PRIVACY POLICY
GENERAL INFORMATION
The information in this section is relevant to all categories of data subject.
This includes:
Users and Visitors
Suppliers and Potential suppliers
Empire Studios Inc., a Delaware corporation (including our subsidiaries, affiliates, “Empire Studios”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is responsible for your personal data submitted to or via mint.EmpireDAO.xyz, and all affiliated sites, domains, subdomains, communications channels, addresses and directories (the “Sites”).
You can contact a representative by sending an email to the following address: support@empiredao.xyz
Your rights
You have the following rights:
The right to be informed
You have the right to be informed about how empire studios processes your personal data. Typically, Empire Studios communicates this information through privacy notices such as this one.
The right of data access
You have a right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions.
The right of data rectification
You always have a right to ask for immediate correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data which we hold about you.
The right of data erasure
You have the right to request that personal data be erased when it is no longer needed, where applicable law obliges us to delete the data or the processing of it is unlawful. You may also ask us to erase personal data where you have withdrawn your consent or objected to the data processing. However, this is not a general right to data erasure – there are exceptions and instances where data erasure is not possible, such as data submitted to public blockchains via interfaces on the Sites.
The right to restrict data processing
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in specific circumstances. Where that is the case, we may still store your information, but not use it further.
The right to data portability
The right to object to data processing
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data based on the legitimate interests, where your data privacy rights outweigh our reasoning for legitimate interests.
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects. Currently, Empire Studios does not perform any automated decision making or profiling.
You may request to enforce your data privacy rights by emailing support@empiredao.xyz
In certain circumstances, we may need to restrict the above rights to safeguard the public interest (e.g., the prevention or detection of crime) or our business interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege).
Consent as a legal basis for processing
For some data processing, Empire Studios uses consent as a legal basis. If you have consented to processing by Empire Studios , please be aware that you have the right to withdraw this consent at any point. If you would like to withdraw consent for a particular type of data processing that Empire Studios performs, please email the following address: support@empiredao.xyz
Complaints to a Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority with regards to the way that Empire Studios processes your personal data. Empire Studios recommends lodging a complaint with the data protection authority officer/regulatory authority in the country in which you are a permanent resident.
How we share your data
We will not share your personal information with any third parties for the purposes of enhanced service experience or marketing. In some circumstances we are legally obliged to share information. For example, under a court order. In any scenario, we will satisfy ourselves that we have a lawful basis on which to share the information and document our decision making and satisfy ourselves we have a legal basis on which to share the information.
How we protect your information
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data that we hold from unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration, or destruction. Where appropriate, we use encryption and other technologies that assist in securing the data you provide. We also require our service providers to comply with strict data privacy requirements where they process your personal data.
How long we keep your personal data
We only keep your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this privacy notice, or until you notify us that you no longer wish us to process your data. After this time, we will securely delete your personal data, unless we are required to keep it to meet legal or regulatory obligations, or to resolve potential legal disputes.
Contact and further information
If you have any questions about how we use your personal data or wish to make a complaint about how we handle it, you may contact Empire Studios at: support@empiredao.xyz
USERS AND VISITORS
Unsolicited Personal Information
If you send Empire Studios unsolicited personal information, Empire Studios reserves the right to immediately delete that information without informing you or to decide which category of data subject that you appear to be and manage your personal data within the remit of that category as described elsewhere in this Privacy Notice. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under 18 years of age. If you are under 18, please do not send any personal information about yourself to us.
We collect the following categories of personal data:
Any contact information you share with us: name, email address, pseudonym, telephone number, etc.
Information your browser makes available when you visit the Empire Studios website: IP address, public key and other externally-owned account information from your blockchain address and/or third party blockchain wallet provider or browser extension (for example, MetaMask), the source of your site visit, time spent on the website or a particular page, links clicked, comments shared, browser type, date and time of visit, etc.
