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How we treat your personal data
We are a commercial company called Braiins Systems s.r.o., with its registered office at Křižíkova 148/34, Karlín, Prague 8, Czech Republic, Id. No. 241 47 931, registered in the commercial register kept by the Municipal Court in Prague under file No. C 183056.
We are the company responsible for operation and development of many projects including following:
Slush Pool
Virtual currency mining pool currently operated by Braiins Mining Limited, incorporated and existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, Company No. 2038702, with a registered office at Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
Braiins OS
Open source operating system for virtual currency mining devices that is available to public free-of-charge under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Braiins OS+
Proprietary operating system for virtual currency mining devices that is available to public under a proprietary license and is subject to license fees.
Stratum V2
Next generation protocol for pool mining used by many virtual currency mining pools.
You may find more information about us and about our work on our website https://braiins.com/ and any subdomains thereof (the “Website”).
Why should I read this document?
You may have heard about Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the ”Regulation”) more commonly known as GDPR.
Under the Article 13 and 14 of the Regulation, we must provide our customers and other data subjects with information on the collection, handling, protection and processing of their personal data.
Therefore, in this Privacy Policy you may learn more about these topics regarding among others the personal data that we collect when you access and use our Website and any subdomains thereof.
Please, be aware, that this privacy policy applies only to collection, storage and processing of personal data that are not covered by other privacy policy issued for a particular services or product (such as Braiins OS / OS+ Privacy Policy and Slush Pool Privacy Policy).
Personal data collected via communication
On our Website we provide you with our contact information, so you can contact us, request information about our products and out company or notify us of any issues with the services that you use.
If you, during the course of our communication, send us any information that may be considered as personal data (such as first and last name, email address, IP address etc.), we will, as a data controller, collect, store and process such personal data.
Corporate bonds
We offer corporate bonds to public investors. When you buy a corporate bonds from us, we will, as a data controller, collect, store and process any related personal data you have provided to us such as your first and last name, date of birth, address, bank account number, source of your funds, your contact information, amount of corporate bonds you have bought etc.
Cookies
On our Website we use a variety of cookies. Some of the cookies may be used to collect personal data of our customers.
For more information, please see the dedicated section of this Privacy Policy and Braiins Cookie Policy (for Website).
Personal data collected when you subscribe to our newsletter (commercial communications)
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter by entering your email, clicking on the “Get notified” box. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will regularly inform you about the latest news about our products and services.
As a data controller, we collect, store and process the email addresses of users who subscribe to our newsletter.
Personal data collected in Braiins Merch
When we are selling you the products in Braiins Merch, we will, as a data controller, collect, store and process any personal data communicated to us when making the purchase.
Such personal data include, but are not limited to, your first and last name, personal identification number, date of birth, business address, address of residence, email address, tax identification number, phone number, bank account number etc.
Please note, that the provision of such personal data may be a requirement necessary to enter into a purchase and sale contract.
Personal data collected via communication and when selling products in Braiins Merch and corporate bonds related personal data
We collect, store and process the personal data collected via communication with you for the purpose of providing you with requested products, services, support or any other information, for the purpose of exercising any rights and fulfilling any obligations related thereto as well as for the purpose of any further communication with you.
As for the information provided when selling the products in Braiins Merch, we collect, store and process such information them for the purpose of exercising any rights and fulfilling any obligations related to the contract of purchase and sale.
As for the corporate bonds, we collect, store and process the personal data collected when selling corporate bonds for the purpose of exercising any rights and fulfilling any obligations related thereto as well as for the purpose of any further communication with you.
To comply with legal requirements, we must mention that we collect, store and process such personal data mainly pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) of the Regulation (it means that processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps prior to entering into such contract).
We collect the information provided via communication and when selling the products in Braiins Merch and corporate bonds related personal data also for marketing purposes, for example to inform you about our latest products, services and features, and to establish, exercise or defend any related legal claims.
To comply with legal requirements, we must mention that we collect, store and process such personal data pursuant to Article 6 (1)(f) of the Regulation.
That means that it is in our legitimate interest to collect, store and process such personal data for marketing purposes, since it is in our interest to inform our customers about such news and it is reasonable to expect that the customers (and investors) may be interested in such news. Additionally, the customers may at any time opt out from receiving such news.
It is also in our legitimate interest to collect, store and process such personal data to establish, exercise or defend any related legal claims, since otherwise we could not exercise our legal rights and such use of personal data is foreseeable by data subjects and represents little to no restriction of data subject interests, rights and freedoms.
Personal data collected when you subscribe to our newsletter (commercial communications)
As we have stated above, we collect, store and process these personal data because you subscribed to our newsletter. So we are processing your email in order to send you the newsletters.
To comply with legal requirements, we must mention that we collect, store and process such personal data pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) of the Regulation.
That means that you have given us a consent to the processing of your personal data for the commercial communications purpose.
In order to be able to prove that you have given us your consent to sending our newsletter (and processing your personal data for the commercial communications purposes), we may collect and store the information that you have given us this consent (e.g. the logs).
