Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will explain how Foster Marketplace uses the personal information we collect when you use our website. As used herein, “Personal Data” refers to data that specifically or indirectly identifies or is reasonably capable of identifying an individual, as well as data that can be linked to a known or reasonably identifiable individual.

The Foster Marketplace website (“Website”) and its related software, products and services (collectively, the “Services”) use cookies to gather User data to support Website analytics, improve the Website performance and enhance your user experience. This policy (the “Policy”) describes what cookies are and how they're being used by Foster Marketplace website (“Website” or “Service”). Please read this Policy and all its terms and conditions carefully. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy.

You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Websites and Services. Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Terms & Conditions.

1. Personal Data

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services, as well as information we obtain through third party sources.

2. Collection of Personal Data

1. Personal Data Collected from You

The personal data we can collect directly from a user include the following categories:

(a) Personal information, such as a person’s first and last name, email address, username, password, phone number, and mailing address and any other information you directly provide to us on or through the services;

(b) Transaction information, such as trading, order activity, deposits, withdrawals, and account balances and other commercial activity;

(c) Communications, including details you give in correspondence, such as account registration, support requests and customer service;

(d) Sensory information, such as images that you upload to your User Account.

2. Personal Data Collected Automatically

The personal data we collect automatically through the use of our services include the following categories:

(a) Internet identifiers like IP addresses and domain names;

(b) Usage data, such as system operation, internal and external information related to sites that you visit;

(c) Device information, such as hardware, operating system, and browser;

(d) Data on geolocation;

(e) Cookies can be used to collect Personal Data automatically.

3. Personal Data Collected from Third Parties

Third-party sources can be used to obtain and/or validate the following types of Personal Data about you:

(a) Personal information, such as a person’s name, email address, phone number, and mailing address;

(b) Transaction information, such as public blockchain data;

(c) Analytics information, provided by third party analytics services that we engage to help analyze how users use our services;

(d) Additional information, at our discretion, to comply with legal obligations.

3. Use of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you in order to give you the best possible experience, protect you from the risks of inappropriate use and fraud, and to help us retain and develop our Services. We can use your Personal Data in the following ways, in order to:

(a) Provide and administer our services to you. In accordance with our Terms and Conditions, we use your Personal Data to provide you with our Services and comply with all relevant laws and regulations. Your Personal Data is processed in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

(b) Operate, maintain, improve, personalize, and analyze our services.

(c) Facilitate the creation of your Account on Foster Marketplace and its security (including possible multi-step verification).

(d) Notify you about important changes to our services, such as security or support and maintenance advisories.

(e) Inform you about other news about our services or any features and content thereon, including newsletters, surveys, offers, promotions, contest, and events via optional newsletters and emails, as described in the section below.

(f) Detect, prevent or investigate security breaches, fraud and any other unauthorized or illegal activity. We use your Personal Data to identify and prevent account fraud, as well as other prohibited activities.

(g) Ensure the protection and security of our facilities. To keep your account and Foster Marketplace safe, we use your Personal Data, which includes information about your computer and your behavior on Foster Marketplace.

(h) Assist you with customer service, care and support. When you contact our support team with questions or concerns about your account, we process your Personal Data.

(i) Promote our goods. We may contact you to provide you with information about our products and services. Only with your permission, which you may revoke at any time, will we do so.

(j) Other commercial uses. If the intent is revealed to you before we collect the information or if you agree, we can use your Personal Data for additional purposes.

4. Marketing

Foster Marketplace would like to periodically send you promotional information about products and services of ours that we think you might like.

If you have agreed to receive marketing communications, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to request Foster Marketplace to stop contacting you for marketing purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact [e-mail]

5. Data Protection Rights

Foster Marketplace would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

(a) The right to access – You have the right to request Foster Marketplace for copies of your personal data.

(b) The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Foster Marketplace correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Foster Marketplace to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

(c) The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Foster Marketplace erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

(d) The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Foster Marketplace restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

(e) The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Foster Marketplace’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

(f) The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Foster Marketplace transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: [e-mail]

6. Cookies

Cookies are small text files containing information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile devices when websites are loaded in a browser. Cookies are widely used to improve Website performance and enhance User experience as well as to retrieve and retain customer preferences, either for a single visit (through a "session cookie") or for multiple repeat visits (using a "persistent cookie").

7. Use of Cookies

Foster Marketplace uses cookies to:

(a) Track Website traffic and usage;

(b) Monitor the performance of the Websites and Services; and

(c) Allow us to customize and enhance your online experience

The cookies used by Foster Marketplace are as follows:

(a) Essential Cookies allow you to access the features and services available through the Website. You cannot access services without these cookies.

(b) Functionality Cookies allow us to operate the Website and Services and customize it in accordance with the choices you make. Functionality cookies include location, settings [text, layout], store accessibility options, language and currency preferences.

(c) Performance / Analytics Cookies collect aggregated data to analyze how the Websites and Services are accessed, used, and are performing. We also collect information about which search terms you are using in our site’s search bar.

(d) Social Media Cookies are anonymous cookies used by third parties that provide applications to track the performance and to customize their applications for you. For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Websites (e.g., Twitter), the social network that has created the clickable button will record that you have done this. We cannot access these cookies nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages on our Websites may also contain embedded content, such as video content from YouTube, that may set their own cookies.

9. Amendments to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms at our discretion. Any updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. We will also post a notice on the Website if we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, or share the information held in the Website cookies.

10. Comments and Concerns

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this Policy or the use of Cookies, we encourage you to contact us at [e-mail]

This Document was last updated on: April 12, 2022