Privacy Policy

NORTH AMERICA PRIVACY POLICY / NAKAMOTO FORESTRY NORTH AMERICA

Revised September 9, 2024

This Privacy Policy applies to Nakamoto Forestry North America and its related corporate entities (collectively “we”, “us” or “Nakamoto Forestry”). It describes how we collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information when you interact with us and how we maintain the quality and security of your personal information under applicable privacy laws. These interactions include using our website and any mobile app, interacting with us on social media, purchasing our products, inquiring about our products, participating in a contest, requesting information, or applying for a job.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to employment-related records (other than job applicant information) or your interactions directly with third parties and their websites. In some cases, we may provide different or supplemental information when you interact with us in different regions. Some of that information can be found below.

Nakamoto Forestry values and respects the privacy of all people – including our customers, business partners, job applicants, and suppliers. We are committed to building trust by ensuring that your personal information is handled appropriately by our staff and our service providers, in accordance with applicable privacy laws and community expectations.

WHAT WE COLLECT

We collect the following categories of information in order to sell and market our products that does not involve correlating or combining cross-context behavioral advertising, communicate with you, enhance our offerings and operations, recruit candidates, research for technological development, and for other operational, legal and compliance purposes. The responsible data controller for this information is: Nakamoto Forestry North America, Attn: Administration, 7320 NE 55th Ave., Portland OR 97218 USA.

HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect personal information about you in the following ways:

Direct collection

We will collect your personal information directly from you when you:

Indirect collection

There may be occasions when we collect information about you indirectly from third parties or publicly available sources. Such third parties may include people or organizations who provide leads and marketing, promotional and data analysis services to us. We may combine this information with information we already have about you to help us understand trends, behavior, and views about our products. These third parties may set and access cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies on your device, which may have cookies with varying expiration periods. These parties may, likewise, collect various types of information about your browser, device, or browsing activities through use of these cookies.

WHY WE COLLECT IT

We collect personal information for various business or commercial purposes, including to:

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with:

In addition, we may share your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets.

REQUIREMENT OR OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE INFORMATION

Unless expressly stated, the provision of your personal information is not required or obligatory.

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies are data records that are stored in databases of the browser. For example, user identification numbers are stored here, which are transmitted to the user’s computer when the website is used and managed there. The data records are kept ready there for later access. Typical uses of cookies are, for example, language selection, consent documentation or authentication of the user.

HOW WE MAY TRANSFER PERSONAL INFORMATION OVERSEAS

Nakamoto Forestry has affiliates in a number of different countries. As part of our operations, your personal information may be shared with one or more of our group companies in those countries. In addition, we may disclose your personal information to our third-party service providers who may be based in or have servers located outside of the country in which you live. When we disclose your personal information to international recipients, we make efforts to ensure data security and appropriate privacy practices are maintained by those overseas entities. We will only disclose your information to overseas entities where:

In addition, if information is subject to GDPR, we only transfer such information to countries that are considered to provide an adequate level of protection or where we have established that all relevant recipients provide an adequate level of data protection.

STORAGE PERIOD

We store your information:

 

 

AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING INCLUDING PROFILING

We may use your identity, contact, technical, usage, account, and profile information, including identity, contact and profile data we have received from data brokers or aggregators, to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what kinds of products may be of interest to you. Combining information from multiple sources in this way is commonly known as “enriching data” or “profile building.” This is how we decide which products and offers to include in our communication. This process may involve automated decision-making to determine which messages will be most meaningful to you based on your interests, preferences, and location. There may also be other instances where we may use your information to render a decision based on automated processing of such personal information. However, these other instances will not have a legal effect or other significant effect on any data subject. If you would not like us to use data from data brokers and aggregators to enrich any information we have collected from you or if you would like to object to automated decision-making or if you would like to submit observations about a decision made by automated means, please submit a privacy request.

HOW TO SUBMIT PRIVACY REQUESTS

To update, access or delete your personal information, or to opt out from sales, please email [email protected] or call (971) 512-6780. To stop receiving marketing emails, you may also click on the “Unsubscribe” link in any marketing email you receive from us and update your preferences.

Note that you may also contact us to request information regarding the purpose of any processing activity, the categories of personal information processed, the recipients of the data (if a transfer is made), the duration of the storage or the criteria for determining the duration. You also have the right to receive personal information in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to have it transferred to a third party, to restrict processing, to object to processing, or to complain to the relevant supervisory authority about unauthorized processing activity.

We may need your contact information, such as name, address, phone number and email, to process a privacy request and verify your identity. For security and privacy, we may use a third-party identity verification service to do so. With your consent, we may send you a text to your mobile number to verify your identity. The service provider may also present you with several questions requiring a response. Please note we need to keep certain information when permitted by law to detect security incidents, prevent fraudulent or illegal activities, identify and repair errors, comply with laws and regulations, and for other solely internal and lawful purposes.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – JOB APPLICANTS

Nakamoto Forestry collects information from you during your job application, including: (1) identification information, such as your name, address, phone number, email, account credentials and government-issued ID (if asked), (2) online activities, such as your interactions with the website, (3) professional or employment-related information, such as employment status; employment history, references or your résumé, (4) education information, such as your education background, (5) geolocation information such as your location when targeting our help wanted ads on social media, (6) protected class information, such as gender, military status, race and ethnic background for Equal Employment Opportunity compliance purposes in accordance with the law, (7) information relating to your immigration status and ability to work legally in the U.S., (8) personal or family employment affiliation with Nakamoto Forestry, (9) criminal background information, and (10) audio, video or electronic information, when you communicate with us, during your application or interview process, and (11) other personal information, if it identifies, relates and can be reasonably associated with or linked to you. We use the information to improve our recruitment practices, evaluate positions and candidates, conduct background checks and credential verifications, and for communication and analytic purposes.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – CALIFORNIA

Consumers, users, and others who reside in the State of California are entitled to separate and additional protections. For further information, please see our Supplemental Policy for California Residents here.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – GDPR AND THE EU-US PRIVACY FRAMEWORK

For further information, please click here.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – CANADA

In Canada, electronic communications are governed in part by Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, effective as of July 1st, 2014, and its relevant rules and regulations (“CASL”). As it relates to anti-spam activities, CASL requires organizations, in their electronic communications with others, to comply with certain consent and informational requirements. Such electronic communications include newsletters, product updates, pricing information and promotional material. Nakamoto Forestry is committed to making sure that it respects the law, as well as the choice of any third party, with respect to electronic communications. Where applicable, Nakamoto Forestry will ask for your opt-in express consent to receive such electronic communications.

CHANGES TO POLICY We may change or update portions of this Privacy Policy (including any supplements) in the future. When we do, we will post it on our website. Your continued use of our website, or communicating or transacting with us following the posting of changes, means you accept the changes. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected]