BIZZATRADE Privacy Policy
Last Update: BizzaTrade 2023-06-30
This Privacy Policy constitutes a part of BizzaTrade Terms of Use (the “TOU”) The terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meanings as in the TOU except as otherwise provided herein.
This Privacy Policy explains how BizzaTrade and BizzaTrade Operators collect, use, process, disclose, share, transfer, and protect user’s personal information obtained through the Bitbarter’s platform and its partners. The terms “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to BizzaTrade and BizzaTrade Operators. When we ask for certain personal information from users, it is because we are required by applicable laws or government orders to collect such information and/or it is relevant for our specified operational purposes.
Please carefully read the full content of this Privacy Policy. When visiting Bitbarter, regardless of whether or not you register for or log in the BizzaTrade Services, you acknowledge, understand, and consent to all articles described in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that our Services, Site and App are not intended for minors below the age of 18 years and we do not knowingly collect data relating to minors.
We will not use your personal information for any purpose not covered in this Privacy Policy or the TOU (including any other business rules of Bitbarter) without prior notification to you and your consent.
This Privacy Policy has incorporated elements from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR). We utilize standard contract clauses, rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain your consent for these data transfers to third countries if required by applicable laws.
- HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
The followings are the types of information we collect when you register for and use BizzaTrade Services:
1.1 Information You Provide to Us When Registering When you create a BizzaTrade Account, you provide us with your email address, name, date of birth, nationality, ZIP code, country code, gender, utility bills, home address, password, and other information to help us identify you (“Identification Information”). You can also choose to add a phone number for SMS or Google Authenticator account for Two-Factor Authentication to improve account security.
If you agree to use biometric authentication methods to log in or use BizzaTrade services, such as fingerprint recognition and facial recognition, you need to provide us with the corresponding information, such as the fingerprint information and facial information, and your consent to the processing of your biometric data.
1.3 Information We Collect as You Use BizzaTrade Services
- Service Usage Information
Through your access to and use of BizzaTrade Services, we may monitor and collect tracking information related to usage including but not limited to your phone number, access date and time, device type and device identification, operating system and hardware setting, browser type, and information derived from SIM card, network operator, IP address, GPS, base station and WLAN(“Service Usage Information”). This information may be directly obtained by BizzaTrade or through third-party service providers. The collection of Service Usage Information helps our systems to ensure that our interface is accessible for users across all platforms and can aid during criminal investigations.
- Transaction Information
For all personal, merchant and institutional user accounts, we may collect transaction information as you use BizzaTrade Services, including but not limited to deposit snapshots, account balances, trade history (such as transaction initiation, payment method, price, quantity, time, withdrawal and authorization information), order activity, and distribution history “Transaction Information”. We collect such transaction information to monitor suspicious trading activity for user fraud protection, legal case resolution, and any other purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
- Communication Information
You agree that, for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we are entitled to collect and use the information contained in or related to the communication that you send to us or generated through your use of BizzaTrade Services(“Communication Information”) which includes:
- all messages, requests or other information you send in the course of your contact with Bitbarter;
- all communications and file attachments in connection with your transactions with other users or other data generated primarily through your communications with them.
- Financial Information:
You agree that, for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we are entitled to collect and use the information contained in or related to your financial information when you use BizzaTrade Services, including without limitation, bank account information, payment card details , transaction history, trading data, and/or tax identification. We collect such financial information to monitor suspicious financial activity for user fraud protection, legal case resolution, and any other purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
- HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
2.1 Information BizzaTrade Automatically Collects Most of the personal information that we collect is directly provided by you. In the following situations, we will collect and process the information about you:
- Where you registered from, log in or visit Bitbarter, or use any service of Bitbarter;
- Where you voluntarily complete any user survey or provide feedback to us via email or any other channel;
- Where you use cookies of the browser or software in visiting or using our website or mobile apps;
- Other situations where we may automatically collect your information as mentioned in this Privacy Policy or our TOU (including the BizzaTrade PlatformRules, the same below).
2.2 Information Collected from Third-party Sources
We may collect information about you from third-party sources, including but not limited to, the following channels:
- Public databases, credit bureaus and ID verification partners;
- Blockchain data;
- Marketing partners and resellers;
- Advertising partners and analytics providers.
