Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 06/22/2020
Blockchain Consortium, Inc. has created this privacy policy for www.bcconsortium.org (the “Site”) in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses Blockchain Consortium, Inc. ‘s information gathering and dissemination practices for the information collected through this Site. Blockchain Consortium, Inc. encourages you to read this Policy before using this Site. Your use of this Site signifies that you agree with all terms of this Policy, so please do not use this Site if you disagree with any part of this Policy.
SITE PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
Due to the Internet’s rapidly evolving nature, Blockchain Consortium, Inc. may need to make material changes to this policy or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, Blockchain Consortium, Inc. will post its updated Privacy Policy on our homepage with a prominent material change notice or notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) prior to the to the change becoming effective. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using this Site. If you do not cease using this Site, you will be deemed to have accepted the change.
INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE, CHOICES AND DATA INTEGRITY
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site, we may invite you to contact us with questions or comments, register for webinars or events, participate in surveys, request information or more information about our Services or log a support case to request technical support. Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, email address and phone number, username, password and any other personally identifiable information you elect to include in your communications sent to us. In certain circumstances, we also may ask for your title, company name and additional company information such as annual revenues. We may also ask for demographic information in order to provide you with a more personalized experience.
If you request more information about our Services, we may use your personally identifiable information to send you the information you have requested. We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use our Site, deliver certain goods, services or information you have requested, provide you with notices regarding Services you have purchased or products and services of our partners you may want to purchase in the future and other Blockchain Consortium, Inc. news, verify your authority to enter the Site and improve the content and general administration of the Site. You have the choice to opt-out of receiving emails from us about our Services or products and services of our partners, including promotions and events and other news. You can opt out of being contacted by us regarding our Services or products and services of our partners, including promotions and events as well as other news at any time by sending an email to: max@mergingtraffic.com.
We may receive a confirmation when you open an e-mail from Blockchain Consortium, Inc. if your computer supports this type of program, in order to help us make e-mails more interesting and helpful.
In performing and providing our Services to you, we may have access to personally identifiable information that is included in the data that you provide to us so that we can provide our Services for you. For example, we may have access to certain usernames that you use to login to third party services and websites and data that you store in your accounts with such third-party services. We do not store or use such personally identifiable information other than as necessary to perform our Services and provide our Services to you.
We use your personally identifiable information for the purposes for which it was collected as set forth above and not for promotional purposes or for use by third parties for promotional purposes.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Blockchain Consortium, Inc. recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Neither our Site nor our services are intended for children under the age of 13. Blockchain Consortium, Inc. does not target its services or this Site to children under 13. Blockchain Consortium, Inc. does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Blockchain Consortium, Inc. and our partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference), and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
ANALYTICS / LOG FILES
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality.
LOCAL STORAGE OBJECT
Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 or Flash to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To manage Flash LSOs please click here:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
TESTIMONIALS
We post testimonials on our web site, which contain personally identifiable information such as the customer’s name. We do obtain the customer’s consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial. If you want to remove your personally identifiable information that is being displayed on our website under public pages, please send your request to: max@mergingtraffic.com.
ONWARD TRANSFER
We may provide or provide access to your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us. For example, a consultant may have access to your personally identifiable information while the consultant is performing services on our behalf if the services require access to your systems. Such third parties are required to agree to a confidentiality agreement with us regarding your personally identifiable information and we only authorize them to use your personally identifiable information that they may have access to as necessary to perform services on our behalf and not for their own marketing purposes. We also may provide your personally identifiable information to our third-party business service partners and they may use your personally identifiable information to send you marketing and promotional information. You may opt-out of having your information shared with our third-party business service partners by emailing us at: max@mergingtraffic.com.
Other people will be able to view such data if such data is published on third party websites.
We will also disclose your personally identifiable information and the aggregate information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, court order, warrant, subpoena, legal process or regulation or in cooperation with any governmental investigation. We may transfer your personally identifiable information and the aggregate information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which Blockchain Consortium, Inc. participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of Blockchain Consortium, Inc.‘s assets to which this Site relates. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.
ACCESS
You may correct, amend or delete your personally identifiable information that Blockchain Consortium, Inc. stores, except where the burden or expense to Blockchain Consortium, Inc. of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy or where the legitimate rights of persons other than you would be violated. Please email max@mergingtraffic.com to correct, amend or delete your personally identifiable information. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days. We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which Blockchain Consortium, Inc. does not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Blockchain Consortium, Inc. of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that Blockchain Consortium, Inc. is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Blockchain Consortium, Inc. is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites and any products purchased on such External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.
SECURITY
We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Blockchain Consortium, Inc. may use encryption, password protection and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Please contact the following with any questions regarding this privacy policy:
Blockchain Consortium, Inc.
Compliance Department
#6555 SANGER ROAD
SUITE 200
ORLANDO, FL 32827
ONWARD TRANSFERS
Prior to disclosing Personal Information to a third party, Blockchain Consortium, Inc. shall notify the individual of such disclosure and allow the individual the choice (opt out) of such disclosure. Blockchain Consortium, Inc. shall ensure and be liable for any third party for which Personal Information may be disclosed subscribes to the Principles or are subject to law providing the same level of privacy protection as is required by the Principles and agree in writing to provide an adequate level of privacy protection.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENTS
Blockchain Consortium, Inc. may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top and bottom of the privacy statement. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use and/or share personal information that we collect about you through the sites, we will notify you by sending you an email at the last email address that you provided us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on the sites.
Last Updated: June 22, 2020