PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: July 29, 2021
Dingcoin recognizes that people who use Dingcoin value their privacy. This
privacy policy ("Policy") describes how Dingcoin ( "we", "our", or "us")
collects, uses, shares, and stores personal information of users of this
website, https://dingcoin.org/ (the "Site"). This Policy applies to the Site,
applications, products and services (collectively, "Services") on or in which it
is posted, linked, or referenced.
By using the Services, you accept the terms of this Policy and our Terms of
Use, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your
information as described in this Policy. If you have not done so already,
please also review our terms of use. The terms of use contain provisions that
limit our liability to you and require you to resolve any dispute with us on an
individual basis and not as part of any class or representative action. IF YOU
DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR OUR
TERMS OF USE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SERVICES.
Please note that this Policy does not apply to information collected through
third-party websites or services that you may access through the Services or
that you submit to us through email, text message or other electronic
message or offline.
If you are visiting this site from the European Union (EU), see our Notice to
EU Data Subjects below for our legal bases for processing and transfer of
your data.
WHAT WE COLLECT
We get information about you in a range of ways.
Information you give us
Information we collect from you includes:
Network information regarding transactions;
Contact and identity information, such as your email address;
Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide in your
responses to surveys, when you participate in market research
activities, report a problem with Service, receive customer support or
otherwise correspond with us;
Usage information, such as information about how you use the Service
and interact with us; and
Marketing information, such your preferences for receiving marketing
communications and details about how you engage with them.
Know Your Customer Verification Information
Separate from the personal data collected in our app and from other sources
as set forth herein, and to comply with industry regulatory standards and
government orders in different aspects such as Anti-Money Laundering
(AML), Know-Your-Client (KYC), and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF),
Dingcoin collects personal information such as identity documents (including
passport, driver’s license, national identity card, state ID card, tax ID number,
passport number, driver’s license details, national identity card details, visa
information, etc.), and may collect proof of address, source of fund
declaration, purposes of fund documents, and source of wealth (“KYC Data”).
This KYC data is collected and used solely to verify the identity of the Pioneer
and to be compliant with regulatory requirements and the Pi Network policy
that only real human beings can receive Pi. We do not and will not sell data
collected for KYC purposes without your consent.
Information we get from others
We may get information about you from other third party sources and we may
add this to information we get from your use of the Services. Such information
may include:
We may collect information that other users provide about you when
they use our services. For example, if another user allows us to collect
information from their device phonebook or email contactsand you're
one of that user's contactswe may combine the information we collect
from that user's phonebook or email contacts with other information we
have collected about you. We may also obtain information from other
companies. For example, we offers the option for you to login to our
services through your Facebook account. With your authorization
through Facebook, Google or iOS, these companies will give us the
information that you consent to send us.
Social Media Widgets: Our Site may include social media features, such
as the Facebook logins, "like" button and widgets, such as the "share
this" button. These features may collect your personal information and
track your use of the Site. These social media features are either hosted
by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with
these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company
providing such functionality.
Information automatically collected when you use our services
When you use our services, we collect information about your usage of our
apps, activities you have through our servers, such as what virtual goods you
choose to send, how many you send, the number of friends you invite to our
apps.
Device Information. We collect device-specific information, such as the
hardware model, operating system version, advertising identifier, unique
application identifiers, unique device identifiers, browser type, language,
wireless network, and mobile network information (including the mobile phone
number).
Device Phonebook. If you're using our mobile app, we maywith your
consentcollect information from your device's phonebook.
Location Information.When you use our services we may collect information
about your location. With your consent, we may also collect information about
your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell
towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes,
accelerometers, and compasses.
Log Information. We also collect log information when you use our website.
That information includes, among other things:
details about how you've used our services
device information, such as your web browser type, operating system
and language
access times
pages viewed
IP address
identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may
uniquely identify your device or browser
pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.
the pages or features of our Site to which a user browsed and the time
spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which the Site is
used by a user, search terms, the links on our Site that a user clicked on
or used, and other statistics.
We may use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the
website, track users' movements around the website, and to gather
demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control
the use of cookies at the individual browser level. For more information,
please see the section entitled "Cookies Policy" below.
We also use Google Analytics to help us offer you an optimized user
experience. You can find more information about Google Analytics' use of
your personal data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Information we will never collect. We will never ask you to share your private
keys or wallet seed. Never trust anyone or any site that asks you to enter your
private keys or wallet seed.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
To provide our service
We will use your information in the following ways:
develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our services
communicate with you, to send information, including confirmations,
technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and
administrative messages, etc..
monitor and analyze usage
personalize the services by, among other things, suggesting friends or
message templates, or customizing the content we show you, including
ads
enhance the safety and security of our products and services
verify your identity, and protect, investigate, and deter against
fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
use information we've collected from cookies and other technology to
enhance the services and your experience with them
To comply with law
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to
comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to
respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
To optimize our platform
In order to optimize your user experience, we may use your information to
operate, maintain, and improve our Services. We may also use your
information to respond to your comments and questions regarding the
Services, and to provide you and other users with general customer service.
