Information We Collect About You:  

• We collect the next Personal Information: 

  • • Contact information, such as name, home address, and E-mail address. 

    • Account information, such as username and password. 

    • Financial information, such as bank account numbers, bank statement, trading activity and history, etc. 

    • Identity verification information, such as images of your government issued ID, passport, national ID card, driving license or other documents requested by our compliance department. 

    • Residence verification information, such as Utility bill details or similar information. 

    • Other information obtained during our KYC procedures, such as information about your financial state and source of funds. 

• We collect, process, and retain information from you and any devices you may use when you use or interact with our websites or app, and in other ways described below. 

Information You Give Us: We receive and store information provided to us or given to us in any other way, including your: name, mailing address, phone number, email address, Payment Info, Cryptocurrency wallet address, Account information, such as username and password picture, date of birth, payment information, registration information, social media and messaging platform handle, optional biographic and demographic information, processional and licensure information, information for wallets you create or connect via our Websites, survey responses, and any other information that you voluntarily provide. This includes information that you share with us on third-party websites and platforms. 

Information We Automatically Collect: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you use our websites or app. Our websites may use “cookies,” tagging and other tracking technologies to help enable us to enhance or personalize your online experience. This information includes computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our websites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, device identifiers, transaction history, and your web log information. When you have any X tokens or a wallet connected to your account, we will also have information on the associated transfers, balances, transactions, and ledger. 

Location Information: When you visit our websites, app or interact with our online services, we may receive information about your location and your device, including a unique identifier for your device. Location information allows us to provide location-based services, such as advertising and other personalized content. In addition, if you scan one of our QR codes, we will know the event, venue, or business associated with that code and, thus, your location at the time you scan the QR code. 

Information From social media: When you interact with us or our websites on a social media platform, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us, including your account ID, username, and other information included in your posts. If you choose to log into your account with or through a social networking service, we and that service may share certain information about you and your activities. When you give us permission, we may also collect information from your social media account on your behalf. 

Information From Other Sources: We may supplement the information we collect with information offline or from third parties. 

How We Use Information We Collect From or About You: We use the information we collect from or about you to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the Websites, including providing our services and conferences, responding to requests for information, analyzing and compiling trends and statistics, and communicating with you. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have, see the Your Choices section below. 

We also may use information about you to: provide, maintain, and improve the Websites and for internal or other business purposes; run and administer our virtual and in-personal conferences; fulfill your requests for information; communicate with you; detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal; optimize, perform analysis, or improve our Websites, products, services, and operations; provide customer support; send you offers or other communications about our products and services, such as special or promotional events, including services, products, or events for which we collaborate or co-offer with a third party; administer contests, promotions, and surveys; and to post user generated content provided by users. 

“WATWALLET” Program: If you provide your wallet address as part of our “WATWALLET” Program, we will not use or otherwise analyze your wallet address for any purpose other than to provide the “WATWALLET” Program to you. As discussed below, your wallet address may be shared by our X Program with our program partners, sponsors, or service providers in order to enable or provide a program benefit that you have earned or redeemed. We contractually prohibit these third parties from using your wallet information for any purpose other than providing such benefits, and we require them to delete the data once the benefit has been provided. Your wallet address shared with the “WATWALLET” Program will never be used by us for any of our journalistic or news reporting functions. 

We may use the information from one portion of the Websites on other portions of the Websites, and we may combine information gathered from multiple portions of the Websites. We also may use or combine information that we collect offline, or that we collect or receive from third-party sources for many reasons, including to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of our records. Additionally, we may use information collected from a particular browser or device with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such information was collected. 

We may retain information we collect from or about you for as long as reasonably required to satisfy the purposes for which we have collected the information, or as required by law, whichever is longer. This means we will retain information about you both while you are an active user of our websites and after you cease to be an active user. 

How We Share Your Information With Others: We share information we collect from or about you with third parties as described below. In addition, we may share information that does not personally identify you, such as aggregate information, de-identified information, device identifiers, or other unique identifiers with third parties. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have, see the Your Choices section below. 

Third-Party Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf such as: hosting, content syndication, content management, technical integration, marketing, analytics, customer service, fraud protection, payment processing, fulfillment, and shipping. These third parties may have access to information about you when needed to perform their functions. 

Business Partners: We may share information that personally identifies you with business partners who provide products and services that we think you may be interested in. 

Sale, Assignment or Change of Control:  We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Websites. We may transfer some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. Under such circumstances, we will request the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Policy with respect to previously collected information. Nevertheless, we cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat information about you in the same way as described in this Privacy Policy. 

Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations:  We may also use or disclose information we collect from or about you if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to

(a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our Websites;

(b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Websites, or our users;

(c) respond to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights; or

(d) act to protect the personal safety of us, users of the Websites, or the public. 

Public Areas, Interactive Features and Activities:  Please remember that any information you share in public areas, including in your public profile, or on social sharing features becomes public and anyone may take and use that information. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not post any information that you expect to keep private. Please consult the applicable guidelines, if any, for use of these features. We cannot control who views information that you post in public areas of the Websites or on third-party messaging platforms, and are not responsible for how third parties, including other users may use or disclose information that you post or otherwise share with other users or third parties. If you are under the age of eighteen and a registered user, you may have a content or information you have posted removed from public display by deleting the message yourself or contacting the community manager. 

At Your Direction:  Our websites and app may give you the ability to share certain information with other users or other third parties, such as by scanning your “My Code.” When you engage these features on our websites and app, you are authorizing us to share your information. Once shared, we have no control how those third parties will use or further disclose your information. 

How To Access And Update Your Information: If you have an account with us, you can update information you have provided by logging into your account and editing the information. Please note that you may not be able to change some information, like your username or email, after your account is established. You may be required to provide us with sufficient information to verify your identity prior to accessing any records containing information about you. We may not accommodate a request to change information about you if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

NOTICE TO EU DATA SUBJECTS 

Personal Information 

With respect to EU data subjects, “personal information,” as used in this Privacy Policy, is equivalent to “personal data” as defined in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  

EU GDPR” means the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and all other EU laws regulating the processing of Personal Data, as such laws may be updated, amended and superseded from time to time; 

Some of the information you provide us may constitute sensitive data as defined in the GDPR (also referred to as special categories of personal data), including identification of your race or ethnicity on government-issued identification documents; 

We control the ways of collecting your Personal Information and determine goals for which We use Personal Information. We are a “data controller” within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) and other applicable European laws pertaining to data protection; 

You have the right of withdrawal of consent to personal data processing. You may also exercise your right to be forgotten and erase your Personal information from our servers. In cases stipulated in Article 17 of GDPR, we will delete your Personal Information we process, except for those Personal Information which we are obliged to store in accordance with the requirements set forth by the applicable legislation.

Retention Of Your Information 

We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after users terminate their accounts or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely. 

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

Users Under Eighteen: Our websites and app are intended for users ages (18) and older only. If we become aware of information in our database that was collected from a user under eighteen, we will delete such information. 

Users Outside of the Saint Vincent and The Grenadines: If you use our websites or app outside of “Saint Vincent and The Grenadines”, you understand and consent to the transfer of information we collect from or about you to, and the collection, processing, and storage of information about you in, the Saint Vincent and The Grenadines and elsewhere. The laws in “Saint Vincent and The Grenadines”, and these countries may be different than the laws of your country. 

To exercise all relevant rights, queries, or complaints to any data protection matter between you and us, please in the first instance contact our Data Protection Officer at support@watwallet.io