Registration, accounts and profiles: when you create a user account with us (a “User Account”), we collect your blockchain address(es), usernames, and email address; if you chose to connect third party services to your User Account, we collect the information about those third party services; we may also collect additional information such as your preferences and payment details.

Marketing, surveys and events: if you sign up to receive news, updates, offers and other marketing communications from us, or attend any events hosted by us, we may collect your name, contact information, and information about your preferences.

Your communications and requests: when you email us or otherwise send us communications, we collect and maintain a record of your contact details and communications, and our responses.

Third-party accounts: if you connect your third-party accounts to your User Account, we will collect certain personal data about you from those third parties accounts.

Purchases, orders, and payments: if you purchase any blockchain assets, or sign up for certain Services, we collect information in order to process your payment, such as your name, billing address, payment type, as well as credit card number or other payment account details.

Social media: if you choose to link, create, or log in to your User Account with a social media service, we collect your permission to access certain information from your profile with that social media service. If you post or if you engage with a separate social media service or interact with us on our page with any social media service, we may collect User Information about you related to those interactions.

Other: we may obtain User Information, such as demographic information or updated contact details, from third parties; we may also collect information from public records.

Websites and Applications: We and our third-party providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, log-files, and other technologies to collect information about a user from their browser or device, including, without limitation, your browser type, device type, operating system, software version, phone model, phone operating system, platform-dependent information, requested document, referring URL, date and time of your visit, clickstream data (e.g., about the pages you view, links you click and date and time stamps for your activities on our Sites), and the IP address associated with your transactions in the system. The information that we collect automatically may be linked with other User Information we have collected.

Providing the Services: to provide and maintain our Services and features of our Services.

Analyzing and improving our business: to better understand how you access and use our Services, customize and improve our Services and features of our Services, and develop new features and products.

Advertisement and marketing: to advertise and promote our Services. 

Customer support: to provide customer support for and answer inquiries about the Services.

Safety and security: to protect against, investigate, and stop fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity. We may also use it to address security risks, solve potential security issues such as bugs, enforce our agreements, and protect our users and us.

Legal compliance: as needed or requested by regulators, government entities, and law enforcement to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Defending our rights: to manage and respond to actual and potential legal disputes and claims, and to otherwise establish, defend, or protect our rights or interests, including in the context of anticipated or actual litigation with third parties.

Audits, corporate governance, and internal operations: related to financial, tax and accounting audits; audits and assessments of our operations, privacy, security, and financial controls, risk, and compliance with legal obligations; our general business, accounting, record keeping and legal functions; and related to any actual or contemplated merger, acquisition, asset sale or transfer, financing, bankruptcy or restructuring of all or part of our business.

Service providers: with third-party service providers who use User Information to perform services for us, such as hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and/or support providers.

Advertising and Marketing Partners: with third parties that provide advertising, campaign measurement, online and/or mobile analytics, and related services. These third parties may receive or access browsing and/or other data about your use of the Services, in order to help us better reach individuals with relevant ads and/or measure our ad campaigns, and/or to better understand how individuals interact with our Services over time and across devices. 

Subsidiaries, affiliates, and business partners: with our affiliated companies (i.e., our parent company and other companies under common ownership, control or management with us; and business partners to offer exclusive content on our Services); they may use such User Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Legal compliance: in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. In addition, we may share certain User Information when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of our company and/or others.

Business transfers: We may disclose and/or transfer User Information as part of any actual or contemplated merger, sale, transfer of assets, acquisition, financing and/or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy or similar event, including related to due diligence conducted prior to such event where permitted by law.

Protect our rights: We may disclose User Information where we believe it is necessary to respond to claims asserted against us, to enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and/or to protect the rights, property, or safety of GOAT or our affiliates, partners, clients, customers and/or others.