General

Monad Labs, Inc. (“Company”) collects personal data as part of its products and services (“Services”). Your privacy and the privacy of all our users is very important to us.  Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data.By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services.  “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations.  This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Personal Data

Categories and Examples of Personal Data that are collected

• Web Analytics
  - Web page interactions
  - Non-identifiable request IDs
  - IP addresses
• Device IP/Data
  - Device information: type of device/operating system/browser used to access the Services
  - Domain server
• Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide
  - Identifying information submitted by you in emails, messages, or other content you upload to the Services
  - Employment, company, title, experience, education information that is self-provided by you
  - KYC data including name, citizenship, and other Personal Data necessary to perform KYC check

Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share this Personal Data

• Service providers
• Affiliates
• Parties you authorize, access, or authenticate

Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share this Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:

• You
  - When you provide such information directly to us
  - When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text through responses to surveys, applications, or questionnaires
  - When you send us an email or otherwise contact us
  - When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically
  - Through Cookies (defined in the "Tracking Tools and Opt-Out" section below).

Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data

• Providing, Customizing, and Improving the Services
  - Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us
  - Providing support and assistance for the Services
  - Improving the Services including testing, research, internal analytics, and product development
  - Personalizing the Services and communications based on your preferences
  - Doing fraud protection, security, and debugging
  - Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws

• Corresponding with You
  - Responding to correspondence that we receive from you
  - Contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Monad or the Services
  - Sending emails and other communications based on your preferencesCorresponding with You

• Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
  - Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process such as preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities
  - Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Monad or another party
  - Enforcing any agreements with you
  - Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights
  - Resolving disputes

The examples provided are not exhaustive lists of collected data. However, we will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing notice or updating the Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section.

• Service Providers
  These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
  - Hosting, technology, and communication providers
  - Security and fraud prevention consultants
  - Support and customer service vendors

• Analytics Partners
  These parties provide analytics on web traffic or usage of the Services. They include:
  - Companies that track how users found or were referred to the Services
  - Companies that track how users interact with the Services
  

• Parties You Authorize, Access, or Authenticate
  - Third parties you access through the services
  - Social media services
  

Legal Obligations

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

Non-Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking Tools and Opt-Out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. 
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We use the following types of Cookies:

• Performance/Analytical Cookies.
  These Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Services. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Services, what pages visitors view on our Services and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Services. For example, Google LLC (“Google”) uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Services is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Data and Security Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data.  Although we work to protect the security of data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as we have a business purpose to do so or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Child Privacy

Our services are not directed to children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 16 years of age. If you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us.

State Law Privacy Rights

California

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion. If we make any significant changes to this policy, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Monad website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Contact

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email: support-wpp@monad.xyz