THIS AGREEMENT WAS LAST UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.blockworksresearch.com.
Collection of Personal Information.
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.”
General Information. We collect information about your interactions with us through information you provide directly to us and information collected automatically. Depending on how you use our Services, your information may include, without limitation:
(a) Registration-related information (e.g., name, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, occupation, and information imported from social login permissions granted to us);
(b) Usage-related information which may be collected automatically by us, or through our Services or third-party services within our Services (e.g., what Services you use, how often you use them, anything you may publicly share or post using tools made available by our Services, your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented or made available by us) (collectively, "Usage Data");
(c) Technical information (e.g., your browser or operating system, your manner of connecting to the Internet and the name of your Internet service provider or wireless carrier, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, referring websites or services (websites or services you used immediately prior to using the Site or other Services), exiting websites or services (immediately after using our Site or Services), data relating to malfunctions or problems occurring when you use our Services, and information about other software on your device for the limited purpose of protecting your security or improving your online experience);
(d) Search-related information (e.g., searches you perform on our Site or in our other Services, and how you use the results of those searches);
(e) Transaction-related information (e.g., credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing information, credit card number, billing address, and/or a history of purchases through our Services);
(f) Access-related information (e.g., device, connections, and methods used to access and interact with our Services);
(g) Communication-related information (e.g., text messages, emails, faxes, telephone calls, and postal mail from or with Service end users, as well as from third-party outside sources including database vendors); and
(h) Customer service information about you as a user of our Services.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
(a) 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 http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
(b) 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.
(c) Web beacons*, tags, *and pixels are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers) and email address. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
Use of Personal Information.
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
(a) Communicate with you
(b) Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud and
(c) When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our services.
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).
Third Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice and obtain their consent. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
You share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above for registration to the Subscription. For example, we use Stripe to power our Subscription payments.
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.
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
Data Retention.
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
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.
Your Rights as EEA and UK Users.
If you are a European resident, our legal basis for collecting and using your personal data or information is to do so with your consent; where we need the personal data or information for performance of a contract; or where the collection and use is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect the Personal Information in question. If we collected your personal data or information with your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Our retention of your personal data and any subsequent communications are based on our legitimate interest in providing you with new and potentially relevant materials based on your geography, role, or company. As always, you can elect to opt out from receiving such future communications. To the extent that we transfer Personal Information from the EEA or the UK to a jurisdiction outside the EEA or the UK that has not been determined by the European Commission as providing adequate data protections (such as the United States), we will ensure that such Personal Information is safeguarded through appropriate contractual terms or other approved mechanisms.
Additionally, if you are a resident of the EEA or the UK, you have the right to:
(a) Find out if we use your Personal Information, access your personal data or information, and receive copies of your Personal Information;
(b) Update your personal data or information, or request to have it corrected or amended if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
(c) Withdraw any express consent that you have provided to the processing of your Personal Information at any time without penalty, including the deletion or the request of deletion of your personal data or information, as long as we have no other legal basis to use as such;
(d) Restrict the processing of your Personal Information if you believe your personal data or information is inaccurate, no longer necessary for our business purposes, or simply object to our processing of your Personal Information (pending our investigation and/or verification of your claim);
(e) Request portability of your Personal Information for transfer to another provider;
(f) Object to automated decision-making; and
(g) Complain to your local data protection authority at any time.
Disclosures. To withdraw consent or exercise the aforementioned rights, please contact us as described below. Please note that withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we may have conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. If we ask you to provide personal data to us to comply with a legal requirement or enter into a contract, we will inform you of this and let you know whether providing us with your personal data is required, and, if not, the consequences of not sharing your personal data with us. Similarly, if we collect and use your Personal Information in reliance on our or a third party's legitimate interests and those interests are not already listed above, we will inform you of those legitimate interest(s).
Filing Complaints. If you are not satisfied with our response, or believe we are processing your Personal Information in violation of the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority (also known as Data Protection Authority) in your EEA country or in the UK. For our operations within the EEA or UK, our Lead Supervisory Authority is the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
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 researchsupport@blockworks.co.