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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in Bitcoin Garden collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of the https://bitcoingarden.org/ web site. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By visiting the Website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

1. Personal identification information

We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, register to the forum, fill out a form or submit a site for review. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. In order to register to our forum, the only required information are: username, email and password. We never ask, nor require your real name, address, age, country and gender. Furthermore we strongly recommend you to keep this information private.

2. Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about users whenever they interact with our site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about users means of connection to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information. We may use third party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools, to assist us in understanding how our Services are used. Such tools may collect and use your data, after we have depersonalized it.

3. Children privacy

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal data on our website from persons under 18 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, then please do not use or access this website at any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any personal data of persons less than 18 years of age upon learning of the existence of such personal data.

4. Web browser cookies

Our site uses “cookies” to enhance user experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the site may not function properly.

5. How we use collected information

Bitcoin Garden may collect and use users personal information for the following purposes:

  • To operate and maintain the services, for example, to authenticate you when you log in.
  • To improve customer service: information you provide helps us respond to your requests.
  • To improve our site: we may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.
  • To send periodic emails: if you opt-in to receive it.

6. How we protect your information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our site.

7. Sharing your personal information

We do not sell, trade, or rent users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

8. Data Retention

We keep your information and store it safely as long as you are using the services. Please note: even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed on the Internet to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by other users or to the extent such information has been shared with search engines. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your personal information, they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies. We also keep a record of some of your information like you IP address or e-mail address if you’ve broken the rules and we’ve added you to our block list: this helps to keep everyone safe on the services.

9. Your rights

Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable local and international laws, you have certain rights, that are summarized below:

  • Rights to access and control your personal data. You have the right to access your personal information that is collected or used by us. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you.
  • Right to change or correct data. You can change, update or fix your data.
  • Right to Right to restriction of processing. You have a right to ‘block’ or suppress processing of personal data. When processing is restricted, we are permitted to store the personal data, but not further process it. Our data processing is as restricted as possible. Processing generally requires you to act on our website, therefore not using the website will cease such processing.
  • Right to take your data. You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.
  • Right to delete data. You can delete all or some of your personal data using the interface we provide, or you can ask us to delete all or some of your data.

10. Law enforcement requests

We may assist the police or other law enforcement agencies with their requests, or produce information in response to legal process where we, in good faith, believe that such disclosure is required by law, or to protect our rights and property, or the safety of individual users or the public, or where otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy.

11. Data breaches

If we become aware of a data breach, we are obliged, within 72 hours, to notify any users involved. As we do not believe such a breach would result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, breaches will not be reported to the supervisory authority.

12. Third party websites

Users may find advertising or other content on our site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

13. Advertising

Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

14. Changes to this privacy policy

Bitcoin Garden has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

15. Your acceptance of these terms

By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

16. Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us via the customer support page.

This document was last updated on June 06, 2018.