THE CRYPTOBLIC PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated on December 3, 2023.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Block Bond Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“CryptoBlic,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information that we collect about visitors to our websites including cryptoblic, and other websites and platforms that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Site”), and the services available through our Site (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy also describes the rights you may have under applicable laws regarding your personal information.
By visiting the Site or using any of our Services, you agree that your information is subject to and will be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with this Policy.
Categories of Information We Collect About You
Personal information is data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be used to contact, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you. We collect the following categories of personal information about you directly from you, automatically through your use of our Site, and from third parties.
Identifiers: Such as your name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, or similar identifier.
Demographics: Such as your gender, mailing address, and age.
Commercial information: Such as records of products, subscriptions or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or use histories or tendencies.
Professional and employment-related information: Such as employer, job title, experience or expertise, education, professional contact information, or other information such as your resume or CV provided in connection with job postings.
Internet and other electronic network activity: Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browser type and operating system; browsing history, clickstream data, search history, and information regarding your interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, including access logs and other activity information related to your use of our Site; the length of time you visit our Site; and the referring URL, or the website that led you to our Site.
Sensitive personal information: Such as payment card information and account login credentials and passwords (which may be considered sensitive in some jurisdictions).
Inferences: Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information that you voluntarily and directly provide to us when you use our Site, including when you subscribe to a newsletter, provide us with information through a form on our Site, register for a webinar, in-person event, or other event, complete a survey, enter a contest, apply for a job through our Careers page, or sign up or pay for our Services.
We may collect information from you if you contact us through our Site, social media platforms or otherwise, including your name, email address, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information that you choose to provide. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect certain information from you, such as your email address.
We may also collect information about people you know through a referral program that allows you to easily forward information about our Site or Services to friends or family. If you choose to refer a friend or family member to our Site, you represent that you have their permission to do so. This functionality is only meant for U.S. residents. By using it, you acknowledge and agree that such friend or family member is based in the U.S. We will ask for that person’s email address and may also send them a message on your behalf. We may process this information to facilitate your referral invitation or other legitimate business purposes including to improve our referral program.
Information We Collect Automatically
To improve our Site and Services, we and our third-party cookie providers automatically collect information when you use our Site using cookies, pixel tags, or similar technologies. This may include information such as your IP address and the types of personal information described above as “Internet and other electronic network activity.” Please see our section on cookies below for additional information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies.
Information We Collect from Third Parties
We collect information from third party business partners that provide services on our behalf and from non-affiliated third parties, such as research firms and public sources. Depending on the source, this information could include information such as demographic information and brand and media consumption information.
Our Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms
To help make our Sites and Services more responsive to your needs, we and our business partners and service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Site and Services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about you (and our business partners and service providers may do so on our behalf).
Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our Site. Please review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from our Site, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Site to their fullest potential. Depending on your location, you may also be able to change your cookie preferences by going to our cookie preference center.
Clear GIFs, pixel tags, and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web and app pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags) to, among other things, track activities of Site visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Site usage. We and our service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML email to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
Third Party Advertising Networks
We allow our third-party partners, third party ad serving networks, and unaffiliated advertisers (collectively, “Advertisers”) to use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to provide ads about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Advertisers may place a separate cookie on your computer, or browser, or utilize other data collection and tracking technologies, to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, server being used, area code and zip code associated with your server, and whether you respond to certain ads. Advertisers may collect information about your online activities over time, across different computers, devices, and browsers, and across different websites and other online services. Advertisers may use this information to provide interest-based advertising or other targeted content
In general, the information collected and generated by third parties is processed and stored by the third parties and will be subject to their respective privacy policies (which we do not control and for which we are not responsible). We do not control these third-party Advertiser’s tracking technologies or the information they may collect. Many of these Advertisers are members of industry opt-out programs that offer you additional choices regarding the collection and use of your information as described in the Your Choices and Rights section below.
How We Use Your Information and The Basis on Which We Use It
We use the categories of personal information described above for the following business purposes:
To provide our Site and Services to you, to communicate with you about your use of our Site and Services, and to respond to your inquiries.
