Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc.: Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 30th, 2023

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc. (“SWC”) collects from you and about you when you visit our website or otherwise engage with SWC. This Privacy Policy also explains how SWC may use such information. By using our website or otherwise engaging with SWC, you agree to the data collection, use, disclosure, and storage practices described in this Privacy Policy.

About SWC

Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) organization whose mission is to unite global crypto advocates, forming a passionate community committed to driving sensible crypto innovation and crypto policy.

Information Collection

Types of Personal Information Collected: SWC may collect personal information from or about you in a variety of ways:

We may collect your personal information when you sign up to be a member or subscriber of SWC, create a user account on our website, donate money to SWC, or otherwise engage with and provide information to SWC. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, physical address, and any other personal information you choose to share with us.
We may collect your personal information when you or your organization requests to be a SWC Open Source Partner. This information may include your name, email address, title, information about your organization (including website and social media handles), and any other personal information you choose to share with us.
We may also request and collect—at your direction—your crypto wallet address for various transactions, including to mint NFTs. Providing your crypto wallet address is voluntary.
Based on your engagement with SWC, we may also collect other information. For example:
- Donations: If you choose to make a donation to us, we may ask you to confirm if you are a U.S. citizen, in accordance with the law, and we will keep records of your donation, including your name, address, occupation, and employer. We may also keep track of donations you make to like-minded organizations and individuals that you link to through our website.
- SWC Advocacy Activities: We may collect information about your activity performed as a SWC member, subscriber, or user—including joining SWC, donating, attending an event, minting an NFT, and engaging with elected officials and policymakers.
- SWC Community Activity on Third-Party Platforms: We may collect information about your SWC-related activity on other platforms, such as participating in SWC community chat groups or engaging with or posting about SWC on social media platforms.

Sources of Personal Information: SWC may collect your information from you through the SWC website or SWC-related communities, accounts, or channels on social media platforms; through in-person SWC events, or through other channels where you choose to share information with SWC. SWC also partners with Coinbase and other like-minded organizations, and may collect information about you from those partners, including your activity with those entities.

Information Automatically Collected: We may also automatically collect information as you navigate through our website or engage with our content or advertising on other sites, through the use of cookies or similar technologies. Information collected automatically may include website usage and navigation details, IP addresses, and other technical information. We may partner with analytics and marketing service providers to assist us with this information collection.

Information Use

SWC may use the information described above for a variety of purposes, including to:

Provide our website and its content;
Provide information or content related to SWC's mission, initiatives, advocacy, and business;
Facilitate and keep track of your advocacy efforts, including helping you contact elected officials and policymakers;
Coordinate with you as a SWC Open Source Partner;
Send you texts, newsletters, updates, and/or opportunities for engagement related to SWC's mission, initiatives, advocacy, and business;
Track, analyze, and improve your engagement with SWC and its advertisements, website, events, services, advocacy, and initiatives;
Respond to inquiries or fulfill any other purpose for which you provide information;
Engage in fundraising and track contribution information;
Administer rewards, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, and surveys;
Deposit non-fungible tokens (“NFT”) into your crypto wallet;
Monitor and analyze your use of our website, optimize or improve our website and operations, and/or personalize content and experiences on our website;
Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses;
Provide you with advertising, which may include advertising based on your activity on our website or activity on third party sites and applications;
Communicate with you about changes to our policies;
Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
Maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our websites, databases, and other technology assets, as well as our physical offices and business generally;
Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations; and
Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

Information Sharing and Third Parties

SWC may share the information described above as follows:

With our service providers, contractors, and partners, including those that help to coordinate communications and other outreach to you and to elected officials and policymakers.
With other third parties we may contract with to perform functions related to the events, services, and initiatives provided by SWC.
With our analytics, marketing, and/or events partners and vendors.
With partners—such as Coinbase and other like-minded organizations—to support SWC’s efforts. As examples, SWC may share information about you and/or your activities with these partners when you choose to receive your membership NFT in your crypto wallet; or when you perform SWC-related activities, such as making a call to an elected official or policymaker.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
If we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce our policies including investigations of potential violations thereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues; or (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of SWC, our users, or the public.
With elected officials and policymakers, when you direct us to facilitate your communications them.
Otherwise with your consent or direction. As an example, if you choose to set up a user account on the SWC website, we will share your SWC advocacy activities with the broader SWC community on our public website. You can choose whether your activity is shared “anonymously.”

SWC’s Texting Program

With your opt-in consent, SWC may send you recurring automated text/SMS messages at the phone number you provide to us. These texts will include information about SWC’s efforts to fulfill its mission to unite global crypto advocates, forming a passionate community committed to driving sensible crypto innovation and crypto policy.

At any time, you may reply STOP to opt-out of these messages, and HELP for support. For customer support, you may also contact: info@standwithcrypto.org.

Message and data rates may apply.

Your Privacy Choices

Texting: With your opt-in consent, SWC may send you recurring automated text/SMS messages at the phone number you provide to us about SWC advocacy efforts. At any time, you may reply STOP to opt-out of these messages. Message and data rates may apply. For customer support, please contact: info@standwithcrypto.org.

Emails: You may opt-out of receiving certain emails from us by following the opt-out instructions in the footer of our emails.

Cookies: You can control and/or delete or disable cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available. Please be aware, however, that if you turn off cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the features of our website.

You may also manage your preferences for individual third parties by contacting them directly, including as directed at Google Analytics Choices and privacy/ad choice pages on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter/X.

Retention

We retain your information as needed to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, or protect our or others’ interests.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information to SWC is at your own risk.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may have links to third-party sites or applications, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. SWC is not responsible for the practices of such sites or applications.

Do Not Track

This website does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Information About Minors

Our website and services are intended for adult use only. We do not direct any part of our website or services to children less than 18 years old and anyone under 18 is not eligible to use our services. Nor do we knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. By using our website and services, you represent and warrant to SWC that you are at least 18 years of age.

Revisions

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the SWC website. If we change the Privacy Policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, please contact info@standwithcrypto.org

Last Updated: April 30th, 2023