Last updated November 24, 2024
European Users: Please see the Notice to European Users section below for additional information for individuals located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom (which we refer to as “Europe”, and “European” should be understood accordingly).
This Privacy Policy describes how SolarLink (“SolarLink,” “we”, “us” or “our”) processes personal information that we collect through our digital or online properties or services that link to this Privacy Policy (including as applicable, our website, social media pages, marketing activities, web extensions, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy, collectively, the “Service”). SolarLink operates the SolarLink web extension that is designed to permit users to participate in a proof of bandwidth ecosystem that facilitates the SolarLink validator system in determining proof of coverage related to bandwidth.
Personal information you may provide us through the Service or otherwise includes:
We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:
We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Service, our communications, and other online services, such as:
Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:
We may offer features that help users invite their friends or contacts to use the Service, and we may collect contact details about these invitees so we can deliver their invitations. Please do not refer someone to us or share their contact details with us unless you have their permission to do so.
We may use your personal information to:
We may use your personal information to personalize the Service for you, which may include using your personal information to:
We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and our business and to develop new products and services. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified, and/or anonymized data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into de-identified or anonymized data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this aggregated, de-identified, or otherwise anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.
We and our service providers may collect and use certain of your personal information to send you direct marketing communications and may personalize these messages based on your needs and interests. You may opt out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of Marketing section below.
We may use your personal information to analyze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our business, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services.
We may use your personal information to:
We may use your personal information to:
In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:
We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time of collection.
To the extent relevant, our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research, and website analytics).
Third parties with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.
Any information collected necessary to process our rewards program (such as your wallet address) is collected and processed directly by your chosen cryptocurrency platform. Please review the privacy policy for the relevant cryptocurrency platform to learn how they may use your information.
Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and Protection purposes described above.
We may disclose personal information in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in SolarLink, financing of SolarLink, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer, or merger of all or part of our business, assets, or shares). For example, we may need to share certain personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers. We may also disclose your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assignee of SolarLink as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.
We may share SolarLink network users’ personal information in connection with their participation or use of the SolarLink network to facilitate bandwidth validation with other users and others (including the public). Due to the nature of blockchain technologies, any data posted to a blockchain will be visible to other users of the Service and the public. This information can be seen, collected, and used by others, including being cached, copied, screen captured, or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines), and we are not responsible for any such use of this information.
In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. Users who are located in Europe can find additional information about their rights below in the Notice to European Users section.
If you have registered for an account with us through the Service, you may be able to access, update, and delete certain personal information through account features.
You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email or by contacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Service may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web beacons from functioning.
Most browsers and devices allow you to configure your device to prevent images from loading. To do this, follow the instructions in your particular browser or device settings.
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals except where we expressly indicate otherwise. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services. We will notify you if this is the case at the time.
The Service may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications, or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications, and online services you use.
We employ technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.
Users in Europe should read the important information provided below about the transfer of personal information outside of Europe contained in the Notice to European Users section below.
The Service is not intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acknowledgment that the modified Privacy Policy applies to your interactions with the Service and our business.
Email: slonsol.link@gmail.com
Where This Notice to European Users Applies: The information provided in this “Notice to European Users” section applies only to individuals located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK) (i.e., “Europe” as defined at the top of this Privacy Policy).
Personal Information: References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy should be understood to include a reference to “personal data” as defined in the “GDPR” (i.e., the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“EU GDPR”)) and the EU GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom (“UK GDPR”). Under the GDPR, “personal data” means information about individuals from which they are either directly identified or can be identified. The personal information that we collect from and about you is described in greater detail in the section “Personal Information We Collect.”
In respect of each of the purposes for which we use your personal information, the GDPR requires us to ensure that we have a “legal basis” for that use.
Our legal bases for processing your personal information described in this Privacy Policy are listed below:
We have set out below the legal bases we rely on in respect of the relevant purposes for which we use your personal information – for more information on these purposes and the data types involved, see the How We Use Your Personal Information section above and the description of associated data sharing relevant to such purposes set out in the How We Share Your Personal Information section also above.
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for the Compliance and Protection purposes outlined above.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
When we no longer require the personal information that we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
You do not have to provide personal information to us. However, where we need to process your personal information either to comply with applicable law or to deliver our Service to you, and you fail to provide that personal information when requested, we may not be able to provide some or all of our Service to you. We will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership, or biometric or genetic characteristics other than as requested by us as part of the Service) on or through the Service, or otherwise to us. If you provide us with any such sensitive personal information when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.
As part of the Service, we do not engage in automated decision-making and/or profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects. We provide our analysis to our business customers, and our business customers make decisions that may affect you.
European data protection laws may give you certain rights regarding your personal information in certain circumstances. If you are located in Europe, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:
You may submit these requests by contacting us. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Whether or not we are required to fulfill any request you make will depend on a number of factors (e.g., why and how we are processing your personal information). If we reject any request you may make (whether in whole or in part), we will let you know our grounds for doing so at the time, subject to any legal restrictions. Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to exercise your rights; however, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within a month of receipt. It may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests; in this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Although we urge you to contact us first to find a solution for any concern you may have, in addition to your rights outlined above, if you are not satisfied with our response to a request you make, or how we process your personal information, you can make a complaint to the data protection regulator in your habitual place of residence.
We are a U.S.-based company, and many of our service providers, advisers, partners, or other recipients of data are also based in the U.S. This means that if you use the Service, your personal information will necessarily be accessed and processed in the U.S. It may also be provided to recipients in other countries outside Europe.
We try to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal information by making sure one of the following mechanisms is implemented:
You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of Europe.