Privacy Policy
HashCash, Inc. and its affiliates (“Breadcrumbs,” “we,” or “us”) want you to be familiar with the information we collect about users of our platforms, how we use and share that information, and the choices you have regarding the information you provide. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our practices with respect to information collected through our website located at www.breadcrumbsdata.com , application, and any other platform owned or controlled by us (collectively, the “Site”).
By using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy and the policies referenced in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, the policies referenced in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
Information We May Collect
We may collect information from or about you, such as:
Personal information that you voluntarily provide, including your name, address, and email address.
Communication preferences.
Unique IDs, such as IP addresses and device IDs.
Site-viewing activity, such as pages visited, videos watched, duration of sessions and search terms.
Geolocation data.
Information Collected by Automated Means. We may collect certain information about you by automated means, such as your MAC address, IP address, computer type, screen resolution, OS version, and browser type and version. This information is used to optimize your experience on the Site.
Cookies and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small files that are transferred to your device to help us remember certain information, such as your login information and to customize the database for you. We and our third-party service providers may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about you, such as personal information, information about the devices you use to access the Site, and your interactions with the Site.
We may also use web beacons on our Site and in email communications. Web beacons, also known as clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs, are small image files that we, or our third-party service providers, place on our Site and in emails. Web beacons allow us to accurately count the number of unique users who have visited a specific page on the Site or opened or acted upon an email. This information allows us to, among other things, measure the performance of our Site. Advertising on Third-Party Websites and Ad Networks. If you authorize us to share your non-public information with third parties, our third-party service providers may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on the Site and third-party sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. The privacy policies of those third parties will govern your interactions with such third-party websites or ad networks. However, no third party with whom we share your data will be legally permitted to sell, share, transfer, or otherwise disclose your data to any other person or entity.
Log Files. We may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on the Site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
Analytics. We may use third-party analytics services.
Security. We use organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information under our control. However, you acknowledge that no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system is totally and absolutely secure.
How We May Use Your Information
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use the information collected about you for the following purposes or in the following ways:
To communicate with you and to inform you of products, programs and services.
To fulfill your requests and respond to your inquiries.
To send you important information regarding the Site, including changes to Site terms, conditions and policies. This information is important, so you may not opt out of receiving it.
To allow you to voluntarily participate in contests, surveys or promotions (collectively, “Promotions”). If you participate in a Promotion, we may request certain personal information, such as your email address. To the extent that the Promotion’s rules conflict with this Privacy Policy regarding the treatment of personal information, the Promotion’s rules will control.
For our internal business purposes, such as for data analysis (including through automated systems and machine learning), eporting, audits, developing new products, enhancing our Site, improving Breadcrumbs Services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
To protect the security and integrity of our Site, and to prevent and to investigate fraud and other misuses.
In an anonymous (or pseudonymous or de-identified), aggregated manner.
In combination with other information, collected online and offline, including information from third-party sources, to help us update, expand and analyze our records, identify prospective customers and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
To comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies, and to protect against criminal activity and criminal and civil claims and other liabilities.
In any other ways, with your consent and as permitted under applicable law.
We will not share your non-public information with third parties absent your consent. Also, any third party with whom we share your data at your consent will not be legally permitted to sell, share, transfer, or otherwise disclose your data to any other person or entity.
You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time.
How Your Information May Be Shared
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may share your personal information as follows:
With any of our current and future corporate subsidiaries and affiliates.
In connection with a corporate transaction. In the event that ownership of Breadcrumbs or its business were to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company, your personal information may be shared. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, of any change in ownership, change in use of your personal information, and choices you may have regarding such change in use of your personal information. As we believe necessary: under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; to comply with any law or directive, judicial or administrative order, legal process or investigation, warrant, subpoena, la
w enforcement or national security investigation or as otherwise required or authorized by law; to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including outside your country of residence; to enforce our policies, terms and conditions; to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
With your authorization, we may share your personal information as follows:
With our third-party service providers, agents, vendors and other third parties we use to support the Site and our business. These third parties are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
With third parties (including third-party event sponsors) to allow them to contact you regarding products, programs, services and promotions that they believe may be of interest to you.
