IDNI AG (Commercial Register No. FL-0002.634.410-8), domiciled at Landstrasse 36, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein (“IDNI”, “we”; “us”; “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information or, as otherwise termed, your “personal data”. In that regard, IDNI is developing a decentralized blockchain social network (“Tau”) and license Tau’s capabilities to our clients. More information in this regard can be viewed on our website www.tau.net (the “Site”). 

This Privacy Policy explains how information about you is collected, used, and disclosed by IDNI and to set out the basis on which we will process your personal data when you:

• visit and use the Site and/or Tau (regardless of where you visit or use them from); and
• apply for, receive or use any of the related services that we offer in connection with Tau.

This includes any data that you may provide for and in relation to our newsletters, updates, events and other marketing and promotional communications.

This Privacy Policy also informs you about: (i) how we will handle and look after your personal data, (ii) our obligations in regard to processing your personal data responsibly and securely, (iii) your data protection rights as a data subject, and (iv) how the law protects you. It should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy which is contained herein.

General information about data processing 

The basis for processing personal data

We process your personal data in an appropriate and lawful manner, in accordance with the Liechtenstein Data Protection Act of 4 October 2018 (the “Act”) as amended, and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”), as well as subsidiary legislation and regulations promulgated thereunder.

What personal data we may process

The personal data of the users processed in the context of our business and this website includes usage data (the visited websites of our online offer, access times), communication data (device IDs, IP addresses, location data, browser type and version, operating system used, website, from where you visit us), content data (entries in any contact form we have) as well as user data (name, contact details, subject areas, application documents).

The term “user” covers all categories of persons affected by data processing. These include our business partners, customers, prospects, applicants and other visitors to our website. The terms used, such as “users” are to be understood gender-neutral. To the extent necessary to meet our obligations under the Act and the GDPR and to carry out our business, we may obtain further information from publicly available sources, (e.g. registers, commercial and association registers, press, internet).

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.

The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the execution of a contract or if it is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Article 6 (1) a GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR), since we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of requests addressed to us.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after completion of your request). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

How we collect personal data

Personal data that we process is obtained from various sources, including but not limited to:

• Information you provide to us from time to time;
• When you communicate with us by telephone, fax, email or other forms of electronic communication ;
• Our token holder identification form;
• To the extent necessary to meet our obligations under the GDPR, the DDA and the DDO and to provide our Services, we may obtain further information from publicly available sources, (e.g. registers, commercial and association registers, debt directories, press, internet).

How we protect personal data 

We protect your personal data through appropriate technical and organizational security measures and store them electronically on secure servers and physically in secure premises.

Who we disclose or transfer personal data

Please note that we will not transfer any data to a third party unless required by law or required in the context of a contract or business relationship we may have with you (e.g. providing information to advisors and lawyers, amongst others in order to facilitate the business we are engaged in with you.

How long we store personal data

Any data that we hold about you will be stored as long as our relationship exists and thereafter for further 10 years. 

What your rights are in respect of personal data

We would like to inform you that under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

• the right to access according to Article 15 of the GDPR,
• the right to rectification according to Article 16 of the GDPR, 
• the right to erasure according to Article 17 of the GDPR, the right to restrict processing according to Article 18 of the GDPR, the right of object according to Article 21 of the GDPR, 
• if applicable – the right to data portability according to Article 20 of the GDPR.
• You may at any time lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection authority under Article 77 of the GDPR. More information in this regard can be found here: https://www.llv.li/#/1758/datenschutzstelle

The above rights may be subject to special laws in Liechtenstein (such as the DDA and the DDO) and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.

Our Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a data protection officer (“DPO”) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Policy 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

Full name of legal entity:         IDNI AG (Commercial Register No. FL-0002.634.410-8)

Name of DPO:                          Alexander Baker

Email address:                           [email protected] 

Postal address: Landstrasse 36, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein

Use of our Website

Analysis tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a possibility that your browsing patterns will be statistically analysed when your visit this website. Such analyses are performed primarily with cookies and with what we refer to as analysis programmes. As a rule, the analyses of your browsing patterns are conducted anonymously; i.e. the browsing patterns cannot be traced back to you.

