Privacy Policy
Verified Network
Verified Network Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) of the Verified Network, which is a system of smart contracts on decentralized blockchain nodes hosted by Verified Network operators that are legal business entities and www.verified.network and its subdomains (the “Site”) used by service providers who are signatories to this policy (referred to as “We”, “Our” and “Us” in plural throughout this policy), provides its privacy policy regarding the nature, purpose, use, and sharing of personal data or other information collected from the users on the Verified Network (the "Verified Network"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read this carefully as this Privacy Policy is legally binding when you use the Verified Network. Any terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given to such terms in our Terms of Service which can be found at www.verified.network/terms-of-use .
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand Verified Network policies and practices regarding your information and how it will treat it. IF YOU ARE UNWILLING TO AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT, POWER AND AUTHORITY TO ACT ON BEHALF OF AND BIND THE BUSINESS, ORGANIZATION, OR OTHER ENTITY YOU REPRESENT, DO NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE VERIFIED NETWORK.
Changes to this Agreement
We reserve the exclusive right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, in its sole discretion. Your continued access to and use of the Verified Network constitutes your agreement to be bound by specific terms of this Privacy Policy posted at such time. You acknowledge and agree that you accept this Privacy Policy (and any amendments hereto) each time you access the Verified Network in any manner. Therefore, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly as you shall be bound by it.
If, within thirty (30) days of us posting changes or amendments to this Privacy Policy, you decide that you do not agree to the updated terms of the Privacy Policy, you may provide us with written notice of your withdrawal from this Privacy Policy to the email address at compliance@verified.network . Upon providing us with the written notice of the withdrawal of your acceptance to this Privacy Policy, you shall no longer be authorized to access or use the Verified Network, and you must immediately cease in doing so.
Eligibility
Age. By accessing our using the Verified Network, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), you may not, under any circumstances or for any reason, use the Verified Network.
Legality
You are solely responsible for ensuring that this Privacy Policy is in compliance with all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to you and in your jurisdiction. If your use of the Verified Network, or any functionality provided or activity enabled thereby, is prohibited or conflicts with any applicable law, rule or regulation, you may not, under any circumstances or for any reason, use the Verified Network.
Criteria
We may, in our sole discretion, refuse to offer the Verified Network to any person or entity and change the eligibility criteria for use thereof at any time.
Applicability
This Privacy Policy applies to all of your interactions with us via the Verified Network, and your interactions with us in connection therewith.
Data processing in connection with the Verified Network
Types of information we may collect
To the maximum extent possible, we try to collect as minimum as possible personal information from you. Personal Information we may collect (“Personal Information”) includes:
• Email address, your name and any other your Personal Information you provide to Us when communicate with us. Such Personal Information is used only for communication with you; • IP address, MAC address, cookie identifiers, domain server, data related to usage, performance, website security, traffic patterns, location information, browser and device information only when you are using our services on the Verified Network; • User wallet addresses, blockchain transactions identified by unique transaction hashes, and blockchain events caused by user actions • We may also receive information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organizations. For example, if you access third-party services, through the Verified Network, we may collect information from these third-party services.
How and why we use your personal information
We may use your Personal Information listed above only for:
• Our internal and operational purposes, when: ensuring security, identifying irregular user behavior, preventing fraudulent activity and improving security at all possible levels; • Assessing and improving the performance of the services we provide through the Verified Network; • Analyzing the services we provide through the Verified Network.
Use of cookies and similar technologies
The Site may use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the Site that you visit. They are widely used in order to make the Site work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the Verified Network. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive. Information collected from cookies is used by us to evaluate the effectiveness of our Site and analyze trends. The information collected from cookies allows us to determine such things as which parts of the Verified Network are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experience in accessing the Verified Network. With this knowledge, we can improve the quality of your experience on the Verified Network by recognizing and delivering more of the most desired features and information, as well as by resolving access difficulties. We use third party service providers, to assist us in better understanding the use of our Site. Our service providers will place cookies on the hard drive of your computer (or use similar technologies) and will receive information that we select that will educate us on such things as how visitors navigate around our Site. This information is aggregated to provide statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not personally identify individuals (however, see below information on Ethereum wallet addresses). This information may also include:
• Computer or mobile device information, • Site usage information, such as: Page views, Account changes (i.e. connecting a wallet), Button clicks, Input form changes (without the values being tracked), Errors.
Our service providers analyse this information and provide us with aggregate reports. The information and analysis provided by our service providers will be used to assist us in better understanding our visitors' interests in Verified Network and how to better serve those interests, as well as help ensure secure use of the Site for all users. If you want to avoid using cookies altogether, you can disable cookies in your browser. However, disabling cookies might make it impossible for you to use certain features of the Site. Your use of the Site with a browser that is configured to accept cookies constitutes acceptance of our and third-party cookies.
Public Ethereum Addresses
We use public and private Ethereum addresses to identify a user’s journey through our Interface. We group and analyze these user journeys collectively in order to provide adequate security for our users and to improve our overall user experience of the Verified Network.
Blockchain Data
Note that we are not responsible for your use of the Ethereum blockchain and your data processed in this decentralized and permissionless network.
Disclosure of Data
We may disclose any information about you:
• to the extent required by law or if we have a good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to comply with official investigations or legal proceedings initiated by governmental and/or law enforcement officials, or private parties, including but not limited to: in response to subpoenas, search warrants, or court orders; or • to our subsidiaries or affiliates only if necessary for operational purposes.
If we must disclose any of your Personal Information in order to comply with official investigations or legal proceedings initiated by governmental and/or law enforcement officials, we may not be able to ensure that such recipients of your Personal Information will maintain the privacy or security of your Personal Information.
Data Retention Period
We will store your data, including Personal Information, for a reasonable period based on our analysis of how long the specific data is reasonably required for legal or business purposes. When the applicable period has expired, we securely delete or destroy such data. Aggregated data, which cannot identify a device/browser (or individual) is retained in a similar manner.
Sometimes business and legal requirements oblige us to retain certain information, for specific purposes, for an extended period of time. Reasons we might retain some data for longer periods of time include: • Security, fraud & abuse prevention. • Financial record-keeping. • Complying with legal or regulatory requirements. • Ensuring the continuity of our services on the Verified Network.
At any time, please email us at compliance@verified.network if you would like (a) to receive a copy of your data or any additional information regarding the collection of your data (categories, type etc), (b) to make a correction to your data (c) to delete or remove your data (d) to transfer your data to another entity (subject to our commercially reasonable limitations regarding form, time and source) (e) to revoke your consent regarding agreement with this Policy or (f) to object to any portion of this policy or the collection of your data pursuant to this policy. All requests will be addressed as soon as it is commercially reasonable for us to do so and is at all times subject to any obligations we are required to comply with under applicable law.
The Verified Network is not directed to collect any data from people under the age of 18. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to submit any data to the Verified Network. If you believe your child may have provided us with their data, please contact us as soon as possible.
Data Integrity & Security
We take information privacy and security very seriously. We work hard to protect the Personal Information you provide us from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. We utilize a variety of safeguards such as encryption, digital and physical access controls, non-disclosure agreements, and other technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during and post transmission.
Please note that no electronic transmission, storage, or processing of Personal Information can be entirely secure. We cannot guarantee that the security measures we have in place to safeguard Personal Information will never be defeated or fail, or that those measures will always be sufficient or effective. Therefore, although we are committed to protecting your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect that your Personal Information will always remain private or secure.
Supervisory Authority Oversight
If you are a data subject whose data we process, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this policy, you may contact us by email to the following email address compliance@verified.network.