Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc.: Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 10, 2024

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy describes the types of data that Stand With Crypto Alliance, Inc. and its affiliates, including Stand with Crypto Alliance, Inc. Political Action Committee (together, “SWC”) collects from you and about you when you visit our website or otherwise engage with SWC or its services. This Privacy Policy also explains how SWC may use such data. 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.

Data Collection

Categories of Personal Data Collected: SWC may collect personal data from or about you in a variety of ways:

We may collect your personal data when you provide it to us, for example, when you sign up to be a member or subscriber of SWC, create a user account on our website, donate money to SWC, sign-up for an SWC-related event, or otherwise engage with and provide data to SWC. This data may include your name, email address, phone number, physical address, and any other personal data you choose to share with us.
We may collect your personal data when you or your organization requests to be a SWC Open Source Partner. This data may include your name, email address, title, information about your organization (including website and social media handles), and any other personal data 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 personal data in other circumstances. 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. This data may be considered to be sensitive data. 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 data 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, among other activities.
- SWC Community Activity on Third-Party Platforms: We may collect data 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.
- Applications: If you submit an application—for example, to apply for legal consultations through our Creator Legal Defense Fund—we collect the personal information you voluntarily submit as part of your application.

Sources of Personal Data: SWC may collect your personal data from you through the SWC website, SWC’s service providers’ websites or applications, or SWC-related communities, accounts, or channels on social media platforms; through SWC-related events, or through other channels where you choose to share data with SWC. SWC also partners with Coinbase and other like-minded organizations and may collect personal data about you from those partners, including your activity with those entities. SWC may also obtain certain contact information from third party data providers.

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

Data Use

Purposes for which Personal Data Is Collected and Processed: SWC may use the data 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;
Provide services that you request or apply for;
Facilitate and keep track of your SWC-related efforts, including helping to set up or get you registered for events and helping you contact elected officials and policymakers;
Coordinate with you as a SWC Open Source Partner;
Communicate with you (for example, via texts, calls, emails, and newsletters) about 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.

Online Analytics & Targeted Advertising: SWC may use online identifiers for targeted online advertising and analytics. Specifically, we disclose certain online identifiers to advertising partners and analytics providers, which under certain state laws may be considered to be a sale. See below for information about opting out of these activities.

Retargeting: SWC may use your personal data for remarketing campaigns. This is a type of online advertising that directs advertising to individuals that have previously interacted with us. See below for information about opting out of these activities.

Data Sharing

SWC may share the information described above as follows:

With our service providers, contractors, and partners, including (1) to coordinate communications and other outreach to you and to elected officials and policymakers; (2) to coordinate, facilitate, and otherwise perform functions related to SWC-related events, services, and initiatives; and (3) for analytics and marketing.
With partners—such as Coinbase and other like-minded organizations—to support SWC’s efforts. As examples, SWC may share data 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. SWC may also share information with partnering law firms if you submit an application for the Creator Legal Defense Fund.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
If we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such data 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. Opt-in consent for text messages is not shared with any third party, except telecommunication technology providers (e.g. aggregators and providers of text message services).

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. Message frequency varies. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages.

View how SWC collects information about you when you visit our website or engage with SWC, and how SWC uses the information it collects outside of these Text Program terms within the other sections of this Privacy Policy.

Your Privacy Rights & Choices

Privacy Rights: We offer you the following rights, subject to the requirements under any applicable state law:

To confirm whether or not we process your personal data and to access or obtain a copy (as applicable) of such personal data;
To provide additional information—at SWC’s option—about specific third-party disclosures (as applicable);
To correct inaccuracies in your personal data;
To delete your personal data;
To obtain a copy of your personal data; and
To opt-out of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or certain automated profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

Exercising Privacy Rights:

To exercise your right to opt out of SWC’s online analytics and targeted advertising activities, described above, you or your authorized agent (as applicable) may:
- Use our Cookie Preference & Privacy Choices tool—which you can find in the footer of our website—at any time. To opt-out of SWC’s online analytics and targeted advertising, disable the “Targeting & Analytical” cookies.
- Download and enable the Global Privacy Control (GPC) via a participating browser or browser extension. Note that not all browsers support GPC. For more information, visit: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#about.
To exercise your other privacy rights listed above or to opt-out of SWCs re-targeting activities, you can send an email to info@standwithcrypto.org or contact us at our toll-free phone number (302) 566-8028. In your communication, please indicate your state of residency and specify the right you are exercising (e.g., request to delete, request to correct, request to opt-out of re-targeting, etc.). We will work to verify your request using reasonable means; if we are unable to do so, we may ask you follow-up questions. To protect your personal data, when submitting your request, please provide information sufficient for us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal data and to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your request. Note, we may deny your request in whole or in part if we cannot verify your identity.
You may have a right to appeal our decision with regard to your request. To do so, please send an email to info@standwithcrypto.org with the word "Appeal" in the subject line.

Texting: As detailed above, you may reply STOP to opt-out of automated text messages about SWC's efforts.

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 through our Cookie Preference & Privacy Choices tool, or 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 data 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 data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal data 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 data 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: September 10, 2024