Effective as of 1st of February 2023
This Privacy Policy applies to the following activities:
In particular, this Privacy Policy sets forth Earn’s policy with respect to its processing of two types of data:
When webpages or applications are provided by us and links to this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy applies. Our websites may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. When visiting such websites, applications or services, this Privacy Policy does not apply. The information practices of such other websites, applications or services are governed by the third-party privacy policies, which we encourage you to review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.
We may receive information about you from our vendors, who we refer to as “Earn Vendors”. For example, we use Earn Vendors to verify the identity and accredited investor status of Users of our Services and perform Know Your Customer (“KYC”) and Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) checks. In addition, we may, but undertake no obligation to, request that our Earn Vendors provide us with information on the sponsors, officers and directors of Issuers applying to be listed in our platform. The Earn Vendors may provide us with information such as:
The information we collect from vendors may include sensitive information (e.g., criminal conviction for fraud) to the extent permitted under applicable law.
We use, and in the future intend to use, third-party analytics services similar to and including, without limitation, Google Analytics provided by Google Inc. (“Google”).
These Third-Party Analytics Providers use cookies and similar technologies to analyze how individuals use our services, market to past and prospective visitors, and compile statistical reports. Such services may also collect or derive information about visitors’ use of other websites.
As a User, you acknowledge that you accept and consent to our privacy practices as well as those practices indicated in the privacy policies of Google Analytics, Facebook and any other Third-Party Analytics Providers we use as linked below.
Google Analytics includes the Demographics and Interest Reporting features to collect and report our website traffic data. It also includes Google Display Network Impression and Double Click Campaign Manager Integration. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by using the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can opt out of receiving targeted advertising at www.aboutads.info .
The following is a list of Third-Party Analytics Providers with whom we currently partner to place advertisements across the internet.
Name of Third-Party Provider Link to Partner’s Privacy Policy
Google Adwords, Ads Manager, and Workspace https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
HubSpot https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy
The Company’s website uses the Third-Party Analytics Providers to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our site. This could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who have not completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry, registering an Account or initiating an investment or trade even if such task is not completed. Such remarketing could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, a site in the Google Display Network or site in another network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Data collected from our Services will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of the applicable third-party vendor.
To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions your Personal Data may be shared with third-party providers of payment, hosting, shipping, customer relations management software developers, website development, creative development, technical support, network and security, e-mail communication and customer support services.
We use Amazon Web Services for infrastructure, databases, DNS, etc. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use SendGrid for email communications. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use Hubspot for certain aspects of our marketing, sales and customer service. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use DocuSign for electronic signature collection. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use Stripe for payment processing. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use Atlassian and its tools, namely Confluence and Bitbucket, for project and service management. Their privacy policy can be found here.
We use Postman for development and quality assurance. Their privacy policy can be found here.
In addition, Earn Vendors will share information with us. For example, when you establish a digital wallet through an Earn Vendor, the wallet’s address will be shared with us.
For more details on the third parties that may place cookies through the Site, please see the “Cookies” section below. Following our instructions, these parties may access, process or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties for us.
We use common information-gathering tools, such as log files, cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to automatically collect information, which may contain Personal Data, from your computer or mobile device as you navigate our website or interact with emails and other messages, we send you.
Like many websites, we gather certain other non-personally-identifying information (“Non-PII”) automatically via log files. This collected Non-PII may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, your location, your browser type, your Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, the pages and files you viewed, your searches, your operating system and system configuration information, and date/time stamps associated with your usage. This Non-PII is used to analyze overall trends, to help us provide and improve our websites and to guarantee their security and continued proper functioning. We may also collect IP addresses and MAC addresses from Users when they log into the services as part of the Company’s security features.
We use cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons, tags and Javascript alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about usage of our websites and interaction with emails from us.
When you visit our websites, our servers or an authorized third party may place a cookie on your browser, which can collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different sites. Cookies allow us to track overall usage, determine areas that you prefer, make your usage easier by recognizing you and providing you with a customized experience.
We may use both session-based and persistent cookies. Session cookies exist only during one session and disappear from your computer when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or device after you close your browser or turn off your computer. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our websites or services. To opt-out of tracking by Third Party Analytics Providers, please use the specific opt-out mechanism as indicated further below.
We may also use web beacons on our websites and other electronic marketing. For example, we may place web beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of our websites. Such tracking technologies are used to operate and improve our websites and digital communications and track the clicking of links or opening of messages.
The Third-Party Analytics Providers in the table in Section 3.3 are the third-party vendors with whom we currently partner to place advertisements across the internet. Others may be added at any time.
As described above, we or third parties may place or recognize a web beacon or unique cookie on your browser when you visit our websites for the purposes of serving you targeted advertising (also referred to as “online behavioral advertising” or “interest-based advertising”). To learn more about targeted advertising, advertising networks and your ability to opt out of collection by certain third parties, please visit the opt-out pages of the Network Advertising Initiative, here, and the Digital Advertising Alliance, here.
To manage the use of targeting or advertising cookies on our websites, consult your individual browser settings for cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage.
You may opt-out from the collection of device and usage data (see “What Device and Usage Data We Process” section above) by managing your cookies at the individual browser level. In addition, if you wish to opt-out of interest-based advertising click here, or if located in the European Union click here). Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies and similar technologies used on our websites, you may not be able to take full advantage of our websites.
