Privacy Policy

This policy revised and last updated: March 27, 2021.

OVERVIEW

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit starduststaking.com or near-staking.com (the “SITE”). It informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our SITE.

DEFINITIONS

SERVICE

starduststaking.com website, near-staking.com website, server and the Stardust Staking / near-staking.com mobile applications provided by Stardust Staking.

PERSONAL DATA

The data relating to a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

USAGE DATA

The data collected automatically either generated by the use of the SERVICE or from the SERVICE infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

COOKIES

Are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

DATA CONTROLLER

It means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

DATA PROCESSORS (OR SERVICE PROVIDERS)

Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the DATA CONTROLLER. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

DATA SUBJECT (OR USER)

Any living individual who is using our SERVICE and is the subject of Personal Data.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the SITE, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the SITE, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the SITE, and information about how you interact with the SITE. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
“Log files” track actions occurring on the SITE, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the SITE

While using our SITE and/or registering for our SERVICES, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
Username
First name and last name

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

TRACKING & COOKIES DATA

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our SITE and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our SITE. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our SITE.

Examples of Cookies we use:

We use Session Cookies to operate our SITE and SERVICE
We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings
We use Security Cookies for security purposes

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our SITE (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the SITE, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We also uses the collected data for various other purposes:

To provide and maintain our SERVICE
To notify you about changes to our SERVICE
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our SERVICE
To monitor the usage of our SERVICE
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), SITE legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. SITE may process your Personal Data because:

We need to perform a contract with you
You have given us permission to do so
The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
For payment processing purposes
To comply with the law

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the SITE—you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by l aw or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). SITE may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of SITE
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the SERVICE
To protect the personal safety of users of the SERVICE or the public
To protect against legal liability

DO NOT TRACK

“Do Not Track” Signals Under California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Please note that we do not alter our SITE’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the SITE), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at [email protected]
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. You can access or/and request deletion of your Personal Data by writing to us at [email protected]
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where SITE relied on your consent to process your personal information. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA)

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
SITE will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

SECURITY

We safeguard the security of your personal information with industry-standard physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. The safety and security of your personal information also depends on you. Where you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of our SERVICES, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or through our SERVICES. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on or within the SERVICES.

MINORS

The SITE is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and the EU choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and the EU and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

ANALYTICS

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our SERVICE.

Google Analytics - a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our SERVICE. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected].