Privacy Policy

Thank you for choosing to be part of the chainers.io community. We are committed to protecting your privacy and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for our websites, chainers.io, and all related sites, software, and services provided by us that link to or reference this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Chainers Platform”). The Chainers Platform is owned and operated by chainers.io (“chainers.io”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

This Privacy Policy applies to information chainers.io collects through the Chainers Platform, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties when we associate that information with users of the Chainers Platform (but not to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors). Certain third parties may also be able to collect information via the Chainers Platform. The data collection and use practices of these third parties may be governed by those third parties’ own policies, including their own privacy policies, as further described in Sections 2(A), 4, and 5, below.

This Privacy Policy describes, among other things:

• Personal and other information we collect about you;
• How we use your information;
• How we may share your information with third parties;
• Your choices regarding the personal information we collect about you.

1. Consent

By accessing or using the Chainers Platform, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Chainers Platform. Information gathered through the Chainers Platform may be transferred, used, and stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers, our affiliates, or we are located. If you use the Chainers Platform, you agree to the transfer, use, and storage of your Personal Information (as defined below) in those countries.

European Union Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area or in Switzerland, then the information we collect from you may be subject to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the “GDPR”) and the following additional information is provided for your benefit.

The controller of the personal data collected through the Chainers Platform is: Chainers.io

If you use the Chainers Platform, you acknowledge that your personal data is being processed pursuant to the following lawful bases: your consent, chainers.io’s legitimate interests, to fulfill requests made by you, and compliance with applicable law. You further acknowledge and consent to your information that is gathered through the Chainers Platform being transferred to, used in, and stored on chainers.io’s servers.

You hereby consent to the processing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy, including the transfer, use, and storage of your personal data in the United States. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. You may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions in the Accessing/Updating/Deleting Your Personal Information section below, but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. However, if you withdraw your consent or decline to provide personal data to us, you may be unable to use the Chainers Platform. You have the right to file a complaint relating to the processing of personal data with a supervisory authority.

Accessing/Updating/Deleting Your Personal Information

If you would like to delete, update, or access the Personal Information we have collected from you, and/or deactivate or delete your chainers.io account, you may do so by sending an email to [email protected] . Additionally, if your Personal Information is subject to the GDPR, you may have certain additional rights, including the right of restriction of processing of personal data, and the right to object to the processing of personal data.

2. Collection of Your Personal and Other Information

When you register for or use the Chainers Platform, we may collect Personal Information. By “Personal Information” we mean information that can identify an individual, such as:

• Email address
• Your Wallet Address
• Your Internet Protocol (IP address)
• Discord username

The Chainers Platform may integrate with social media and other third-party platforms such as Discord. When you connect your account from a third-party platform to the Chainers Platform, then we may collect information from that third-party platform and share information with that third-party platform. This collected information may include but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, or other content. You acknowledge and agree that chainers.io is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such connected third-party platform. You should read each third-party platform’s privacy policy before connecting that third-party account.

You may choose not to provide Personal Information, but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Chainers Platform.

We may also collect non-Personal Information relating to the Chainers Platform, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual. The non-Personal Information we may collect includes how you interact with the Chainers Platform, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Chainers Platform.

Examples of the non-Personal Information we may collect are:

• Information about your computer or mobile devices, such as its maker or operating system version, and HTTP header information
• The pages of our website that you viewed during a visit;
• What information, or content you view or interact with using the Chainers Platform;
• The city, state, province, and country in which you are located in;

Accessing/Updating/Deleting Your Personal Information

We will not use non-Personal Information to try to identify you, and if we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather non-Personal Information.

Information collected by the Chainers Platform may be collected by us or one of our service providers, but in either case, this Privacy Policy will govern the collection, use, and sharing of the information.

3. Use of Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

• Assist us in providing, maintaining, and protecting the Chainers Platform;
• Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Chainers Platform;
• Improve our online operations;
• Process transactions;
• Provide customer service;
• Communicate with you, such as provide you with an account or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, and/or other communications relating to the Chainers Platform;
• Send or display offers and other content that is customized to your interests or preferences;
• Perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services;
• Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Chainers Platform.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.

