Privacy Policy - How we secure and protect your information.
Effective Date: 2022-10-05 This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Stargately, Inc. (“Company” or “we” or “our”) treats information collected or provided in connection with an end user’s (“you” or “your” or “user”) use of the services available via Company’s website at blockeden.xyz (“Site”) and/or our mobile application (“App”, and collectively with the Site, the “Service”). Please note that your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of this Policy as set forth below:
1. Effective Date; Changes Made To This Privacy Policy.
This Policy applies to all information collected by or provided to us in connection with the Service. Should we make any material changes to this Policy, we will change the Effective Date above and inform you by email sent to the address associated with your Service account and/or through the Service the next time you log in. We will treat your continued usage of the Service following such notice as your acceptance of the changes.
2. Third-Party Links And Offers.
We may offer through our Service or send to registered users links to or offers from third party vendors. This Policy does not apply to any information that you may provide to or that may be collected by those third parties. We encourage you to request such third parties to provide their applicable privacy policies and other terms and conditions for you before you engaging with or making a purchase from such third parties.
3. Collected Information.
Information You Submit. When you log-in to or create an account with the Service, we collect the information you provide in the applicable form. This information includes personally identifiable information such as your name, username, e-mail address, password, and phone numbers. Information you submit to the Service also includes content that you create, update, and publish on the Service, which will include such personally identifiable information as you may choose to include. When we refer to “personally identifiable information” (PII) in this Policy, we mean information that we can directly associate specifically with a person or an entity without additional information. Should you decline to share certain personally identifiable information with us, we are not able to provide some or all of the features and functionalities found on the Service. Information Collected Automatically. When you use the Service, we automatically gather some non-personally identifiable information from you. This includes usage information of the Service, such as information on when, how often and for how long you use the Service and the content you submit and view. This also includes server log data such as the IP address, device type, or operating system, or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Service. As described below, we collect this information via a number of means, including server logs, cookies and other online tracking mechanisms. We may associate such non-personally identifiable information with the personally identifiable information that you provide in connection with the Service. But if we do so, we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information. Analytics Services. We use certain third-party services to assist us in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting regarding the Service. These third parties may use web logs or web beacons, and they may set and access cookies on your computer or other device. In particular, we use Google Analytics to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed in this Policy. You may opt out of the use of cookies by Google Analytics on the Site at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout . Third Party Account Information. We may allow you to link your Service account with your WeChat, Blockstack, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, IoTeX, or other service account. When you do this, the services will provide us with access to certain information that you have provided to such service (such as your emails), and we will use, store and disclose such information in accordance with this Policy. Please remember that the manner in which a service uses, stores and discloses your information is governed by the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the applicable service, and not the Company. Online Tracking and Cookies. The Service may use web beacons, cookies and other online tracking mechanisms to collect information. “Beacons” (also often referred to as “pixels”) are tiny graphics on a web page designed to track when a page is viewed. Beacons also can be inserted into emails in order to track certain information, including whether an email has been opened. “Cookies” are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are downloaded by your web browser or mobile device when you visit a website. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies when you access and use the Service. Cookies may be used, for example, to remember your user account information and your preferences, to customize the interface of the Service for you and to assist us in measuring and analyzing Service traffic. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your browser’s documentation to learn the best way to remove cookies and to modify your cookie settings. You can take steps to limit tracking by erasing cookies from your computer’s hard drive and by setting your browser to block all cookies or warn you before a cookie is stored. We partner with certain third parties to collect non-personally identifiable information. These third parties may use web logs, web beacons or other online tracking mechanisms, and they may set and access cookies on your computer or other device. Means of opting out of this third-party data collection are discussed below in Section 8.
4. Use of Information.
We use the personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information that we collect about you as follows:
- We will use submitted information for the purposes for which you provided the information, including, for example, to create and maintain a Service account for you or respond to a question that you e-mail to us. We also use submitted information and collected information as necessary to provide the features and functionality of the Service to you.
- We may send you e-mails regarding updates or modifications to the Service.
- We use submitted information and collected information to personalize the content that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.
- We may analyze collected information relating to your use of the Service in order to help us improve the Service.
- We may use submitted information and collected information to help troubleshoot problems, provide you with required notices, enforce our Terms of Use or to alert you to changes in our policies or agreements that may affect your use of the Service.
- We may combine personally identifiable information collected through the Service with other information that we collect about you in other contexts — such as our communications with you via email, phone or postal mail. We will handle such combined information in accordance with this Policy.
5. Disclosure of Information.
We do not sell or distribute your information to third parties for their own purposes, in any form except as provided in this Section. We disclose the personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information that we collect about you as follows:
- Your information may be viewable by other Service users in accordance with the Service’s functionality, including in connection with you expressly authorizing other Service users to view certain of your information, including data obtained from sources described in this Policy, such as data from public sources and services you connect to the Service.
- We may uses contractors and third-party service providers to provide the Service to our users and help us understand the use of the Service. These contractors and third-party service providers may collect information sent through the Service for use on our behalf.
- We may report aggregated, de-identified data relating to activity on the Service to third parties or the general public. We may combine such data with data obtained from third party sources in order to generate such reports.
- We will use and disclose information where we, in good faith, believe that the law or legal process (such as a court order, search warrant or subpoena) requires us to do so; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of our terms and conditions; or in other circumstances where we believe is necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of Company, our users, and third parties.
6. Viewing and Amending Information.
You can log into your Service account and view or amend your user account information at any time. Please note that while changes to your account information are reflected promptly in active user databases, our servers may retain previously provided information. Note that changes to, or deletion of, your Service account user information does not affect any other information collected by us, which we may retain and continue to use or disclose in accordance with this Policy. We may delete your account if you are deceased or for other reasons in our discretion.
7. Choices Regarding Promotional Content.
To the extent we send you promotional e-mails, we will give you the ability to opt-out of receiving such e-mails in accordance with applicable law. We will not provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.
8. Security.
The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited access servers. We will maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information. However, no security measures are 100% effective and we cannot guarantee the security of your personally identifiable information.
9. Transfer as Corporate Asset.
In the event of a merger, sale of capital stock or assets, reorganization, consolidation or similar transaction involving the Company, the information we possess (including personally identifiable information) shall be transferred as a corporate asset to the acquiring entity, provided that such entity will continue to handle such information in accordance with this Policy.
10. Transfer to the U.S. or other Countries.
The Company is established in and uses facilities in the United States. Your information will be stored and processed in the United States or other countries where Company has facilities. By using the Service, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country, even if your country has more rigorous data protection standards.
11. Children Under 13.
The Company does not knowingly collect information from children under 13 and the Service is intended for adults over the age of 18. If you are a parent and believe that your child under the age of 13 has used the Service and provided personally identifiable information to us through the Service, please contact us at and we will work to delete that Service account and any such personally identifiable information.