PiratePets - Privacy Policy

PiratePets LLC (referred to as "we" "our" and "us") understands and respects your desire to maintain your privacy. It is our priority to maintain your privacy in all of your dealings with us, including through your use of the PiratePets move2earn running app (“App”).

This Privacy Policy is intended to explain how we and our related entities will collect your personal information and protect your privacy.

We will always act by the Georgian Privacy Principles when dealing with your personal information. As a global business, we also comply with various jurisdiction-specific privacy provisions outlined in this Privacy Policy.

What information is covered under this policy?

This Privacy Policy covers your personal information. Personal information is information or an opinion, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable. All personal information received in connection with our business is subject to strict rules of confidentiality.

Generally speaking, this includes your unique identifiers: your name, username, password, IP address, unique device identifiers, gender, telephone number, email, date of birth, digital wallet details, other identification credentials, biographical details, and commentary or opinions about you.

We also collect information about your location and physical movements for the App to function properly and monitor and verify forms of eligible movement. You may turn location monitoring on and off from time to time using the settings of your operating system of your mobile device but, if you disable this functionality, we will not be able to collect information relating to your step count and GPS/Cell-ID location which will prevent tracking and/or conversion of your movement into PPT token.

Personal information that we may collect from you

We may collect some or all of the following types of personal information:

· “Identifiers,” such as first and last name, address, email address, phone number, social media address, user name, IP address, cookie ID and similar information.

· “Demographic Information,” such as age and similar information. Demographic Information may include legally protected classifications.

· “Commercial Information,” such as service or features purchased, obtained, or considered, or information about how you use our Service

· “Internet Activity,” such as device or browser information, comments, or other content posted to our Service or shared with us via email, browsing activity, social media content, interactions with our Service, and interactions with marketing communications sent on our behalf.

· “Geolocation Data,” such as your approximate geographic location at the time you access our Service

· “Fitness Data” such as steps and activity, so that we can import step count data and distance used in the game.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent to the fact that you are aware that we are collecting your personal information and disclosing it as required by us.

How personal information is collected

"Personal information" is data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be used to contact, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you. For this Privacy Policy, there is no meaningful distinction between the terms "personal information" and "personal data".

You may choose not to provide some of the personal information described above. Please note, however, that some of our services require some personal information to operate, so if you choose not to provide the personal information necessary to operate and provide you with a particular service or feature of that service, you may not be able to use that service or feature.

Information that you give us

We may collect your personal information directly from our contact with you. This may include you completing forms or parts of our website, Social Media, App, and/or other software and/or mobile applications, by providing us with consent to access the microphone and/or camera on your device, or by contacting us via the email, telephone, through Social Media and other similar functions either directly through our website or the App or through third party host websites, in person, through various marketing channels or competitions either directly through our website or the App or through third party host websites, and surveys.

You understand that any personal information that you provide to us must be accurate and up to date. We will assume this to be the case.

Information that we collect about you

In this Privacy Policy "Social Media" means social media networking sites of any kind or nature including but not limited to web or internet-based or mobile telephonic devices or mediums such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn which enable the creation and exchange of user-generated content.

Our website, Social Media, App and/or ,other software and/or mobile applications may automatically collect the following information about you each time you visit or otherwise use our website, Social Media, App, and/or other software and/or mobile applications:

· technical information including but not limited to the Internet Protocol Address used to connect your device to the internet, the internet browser and version that you are using when accessing our website, Social Media, App or other software and/or mobile applications, any additional plug-ins that you are using, and your device's operating system and platform; and

· information about the time and date you accessed our website, Social Media, App or other software and/or mobile applications, and what you accessed on our website, Social Media, App or other software and/or mobile applications. This includes links that you clicked on, what content you accessed, how long you accessed that content for, whether you downloaded any content, whether supplied by us or downloaded from a third party host and how you navigated to and from our website, Social Media, App or other software and/or mobile applications to other sites, apps or other pages hosted by us.

· Like most online services, our App/website and Service may passively collect some information from users’ devices to make features function correctly, customize the user experience, understand how the App/website or Service is being used, or measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts. Some of this data may be collected through the use of browser cookies or similar online tracking tools.

How we use your personal information

You consent to the disclosure of your personal information to any of our related entities.

You consent to our collection of your personal information and disclosing it to third parties where necessary and for the purposes for which it was collected.

This may include:

· providing our services;

· verifying your physical movement and location and issuing PPT token based on this verified data;

· investigating and/or preventing suspected fraud or other criminal activities or misuse of our services, including the collection and disclosure of user location and movement data.

