Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 August 2025

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for California Residents

Privacy Policy for EU and UK Residents

Introduction

NEAR House of Stake Foundation, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Company”, “us” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to providing you with information about our and our service providers’ data handling practices through this privacy policy.

This privacy policy describes the types of information we and our Services Providers may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website https://gov.houseofstake.org/ (the “Website”), when you use any mobile applications to which this policy is posted (collectively, the “Apps” and each, an “App”), as well as any tools, code or other software made available for download on the Website or the Apps, such as decentralized applications, cryptocurrency wallets and web3 development tools (collectively, the “Tools”).

This privacy policy is part of the Terms of Use applicable to the use of the Website, the Apps and the Tools. Please review this policy together with the Terms of Use, to understand all of your rights and obligations, and how we operate the Website, the Apps and the Tools.

All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this privacy policy shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.

By using the Website, the Apps or the Tools, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by this privacy policy and the Terms of Use. If you do not want to agree to this privacy policy or the Terms of Use, you must not access or use the Website, the Apps or the Tools.

This privacy policy applies to information we and/or our service providers collect:

Through visiting or using the Website, the Apps and the Tools including any electronic messages;
In electronic messages between you and the Website, the Apps and the Tools;
Through mobile and desktop applications, if any, that you download from the Website or the Apps, or relating to the Tools, if this policy is posted to them;
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if such advertising or applications include links to this policy;

Through any other means associated with or relating to the Website, the Apps and the Tools.

This policy does not apply to information collected by:

Us or our service providers offline or through any other means, including on any other website or apps operated by Company or any third party (including our respective affiliates, subsidiaries and service providers); or
Any third party who is not a provider of the Tools made available on or through the Website and the Apps.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website, the Apps and the Tools. By accessing or using the Website, the Apps and the Tools, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.

This privacy policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website, the Apps and the Tools after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the privacy policy periodically for updates.

Children under the Age of Eighteen (18)

The Website, the Apps and the Tools are not intended for children under eighteen (18) years of age. No one under age eighteen (18) may provide any personal information to us or our service providers or on or through the Website, the Apps and the Tools. We and our service providers do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of eighteen (18). If you are under eighteen (18), do not use or provide any information on or through the Website, the Apps and the Tools, or register on the Website, the Apps, or the Tools, make any purchases through the Website, the Apps, or the Tools, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, the Apps or the Tools or provide any information about yourself to us or our service providers, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we or our service providers learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under eighteen (18) years of age, we will delete that information. If you believe we or our service providers might have any information from or about a child under the age of eighteen (18), please report this information at info@houseofstake.org

Information We and Our Service Providers MAY Collect About You and How We Collect It

We and our service providers may collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, the Apps and the Tools (some of which is considered “personal information” pursuant to applicable law), including:

Identifiers, such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, company information, or any other information that the Website, the Apps and the Tools collect, which applicable law may consider personally identifiable, personal information, personal data, and other such designations;
Information about the device you use to access the Website, the Apps and the Tools;
Your IP address, Identifier for Advertisers (“IDFA”), Android/Google Advertising ID, International Mobile Equipment Identity (“IMEI”), or another unique identifier;
Your device characteristics and functionality (including information about your operating system, hardware, mobile network, browser, browser language, etc.);
Referring and exit web pages and URLs;
Your browsing history, including the areas within the Website, the Apps and the Tools that you visit and your activities there, including remembering you and your preferences;
Your device location or other geolocation information;
Certain other device data, including the time of day you visit the Website, the Apps and the Tools; and
Information about your internet connection and internet provider.

We and our service providers collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when filling in forms on the Website, the Apps and the Tools (including when you register for an account, subscribing to a service, or requesting something from us or our service providers, or when you fill out surveys, if any such features are available to you).
Automatically as you navigate through the Website, the Apps and the Tools, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (including information about your network or computing device) and analytics services;
From third parties, for example, our respective business partners and service providers;
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us through the Website and the Apps, or our service providers through the Tools;
When you engage in transactions on the Website, the Apps and the Tools;
When you run searches on the Website, the Apps and the Tools; and
When you contact our or our service providers’ customer service agents, if available.

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with the Website, the Apps and the Tools, we and our service providers may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about you, your equipment, your technology providers, and your activities, including:

Details of your visits to the Website, the Apps and the Tools, including traffic data, browsing patterns, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website, the Apps and the Tools; and
Information about your device and about your internet connection and service provider, as set forth above.

We and our service providers also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

The information we and our service providers collect automatically may be statistical data and may also include personal information, or we and our service providers may maintain it or associate it with personal information we each collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This information enables us and our service providers to:

Allow you to use and access the Website, the Apps and the Tools;
Prevent fraudulent activity and improve security functionality;
Assess the performance of the Website, the Apps and the Tools, including as part of our and our service providers’ analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, products or services offered through the Website, the Apps and the Tools;
Offer you enhanced functionality when accessing the Website, the Apps and the Tools, including identifying you when you sign into the Website, the Apps and the Tools, and keeping track of your specified preferences;
Deliver content relevant to your interests on the Website, the Apps and the Tools and third-party sites based on how you interact with our and our service providers’ advertisements and/or content;
Estimate our and our service providers’ audience size and usage patterns;
Speed up your searches; and
Analyze our and our service providers’ services and products and perform market research.

When you visit or leave the Website, the Apps and the Tools by clicking a hyperlink or when you view a third-party site that includes our and our service providers’ plugins or cookies (or similar technology), we and our service providers may automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came or the one to which you are directed.