You have the option to object to such analyses or you can prevent their performance by not using certain tools. For detailed information about the tools and about your options to object, please consult our Data Protection Declaration below.

Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a web site.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

Execution of a contract data processing agreement

In order to guarantee processing in compliance with data protection regulations, we have concluded an order processing contract with our host.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Visitor and usage data 

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the accessing computer system.

The following data is collected here:

• Information about the browser type and version used
• The operating system of the user
• The Internet service provider of the user
• The IP address of the user
• Date and time of access
• Internet pages from which the user’s system accesses our website

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Data on the user or incident level stored by Google linked to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) will be anonymized or deleted after 14 month. For details please click the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. Cookies are text files, which are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website by users. The information generated by cookies on your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the utilization of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of this website has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns to optimize both, the services offered online and the operator’s advertising activities. If a corresponding agreement has been requested (e.g. an agreement to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agreement can be revoked at any time.

The data collected by Google may be transmitted by Google to countries outside the EU and the EEA, in particular the United States. However, Google has submitted to the Privacy Shield Framework. More information on your rights can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/citizens-guide_en.pdf.

In addition, on this website, we have activated the IP anonymization function. As a result, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states that have ratified the Convention on the European Economic Area prior to its transmission to the United States. The full IP address will be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google shall use this information to analyse your use of this website to generate reports on website activities and to render other services to the operator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted in conjunction with Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s possession.

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information, please contact Google directly, especially at the following links:

• www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
• www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
• www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics

You have the option to prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This will result in the placement of an opt out cookie, which prevents the recording of your data during future visits to this website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

For more information about the handling of user data by Google Analytics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration.

Cookies

Our websites and pages use what the industry refers to as “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or they are permanently archived on your device (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted once you terminate your visit. Permanent cookies remain archived on your device until you actively delete them or they are automatically eradicated by your web browser.

In some cases it is possible that third party cookies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third party cookies). These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the third party (e.g. cookies for the processing of payment services).

Cookies have a variety of functions. Many cookies are technically essential since certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of promotional messages.

Cookies that are required for the performance of the electronic communications transaction or to provide certain functions you want to use (e.g. the shopping cart function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimised provision of the operator’s services. If a corresponding agreement has been requested (e.g. an agreement to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agreement can be revoked at any time.

You have the option to set up your browser in such a manner that you will be notified any time cookies are placed and to permit the acceptance of cookies only in specific cases. You may also exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general or activate the delete function for the automatic eradication of cookies when the browser closes. If cookies are deactivated, the functions of this website may be limited.

In the event that third party cookies are used or if cookies are used for analytical purposes, we will separately notify you in conjunction with this Data Protection Policy and, if applicable, ask for your consent.

Archiving period

Data on the user or incident level stored by Google linked to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) will be anonymized or deleted after 14 month. For details please click the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en

Browser plug-in

You do have the option to prevent the archiving of cookies by making pertinent changes to the settings of your browser software. However, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to their fullest extent. Moreover, you have the option prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and affiliated with your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Google Web Fonts

To ensure that fonts used on this website are uniform, this website uses so-called Web Fonts provided by Google. When you access a page on our website, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts.

To do this, the browser you use will have to establish a connection with Google’s servers. As a result, Google will learn that your IP address was used to access this website. The use of Google Web Fonts is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in a uniform presentation of the font on the operator’s website. If a respective declaration of consent has been obtained (e.g. consent to the archiving of cookies), the data will be processed exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a DGDPR. Any such consent may be revoked at any time.

If your browser should not support Web Fonts, a standard font installed on your computer will be used.

For more information on Google Web Fonts, please follow this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Third-Party Links

Our Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy notices, statements or policies.

We encourage you to read the privacy Policy of every website you visit.

Data security in relation to our website

We use state of the art encryption supported by your browser during the visit to the website. Whether a single page of our website is transmitted encrypted, you can tell by the closed representation of the key or lock icon in the address bar of your browser.

Effective Date: 26^th April 2022