We use your personal data to: respond to your specific request that you make, for example request a demonstration, whitepapers, newsletters, or other information; conduct marketing and audience analysis activities (including generating leads, pursuing marketing prospects, performing market research, determining and managing the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns and managing our brand); and send you marketing communications (such as alerts, promotional materials, newsletters, etc.).
We only collect the personal data from you that we need for the above purposes. We may also anonymize your personal data, so it no longer identifies you and use it for various purposes, including the improvement of our services and testing our IT systems.
We use your personal data for the purposes described in this notice based on legitimate interest, as by using our website it is understood that there is potential for you to be a potential user, contractor, employee, or supplier.
Copyright Violations
We reserve the right to restrict access to or remove material that we believe in good faith to be copyrighted material and/or illegally copied and/or distributed, and restrict and discontinue service to offenders, to the extent we are reasonable able to do so. If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the Sites or Services infringes your copyright (or the copyright of someone on behalf of which you are authorized to act), please send a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information to support@empiredao.xyz:
A signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
Identification of works or materials being infringed; and
Evidence of the existing and allegedly infringed legal ownership.
SUPPLIERS OR POTENTIAL SUPPLIERS
We collect and use personal data that concerns you in connection with the agreements with our suppliers, contributors, and commercial participants. We may collect the following categories of personal data:
Identification data and business contact information, you share with us such as name, job/position/title, email address, and telephone number.
Additional information you provide to us in the course of our business relations such as data concerning the fulfilment of our contractual obligations and pre-contractual measures including correspondence data, offers, tenders, conditions, contract and order data, invoices, payments, blockchain externally-owned account address/public key, records relating to queries/questions/complaints/orders.
We may use your personal data as described above for the following purposes:
process and fulfilment of purchases, administration and management of suppliers, vendors, contractors, advisers and other professional experts;
paying debts, invoice and payment management, purchasing of direct and indirect services;
management of process quality, monitoring and auditing compliance with Empire Studio’s policies, contractual obligations and legal and statutory requirements;
carrying out audits, reviews and regulatory checks to meet applicable obligations to regulators;
governance, risk and compliance, including due diligence and anti-money laundering obligations, customs and global trade compliance and sanctioned party list screening, security, including prevention, detection of crime and fraud;
maintain and protect the security of products, facilities, services, systems, networks, computers and information, preventing and detecting security threats, and fraud or other criminal or malicious activities; and
manage IT resources, including infrastructure management including data back-up, information systems’ support and service operations for application management, end user support, testing, maintenance, security (incident response, risk, vulnerability, breach response), user accounts management, software licenses assignment, security and performance testing and business continuity.
We collect only the personal data from you that we need for the purposes described above. For statistical purposes, improvement of our services and testing of our IT systems we use as much as reasonably possible anonymized data. This means that these data can no longer (in)directly identify you or single you out as an individual. We may process your personal data for the fulfilment of contractual obligations resulting from contracts with you or your company, or as part of pre-contractual measures we take.
In some cases, we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data insofar as this is not overridden by your own privacy interests. Such interests may include:
conduct, management, development and furtherance of our business in the broadest sense possible including supply of products and services, performance of agreements and order management with suppliers, process and fulfilment of purchases, process quality management and improvement of products or services, analytics and market intelligence, reduction of default risks in our procurement processes and reorganization, acquisition and sale of activities, business divisions and companies;
monitor, investigate and ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, standard and Empire Studios internal requirements and policies;
prevent fraud and criminal activity including investigations of such activity, misuse of Empire Studios, products and services, and as strictly necessary and proportionate for ensuring network and information security; and
transmitting personal data within the Empire Studios for internal administrative purposes as necessary for example to provide centralized services.
In some cases, we process your personal data on the basis of legal obligations and statutory requirements, for example, on the basis of tax or reporting obligations, cooperation obligations with authorities, statutory retention periods or the disclosure of personal data within the scope of official or judicial measures may be required for the purposes of taking evidence, prosecution or enforcement of civil law claims.
You may obtain a copy of our assessment of why we may process your personal data for these interests by submitting a request at support@empiredao.xyz.