Privacy Policy

 

Type of website: News and/or Media
Effective date: 8 NOV 2021

www.cryptovotehub.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by J & D MCGREGOR PTY LTD. J & D MCGREGOR PTY LTD is the data controller and can be contacted at:

info@cryptovotehub.com

Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is to inform users of our Site of the following:

  • The personal data we will collect;
  • Use of collected data;
  • Who has access to the data collected;
  • The rights of Site users; and
  • The Site’s cookie policy.

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.

GDPR

For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.

Consent

By using our Site users agree that they consent to:

  • The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.

When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.

You can withdraw your consent by: Contacting the Customer Service Department.

Legal Basis for Processing

We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.

We rely on the following legal basis to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:

  • Users have provided their consent to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes.

Personal Data We Collect

We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.

Data Collected Automatically
When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information:

  • IP address;
  • Location;
  • Hardware and software details;
  • Clicked links; and
  • Content viewed.

Data Collected in a Non-Automatic Way
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:

  • First and last name;
  • Age;
  • Date of birth;
  • Sex;
  • Email address;
  • Phone number;
  • Address;
  • Votes; and
  • Auto fill data.

This data may be collected using the following methods:

  • Creating an account.

How We Use Personal Data

Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.

The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes:

  • Statistics.

The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:

  • Communication purposes.

Who We Share Personal Data With

Employees
We may disclose user data to any member of our organisation who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Third Parties
We may share user data with the following third parties:

  • Affiliate marketing agencies.

We may share the following user data with third parties:

  • Links clicked while using site.

We may share user data with third parties for the following purposes:

  • Targeted advertising.

Third parties will not be able to access user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.

Our Website, our App, our APIs, our Site services (including but not limited to widgets and plugins), our Updates, our Content, our loyalty program’s redemption items and system, emails and other promotional messages may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. Some of the third party links may also be “affiliate links”. However, such third party websites are not governed by our Privacy Policy or Website Terms of Use. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or data security of such third party websites, even if they are affiliate links, co-branded with our company name or logo, or our Website or Site services, or promotional messages on our Site display products or services that originate from such third parties. As such, we urge you to learn about the privacy policies of these third party websites before accessing or using them, and to be careful about providing any Personal Data to such third party websites. We seek your understanding that we are not liable for any acts or omissions or any loss or damage that you may suffer due to your use or access of such third party websites.

For clarification, “affiliate links” refer to third party links on our Site pursuant to which our Company may receive compensation from the referenced third party, which may be in the form of tokens, digital currency, fiat currency, services or products from such affiliated third parties (which includes without limitation “Binance”, and certain operators of Social Media Sites).

Without limiting the generality of the above, as our Site incorporates videos and podcasts regarding cryptocurrency, utility tokens, digital coins/currency, ICOs that do not amount to an offering of securities or securities-tokens, and other related digital currency information, and such videos and podcasts (or links to such videos and podcasts) are made available via YouTube, or the use of YouTube API Services (as defined in the “YouTube Terms of Service” found at  https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), you hereby agree that in order for you to access the aforesaid videos and podcasts, you must agree to abide by all provisions therein the YouTube Terms of Service as well as the Google Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy, failing which, you are not permitted to access the aforesaid videos and podcasts.

We may utilise reputable social media/network sites such as, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn (collectively the “Social Media Sites”) so as to connect to your social networks. In order to generate interest in our Site, our App, our APIs and our Site Services, our products and services amongst the contacts in your social networks and to allow you to share your interest in our Site, our App, our APIs, our Site Services, our Updates, our Content, our events, and/or our other products and services, we may provide access to our Site to the third party Social Media Sites, and there may thus be links on our Site to such Social Media Sites. The aforesaid association with the Social Media Sites does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of any of the Social Media Sites by our Company nor vice versa. As per above, kindly review the terms of use and privacy policies of the Social Media Sites before you use or access such Social Media Sites in conjunction with our Website, our App or Site Services or any of our promotions and our products or services made available via any Social Media Sites.

Other Disclosures
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

  • If the law requires it;
  • If it is required for any legal proceeding;
  • To prove or protect our legal rights; and
  • To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.

