Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 25, 2023

The privacy of your data – and it is your data, not ours! – is a big deal to us. We are committed to the protection of any personal information we obtain from you. This policy applies to all products and services provided by AnonyDoxx, LLC (“AnonyDoxx”). In this policy, we specify (i) what data we collect, use and share, and why we do so, (ii) how your data is handled, including with whom and under what circumstances we may share it and (iii) your rights with respect to your data and how to exercise those rights.

We promise we will never sell your data: never have, never will.

I. Data We Collect and How We Collect It

A. Data You Provide to Us

The types of personal data we collect directly from you varies based on how you interact with us and our services, including when you register, connect your wallet and/or use our Vault Verification protocol. The types of data we collect may include:

• contact details, such as your legal name, current address, email address, phone number and other electronic identifiers;
• account login credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints and similar security information;
• government issued identification, such as passport, driver’s license, birth certificate or other identifying information;
• photo and video recordings, such as when you use our Vault Verification protocol;
• Biometric Data, including facial recognition processing (see the below section, “Biometric Privacy”);
• billing or financial information, including payment card information;
• voluntary correspondence (when you write AnonyDoxx with a question or to ask for help, we keep that correspondence, including the email address, so that we have a history of past correspondences to reference if you reach out in the future); and
• information about your choices, such as communication preferences and other consents.

B. Data From Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including if you connect or link a profile or wallet from a third party, we may obtain certain information that identifies you. We may also obtain data from publicly-available sources and/or data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate or supplement the information we hold.

C. Data We Collect Automatically

When you browse our website/application(s), your browser or device automatically shares certain information such as your IP address, information about how you interact with our website/application(s), and which operating system and browser version you are using. We may collect this information through tracking technologies like cookies (for further information regarding cookies, see Section VII below).

II. How we Use and Share Your Information

A. Vault Verification

The data identified above is processed to provide our Vault Verification service, a form of identity check whereby we:

1. analyze your government issued identification against an image capture of your face (a “selfie”) using our facial recognition technology;
2. initiate a background check to which you must consent;
3. collect a video attestation from you;
4. review a self-recorded, video attestation and confirm the identification made via automated processing (no identity verification is completed without human review by AnonyDoxx); and
5. issue a blockchain ID certifying your AnonyDoxx Vault Verification.

Biometric Data is stored only so long as is needed conduct step (1), above.

Certain data (e.g., your image and certain identification materials) will be securely stored by AnonyDoxx for the duration of your verification (AnonyDoxx Vault Verification expires after one year).

Your blockchain certificate is a unique, personal identifier. Your information will be stored in an immutable chain as part of a database called a distributed ledger, and may not later be changed or deleted.

Please carefully consider how the use of blockchain may limit the exercise of certain of your rights regarding personal data, as discussed in “Your Rights with Respect to Your Information” (Section III).

B. Using Your Data

We and third parties working on our behalf may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including:

• to provide you with services you requested (i.e., Vault Verification; see also “Biometric Privacy” (Section IV) for further details);
• to run detailed background and identity verifications and validations globally;
• to verify that identification issued to AnonyDoxx matches local government databases;
• to verify organizational documents filed with the local state governing authority, business licenses, active status of business, etc.;
• to manage your account;
• to respond to your requests or to communicate with you;
• to send email communications and/or marketing materials that may be of interest to you; and
• to improve and enhance the functionality of our website(s) and services.

C. Sharing Your Data

We may share your information with third parties as permitted or required by law, including:

1. to fulfill the purposes listed above;
2. to share with our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives that assist in providing the services;
3. if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of our business, bankruptcy or other similar event, we may provide data to individuals or entities involved in such an event;
4. to comply with legal obligations, including to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other requirement;
5. to detect investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues;
6. to protect and enforce our rights, interests, property or safety or the safety of our users, employees or others; and
7. any other sharing or disclosure with your consent.

