Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Ant Star Media collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when you visit or use aeonnumen.com.

1. Controller

The responsible website operator is:

Ant Star Media
F&F Tower, Piso 26
Calle 50, Obarrio
Panamá, Provincia de Panamá
Panama

Email: info [at] aeonnumen.com

2. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the use of aeonnumen.com, including blog content, contact forms, newsletter features, user accounts, memberships, comments, embedded content, analytics, and related website functions.

3. Types of Data We May Collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may process the following types of data:

Contact details, such as your name and email address, when you contact us.
Newsletter or subscription data, such as your email address and subscription preferences.
Account and membership data, such as login details, member status, subscription status, and account settings.
Comment data, such as your comment text, display name, account information, and publication date.
Payment or billing-related data if paid memberships, paid content, or downloads are offered. Payment data may be processed by external payment providers and is not necessarily stored directly by us.
Technical data, such as browser type, device information, IP address, access time, pages visited, and security-related metadata.
Analytics data collected through privacy-friendly analytics tools.
Data generated when interacting with embedded content from third-party platforms.

4. How We Collect Data

We may collect data when you:

Visit the website.
Use the contact form.
Subscribe to a newsletter or email updates.
Create an account or log in.
Become a free or paid member.
Leave a comment.
Interact with embedded content.
Click external links.
Communicate with us by email.

5. Purposes of Processing

We process data for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
To publish and manage editorial content.
To respond to inquiries.
To send newsletters or email updates if you subscribed.
To manage user accounts, login sessions, memberships, and access rights.
To enable comments and community features.
To provide paid content, memberships, or downloads where applicable.
To analyze general website performance and visitor trends.
To prevent spam, abuse, fraud, and security threats.
To comply with legal obligations.
To protect our rights, property, users, and website infrastructure.

6. Legal Basis for Processing

Where applicable data protection laws require a legal basis, we rely on one or more of the following:

Your consent, for example when subscribing to a newsletter or accepting optional cookies.
Contractual necessity, for example when creating an account, accessing membership features, or purchasing paid content.
Legitimate interests, such as operating the website, improving content, securing infrastructure, preventing abuse, and measuring general website performance.
Legal obligations, where processing is required by applicable law.

7. Contact Form and Email Communication

If you contact us through the contact form or by email, we process the information you provide in order to respond to your request. This may include your name, email address, message content, and related communication metadata.

We do not use contact inquiries for marketing unless you have clearly consented to such use.

If you subscribe to our newsletter or email updates, we process your email address and subscription preferences to send you updates about AeonNumen, IOTA-related content, Web3 projects, ecosystem developments, and related topics.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link provided in our emails or by contacting us at info [at] aeonnumen.com.

AeonNumen may allow users to create accounts, log in, access member-only content, manage subscriptions, and participate in community features.

For this purpose, we may process data such as your email address, account status, login information, membership level, payment status, and access permissions.

If paid memberships, paid content, or downloads are offered, additional billing or transaction data may be processed by payment providers. The privacy policies of those payment providers may also apply.

10. Comments

Comments may be enabled in the future. If you leave a comment, we may process and display your comment content, display name, account information, publication time, and related metadata.

Comments may be reviewed, moderated, edited, or removed if they violate our rules, applicable law, or the rights of others.

Please do not publish personal, confidential, sensitive, or third-party information in comments.

11. Analytics with Umami

We use Umami to understand general website usage and improve our content and user experience.

Umami is a privacy-focused analytics tool. It is designed to provide aggregated website statistics without using tracking cookies, cross-site tracking, or personal profiling.

Analytics data may include general information such as visited pages, referrers, device type, browser, country or region, and usage patterns. We use this information to understand which content is useful and how the website performs.

12. Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare for security, performance, content delivery, DNS, and protection against malicious traffic.

When you access the website, Cloudflare may process technical data such as IP addresses, request headers, security events, device information, and traffic metadata in order to deliver and protect the website.

Cloudflare may process data in different countries depending on its infrastructure and services.

13. Ghost

This website is operated using Ghost. Ghost may be used to manage blog posts, newsletters, memberships, accounts, subscriptions, and comments.

Depending on your interaction with the website, Ghost-related functionality may process data such as your email address, login session, subscription status, member profile, newsletter preferences, and comments.

14. Listmonk and Email Delivery

We use the newsletter system Listmonk to manage mailing lists, newsletter subscriptions, unsubscribe requests, and email campaigns.

Newsletter emails are sent through a mail server operated by or for Ant Star Media and connected to Listmonk. For this purpose, data such as your email address, subscription status, delivery status, and technical email information may be processed.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each newsletter.

15. CoinGecko Market Data

We use CoinGecko to display selected cryptocurrency market data, such as prices and 24-hour price changes for digital assets.

When the market widget is loaded, your browser may request data from CoinGecko servers in order to retrieve current market information. In this process, technical data such as your IP address, browser information, device information, the requested URL, date and time of access, and referrer information may be transmitted to CoinGecko.

We use CoinGecko only to display cryptocurrency market information on our website. We do not use CoinGecko for user tracking, cross-site tracking, or personal profiling.

Provider: CoinGecko, operated by Gecko Labs Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
More information can be found in CoinGecko’s Privacy Policy.

16. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services

This website may include embedded or linked content from third-party services such as YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Google Fonts, social media platforms, project websites, documentation pages, or media sources.

Embedded content from third-party websites behaves as if you visited the third-party website directly. These third parties may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, or process information according to their own privacy policies.

We do not control the data processing practices of external providers.

17. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use cookies or similar technologies to operate the website, maintain login sessions, provide membership functions, remember preferences, protect against abuse, and enable technical functionality.

Optional analytics or marketing cookies will only be used where required consent has been obtained.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy below.

We do not sell personal data.

We may share data with service providers only where necessary to operate the website, provide technical infrastructure, process subscriptions or payments, deliver emails, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

Such providers may include hosting, CDN, security, analytics, newsletter, payment, email, and website platform providers.

19. International Data Transfers

As AeonNumen is operated from Panama and is accessible worldwide, personal data may be processed in countries outside your place of residence.

Where required by applicable law, we take appropriate steps to protect personal data when it is transferred internationally.

20. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless longer retention is required or permitted by law.

Typical retention periods may depend on the type of data:

Contact inquiries may be kept for as long as necessary to respond and document communication.
Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion.
Account and membership data is kept while your account or membership remains active and for a reasonable period thereafter.
Comment data may remain published unless removed by you, by us, or due to legal reasons.
Technical and security data may be retained for limited periods needed for security, diagnostics, and legal compliance.

21. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of inaccurate data.
Request deletion of your data.
Request restriction of processing.
Object to processing.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Request data portability.
Lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

To exercise your rights, contact us at info [at] aeonnumen.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

22. Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the website and personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmission or storage over the internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

23. Children

This website is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe that a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so we can review and delete the information where appropriate.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, technologies, legal obligations, or business operations.

The updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.