[Last updated 19 June, 2024]

CheckD Privacy Policy

Our Service is built on Dataswyft decentralized data accounts and we believe it is important that you understand how we treat your data. Please note that CheckD is a service for people who are 18 or over. 

1. Who we are and contact details

2. What information we use

3. How we collect your personal information

4. What we do with your information and how it is lawful

5. Who we share your information with, and why

6. How long we keep your information

7. Your rights in relation to your information

1. Who we are and contact details

CheckD is a “web3” data wallet operated by Dataswyft Inc (Formerly known as Dataswift Inc). We are a company registered in Delaware, United States of America (USA) (State File Number 7433333) and our registered office is at 8 The Green, Ste R, Dover, Kent, Delaware 19901. We are responsible for looking after your personal data, keeping it safe, and using it lawfully. We also enable you to collect your data, so that you can store, own and use it for yourself. If you want to get in touch about any privacy issues, please contact us at: privacy@checkd.io

2. What information we use (4 types)

Wallet ID - When you create your data wallet, it is automatically given a unique ID number (“Wallet ID”). This identifies your wallet on the Dataswyft system but can only identify you if you give someone your identity details as well as your Wallet ID number. We do not share your Wallet ID number. 

The Non Identifying information about you that we collect and store, may be stored in your data account in order to to deliver our services to you.

• Your Non identifying Profile Data - date of birth, gender, locale. 

• Your Non identifying Attribute Data - such as your preferences, priorities, characteristics, habits and declarations associated with your badges, communities, offers and quests. 

• Your content data - the data you generate when you create communities, badges, offers and quests. 

• Your usage activity: how you use our website, app, products, and services.

• Your computer and internet settings: your IP address, login data, browser type and version, browser plug-ins, operating system and platform, and time zone.

We collect the above data for our legitimate purposes (see below) and don’t unfairly affect your privacy. We store this data in our data lake to enable third parties to target anonymized audiences on our platform with offers so that you can benefit from personalized offers without third parties knowing your identity. 

The identifying information about you that we collect and store, and may also be stored in your data account, in order to deliver our services to you. 

• Contact Data - first name, last name, email address and telephone numbers.

• Your marketing preferences: whether you have chosen to receive our marketing communications and if so, whether you prefer emails, text messages or calls. 

We collect the above data so that we can contact you to inform you of any system level updates to our services. You have the right to opt out of our marketing correspondences. We do not store the above information in our data lake. 

We do not store badge and data profile information, but collect it on your behalf, and store that in your data wallet account: 

• Identity Data - first name, last name, username, or similar identifier, entered by you or acquired by you into your data wallet account.

• Badge and Profile Data - any information or files about you that has been generated by you through uploading information, linked to another data account, or received from other systems including, but not limited to finance and banking, healthcare, education, social media and other systems that have been assigned to a badge by an issuer that would be presented to you when you activate your badge. Such badge and profile information could include biometrics and other personal identifying information. Badge and Profile information can also be cryptographically sealed digital assets.

3. How we collect your personal information

We collect information directly from you when you register and use our website and the app, and when you answer surveys, send us feedback, or any other messages.

Our tech collects the non identifying information in the background while you use our app.

When you choose to authenticate a badge or verify data that involves assigning information from another application that has a data account, we link that information to the badge for you to be able to use it. We do not obtain badge or profile data unless you specifically transfer it to us through a badge data sharing transaction. We will always show you the badge and profile data in your data wallet account and only you can view it.

4. What we do with your information and how it is lawful

We use your personal information to enable you to use the app. 

These are all things that we have agreed to do as part of our contract with you.

We use your Wallet ID so that we can put your data into the right wallet, link the right information to the right badges for the badges issued to you, enable you to use your badges, present the right offers against the right badges and enable the right journeys to be linked to the right badges and offers. We also use your wallet ID to store the data you generate if you create communities, badges, offers and journeys. 

We aggregate usage of communities, badges, offers and quests and all non-identifying information to our data lake with that of all our other users to generate anonymized audiences. You cannot be identified from this information and it is not personal data. If you choose to create communities, badges, offers and quests, you (and users like you) have the option to retrieve the analytics from us to view the analytics and build tools for the anonymized audiences you generated from the communities, badges and offers you created. 

5. Who we share your information with, and why

We share your non-identifying information with Dataswyft as the provider of data wallet account infrastructure, and specific third parties, either those who provide us with other IT infrastructure and services or those who provide us with consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.

We have agreements in place to require all third parties to respect the security of your information. They are not allowed to use your information for their purposes but only to use it for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets or if we acquire or merge with other businesses, then we will share your information with the new owner. They will use it in accordance with this privacy policy.

We share badge information when you explicitly instruct us to do so and only to data wallet accounts you authorize and not to any other external system. We check that the information in your data wallet account has not been tampered with nor modified from its source. Where we believe the badge information is not secure, safe, legal, correct, or in violation of our Terms of Service or a breach of applicable laws, we retain the right not to execute on the instruction. 

6. How long we keep your information

We only keep your info for as long as we need it - either for the purpose for which we collected it or where we need it to comply with any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

Details of how long we keep distinct aspects of your information are available in our retention policy which you can read in Figure 2 below.

Your rights in relation to your information:

As you’ll have gathered from what we do, we’re keen on helping you to control the use of your personal info. The law gives you various rights, too, in particular, to:

• request access, correction, or erasure.

• object to processing.

• request restriction of processing.

• request transfer.

• withdraw consent.

7. Additional information

What we do with your information and how it is lawful

Our legitimate interests include the following activities so long as we do them in a way that doesn’t unfairly affect your privacy:

• Supplying services to you

• Protecting website and app users, employees, and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health, and welfare

• Promoting, marketing, and advertising our products and services

• Personalising communications or content within emails, on the website and in the app

• Understanding users’ behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs

• Improving existing and developing new products and services

• Complying with legal and regulatory obligations

• Preventing, investigating, and detecting crime, fraud, bullying, harassment, discriminatory or other anti-social behaviour and taking action against perpetrators, including working with law enforcement agencies

• Protecting CheckD, its users, and partners, by taking appropriate legal action against third parties who have committed criminal acts, or breach their legal obligations to databonds

• Fulfilling our duties to our users, partners, colleagues, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

  Details of how long we keep distinct aspects of your information are available in our retention policy which you can read in Figure 1 below. 

Your legal rights

You have the right to:

• Access – ask us for and receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Correction - ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

• Erasure - you can ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to use it.

• Object to our use - where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you feel it unfairly affects your privacy.

• Request restriction of our use – you can ask us to suspend the use of your personal data in the following scenarios:

• If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.

• Where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it.

• Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

• You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

• Request transfer - you can ask us to provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to personal information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

• Withdraw consent - you can do this at any time where we are relying on consent to use your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of anything we did before you withdraw your consent. If you do so, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will tell you if this is the case at the time.

If you want to do any of these things, please contact us via email at: support@checkd.io

If you have any queries, please contact us at: privacy@checkd.io