If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.

How Long We Store Personal Data

User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.

You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

In order to protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all of our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible to our employees or IT contractors. Our employees and contractors are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the employee’s termination or termination of our contractor’s agreement.

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

Your Rights as a User

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right to be informed;
  • Right of access;
  • Right to rectification;
  • Right to erasure;
  • Right to restrict processing;
  • Right to data portability; and
  • Right to object.

Children

The minimum age to use our website is 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.

How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here: info@cryptovotehub.com.au

Do Not Track Notice

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. If we receive a DNT signal that indicates a user does not wish to be tracked, we will not track that user. We are not responsible for and cannot guarantee how any third parties who interact with our Site and your data will respond to DNT signals.

How to Opt-Out of Data Collection, Use or Disclosure

In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data specified below:

  • Users can opt-out of the use of their personal data for marketing emails. You can opt-out by users can opt out by clicking “Unsubscribe” on the bottom of any marketing email or updating their email preferences under “Account”

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file, stored on a user’s hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user’s browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.

We use the following types of cookies on our Site:

  • Functional cookies
    Functional cookies are used to remember the selections you make on our Site so that your selections are saved for your next visits;
  • Analytical cookies
    Analytical cookies allow us to improve the design and functionality of our Site by collecting data on how you access our Site, for example data on the content you access, how long you stay on our Site, etc;
  • Targeting cookies
    Targeting cookies collect data on how you use the Site and your preferences. This allows us to personalise the information you see on our Site for you; and
  • Third-Party Cookies
    Third-party cookies are created by a website other than ours. We may use third-party cookies to achieve the following purposes:
  • Monitor user preferences to tailor advertisements around their interests.
  • Anonymised Data

Anonymised Data refers to information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data and cannot be used to identify individual persons.

  • When you access our Website, Site Services, Content, App, and/or any of our online advertisements and banners, we collect Anonymised Data about you via the application of generally acceptable web technologies including but not limited to “web beacons”, “cookies”, “clear GIFs”, “widgets”, “online evaluations”, “surveys”, “HTML5”, “dynamic device identifiers”, and third-party web analytics such as “Google analytics” (collectively, “Acceptable Technologies”).

This automatic collection of non-personal information includes (without limitation) collection of your IP Address, the web browser software that you used, the type of smart phone or tablet that you may be using, the operating software/platform of your device, your sign-up(s) for any Updates or information via our Website and/or Site Services, your general interest as indicated by the banners or advertisements that you click on, the specific pages of our Website viewed by you, the specific categories or features in our Website accessed by you, the sharing of any information by you via our Website, any third party application used in conjunction with our Website or Site Services, your downloading of our App and APIs, and third party websites that you may have visited prior to our Website. Our purpose for the aforesaid collection of information is for us to understand the preference of our visitors and users so as to enhance and facilitate the ease with which you are able to access or use our Website and our Site Services.

  • As part of the Anonymised Data that we collect, when you access our Website via your mobile device or tablet, we will also collect information regarding the type of mobile device or tablet that you are utilising so that our Website, App and/or Site Services can provide you with the version of our Website and/or App best suited for access on your mobile device or tablet.
  • If you do not consent to our collection of Anonymised Data, please adjust the settings on your computer, tablet and mobile device to block or disable our use of the Acceptable Technologies. In the event that you choose to access our Website or our Site Services without blocking or disabling or opting out of the Acceptable Technologies, such access by you will constitute your consent to our use of the Acceptable Technologies and our collection of information thereto.

Modifications

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer at:

info@cryptovotehub.com.au

Governing Law

The terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy are governed by the laws of Australia. In the event of any disputes arising from this Privacy Policy and your use of our Website, you must first contact our Privacy Officer at info@cryptovotehub.com regarding your concern and use your best endeavours to settle any dispute in good faith. We will also take all steps to address, and settle, your concerns in good faith.

If no amicable resolution is reached within 30 days, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your Personal Data, please contact our Privacy Officer at info@cryptovotehub.com.