Last updated on March 26, 2024
Ink Finance is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and the information received from them on its investment protocol platform and social network (the “Site”). When we refer to users in this Privacy Policy, we mean anyone who accesses the Site and Ink Finance front-end, including all the products, services, tools, and information made available on the Site (the “Services”). This Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect from users, how we use it, with whom we share it, the safeguards we have in place to protect such information, and the choices users can make concerning their personal information. By using our Services, you agree to our use of your information under this Privacy Policy. We will not use or share your personal information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
Our Site is designed in a way that allows you to explore certain information about our Services without disclosing your identity or any personally identifiable information. However, if you contact us, request information, apply for a job, or subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect personal information from you. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, or any other information that is necessary to provide you with the requested information or service. We will ensure that this information is accurate and up-to-date to the best of our knowledge.
To receive information from the Site about our Services or to apply for a job with us, you may be required to provide us with certain information, including, for example, your name, email address, telephone number, and information about your organization, or information required to apply for a position with us. Failure to provide such data may make it impossible for us to provide you with the requested information or service or to evaluate your job application.We may collect technical data from you, such as your device’s internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site or use our Services.
We may also collect, use, and share aggregate and/or de-identified data about Users (“Aggregated Data”), such as statistical or demographic data, for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your PI, but once in aggregated form, it will not constitute PI as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your PI so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as PI, which will be used under this Privacy Policy.
In addition, we may collect PI from different sources, such as our affiliates, our service providers, or our affiliates’ service providers; public websites or other publicly accessible directories and sources, including bankruptcy registers, tax authorities, governmental agencies and departments, and regulatory authorities; and/or from credit reporting agencies, sanctions screening databases, or from sources designed to detect and prevent fraud or financial crimes. The relevant source may be responsible for obtaining the relevant consent from you (where applicable) to ensure you are happy with how your PI will be used.
Cookies and Other Technologies
The Site and our Services may use cookies. A cookie is a text file sent by a website to your browser. Cookies allow a website to customize information based on your browsing preferences.
We use the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember your choices when you use our Site, such as remembering your login details and the changes you make to other parts of our Site, which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.
Analytics and Performance Cookies: We web analytics tools that may include Google Analytics and other similar services that help us understand how users engage with our Site. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our Site. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Site. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors.
In addition, we may add the following cookie types in the future:
Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to providing you with services available through our Site and enabling you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the Services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide those services.
You can typically reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "settings", "help" "tools" or "edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in using our Services and some features of the Service may not function properly. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in every time you visit our Services.
For further information about cookies, including seeing what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com.
Do Not Track Signals: We do not currently respond to web browser "do not track" signals, which provide a method to opt out of the collection of information about users' activities on the Services and on other websites. If we do so in the future, we will provide relevant information in this Privacy Policy.
Use of Information We Collect
We may use Personally Identifiable Information (PI) or Aggregated Data for different purposes, such as administering and enabling the use of the Site. This includes communications at the email or physical addresses, or phone number provided by you. We may also notify you regarding any future amendments to our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy.
- providing, updating, and maintaining our Services, including registering you as a user, managing your account and profile, and authenticating you when you login;
- processing your job application, including communicating with you and responding to your application, evaluating and background screening;
- ensuring all Users follow our Terms and other rules and policies;
- banning a User temporarily or permanently for failure to follow our Terms, rules and policies or for other misconduct or inappropriate behavior;
- responding to questions and comments from Users;
- enabling Users to receive newsletters, updates, and other materials related to us;
- monitoring and analyzing the Site (including, but not limited to, measuring Users’ interest in, and use of, various areas of the Site);improving the functionality, design, and quality of the Site;
- performing the technical administration of the Site;
- investigating cases of suspected abuse or fraud;
- preparing statistical and other summary analyses of our Users’ behavior; and
- any other purpose that we determine at our discretion is related to the use, advertising, marketing, promotion, or other of our, or the Site’s legitimate purposes
We do not collect or maintain PI for resale purposes or share your information with any other company or organization except as indicated herein or to the extent such other company or organization acts as our agent to communicate with you by mail, email, or otherwise. In addition, we will not send promotional materials to Users who indicate that they do not wish to receive such messages.
