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Privacy Policy

We, Balance Labs Foundation (“BALANCE,” “we”, “us”, or “our”), have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe our practices regarding the Personal Data (as defined below) we collect, use, and share in connection with the website, application, and other software provided in connection with our services (collectively, the “Service”).

Types of Data We Collect. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify you individually, including, for example, your name, email address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing.

Information You Provide Us.

When you use our Service, we may collect Personal Data from you, such as email address, user name, Twitter account, Discord account, Telegram account and wallet address. You wallet address will be associated with Personal Data when you use our Service. The information collected above will be used mainly for enabling you to join in our community and to use our Services. You can always disconnect your accounts with us or choose whether to make your account connections public.

If you provide us with feedback or contact us, we will collect your name and contact information, as well as any other content included in the message. The information collected above will be mainly used for contact purpose.

We may also collect Personal Data at other points in our Service where you voluntarily provide it or where we state that Personal Data is being collected. The purpose will be illustrated by our notices accompanying the related data collection.

Information Collected via Technology. We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your interactive preferences, actions and on-chain transaction activity, including:

Transaction data. When you connect your wallet address with our Service, our technology will automatically collect the data related to your on-chain transaction(s) (information regarding purchases, sales, or transfers of NFTs). The information collected will be used mainly for enabling you to use our Services.

Interactive data. We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps, and clickstream data. We may use Cookies to analyze how users interact with our Service. We use these information to administer the Service functions and to provide users with a more personalized experience.

Information Collected from Third-Party Game Developers. We may receive Personal Data about you from game developers that is in cooperation with us or whose products and/or services is linked with our Service. The data will be shared via API and will be information collected when you use the services with the game developers, including in-game data and platform statistics. We may add this to the data we have already collected from or about you through our Service. We use this information to enable you to use our Service and for marketing purposes.

Information collected through other third party websites or applications. We may receive Personal Data about you from other third party websites or applications. The data will be shared via API from the third party websites or applications permitting the data sharing and only be accessed and collected when you give us your authorisations to retrieve your personal data from the respective third party websites or applications. We use this data to enable you to use certain functionalities on our Service.

Use of Your Personal Data. 2.We process your Personal Data to provide the Service, personalize your experience on the Service, and improve the Service. Specifically, we use your Personal Data to:

provide you with our Service.

contact you, provide customer support and respond to your requests and inquiries.

send you administrative notifications, such as security, support, and maintenance advisories.

send you notifications related to actions on the Service.

send you notifications related to actions on the Service.

comply with applicable laws, cooperate with investigations by law enforcement or other authorities of suspected violations of law, and/or to pursue or defend against legal threats and/or claims, and

act in any other way we may describe when you provide the Personal Data.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Partners. We may share some or all your Personal Data with the third-party game developers that is in cooperation with us or whose products and/or services is linked with our Service, in which case we will require the partners to honor this Privacy Policy.

Affiliates. We may share some or all your Personal Data with any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under our common control (“Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

Corporate Restructuring. We may share some or all your Personal Data in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, or dissolution transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, Personal Data may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the Personal Data collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Legal Rights. Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Data (as described below), we may disclose Personal Data if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary: (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas, warrants, or other legal process served on us; (c) to protect or defend the rights or property of us or users of the Service; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or our service terms.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it will not be considered as disclosure by us in the following circumstances: (a) you voluntarily share your Personal Data stored with our Services on social media platforms; (b) you choose to share your Personal Data on your profile page with other users. You may always control the Personal Data publicly shown on your profile page and you may hide the Personal Data from public disclosure in case you choose not to share any of such data.

Third-Party Websites & Wallets.Our Service may contain links to third-party websites and applications, including without limitation, https://metamask.io/download/, https://etherscan.io/, https://opensea.io/, game developers’ websites and social media handles (Twitter, Gitbook, Discord, Telegram). When you click on a link to any other website or application, you will leave our Service and go to another site or application, and another entity may collect Personal Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for these third-party websites, applications, or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these third-party websites, applications, or their content, or to any collection of your Personal Data after you click on links to such third-party websites or applications. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website and application you visit. Any links to third-party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content, or websites. Your interactions with any third-party wallet provider are governed by the applicable service terms and privacy policy of that third party.

Data Access and Control. You can view, access, edit, or delete your Personal Data of the Service by accessing, editing or deleting the information (related to your username and profile photo) by yourself on our website or application, or by contacting us via email ([email protected]) if you wish to delete your account, remove your wallet address or exercise your other rights under the GDPR, CCPA, or other applicable data protection or privacy laws. The email shall specify your request and reference the applicable law. We may ask you to verify your identity or ask for more information about your request. We will consider and act upon any above request in accordance with applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Data Retention. We may retain your Personal Data if you do not disconnect or remove the Personal Data on the website or application or for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may continue to retain your Personal Data even after you delete or deactivate your account and/or cease to use the Service if such retention is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, and/or protect our legitimate interests. Where your Personal Data is no longer required for these purposes, we will delete it. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will keep the data, which cannot identify you individually, to improve our product, such as your interactive data related to our product (e.g. clicks, savings, journal access data).

Data Protection. We care about the security of your information and use physical, administrative, and technological safeguards (encrypted transmission) to preserve the integrity and security of your information collected through our Service in-transit and in-storage. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems. If any information under our custody and control is compromised because of a breach of security, we will take steps to investigate and remediate the situation and, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised.

Google User Data.

Access: To access Google user data, our application uses Google APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

Use: The Google APIs allow us to securely retrieve specific data, such as the number of published videos and the number of subscribers of its user. The retrieved data is used for enabling our users to use certain functionalities on our Service, such as authentication and unlocking “Content Creator Achievement Pins”. We ensure our access and use of Google user data is limited to the necessary scopes required for these functionalities, and the interaction will be in compliance with Google's API terms of service.

Store: We store Google user data securely, implementing industry-standard measures to safeguard confidentiality and integrity of the data throughout the process.

Share: We do not share Google user data with any third parties and the retrieved data is only applicable to our internal access and use as illustrated above.

Minors. We do not intentionally gather Personal Data from visitors who are under the age of 13. Our Service require all users to be at least 18 years old. Minors who are at least 13 years old but are under 18 years old may use a parent or guardian’s account, but only with the involvement of the account holder. If a child under 13 submits Personal Data to us and we learn that the Personal Data is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Data from a child under 13, please contact us by email to [email protected].

Updates to Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Service and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our data collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to us, please contact us by email to [email protected].