Version dated: 17 December 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how the Paradex Foundation (“Paradex Foundation”, “us” or “we”) may collect information from or about you when you access the website paradex.foundation (the “Website”) or use any services offered on or through the Website.
This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use. Please review this Privacy Policy together with the Terms of Use, to understand all of your rights and obligations, and how we operate our Website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may revise and update the Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of the revised Privacy Policy means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page each time you access this Website so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
How We Collect Your Information
We may collect your information:
- On the Website.
- Through emails, text, and other forms of electronic communication between you and us, whether or not through the Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services.
- Through any other means associated with or relating to the Website.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following information:
- Identifiers, such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information that the Website collects, which applicable law may consider personally identifiable, personal information, personal data, and other such designations.
- Information about the device you use to access the Website, and associated information including information about your operating system, hardware, mobile network, browser, browser language, etc.
- Certain other device data, including the time of day you visit our Website.
- Information regarding your communications and other interactions with us.
- Your geolocation and IP Address.
- Referring and exit web pages and URLs.
- Information regarding your use of the Website, such as user preferences, and data collected via cookies and other technologies.
- Information about you from other sources as required or permitted by applicable law. We may use this information in conjunction with other information to comply with applicable laws and limit the use of our Services in connection with fraudulent, improper or illegal activities.
Our Policy Toward Children
The Website is not intended for persons under 18 and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 18. In the event that we become aware that we have collected information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Use of Information
We may use collected information:
- To present the Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, services, or support that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you have provided the information.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To improve the Website and its associated services.
- For behavioral tracking, profiling and advertising.
- Help protect the safety, security and integrity of the Website and associated services, including by monitoring for fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activities; complying with legal requirements; monitoring and verifying identity or service access; fighting spam, malware or security threats; and enforcing our agreements with third parties and enforcing our Terms of Use.
- Detect, prevent and address technical issues.
- For any other purpose as needed for our business.
Disclosure of Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and assist us in providing services;
- To our related companies.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To enforce our Terms of Use.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Paradex Foundation, its users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Paradex Foundation’s assets or stock, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Paradex Foundation about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
We may transfer and maintain collected information on computers located outside of your jurisdiction of residence where the data protection laws may differ from those of your home jurisdiction. Regulators or government entities in that jurisdiction may be able to obtain access to your information through the laws of the jurisdiction. When we engage a third-party service provider, we include customary confidentiality and non-disclosure obligations from that service provider regarding any collected information that is provided to it.
Retention of Information
We will retain collected information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), to resolve disputes and/or to enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Data Security
We have implemented measures intended to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its security. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Cookies
As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about you, your equipment, your technology providers, and your activities, including:
- Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, browsing patterns, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your device and about your internet connection and service provider, as set forth above.
The information we collect automatically may be statistical data and may also include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This information enables us to:
- Allow you to use and access the Website.
- Prevent fraudulent activity and improve security functionality.
- Assess the performance of the Website, including as part of our analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, products or services offered through the Website.
- Offer you enhanced functionality when accessing the Website, including identifying you when you sign into our Website, and keeping track of your specified preferences.
- Deliver content relevant to your interests on our Website and third-party sites based on how you interact with our advertisements and/or content.
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Speed up your searches.
- Analyze our services and products and perform market research.
- When you visit or leave our Website by clicking a hyperlink or when you view a third-party site that includes our plugins or cookies (or similar technology), we may automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came or the one to which you are directed.
Automated data collection technologies we use include:
- Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the access, receipt and use of our services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the services available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
- Google AdWords, a remarketing service provided by Google. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Contact Us
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices or to exercise your rights under applicable law, contact us at: info@paradex.foundation.
