Privacy Policy

Page last updated: January 18,2024

1.

BloomBeans's
Commitment to Privacy

At BloomBeans, we regard the right to privacy as a fundamental human right. We are deeply committed to the user data protection and confidentiality. This is why BloomBeans favours minimal data collection. To this end, we have adopted the following principles in our operations:

  • No KYC: We do not require Know Your Customer procedures.
  • No Verification Data: No personal verification information is needed nor collected.
  • No Account opening: We do not gather any account-related data from our users.
  • No Newsletter Subscriptions: We do not offer this service, we do not collect data nor email.
  • No Event Registration: No Events are being carried by the BloomBeans blockchain or website.
  • No Personal Feedback collection: Any feedback provided is processed without collecting personal data.
  • Cookies data collection: The only data we collect is the standard Cookies information, which is automatically gathered by most websites for basic operational purposes.

2.

Contact Information

BloomBeans operates as an anonymous, decentralized blockchain structure without a physical location or formal organizational setup such as management, offices, phone lines, or employees. Despite this, the community remains open to communication on matters related to data protection.


Should you have any concerns or inquiries regarding data collection, please reach out to us via email at:
info@bloombeans.io

3.

Visiting our website

The BloomBeans.io website operates anonymously and is not tied to a specific geographic location.

During your visit to our site, our hosting provider may automatically collect certain information through server log files, which is sent by your browser. This information includes, but is not limited to, details that facilitate the smooth operation and accessibility of our website. It's important to note that this data is not personalized or linked to any other data sources, ensuring your anonymity and privacy.


The following technical data may be recorded by us in common with every connection via a web server, without your intervention, and stored by us until automatic deletion after no later than two days:


3.1. Anonymized IP addresses

Any collection and processing of this technical data is for the purpose of enabling the use of our website, continuously ensuring system security and stability, optimising our websites, and for internal statistical purposes. This is part of our legitimate interest in the processing of data.



3.2.

Furthermore, IP addresses may be evaluated, together with other data, in case of attacks on the network infrastructure or other unauthorised use or misuse of the website, for the purpose of intelligence and protection.

4.

Use of website Cookies

The website may use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser. More detailed information on cookies and how they work can be found at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org


Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.


We use cookies for the following purposes:


  • To keep track of whether you have pressed the "OK" button on the cookie disclaimer, this way we won't bother you with the notification if you decide to decline cookies.


  • Our Analytics software uses cookies to measure and better understand user-interactions on our site.

5.

Analytics

bloombeans.io website may use an open source web analytics platform. Where this is true, the information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your automatically anonymized IP address) may be stored on the servers of our hosting provider (s).


Before the data is stored, the IP address will be abbreviated by activating IP anonymization (anonymizeIP) on this website.


In addition to the data listed in section 3 we may receive the following information:


  • Usage Data;
  • Navigation path;
  • Length of stay on the Website;
  • Returning or new user;
  • End device.


We may use this technical data to analyze your use of the website by compiling reports on website activity for the understanding and/or optimizing of our website and/or for internal statistical purposes. We do not use the information collected by our web analytics platform to identify individuals unless we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.


Any processing of this technical personal data helps us to identify what is working and what is not on our website and how we may improve it. This general data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information users are looking for. This is part of our legitimate interest in the processing of data.

6.

Social Media

We may use plug-ins from social networks such as Blog, GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, Gitter, Twitter and Facebook on our website.


When you activate them by clicking on them, the operators of the respective social networks may record that you are on our website and may use this information. This processing of your personal data lays in the responsibility of these individual social media platforms and occurs according to their privacy policy.


Please check with these individual social media platforms regarding their privacy policies. BloomBeans is not responsible for data collected by these individual social media platforms. We only use these platforms to inform our community of updates and answer user questions.

7.

Other Parties

With the exception of the provider (s) of our websites, we do not make personal data available to third parties in any case. Especially since we do not collect such data.

8.

Onramping services

If you make BEAN currency purchases in our website or APP through an online crypto purchasing platform (Onramping Services) you may be asked to provide all the necessary information in order to proceed to the purchase.


All information entered into the system, like credit card details, card holder, expiry date, and any other will be forwarded to the Onramping Platform. The legal basis for passing on the data lies in the fulfilment of an agreement between the Onramping Platform and BloomBeans.

9.

International transfer of personal data

We are entitled to transfer your personal data to third parties abroad for the purposes of the data processing described in this Privacy Policy. This concerns especially the following receiver (s):


Our Websites service providers; and/or
Our Onrampin Services providers to assist us in the processing of your online payments whenever it is the case. I THINK THIS REFERS TO ECOMMERCE PASARELAs AND I’M PRETTY SURE WE WILL ONLY BE WORKING WITH BLOCKCHAIN CURRENCIES.
They are obliged to protect data privacy to the same extent as we ourselves.


For further information on Privacy regarding Onrampin Services providers please refer to their Privacy Policy whenever in the case.

10.

Data security

We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against manipulation, partial or complete loss, and unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously being improved in line with technical developments.


Please note that any data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) is generally not secure and we accept no liability for data transmitted to us via the Internet. Unfortunately, absolute protection is not technically possible.


This information does not apply to the websites of third parties and the corresponding links given on our website. BloomBeans assumes no responsibility and liability for these.

11.

Updates to our
Privacy Policy

BloomBeans may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and inform you on the website that the policy has been amended. The current version of the Privacy Policy, as published on our website, is the applicable one.

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