PERSONAL DATA

On our website, we provide an option to subscribe to our email list by filling out a form in order to receive news releases or other information concerning Abacus Mining & Exploration Corp. (hereinafter “Abacus”).   By providing your e-mail address on this form, you are consenting to receive this information. However, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

The information we ask for on this form is simply your email address. Personal data that is collected through the subscribe form on our website is shared with the Company’s external service providers who assist us with our services and functions. Personal data that is collected through this website may be stored and processed in any country where Abacus or its external service providers operate. West Digital Communications (former Nasdaq, https://www.west.com) disseminates our news releases and Adnet Communications Inc. (https://www.adnetinc.com/contact/) maintains and processes our email lists.

We take all reasonable steps to protect the security of information (including personal data) that is provided by you or exchanged with you through this website. Our security measures include using firewalls, intrusion detection systems and virus scanning tools to protect against unauthorized persons and viruses from accessing the information that you provide to us, and we to you. However, please be aware that there are inherent risks in transmitting information by use of the Internet and other online or electronic transmission systems and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.

This website may contain links to third party websites. Before providing personal data to third party websites, we recommend you examine the privacy policies on those websites. Abacus is not responsible for the privacy practices on third party websites.

Abacus’s website, external service providers and linked third party sites are not for use by children under the age of 16 years and the Company does not knowingly collect, store, share or use the personal data of children under 16 years. If you are under the age of 16 years, please do not provide any personal data, even if prompted by the sites to do so. If you are under the age of 16 years and you have provided personal data, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify the Company and we will delete all such personal data.
 

COOKIES

When you first visit Abacus’s website, you will be asked if you accept the use of cookies when you browse our website.

A cookie is a short text file that may be stored on your hard drive when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies on this website:

• "Google Analytics" cookies (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc). Google Analytics sets four cookies that allow us to analyze traffic on the website. Google Analytics cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to this website and to see how visitors move around the site (in particular, what pages of the website are being visited). This helps us to improve the way our website works.

• For statistical purposes, Abacus uses Matomo on this website. Matomo is an open source web analysis tool. Matomo does not transfer any data to servers without Abacus’s consent.   Matomo does use cookies. Cookies are text files that are saved on your computer and enable Abacus to analyze how its website is used. The information provided by the cookie is transferred to Abacus’s server and saved there, to enable us to analyze user behaviour. Your IP address will be immediately anonymized; users are thus anonymous. The information generated by the cookie regarding how you use the website will not be passed on to third parties.

• Display and preference settings cookies - for example, if you changed the size of the text on our website when you last visited, a cookie will remember that so you need not do it again.

• "Session cookies" - to identify and maintain a browsing session, and to remember whether you have rejected cookies through your browser settings.

• Cookies that track whether a social networking option has been used to forward material from our website (so that we know which social networking tools are in use).

These cookies do not collect or track any personal data or information about you as an individual. Instead, they are focused on how the website is used, and seek to enhance the accessibility of the website.

We also log your domain and IP address automatically when you visit this website. This data identifies the computer that you are using to view this website and your approximate geographic location. Again, we do this to track usage patterns.

Note that most web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. If you delete or block our cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly, because some of our cookies are necessary for the operation of this website.

This Cookies Statement places all users of this website on notice about our use of cookies. Your continued use of this website confirms to us that you are aware of our use of cookies and have no objection to this.

Our website is hosted and maintained by Adnet Communications Inc.  (https://www.adnetinc.com/contact/)

A useful site on how to manage and control cookies on different browsers is: https://www.aboutcookies.org/