Privacy Policy

Last Updated on July 30, 2024

This Privacy Notice describes the personal information that DAOAD ( “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes about individuals (“you,” “your,”), the rights and choices your have regarding your personal information (including personal data), and other important matters regarding the protection of your personal information. For some of our products and services, their specific privacy policies or supplemental privacy notices may be provided and applied.

Additional information for residents of specific state or area

If you are a resident of a particular state or area, please see the relevant section listed in the Table of contents below for additional information for that state or area’s residents.

Table of contents

  1. SCOPE

  2. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

  3. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

  4. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

  5. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

  6. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

  7. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

  8. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

  9. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR U.S. RESIDENTS

  10. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR EU RESIDENTS

  11. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

  12. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES/APPLICATIONS

  13. CONTACT US

1. SCOPE

This Privacy Notice applies to personal information processed by us, including on our websites, mobile applications, blog and other online or offline offerings. To make this Privacy Notice easier to read, our websites, mobile applications, blog and other offerings are collectively called “Services.”

2. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may revise this Privacy Notice from time to time in our sole discretion. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice on the Services. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Notice if you continue to use our Services after the new Privacy Notice takes effect.

3. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The categories of personal information we collect depend on how you interact with us, our Services and the requirements of applicable law. We collect information that you provide to us, information we obtain automatically when you use our Services, and information from other sources such as third-party services and organizations, as described below. Additionally, We do not collect, use, disclose, sell, or share any of your sensitive personal information.

A. Information You Provide to Us Directly

We collect several types of personal information from you directly. Typically, this information includes:

  • Email address

  • Creatives provided by you (e.g., image material, etc.) Any information you provide on these features will be considered “public” and is not subject to the privacy protections referenced herein. Users who provide the data of a third party will have to confirm that they have consent from this third party regarding the exploitation by the Platform, the publication, and/or the diffusion of these data on the Platform.

B. Information Collected Automatically

We collect your personal information automatically when you use our Services. Typically, this information includes:

  • Wallet Address

  • Cookies, Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, and Other Technologies. We, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may use cookies and other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through your use of our Services.

    • Cookies. Cookies are small text files placed in device browsers that store preferences and facilitate and enhance your experience.

    Our uses of these Technologies fall into the following general categories:

    • Operationally Necessary. This includes Technologies that allow you access to our Services, applications, and tools that are required to identify irregular website behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security or that allow you to make use of our functionality;

    • Performance-Related. We may use Technologies to assess the performance of our Services, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how individuals use our Services (see Analytics below);

    • Functionality-Related. We may use technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when you access or use our services. This may include identifying you when you sign into our Services or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed;

    • Advertising- or Targeting-Related. We may use first party or third-party Technologies to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our Services or on third-party websites.

  • Analytics. We may use technologies and other third-party tools to process analytics information for our services. Some of our analytics partners include:

  • Google Analytics. For more information, please visit Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt-out of Google Analytics’ use of your information, please click here.

Information Collected from Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through our group companies or third-party services and organizations. For example, if you access our Services through a third-party application, such as an app store we may collect information about you from that third-party application. Additionally, when you complete in-app purchases, we may collect information about you from the provider of your device operating system when they process the purchases on our behalf. Please note that we have not received information on your payment method from the operating system providers.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:

PurposesLegal basis of processing

To provide and improve various services operated by us, to plan and develop new services, and to introduce such services.

  • Performance of contract

  • Our legitimate interest to administer and improve our services and give our users the best experience.

To bill or pay for the Service's usage fees and other payments

  • Performance of contract

To provide various notifications to users

  • Performance of contract

To prevent the use of this service in a manner that violates the Terms of Service.

  • Our legitimate interest to administer and improve our services and give our users the best experience

  • Legal obligation

To investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities using the Service, and to respond to such activities.

  • Our legitimate interest to administer and improve our services and give our users the best experience

  • Legal obligation

To resolve problems in the operation of the Service.

