Privacy Policy

Last Revised on September 19, 2024

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) for StakeStone, a Cayman Islands company, and its subsidiaries (“Organization”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) describes the basis on which we will process personal data we collect from users of the Organization’s website, stakestone.io, including any of its subdomains (“Website”), and any tools, services, features, and functionalities available through the Website (collectively, the “Services”), in accordance with applicable law. For purposes of applicable data protection laws, the Organization is the controller. For the purposes of this Policy, “you” and “your” refers to you as the user of the Services.

Please read this Policy carefully so that you understand your rights in relation to your personal data and how we will collect, use, and process your personal data. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use, access, connect to, interact with, or download any of the Services or otherwise provide your information to us.

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, WHY WE PROCESS IT, AND THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

When you access, use, connect to, or interact with the Services, we may collect certain categories of information about you, including personal data, from a variety of sources.

Information you provide to us:

Personal data may include (i) names; (ii) addresses; (iii) telephone numbers; (iv) email addresses; (v) government-issued identification numbers; (vi) user passwords or PINs; (vii) user identification and account access credentials, passwords, PINs, and security question answers; (viii) financial account numbers; (ix) any internet-protocol address (“IP Address”) and/or any Ethereum or similar digital-asset, smart-contract, or protocol address (“Wallet”) information, associations, and/or identifiers; and (x) geolocation data.

In addition, personal data may include your social media handle and related information, transaction data or history (such as your blockchain transaction history and other information associated with a linked address or Wallet), certain information needed to transfer or allocate tokens, profile data (such as your profile name and avatar), marketing data (such as preferences for receiving marketing communications and related details), token holdings, and any other information collected through Services. When you contact us, including by email provided in this Policy or elsewhere on the Website, or through emails that you may have received through other means, we will collect the content of the communications we have with you and any personal data contained within.

We process this information to perform our contract with you, such as to provide you with our Services and content. We obtain your consent to process your personal data to sign you up for alerts and if you opt into marketing, to communicate with you about our products, features, services, marketing, events, and other news and information we think will be of interest to you. In order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship, we may also use this information to send you announcements in relation to security, privacy, or administrative related communications (which are not marketing oriented, and so we do not rely on consent, so you may not opt-out) and to communicate with you and provide responses to your requests and other communications.

Information we collect automatically:

When you visit our Website or access, use, connect to, or interact with the Services, our servers temporarily save each access in a log file. The following data may be collected: (i) the IP Address of the requesting computer or device; (ii) the name of your internet access provider (usually your internet access provider); (iii) the date and time of access; (iv) the name and URL of the retrieved file; (v) the page and address of the website from which you were redirected to the website and, if applicable, the search term used; (vi) the country from which the website is accessed; (vii) the operating system of your computer and the browser you are using (provider, version, and language); and (viii) the transmission protocol used (e.g., HTTP/1.1).

The processing of this data is carried out for the purpose of enabling your access to, use of, connection to, and interaction with the Services, including (i) to facilitate your connection to the Website, (ii) to identify if you are likely to be a Prohibited Person, as defined in our general Terms of Service, available at stakestone.io, or if you are subject to any prohibitions with respect to the Services and other terms of services; and/or (iii) to verify your identity, identifying information, certain facts with respect to your identity or identifying information, and location to determine eligibility for certain Services, in each case with respect to any of (i), (ii), and/or (iii) in order for us to perform our contract with you and in our legitimate interests to provide effective Services to you.

We also process this data in our legitimate interests to provide effective Services to you by processing the data to assist system security and stability for provision of the Services, to conduct troubleshooting, data analytics, testing, and research, and to enable optimization and internal statistical analysis with respect to the Services, as well as to maintain the safety and security of our users, the Website, our Services, and business and to improve and develop our Services and Website.

Finally, the Organization may use cookies, web beacons/clear gifs, geolocation and tracking technologies, and other applications when you visit the Website, including technologies collecting certain information about your access to, use of, connection to, or interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”) that may be integrated with third-party service providers.

With your consent, we may use any data collected, including Usage Data, to tailor features and content to you and to ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device and to run analytics and better understand your user experience with respect to the Services and, if you have opted into marketing, for marketing purposes. For further information, please refer to sections “Cookies” and “Tracking Tools”.

We may also use your information to provide the Services and perform our contract with you. In our legitimate interests to provide effective services to you, we may also use this data to create aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data.

In addition to the foregoing, we may use any of your information to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.