. The information our advertising partners collect includes details about your visits to websites participating in their ad networks, such as the pages you view, the ads you engage with, and your actions on those websites. This collection occurs both on our Site and on other third-party websites within the ad networks. This process also helps us evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing strategies. For example, we use some of our advertising partners’ services to display our ads on other sites based on your previous visits to our Site and other online activities.

If a company participates in industry-established programs that allow consumers to manage their preferences regarding targeted advertising, you can opt out of interest-based advertising through the Network Advertising Initiative website or by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ for web-based advertising or http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices for mobile advertising. For more information, visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads from us, but it will stop ads that are specifically tailored to you based on your online activity over time.

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3. How Information is Used

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide and enhance the Site for your use.
  • To create and manage your subscription with us.
  • To operate, improve, and personalize our products and services, ensuring a more consistent and tailored experience when interacting with us.
  • To personalize our advertising, marketing communications, shopping experiences, and promotional offers, delivering promotions and offers we believe may interest you.
  • If you subscribe to our email list, to send you newsletters and emails about products or offers we think may appeal to you.
  • To facilitate affiliate marketing.
  • To invite you to participate in events, contests, sweepstakes, experiences, and previews.
  • To conduct surveys.
  • To encourage social media engagement.
  • For security purposes, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes related to the Site’s operation.
  • To provide customer service, respond to your inquiries, and communicate with you.
  • For other business purposes, including data analytics, accounting, auditing, reporting, developing new products and services, and identifying Site usage trends.
  • To comply with and enforce legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies.
  • As necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal processes; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may sustain.

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4. Disclosure of Information

We may disclose your information in the following ways:

  • With Third-Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf: We may share your personal information with our service providers to perform functions on our behalf. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site, assist with functionality, provide data analytics, or send email updates about the Site and our products and services.
  • With Our Parent Company, Subsidiaries, Affiliates, or Other Related Companies: We may share your information with our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, or other related companies for internal business purposes, including advertising and marketing, where permitted by law.
  • With Our Brand Partners: We may share your personal information with our brand partners as necessary in the normal course of business or when required to maintain brand integrity and exclusivity.
  • Through Tracking Technologies: We may share information collected through tracking technologies set on the Site with our website analytics and digital advertising service providers.
  • For Legal Purposes: We may share information we collect from users to enforce our rights, protect our property, or safeguard the rights, property, or safety of others. This may also include supporting external auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as necessary to respond to subpoenas, regulations, binding orders from data protection agencies, legal processes, governmental requests, or other legal or regulatory actions. Additionally, we may share personal information to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
  • Changes of Control: We reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

TickingTales does not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

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6. Social Media

Certain aspects of the Site may allow you to interact with social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and X (formerly ‘Twitter’). We will identify these features on the Site, typically by displaying the relevant third-party logos or trade names. By using these interfaces, you grant us access to information about you from those platforms, including content you submit to them. If you interact with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experiences and content via your social media account. Please note that such information may be publicly visible to other users of those platforms. For details on how these social media services and third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may allow you to adjust your privacy settings with those services.

7. Communications

You can choose to stop receiving our marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails or by emailing us at contact@tickingtales.com. 

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8. Data Security and Retention

TickingTales implements reasonable security measures to protect the Site from unauthorized access and to prevent the alteration, acquisition, or misuse of personal information. However, it is your responsibility to ensure the security of your login credentials.

We will retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws and regulations.

9. Do Not Track

Our Site does not currently take any specific action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy setting you can enable in your web browser to signal that you do not wish for certain information about your visits to be collected across websites when you haven’t interacted with that service on the page. For more information on how to enable Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.

10. Children

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of sixteen. No parts of our Site are intended for or directed at individuals under the age of sixteen.

11. Nevada Residents

In accordance with Nevada law, TickingTales does not sell your personal information. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to request that we do not sell any personal information we have collected about you. To make such a request, please contact us at contact@tickingtales.com.

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2. California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), grants California residents specific rights regarding their personal information. Below, we outline these rights, how you can exercise them, and our information practices, including the categories of personal information we collect, use, retain, disclose, sell, or share, and the reasons for doing so.

Consumer Rights

Right to Know
 You have the right to request information about the personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share. Specifically, you may request the following:

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
  • The categories of sources from which we collect personal information.
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we disclose personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

You may also request the following:

  • The categories of personal information we have sold or shared about you, and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, by category of personal information for each third party.
  • The categories of personal information we disclosed about you for a business purpose, and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose.

Right to Request Deletion
 You have the right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you. You can do so by emailing contact@tickingtales.com. If we need to retain your personal information for certain purposes, we are not required to comply with your deletion request. If we decide not to delete your personal information, we will inform you and explain why we are unable to fulfill the request.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
 You have the right to direct businesses that sell or share your personal information with third parties not to sell or share it. While we do not sell your personal information for monetary compensation, we do use cookies for targeted advertising. The collection of data through certain cookies for advertising purposes may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under the CPRA. To opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information with third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices” link located in the footer of the Site.

Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information
 You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which it is processed.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
 Tickingtales does not collect any sensitive personal information.

No Discrimination
 You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights mentioned above.

How We Collect, Use, Disclose, Sell, and Share Personal Information

TickingTales has collected the following categories of personal information and used, disclosed, sold, or shared such information in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy:

  • Identifiers: such as name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
  • Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)): such as name, address, telephone number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.
  • Commercial information: such as records of products purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information: including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
  • Geolocation data.

Each of the above categories is disclosed for a business or commercial purpose as described above in Section 3 (How Information is Used) to the third parties listed in Section 4 (Disclosure of Information).

The following categories of personal information were sold or shared in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy:

  • Identifiers: such as unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, or other similar identifiers.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information: including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
  • Geolocation data.

Such information is sold or shared with our third-party website analytics and digital advertising service providers in a way that may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under CPRA. We do not sell such information for monetary consideration.

We share or sell such information to:

  • Provide the Site to you and improve the Site.
  • Operate, improve, and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us.
  • Personalize our advertising, marketing communications, shopping experiences, and promotional offers, and deliver promotions and offers to you that we think may interest you.
  • For security purposes, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site.
  • For our business purposes, such as data analytics, audits, and identifying Site usage trends.
  • As we believe necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use; (v) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

TickingTales does not collect sensitive personal information.

Tickingtales collects the personal information described above from or through the following categories of sources:

  • You, directly and indirectly, including when you access and use the Site, purchase our products, register an account with us, subscribe to our newsletter, engage with us via social media, or otherwise contact us.
  • Service providers, including those that provide website analytics services to help us understand the activity on the Site.

TickingTales will retain the personal information described above for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

Personal Information of Minors

TickingTales does not knowingly collect, sell, or share personal information about minors under the age of sixteen.

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14. UK and EU Residents
 If you are a resident of the UK or EU, you have rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR.

TickingTales.com  is part of The Hydra Media SRL , and our Group privacy policy outlines how we use your personal data and comply with UK and EU data protection regulations. While not all parts of the policy apply to the services provided by TickingTales, we recommend reviewing the following sections:

  • Who we are and who controls your data
  • How and why we use your data
  • Your privacy rights

To exercise any of your rights under the GDPR or UK GDPR, please contact our client experience team. If you have concerns about how we handle your personal data, you can reach our group Data Protection Officer at contact@tickingtales.com.

15. Questions / Contact Us
 If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: contact@tickingtales.com

16. Notification of Changes
 Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page so users are always informed about the information we collect and how we use it. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently, as it may be updated.