III. Your Rights With Respect to Your Information

A. Regulatory Matters

At AnonyDoxx, we apply the same data rights to all customers, regardless of their location. Currently, some of the most privacy-forward regulations in place are the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) in the United States (“U.S.”). AnonyDoxx recognizes all of the rights granted in these regulations, except as limited by applicable law.

These rights include:

• Right to Know. You have the right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared or sold by us. We outline both the categories and specific bits of data we collect, as well as how they are used, in this privacy policy.
• Right of Access. This includes your right to access the personal information we gather about you and your right to obtain information about the sharing, storage, security and processing of that information.
• Right to Correction. You have the right to request correction of your personal information.
• Right to Erasure / “To Be Forgotten”. This is your right to request, subject to certain limitations under applicable law, that your personal information be erased from our possession and, by extension, all of our service providers. Fulfillment of some data deletion requests may prevent you from using AnonyDoxx services because our applications may then no longer work. In such cases, a data deletion request may result in closing your account.
• Right to Complain. You have the right to make a complaint regarding our handling of your personal information with the appropriate supervisory authority. EU individuals should go to https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en to identify your specific authority or find out more about this right.
• Right to Restrict Processing. This is your right to request restrictions of how and why your personal information is used or processed, including opting out of sale of personal information (again, we never have and never will sell your personal data). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent forms the sole basis of our processing, we will promptly cease all processing of such data.
• Right to Object. You have the right, in certain situations, to object to how or why your personal information is processed.
• Right to Portability. You have the right to receive the personal information we have about you and the right to transmit it to another party.
• Right Not to be Subject to Automated Decision-Making. You have the right to object and prevent any decision that could have a legal, or similarly significant, effect on you from being made solely based on automated processes. This right is limited, however, if the decision is necessary for performance of any contract between you and us, is allowed by applicable law or is based on your explicit consent. (Again, our Vault Verification procedure includes human review and is not based purely on automated decision-making processes.)
• Right to Non-Discrimination. This right stems from the CCPA. We do not and will not charge you a different amount to use our services, offer you different discounts or give you a lower level of customer service because you have exercised your data privacy rights. However, the exercise of certain rights (such as the right “to be forgotten”) may, by virtue of your exercising those rights, prevent you from using our services.

Please note, you have the right at any time to withdraw a previously-provided consent. We will promptly honor such requests; however, withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any authorized processing which precedes the withdrawal of your consent.

If you are in the EU, you can identify your specific authority to file a complaint or find out more about GDPR, at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

B. Marketing

AnonyDoxx may send you information about products and services of ours or our partners that we think you may like. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out by following the unsubscribe link in each marketing email or by contacting us directly at [email protected].

IV. Biometric Privacy

AnonyDoxx collects and processes Biometric Data, including facial scans, to provide its services, as outlined in Section II.A (Vault Verification), above. AnonyDoxx collects such information based on the written consent of its users, and we will share such data with our service provider(s) solely to provide requested services.

Like all data we collect, we will never sell Biometric Data.

A. Biometric Data Defined

We base our practices with respect to biometrics on what we assess to be the most stringent requirements for biometric privacy, which are laid out in the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS § 14/1, et seq. (“BIPA”). As used in this policy, the term Biometric Data means “biometric data”, “biometric identifiers,” and “biometric information” as defined in BIPA:

• “Biometric identifier” means a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint or scan of hand or face geometric. Biometric identifiers do not include writing samples, written signatures, photographs, human biological samples used for valid scientific testing or screening, demographic data, tattoo descriptions or physical descriptions such as height, weight, hair color or eye color.
• “Biometric information” means any information, regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored or shared, based on an individual’s biometric identifier used to identify an individual. Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers.

For clarity, Biometric Data also includes any similar state or local law definitions related to any biological characteristic of a person, or information based upon such a characteristic, including but not limited to, “biometric identifier” as defined under the Texas Biometric Privacy Law, Tex. Bus. & Com Code § 503.001, “biometric information” as defined in the Washington Biometric Privacy Law, Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 19.375.020, “biometric information” as used in the CCPA, and “biometric information” as used in the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data and Security Act (NY SHIELD Act), N.Y. Gen Bus. Law § 899-bb.