· where we collect or disclose information that is or relates to the Internet Protocol Address used to connect your device to the Internet, for fraud detection and management of the integrity of the PiratePets game system and other services. This may include detecting when users are cheating the PiratePets game system, and for handling accounts we suspect are stolen or have otherwise been compromised. This information helps us verify whether the account or associated assets belong to a particular user;

· where information is or relates to system version information of your device, or the make and model of your device, for our compatibility assessments with our software versions and other aspects of our services;

· creating Leader boards of players, comprising all players or players meeting particular criteria;

· operating the PiratePets Marketplace;

· investigating disputes between players;

· using your personal information to provide you with information that you have requested from us;

· communicate with you, including informing you of updates to the App, website, our Terms of Service, and/or this Privacy Policy;

· authenticating your financial account information or processing the transfer of digital assets;

· authenticating your in-game wallet information;

· using your personal information for marketing purposes to provide or offer services to you. This includes but is not limited to, keeping you up to date with our latest news, events, special offers, and promotion of our brand or other similar products that we think you may be interested in. This includes both our direct marketing to you or another third party to whom you have authorized us to disclose your personal information;

· notifying you about any changes to our products, website, App and/o,r other software and/or mobile applications, brand or services offered;

· seeking your opinion and feedback on any of our services, including for the purposes of product improvement and customization, App, website/software improvement and personalization and other general services;

· for consumer engagement and/or customer service purposes, including but not limited to identifying the effectiveness of advertising, allowing you to participate on website viral features such as sharing website content and other community features (for example, blogs);

· Analysing the usage of, and improving our services;

· for other general services such as website/software security, maintenance, identification of fraud or errors, internal accounting and administration, and for any other purpose that we are required or permitted to do by law; and managing our relationships with you and our other customers.

Certain of your data may be shared with other players of the App as part of the normal operation of our services. Additionally, we may, from time to time, expand or withdraw our business which may involve the transfer of certain of our divisions or assets to other parties, and the data we store and use, where relevant, may be transferred to such third parties. From time to time we may also transfer the data we store and use to locations outside Georgia, some of which may have different data protection laws to Georgia.

In addition, we may utilize overseas IT services (including software, platforms, and infrastructure), such as data storage facilities or other IT infrastructure. In such cases, we may own or control such overseas infrastructure or we may have entered into contractual arrangements with third-party service providers to assist us with providing our services to you.

As we utilize cross-border IT services and platforms that can be accessed from various countries via an internet connection, it is not always practicable to know where your information may be held.

How we share personal information

· We may share Personal Information with contractors, service providers, and other vendors who provide services to us. Examples of these services include hosting our website, storing data, performing analytics, processing payments, or sending marketing communications.

· Where necessary and appropriate, our agreements with vendors prohibit them from retaining, using, or disclosing the Personal Information we share with them for any purpose other than providing services to us.

· Analytics, Social Media, And Advertising Partners

· We may share your Personal Information with analytics providers, advertising networks, or social media companies to measure the performance of our App/website or marketing efforts, offer social media features, or deliver interest-based advertising. This sharing may involve the use of “Cookies” placed through our website or Service by our partners. For example, when you visit our Site, our partner’s Cookie may cause your browser to automatically send a request to our partner’s server and provide our partner with your IP address, other Identifiers, and Internet Activity.

· We may have a legal obligation to disclose Personal Information to government authorities or other third parties under a valid regulatory request, subpoena, or court order. We may also need to disclose and otherwise process your Personal Information by applicable law to prevent physical harm or financial loss, protect the vital interests of a person, enforce our various policies or terms of use, protect our property, services, and legal rights, prevent fraud, support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions, or comply with applicable law.

· We may transfer your information in the event of the sale of substantially all of the assets of our business to a third party or in the event of a corporate merger, consolidation, acquisition, or reorganization. However, in such event, any acquirer will be subject to the provisions of our commitments to you or we will not disclose your information.

· We will share your Personal Information with other third parties as you may direct or otherwise consent.

How we store your personal information

We maintain commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

When your account, or digital wallet information is being transmitted to our services or through our services, it will be protected by cryptographic protocols. We may use third-party cryptocurrency payment processors that are the controllers of your information. Our contracts with third parties that receive your information require them to keep it secure and confidential.

We cannot guarantee that transmissions of your information will always be secure or that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat the security measures taken by us or our third-party service providers. Except to the extent that liability cannot be excluded or limited due to applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for the disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access, or other causes beyond our control.

We will only keep your information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which your personal information was originally collected.

We will delete your information after a reasonable time. You may be required to re-enter your personal information if it has been deleted.