We and our service providers may also receive location data passed to each of us from third-party services or GPS-enabled devices that you have set up, which we and our service providers may use to show you local information when using the Website, the Apps and the Tools, and for fraud prevention and security purposes. We and our service providers may use this information to provide customized services, content, and other information that may be of interest to you. If you no longer wish for us, our affiliates, or our service providers to collect and use location information, you may disable the location features on your device. Consult your device manufacturer settings for instructions on how to do this. Please note that if you disable such features, your ability to access certain features, services, content, or products may be limited or disabled.

The technologies we and our service providers use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). Cookies are small text files stored through a browser on a computing or mobile device. Cookies help you navigate website pages efficiently and may improve your user experience. Note that while you can set your browser to not allow cookies, we and our service providers may not be able to honor that request, and may track your activity and collect information about you and your online activities even when the browser is set to “do not track”;
Flash Cookies. Certain features of the Website, the Apps and the Tools may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on the Website, the Apps and the Tools. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies and you may not be able to shut down our and our service providers’ collection of and use of information through this technology;
Web Beacons, Pixels and Tags. Pages of the Website, the Apps and the Tools, and our and our service providers’ e-mails, may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us and our service providers, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity);
Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Website, the Apps and the Tools, such as information about the links you click on;
ETag, or entity tag. An ETag, or entity tag, is a feature of the cache in browsers. It is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL. It is one of several mechanisms that HTTP provides for web cache validation. These allow websites to be more efficient and not serve content again, when data is already cached and ready to view;
Fingerprinting. Fingerprinting refers to the collection and analysis of information from your device, such as your operating system, plug-ins, system fonts and other data, for purposes of identification;
Recognition Technologies. Recognition technologies refers to various technology features used by websites, including application of statistical probability to data sets, which attempt to recognize or make assumptions about users and devices (e.g., that a user of multiple devices is the same user); and
Log Files. These track actions occurring on the Website, the Apps and the Tools, which help us and our service providers collect your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, the webpages from which you came or to which you go before and after visiting the Website, the Apps and the Tools, and the date and time of your visits.

Behavioral Advertising

We and our service providers may use your personal information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications that we each believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a concept promoted by certain regulatory authorities and industry groups for development and implementation of a mechanism that would allow internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites. Currently, various browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari) offer a DNT option that allows a user to set a preference in the browser to not have his/her activities on the internet tracked. You can usually access your browser's DNT option in your browser's preferences. When a user’s browser is set to DNT, some cookies and other tracking technologies may become inactive, depending on how the website visited responds to DNT browser settings. If that occurs, the website visited will not recognize you upon return to that website, save your passwords or user names, and some other features of a website may become unavailable or not function properly.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website, the Apps and the Tools may be served by third-parties (in addition to our service providers who provide the Tools), including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website, the Apps and the Tools. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We and our service providers do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We and Our Service Providers Use Your Information

We and our service providers may use information that we each collect about you or that you provide to each of us or on the Website, the Apps and the Tools, including any personal information:

To present the Website, the Apps and the Tools and their contents to you;
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us and our service providers;
To provide you with notices about your account, the Website, the Apps and/or the Tools;
To carry out our and our service providers’ obligations and enforce our respective rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and each of us, including for billing and collection, if needed;
To notify you about changes to the Website, the Apps and the Tools or any products or services we or our service providers offer or provide though them;
To allow you to participate in interactive features on the Website, the Apps and the Tools, if any;
To develop and improve our and our service providers’ products and services;
For behavioral tracking, profiling and advertising;
For any other purpose as needed for our and our service providers’ businesses;
For any other purpose with your consent;
To contact you about our own, our service providers’, and third-parties’ goods and services that we each think may be of interest to you;
To enable us and our service providers to display advertisements to each of our advertisers’ target audiences; and
To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.

Disclosure of Your Information

We and our service providers may disclose aggregated information about users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We and our service providers may disclose personal information that we each collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our and our service providers’ affiliates;
To contractors, service providers (in addition to the service providers that provide the Tools), and other third parties we each use to support our respective businesses and assist in providing services and offering products;
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our or our service providers’ assets or stock, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us or our service providers about the users of the Website, the Apps and/or the Tools is among the assets transferred;
To third parties to market their products or services to you;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
For any other purpose disclosed by us or our service providers when you provide the information; and
With your consent.

We and our service providers may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government, law enforcement, or regulatory request under any applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or government requests;
To enforce or apply the Terms of Use, including this Privacy Policy, and any other agreements between you and us or you and our service providers, including for billing and collection purposes; and
If we or our service providers believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our service providers, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Data Security

We and our service providers have implemented measures intended to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we or our service providers have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, the Apps and the Tools, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We and our service providers ask you not to share your password with anyone and to change your password from time to time. We and our service providers also highly recommend that you use a password that is dissimilar to and cannot be easily found by unauthorized third parties who may have obtained your login credentials to other sites. Keep in mind that if you use the same password for all websites, if someone obtains your credentials for one site, they may be able to then use those credentials to log into any other site you use.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we and our service providers try to protect your personal information, we and our service providers cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through or collected through the use of the Website, the Apps and the Tools. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

We and our service providers are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, the Apps and the Tools.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes made to the privacy policy on this page. When changes are made, we will post a revised version on our Website with the last updated and effective date posted on the top of this page.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please direct such inquiries to:

E-mail: info@houseofstake.org