Last Updated: March 31, 2020

TapRoots Wisdom, Inc. (“TapRoots”) offers one of the world’s first platforms to combine the power of a gaming engine and blockchain technologies with a sustainability mission. Our vision is a live-well, play-well ecosystem of daily exploration and fun that forges a healthier self and planet.

In pursuit of our mission, we collect and use certain information from our Users. This privacy policy describes the treatment of information provided or collected when you use our sites and apps, or when you otherwise do business or make contact with us. We follow this privacy policy in accordance with local law in the places where we operate. Know that we are committed to your privacy and the security of your data.

1. Types of Information We Collect

To provide you with the best experiences on our websites and apps, TapRoots collects two basic types of information — personal information and anonymous information — and we may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information. We collect the following categories of information:

• • Registration information you provide when you create an account, including your first name and surname, country of residence, gender, date of birth, email address, username and password
  • Transaction information you provide when you request information or purchase a product or service from us, whether on our sites or through our applications, including your postal address, telephone number and payment information.
  • Information you provide in public forums on our sites and applications
  • Information sent either one-to-one or within a limited group using our message, chat, post or similar functionality, where we are permitted by law to collect this information
  • Information you provide to us when you use our sites and applications, our applications on third-party sites or platforms such as social networking sites, or link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account.
  • Location information when you visit our sites or use our applications, including location information either provided by a mobile device interacting with one of our sites or applications, or associated with your IP address, where we are permitted by law to process this information
  • Usage, viewing and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address, when you visit our sites, use our applications on third-party sites or platforms or open emails we send
  • We may also offer you the ability to import your address book contacts or manually enter e-mail addresses so that you can invite those contacts to join you in our applications and Apps. We will store those contacts for the purposes of helping you and your contacts make connections on our site.

2. How We Collect Your Information

We collect information you provide to us when you request products, services or information from us, register with us, participate in public forums or other activities on our sites and applications, respond to customer surveys, or otherwise interact with us. Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our applications), the information you provide may be separately collected by the third-party site or platform. The information we collect is covered by this privacy policy and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our applications.

• • We collect information through technology, such as cookies, Flash cookies and Web beacons, including when you visit our sites and applications or use our applications on third-party sites or platforms.
  • We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically. Local law may require that you authorize the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.

3. Use of Your Information by TapRoots Wisdom, Inc.

We use the data we collect to operate our business, and to make Apps available to you. This includes using the data to improve our Apps, and to personalize your experiences. We may also use the data to communicate with you to, among other things, inform you about your account, provide security updates, and give you information about our Apps.

We may also use the data to manage your email subscriptions, improve the relevance and security of our websites and Apps, respond to user inquiries, send you periodic marketing communications about our Products, improve the relevance of our advertising, and develop new features. Examples include the following:

• • Provide you with the products and services you request
  • Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you information about features on our sitesand applications or changes to our policies
  • Consistent with local law and choices and controls that may be available to you:Send you offers and promotions for our products and services or third-party products and servicesPersonalize content and experiences on our sites and applicationsProvide you with advertising based on your activity on our sites and applications and on third-party sites and applications.
  • Optimize or improve our products, services and operations
  • Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal

4. Sharing Your Information with Other Companies

We will not share your personal information outside TapRoots except in limited circumstances, including:

• • When you allow us to share your personal information with another company, such as:
  • Electing to share your personal information with carefully selected companies so that they can send you offers andpromotions about their products and services
  • Directing us to share your personal information with third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sitesPlease note that once we share your personal information with another company, the information received by the other company becomes subject to the other company’s privacy practices.
  • When we cooperate with financial institutions to offer co-branded products or services to you, such as a co-branded TapRoots Wisdom Rewards Card, we will do so only if permitted by applicable law and, in these cases, the financial institutions are prohibited from using your personal information for purposes other than those related to the co-branded products or services.
  • When companies perform services on our behalf, like package delivery and customer service; however, these companies are prohibited from using your personal information for purposes other than those requested by us or required by law.
  • When we share personal information with third parties in connection with the sale of a business, to enforce our Terms of Use or rules, to ensure the safety and security of our guests and third parties, to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our guests and third parties, to comply with legal process or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law.
  • In the event that TapRoots Wisdom, Inc. undergoes a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, we may transfer all of your information, including personal information, to the successor organization in such transition. If material changes to TapRoots Wisdom, Inc.’s privacy practices will occur as a result of the business transaction, we will notify you and other users by placing a notice on taproots.com or by sending you a notice to the e-mail address we have on file for you. We may supplement this process by placing notices in our applications, games and on other TapRoots Wisdom, Inc. websites. You should periodically check www.taproots.com and this privacy page for updates.

