International
Decentralized Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain and its
offices worldwide (“IDACB”, “we”, “us” and “our”) are
committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring that you continue
to trust IDACB with your personal data. When you interact with us,
you may share personal information with us that allows identification
of you as an individual (e.g. name, email address, address, and
telephone number). This is known as “personal data”.
This Privacy Policy
applies where IDACB is acting as a data controller with respect to
the personal data of you as a visitor to our websites and as a user
of IDACB platforms and/or services, in other words, where IDACB
determines the purposes and means of the processing of your personal
data.
1. Scope and acceptance of this Privacy Policy
IDACB has developed
this Privacy Policy to describe how and what type of personal data
will be collected from users of IDACB websites and/or platforms and
the purposes, for which IDACB may collect, share or disclose the
personal data.
By using IDACB
websites, platforms, mobile apps, text messaging programs or through
IDACB branded pages or applications on third-party social networks
(e.g. Facebook) (“IDACB Sites”) or by giving us your personal
data when registering for events or other services, you accept the
collecting and processing of your personal data as described in this
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do
not use IDACB Sites or give us any personal data.
This Privacy Policy
applies to any information obtained by IDACB through your use of
IDACB Sites. It is not applicable to any websites controlled by third
parties not affiliated with IDACB that IDACB Site may link to (“Third
Party Sites”). Please review the privacy statements of each of
these Third Party Sites as IDACB is not responsible for and has no
influence on the content or the privacy practices of Third Party
Sites.
IDACB reserves the
right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. We
encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Policy to make sure
you are aware of any changes and how your personal data may be used.
2. What information do we collect and for what purposes?
When you visit IDACB
Sites, our web server automatically records details about your visit:
for example, your IP address, the website from which you visit us,
the type of browser software used IDACB Site pages that you actually
visit including the date and the duration of your visit. Please see
our Cookie Notice for information on these technologies and your
rights in relation to them (See section 5).
In addition, we
process personal data that you provide through IDACB Sites, for
example, when you enter personal details (e.g. name, gender, address,
email address, phone/fax number) on a registration page or if you
sign up for an email newsletter.
IDACB may use the
personal data that you provide to us with your consent for a
specified purpose or when you interact with IDACB Sites or we process
your data if we have legal basis, namely, with regards to your
registration to IDACB events or your request of IDACB services.
Furthermore, we
operate (I) custom platforms, which are fully built and maintained by
IDACB (“Custom Platforms”); and (II) cooperate with platforms
which provide individual IDACB products or services, which are
maintained and provided for by third-party providers (“Cooperation
Platforms”), and (III) third party applications and services, which
can be embedded or integrated into one of the platforms described
under (I) or (II) (“Embedded Services”).
I. Custom Platforms
Public websites –
www.idacb.com; wbcsummit.org
IDACB public
websites are the external-facing platforms for public engagement with
IDACB and provide insights into IDACB activities, initiatives,
projects and roadmaps. The public websites also provide other
services such as a blog, articles of general interest and
livestreaming services of sessions and events during the said events
and sessions. IDACB public websites may also contain links or login
options that connect to TopLink.
The public websites
use third party cookies for analytics (Google Analytics, Chartbeat,
Parse.ly and mixpanel) and to track common metrics such as platform
engagement, concurrent users, maximum number of users, time spent on
a page, etc. Any use of such analytics cookies is to improve your
user experience and provide IDACB with valuable information to help
IDACB to better tailor our services to our partners, members,
constituents and participants.
3. Children’s personal data
IDACB does not
knowingly solicit or collect personal data from children below the
age of 18. If IDACB discovers that it has accidentally collected
personal data from a child below the age of 18, it will remove that
child’s personal data from its records as soon as reasonably
possible. However, IDACB may collect personal data about children
below the age of 18 years if authorized by the holder of parental
responsibility over the child.
4. How do we share personal data?
We do not share your
personal data with any third party that intends to use it for direct
marketing purposes, unless you have provided specific consent in
relation to this.
IDACB may share your
personal data with third parties for other purposes, but only in the
following circumstances:
I. With your consent
We will share
personal data with third parties outside of IDACB when we have your
consent to do so. We require explicit opt-in consent for the sharing
of any sensitive personal information.
II. For legitimate
interests
We will share
personal data based on legitimate interests as, for example, when you
register for one of our events, except where such interests are
overridden by your interests or fundamental rights, in which case we
will request your explicit consent.