You agree and acknowledge that your personal information may be stored at or transferred within Georgia or a destination outside of Georgia. This will allow staff operating outside of Georgia (whether employed by us or by a third party engaged by us or otherwise authorized under this Privacy Policy to access your personal information) to process your information to provide you with our services.

We will take all reasonable steps and precautions to ensure that any transmission of your personal information via the Internet is secure. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to our website and you agree and acknowledge that any such transmissions are at your own risk.

Once we receive your information, we take reasonable steps to protect your personal information. This may include storing any information on a secure server and employing strict procedures and security features to protect your personal information from any unauthorized recipients and to prevent unauthorized access to the same. We may also store your personal information in physical form.

All our employees with access to your information will be held to the confidentiality obligations as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Collections of your information using cookies and other tracking technologies

Our website and/or App and/or other mobile applications use "cookies". Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored in your web browser. These pieces of data will allow our website and/or App and/or other mobile applications to remember who you are and to obtain information from you which allows us to deliver you a better and more customized service.

As a result of our website and/or App and/or other mobile applications' use of cookies, we may collect information such as your IP address, online activity and your web browser details. Information that we will not collect or store includes your passwords or other sensitive information.

We will use both persistent cookies, which could remain on your device until their expiration (which can be, in some cases, up to 10 years), and session cookies, which are temporary files removed from your device once your browser is closed.

The types of cookies we may use include analytical and tracking cookies, which allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and analyze the use of the services, as well as to verify transactions, and advertising and re-targeting cookies, which allow us to generate appropriate advertising directed to you on our website as well as on the App.

If you enabled cookies when accessing our website and/or App and/or other mobile applications, we will take this as consent to our use of cookies and other technologies mentioned in our Privacy Policy.

You can block, disable, or delete cookies at any time by changing the settings in your browser. However, blocking, disabling, or deleting cookies may limit your ability to view all of our site's or other site's pages.

Please note that you should also refer to our website's Terms of Service for further information on this issue.

Your rights

The GDPR provides you with the following rights, which you can exercise by contacting us:

The right to request access to and rectification of your personal information. You may obtain additional information about our processing and a copy of your stored information. You also have the right to request that we update your information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to request the erasure of your personal information. You may request for us to erase your information from our systems if it is no longer necessary for the reason we collected it, or you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists.

The right to restrict our processing of your personal information. You have the right to restrict our processing if:

· you disagree with the accuracy of your information;

· our processing is deemed unlawful and you do not want us to erase your information;

· we no longer need your information for the purposes for which we collected it but we must store it to comply with our legal obligations.

The right to data portability. You may receive and transmit your personal information to another controller where our processing is based on the consent you gave us and was carried out by automated means.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information where we process it because of a legitimate interest.

You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority of your member state.

For residents of the EEA, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

Through our website, Social Media, App and/or other software and/or mobile applications, we provide services to users throughout the world. In addition, as we process the personal information of data subjects inside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) we are also bound by Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Personal Information that we collect regarding individuals who reside in a member state of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) is controlled by Digital Point Limited, a Georgian company operating Piratpets.io

We recognize the below rights which you enjoy under the applicable data protection law with respect to your personal data:

  • Right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This information is set out in the terms of our Privacy Policy.

  • Right of access: You may request information from us at any time as to whether we have stored your personal data and which personal data it has stored. We are required to provide this information to you free of charge.

  • Right to rectification: If your personal data stored by us is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to demand at any time that we correct the information.

  • Right to erasure: You have the right to demand that we erase your personal data if and to the extent that the data is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected or if the data is processed on the basis of your consent and you have opted to revoke your consent. In such cases, we must cease processing your personal data and remove that data from our IT systems and databases. You do not have a right to erasure if:

The data may not be deleted due to a statutory obligation or must be processed due to a statutory obligation.

  • The processing of data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

  • Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.

  • Right to object to processing: If your data is processed by us on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, you may object at any time to processing by us. You may assert any and all of the rights of data subjects described above against us by addressing your specific requests by contacting our Privacy Officer

  • Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority: Pursuant to Article 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes data protection law.

Complaints

If you are concerned about a possible interference with your privacy or about the potential misuse of your personal information, please contact us at the email address.

We take all complaints very seriously. It is our policy to handle complaints in a timely, effective, fair, and consistent manner.

Privacy Policy updates

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Policy to make sure you are aware of any changes and how your information may be used.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy or our practices or wish to exercise your rights regarding your Personal Information under applicable law, please contact us directly at:

PiratePets LLC

Corporate Services Centre, Moskovi Ave 5, Tbilisi, VG0120

Georgia.

contact@piratepets.io

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