This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how Blocksky Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and stores personal information of users of our website and our other applications (together, the “Site”). This Policy applies to the Site, applications, products, and services (together, the “Services”). This Policy is posted on, linked from, or referred to by the Site, applications, products, and services (together, the “Services”).
By using the Services, you agree to this Policy and agree that we may collect, use, disclose, and retain your information as described in this Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, do not use any of the Services.
This Policy does not apply to information collected through a third-party website or service that you reach through the Services, or to information you send us by email, text message, another electronic message, or offline.
If you access this Site from the European Union (EU), please see the notice to EU data subjects below for the legal basis of our processing and transfer of your data.
What we collect
We obtain information about you in several ways.
Information you provide to us
Information we collect from you includes:
- Contact information, such as your email address.
- Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide when you respond to a survey, report a problem with the Services, receive customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.
- Usage information, such as information about how you use the Services and interact with us.
- Technical information, such as your Ethereum wallet address.
- Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving marketing communications and details of how you engage with them.
Information we obtain from others
We may obtain information about you from other third-party sources, or from information that is open on a blockchain, and add it to information we obtain from your use of the Services.
Information collected automatically
We may automatically record certain information about how you use our Site (we call this information “Log Data”). Log Data may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device and browser type, operating system, the pages or features of our Site that you viewed, the time spent on those pages or features, how often you use the Site, search terms, the links on our Site that you clicked or used, and other statistics. We use this information to administer the Services, and we analyze it (and ask third parties to analyze it) to improve and enhance the Services by extending their features and functionality and customizing them to users’ needs and preferences.
We may use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements on the website, and collect demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. For details, see the Cookie Policy.
We may also use Google Analytics to provide an optimized user experience. For more about Google Analytics’ use of personal data, see https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.
Information we do not collect
We will never ask you to share a private key or a wallet seed. Never trust a person or a site that asks you to enter a private key or a wallet seed.
How we use personal information
We use your personal information in the following ways:
- To let you access and use the Services.
- To provide and deliver the products and services you request.
- To send you confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
To comply with the law
We use your personal information where we believe it is necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law, lawful requests, and legal process, including responding to a subpoena or a request from a government authority.
To communicate with you
We use your personal information to tell you about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us and by partners we select.
To optimize our platform
To optimize your experience, we may use your personal information to operate, maintain, and improve the Services. We may also use your information to answer your comments and questions about the Services and to provide general customer service to you and other users.
With your consent
We may use or share your personal information with your consent, for example if you agree that we may post your testimonial or recommendation on our Site, if you instruct us to take a particular step with your personal information, or if you opt in to a third party’s marketing communications.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety
We may use your personal information to protect against, investigate, and stop fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
How we share personal information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share or sell personal information you provide to us with other organizations without your explicit consent. We disclose personal information to third parties in the following situations.
Affiliates
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Business transfers
We may share personal information when we undertake, or negotiate, a business transaction that involves the sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets. These transactions may include a merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
Compliance with law and law enforcement, protection, and safety
We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
- We may share information in order to comply with the law.
- We may share information in order to respond to a lawful request or legal process. We may share information to protect the rights and property of the Company, our agents, our customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements and policies.
- We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
Professional advisors and service providers
We may share information with people who need it in order to do work for us. These recipients may include third-party companies and individuals who administer and provide services on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, email delivery, and database management), as well as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
Other
You may allow us to share your personal information with another company or organization that you choose. Those uses follow that recipient’s privacy policy.
We may also share aggregated and/or anonymized data for others to use on their own.
If you are in the EU, please read the important information below about transfers of personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
How we protect information
We keep the information we collect for as long as it is necessary and relevant to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We also keep personal information where we need it to comply with applicable law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, and take other steps the law permits. To decide how long to keep personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process it and whether we can achieve those purposes by other means, and applicable legal requirements.
In some cases we anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We may then use that information indefinitely without notifying you.
We use industry-standard security measures designed to protect information sent through the Services. We cannot guarantee the security of information sent over the Internet. We are not responsible for interception or interruption of communications over the Internet, or for alteration or loss of data. Users of the Services are responsible for keeping secure any password, biometric, user ID, or other authenticator used to access a password-protected or secured area of our digital Services. If we suspect a security breach, we may suspend your use of the Services without notice until the investigation is complete, in order to protect you and your data.
Your choices and changes
You may access, update, correct, and delete your information.
General tracking technologies
Ordinary cookies can be disabled or deleted with tools that are part of most commercial browsers, and in some cases can be blocked going forward by choosing certain settings. For details, see the Cookie Policy.