B. Purpose for Collection of Biometric Data

Our Vault Verification creates Biometric Data (face scans) for the purpose of identifying you and issuing a certification via blockchain. Our facial recognition technology compares your “selfie”, government-issued identification, and self-recorded, video attestation. This process is reviewed by AnonyDoxx staff prior to issuing the blockchain Vault Verification. (The process is detailed above at “Vault Verification” (Section II.A).)

C. Authorization

Prior to receiving Biometric Data, we must:

• inform the subject in writing that AnonyDoxx and/or its service providers are collecting, capturing or otherwise obtaining Biometric Data and that AnonyDoxx may provide such biometric data to its service providers;
• inform the subject in writing of the specific purpose and length of time for which the subject’s biometric data is being collected, stored and used; and
• receive a written authorization, signed by the subject (or the subject’s authorized representative), consenting to the collection, storage, and use of the subject’s Biometric Data for the specific purposes described in this policy and for AnonyDoxx to provide such Biometric Data to its vendor(s).

D. Disclosure

AnonyDoxx will not disclose or disseminate any Biometric Data to anyone other than its authorized vendor(s) without/unless:

• the subject of the Biometric Data (or the subject’s authorized representative) consents to the disclosure or dissemination;
• the disclosure or dissemination completes a financial transaction requested or authorized by the subject (or the subject’s authorized representative) of the Biometric Data;
• the disclosure or dissemination is required by state or federal law or municipal ordinance; or
• the disclosure is required pursuant to a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.

E. Biometric Data Retention Schedule

As a general matter, we will retain biometric information for only so long as is necessary to complete the initial identification (i.e., step (1) as described at Vault Verification (Section II.A) above), but in no instance longer than the first of:

• AnonyDoxx receiving written notice from the subject (or the subject’s authorized representative) withdrawing the previously provided consent to process the subject’s Biometric Data; or
• three (3) years following the last interaction between AnonyDoxx and the subject from whom the Biometric Data was collected.

F. Data Storage

AnonyDoxx will use, and will ensure its vendor(s) use, a reasonable standard of care to store, transmit and protect from disclosure any Biometric Data it collects or is collected on its behalf. Such storage, transmission and protection from disclosure will be performed in a manner that is the same as, or more protective than, the manner in which AnonyDoxx stores, transmits and protects from disclosure other confidential and sensitive information, including personal information.

V. Children’s Privacy

This website and our services are not intended for children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, you are prohibited from providing any information through this website or our services.

VI. Transfer of Personal Information and Location of Processing

AnonyDoxx is based in the United States. As such, if you are located outside the U.S., your information may be transferred to or processed in the U.S., which may not offer the same level of protection to personal data as your home jurisdiction.

A. Grounds for Processing

When we collect personal information from within the European Economic Area, we do so:

• where necessary to provide the service, fulfil a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
• where we have a legitimate interest;
• where necessary to comply with applicable law or legal obligation; and/or
• where applicable, with your consent.

VII. Cookies

A. First-Party Cookies

We use only essential, persistent first-party cookies to store certain preferences, we make it easier for you to use our applications. A cookie is a piece of text stored by your browser to help it remember your login information, site preferences and more. You can adjust cookie retention settings in your own browser. Please note that if you restrict the placement of cookies on your device, certain areas of our services may be affected and/or not function as intended. To learn more about cookies, including how to view which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.

B. A Note on Do-Not-Track (DNT)

Our website does not respond to DNT signals.

VIII. Security and Data Retention

We use reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access, use or disclosure of your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is absolutely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

Subject to any limitations or restrictions provided in law, we will maintain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes of collection. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation.

IX. Third Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and application. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Such third party sites are not governed by this privacy policy. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

X. Modifications to this Privacy Policy

AnonyDoxx reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time by posting the revised version on this site and updating the last modified date at the top of this page.

XI. Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected].