Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2 August 2024

This Privacy Notice explains how Fedi, Inc. (“Fedi”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our website (fedi.xyz) and our Fedi app (collectively, the “Services”). 

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. In addition, it does not address our privacy practices relating to Fedi employees and other personnel. 

  1. What is Personal Information? 

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual. It does not include aggregated or deidentified information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to an individual.

  1. Our Collection of Personal Information

Sometimes we collect personal information automatically when an individual interacts with our website.  At times, we may collect personal information about an individual from other sources and third parties, even before our first direct interaction. However, we do not collect any personal information through our Fedi app.

Personal Information Individuals Provide

We collect the following personal information individuals provide in connection with our website: 

  • Contact Information, including first and last name, email address, and communication preferences.

  • Interest Information, including actual or inferred interest in Fedi products or additional future services.  

  • Inquiry Information, including information provided in custom messages sent through our Services or provided directly to a member of the Fedi team. 

  • Event Information, including whether an individual is eligible to attend or did attend a Fedi event. 

  • Job Application Information, including your contact and demographic information, educational and work history, employment interests, information obtained during interviews and any other information you choose to provide, if you apply for employment.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

As is true of most digital platforms, we and our third-party providers may also collect personal information from an individual’s device, browsing actions, and site usage patterns automatically when visiting or interacting with our website, which may include: 

  • Log Data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, browser id, the URL entered and the referring page/campaign, date/time of visit, the time spent on our Services, and any errors that may occur during the visit to our website.

  • Analytics Data, such as the electronic path taken to our website, through our website, and when exiting our website, as well as usage and activity on our website.

  • Location Data, such as general geographic location based on the log data we or our third-party providers collect.   

For information about our and our third-party providers’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices individuals may have in relation to its collection, please review the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. 

Personal Information from Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we could combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual’s use of our website.

We may receive the same categories of personal information as described above from the following third parties:

  • Social Media: When an individual interacts with us through various social media networks, such as when someone communicates with us through Twitter, Telegram or Discord, we may receive some information about the individual that they permit the social network to share with third parties. This information may include profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, and any other information individuals permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon an individual’s privacy settings with the social network. Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services.

  • Event Coordinators: We may attend or sponsor events and obtain personal information regarding attendees of those events. We may receive this personal information directly from individuals who choose to interact with us at those events, or we may obtain information directly from event coordinators in connection with an individual’s registration for and attendance at the event.  

  • Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services solely on our behalf, such as marketing providers, collect personal information and may share some or all of this information with us. 

  1. Our Use of Personal Information

We use personal information we collect to: 

  • Manage our organization and its day-to-day operations; 

  • Communicate with individuals, including via email and social media;

  • Market and advertise our Services to individuals, including through in-person events, social media, and email, and other online venues, based on individual interests and interactions with us;

  • Administer, improve, and personalize our website, including by recognizing an individual and remembering their information when they return to our website;

  • Facilitate transactions and individual benefits and services, including customer support; 

  • Identify and analyze how individuals use our website;

  • Improve and customize our website to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;

  • Test, enhance, update, and monitor our website, or diagnose or fix technology problems; 

  • Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our property and website, technology assets, and business;

  • Defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements;

  • Prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity; 

  • Facilitate business transactions and reorganizations impacting the structure of our business; and

  • Comply with legal obligations. 

Where an individual chooses to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time.

  1. Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We disclose personal information in the following ways: 

  • Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as marketing providers, customer service and communication providers, website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, IT services, analytics services, job application-related services, and administrative services. 

  • Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third-party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.  

  • Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement: 

  • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; 

  • to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process; 

  • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies;

  • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud; 

  • to protect the health and safety of us and others; or 

  • as otherwise required by applicable law.

  • Otherwise with Consent or Direction: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with the individual’s consent or direction.

  1. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 

Overview of Cookies

We and our third-party providers may use (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to automatically collect personal information and use or disclose the personal information for the purposes described in the sections above. For example, our website may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to collect and view reports about the traffic on our website. Individuals can obtain more information on the use of Google Analytics by visiting Google’s privacy policy here and individuals can view Google’s currently available opt-out options here.