Contact
Comments and questions about this Policy: info@blocksky.xyz.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review this page from time to time for the latest information about our privacy practices.
A change takes effect when we post the new terms and/or when we implement the change on the Site (or at another time stated when we post it). If you keep using the Site or the Services after we post a revised Privacy Policy, you agree to the revised terms.
Notice to EU data subjects
Personal information
For EU data subjects, “personal information” in this Privacy Policy means the same thing as “personal data” as defined in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Sensitive data
Some information you give us may be sensitive data (also called special categories of personal data) under the GDPR. This includes racial or ethnic origin shown on a government-issued identification document.
Legal bases for processing
We use your personal information only where the law allows it. We must tell you the legal basis for processing, and those bases are set out below. Questions about the legal basis: info@blocksky.xyz.
Legal basis for each purpose
The following activities are carried out for our legitimate interests:
- Communicating with you.
- Optimizing our platform.
- Compliance, fraud prevention, and safety.
- Providing our Services.
Before we process your personal information for a legitimate interest, we consider the possible effect on you (both positive and negative) and your rights, and we balance those against our interest. We do not use your personal information for an activity where the impact on you overrides our interest, unless we have your consent or the law requires or permits it.
To comply with the law. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law and our legal obligations.
With your consent. Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time by the method described in the Services or by contacting info@blocksky.xyz.
Use for a new purpose
We may use your personal information for a reason not described in this Privacy Policy where the law allows it and the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it. If we need to use it for an unrelated purpose, we will tell you and explain the legal basis. If we relied on your consent for a particular use, we will ask for your consent for the unrelated purpose as well.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have certain rights in your personal information. You can ask us to do the following with personal information we hold about you:
- Opt out. Stop sending direct marketing that you previously agreed to receive. We may still send service messages and other non-marketing communications.
- Access. Tell you about our processing of your personal information and give you access to it.
- Correction. Update or correct personal information that is inaccurate.
- Deletion. Delete your personal information.
- Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or to a third party you choose.
- Restriction. Restrict processing of your personal information.
- Objection. Object where we rely on legitimate interests to process personal information in a way that affects your rights.
Send these requests by email to info@blocksky.xyz. We may ask for specific information so we can confirm your identity and handle the request. Applicable law may require or allow us to refuse a request. If we refuse, we will tell you the reason, subject to any legal limit. If you want to complain about how we use your personal information, or about how we handled a request, contact info@blocksky.xyz or lodge a complaint with the data protection authority for your country. You can find those authorities here.
Cookie Policy
We understand that your privacy matters to you, and we are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use. This policy explains how and when we use cookies on this Site.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. We, and our marketing partners, affiliates, and analytics or service providers, use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other technologies so that people who use the Site can have the best experience we can offer.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a web server places on a hard drive. It holds information that a web server in the domain that set the cookie can read later. Some cookies are used only when you use a particular feature or choose a particular setting. Others are used all the time.
Why we use cookies
We generally use cookies to:
- Recognize a new or returning customer.
- Store your password if you are registered on our Site.
- Improve our Site and understand your visits to our platform and Site.
- Deliver interest-based or targeted advertising.
- Observe your behavior and browsing across websites or other platforms over time.
- Understand the interests of our customers and of people who visit our website.
Some cookies are necessary for particular uses of the Site. Without them we cannot provide many of the services you need in order to use the Site properly. For example, they let us run the Site so you can reach what you asked for, and they let us recognize that you created an account, signed in, and opened the Site’s content. They also include cookies that remember what you did earlier in the same browsing session and that help us protect the Site.
We also use functional cookies and third-party cookies for analytics and marketing. Functional cookies make certain parts of the Site work correctly and let us know your settings. Analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use the Site, which content and products people view most often, and how effective third-party advertising is, among other things. Advertising cookies help us show ads to a relevant audience and place ads at the top of search results. A cookie is either a “session” cookie, which is deleted when you end the browser session, or a “persistent” cookie, which stays until you or the party that set it deletes it. For every cookie used on this Site, see the cookie disclosure table below.
How to turn cookies off
For more about cookies, and how to control, disable, or delete them, see the guidance at http://www.aboutcookies.org.
We may link information collected by cookies with other information we collect from you under this Privacy Policy, and we may use the combined information as described here. A third party that sets cookies on this Site may also link your name or email address to other information it has collected, such as past purchases offline or online and information about your online use. If you live in the European Economic Area, you have the rights described under “Notice to EU data subjects” above, including the right to see, correct, or delete data we hold about you.