PRIVACY POLICY

Updated: September 04, 2024

The following Privacy Policy governs the online information collection practices of Luganodes (“Company,” "we" or "us"). It outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using our website luganodes.com (the “website”) and/or when you use our terminal staking platform (the “Services”).

Luganodes is a institutional-based staking provider which helps users who have created Luganodes accounts (“User(s)”) to share their content such as information, files and folders (“Content”) and analyse their pre-existing customers, prospective customers and third parties (“Viewer(s)”) on the basis of the content viewed by them. The viewers may be the non- registered users or registered users of the web-services and product offerings (“Service(s)”) provided by Luganodes. We process your data in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations following industry best practices.

We may collect some identifying information about the user when the user visits our website https://www.luganodes.com to enhance our service, contact the user, or identify the user. Personal information submitted by the user, such as name, address, email address, and other personally identifiable information, will not be sold, rented, distributed, or otherwise made commercially accessible to third parties, except as specified in this policy. You consent to the use of your data by accepting the terms of service and this data protection declaration. We collect, store, and handle personal data solely in compliance with existing legal regulations and only to the extent necessary to fulfill our contractual performance duties to the user or to supply the purchased items on our website. This also covers data storage for any warranty claims after the contract has been fulfilled.

Luganodes has no responsibility or obligation for the security of your data while it is being transferred over the Internet. All activities taken by a user while on this website may be collected and evaluated for a variety of reasons, including security, marketing, and system monitoring.

Why does Luganodes collect data?

When you use our website, our web servers automatically record information (such as your IP address). When you provide us with personal information, we only use it for the following purposes:

As a foundation for future information regarding Luganodes' services and goods, and to enhance their quality.
Managing the Provider-User relationship with you.
To fulfill our legal duties (e.g. compliance with national and international legal, regulatory, and internal bank requirements, verifying the identity and suitability of customers for certain products and services).
For other lawful commercial objectives (marketing and promotional activities; technical administration, research, and development of the Luganodes website; analysis of user behavior and navigation within the website).

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the collection, processing, and use of your personal information at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at [email protected]. Upon receiving your request, we will stop processing your data and take steps to delete your personal information, unless there is a legitimate legal basis for us to retain certain data (such as to comply with legal obligations or to enforce our agreements). Please note that withdrawing consent may limit our ability to provide you with certain services or respond to inquiries.

Quesries and complaints

We have appointed a data protection officer (“DPO”) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Notice and our processing activities in general.

If you have any questions or requests, including any requests to exercise your legal rights as a data subject, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.

Contact Details:-
Name of DPO: Sanjeev
Email address: [email protected]
Postal address: N/A

The types of information we collect and store

We may collect personal and sensitive personal information about you and store this information in connection with the provision and fulfilment of our services to you. Personal information may include:

Name (First and Last)
Email address
Company name
Role in the company

How we protect your data?

Our business operations revolve around the security of your data. To secure information kept by us against loss, data misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, and destruction, we employ suitable technological, organizational, and administrative security measures.

We do not share or sell your personal information with other parties since we value both your privacy and our reputation. We will keep your information just as long as necessary and/or as required by relevant laws and regulations for the reasons at hand (e.g. to protect the personal safety of the users or employees of Luganodes, protect the rights or intellectual property of Luganodes).

How we use your personal information?

The above personal information may be used for the following purposes:

To provide you with information about our offerings and/or our periodic newsletters;
To respond to your requests;
For creation or development of business intelligence or data analytics in relation to the Offerings provided by us (for this purpose we may share the Personal Information with certain software or tools available online);
To manage our relationship with you;
For internal record keeping;
To provide you with authorization to login and use your user account;
To verify your identity;
To maintain correct and up-to-date information about you;
To identify you as a contracting party;
To improve our website;
To enable automated handling of the subscriptions;
To otherwise be able to provide the services to you and
To comply with our legal or statutory obligations.

Who has access to your data within our organization?

Within our organization, access to your data is limited to those persons who require access in order to provide you with the Products and Services, which you purchase from us, to contact you, and to respond to your inquiries, including requests for refund. Those staff members may be on teams such as: marketing, events, development, executive, customer support. Employees only have access to data that is relevant to their team, on a ‘need to know’ basis.

Processors
We may use service providers & third parties for operating and improving the Sites, to assist with certain functions, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, third-party solutions for marketing and analytics, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. We take measures to ensure that these service providers access, process, and store information about you only for the purposes we authorize, through the execution of Data Processing Agreements or Addenda.

