LayerDrone Privacy Policy

1. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

3. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

• We use personal information for a variety of purposes, including to provide the Services, for administrative purposes, and to provide you with marketing materials, as described below. 

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  1. Provide the Services

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  We use personal information to provide the Services, such as:

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  • Providing access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of the Services;
  • Communicating with you;
  • Answering requests; 

  • Sharing personal information with third parties as needed to provide the Services; and

  • Facilitating transactions that you enter into. 

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  2. Improve the Services and Develop New Products and Services

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  We may use personal information to improve the Services and to develop new products and services, such as:

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  • Developing, training, and fine-tuning models, algorithms, and artificial intelligence technologies; and
  • Improving, upgrading, or enhancing the Services.

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  3. Further Our Mission 

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  We use personal information to further our mission, such as:

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  • Pursuing our legitimate interests such as direct marketing, research and development (including marketing research), network and information security, and fraud prevention;
  • Carrying out analytics; 
  • Creating de-identified and/or aggregated information;
  • Allowing you to register for events; 
  • Enforcing our agreements and policies; and
  • Carrying out activities that are required to comply with our legal obligations.

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  4. Marketing

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  We may use personal information in connection with our marketing activities including to tailor and provide you with marketing communications, promotions, and offers that may interest you.

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  5. With Your Consent or Direction 

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  We may use personal information: (i) for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide the personal information, (ii) with your consent, or (iii) as otherwise directed by you.

4. HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

• We share personal information with third parties for a variety of purposes, including to provide the Services, to protect us or others, or in connection with a major transaction such as a sale, or asset transfer, as described below. 

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  1. Disclosures to Provide the Services

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  We may share any of the personal information we collect with the categories of third parties described below.

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  • Disclosures to the Blockchain. Aspects of the Services may be hosted on or interact with the blockchain, including the Base blockchain and protocols operated or owned by LayerDrone. Where you use aspects of the Services that are hosted on or interact with the blockchain, information about your interactions and/or transactions will be shared with the applicable blockchain network and may be accessible to third parties due to the nature of the blockchain protocol.

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  • Service Providers. We may share personal information with service providers that assist us with the provision of the Services. This may include, but is not limited to, service providers that provide us with hosting services, customer service, AI or machine learning services, analytics, marketing services, IT support, and related services. 
    
    • Google Analytics. For more information about how Google uses your personal information, please visit Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy. To learn more about how to opt out of Google Analytics’ use of your personal information, please click here.

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  • Other Users You Share or Interact With. The Services may allow LayerDrone users to share personal information or interact with other users of the Services. 

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  • Third-Party Services You Share or Interact With. The Services may link to or allow you to interface with, interact with, share information with, direct us to share information with, access, and/or use a Third-Party Service. 

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  Any personal information shared with a Third-Party Service will be subject to the Third-Party Service’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the processing of personal information by Third-Party Services.

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  • Strategic Partners. We may share your personal information with strategic partners we work with to further our mission. We may also share your personal information with strategic partners with whom we jointly offer products or services. 

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  Once your personal information is shared with our strategic partner, it will also be subject to our strategic partner’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the processing of personal information by our strategic partners. 

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  • Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate affiliates.

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  • Advertising Partners. We may share your personal information with third-party advertising partners. These third-party advertising partners may set Technologies on the Site to collect personal information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., IP address, cookie identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). These advertising partners may use this personal information (and similar information collected from other services) to tailor and deliver personalized ads to you when you visit digital properties within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising,” “personalized advertising,” or “targeted advertising.” 

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  Some of the advertising Technologies we may use include: 

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  • Meta Pixel. For more information about Meta’s use of your personal information, please visit Meta’s Privacy Policy. 

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  2. Disclosures to Protect Us or Others

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  We may share your personal information and related information with external parties if we, in good faith, believe doing so is required or appropriate to comply with law enforcement requests, national security requests, or other government requests; comply with legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety; enforce our policies or contracts; collect amounts owed to us; or assist with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual unauthorized or illegal activity.

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  3. Disclosure in the Event of Sale, or Other Asset Transfers

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  If we are involved in an acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, purchase or sale of assets, transition of service to another provider, or other similar corporate transaction, your personal information may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of such a transaction.

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5. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

• Your Privacy Choices. The privacy choices you may have about your personal information are described below. 

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  • Email Communications. If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe functionality found at the bottom of the email to opt out of receiving future emails. Note that you will not be able to opt out of certain communications (e.g., communications regarding the Services or updates to this Privacy Notice).

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  • “Do Not Track.” Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

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  • Cookies. You may stop or restrict the placement of Technologies on your device or remove them by adjusting your preferences as your browser or device permits. However, if you adjust your preferences, the Services may not work properly. 

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  The online advertising industry also provides mechanisms that may allow you to opt out of receiving targeted ads from organizations that participate in self-regulatory programs. To learn more, visit the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Digital Advertising Alliance. 

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  Please note you must separately opt out in each browser and on each device. 

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  Your Privacy Rights. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:

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  • Request Access to or Portability of Your Personal Information;

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  • Request Correction of Your Personal Information;

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  • Request Deletion of Your Personal Information;

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  • Request Restriction of or Object to Our Processing of Your Personal Information; and

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  • Withdraw Your Consent to Our Processing of Your Personal Information. Please note that your withdrawal will take effect only for future processing and will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

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  If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth in “Contact Us” below. 

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  We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws.

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  If your personal information is subject to the applicable data protection laws of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if you believe that our processing of your personal information violates applicable law.

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6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• All personal information processed by us may be transferred, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including, but not limited to, the United States or other countries, which may have data protection laws that are different from the laws where you live. These countries may or may not have adequate data protection laws as defined by the data protection authority in your country. 

  If we transfer personal information from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the United Kingdom to a country that does not provide an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection laws, one of the safeguards we may use to support such transfer is the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. 

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  For more information about the safeguards we use for international transfers of your personal information, please contact us as set forth below.

7. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• We store the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Notice for as long as you use the Services, or as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, or as long as necessary to pursue our purposes.

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  To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we may consider applicable legal requirements; the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information; certain risk factors; the purposes for which we process your personal information; and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

8. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE FOR EU/UK GDPR

• This Supplemental Notice for EU/UK GDPR applies only to our processing of personal information that is subject to the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation.

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  In some cases, providing personal information may be a requirement under applicable law, a contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. If you choose not to provide personal information in cases where it is required, we will inform you of the consequences at the time of your refusal to provide the personal information.

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  LayerDrone’s processing of your personal information may be supported by one or more of the following lawful bases:

  

9. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION

• The Services are not directed to children under 18 (or other age as required by local law outside the United States), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

  If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has uploaded personal information to the Services in violation of applicable law, you may contact us as described in “Contact Us” below.

10. CONTACT US

• LayerDrone is the controller of the personal information we process under this Privacy Notice. 

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  If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, or to exercise your rights as detailed in this Privacy Notice, please contact us at: privacy@layerdrone.org.