2.3 Anonymized and Aggregated Data
Anonymization is a data processing technique that removes or modifies personal information so that it cannot be associated with a specific individual. Except for this section, none of the other provisions of this Privacy Policy applies to anonymized or aggregated personal data (i.e. information about our Users that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual User).
We may use anonymized or aggregate customer data for any business purpose, including to better understand Users’ needs and behaviors, improve our products and services, conduct business intelligence and marketing, and detect security threats. We may perform our own analytics on anonymized data or enable analytics provided by third parties.
- HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
Information BizzaTrade Automatically Collects Most of the personal information that we collect is directly provided by you. In the following situations, we will collect and process the information about you:
3.1 To Provide and Maintain BizzaTrade Services We use the information collected to deliver, maintain and provide better BizzaTrade Services (including but not limited to processing transactions) and verify Users’ identities.
We use the IP address and unique identifiers stored in your device’s cookies to help us authenticate your identity and activities and provide BizzaTrade Services. Given our legal obligations and system requirements, we cannot provide you with all or some of BizzaTrade Services without data including; Identification Information.
3.2 To Protect Our Users
We use the information collected to protect our platforms, Users’ accounts, and archives.
We use IP addresses and cookies to protect against automated abuse such as spam, phishing, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
We analyze trading activities with the goal of detecting suspicious behaviors as early as possible to prevent potential fraud and loss of funds to bad actors.
3.3 To Comply with Legal and Regulatory Requirements
With respect to the privacy and security of personal information, we will use the information in compliance with our legal obligations, government requests, and reasonable user-generated inquiries. In cases where it is strictly necessary, such as to protect the vital interests of the Users or other natural persons, to fulfill the purpose of public interest, to pursue our reasonable interests (but not to damage the interests of the Users), we may process your personal information without your consent. Except for the situations stated in this Privacy Policy or the TOU, we will not disclose or provide any of your personal information to third parties without a review from our legal team and/or prior consent from the User.
3.4 For Measurement, Research and Development Purposes
We actively measure and analyze data to understand the way you use and interact with BizzaTrade Services. This review activity is conducted by our operation teams to continually improve our Platforms’ performance and to resolve issues with the user experience. In addition, we use such information to customize, measure, and improve BizzaTrade Services and the content and layout of our websites and apps, and to develop new services. We continuously monitor activity information within our systems and our communications with users to look for and quickly fix problems.
3.5 To Communicate with You
We use personal information collected, like your phone number or email address to interact with you directly when providing customer support on a ticket or to keep you informed on logins, transactions, account security and other aspects. Without collecting and processing your personal information for confirming each communication, we will not be able to respond to your submitted requests, questions, and inquiries. All direct communications are properly kept at BizzaTrade or the service provider designated by Bitbarter, to be reviewed for accuracy, to be kept as evidence, or to be used to perform other statutory or contractual obligations.
3.6 To Enforce Our TOU and Other Agreements
The collected information is also used to continually and actively enforce our TOU and other agreements with our Users, including but not limited to reviewing, investigating, and preventing any potentially prohibited or illegal activities that may violate the foregoing provisions, or disclose the relevant information to a third party in accordance therewith.
BizzaTrade reserves the right to suspend or terminate provision of any BizzaTrade Services to any User found to be engaged in activities that violate our TOU and other agreements with our Users.
3.7 To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers, or Transactions
We may process any information regarding your BizzaTrade Account and use of BizzaTrade Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, or other corporate transactions.
3.8 For Marketing and Advertising
We may share your personal information with our marketing partners for the purposes of targeting, modeling, and/or analytics as well as marketing and advertising.
3.9 For Rebates
We may share the information collected, including but not limited to your Identification Information and Transaction Information, with your referrer for the purposes of rebates and other benefits.
3.10 For Any Other Purpose
We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose and will definitely request you consent to.
- MARKETING
If we think you may like specific BizzaTrade Services or products and services of our partners, we hope to keep you informed about such products or services.
If you agree to receive the above marketing information, you can choose to receive it at any time in the future.
You have the right to ask us at any time to stop contacting you for marketing purposes or to send relevant information to you. If you do not want to be contacted for marketing purposes in the future, please click on the unsubscribe link in the bottom of the marketing email and submit your request to unsubscribe.
