Blockpour Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 7 June 2023

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which the “Site” (being https://blockpour.com,  app.blockpour.com, and all other subdomains operated by Blockpour Pte. Ltd. (a company incorporated in the Republic of Singapore, defined hereinafter as the “Company”, ”Blockpour”, “we”, or “us”)) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from its users (each a “User”). This Privacy Policy applies to all the services Blockpour offers via the Site (the “Service”).

This Privacy Policy explains which of your personal information we collect, how we use it and your rights in relation to data privacy as a user of the Service.  

By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understand and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. 

1. Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process personal data  through your use of our Service and the Site. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data if any. 

In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” means any information we collected or have in our possession about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity of the data subject has been removed. We may obtain or collect (and subsequently retain) the following types of Personal Data or Personal Information in connection with the Service or via the Site:

• Name, email address, postal address, account names and passwords, or other contact information;
• Signature, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, or other similar identifiers;
• Professional, industry, employment-related, or education information;
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, preferences, and information regarding a user’s interaction (including reading habits) with an Internet website, application, advertisement;
• Demographic information;
• Billing information, credit card number or other financial information, which may include personal financial information if submitted by you in a survey on the Site;
• Geolocation;
• Audio, electronic, visual or similar information; and
• Inferences drawn from the Personal Information identified above to create a profile about a user reflecting the user’s preferences and behaviour.

The Service and the Site are not intended for children below the age of eighteen (18) and we do not knowingly collect any data relating to children. If you submit or otherwise make available to us Personal Information belonging to others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that person has consented to have all information used, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR“), Blockpour is the data controller (i.e. the entity responsible for, and controls the processing of, your Personal Data). It can be reached at [email protected]. 

2. How We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your Personal Data to: 

• Allow your use of our Service and applications;
• Respond to your requests, complaints, and enquiries (if any);
• Provide you with the services, support or information requested;
• Operate, maintain and add to the features and functionality of our Service;
• Improve the Site’s user experience and communicate better to engage users;
• Send marketing emails or messages related to our Service;
• Run or operate competitions, prize draws, promotions, or sweepstakes that you choose to participate in;
• Monitor aggregate metrics;
• Monitor to detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and hold those responsible for that activity;
• Prevent, detect, or investigate crimes or other breach of law or requirement, loss prevention, or fraud;
• Comply with requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, including where they are outside your country of residence;
• Exercise our rights, and defend ourselves from claims and to comply with laws and regulations that apply to us or third parties with whom we work;
• Analyze, diagnose and fix issues in our Service offerings; and
• Process your job application for an open position.

If you provide information to us for a specific purpose, such as your email, we may also send you messages related to such purpose. 

We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis for needing to do so.

We may process your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

3. How we share your Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with the following classes of persons or entities, or in connection with the following purposes:

1. The public and other users of the Service. Any content you post to public areas of the Service, including public groups, will be viewable by others on the Service and the public. We also share your information with third parties with whom you communicate on the Service. You control who you want to communicate with and what information you share;
2. Third parties at your request. For example, you may have the option to share your activities on the Service through email, text, or on various social media sites. Third parties may also include those whom we partner with to provide contests and sweepstakes you may choose to participate in or enter. Such partners will usually be identified by name in relevant communications;
3. Billing. A trusted third party is used by us to manage payment processing in relation to your payment(s) for the Service. This third party is not permitted to store, retain, or use your billing information for any purpose except for payment processing on our behalf;
4. Our employees, contractors, related companies and trusted third parties. They are those who have a need to know the relevant information contained in your Personal Information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available on the Site and have agreed not to disclose it to others;
5. Corporate/Business transaction. Other parties in connection with a corporate or business transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings; and
6. Compliance with laws and regulations, and enforcement of rights. Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (i) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (ii) to monitor compliance with and/or enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (iii) to exercise or protect our interests, rights, property, or personal safety of our agents, employees, contracts, visitors, or others. We review the legality of all such requests prior to responding to ensure they are valid and that we are legally obligated to comply. If we respond to a request for disclosure, we will attempt to provide the minimum amount of information permissible, based on a reasonable interpretation of the request.  Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, we reserve the right to respond to urgent law enforcement requests if we believe in good faith that an emergency involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury justifies such disclosure.

We may also share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual.

4. How we use cookies and other information tracking technologies

We use cookies to help us track your usage of our website, and your website access preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Service may become inaccessible or not function properly. The information we collect from you by way of using cookie may include information about the IP address of your computer, browser type, language, operating system, your mobile device, device ID, geolocation data, the state or country from which you accessed the Service, the webpages visited, the date and the time of a visit, the websites you visited immediately before and after accessing the Service, the number of links you click within the Site, the functions you use on the Site, the databases you view and the searches you request on the Site, the types of articles you read, the data you save or download from the Site and the number of times you view an advertisement.

To assist us with the uses described in this Privacy Policy, information collected about you and your use of the Service may be aggregated, analyzed or combined with personal or other information about you from other online or offline sources.

For more details, please refer to our Cookie Policy. The terms of our Cookie Policy shall supersede this Privacy Policy in the area of our use of cookie and other information tracking technologies when providing you with the Service.

5. Your control over your information

How to control your communications preferences. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications. We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests. You may not opt out of Service-related communications unless you have terminated the account that you opened for the purpose of accessing the Service (e.g., changes / updates to features of the Service, or technical and security notices).

Modifying or deleting your information. If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at [email protected].

6. Third-party website and services, and types of Personal Information shared through third-party tracking 

No responsibility for third-party websites and services. Our Service contains links to third-party websites and services that are not owned or controlled by us. As we do not control these third parties, we do not endorse or assume responsibility for their privacy statements or their practice for handling Personal Data in general. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the third parties that you will engage with or interact with when using our Service. By using our Service, you acknowledge that our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service do not apply to your use of such third-party services. 

Google Analytics and Advertising. We use Google Analytics to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our site or Service on your browser or mobile device, log in to your account on our Service, or otherwise engage with us. We share a unique identifier, like a user ID or hashed email address, with Google to facilitate the service. Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our users interact with our Service and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google’s site “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics, such as Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use cookies to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Service. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, or by visiting NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

7. How we store and protect your information

Data storage and transfer: Information collected through our Service may be stored and processed in any country in which Blockpour or its affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. If you are located in the European Union (the “EU”) or other regions with laws governing data collection, please note that we may transfer information, including Personal Information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that any Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. When we transfer Personal Data internationally, we put in place safeguards for such transfer in accordance with the applicable law (for instance, Articles 44 to 50 of the GDPR, if applicable).

For individuals based in the EU, we store Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect the same (see above under Section 2) and in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interest, except if required otherwise by law.

Keeping your information safe: We care about the security of your Personal Data and employ physical, administrative, and technological safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected through our Service. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee absolute security of our systems. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised. We may also take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

We retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process the data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

8. Rights with respect to your Personal Information