To fulfill your requests
With your consent, We may use or share your personal information with your
consent, such as when you instruct us to take a specific action with respect to
your personal information, or you opt into third party marketing
communications.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not share or sell the personal information that you provide us with other
organizations without your express consent, except as described in this
Privacy Policy. We disclose personal information to third parties under the
following circumstances:
Affiliates. We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries
and corporate affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Business Transfers. We may share personal information when we do a
business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or
transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can
include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or
proceeding.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement; Protection and Safety.
We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety
purposes.
We may share information to comply with laws.
We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal
processes.
We may share information to protect the rights and property of ours, our
agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements,
policies, and terms of use.
We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting
the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
Professional Advisors and Service Providers. We may share information
with those who need it to do work for us. These recipients may include
third party companies and individuals to administer and provide the
Service on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, email delivery
and database management services), as well as lawyers, bankers,
auditors, and insurers.
With third parties as part of a merger or acquisition. If Dingcoin gets
involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or
acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company,
we may share your information with that company before and after the
transaction closes.
In the aggregate or after de-identification. We may also share with third
parties, such as advertisers, aggregated or de-identified information that
cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
Other. You may permit us to share your personal information with other
companies or entities of your choosing. Those uses will be subject to
the privacy policies of the recipient entity or entities.
We may also share aggregated and/or anonymized data with others for their
own uses.
USERS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES
We welcome users from all over the world, but wherever you live or use our
services, we operate our services from the United States. This means that we
may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and
process it in the United States and other countries whose local data-protection
and privacy laws may offer fewer protections than those in your country of
residence or from any country where you use or access the services.
EU users should read the important information provided below about transfer
of personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
HOW INFORMATION IS SECURED
We retain information we collect as long as it is necessary and relevant to
fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy. In addition, we retain
personal information to comply with applicable law where required, prevent
fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation,
enforce our Terms of Use, and other actions permitted by law. To determine
the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the
amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of
harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the
purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can
achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal
requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information (so that
it can no longer be associated with you) in which case we may use this
information indefinitely without further notice to you.
We employ industry standard security measures designed to protect the
security of all information submitted through the Services. However, the
security of information transmitted through the internet can never be
guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any
communications through the internet or for changes to or losses of data.
Users of the Services are responsible for maintaining the security of any
password, biometrics, user ID or other form of authentication involved in
obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any of our digital
services. In order to protect you and your data, we may suspend your use of
any of the Services, without notice, pending an investigation, if any breach of
security is suspected.
INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES
Accessing, Updating, Correcting, and Deleting your Information
You may access information that you have voluntarily provided through your
account on the Services, and to review, correct, or delete it by sending a
request to support@dingcoin.org. You can request to change contact choices,
opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your personal information and
preferences.
Tracking Technologies Generally
Regular cookies may generally be disabled or removed by tools available as
part of most commercial browsers, and in some instances blocked in the
future by selecting certain settings. For more information, please see the
section entitled "Cookies Policy" below.
Google Analytics
You may exercise choices regarding the use of cookies from Google Analytics
by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and downloading the
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
CONTACT INFORMATION. We welcome your comments or questions about
this Policy, and you may contact us at: info@dingcoin.org.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. We may change this privacy policy
at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest
information on our privacy practices. If we make any changes, we will change
the Last Updated date above.
Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of
the new terms and/or upon implementation of the changes to the Site (or as
otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of
the the Site or Services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy
indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN
Our services are not intended forand we don't direct them toanyone under
13. And that's why we do not knowingly collect personal information from
anyone under 13. Consistent with the requirements of the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if we learn that we have received any
information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her
parent's verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly
to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he
or she cannot use the Site and subsequently we will delete that information.
NOTICE TO EU DATA SUBJECTS
Personal Information
With respect to EU data subjects, "personal information," as used in this
Privacy Policy, is equivalent to
"personal data" as defined in the European Union General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR).
Sensitive Data
Some of the information you provide us may constitute sensitive data as
defined in the GDPR (also referred to as special categories of personal data),
including identification of your race or ethnicity on government-issued
identification documents.
Legal Bases for Processing
We only use your personal information as permitted by law. We are required
to inform you of the legal bases of our processing of your personal
information, which are described in the table below. If you have questions
about the legal bases under which we process your personal information,
contact us at info@dingcoin.org
Processing Purpose
Legal Basis
To communicate with you
To optimize our platform
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety
To provide our service
These processing activities constitute our legitimate interests.
We make sure we consider and balance any potential impacts
on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we
process your personal information for our legitimate interests.
We do not use your personal information for activities where
our interests are overridden by any adverse impact on you
(unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or
permitted to by law).
With your consent
Where our use of your personal information is based upon
your consent, you have the right to withdraw it anytime
in the manner indicated in the Service or by
contacting us at info@dingcoin.org.
