Microns Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Microns LLC ("Microns", "we", "us", or "our") operates microns.io, a marketplace for buying and selling micro-startups and online businesses. We are the data controller responsible for your personal data.

2. Data we collect

We collect the following categories of personal data when you use our platform:
Category
Examples
Source
Identity & contact
Name, email address
Provided by you at registration
Company details
Business name, role, registration info
Provided by you during onboarding
Payment & billing
Transaction amounts, payment method type (not full card numbers — handled by our payment processor)
Generated during transactions
Communication history
Messages sent via the platform, support emails
Generated by your use of the platform
Usage & analytics
Pages visited, features used, time on site, referral source
Automatically collected via cookies and analytics tools
Technical data
IP address, browser type, device type, operating system
Automatically collected
We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as racial or ethnic origin, health data, or biometric data).

3. How we use your data

Purpose
Data used
Creating and managing your account
Identity, contact, company details
Facilitating marketplace transactions
Identity, payment, communication history
Processing commission payments
Identity, payment data
Sending transactional emails (receipts, confirmations)
Identity, contact
Sending marketing and product updates (with consent)
Identity, contact, usage data
Improving our platform
Usage data, technical data
Preventing fraud and enforcing our Terms of Service
All categories as needed
Complying with legal obligations
All categories as required by law

4. Legal basis for processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, or Switzerland, we process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Contract performance — to provide the marketplace services you have signed up for.
Legitimate interests — to improve our services, prevent fraud, and communicate relevant product updates.
Legal obligation — to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Consent — for marketing communications and non-essential cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time.

5. Third-party services

We share your data with trusted third-party providers only to the extent necessary to operate our services:
Provider type
Purpose
Data shared
Payment processors (e.g. Stripe)
Processing transactions and commissions
Identity, payment data
Analytics providers (e.g. Google Analytics)
Understanding platform usage
Usage data, technical data (anonymised where possible)
Email marketing platforms (e.g. Mailchimp)
Sending newsletters and product updates
Name, email address
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

6. International data transfers

Microns is based in the United States. Some of our third-party service providers (such as payment processors and analytics tools) may also process data outside the EEA. Where this occurs, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as:

1. Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission
2. Transfers to countries with an EU adequacy decision

You may request information about the specific safeguards applied to your data by contacting us at support@microns.io.

7. Data retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy. Upon account deletion, we permanently delete all personal data associated with your account immediately, unless we are required by law to retain certain records (for example, financial transaction records for tax compliance purposes).

If you would like to delete your account, you can do so from your account settings, or by emailing support@microns.io. We will confirm deletion within 30 days as required by GDPR.

8. Your rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Access
Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Rectification
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
Erasure
Request deletion of your personal data (right to be forgotten).
Portability
Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Restriction
Ask us to limit how we process your data in certain circumstances.
Objection
Object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
Withdraw consent
Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
Lodge a complaint
File a complaint with your local data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@microns.io. We will respond within 30 days. EU/EEA users may also contact their national supervisory authority — for example, the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) or the Irish Data Protection Commission.

9. Cookies

License to Use Our Services. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use our Services - subject to the Terms and the following restrictions in particular:

A. Don’t Use Our Services to Break the Law. You agree that you will not violate any laws in connection with your use of the Services.

B. Pay Your Bills. You are responsible for paying all fees that you owe to Microns.

C. Don’t Steal Our Stuff. You agree not to crawl, scrape, or spider any page of the Services or to reverse engineer or attempt to obtain the source code of the Services (including both Microns Intellectual Property and Seller Content) without our express permission.

D. Don’t Try to Harm Our Systems. You agree not to interfere with or try to disrupt our Services, for example by distributing a virus, excessive requests to our site or platform, or other harmful computer code.

E. Follow Our Trademark Policy. The name "Microns" and the other Microns marks, phrases, logos, and designs that we use in connection with our Services (the Microns Trademarks), are trademarks, service marks, or trade dress of Microns in the US and other countries.

F. Talk to Us Online. From time to time, Microns will provide you with certain legal information in writing. By using our Services, you’re agreeing to our Electronic Communications Policy, which describes how we provide that information to you. It says that we can send you information electronically (such as by email) instead of mailing you paper copies (it’s better for the environment), and that your electronic agreement is the same as your signature on paper.

G. Do your own due diligence. We take reasonable steps to ensure that listings on our platform are accurate but you must do your own due diligence on any purchase or sale, we are not responsible for any loss, explicit or implied, caused by any fraud or misrepresentations made through our services.

H. Scams and Fraud Protection. If you do not use Microns Transfer Service and are scammed, you cannot hold Microns liable. Using our Transfer Service is mandatory to prevent fraud. If you conduct transactions outside the platform and get scammed, resolving it is your responsibility. Attempting to bypass the platform can result in permanent account suspension.
Type
Purpose
Consent required?
Essential
Login sessions, security, platform functionality
No — necessary for the service
Analytics
Understanding how users interact with the platform (e.g. Google Analytics)
Yes
Marketing
Personalised content and retargeting
Yes

10. Children's privacy

Our services are not directed at individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If you believe a minor has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify you by email or by displaying a prominent notice on our platform before the changes take effect. The date at the top of this page always reflects when the policy was last revised.

12. Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please reach out:

Microns LLC
30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States
Email: support@microns.io

We aim to respond to all privacy-related requests within 30 days.