Privacy Policy
1. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect Personal Information about you from various sources described below. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from the Service if that information is necessary to provide you with them or if we are legally required to collect that information.
1.1 Information You Provide to Us
- Reaching out. You provide us Personal Information when you contact us about your business venture:
—Your name;
—Your email address; - Communications. We may also collect Personal Information from you as a result of your email or other communications with us including your posts, our responses, the date and time of the inquiry and any other information you choose to submit to us.
- Business Partners. If you work for one of our business partners or vendors, we will collect your contact details to manage the business relationship.
1.2 Information Collected via Automated Means
- Cookies. In addition to information that you provide to us, we may collect Personal Information about you and your use of the Service via automated means, such as cookies and similar technologies. This information may include your IP address or information about your interactions with the Service (e.g., where you clicked and which pages you visited).
- Location Information. When you use the Service via a mobile device, we may collect your location information, provided that you have authorized us to do so via the mobile device operating system.
1.3 Information Provided by Third Parties
- Our Partners. We may obtain address information about you from third party and public sources, including Jumio-NetVerify, Blockscore, and Computershare for fraud prevention, legal compliance or to provide the Services.
2. Use of Information
2.1 Purposes of the Processing.
We may use your Personal Information in order to:
- communicate with you and respond to your inquiries, send you transaction and Service related emails;
- send you marketing communications;
- keep your account secure; protect our Site, Service and Users;
- analyze and improve our Site and the Service;
- manage our business relationships;
- enforce our Terms of Use, our legal rights and to comply with applicable law, a subpoena or similar legal process or to protect against legal liability and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request
- for other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time of the collection of the information
2.2 Legal Ground for the Processing.
Where required under applicable law, we will only collect and process Personal Information about you if we can rely on a valid legal ground for that processing, such as consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to deliver the Service you have requested)), legal obligations (e.g. for compliance with securities laws) and “legitimate interests” (e.g. for product development and analytics purposes).
If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us as described below.
3. Disclosure of Information
3.1 Entities
We may share Personal Information about you with our affiliates and subsidiaries.
3.2 Service Providers
We may share the information that you have provided us with certain trusted third-party services to help us provide, improve, promote, or protect the Services (including with payment processors, services to manage ads on other sites, and to analyze our Site’s functionality). We may provide such services with additional information that you have provided to us in order to help them or us verify the transaction.
3.3 Other Third Parties
We may share your information with our gaming joint venture partners at Galaxy Interactive and Alameda Research We may also share information that is aggregated and anonymized in a way so that it does not directly identify you. We do not and will not sell any of your Personal Information to any third party for purposes of advertising, soliciting, or telemarketing. We may, however, disclose your Personal Information to other companies or entities as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock. In that case your Personal Information may be sold or transferred to the potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assigns.
4. Your Rights and Choices
4.1 Marketing
We may at times send you e-mail communications with marketing or promotional materials. If you prefer not to receive such marketing or promotional e-mails from us, you may unsubscribe completely by contacting us using our contact form on crypto@republic.co or you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing e-mails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these e-mails. Please note that opt-out requests may take up to one week to process. Please also note that at times we may need to send you e-mail communications that are transactional in nature such as service or termination announcements or payment confirmations which are communications you will not be able to opt-out of.
4.2 Location Information
Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable location services in the device’s setting’s menu. If you have questions about how to disable your device’s location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or the manufacturer of your particular device.
4.3 Access
If you would like us to remove, or provide additional access to, any Personal Information from our database, please send a request via our contact form on crypto@republic.co and we will do so or you will receive a response within one month.
4.4 European Users
European Users. If you are located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, you may have the right to:
- Request access to and receive information about the Personal Information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, to restrict or to object to the processing of your Personal Information, to have the information anonymized or deleted, as appropriate, or to exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your Personal Information to another company. In addition, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work or where an incident took place.
- Withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your Personal Information, at any time and free of charge. We will apply your preferences going forward and this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal.
4.5 Local Law
Those rights may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. You may exercise your rights by contacting us as specified below.
5. Data Transfers
Since we are based in the United States, your Personal Information will be collected and processed in the United States. The United States has its own laws governing data protection and government access to information. The rules that protect your personal information under United States law may be different than in your home country.
6. Security and Data Retention
6.1 Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards and have implemented security measures we believe to be appropriate in order to protect the Personal Information we collect, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us at privacy@republic.co.
6.2 Data Retention
When determining the retention periods, we take into account various criteria, such as the type of products and services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, possible re-enrolment with our products or services, the impact on the services we provide to you if we delete some information from or about you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.
7. Children’s Privacy Policy
The Site is not intended for use by children. No one under eighteen (18) years of age is allowed to use the Site, provide any Personal Information or receive our e-mail distributions. We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under eighteen (18) years of age. If you believe that a minor has disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please report this to us immediately by contacting us via team@republic.co.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to our Site. If we make any material changes we will notify you by e-mail (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on our Site prior to the change becoming effective. You can determine if changes have been made by checking the effective date below. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.
9. English Language
The English version of this Privacy Policy governs. All disputes, claims and causes of action (and related proceedings) will be communicated in English.
10. Contact Us
We are the entity responsible for the processing of your Personal Information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us at privacy@republic.co or at 149 E 23rd St #2001, New York, NY 10010.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 1, 2021.