Choice Relating to the Use of Cookies on Our Website

If an individual would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow the individual to: (i) change the individual’s browser settings to notify the individual when the individual receives a cookie, which lets the individual choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set the individual’s browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact the individual’s experience using our website, as some features and offerings may not work properly or at all. Depending on the individual’s device and operating system, the individual may not be able to delete or block all cookies. In addition, if the individual wants to reject cookies across all browsers and devices, the individual will need to do so on each browser on each device the individual actively uses. The individual may also set their email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether they have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.

Additional Choice Relating to Third-Party Advertising Cookies

Please note certain of our third-party providers may directly collect personal information about individuals’ online activities over time and across different websites when individuals use our website for purposes of providing online behavioral or interest-based advertising services to third parties. To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources and/or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources, at www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some, but not all, interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app. 

Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.

  1. Control Over Your Information

You may control your information in the following ways:

  • Email Communications Preferences: You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in such communications.  You may not opt-out of service-related communications (e.g., changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices).

  • Modifying or Deleting Your Information.  If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at support@fedi.xyz. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances.

  1. Children’s Personal Information

Our Services are not directed to children, and we do not intentionally collect or solicit personal information from individuals who we know or reasonably should know to be under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use our Services or otherwise provide us with any personal information. If you believe a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. We will promptly delete any such personal information.

  1. State-Specific Disclosures

We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional information relating to the processing of personal information (as defined below) about residents of certain jurisdictions. Please refer below for additional information that may be applicable to you:

  • Nevada: If you are a resident of the State of Nevada, USA, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. Although we do not currently sell covered information, please contact us at support@fedi.xyz to submit such a request.

  1. Links to Third-Party Websites or Services

Our Service may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices. 

  1. Updates to This Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify individuals by email to their registered email address, by prominent posting on our Services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.

  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to support@fedi.xyz.

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Effective Date: May 3rd 2023

This Privacy Notice explains how Fedi, Inc. (“Fedi”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our website (fedi.xyz) and our early-access sign-up process (collectively, the “Services”). 

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. In addition, it does not address our privacy practices relating to Fedi employees and other personnel. 

  1. What is Personal Information? 

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual. It does not include aggregated or deidentified information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to an individual.

  1. Our Collection of Personal Information

Sometimes we collect personal information automatically when an individual interacts with our Services, and sometimes we collect personal information directly from an individual. At times, we may collect personal information about an individual from other sources and third parties, even before our first direct interaction.

Personal Information Individuals Provide

We collect the following personal information individuals provide in connection with our Services:

  • Contact Information, including first and last name, email address, and communication preferences. 

  • Interest Information, including actual or inferred interest in Fedi products or additional future services.  

  • Inquiry Information, including information provided in custom messages sent through our Services or provided directly to a member of the Fedi team. 

  • Event Information, including whether an individual is eligible to attend or did attend a Fedi event. 

  • Job Application Information, including your contact and demographic information, educational and work history, employment interests, information obtained during interviews and any other information you choose to provide, if you apply for employment.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

As is true of most digital platforms, we and our third-party providers may also collect personal information from an individual’s device, browsing actions, and site usage patterns automatically when visiting or interacting with our Services, which may include: 

  • Log Data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, browser id, the URL entered and the referring page/campaign, date/time of visit, the time spent on our Services, and any errors that may occur during the visit to our Services.

  • Analytics Data, such as the electronic path taken to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, as well as usage and activity on our Services.

  • Location Data, such as general geographic location based on the log data we or our third-party providers collect.   

For information about our and our third-party providers’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices individuals may have in relation to its collection, please review the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. 

Personal Information from Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we often combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual.

We may receive the same categories of personal information as described above from the following third parties:

  • Social Media: When an individual interacts with us through various social media networks, such as when someone communicates with us through Twitter, Telegram or Discord, we may receive some information about the individual that they permit the social network to share with third parties. This information may include profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, and any other information individuals permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon an individual’s privacy settings with the social network. Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services.

