Privacy Policy

Who are we? 

‍Alphaswap Ltd,a private limited company registeredin England and Wales (CRN: 11027546).

Our registeredoffice is: C/O Bcs,Windsor House Station Court, Station Road, Great Shelford,Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom CB22 5NE.

You have asuite of rights you can exerciseover your data – findout more here.We welcomeyour privacy questions, please direct them to: privacy@alphaswap.io

Formore information on who we share your data with, please click here.

Idea Generators

We collect:

(a) Your name, telephone number, email address, job title, a form of ID and payment details when you sign up as an IdeaGenerator.

‍We collect this to take steps to enter in to or to perform the contract in place between us by registering you as anIdea Generator on our platform, as well asunder our legitimate interest to connect you with the Idea Voters and Idea Experts. Where you use your LinkedIn or Google profile to sign up, we may also collect personal data that you have uploaded on to your profile.

(b)Your name, ideas and financial payments in connection with issuing you credits and our discretionary bonus scheme.

We will process any personal data contained in your ideas uploaded to our platform to connect you with our Idea Voters and Idea Experts. We will also track the number of ideas you upload to the platform as well as the consistency of your performance.We do this so that we can establish our top performers on our site and duringthe early stage AlphaSwap growth phase, issue bonuses as set out in our terms.

We collect:

‍(c) If you contact us over social media or email (including via the ‘contact us’ link on our site), we also collect Login information, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, platform, IP addresses,MAC addresses & social media handles. We collect this on the basis of our legitimate interest to understand how our clients interact with us.

‍Retention Period:

‍We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We will not keep your personal information for any longer than a year after your membership as an Idea Generator expires or is terminated. For more information please contact us at info@alphaswap.io.

‍Click to find out more about: How we collect this information, Who we share data with and What your rights are.

Idea experts

We collect:

(a)Your name, telephone number, email address, job title, a form of ID, employment history and professional accreditations .

‍We collect this to take steps to enter in to or to perform the contract in place between us by registering you as anIdea Expert on our platform, as well as our legitimate interest to connect you with IdeaGenerators in need of your support and to build our database of Idea Experts.

‍(b)  If you contact us over social media or email, we also collect Login information, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, platform, IP addresses,MAC addresses & social media handles. We collect this on the basis of our legitimate interest to understand how our clients interact with us.Retention Period: We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

We will not keep your personal information for any longer than a year after your membership as an Idea Expert expires or is terminated. For more information please contact us at info@alphaswap.io.

Click to find out more about: How we collect this information, Who we share data with and What your rights are.
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Other inc. Job Applicants

We collect:

(a)Your name, telephone number, email address, employment history and other data set out on your CV, if provided. This is often provided to us by your recruitment agent.

Where you are a job applicant we may also include information related to your employment history and other data set out on your CV, if this is provided (this is often provided to us by your recruitment agent). We collect this on the basis of our legitimate interest to assess job applicants, and to take steps necessary to enter into a contract with you. We also collect it because we are under a legal obligation to ensure applicants have the right to work.

‍(b)  Feedback about you from our staff and comments on social media.We collect this on the basis of our legitimate interest to ensure potential job applicants will succeed in the role.

(c)If you contact us over social media or email, we also collect Login information, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, platform, IP addresses, MAC addresses & social media handles.  

We collect this on the basis of our legitimate interest to understand how people interact with us.

(d)When we interact with you at third party industry events – we may collect your name, address, email address, phone number. We do this under our legitimate interest to promote our business and/ or assist you in signing up to our platform.

‍Retention Period: 1 years from the date of your application or where we have taken your details to assist you with signing up to our platform we will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

‍Click to find out more about: How we collect this information, Who we share data with & What your rights are.

How do we collect information?

From the emails and telephone calls we have.
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Online forms, this is usually when we are running events, or if you use our website form to contact us with an enquiry.
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From the organisation or individual who recommended us to you whether to ensure your suitability as an Idea Expert or as a candidate for a vacancy in the Alphaswap team.
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Using the cookies on our website and pixels in our emails.
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From our own research and data brokers where we are looking to reach out to new businesses who may be interested in working with us.
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Analytics and search engine providers to assist us with the improvement and optimisation of our site.

Who do we share your data with?

Business partners, group companies, Idea Generators, Idea Voters, IdeaExperts, suppliers and sub contractors for the performance of the contract we enter into with them or you. Analytics and search engine providers to assist us with the improvement and optimisation of our site.

Credit reference agencies to assess your credit where that is a condition of us entering into a contract with you. Promotional events and marketing organisations, we do not sell data for marketing purposes, but may share your data with an event organiser. We will always tell you before (usually on the event registration form) and you will be given the chance to opt-out before we do this. Prospective buyers of our business.Regulators/ Authorities/ Enforcement Agencies if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety ofAlphaswap.io our clients, our experts or others.

This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

You have various rights under data protection law. If you wish to exercise these rights or have any questions, the easiest way for you to do this is likely to be by contacting us at privacy@alphaswap.io.  ACCESS: You have the right to access your personal data and obtain a copy of it;RECTIFICATION: You can correct incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you;ERASURE: You can ask us to erase the personal data we hold about you;RESTRICT: You can ask us to restrict our handling of your personal data;PORTABILITY: You can ask us to transfer your personal data to a third party; OBJECT: You can object to how we are using your personal data; andCOMPLAIN: You always have the right to lodge a complaint with us or the Information Commissioner's Office, the supervisory authority for data protection issues in England and Wales.If you are based outside ofEngland and Wales, you can find your relevant supervisory authority here.PrivacyLaw is complicated these rights will not always be available to you all of the time. Alphaswap Ltd. is based in the United Kingdom and all personal data is stored on our servers in the United Kingdom.

Version 1: October 2020 Change of purpose: Where we intend to use your personal data for purposes other than those listed int his policy, unless we reasonably consider that additional use is similar to the original purpose, we will notify you and seek your consent beforehand.
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