  • Performance of contract

  • Our legitimate interest to administer and improve our services and give our users the best experience

5. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We disclose your information to third parties for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, to protect us or others, or in the event of a major business transaction such as a merger, sale, or asset transfer, as described below.

A. Disclosures to Provide Our Services

The categories of third parties with whom we may share your information are described below.

  • Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who use that information to help us provide our Services. This includes service providers that provide us with IT support, hosting, Cloud storage, and related services.

  • Group Companies/Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our company affiliates.

B. Disclosures to Protect Us or Others

We may access, preserve, and disclose any information we store associated with you to external parties if we, in good faith, believe doing so is required or appropriate to: comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal processes, such as a court order or subpoena; protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety; enforce our policies or contracts; collect amounts owed to us; or assist with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity.

C. Disclosure in the Event of Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, purchase or sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction, as permitted by law and/or contract.

6. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

Your Privacy Choices. The privacy choices you may have about your personal information are determined by applicable law and are described below.

  • “Do Not Track.” At this time, Our websites do not recognize browser-based “Do Not Track” instructions. You can, however, change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser, as mentioned above.

Your Privacy Rights. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Access Personal Information about you, including: (i) confirming whether we are processing your personal information; (ii) obtaining access to or a copy of your personal information; and (iii) receiving an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or asking us to send that information to another company (the “right of data portability”);

  • Request Correction of your personal information where it is inaccurate or incomplete. In some cases, we may provide self-service tools that enable you to update your personal information;

  • Request Deletion of your personal information;

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth in Section 13 below.

7. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, no transmission over the internet can ever be guaranteed secure so we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that you transfer over the internet to us.

8. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Notice for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws. The specific retention period is determined based on the purpose of acquisition and processing, the nature of the personal data, and its necessity for legal or business grounds.

9. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR U.S. RESIDENTS

This U.S. Privacy Notice (this “Notice”) covers our information collection practices and describes your rights regarding your personal information for the United States of America (U.S.) residents.

All terms defined in the privacy laws of the states of the U.S. (respectively and collectively, the “State Privacy Law(s)”) have the same meanings when used in this section.

Categories of personal information we collect

U.S. residents have the right to know what categories of personal information we collected about them and whether we disclosed that personal information for a business purpose (e.g., to a service provider) in the preceding 12 months. U.S. residents can find this information below:

Category of Personal Information Collected by UsCategory of Third Parties Information is Disclosed to for a Business Purpose

Identifiers.

Email address, Wallet address

  • Group Companies

  • Service Providers ( Cloud storage)

Internet or other similar network activity

Examples: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement

  • Group Companies

  • Service Providers ( Cloud storage, Data Analytics)

The categories of sources from which we collect personal information and our business and commercial purposes for using personal information are set forth above.

“Sales” or “Share” of Personal Information under the State Privacy Law

For the purposes of the respective State Privacy Laws, we do not sell or share your personal information, including personal information of children under the age of 16, and we have not sold or shared any personal information during the 12 months preceding the effective date of this Notice.

Additional Privacy Rights for U.S. Residents

You may exercise the following rights by contacting us or a representative or data protection officer. If you request to exercise the above rights, please contact us as set forth in section 13 below.

Non-Discrimination. U.S. residents have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of their rights conferred by respective State Privacy Laws.

Authorized Agent. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. To designate an authorized agent, please contact us as set forth in section 13 below.

Verification. To protect your privacy, we will take steps the following steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. When you make a request, we will ask you to provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.

If you are a U.S. resident and would like to exercise any of your rights under each state privacy law, please contact us as set forth in Section 13 below. We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws.

California Shine the Light. We are exempted from the requirement to grant such a request because we do not disclose personal information of customers for third parties’ direct marketing purposes unless a customer directs us.

Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World. If you are under the age of 18, you have the right to request permanent deletion of the reviews of products you posted on our service. Please note that, when you post the reviews they can be collected, stored, or shared by others, and we cannot delete such information held by others. If you request to exercise the above rights, please contact us as set forth in section 13 below.

10. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR EU RESIDENTS

This Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice only applies to our processing of personal data that is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016) and equivalent laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the “UK”)(“GDPR”). This Notice is applicable only to personal data concerning data subjects (“you” or “your”) in the member states of the European Union and three EEA/EFTA states - Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (collectively, the “EU”) and the UK.

For purposes of this notice, the terms defined under the GDPR have the meanings ascribed to them under the GDPR.

We are responsible for your personal data as a data controller. If you have any questions or would like to uphold your rights, please contact us at;

DAO AD

Email: help@daoad.com

Transfers to third countries outside the EU

Your personal data may be transferred to third countries outside the EU with or without an adequate decision by the European Commission. In the case of any transfer of personal data to a country that does not have an adequate level of data protection in light of the standards under the GDPR, we will ensure such transfer will be made through the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted in accordance with the GDPR.

No obligation to provide your personal data

You have no obligation to provide your personal data to us either under applicable law or a contract. Once you make an order for our services , we may require your personal data based on the contract with you, in which case your failure to provide personal data we require may prevent us from providing you with the services.

Profiling

We will not make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling on collected personal data, which produces legal effects concerning the User or similarly significantly affects the User.

Additional Privacy Rights for EU Residents

You may exercise the following rights by contacting us or a representative or data protection officer. If you request to exercise the following rights, please contact us as set forth in section 13 below.

Right to erasure. You may obtain the erasure of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions under the GDPR, where: (i) such personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which we collected and processed it; (ii) you withdraw your consent to our processing solely based upon your consent; (iii) you object to our processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for such processing; (iv) our processing is unlawful; (v) your personal data has to be erased in compliance with a legal obligation.

Right to restriction of processing. You may obtain restriction of processing of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions under the GDPR, where: (i) you contest the accuracy of your personal data: (ii) our processing is unlawful and you select to restrict our processing instead of requesting erasure of your personal data: (iii) you request us to establish, exercise or defense legal claims that need your personal data no longer necessary for the purposes of our processing; or (iv) you exercise the right to object to our processing and wait for verification on where we have overriding legitimate grounds.

Right to data portability. You may receive your personal data or direct us to transmit your personal data to a third party you designate, provided that we process such personal data based upon your consent or as the performance of a contract with you.

Right to object. You may object to the processing of your personal data where our processing is based upon the exercise of our official authority or our legitimate interests, including “profiling” or for direct marketing purposes.

Right to withdrawal of your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time to the processing of your personal data that we have collected about you.

Right to complain. You may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, in particular, in the member state of the EU or the UK where you have a habitual residence or place of work or where the alleged infringement of GDPR took place.

11. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Services are not directed to children under 13 in the United States, and under the applicable age of consent in other countries ("Child" or "Children"). We do not knowingly collect or store personal information from Children. However, we do collect information, including personal information, from all users of the Services. If you believe we may have unintentionally collected personal information from your Child, please contact us as set forth below.

12. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES/APPLICATIONS

The Services may contain links to other websites/applications and other websites/applications may reference or link to our Services. These third-party services are not controlled by us. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of each website and application with which they interact. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for, the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Providing personal information to third-party websites or applications is at your own risk.

13. CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, or to exercise your rights as detailed in this Privacy Notice, please contact us at:

help@daoad.com

Additionally, if you reside in the EEA, you can contact our Data Protection Officer, European representative, or UK representative, or file a complaint with the supervisory authorities in Europe, the UK.

  • Representative

Our representative in the EU/UK is Classmethod (Europe) GmbH. You can contact our representative at;

Mail: Krausenstr.9 -10, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Email: gdpr@daoad.com

  • Data Protection Officer

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at;

Email: dpo@daoad.com

Last updated