PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) is being used by Web23. PII is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify a natural person. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your PII when using or accessing our website, applications, or services.

  • Who this policy applies to and what it covers?

    • This privacy policy applies to Web23 Inc. with registered office at 8, The Green Ste. B, Dover, DE 19901, and our affiliates and related entities (“Web23”, “we”, “us” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information in an open and transparent manner. This policy sets out how we will access, collect, use, store, transfer, retain and protect (collectively referred to as “process”) personal information about you when:

    1. providing services to you
    2. you use “our Website” or
    3. performing any other activities that form part of the operation of our business.

    When we refer to “our Website” or “this Website” in this policy we mean the specific webpages of web23.io This privacy policy should be read in conjunction with any additional privacy statements or notices available or provided to you by us at or before the time you provide us with your personal information.

  • What PII do we collect?
    1. When you purchase a domain
    When you purchase a domain through Web23, to mint the domain, we collect the following personal information:

    a. Your wallet address;
    b. Token ID of your blockchain;
    c. Serial no. identifier;
    d. Your purchased domain name;
    e. Expiry date of your purchased domain name;
    f. Metadata including the time of purchase, IP address, transaction id, block address, whether the transaction was successful or not.

    2. When you use your purchased domain names;
    When you use your purchased domain names to resolve to a wallet address or sell your domain to a new owner, we further collect the following information:

    a. Resolved wallet address;
    b. Transaction details including transaction id;
    c. Metadata including relevant token id, IP address, block address, whether the transaction was successful or not.

    3. When you purchase and use our Chrome Extension Subscription
    When you purchase and use our Chrome Extension Subscription, we collect the following information:

    a. Your wallet address;
    b. Your mapped domain;
    c. Your subscription expiry date;
    d. Status of the subscription (whether valid or not);

    4. When you subscribe to our email list
    When you subscribe to our email list or any specific program or offers;

    a. Your name;
    b. Your email address;
    c. Your purchased domains;
    d. Subscription status (whether active or not)
    e. Subscription start and end data

    5. When you opt in for a special offer or contest
    When you join a contest or special offer by Web23 or through any collaboration with third party, we may further collect the following information:

    a. Your name;
    b. Your wallet address;
    c. Your purchased domain names;

    6. Through third parties
    In order to provide additional features, services, and collaborative services, we might receive and collect additional personal information about you in order to provide that service. This includes parties like wallet providers, dapp providers, other domain providers, amongst others. Depending on the nature and structure of the collaboration, we will ask for your further consent for collection and use on that respective information if the scope of available consent is insufficient to provide you with that service.
  • Use of PII

The information you enter on our Platform can be published to the blockchain through the use of our software that allows you to broadcast a transaction to the blockchain network. Once broadcast to the blockchain network, we cannot control how others may use your personal information. Please think of your blockchain domain as a "Public Profile" much like any other social account, and realize that others will have access to the information that you direct us to publish. Specifically if you post information about yourself in our management portal and then save this information to the blockchain, the information is now publicly available forever.

At Web23, we use your personal information as follows:

  • We use your personal information to operate, maintain, and improve our Platforms, products, and services.
  • We use your personal information to respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
  • We use your personal information to send information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
  • We use your personal information to communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners.
  • We use your personal information to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
  • When do we collect PII?

We may collect information from you when you use or access our website, applications, or services.

  • Who will your PII be shared with?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your PII to third parties other than the following:

  • Purchasers of Our Business. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Law Enforcement. We may share your information in order to comply, as necessary, with applicable laws and regulatory requirements, as well as legal process, respond to mandatory legal or governmental requests or demands for information, enforce our agreements, policies, procedures and terms of use, and protect ourselves, our users, or the general public from illegal activities.

Service providers and vendors. We may share your information with our service providers to allow them to provide us their services.

  • How long do we keep your PII?

If we come into possession of your PII, we may keep your PII for up to seven days, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process PII, we will either delete or anonymize any PII in our possession, or, if this is not possible (for example, because the PII has been stored in backup archives or is stored by a third party service provider to which we only have access rights), then we will securely store any PII in our possession and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

  • How do we protect your PII?

We use industry standard best practice vulnerability scanning technology to keep our systems secure, and patch all vulnerabilities within a reasonable timeframe. 

Your PII is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Despite our efforts to protect the security of your information, no security system is always effective and we cannot guarantee that our systems will be completely secure.

  • Legal Basis for Processing PII

Our legal basis for collecting and using any PII in our possession will depend on the PII concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. We may need to collect PII from you or a third party service provider only 

  1. where we need the PII to perform a contract with you; 
  2. where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights; or 
  3. where we have your consent to do so. 

We have a legitimate interest in operating our website, applications and services, for example when improving and debugging our applications and services.

In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect PII from you or may otherwise need the PII to protect your vital interests or those of another person. If we ask you to provide PII to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your PII is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your PII).

  • International Transfers of PII

Your PII will be stored and processed in the United States. If you use the Services from outside the United States, you acknowledge we will transfer your PII to, and store your PII in, the United States, which may have different data protection rules than in your country, and PII may become accessible as permitted by law in the United States, including to law enforcement and/or national security authorities in the United States.

  • Your Privacy Rights

Based on your relevant jurisdiction, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the PII that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

Right to Know

The right to request any or all of the following personal information we have collected and disclosed about you in the last 12 months:

  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of sources of the personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of personal information we have disclosed about you to third parties for a business purpose, and the categories of recipients to whom this information was disclosed;
  • The categories of personal information we have sold about you (if any), and the categories of third parties to whom this information was sold; and
  • The business or commercial purposes for collecting or, if applicable, selling personal information.

Right to Deletion

The right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Opt Out

The right to direct us not to sell personal information we have collected about you to third parties.

Right to Non-Discrimination

The right to be free from discrimination for exercising any of the rights described above. The right to non-discrimination does not prohibit us from offering you certain financial incentives that may result in different prices, rates or quality levels of products or services. In addition, please note that if the exercise of the rights described above limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may not be able to provide our products and services to individuals who exercise these rights, or to otherwise engage with such individuals going forward.

To submit a request to exercise your right to know or right to deletion, please contact us at (613)-276-1536 or via our contact us page.

  • Changes to our Privacy Policy

Web23 reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, our revised Privacy Policy will be posted on our website and it will be noted on our website that material changes have been made. The date of the most recent update to our Privacy Policy will be set forth in the header to the Privacy Policy.

  1. Children’s Privacy

Our platform is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we learn that any personal information has been collected inadvertently from a child under 16, we will delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have collected information from a child under 16, please contact us using the contact us page on our website.

  1.  Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us here. To submit a Data Subject Request, you can submit a request here.