Authorities
We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to third parties, including the content of messages if we believe disclosure is in accordance with or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms of Service or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, Company or others.

Transfer of business
If we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, personal information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.

Why and for how long do we store information we collect from you?

We retain certain information collected from you while you are a member on the Site, and in certain cases where you have deleted your account, for the following reasons:

So that you can use our Sites;
To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to;
To provide you with a refund, if entitled;
To better understand the traffic to our Sites so that we can provide all members with the best possible experience;
To detect and prevent abuse of our Sites, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and
To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.

We retain user data for as long as necessary for the purposes described above. This means that we retain different categories of data for different periods of time depending on the type of data, the category of user to whom the data relates to, and the purposes for which we collected the data.

Security

We implement a variety of administrative, managerial, and technical security measures to help protect your personal information. Our Company has various internal control standards which relate specifically to the handling of personal information. These include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect online. Our employees are trained to understand and comply with these controls and we communicate our Privacy Policy practices and guidelines to our employees. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, you must also take steps to protect your information. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal information while you are on the Internet.

You have certain rights if you are within the EU this includes:

Right to access. This right allows you to obtain a copy of your personal data, as well as other supplementary information.
Right to restrict processing. You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to rectification. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Right to object to processing. The right to object allows you to stop or prevent us from processing your personal data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for processing your Personal Data. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal data when the personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose which you originally collected or processed.

To exercise your rights, you can contact us at [email protected].

Our policy concerning children & their data

Our Sites are not directed to children under the age of sixteen and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children or distribute such information to third parties. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent children from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a child, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children.

Links to other websites

Our Sites may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third- party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

Third parties are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy with respect to Personal Data that you provide directly to those third parties or that those third parties collect for themselves. We do not control the third-party sites that may be accessible through our Services. Thus, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information you provide to third-party sites or gathered by the third parties that operate them.

Logfiles

The type and version of the browser used to visit our website are communicated by the individual’s internet browser and recorded in log files on the hosting server. After usage, the IP addresses of the users are removed or anonymized. Anonymization involves changing IP addresses in such a way that particular details of personal or factual situations cannot be attributed to a specific or identifiable real person, or can only be done with a disproportionate amount of time, money, and effort. This usage data serves as the foundation for statistical, anonymous evaluations to develop and make our website more user-friendly. This information is not combined with information from other sources.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics, a web analytics tool supplied by Google Inc., is used on this page (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us understand how the website is used and make necessary technical, UX, and marketing optimizations. The cookie's information about your use of this website is typically sent to and stored on a Google server in the United States. If IP anonymization is enabled on this page, Google will first abbreviate your IP address inside European Union member states or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In unusual instances, the complete IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the United States and abbreviated there. Google will use the information on behalf of the site operator to analyze website usage, generate reports on website activity, and offer the site operator other services relating to website and internet use. The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website, and the adaptation of the content. The interests of the users are adequately protected by pseudonymization.

The collection by Google Analytics can be prevented by the page visitor adjusting the cookie settings for this website. However, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to take full advantage of all the functions of this website. The collection and storage of the IP address and the data generated by cookies can also be objected to at any time with effect for the future. The corresponding browser plug-in can be downloaded and installed from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies

A cookie is a little file that is kept on the hard disk of your computer. When you visit a website again, it identifies your machine thanks to this file. Furthermore, the cookie may hold information about the computer user's preferences from past visits to the relevant website. We gather, handle, and analyze data regarding how our websites are used. Traffic data includes information on website visitors as well as information utilized in communication fields to transmit, forward, or deliver messages. We use cookies and other similar technologies to offer you products and services, to administer our marketing and to ensure a safe online experience, to assess the performance of our website, and to make the content of our website more relevant to you. Individual visitors are not identified using the data. You may configure your Internet browser's security settings to allow or reject cookies. If you disable cookies, you may still be able to use our websites and some services, but access to some features and parts of our websites or services may be considerably limited.

Our website provides you with the option to accept or reject various categories of cookies based on your preferences. Upon your first visit, you will be prompted with a cookie consent banner that allows you to choose which types of cookies you would like to allow, such as necessary, performance, functional, or marketing cookies. You can also modify your preferences at any time by accessing the cookie settings available on our website. Please note that changing these settings may affect your experience, and certain features or services may not function properly if specific cookies are disabled.

Luganodes may periodically post changes to this Privacy Policy on this page. When required by law, Luganodes will notify you of changes to this privacy policy.

Contact for privacy

The responsible body for the collection, processing, and use of personal data via data protection is:
Boldfit Tech Solutions Ltd., Cayman Islands
[email protected]