Blockemon has developed this Privacy Policy that governs the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, storage, and protection of your personal information shared with Blockemon.
You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with Blockemon. It can be used in combination with other information to provide and improve the Blockemon Festival website and our services.
We may ask you to provide some personal information, but you hold the right to refuse to do so at your sole discretion. In this case, the Blockemon will not be able to provide you with a response to any of your requests that require such information.
1. Personal Information Provided to Us That We Collect
When you use our website, https://festival.blockemon.org (hereinafter referred to as Website), Blockemon may receive or collect personal information about you.
1.1. Personal information that you provide voluntarily:
Using the Website, you may provide us with personal information such as your name, date of birth, email address, and other details necessary for processing your inquiries or issues, and any information you submit to Blockemon via email.
1.2. Personal information that we collect automatically.
When you use the Website, we may collect specific data from you automatically and from your device. This data may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. We may automatically collect:
– Data and analytics about your use of our Website;
– Your I.P. address and device identifiers;
– Your device type and the operating system that you use;
– Broad geographic location based on your I.P. address, etc.
1.3. Personal information we obtain from third-party sources.
1.3.1. Third-Party Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and others (“Third-Party Social Networks”).
You may choose to follow Blockemon via your social media account. Exactly what information we receive from your social media will depend on your social media privacy settings. It would typically include your basic public profile information such as your username, gender, friends’ list (also see below “Third-Party Social Networks”).
1.3.2. Advertising partners and Analytics providers.
From time to time, we may also receive personal information about you from other third-party sources. For example, if you clicked on an advertisement linking to our Website, we will be provided with information about the ad network and advertisement you have been redirected from.
The list of our current service providers and partners is as follows:
Advertising partners (ad networks):
- Facebook, Inc. (FB Analytics, FB Ads, FB Audience network)
- Google LLC (AdMob);
- Google LLC (Google Ads, AdSense, DoubleClick);
- LinkedIn Corp.(LinkedIn Ads);
- Twitter, Inc.(Twitter Audience Platform).
Analytics providers:
2. How We Use Your Information
To summarize, we use the collected personal information to improve our software development services’ quality and enhance the way we operate our business. We also use it for security, analytics, and research purposes and to make sure we provide you with the best user experience. Besides, we use your information to promote our services and for displaying third-party advertisements, if applicable.
We use your information for the following purposes:
- Developing, delivering, and improving our services;
- Displaying and showing advertisements for Blockemon and its services;
- Analysis of the Website usage;
- Understanding and analyzing trends in Website visits and interaction, and creation of reports for research or business intelligence;
- Enhancing the safety and security of our Website;
- Providing customer support;
- Sending notices and for other purposes of business operation.
3. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information with:
3.1. Advertising Partners
Blockemon has concluded contracts with individual advertising partners (ad networks), assisting us in delivering advertising to you and enabling us to provide you with Website content and services.
Blockemon allows advertising partners to track impressions, clicks, or other advertising indicators via tracking providers to measure advertising performance. They may use their own tracking providers.
3.2. Analytics Providers
We acquire the services of analytics providers in order to provide services for analysis and research purposes. The device data MVP Workshop shares with these providers is encrypted. Providers may assign a random I.D. to this data, which they are not able to trace back. MVP Workshop also collects data for benchmarking.
3.3. Cloud Service Providers
Blockemon can store personal information on servers provided by our cloud service providers.
3.4. Other Providers
We may add to the list of partners and providers in the future or change existing partners and providers to improve the user experience when browsing our Website and the quality of our services. These changes will be updated to this Policy within a certain period of time or promptly in case of significant data processing changes.
Our current partners and providers are listed in 1.3.2.
3.5. Legal Rights for Disclosure
In any case, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information and data (including personally-identifiable data) in accordance with the law, legal processes, litigation, and requests from public and state authority within or beyond your country of residence.
We may also disclose your information if we decide that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate for national security, law enforcement, or other purposes of importance for the general public.
We may also disclose your information if we decide that such disclosure is reasonable to ensure our Website’s operation and provision of services.
3.6. Transferring Information to Third Parties
In the event of a reorganization, mergers, acquisitions, etc., we may share any or all information (including personally identifiable information) we collect to the relevant third party.
For any additional questions and issues regarding information collection and usage, please email us at [email protected]
4. Cookies
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or your device’s hard drive if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive.
Blockemon uses cookies to collect information. You may set your browser to deny all cookies or to prompt you when a cookie is being sent. However, if you don’t receive cookies, you may not be able to access and use some sections of our Website.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are required for the operation of our platform. They enable you to browse our site as intended.
- Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website when using it. This helps us improve the way we place and create content and pages, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for quickly and that what they find is most relevant.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You can block cookies by activating your browser’s setting that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website as intended. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after one year. While some of the functionality cookies can be used without your expressed consent, like security and load-balancing cookies, there are those that we cannot send your way before first getting your approval.
Other technologies and Cookies:
Our Website may use cookies and other technology, including pixel tags and web beacons. This technology provides a better understanding of your behavior and indicates which parts of our Website you’ve visited. We then use this information to facilitate and measure the proficiency of advertisements and SEO practices. Data collected through cookies and other technology is considered non-personal information. However, in cases when I.P. addresses or other related identifiers are considered personal information by local legislation, the Blockemon also considers these identifiers as personal information.
Similarly, with regards to non-personal information and data stored or used in conjunction with personal information, MVP Workshop considers this joint information as personal information guarded by this Privacy Policy.
We may, at our sole discretion, gather certain data automatically and hold it in log files. This information may include I.P. addresses, browser version, internet provider, operating system, language, date/time stamp, and other information.
We may use this information to pinpoint trends, monitor your behaviour on the Website, administer the Website, improve our services, collect demographic information on our users for general and marketing/advertising purposes.
Some of our email messages may contain “click-through URLs,” that link to content on our Website.
Pixel tags enable us to send email messages that notify us whether the mail has been opened when read by the user. We may use this information to eliminate or reduce the number of messages sent to you.
Blockemon may use other cookies to gather personal information under this Privacy Policy.