With third parties for marketing, advertising, Promotions, contests or other similar purposes. If required by applicable law, we will share such data for advertising and marketing purposes only in an aggregate, anonymous and de-identified manner.
No third party with whom we share your data at your consent will be legally permitted to sell, share, transfer, or otherwise disclose your data to any other person or entity. Third-Party Sites and the Site. We may provide links to other websites on this Site as a convenience for our users. This Privacy Policy does not cover, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other
practices of any third parties, or of other websites, applications or services operated by such third parties. Your activities with, including your provision of personal information to, any such third parties or such third parties’ websites, applications or services will be
governed by the privacy policy of such third parties. We are not responsible for the use of any personal information you disclose to or through our customers or partners or third-party sites, applications or services.
Social Media Features. Our Site includes social media features, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google Plus. These features may collect information about you and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the social media feature.
Cross-Device Tracking. When you use your mobile device to interact with the Site, we may receive information about your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. Cross-device/cross-context technology may be used to connect your various accounts or profiles and the corresponding data from the different contexts and devices.
International Data Transfers
The Site, and the features and functionality of the Site, may be provided using resources and servers located in various countries around the world, including the United States and other countries. Therefore, personal information about users of the Site may be transferred, processed and stored outside the country where you access the Site, including to countries where the level of data protection may not be deemed adequate by the local legal or regulatory authority in the country of origin of the data. By using the Site, you consent to this transfer.
Other Important Notices Regarding Our Privacy Practices
Opt-Out. If you no longer wish to receive marketing-related emails from us, or you prefer that we not share personal information about you in the future with our affiliates and/or with third parties after you have provided permission to do so, you may opt out by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in the latest such message you have received or by contacting us at support@breadcrumbsdata.com.
Retention Period. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Breadcrumbs will retain personal information about you for the period of time appropriate for us to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements, whichever is longer.
Use of the Site by Children. The Site is not directed to children under the age of 16 (who reside in the EU, the European Economic Area or Switzerland) and children under the age of 13 (who reside in the United States). Children under the applicable minimum age should not provide personal information through the Site. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@breadcrumbsdata.com.
User Rights
You may request, and we will provide you with, information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may request access to, or correction or deletion of your personal information, by contacting us support@breadcrumbsdata.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Additional Notice for Certain European Residents
The following Additional Notice applies only to residents of the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland who visit the Site.
Personal Data and Processing. For the purposes of this Additional Notice:
“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of such natural person.
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data. Breadcrumbs processes data for the purposes as set forth in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Site and other services to users as explained in the How We May Use Your Information and How Your Information Is Shared sections.
Compelled Disclosures. Breadcrumbs may be required to disclose Personal Data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including disclosures necessary to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or pursuant to judicial orders.
IP Addresses. We may record the incoming IP addresses of visitors to our websites and store the IP addresses in log files. We may use these log files for purposes such as system administration and maintenance, record keeping, tracking referring web sites, inferring your location, and security purposes.
Additional Rights for European Residents. For additional information on your rights, please refer to https://gdpr-info.eu and http://gdprandyou.ie.
Additional Notice for California Residents
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to know what personal information businesses collect, use, share or sell, and you'll be able to delete it.
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at support@breadcrumbsdata.com, or sending a letter to us at Breadcrumbs, Inc., 2016 Telegraph Ave., Suite 513, Oakland, California, 94612.
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Additional Notice for Canadian Residents
Canadian residents may have additional rights under Canadian law. Please see the information provided by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for additional details.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information and privacy practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a notice on the Site prior to or simultaneously with the change becoming effective. Your continued use of the Site after any such modification constitutes acceptance of any such modified Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices. The date of last revision is shown at the top of this Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at support@breadcrumbsdata.com, or write to:
HashCash Inc.
2016 Telegraph Ave.
Suite 513
Oakland, California
94612
Please be sure to include sufficient information so we can understand and respond to your specific question or request.