Privacy Clause
Dogewalk Innovation Co. (hereinafter referred to as "us", "our", and "us") understands and respects your desire to maintain privacy. Our primary task is to maintain your privacy in all transactions between you and us, including through the use of the DOGEWALK application (the "Application").
In the process of providing services to you, we may be required to collect your personal information.
The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how we and our related entities will collect your personal information and protect your privacy.
This policy is written in English. If there is a conflict between the translated version and the English version, the English version shall prevail.
Unless otherwise stated, this privacy policy does not apply to third-party products or services or the practices of companies that we do not own or control, including other companies with which you may interact through our services.
What information does this policy cover?
This privacy policy covers your personal information. Personal information is information or opinions about individuals who have been identified or can reasonably be identified, whether true or not, and whether recorded in material form or not. All personal information received related to our business must comply with strict confidentiality rules.
Common examples include your name, username, password, IP address, unique device identifier, gender, signature, address, phone number, email, date of birth, bank account and digital wallet details, billing and credit or debit card details, your photos and videos, other identification and biographical details, as well as comments or opinions on you.
We also collect information about your location and body movements for the application to run normally, and monitor and verify eligible forms of movement. You can use the settings of the mobile device operating system to occasionally turn on and off location monitoring, but if you disable this feature, we will not be able to collect information related to your steps and GPS/Cell ID location, which will prevent tracking and/or converting your movements into Bone tokens.
The personal information we may collect from you
We may collect some or all of the following types of personal information:
1. The information you provided to us through transactions with us;
2. The information we may collect from you; and
3. We may receive information from you from other third-party sources.
By agreeing to this privacy policy, you agree that you are aware that we are collecting your personal information and disclosing it in accordance with our requirements and privacy principles.
How to collect personal information
Personal information refers to data that identifies you, is related to you, describes you, can be used to contact you, or can be directly or indirectly contacted with you. For the purpose of this privacy policy, there is no meaningful difference between the terms "personal information" and "personal data".
You can choose not to provide some of the personal information mentioned above. However, please note that some of our services require some personal information to run, so if you choose not to provide the personal information required to run and provide you with specific services or features of the service, you may not be able to use that service or feature.
The information you provided us with
We may collect your personal information directly from our contact with you. This may include filling out forms or sections of our website, social media, applications, and/or other software and/or mobile applications, providing us with permission to access personal information such as photos, videos, or albums, providing us with permission to access microphones and/or cameras on your device, or providing us with permission through email, phone, social media, and other similar features, Directly through our website or application, or through third-party hosting websites, personally, through various marketing channels or competitions, directly through our website or application software, or through first party hosting websites and surveys.
You understand that any personal information you provide to us must be accurate and up-to-date. We will assume that this is the case.
The information we have collected about you
In this privacy policy, "social media" refers to any type or nature of social media website, including but not limited to network or internet based or mobile phone devices or media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, which can create and exchange user generated content.
Every time you visit or otherwise use our website, social media, applications, and/or other software and/or mobile applications, our website and/or applications and other software and/or mobile applications may automatically collect the following information about you:
1. Technical information, including but not limited to the internet protocol address used to connect your device to the internet, the internet browser and version you use when accessing our website, social media, applications or other software and/or mobile applications, any other plugins you are using, and the operating system and platform of your device; and
2. Information about the time and date of your visit to our website, social media, applications or other software and/or mobile applications, as well as the content, social media, applications or other software and/or mobile applications you access on our website. This includes the links you clicked on, the content you visited, the time you visited the content, whether you downloaded any content, whether it was provided by us or downloaded from third-party hosts, and how you navigated to other websites, applications, and other pages hosted by us from our website, social media, applications, or other software and/or mobile applications.
Sensitive Information
Throughout the process of collecting your personal information, we may collect sensitive information about you. Sensitive information includes:
1. Information or opinions about your race or ethnic origin; Or political views; Membership in political associations; Or religious beliefs or affiliations; Or philosophical beliefs; Membership in professional or industry associations; Or union membership; Or sexual orientation or behavior; Or criminal records, also personal information; or
2. Personal health information; Or genetic information about an individual that is not otherwise health information; Or biometric information used for automatic biometric verification or biometric recognition purposes; Or biometric templates.
If we have indeed collected any sensitive information from you, we will only collect it in accordance with the law. This means that we will only collect this information with your consent for reasons reasonably necessary or related to the provision of our services.
