Who we are
Stablecoin Standard (“we“, “our“ or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Stablecoin Standard is a limited company, with company number 14623106, registered at 13 Upper High Street, Thame, Oxon, UK, OX93ER.
Stablecoin Standard is the industry body for stablecoin issuers globally. It is our mission to standardise, educate and inform in order to advance the industry as a whole.
Stablecoin Standard is dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information entrusted to us. We comply with all relevant data protection laws including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please read this Privacy Notice to learn about your rights, what information we collect, how we use and protect it.
You can find more information about us by clicking here: stablecoinstandard.com
Our Commitment and Obligations to you
We take the collection, usage and security of your personal data seriously.
We can only use your personal data under law if we have a good reason for doing so. The law provides examples of those reasons.
These include:
To perform or fulfil an agreement we have with you; or
If we have a legal duty; or
If it is within our legitimate business interest; or
If there is a public interest reason for doing so; or
If you have given your consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. If we rely on our legitimate interest, we will tell you what that is.
Types of Personal Data
Basic personal information including name and address, date of birth and contact details identification information
Profile Data
Online profile and social media information and activity based on your interaction with us and our websites and applications, including for example login information, Internet Protocol (IP) address, smart device information, location coordinates, searches, site visits
Information Security Risk Data
Communications Data
Complaints information
Technical Information (IP / Cookies)
Location Data
What Personal Data We Collect and Where From
You may give us information about you:
When filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you subscribe to our training, events and/or services, complete a survey, sign up to a newsletter, post material on our site, report a problem with our site, request further services. The information you give us may include your name, address, email address, phone number, and personal description;
Information we collect about you.
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), cookies and methods used to browse away the page and any phone number used to call us. Information received from events, training and working groups / committees.
We may collect data about you when you attend any of our events, training sessions and/or attendance of Stablecoin Standard working groups / committees. This may be collected via business card information you have provided to a Stablecoin Standard employee or where you have been invited, nominated or otherwise requested to attend one of our events, training sessions and/or working groups / committees. This information may include your name, job title, company, business or personal email address, phone numbers (business or personal).
Information received from other sources.
We may receive information from other sources, such as from our members, associate members, government officials, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies, regulatory bodies, our other partners for the purpose of providing services to our members including supporting members and law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies to combat, prevent and detect economic criminal activity. The information received may include: names, address, bank account details, transaction information, criminal convictions and cautions and indications of potential or actual criminal activity
What do we use your personal information for?
To carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us and to provide you with the informations and services that you request from us, including providing membership services to you; including events, training and working groups;
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device or to provide you with content which we feel may interest you, where (if required to do so) you have consented to be contacted for such purposes:
to allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so; and to notify you about changes to our services. As a business, it is critical that we perform our agreement with you with the best service possible, and it is in our legitimate interest to be responsive to you and to ensure the proper functioning of our products and organisation.
Cookies
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using cookie files stored on your computer or device (“cookies“). Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or device when you visit a website. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. You may disable cookies by changing the settings on your browser. However, if you do so, this will affect your enjoyment of our site and we will no longer be able to offer to you a personalised service. Unless you opt out of cookies in your browser settings, we will assume you consent to the use of cookies. For more information about cookies, please consult our cookies policy.
How we share your personal data
We take your privacy very seriously and we’ll only share your information where:
we need to for the purposes of providing you with products or services you have requested; we have a public or legal duty to do so e.g. to assist with detecting fraud and tax evasion, economic crime prevention, regulatory reporting, litigation or defending legal rights; we have a legitimate reason for doing so e.g. to manage risk, or to assess your suitability for services, or to enable one of our virtual activity sponsors to promote themselves to you; or
we have asked you for your permission to share it, and you’ve agreed.
Third Parties
We may occasionally share your data with trusted third parties to help us deliver efficient and quality services.
We may share with third parties, including:
business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; provided you have consented; marketing, market research, advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others; analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of the website; Economic Crime Information Sharing
We may share your personal data with law enforcement agencies, fraud prevention agencies, public authorities or other organisations if legally required to do so, or if we have a public interest and/or good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to:
comply with a legal obligation, process or request (including responding to any requests from law enforcement authorities outside the EEA, as defined below); enforce our agreements, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;
detect, prevent or otherwise address economic criminal activity (including financial crime, fraud, money laundering etc); detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues with our services and site; or protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law.
Sharing Aggregated or Anonymised Data:
Where we have made your information anonymous, we may share it outside of Stablecoin Standard Ltd with partners such as research groups, universities, advertisers or connected sites.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you will be stored in the UK, EU and USA, depending on the input method. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Security of your personal data
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted to our site; any transmission of your data is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our member and associate member organisations, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We will retain your personal information for as long as you use our services and for a reasonable time thereafter. After you have terminated your use of our services, we will retain your personal information for up to 7 years and thereafter may store it in an aggregated and anonymised format.
Your rights
Access to information. The Data Protection Laws give you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with Data Protection Laws by contacting us at hello@stablecoinstandard.com.
Consent. You may withdraw your consent to any processing of your personal data at any time by contacting hello@stablecoinstandard.com
Rectification. You have the right to rectify any personal data held about you that is inaccurate. Your right of rectification can be exercised by contacting us at hello@stablecoinstandard.com.
Erasure. You may have the right to erasure of personal data held about you by contacting us at hello@stablecoinstandard.com.
Complaints or Objecting. In the event that you wish to object to or make a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at hello@stablecoinstandard.com and we will endeavour to deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to launch a claim with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.
Changes to our Privacy Notice
Any changes we may make to the Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check this page frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Notice.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to hello@stablecoinstandard.com