PRIVACY POLICY

Depending on the situation, we handle various data, which may include data that may be treated as personal data in accordance with the laws of certain territories and countries.

In general, "personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, and so on.

GerenChain hosts the GerenChain Console in the United States, while the GerenChain Blockchain infrastructure is globally distributed across multiple regions. We endeavor to work only with reliable infrastructure providers to ensure your data is secure.

GerenChain is an international team of dedicated professionals who can only access your data through their job duties on a need-to-know basis. Needless to say, there is no access to your data from restricted or sanctioned countries and territories as defined by applicable legislation.

In some cases, we share your data with third party services to achieve the purposes of data handling. Please refer to the table below and acquaint yourself with privacy policies of third party services.

GerenChain discloses personal data only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to handle it on GerenChain's behalf or to provide Services, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, GerenChain may disclose your personal data only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when GerenChain believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GerenChain, third parties or the public at large.

We utilize different legal bases for handling your personal data, depending on the type of data and the purposes of data handling:

• Consent – for example, in cases where we utilize your email address to send you newsletters.
• Performance of a contract – for example, in cases where we provide you with the core functionality of our Services.
• Instructions – for example, in cases where we handle data in accordance with instructions received from you.
• Compliance with a legal obligation – for example, in cases where we are obliged to keep certain data for tax purposes.
• Legitimate interests – for example, in cases where we utilize anonymized usage data, except for cases where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects.

You may be entitled to exercise certain rights in relation to your personal data handled by GerenChain, depending on the country where you reside:

• The right to obtain all your personal data we store ("Right of access"). In some cases, the right of access may be limited for technical reasons, including if the data has been anonymized and cannot be linked to any data subject.
• The right to completely delete your personal data ("Right to erasure / right to be forgotten").
• The right to correct your personal data ("Right to rectification").
• The right to impose restrictions on handling of your personal data ("Right to restriction").
• The right to object to handling of your personal data ("Right to object").
• The right to receive provided personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller ("Right to data portability").
• The right to withdraw a consent where the data handling is based on the consent.
• The right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

If you wish to exercise your rights with respect to your personal data, please email us at the address below. We may ask you to further confirm your identity and will respond to you within the time period specified by applicable data protection law. Please note that in certain cases stipulated by applicable data protection law, we may charge you reasonable fee for handling your request or refuse your request.

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A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. GerenChain utilizes cookies to help GerenChain identify and track visitors, their usage of GerenChain's Website, and their Website access preferences. GerenChain visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using GerenChain's Website, with the drawback that certain features of GerenChain's Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Our Service may contain links to external websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's website. We strongly advise you to review a privacy policy and terms and conditions of every third party website you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites, products or services.