If you agree to our collection of your sensitive information, you also agree that we will use this sensitive information for collection purposes, including disclosure to third parties.
How do we use your personal information
You agree to disclose your personal information to any of our related entities.
You agree that we will collect your personal information and disclose it to third parties for collection purposes if necessary.
This may include:
1. Provide our services;
2. Verify your actual actions and location, and distribute tokens based on this verification data;
3. Investigate and/or prevent suspected fraud or other criminal activities or misuse of our services, including collecting and disclosing user location and movement data related to our machine learning anti cheating system, including conducting detailed user behavior analysis for this purpose;
4. We collect or disclose information related to the internet protocol addresses used to connect your device to the internet to detect fraud and manage the integrity of the system and other services. This may include detecting when users have deceived the game system, as well as handling accounts that we suspect have been stolen or leaked. This information helps us verify whether the account or related assets belong to a specific user;
5. The information is or is related to the system version information of your device, or the brand and model of your device, used for our compatibility evaluation of software versions and other aspects of services;
6. Operating the DOGEWALK market;
7. Use your personal information to provide you with the information you have requested from us, although we will not create a link between your user ID and your user email;
8. Updates to applications, websites, our terms of use, and/or this privacy policy;
9. Verify your financial account information or process the transfer of digital assets;
10. Verify your credit or debit card information;
11. Use your personal information for marketing purposes to provide you with or provide services. This includes but is not limited to keeping you updated on our latest news, events, special offers, and promotional activities for brands or other similar products that we believe you may be interested in. This includes direct marketing conducted by us to you or other third parties authorized by you to disclose your personal information to them;
12. Notify you of any changes to our products, websites, applications, and/or other software and/or mobile applications, brands, or services provided;
13. Seek your opinions and feedback on any of our services, including product improvements and customization, website/software improvements and personalization, and other general services;
14. For consumer engagement and/or customer service purposes, including but not limited to identifying the effectiveness of advertising, allowing you to participate in viral features of the website, such as sharing website content and other community functions (such as blogs);
15. Analyze the usage of our services and improve them;
16. For other general services such as website/software security, maintenance, fraud or error identification, internal accounting and management, and any other purposes required or permitted by law; and
17. Manage our relationships with you and other clients.
As part of our normal service operation, some of your personal data may be shared with other players in the application. In addition, we may from time to time expand or withdraw our business, which may involve transferring certain of our departments or assets to other parties, and the data we store and use (if relevant) may be transferred to these third parties. We may also transfer the stored and used data to other places from time to time, some of which may have different data protection laws.
In addition, we may utilize overseas IT services (including software, platforms, and infrastructure), such as data storage facilities or other IT infrastructure. In this case, we may own or control such overseas infrastructure, or we may have signed contractual arrangements with third-party service providers to assist us in providing services to you.
Since we use cross-border IT services and platforms that can be accessed from various countries through internet connections, it is not always feasible to know where your information may be stored.
Legal Obligations of Disclosure
We may be required to disclose your personal information for collection purposes and comply with our legal obligations:
According to legal requirements;
To disclose to anyone necessary or advisable in connection with our provision of services; and
Keep our external service providers and consultants confidential.
It should be clarified that you agree that we disclose your personal information to any of our business partners, suppliers, subcontractors, advertisers, and other advertising networks, and that the disclosure of personal information provided by analysis and search engine providers, as well as other third parties, is for the purpose of providing services or ancillary services to us or these third parties, as well as for the purpose of collecting information initially.
We may share your information with other third-party business partners for their own marketing purposes. These third parties include online advertisers or advertising technology companies, who may provide targeted advertising and marketing communications to you where permitted by law. The information we share includes information collected through your use of our services, as well as information about you collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies.
You understand that if we purchase or sell any business or assets, including our business, if we have an obligation to disclose your information, or if it is necessary for us to disclose your personal information in order to investigate any illegal activities that we know or suspect have been or may be engaged in, we have the right to disclose your personal information to third parties.
You agree to disclose all information necessary for our company to comply with any relevant reporting obligations (if any) under the Anti Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth).
We will take all reasonable measures to ensure that any overseas recipient of your personal information will not voluntarily or intentionally violate privacy principles related to your personal information.
How do we store your personal information
We maintain commercially reasonable technical, management, and physical security measures aimed at protecting your information from loss, abuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, and destruction.
