Effective Date: May 3rd 2023

This Privacy Notice explains how Fedi, Inc. (“Fedi”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our website (fedi.xyz) and our early-access sign-up process (collectively, the “Services”). 

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. In addition, it does not address our privacy practices relating to Fedi employees and other personnel. 

1. What is Personal Information? 

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual. It does not include aggregated or deidentified information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to an individual.

2. Our Collection of Personal Information

Sometimes we collect personal information automatically when an individual interacts with our Services, and sometimes we collect personal information directly from an individual. At times, we may collect personal information about an individual from other sources and third parties, even before our first direct interaction.

Personal Information Individuals Provide

We collect the following personal information individuals provide in connection with our Services:

• Contact Information, including first and last name, email address, and communication preferences. 

• Interest Information, including actual or inferred interest in Fedi products or additional future services.  

• Inquiry Information, including information provided in custom messages sent through our Services or provided directly to a member of the Fedi team. 

• Event Information, including whether an individual is eligible to attend or did attend a Fedi event. 

• Job Application Information, including your contact and demographic information, educational and work history, employment interests, information obtained during interviews and any other information you choose to provide, if you apply for employment.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

As is true of most digital platforms, we and our third-party providers may also collect personal information from an individual’s device, browsing actions, and site usage patterns automatically when visiting or interacting with our Services, which may include: 

• Log Data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, browser id, the URL entered and the referring page/campaign, date/time of visit, the time spent on our Services, and any errors that may occur during the visit to our Services.

• Analytics Data, such as the electronic path taken to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, as well as usage and activity on our Services.

• Location Data, such as general geographic location based on the log data we or our third-party providers collect.   

For information about our and our third-party providers’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices individuals may have in relation to its collection, please review the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. 

Personal Information from Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we often combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual.

We may receive the same categories of personal information as described above from the following third parties:

• Social Media: When an individual interacts with us through various social media networks, such as when someone communicates with us through Twitter, Telegram or Discord, we may receive some information about the individual that they permit the social network to share with third parties. This information may include profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, and any other information individuals permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon an individual’s privacy settings with the social network. Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services.

• Event Coordinators: We may attend or sponsor local events and obtain personal information regarding attendees of those events. We may receive this personal information directly from individuals who choose to interact with us at those events, or we may obtain information directly from event coordinators in connection with an individual’s registration for and attendance at the event.  

• Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services solely on our behalf, such as marketing providers, collect personal information and often share some or all of this information with us. 

3. Our Use of Personal Information

We use personal information we collect to: 

• Manage our organization and its day-to-day operations; 

• Communicate with individuals, including via email and social media;

• Market and advertise our Services to individuals, including through in-person events, social media, and email, and other online venues, based on individual interests and interactions with us;

• Administer, improve, and personalize our Service, including by recognizing an individual and remembering their information when they return to our Services;

• Facilitate transactions and individual benefits and services, including customer support; 

• Identify and analyze how individuals use our Services;

• Improve and customize our Services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;

• Test, enhance, update, and monitor the Services, or diagnose or fix technology problems; 

• Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets, and business;

• Defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements;

• Prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity; 

• Facilitate business transactions and reorganizations impacting the structure of our business; and

• Comply with legal obligations. 

Where an individual chooses to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time. 

4. Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We disclose personal information in the following ways: 

• Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as marketing providers, customer service and communication providers, website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, IT services, analytics services, job application-related services, and administrative services. 

• Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.  

• Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement: 

  • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; 

  • to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process; 

  • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including to enforce our agreements and policies;

  • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud; 

  • to protect the health and safety of us and others; or 

  • as otherwise required by applicable law.

• Otherwise with Consent or Direction: We may disclose personal information about an individual to certain other third parties or publicly with the individual’s consent or direction.