5. Your Controls and Choices

We provide you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use and sharing of your information. In accordance with local law, your controls and choices may include:

• You may correct, update and delete your registration account
• You may change your choices for subscriptions, newsletters and alerts
• You may choose whether to receive from us offers and promotions for our products and services, or products and services that we think may be of interest to you
• You may choose whether we share your personal information with other companies so they can send you offers and promotions about their products and services
• You may choose whether to receive targeted advertising from many ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other service providers here
• You may request access to the personal information we hold about you: and to request that we amend or delete it: and to request we ask third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same

You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your personal information, by contacting support@taproots.com or following instructions provided in communications sent to you. Please be aware that, if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain products and services to you, and some of our services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If you have questions regarding the specific personal information about you that we process or retain, please contact support@taproots.com.

6. Children’s Privacy

Our websites and Apps are not intended for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from such children. Children under the age of 13 should not use our websites or Apps at any time. In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from children under the age of 13, we will take reasonable measurers to promptly erase such information from our records.

7. Data Security and Integrity

The security, integrity and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect our users’ information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

8. Data Transfers, Storage and Processing Globally

We operate globally and may transfer your personal information to third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this privacy policy. Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. Additionally, when using or disclosing personal information transferred from the European Union, we abide by the Safe Harbor Principles as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, use standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under European Union law for ensuring adequate safeguards, or obtain your consent. We also apply the substantive requirements of the Safe Harbor Principles when transferring personal information from Australia.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may change this privacy policy to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements or for other purposes. We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.

10. Comments and Questions

If you have a comment or question about this privacy policy, please contact support@taproots.com.

Our sites and applications may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.

Notice to California Residents

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by TapRoots Wisdom, Inc. to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@taproots.com. Or write us:

11. Disclosure Statement

To offset our costs for operating this Site, we may generate revenue from some of the links listed within the Site.

12. Definitions

Aggregate Information. Aggregate information means information about groups or categories of guests, which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual guest.

Anonymous Information. Anonymous information means information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual guest.

Application. Application means a program or service operated by us (or on our behalf) that may be displayed on various online, mobile or other platforms and environments, including those operated by third parties, which permits us to interact directly with our guests.

Children. Children means individuals who we have identified are not of legal age to consent to the collection and processing of their personal information. In the United States and Latin America, For TapRoots Wisdom, Inc., the term “children” refers to individuals under 13 years of age.

Cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. You can choose to disable cookies, but if you do, your ability to use or access certain parts of website may be affected. We use cookies and other similar identifiers to understand and save your preferences for future visits, to advertise to you on other sites, and to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences. However, if you choose to disable cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. A banner asking you to accept our cookies policy will be displayed upon the first visit to our website (or the first visit after you delete your cookies). Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies and/or you have not accepted our cookies policy, our system will issue cookies when you visit our site.

Our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (also called single-pixel gifs) that we use to help deliver cookies on our websites, and to count users who have visited those websites. We may also include web beacons in our promotional email messages or newsletters, to determine whether and when you open and act on them. In addition to placing web beacons on our own websites, we may work with other companies to place our web beacons on their websites or in their advertisements. This helps us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a website results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser’s website.

Data Controller. The data controller that is responsible for the personal information collected from sites and applications is:
TapRoots Wisdom, Inc., P.O. Box 550, Frederick, MD 21705

Data Processor. A data processor is a person or entity that processes personal information on behalf of a data controller (or data controllers) and is permitted to perform data processing only as directed by the data controller(s).

IP address. An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our sites and applications, and we may combine IP addresses with personal information.

Member. Member means a subsidiary or affiliated entity that is part of TapRoots Wisdom, Inc.

Notice. Notice may be by email to you at the last email address you provided us, by posting notice of such changes on our sites and applications, or by other means, consistent with applicable law.

Parents. Parents means a parent or legal guardian.

Personal information. Personal information means information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, this anonymous information also is treated as personal information.

Public Forums. Our sites and applications may offer message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience. If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. To request removal of your personal information from a public forum on one of our sites or applications, please contact support@taproots.com.

Unless otherwise stated, TapRoots Wisdom is a data controller for personal data we collect through our Apps and websites subject to this statement.

Contact Information

Please visit support@taproots.com to submit a question or request to
our support team.

Or write to us at:
TapRoots Wisdom, Inc., P.O. Box 550, Frederick, MD 21705