While some internet browsers offer a “do not track” or “DNT” option that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked, these features are not yet uniform and there is no common standard that has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators. Therefore, we do not currently commit to responding to browsers’ DNT signals with respect to our websites. In other words, we do not alter our practices with respect to the collection of information based upon a User’s selection of the DNT setting or other opt out setting.
Our websites may use social media features or plugins, such as the Facebook “like” button, the Twitter “Tweet” button and other sharing widgets (“Social Media Features”). You may be given the option by such Social Media Features to post information about your activities on a website to a profile page of yours that is provided by a third-party social media network in order to share with others within your network. Social Media Features are either hosted by the respective social media network or hosted directly on our website. To the extent the Social Media Features are hosted by the respective social media networks, the latter may receive information that you have visited our website from your IP address. If you are logged into your social media account, it is possible that the respective social media network can link your visit of our websites with your social media profile.
Your interactions with Social Media Features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing the relevant Social Media Features. Be aware that if you post or share any distinguishing information anywhere online and corresponding information is available via your public social media account, profile or other accessible information you could be identified, located and contacted as a result.
If you are a resident of California, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your Personal Data by the Company to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes. The right granted to California residents applies only to their activities within the State of California. To make such a request, please send an email to CAPrivacy@earndlt.com or write us at:
Earn DLT, Inc.
85 Broad Street, DD-29
New York, NY 10004
Attn: CA Privacy Rights
We will process your Personal Data to the extent this is necessary for the performance of our contract with you for the use of our websites and platform and to fulfill our obligations under our Terms of Use and other applicable contracts with you; where we have not entered into a contract with you (or where our Terms of Use do not apply), we base the processing of your Personal Data on our legitimate interest to operate and administer our websites and to provide you with content you access and request. Examples of how we use your Personal Data in connection with the provision of Service include:
Our websites are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. The Services are intended for Users over the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us as described in the “Contacting Us” section below and we will take steps to delete such Personal Data from our systems.
We determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data on the basis of the amount, nature, contact frequency and sensitivity of your Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and whether we can achieve the purposes of the processing through other means, as well as the applicable legal requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitation). We may retain your Personal Data for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection (see “Purposes for Which We Process Personal Data and on What Legal Basis” section above). Certain usage data, including data related to User access to transaction materials, may be retained up to ten (10) years. Data may otherwise be retained in aggregated, deidentified form for an unrestricted period of time in order to provide the Services.
Information recorded on distributed ledger technologies may be retained as part of the blockchain indefinitely, as such information is necessary to maintain the transaction history of Tokens. By using the Services, you acknowledge that Earn has a legal obligation to maintain the blockchain in order to provide to the Services, including retaining Issuer information, tax identification information, and transaction history.
You may have certain rights regarding your Personal Data, subject to local data protection laws. To the extent Earn is the processor or controller of your Personal Data, as described in Section 1, These may or may not include the following rights:
The specific rights to which you are entitled are based upon your geographic location, and the location of where your Personal Data is stored. Users who are located within Member States of the European Union, countries in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland (collectively, “Europe” or “European”) may avail themselves of all of the above-referenced rights.
To exercise your rights, please contact us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month and will contact you if we need additional information from you in order to honor your request. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month, considering the complexity and number of requests we receive.
In addition, if you have registered for an account with us, you may generally update your User settings, profile, organization’s settings or event registration by logging into the applicable website with your username and password and editing your settings or profile. To update your financial information, discontinue your account, and/or request return or deletion of your Personal Data and other information associated with your account, please contact us.
If we process your Personal Data for the purpose of sending you marketing communications, you may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our marketing emails, by replying or texting ‘STOP’ if you receive SMS communications, or by turning off push notifications on any of our apps installed on your device. Additionally, you may unsubscribe by contacting us using the information in the “Contacting Us” section below. Please note that opting-out of marketing communications does not opt you out of receiving important business communications related to your current relationship with us, such as information about your subscriptions or event registrations, service announcements or security information.
Earn is headquartered in the United States and has service providers in other countries, and your Personal Data may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.
Personal Data may be transferred beyond the United States in connection with our use of Amazon Web Services (“AWS“) for infrastructure, databases, DNS, etc. Their privacy policy can be found here. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Earn does not control nor take responsibility for the transfer of data across AWS’ infrastructure, including across transmissions over international boundaries within AWS’ own systems.
European Users should read the important information provided here about transfer of Personal Data outside of Europe.
We take precautions including organizational, technical, and physical measures, to help safeguard against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, the Personal Data we process or use.
While we follow generally accepted standards to protect Personal Data, no method of storage or transmission is 100% secure. You are solely responsible for protecting your password and other access credentials, including access codes Earn provides, limiting access to your devices, and signing out of websites after your sessions. If you have any questions about the security of our websites, please contact us via the “Contacting Us” section below.
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements and other factors. If we do, we will update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make an update, we may provide you with notice prior to the update taking effect, such as by posting a conspicuous notice on our website or by contacting you using the email address you provided.
We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about our collection, processing and sharing of your Personal Data.
To exercise your rights regarding your Personal Data, or if you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices please mail us at:
Earn DLT, Inc. Data Protection and Privacy
85 Broad Street, DD-29
New York, NY 10004
Privacy@earndlt.com
We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy.
Last Updated: 1st of February 2023