  • Event Coordinators: We may attend or sponsor local events and obtain personal information regarding attendees of those events. We may receive this personal information directly from individuals who choose to interact with us at those events, or we may obtain information directly from event coordinators in connection with an individual’s registration for and attendance at the event.  

  • Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services solely on our behalf, such as marketing providers, collect personal information and often share some or all of this information with us. 

  1. Our Use of Personal Information

We use personal information we collect to: 

  • Manage our organization and its day-to-day operations; 

  • Communicate with individuals, including via email and social media;

  • Market and advertise our Services to individuals, including through in-person events, social media, and email, and other online venues, based on individual interests and interactions with us;

  • Administer, improve, and personalize our Service, including by recognizing an individual and remembering their information when they return to our Services;

  • Facilitate transactions and individual benefits and services, including customer support; 

  • Identify and analyze how individuals use our Services;

  • Improve and customize our Services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;

  • Test, enhance, update, and monitor the Services, or diagnose or fix technology problems; 

  • Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets, and business;

  • Defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements;

  • Prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity; 

  • Facilitate business transactions and reorganizations impacting the structure of our business; and

  • Comply with legal obligations. 

Where an individual chooses to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time. 

  1. Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We disclose personal information in the following ways: 

  • Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as marketing providers, customer service and communication providers, website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, IT services, analytics services, job application-related services, and administrative services. 

  • Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.  

  • Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement: 

    • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; 

    • to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process; 

    • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies;

    • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud; 

    • to protect the health and safety of us and others; or 

    • as otherwise required by applicable law.

  • Otherwise with Consent or Direction: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with the individual’s consent or direction. 

  1. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 

Overview of Cookies

We and our third-party providers may use (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to automatically collect personal information and use or disclose the personal information for the purposes described in the sections above. For example, our services may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to collect and view reports about the traffic on our website. Individuals can obtain more information on the use of Google Analytics by visiting Google’s privacy policy here and individuals can view Google’s currently available opt-out options here.

Choice Relating to the Use of Cookies on Our Services

If an individual would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow the individual to: (i) change the individual’s browser settings to notify the individual when the individual receives a cookie, which lets the individual choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set the individual’s browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact the individual’s experience using our website, as some features and offerings may not work properly or at all. Depending on the individual’s device and operating system, the individual may not be able to delete or block all cookies. In addition, if the individual wants to reject cookies across all browsers and devices, the individual will need to do so on each browser on each device the individual actively uses. The individual may also set their email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether they have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.

Additional Choice Relating to Third-Party Advertising Cookies

Please note certain of our third-party providers may directly collect personal information about individuals’ online activities over time and across different websites when individuals use our website for purposes of providing online behavioral or interest-based advertising services to third parties. To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources and/or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources, at www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some, but not all, interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app. 

Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.

  1. Control Over Your Information

You may control your information in the following ways:

  • Email Communications Preferences: You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in such communications.  You may not opt-out of service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices).

  • Modifying or Deleting Your Information.  If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at support@fedi.xyz. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances.

  1. Children’s Personal Information

Our Services are not directed to children, and we do not intentionally collect or solicit personal information from individuals who we know or reasonably should know to be under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use our Services or otherwise provide us with any personal information. If you believe a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. We will promptly delete any such personal information.

  1. State-Specific Disclosures

We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional information relating to the processing of personal information (as defined below) about residents of certain states. Please refer below for additional information that may be applicable to you:

  • Nevada: If you are a resident of the State of Nevada, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. Although we do not currently sell covered information, please contact us at support@fedi.xyz to submit such a request. 

  1. Links to Third-Party Websites or Services

Our Service may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices. 

  1. Updates to This Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time, including when we transition from the early-access sign-up process to the launch of additional services. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify individuals by email to their registered email address, by prominent posting on our Services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.

  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to support@fedi.xyz.