We may disclose Personal Information to provide services to you, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so.

We may disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to those companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as the provision of data storage, hosting of our website, conducting audits, and performing web analytics).

We may license third-party software to include in or use with the Chainers Platform, in which case we may disclose Personal Information and/or Non-Personal Information to the licensor. These third parties’ collection and use of Personal Information and non-Personal Information are subject to their own privacy policies, which you can read here:

Examples of the non-Personal Information we may collect are:

• Google Analytics
• AWS
• Discord

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.

In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Chainers Platform, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of chainers.io, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

Finally, we reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of the assets of our company relating to the Chainers Platform, or in the event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting a notice on our website.

Lastly, we may also disclose non-Personal Information, aggregated with information about our other users, to our business partners, merchants, investors, potential buyers and other third parties if we deem such disclosure, in our sole discretion, to have sound business reasons or justifications.

5. Cookies and Automatic Information Gathering Technologies

Every time you use the Chainers Platform we collect non-Personal Information (discussed above in Section 2) regarding that use. For example, to improve the Chainers Platform, we collect how, when, and which parts of the Chainers Platform or its features you use, which third-party platforms you connect to the Chainers Platform. Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier (UDID), media access control address (MAC Address), or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.

To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “Web Beacons.” A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser, and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit the website. A Cookie may also refer to web-browser-based storage provided by Adobe’s Flash plugin (a “Flash Cookie”). Chainers Platform Cookies may contain user preferences, unique identifiers, and other non-Personal Information. A “Web Beacon” is a small, usually transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.

We and/or vendors may use cookies to track the movements of individual users through the Chainers Platform and elsewhere on the web or across apps, devices, and geographic locations, to help diagnose problems with servers, to gather broad demographic information, to conduct research, to record registration and/or personalization information, and to otherwise administer the Chainers Platform.

In addition, chainers.io may use Cookies in our communications with you, such as within e-mail to determine which messages have been opened by recipients.

Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase the information stored in Cookies, Flash Cookies, and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may be forced to log in to the Chainers Platform again (if applicable) and you may lose some preferences or settings. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of the Chainers Platform may not function properly without it. We may use cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Chainers Platform, and collect information about how you use the Chainers Platform.

More information about managing Cookies is available here. Cookie management tools provided by your browser may not affect Flash Cookies. More information about managing Flash Cookies is available here. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end-user documentation for your browser.

6. Transparency and Choice

You may request access to your Personal Information by sending an email to [email protected]. We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and give you the opportunity to correct this data, if it is inaccurate, or to delete it, at your request. But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or for legitimate business purposes.

We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Please be aware that if you request us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the Chainers Platform. Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit, and/or dispute resolution requirements.

You can opt-out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed. Also, even if you opt-out of marketing e-mails, we may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account and confirmations of transactions you have requested

7. Children

The Chainers Platform is not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from users under 13 years of age. We do not authorize users under 13 years of age to use the Chainers Platform.

8. Information Security

We utilize reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction. However, no data transmission over the Internet and no method of data storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.

Within chainers.io, we restrict access to Personal Information to our employees, contractors, and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, improve or support the Chainers Platform. If we share Personal Information with service providers, we require that they also use reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information and only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we share it with them.

9. Additional Privacy Rights

You may request, up to two (2) times per year: (1) the categories and specific pieces of data that chainers.io has collected from you; (2) the categories of sources from which your data was collected; (3) the categories of third parties to which your data has been disclosed or sold; and (4) the purposes for which the information was disclosed or sold. If you would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information chainers.io collects, uses, and discloses about you, (2) request deletion of your Personal Information, (3) opt-out of any sales of your Personal Information, and (4) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. If you would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

10. Third-Party Websites

Please note that the Chainers Platform may link or integrate with third-party sites, services, or apps. We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices or the content of such third parties. Accordingly, we encourage you to review the privacy and security policies and terms of service of those third parties so that you understand how those websites collect, use, share and protect your information.

11. Changes to this Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by reasonable means, which may be by e-mail or posting a notice of the changes on our website prior to the changes becoming effective. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time.