Your privacy is important to us. Polymath Research Inc. (“Polymath”, “we”, or “us”) wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose your Personal Information.
Polymath is a technology provider providing blockchain based technologies for digital assets. For a complete description of our business please review our corporate website at www.polymath.network. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information when you visit or use services made available through our websites located at https://polymath.network (“Websites”) and associated platforms operated by us from which you are accessing this Policy (collectively, the “Services”) including:
This Policy also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.
If you are a user in the UK or the European Economic Area ("EEA"), please refer to our section "Users in UK and EEA" which provides information on the rights that you have specifically under the General Data Protection Regulation and the UK's Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively we call them the "European Data Protection Laws").
By using the Services, or by otherwise choosing to submit Personal Information to Polymath, for users outside of the UK and EEA, you are providing your consent to the collection, use, disclosure and other processing of your personal information as outlined in this Policy. If you are a user in the UK or EEA, please refer to our section "Users in UK and EEA" which provides information on the basis on which we may process your personal information. At any time, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and other processing of your personal information, subject to reasonable notice and legal, contractual and technological limitations. You may make this request by writing to the e-mail address set out below.
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you, such as by revising the effective date at the top of the Policy or placing a notice on our Websites and associated platforms through which you use our Services, or at our discretion, contacting you using any contact information you have provided. We encourage you to review the Policy whenever you access the Services to stay informed about our information practices.
The following is a short summary of the key elements of this Policy. You can read the full version of the Policy following this summary.
We may collect the following Personal Information and other information from you:
How to contact us:
If you have questions about this Policy or would like to contact us regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, please contact us at legal@polymath.network.
Personal Information refers to any information about an identifiable individual.
Your Ethereum public address is collected on-chain when you utilize our Ethereum Smart Contracts to configure securities tokens directly on the Ethereum blockchain. Please see the section “Information Recorded On-Chain” for more information on how information on-chain is processed.
We collect the following Personal Information and other information from you when you use the Ethereum TokenStudio, including:
We collect the following Personal Information and other information when you request to open an account on Polymesh and our Services provided on Polymesh, including Polymesh TokenStudio and Polymesh Wallet:
We also collect information that you provide directly to us when you access and use the Services, including:
Please note that where you provide us with the information of another person such as a token recipient, you must have their permission to give it to us for that purpose.
When you access or use the Services, we collect certain information using cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies. Cookies are small data files stored directly on a user’s device that allow us to recognize the user’s computer or device when they return. Cookies may provide us and our service providers with information that we will use to personalize our Services in accordance with a user’s preferences, improve the functionality of our Services, and enable us to track activities and trends so that we can improve the Services. This information includes:
Your browser gives you the ability to reject cookies and you may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, setting your browser or device to reject cookies generally hinders performance and may adversely affect your experience while using the Services.
We may also use a third party to help us gather and analyze information about the areas that users visit on the Websites to evaluate and improve the customer experience and convenience of the Websites.
Information we collect is used by Polymath and its service providers to:
We may aggregate and anonymize Personal Information so that it may not be used to identify you or any other individual. We do so to generate data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, if permitted by applicable law.
We share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Policy:
We may aggregate and anonymize Personal Information so that it may not be used to identify you or any other individual. We do so to generate data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, if permitted by applicable law.
“On-chain” operations refer to those operations that occur on a blockchain such as Ethereum and Polymesh and are permanently recorded on the records of the blockchain.
Any information that you attach to an “on-chain” operation may be viewed by the public, meaning that others will have access to this content and it may be viewed, collected and used by others. Further, due to the nature of blockchain technology, information that is recorded “on-chain” cannot practically be corrected or revised.
Information may be recorded “on-chain” in the following circumstances:
If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information in an “on-chain” operation, that information will be available to the public (for example, anyone who views the public blockchain). We will not be able to control how members of the public access or use such information, nor can it be deleted as it is released outside of our control. Think carefully and use caution relating to the disclosure of any Personal Information before you request any operations to be processed “on-chain” on Ethereum or Polymesh as described herein.
As a data subject, you have the following rights under the European Data Protection Laws:
For you to exercise these rights, please get in touch with us using the information in the section "Contact Us". We will respond to any rights that you exercise within a month of receiving your request, unless the request is particularly complex and/or if we receive a high number of requests, in which case we will respond within three months.
Please be aware that there are exceptions and exemptions that apply to some of the rights which we will apply in accordance with the applicable laws. Moreover, due to the nature of blockchain technology, information that is recorded “on-chain” cannot practically be corrected, revised or deleted. Please see the section “Information Recorded On-Chain” for more information.
It is important that you ensure you have read this Privacy Policy - and if you do not think that we have processed your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy - you should let us know as soon as possible using the information at the section "Contact Us".
Similarly, you may complain to the relevant supervisory authority in your country. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner's Office, information about how to contact this regulator can be found at ico.org.uk
Ideally, we recommend that you get in touch with us first so we can resolve any issues directly with you as quickly as possible.
Any transfer of your Personal Information outside the UK and the EEA will be carried out in accordance with the European Data Protection Laws to safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach or to any other similar approved mechanisms.
The Personal Information we collect is stored on our servers or those of our service providers located in Canada and the United States]. We retain Personal Information for as long as we have on ongoing business need to do so (unless a different retention period is permitted or required by applicable law) and in accordance with our record retention policies. Our record retention periods are established taking into account requirements of privacy laws, the purposes for which the information was collected, legal and regulatory requirements to retain the information for minimum periods, limitation periods for taking legal action, and our business needs. We may retain anonymous and aggregate information indefinitely.
Polymath uses physical, technological, and organizational security measures appropriate to the volume and sensitivity of the Personal Information it collects to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Our employees, representatives and agents will have access to your Personal Information as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.
Personal Information may be accessed by persons within our organization, or our third party service providers, who require such access to carry out the purposes indicated in this Policy, or such other purposes as may be permitted or required by the applicable law. Personal Information we collect is managed from our affiliate offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
However, while we have taken steps to help protect your Personal Information, we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information. No security measures can provide absolute protection. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us.
Some or all of the Personal Information we collect may be stored or processed outside of your jurisdiction of residence, including in the United States. Your Personal Information may be processed and stored in the United States and the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of the United States may be able to obtain disclosure of your Personal Information through a lawful order made where the information is located.
By providing us with Personal Information, for users outside of the UK and EEA, you understand and agree that we may transfer your information to another country, including the US. If you are a user in the UK or EEA, please refer to our section “Transfer of Personal Information Outside UK and EEA”. If you do not agree to the transfer of your Personal Information outside of your jurisdiction (including to the US), as described here, do not provide us with Personal Information.
Our Services may contain links to websites owned by third parties. These other websites may have their own privacy policies and terms and conditions that are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any website(s) owned and operated by third parties. Other websites may collect and treat information collected differently, so we encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy policy for each website you visit. Any links from our Services to other websites, or references to products, services or publications other than those of Polymath, do not imply the endorsement or approval of such websites, products, services or publications by Polymath.
If you have any questions about this Policy or how we process your Personal Information, please contact our Policy Department at legal@polymath.network.
You may also contact our Privacy Officer in our affiliate office at First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, Suite 5700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Postal Code: M5X 1C7.
If you have any questions about this Policy or how we process your Personal Information, please contact our Policy Department at legal@polymath.network.
You may also contact our Privacy Officer in our affiliate office at First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, Suite 5700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Postal Code: M5X 1C7.