Use for New Purposes
We may use your personal information for reasons not described in this
Privacy Policy, where we are permitted by law to do so and where the reason
is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it. If we need to use
your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and
explain the applicable legal basis for that use. If we have relied upon your
consent for a particular use of your personal information, we will seek your
consent for any unrelated purpose.
Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
You may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal
information that we hold:
Opt-out. Stop sending you direct marketing communications which you
have previously consented to receive. We may continue to send you
Service-related and other non-marketing communications.
Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your
personal information and give you access to your personal information.
Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
Delete. Delete your personal information.
Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal
information to you or a third party of your choice.
Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information.
Object. Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the basis of
our processing of your personal information that impacts your rights.
You can submit these requests by email to support@dingcoin.org. We may
request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and
process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your
request. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal
restrictions. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your
personal information or response to your requests regarding your personal
information, you may contact us at info@dingcoin.orgor submit a complaint to
the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. You can find your data
protection regulator here.
Cross-Border Data Transfer
Please be aware that your personal data will be transferred to, processed, and
stored in the United States. Data protection laws in the U.S. may be different
from those in your country of residence. You consent to the transfer of your
information, including personal information, to the U.S. as set forth in this
Privacy Policy by visiting our site or using our service.
Whenever we transfer your personal information out of the EEA to the U.S. or
countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate
level of personal information protection, the transfer will be based on a data
transfer mechanism recognized by the European Commission as providing
adequate protection for personal information.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism
used by us when transferring your personal information out of the EEA.
COOKIES POLICY
We understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to
being transparent about the technologies we use. In the spirit of transparency,
this policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies
on our Site.
Do we use Cookies?
Yes. We and our marketing partners, affiliates, and analytics or service
providers use cookies, web beacons, or pixels and other technologies to
ensure everyone who uses the Site has the best possible experience.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie ("Cookie") is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a
web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web
server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Some of the cookies will
only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and
some cookies will always be used. You can find out more about each cookie
by viewing our current cookie list below. We update this list periodically, so
there may be additional cookies that are not yet listed. Web beacons, tags
and scripts may be used in the Site or in emails to help us to deliver cookies,
count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine
whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports
based on the use of these technologies by our service/analytics providers on
an individual and aggregated basis.
Why do we use Cookies?
We generally use Cookies for the following purposes:
To recognize new or past customers.
To store your password if you are registered on our Site.
To improve our Site and to better understand your visits on our
platforms and Site.
To integrate with third party social media websites.
To serve you with interest-based or targeted advertising.
To observe your behaviors and browsing activities over time across
multiple websites or other platforms.
To better understand the interests of our customers and our website
visitors.
Some Cookies are necessary for certain uses of the Site, and without such
Cookies, we would not be able to provide many services that you need to
properly use the Site. These Cookies, for example, allow us to operate our
Site so you may access it as you have requested and let us recognize that
you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site
content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous
actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
We also use functional Cookies and Cookies from third parties for analysis
and marketing purposes. Functional Cookies enable certain parts of the site to
work properly and your user preferences to remain known. Analysis Cookies,
among other things, collect information on how visitors use our Site, the
content and products that users view most frequently, and the effectiveness of
our third party advertising. Advertising Cookies assist in delivering ads to
relevant audiences and having our ads appear at the top of search results.
Cookies are either "session" Cookies which are deleted when you end your
browser session, or "persistent," which remain until their deletion by you
(discussed below) or the party who served the cookie. Full details on all of the
Cookies used on the Site are available at our Cookie Disclosure table below.
How to disable Cookies.
You can generally activate or later deactivate the use of cookies through a
functionality built into your web browser. To learn more about how to control
cookie settings through your browser:
Click here to learn more about how to clear, enable and manage cookies in
Chrome;
If you want to learn more about cookies, or how to control, disable or delete
them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. In
addition, certain third party advertising networks, including Google, permit
users to opt out of or customize preferences associated with your internet
browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here.
To control flash cookies, which we may use on our Site from time to time, you
can go to this link because Flash cookies cannot be controlled through your
browser settings. Please note that if you decline the use of Cookies, some
functions of the website may be unavailable and we will not be able to present
personally tailored content and advertisements to you.
We may link the information collected by Cookies with other information we
collect from you pursuant to this Privacy Policy and use the combined
information as set forth herein. Similarly, the third parties who serve cookies
on our Site may link your name or email address to other information they
collect, which may include past purchases made offline or online, or your
online usage information. If you are located in the European Economic Area,
you have certain rights that are described above under the header "Notice to
EU Data Subjects", including the right to inspect and correct or delete the data
that we have about you.
Cookies Disclosure
Name of
Cookie/Identifier
What does the cookie generally
do (e.g., website function and
administration, analytics,
marketing)?
Is it a 1
st
or 3
rd
party
cookie and what is the
name of the party
providing it?
What type of
cookie is it
(persistent or
session)?
What is the duration
of the cookie on the
website (if not cleared
by the user)?
Google Analytics
Analytics
3rd - Google
Persistent
2 years