Privacy Notice
Last Updated: October 27, 2024
Perena ('we,' 'our,' or 'us') is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our users. This Privacy Notice (the "Privacy Notice") explains how the personal data of individuals are handled – the "Data Subjects" or the "Data Subject", or "you", "your", in connection with accessing and using the website and any services available at perena.org (together referred to as the "Services").
BY USING OUR SERVICES OR ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE OR SERVICES.
Categories of Personal Data Collected, Purposes of and Bases for the Processing
When providing the Services, we may process certain personal data for the following purposes:
Providing access to users of the website to interact with blockchain protocols
Wallet addresses, transaction and balance information
Contractual obligations (terms of use)
Processing employment applications and surveys
Name, email address, physical address, social media usernames, and any other information voluntarily provided
Legitimate interests / contractual obligations
Communicating with you regarding inquiries, support tickets, or employment opportunities
Email address, subject of inquiry and its content, attachments and any other information you voluntarily provide
Legitimate interests / contractual obligations
Analyzing website visitors' actions to improve Services
IP addresses, usage patterns, traffic data, location data derived from IP addresses
Legitimate interests
Your personal data are collected directly from you or from other parties you have authorized such collection. There is no processing of special categories of personal data about you unless you voluntarily provide such data.
Automatically Collected Data
As you navigate through and interact with website and the Services, we may occassionally automatically collect certain information about your equipment and browsing actions. This includes your IP address, browser characteristics, device information, operating system details, language preferences, referring URLs, and information about your usage of our Services. These data are collected to improve our Services and ensure their secure operation.
Unlike many services, we do not use cookies. The information we collect automatically may include statistical and performance information arising from your use of Services and website. This type of data will only be used in an aggregated and anonymized manner.
Your Rights With Regard to the Personal Data Processing
In connection with the accessing, browsing of the website and using the Services, you shall be entitled to exercise certain rights laid down by the GDPR and outlined herein below, however exercise of some of those rights may not be possible in relation to the website and Services taking account of the Services' nature, manner, form and other applicable circumstances.
Right to Access: you may request all personal data via email to legal@perena.org.
Right to Rectification: exercise of the given right directly depends on the data category concerned: if it concerns online identifiers, then their rectification isn't possible, but such categories of personal data as email address may be rectified by sending a request via legal@perena.org.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): the personal data could be deleted by a request via legal@perena.org.
Consent Withdrawal Right: you shall be entitled to withdraw consent to the processing of the personal data to which you provided your consent.
Automated Decision-Making, Profiling: neither is being carried out, your consent will be sought before carrying out any such activities.
You shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
Personal Data Storage Period
Your Personal data will be stored till:
they are necessary to render you the Services;
your consent is no longer valid;
your personal data have been deleted following your data deletion request;
in other circumstances prescribed by applicable laws.
In any event, your personal data will not be stored for periods longer than necessary for the purposes of the processing.
Personal Data Recipients and Transfer of Personal Data
For the purposes of rendering the Services to you and operating the website, your personal data may be shared with certain categories of recipients and under circumstances mentioned below:
Providers, consultants, advisors, vendors and partners acting as data processors (meaning they process your personal data on behalf and according to your instructions), which may supply hosting services, analytics services, and other technology services to run and operate the website, maintain, deliver and improve the Services. With all such parties we enter into data processing agreements required to be concluded by the applicable laws between controllers and processors to protect and secure the personal data by using appropriate technical and organizational measures;
Only in strict compliance with the applicable provisions, the personal data may be shared with governmental authorities upon their decision, receipt of court orders mandating to disclose the personal data. In any such case, we will strive to disclose only the portion of the personal data which is definitely required to be disclosed, while continuing to treat the rest of the data in confidence;
With any other third parties, if it has been explicitly requested to do so by you and as long as it doesn't infringe the applicable laws.
Blockchain Data Disclosure
Keep in mind that the use of services based on public blockchains intended to immutably record transactions across wide networks of computer systems. Many blockchains are open to forensic analysis which can lead to deanonymization and the unintentional revelation of personal data, in particular when blockchain data is combined with other data. Because blockchains are decentralized or third-party networks which are not controlled or operated by us, we cannot erase, modify, or alter personal data from such networks.
Security of Processing
Your personal data is protected from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data, both during transmission and once it is received.
Cross-Border Data Transfers
As we operate globally, your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws.
Changes to the Privacy Notice
Changes to the Privacy Notice are represented by the "Last Updated" date above. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting the modified Privacy Notice.
Contact Information
Please send all your requests and queries in connection with your rights and freedoms relating to the personal data protection and processing to: legal@perena.org.
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