Privacy Policy
Last updated: February 09, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use www.billmefoundation.org ( “Website”) and tells You about Your privacy rights.
Specifically, We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe our practices regarding Personal Data (as defined below.) We collect, use, and share in connection with the Website, including its mobile version, and any other software provided on or in connection with our services, as described in our Terms and Conditions (collectively, the “Service”).
Privacy Policy Consent and Changes
We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Website and in connection with the Services available through the Website (the “Purpose”). By using the Website, You agree to the collection and use of the information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time, at Our sole discretion. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know of any changes via a prominent notice on Our Website before the change becomes effective, and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy, the notice will include the effective date of any change. Thus, You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized, in the event that they are not defined at the time being referenced, have meanings defined under Section 3, below. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Anonymous Data means data, including aggregated and de-identified data, that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data as described below.
Company (referred to as either the “Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to BILL ME Foundation, Inc, existing and organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with mail address, PO Box 800965, Coto Laurel, PR 00780.
Data Controller refers to the Company as the legal entity that alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data. The Company is the Data Controller.
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Sale means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a user’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).You refer to the individual user accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data:
While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Date of Birth
Usage Data
We also collect your blockchain address, which may become associated with Personal Data when you use our Service.
Usage Data:
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile Device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies:
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A Cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website.
The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
Information Collected from Third Parties:
We may receive Personal and/or Anonymous Data about You from companies that offer their products and/or services for use in conjunction with our Service or whose products and/or services may be linked to our Service. For example, third-party wallet providers provide us with Your blockchain address and certain other information You choose to share with those wallet providers. We may add this to the data we have already collected from or about you through our Service.
Public Information Observed from Blockchains:
We collect data from activity that is publicly visible and/or accessible on blockchains. This may include blockchain addresses and information regarding purchases, sales, or transfers of NFTs, which may then be associated with other data you have provided to us.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Website, including monitoring the usage of our Website.
To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer that are similar to those that you have already interacted with or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To contact You by email or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a push notification regarding updates or informative communications related to the Website’s functionalities, products, or services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To attend to and manage Your requests to Us.We may use Your Personal Data to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or another sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
We may use Your Personal Data for other purposes, such as:Data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience;
To investigate and address conduct that may violate our Terms and Conditions;To detect, prevent, and address fraud, violations of our terms or policies, and/or other harmful or unlawful activity;We may create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data. We use this Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may improve our Services and enhance Service navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and to disclose Anonymous Data to third parties without restriction.
We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations
The Company reserves the right to disclose or share the information you have provided the Company. We may share the information You have provided, with third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for processing Your donations, to contact You, or for any other purpose necessary in connection with providing the Services.
Third-Party Websites: Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. When You click on a link to any other website or location, You will leave our Website and go to another site, 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 or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these third-party websites or their content, or to any collection of Your Personal Data after You click on links to such third-party websites. We encourage You to read the privacy policies of every website 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.
Third-Party Wallets: To use our Service, you must use a third-party wallet that allows you to engage in transactions on public blockchains. Your interactions with any third-party wallet provider are governed by the applicable terms and conditions and privacy policy of that third party.
Third-Party Service Providers: These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies. We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
In addition, the Company reserves the right to share the information You have provided in the circumstances:
For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our Company.With Affiliates: We may share Your Personal Data with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.With business partners: We may share Your Personal Data with Our partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.With other users: when/if You share Personal Data or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, in such a way that the information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.With Your consent: We may disclose Your Data for any other purpose with Your consent.
Data Access, Deletion, and Control
You can delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about you. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Data that You have provided to Us. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so. You may contact us via email admin@billmefoundation.org, for such purposes. You may also have certain additional rights:If you are a user in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you have certain rights under the respective European and UK General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”). These include the right to (i) request access and obtain a copy of your personal data; (ii) request rectification or erasure; (iii) object to or restrict the processing of your personal data; and (iv) request portability of your personal data. Additionally, if we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.If you are a California resident, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). These include the right to (i) request access to, details regarding, and a copy of the personal information we have collected about you and/or shared with third parties; (ii) request deletion of the personal information that we have collected about you; and (iii) the right to opt-out of sale of your personal information. As the terms are defined under the CCPA, we do not “sell” your “personal information.”If you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, CCPA, or other applicable data protection or privacy laws, please contact via email admin@billmefoundation.org and 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.Notwithstanding the above, We cannot edit or delete any information that is stored on a blockchain, for example, the Ethereum blockchain, as we do not have custody or control over any blockchains. The information stored on the blockchain may include purchases, sales, and transfers related to your blockchain address and NFTs held at that address.Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the Purpose set out in this Privacy Policy.
We may continue to retain your Personal Data even after you cease to use the Service if such retention is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms and Conditions or other agreements, and/or protect our legitimate interests. Where your Personal Data is no longer required for these purposes, we will delete it.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Website, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your Personal Data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business TransactionsIf the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.Law enforcementUnder certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).Other legal requirementsThe Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligationProtect and defend the rights or property of the CompanyPrevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the ServiceProtect the personal safety of users of the Service or the publicProtect against legal liability
Children’s Privacy
Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. Our Terms and Conditions require all users to be at least 18 years old. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
Security of Your Personal Data
We care about the security of your Personal Data and use physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of information collected through our Service. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems. In the event that any information under our custody and control is compromised as a result 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. However, remember that You are responsible for the security of your digital wallet, and we urge you to take steps to ensure it is and remains secure. If you discover an issue related to your wallet, please contact your wallet provider.
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Website. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals
Our systems do not currently recognize “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that might enable Users to opt-out of tracking on our Website.Contact UsIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email at admin@billmefoundation.org
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