We will get your opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
- HOW WE STORE AND PROTECT USER DATA
BizzaTrade has kept your personal information safe using fault-tolerant secured storage with industry standard encryption and implemented a number of security measures to ensure that your information is not lost, abused, or altered, including, but not limited to:
5.1 Physical Measures
Materials containing your personal information will be stored in a locked place.
5.2 Electronic Measures
Computer data containing your personal information will be stored in the computer systems and storage media that are subject to strict log-in restrictions.
5.3 Management Measures
Only authorized employees are permitted to come into contact with your personal information and such employees must comply with our internal confidentiality rules for personal data. We have also imposed strict physical access controls to buildings and files.
5.4 Technical Measures
Encryption technology such as PCI Scanning and Secured Sockets Layer Encryption may be used to transmit and store your personal information. We use various currently available general security technologies and supporting management systems to minimize the risks that your information may be disclosed, damaged, misused, accessed without authorization, disclosed without authorization, or altered.
5.5 Other Measures
Our web server is protected by the “firewall”. lease note that it is impossible to guarantee 100% security of information. As such, we request that you understand the responsibility to independently take safety precautions to protect your own personal information. You agree that we shall not be liable for any information leakage and other losses not caused by our intention or gross negligence, including but not limited to hacker attack, power interruption, or unavoidable technical failure, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
If you suspect that your personal information has been compromised, especially account and/or password information, please lock your BizzaTrade Account and immediately contact BizzaTrade Customer Support team at www.bitbarter.io/contactus
Unless otherwise stipulated by law or the TOU, you agree that we have the right but not the obligation to retain all the collected personal information for the duration of your BizzaTrade Account for 5 more years after the account is closed.
- TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You understand that we have the right to have all or some of the collected personal information transferred to or stored in other countries or regions than your country of nationality, your country of residence, or the country where the server is, without your specific consent, under the following circumstances:
6.1 if it is necessary to protect, process, analyze, reasonably use the personal information;
6.2 if it is necessary to enforce the TOU and other agreements with our Users;
6.3 if it is necessary for the public interest;
6.4 if it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend the rights of us, our partners, or other Users;
6.5 other circumstances required by law or government orders.
- PRIVACY POLICIES OF OTHER WEBSITES
Privacy Policies of Non-BizzaTrade Websites If you visit other third-party platforms or partner’s websites, apps via the links on Bitbarter, you should agree with and abide by their separate and independent privacy policies. We do not control these third-party sites and we are not responsible for the content or the activities therein.
Privacy Policies of BizzaTrade This Privacy Policy applies to all platforms, websites, and departments of bitbarter.io and BizzaTrade ecosystem. If you visit any link to any sub-platforms of Bitbarter, you should agree with and abide by the separate and independent privacy policies of such sub-platforms. If the privacy policy of any sub-platform conflicts with this Privacy Policy, the privacy policy of such sub-platform shall prevail.
- DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS THAT YOU ENJOY
We hope to ensure that you are fully aware of the data protection rights that you enjoy. Unless otherwise required by law or government orders, each User has the following rights:
8.1 Right of Access
You have the right to access or obtain copies of your personal information. We may charge a reasonable fee for providing the access service.
8.3 Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)
You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data under certain circumstances.
8.4 Right to Restriction of Processing
Under certain circumstances as required by law or as specifically reminded by us, you have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal information; however, you understand that such restriction of the processing may prevent us from providing you with some of BizzaTrade Services.
8.5 Right to Object
Under certain circumstances as required by Law or as specifically reminded by us, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal information; however, you understand that such objection to the processing may prevent us from providing you with some of BizzaTrade Services.
8.6 Right to Data Portability
Under certain circumstances as required by Law or as specifically reminded by us, you have the right to request us to transmit the personal information that we collect to another body, or directly to you. We may charge a reasonable fee for providing the transmission service.
- CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, BizzaTrade may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in Law or our personal-data collection, processing, and use practices. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be announced by posting on www.bitbarter.io. You shall regularly review the Privacy Policy and pay attention to its revisions. If you do not agree with the revised content, you shall stop accessing BizzaTrade immediately. When an updated version of the Privacy Policy is released, your continued access to BizzaTrade means that you agree to the updated content and agree to abide by the updated Privacy Policy.
- CONTACT US
We are committed to respecting the freedoms and rights of all our BizzaTrade Users. Should have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to file a data protection request, please contact our Support, [email protected]