When your credit or debit card account, financial account, or digital wallet information is transmitted to or through our services, it will be protected by encryption protocols. It should be clarified that we do not store your credit or debit card account information ourselves, and we do not have direct control or responsibility over your credit or debit card account information. We may use third-party payment processors as your information controllers. Our contract with the third party receiving your information requires them to keep your information confidential.
However, we cannot guarantee that your information transmission is always secured, nor can we guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never penetrate the security measures taken by us or our third-party service providers. We are not responsible for disclosing your information due to transmission errors, unauthorized third-party access, or other reasons beyond our control, except where applicable laws cannot exclude or limit liability.
We will only retain your information for a reasonable and necessary period of time to achieve the initial purpose of collecting your personal information.
We will delete your information within a reasonable time. If your personal information has been deleted, you may need to re-enter it.
We will take all reasonable measures and precautions to ensure that the transmission of your personal information through the internet is secure. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to our website, and you agree and acknowledge that the risk of any such transmission is your own responsibility.
Once we receive your information, we will take reasonable measures to protect your personal information. This may include storing any information on a secure server and adopting strict procedures and security features to protect your personal information from any unauthorized recipients and prevent unauthorized access to this information. We may also store your personal information in physical form.
All of our employees who have access to your information will comply with the confidentiality obligations stipulated in this privacy policy.
Collect your information using cookies and other tracking techniques
Our website and/or applications and/or other mobile applications use 'cookies'. Cookies are small data sent from a website and stored in your web browser. This data will enable our website and/or applications and/or other mobile applications to remember who you are and obtain information from you, enabling us to provide you with better and more customized services.
Due to the use of cookies on our website and/or applications and/or other mobile applications, we may collect information such as your IP address, online activity, and web browser details. We will not collect or store information that includes your password or other sensitive information.
We will use both persistent and session cookies, which can be retained on your device until expiration (in some cases, up to 10 years). Session cookies are temporary files deleted from your device after the browser is closed.
The types of cookies we may use include analyzing and tracking cookies, which enable us to identify and count visitor numbers, analyze service usage, verify transactions, and advertise and reposition cookies. This enables us to generate appropriate advertisements targeting you on our website and applications.
If you enable cookies when accessing our website and/or applications and/or other mobile applications, we will consider agreeing to our use of cookies and other technologies mentioned in our privacy policy.
Please note that you should also refer to our website's Terms of Use for more information on this issue.
Your Rights
You have the right to contact us or our privacy officer via email to request access to the personal information we hold about you
If we are unable to provide you with access rights, we will write to you and provide you with the reason why we are unable to provide you with access.
If any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete, or not timely, you can write to us or our privacy officer requesting us to correct the information at the above address.
You have the right to request us not to disclose your personal information (for example, for marketing purposes). When you provide us with your personal information, you can exercise your rights by unchecking the relevant check boxes on our website and/or applications and/or other mobile applications, or by writing to us at the above address.
You can choose not to receive any further correspondence from us by writing to us at the above address or sending us an email at the above email address.
We acknowledge that you have the following rights regarding your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws:
Right to know: You have the right to know about the collection and use of your personal data. This information is listed in our privacy policy terms.
Access rights: You can request us to provide information about whether we have stored your personal data and which personal data we have stored at any time. We are required to provide you with this information free of charge.
Correction right: If the personal data we store is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request us to correct the information at any time.
Delete right: If your personal data is no longer needed for collection purposes, or if the data is processed on the basis of your consent and you choose to revoke your consent, you have the right to request us to delete your personal information. In this case, we must stop processing your personal data and delete it from our IT system and database.
You do not have the authority to delete under the following circumstances:
Data cannot be deleted due to legal obligations, or data must be processed due to legal obligations.
Data processing is necessary for establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to object to processing: If we process your data in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) of the General Data Protection Regulations, you may object to our processing at any time.
The right to file a complaint with the data protection regulatory agency: According to Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulations, if you believe that processing your personal data violates data protection laws, you have the right to file a complaint with the data protection regulatory agency.
Complaint
If you are concerned that your privacy may be compromised or personal information may be misused, please contact us at the email address mentioned above.
We take all complaints very seriously. Our policy is to handle complaints promptly, effectively, fairly, and consistently.
Privacy Policy Update
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to regularly review this privacy policy to ensure that you are aware of any changes and how to use your information.