We collect and store these data pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) of the Regulation. That means that it is in our legitimate interest to collect, store and process such personal data, since in case you change your mind and you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore, you can unsubscribe any time for free. We will always indicate within the newsletter how to unsubscribe.
We collect, process and store your personal data only for the above defined purposes and only to the extent necessary to fulfill these purposes. We never conceal the purpose for which the personal data is collected and further processed.
For how long will you process my personal data?
We process and store your personal data only for the time necessary to meet the purposes of its processing specified above, or for the time consented by you, or for the time that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith. We comply with the mandatory rules for data archiving.
Once the purpose of the personal data processing disappears, we will destroy the personal data.
Personal data collected via communication
As for the personal data voluntarily provided by you when you communicate with us, we will process and store such personal data until the requested issue is solved and also for the subsequent period thereafter that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith, or during which you or any third party may contest that we have broken any of our obligations or have violated any applicable laws in relation to the requested issue.
Personal data collected when selling the products in Braiins Merch
As for the personal data voluntarily provided by you when making a purchase products in Braiins Merch, we will process and store such personal data until all the obligations under the contract of purchase and sale have been fulfilled and also for the subsequent period thereafter that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law, or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith, or during which you or any third party may contest that we have broken any of our obligations or have violated any applicable laws in relation to the sale of the products.
Personal data related to corporate bonds
As for the personal data related to the corporate bonds we will process and store such personal data until the due date of the bonds and also for the subsequent period thereafter that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law, or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith, or during which you or any third party may contest that we have broken any of our obligations or have violated any applicable laws in relation to the corporate bonds.
Personal data collected when you subscribe to our newsletter (commercial communications)
We will process and store such personal data (your email) until you unsubscribe to our newsletter. You can unsubscribe any time for free. We will indicate how to unsubscribe within the newsletter.
We will process and store the information that you have given us the consent (e.g. the logs) to send you newsletter for the duration of the consent and also for the subsequent period thereafter that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith, or during which you or any third party may contest that we have broken any of our obligations or have violated any applicable laws in relation to the commercial communications sent to you.
Who will have access to my personal data?
We take care of your personal data security and so we choose the partners to whom we entrust your personal data very carefully.
All our partners must be able to provide sufficient security of your personal data to prevent unauthorized or accidental access thereto or other abuse thereof and all our partners must undertake a confidentiality obligation and must not use your personal data for any purpose other than the purpose for which the data were made available to them.
The recipients that may have access to your personal data are following:
Our aim is and always will be to ensure your personal data are as anonymous as possible and unavailable to all third parties. However, under certain specifically defined conditions we will be under some circumstances required, in accordance with the applicable law, to transfer certain personal data to public authorities.
When collecting, storing and processing personal data we sometimes may use personal data processors such as Google, which under some circumstances transmit your personal data to third countries. In such an event we always make sure such transmission is compliant with the Regulation.
In particular, we specify that the personal data may be transmitted to the United States of America and in such event the transmission is compliant with the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) mechanism.
All your personal data is secured by standard procedures and technologies. We provide data protection against unauthorized or accidental access, alteration, destruction, loss, unauthorized transmission or any other unauthorized processing, as well as against any other abuse of records containing the personal data.
The standard procedures and technologies may include, but are not limited to, the following:
We are not able to guarantee the security of your personal data without your help and responsible behavior. Therefore, we ask you to help us ensure the security of your data by keeping in secret and secure your user account login information by following a common security standards.
On our Website we use cookies to analyze traffic and to personalize content and ads.
We will, as a data controller, collect, store and process any information that are considered as personal data collected by such cookies (the personal data may include your IP address, information about your activity on our Website, information about your advertisement preferences etc.).
To comply with legal requirements, we must mention that we collect, store and process such personal data mainly pursuant to the Article 6 (1) (f) of the Regulation.
That means that it is in our legitimate interest to collect, store and process such personal data for marketing purposes and for Website traffic analysis, since
We will process and store such personal data for the period necessary to analyze traffic and to provide any personalized content to you and also for the subsequent period thereafter that is either necessary to comply with our obligations under the applicable law, or set forth by the applicable law or in accordance therewith.
Please, read our Braiins Cookie Policy (for Braiins Website) available on our websites to learn more about the cookies that we use.
In relation to the personal data you shall have in particular the following rights:
You have a right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing your personal data which is based on Article 6(1)(f) of Regulation (it means that we have legitimate interest to process such personal data). You have also a right to object to processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Additionally, you have a right to contact the Office for Personal Data Protection with a request for remedial measures in case of any violation of the obligations set forth in the Regulation at the following address: Office for Personal Data Protection, Pplk. Sochorova 27, 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic, phone number +420 234 665 111 (central telephone exchange).
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact details below:
Contract address: Křižíkova 148/34, Karlín, Prague 8, Czech Republic
Contact point (support): https://braiins.com/
Email address: info@braiins.com
This Privacy Policy comes into effect on the 1st January 2020.
We reserve the right to amend and update this Privacy Policy at any time.
In Prague on 1st January 2020
Braiins Systems s.r.o.
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