We respect your privacy.
In this Privacy Policy, your “Personal Data” means information related to you or any other identifiable natural person, as defined in applicable law, including personal information as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) of 2018, as amended. As you are using this Site, you may wish to request information about our Services. You may also apply for a career with us. You will therefore be asked to provide Personal Data to identify you personally so that we can provide further information and/or Services to you or process your employment application. We may also ask for additional information that is not Personal Data, such as how you anticipate you will make use of our products and services.
When you provide us with Personal Data and provide your consent, where necessary, or enter into a contract with us, you are authorizing us to use that data in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, which includes your right to limit or withdraw your consent for our use of the Personal Data (see “Your Rights and Choices”).
Since we only collect Personal Data from a potential client or job applicant, the types of Personal Data you may give us directly include:
Personal Data that we collect automatically. Even if you do not share your Personal Data with us while you are browsing our website, we collect information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as your IP address or device identifiers, what site you came from, or what site you visit when you leave us, page interaction information, such as what areas of the websites you visit and for how long, what search terms you enter, and what products or content you view and click on, and methods used to browse away from the page.
We use the Personal Data that we collect and store to communicate to you and provide you with information about our Services. We may use the Personal Data we collect for the following purposes:
Cookies. When you visit our website, we use cookies, which are files or pieces of software that may be stored on your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) to improve the way our website works, better understand website traffic and use, and better tailor our website to your interests and needs.
If you are accessing this website outside of the U.S., please see our cookie policy.
Grounds for using your Personal Data – European and United Kingdom specific provision. We rely on the following grounds to collect and process any Personal Data you may have provided:
We may disclose the Personal Data we collect to:
Third Parties. We do not sell the Personal Data we collect to marketing partners and other third parties for their own use and purposes.
Vendors and Service Providers. We use the services of third parties (i.e.,technology consultants, customer relationship management vendors, etc.) who will sometimes, in the course of providing services to us, be given access to the Personal Data we have collected. These vendors and service providers send emails for us, help us manage and operate our website, provide advertising or marketing services, including customer relationship management vendors and email marketing platform providers, provide analytics and search engine support, investigate and prevent data incidents, audit our business and financial statements, provide legal advice, and place our advertisements on other platforms.
Sale or Transfer of Business. If part of our business is sold, we may include your Personal Data that we collected in the context of your inquiry as a potential client or job applicant, as part of that transaction, which may include some or all categories of Personal Data related to you. We may also share your Personal Data if there is a change to our corporate structure. We may also share the your Personal Data with others as they conduct diligence of our corporate changes.
Compliance with Law. If required to do so by law, regulation, subpoena or court order, we may share thePersonal Data with the relevant government or regulatory agency, licensing authority, or credit reporting agency. Due to the legal and regulatory environment in which we operate, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data and we may not be permitted to inform you that we have done so. We will make all reasonable efforts to limit such disclosure to situations where we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in response to (1) a subpoena, warrantor other legal process; or (2) legal obligation or business necessity to cooperate with local, state or federal law enforcement agencies.
Shareholders. If you express interest in our Services as a potential client, we do not share your Personal Data with our shareholders, unless required by law. Please note we may share information with our shareholders about companies that present potential business opportunities to us. If you are a job applicant, we may share your Personal Data with our shareholders to facilitate the application process.
Our operations are based in the United States. We process the Personal Data and other information related to you in the UnitedStates. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using this website and providing us with your Personal Data, you consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in the UnitedStates. Please note that if you are accessing our Services from outside of the United States, the data protection laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as the laws in your region.
For information that is maintained in electronic form, we maintain appropriate physical, administrative, and technical measures, including utilization of server, database, backup, firewall and encryption technologies to secure that information. We do not maintain information collected on this website in paper form. While we have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data and other information related to you from accidental loss or unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, unfortunately, the transmission of information via electronic means is not generally completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data and other information related to you, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our website, applications or other electronic services. Any electronic transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk.
We collect and process your Personal Data on the basis that your Personal Data is required for us to respond to your inquiries about our Services, using our Services, seeking employment with us, or for the legitimate purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that you always have the right to request that we:
To initiate any of these actions please contact us at inquiries@blockgraph.co.
Right to Lodge a Complaint. If you are located in the European Union, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority about our use of your Personal Data.
Marketing Emails. We may use your email address to provide you with news and marketing offers from us. If you no longer wish to receive commercial marketing communications from us, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the “opt-out” instructions included in each communication or by sending us an email at inquiries@blockgraph.co. Even if you opt-out of getting marketing emails, we will still send you transactional emails. These include responses to your questions.
Cookies. Your browser’s “help” or“settings” function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any time. You may choose not to accept cookies or may disable them through your browser for a specific device, but parts of our website may not work properly without them. You should be aware that if you clear your cookies, you may clear any opt-outs you may have previously selected. If you use a different browser or device, you may have to opt in again. See our Cookie Policy to see how to make choices about non-essential cookies.
Google Analytics and Hotjar. We use Google Analytics and HotJar to help us better understand how visitors are using our website and improve website functionality. To see an overview of the privacy policy for Google, visit: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
To see an overview of the privacy policy for Hotjar visit: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/
You may opt out of tracking by Hotjar by visiting: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/
Our Advertising On Other Sites. If we advertise to you on other sites using information collected from this website, or if we collect information when you visit an advertisement we place on another site and use that to continue advertising to you, you may opt out of that kind of targeting through those other sites. If we do target advertisements to you on those other sites, we will rely on other companies with which we have written agreements to provide services that help us target, advertise, and analyze our communications.
Opting Out of Targeted Advertising. You can opt out of online targeted advertising generally by opting out within the advertisement itself. Also, you can visit the following sites to opt out of targeted advertising:
In the U.S., visit http://www.aboutads.info/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.aspx
In Canada, visit http://youradchoices.ca/
In Europe visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Most companies that provide services for targeted advertising and analytics provide opt-outs through one or more of these organizations. You may also opt out of cross-app advertising on mobile devices at the above sites or through their corresponding mobile apps or by using your mobile device settings. If third parties offer targeted advertising on our website, they will offer opt-outs through the same links.
Additional Notice Regarding the CaliforniaConsumer Privacy Act of 2018.
We are not a business based on thresholds set forth in the CCPA and we do not have a legal obligation to provide you with the CCPA rights. We act as a service provider, as defined under the CCPA, to our clients. (See Section 6 – Our Role as a Service Provider and Processor to Our Clients.)
Other California Privacy Rights.
During 2019, we did not share any Personal Data about you with third party companies for their own marketing purposes.
This section is intended to explain our use of other data received from our clients, not thePersonal Data we collect from you. We are a service provider to our clients. We process data on behalf of our clients and pursuant to a written contract with each client. We do not have a direct relationship with our clients’ customers.
We provide a platform for our clients to maintain their customers’ data. We are not permitted to use our clients’ data except to provide our Services. We cooperate with our clients in their efforts to comply with the CCPA.
If you are a customer of one of our clients and would no longer like to be contacted by them, please send your request to the client that you interact with directly. If our client requests our assistance to remove or amend that data, we will comply with our contractual obligations to cooperate, but we will only do so at the direction of the client. The client will always be your point of contact.
We may have links on this website to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. We strongly encourage you to read that privacy notice. We do not control that site and assume no responsibility for the content, policies or its practices.
If you have any questions, requests or comments regarding this Policy, please contact us at inquiries@blockgraph.co.
Blockgraph may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blockgraph’s sole discretion. You will be notified of any material changes to this Policy. Any such changes will become effective when they are posted.