III. For processing
of IDACB’s offices in other regions
We provide your
personal data to IDACB’s offices in other regions for legitimate
business purposes, on a “need-to-know” basis, based on our
instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
IV. For external
processing (service providers)
We may engage
service providers, agents or contractors to provide services on our
behalf, including to administer IDACB Sites and services available to
you. These third parties may come to access or otherwise process your
personal data in the course of providing these services.
IDACB requires such
third parties, who may be based outside the country from which you
have accessed IDACB Site or service, to comply with all relevant data
protection laws and security requirements in relation to your
personal data, usually by way of a written agreement.
V. Compliance with
laws
We will share
personal data with third parties outside of IDACB if we have a
good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the
personal data is reasonably necessary to:
- Meet any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental
request
- Enforce applicable
Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations
- Detect, prevent or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues
- Protect against
harm to the rights, property or safety of IDACB, our users or the
public as required or permitted by law
5. “Cookie Notice”
5.1 About cookies
A cookie is a small
piece of information that a web server asks the user’s browser to
store on the user’s local computer, and then later their browser
presents this information to the web server. In its simplest form, a
cookie is an identifying number.
5.2 What type of cookies do we use?
We use two types of
cookies on IDACB Sites: persistent cookies and session cookies. A
persistent cookie helps us recognize you as an existing user, so it's
easier to return to IDACB Sites or interact with our services without
signing in again. In the event you sign up to one of our platforms, a
persistent cookie stays in your browser and will be read by the
service when you return to one of our sites. Session cookies only
last as long as the session (usually the current visit to a website
or a browser session).
We use cookies for
anonymous user tracking. IDACB web server assigns each user a unique
numerical ID (“ID”). All requests for pages are tagged with that
ID, and by analyzing the log files, IDACB can determine how many
unique users use IDACB Sites.
5.3 How do we use
cookies?
IDACB does not know
the identity of a person based on the ID. The cookies used by IDACB
do not contain any personal data about you nor are they used to look
up your personal data. Even if you have entered personal data about
yourself in one of IDACB’s registration forms, IDACB does not
relate that information to the cookie data.
IDACB Sites may use
cookies for analytics and to improve your user experience. IDACB
Sites will usually not natively use cookies but our analytics
providers do use these cookies to improve user experience.
You are free to
decline the cookies if your browser or browser add-on allows, except
if the cookies are required to prevent fraud or ensure the security
of IDACB Sites that IDACB controls. However, disabling the use of
cookies will result in a less user-friendly experience of IDACB Sites
or can fully prevent you from using IDACB Sites.
6. How do we store or transfer your data?
IDACB has offices
and facilities in Switzerland, the United States, Japan,
China, UAE, Russia and some other countries.
When transferring
personal data internationally, we make sure that we comply with
applicable laws and regulations, for example, by entering into
agreements that will ensure that the recipients of your information
maintain an adequate level of data protection.
Information
collected within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may, for
example, be transferred to countries outside of the EEA for the
purposes as described in this Policy. We utilize standard contract
clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under
Swiss and European Union law and/or obtain your consent to legitimize
data transfers from the EEA to the United States and other countries.
7. Security of personal data
IDACB is committed
to protecting the security of your personal data. Any information
provided to IDACB by you is handled with due care and security, and
will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this Privacy
Policy, or in any site/area-specific policies, or in ways to which
users have not explicitly consented. IDACB employs a range of
technologies and security measures to protect the information
maintained on IDACB systems from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or
disclosure, alteration or destruction.
However, since the
internet is not a 100% secure environment, IDACB cannot ensure nor
guarantee the security of any information that the user may transmit
to IDACB Sites. There is no guarantee that information may not be
accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of IDACB’s
physical, technical or managerial safeguards.
All IDACB employees
who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal
data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of all such personal
data.
8. How long do we retain personal data?
IDACB will retain
your personal data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes
outlined in this Privacy Policy and/or as long we require the
personal data to provide you with IDACB services or products you
requested, unless a longer retention period is required to comply
with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our
agreements.
9. How can you access your data or contact us?
You have a right to
request access to your personal data. You may send us a request for
access, provision of such information will be subject to the supply
of appropriate evidence of your identity. You also have the right to
request that IDACB corrects any inaccuracies in your personal data.
You have the right
to opt out of receiving marketing communications or any other
information from IDACB or about IDACB events and can do so by (a)
following the instructions for opt-out in the relevant marketing
communication or (b) by contacting us.
Should you have any
questions, concerns and/or complaints about this Privacy Policy or if
you would like to make any recommendations or comments to improve the
quality of our Privacy Policy, please email us at
secretariat@idacb.com
10. Our details
IDACB is the data
controller for personal data we collect through means stated in this
Privacy Policy. Our address is:
idacb.com