Personal Information Disclosure
We do not rent, sell, or share your personal information with any third party, except in the ways described in our Privacy Policy. We may share your personal information with selected vendors, third-party service providers, and agents, but only when it is necessary to fulfill our purposes. For example, we may share your information with web analytics service providers, such as Google Analytics, for web analysis purposes. However, we make sure to provide these entities with only the information they need to deliver the service we have requested and they are strictly prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Furthermore, we may also share your personal information when we believe it is necessary to do so, such as when required by law or to protect our legal rights:
Comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal processes, including from law enforcement or other government agencies. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Without providing notice to you, we may disclose any information about Users, including PI, to government or law enforcement officials or private parties where we are required to do so by law, including, but not limited to, in response to a court order or subpoena. We may also, without providing notice to you, disclose PI in response to a request by a law enforcement agency or other public agency or if we believe such disclosure may prevent or mitigate the threat of crime or harm to Users or others, facilitate an investigation related to a User’s safety or public safety, protect the security or integrity of our Site, or enable us to take precautions against liability;
- Store or process PI on our behalf (for example, cloud computing service providers);Perform research, technical diagnostics, personalization, and analytics;
- Protect us, our business, or our Users, for example, by enforcing our Terms, preventing spam or other unwanted communications, and investigating or protecting against fraud;Maintain the security of our Site and Services.
- Service providers and other third parties. We may also share PI with third parties when you consent.
The data collected through the Site and Services is processed using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes related to Our Purposes. We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate the operation of the Site and Services and to perform services related to the administration of the Site and Services (including, but not limited to, maintenance, hosting and database management services, web analytics and administration, and legal services). These third parties can only access Users’ PI and other personal data to perform these tasks on our behalf. We may share Aggregated Data, and reports based on Aggregated Data, with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, and other commercial purposes or to deliver targeted advertising about other products and services. No such Aggregated Data that we provide to third parties will contain PI.
Operation Transfers: In connection with a sale of all or part of our operations, or sale or transfer of assets, or a merger, reorganization, or in the event of bankruptcy, we may transfer PI to a third party as part of the transaction, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Your Privacy Choices
If a user discovers that the personal information we maintain about them is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, irrelevant, or out of date, they may update it by contacting us using the contact information provided below. It is the responsibility of the individual to keep their information up to date. We will try our best to provide the requested information or make requested changes within the limits of applicable privacy laws. In any event, we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible to advise you of the outcome of your request. You may request the removal of the previously provided PI at any time using the contact information below. However, the deletion of such data may affect our ability to provide you with our Services. We reserve the right to verify the identity of any person making an opt-out or correct/update request. Still, we shall have no liability resulting from false or erroneous requests. You may update your PI, and communications preferences or opt-out from receiving promotional materials at any time by contacting us at ink@inkfinance.xyz.
Links to Third Party Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to our Site. The Site may, at times, contain links to other websites, platforms, or protocols that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites, platforms, or protocols or how these websites, platforms, or protocols operate or treat your personal information.In no event will we be responsible for the information contained in such links or websites, platforms or protocols, their practices, or for your use of, or inability to use, such links or websites, platforms or protocols, or their services, or transmissions received from such websites, platforms or protocols. Using the Site, you expressly relieve and discharge us from any liability arising from using any third-party website, platform, or protocol. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave the Site and to read the privacy policies and terms of use associated with each of any third-party websites, platforms, or protocols that may collect personal information.
Your Choices and Opt-Outs
You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of our marketing messages.Also, all opt-out requests can be made by emailing us at ink@inkfinance.xyz. Please note that it may take up to sixty (60) days to remove your contact information from our marketing communications lists, so you may receive correspondence from us for a short time after you make a request. However, we may occasionally inform you via email of extending such a period.
Cross Border Transactions
The Site and Services are intended for use by persons and businesses in the United States. If you visit the Site from a country other than the United States, your communications will likely transfer your PI across national borders. Our servers or offices may be located in countries other than the country from which you access the Site, also resulting in the transfer of your PI across international borders. If you provide your PI when visiting the Site from outside of the United States, you acknowledge and agree that this data may be transferred from your then-current location to our offices and servers and to those of our affiliates, agents, and service providers located in the United States and in other countries. The United States and other countries may not have the same level of data protection as those that apply in the jurisdiction where you live.
Changes
As a result of potential improvements to the Site and Services, changes in the law, and/or the changing nature of technology, our data practices may change from time to time. Accordingly, we reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and occasionally without prior notice. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. If and when our data practices change. Such changes to the Privacy Policy will become effective when posted. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all PI we have about you. We stand behind our promises, however, and will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of PI collected in the past without the consent of affected individuals. Notwithstanding the above, your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy regularly.
Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about how we process your personal information or require assistance managing your privacy choices, please contact us using the contact information below.
Email: ink@inkfinance.xyz
This document was last updated on March 26, 2024