For identification and authentication purposes. For example, when you enter your login ID and password to enter our Services.
For marketing and promotional purposes. For example, we may use your information to provide you with news, special offers, and general information about goods, services, and events that we think may be of interest to you (including through our newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials). We may also use the information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our services on third-party websites and in other forums.
To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, for personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Site or Services.
With respect to employment-related information, to evaluate your candidacy for a job posting and to make hiring decisions.
To better understand how users access and use our Site, to improve our Site, create new products and services, and respond to user desires and preferences, and for related research and analytical purposes.
To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes.
Where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or to otherwise enforce this Policy and our Terms of Service or the integrity of the Site and Services.
We may also deidentify or anonymize your data in such a way that you may not reasonably be re-identified by us or another party, and we may use this deidentified data for any purpose. To the extent we deidentify any data originally based on personal information, we will maintain and use such data in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the data.
Legal Bases for Use and Processing of Your Information
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal ground they rely on to use or disclose your personal data. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds for processing your personal data are as follows:
Performance of a contract. We process your information where necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations to you, for example, to provide the Site and Services and authenticate your identity when logging into the various login sections of the Site.
Compliance with legal obligations. We process your information where necessary to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject.
Legitimate Interests. We process your information where necessary to serve our legitimate business interests, for example, to ensure that we can effectively manage and communicate regarding our business efficiently, to perform investigations or compliance audits, to tailor the content and information we may send or display to you, to improve the Site and our Services, to exercise or defend our rights, and for business administration purposes. When we use your information to meet our legitimate interests, we take steps to ensure that your rights are not infringed. You can contact us using the details in the Contact Us section below for more information about the steps we take to ensure these rights are not infringed.
To the extent we obtain your consent to process your information, you may have the right to withdraw your consent under applicable local law. To exercise this right, please contact us using the details in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy.
How We Disclose the Information We Collect
We may disclose each of the categories of information described above for our business purposes as follows:
We may disclose the information we collect about you to our subsidiaries and affiliated entities. However, if we do so their use and disclosure of your information will be subject to this Policy.
Service Providers and Business Partners. We may disclose the information we collect about you to service providers, contractors, agents, and third parties who perform functions and business operations on our behalf, for the purposes set out above. For example, we engage service providers and third parties to sponsor or co-host events, optimize services, process payments, send newsletters, marketing messages and advertising, support email and messaging services, help us manage our relationship with you, and analyze information. We also partner with third party platforms, including social media platforms, to market our Services to you. These third parties may collect or receive information about you or your use of our Services and may use your information to provide you with information about their own products and services. These business partners and service providers will be given limited access to the information you have provided as is reasonably necessary to deliver the Services, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to require that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy. These third-party business partners may also gather user data about you in the course of providing our Services to you, and this Privacy Policy may not describe the privacy practices of such third parties. You may opt out of receiving information about such third parties’ products and services by doing so directly on such third-party websites.
Business Transfers. If (i) we are or may be acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or (ii) if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other company. As part of the business transfer process, we may disclose certain of your information with lenders, auditors, and third-party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.
In Response to Legal Process. We may disclose your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
To Protect Us and Others. We disclose your information where we believe it is appropriate to do so to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may disclose aggregate, anonymized, or de-identified information about you for any purpose permitted under applicable local law.
We may also disclose your information with your consent. For example, while on our Site, you may have the opportunity to sign up or opt-in to receive marketing offers from our event sponsors or partners and will have the opportunity to consent to sharing your personal data which will be subject to the privacy policy and business practices of that third party.
Additional Information for California Residents
This section provides California residents with additional information regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information.
The chart below describes the categories of personal information described above in our section on “Categories of Information We Collect About You” that we may “sell” or “share” as those terms are broadly defined by California law and the categories of third parties to whom we may “sell” or “share” your personal information. We may sell or share your personal information for our business purposes as described above in our section on “How We Use Your Information and The Basis on Which We Use It.”