EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Privacy Policy

This is the  Privacy Policy of BitBeirut and its affiliate companies (collectively, “BitBeirut”). This Privacy Policy describes our data practices regarding Personal Information (defined below).
This Privacy Policy also describes data protection rights and it applies to Personal Information collected through our website, located at https://www.bitbeirut.com (the “Site”), mobile application (“the “App”), or through our Bitcoin ATMs (collectively known as “Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information collected by third party websites or apps not operated by BitBeirut.
You are consenting to our use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy when accessing the Site and/or using our Services. Further, your access to and use of the Services is subject to BitBeirut Terms of Service located at https://www.bitbeirut.com/terms-of-service/.

Information BitBeirut collects About You
Personal Information You Provide
 “Personal Information” means any identifiable information including your name, address, email address, birth date, financial information, cell or land-line phone number, or any combination of information that could be used to identify you. We collect Personal Information that you choose to share with us when you interact with our Site, App, or Bitcoin ATM. The Personal Information that we collect can vary depending on which BitBeirut service you utilize:
-We collect your name, phone number, and a picture of you for all transactions when you use one of our ATM machines. You will be prompted to provide additional information depending on the amount of the proposed transaction. This information might include a selfie image, your government ID/driver’s license and a second form of ID. If you apply to host an ATM in your business, we ask you to provide Personal Information such as your name and phone number, as well as information about your store.
-BitBeirut uses this information to provide ATM operators with the needed information to undertake anti-money laundering and fraud prevention activities and know your customer reviews. We will be unable to onboard you or provide you with services/perform all our obligations under our agreement with you if you fail to provide Personal Information that we tell you is mandatory. BitBeirut will continue to use this information as necessary to effect transactions with you after you have been onboarded as a counterparty. We also receive data you submit to us through third-party websites, and obtain data about you from other sources including identity verification services, fraud prevention agencies, websites and other publicly accessible information about you.
-Your name,  email address and username are usually collected when you contact us on the Site, or through social media websites, with a question, a comment, or to sign up to receive communications about BitBeirut and its products and services from us. You can ask us to stop or start sending you such marketing messages at any time by writing, electronic messaging or calling us.

Automatically-Collected Information
We collect certain information automatically when you visit our Site, even if you do not register for an account on the Site. Collected information includes the following:
• your internet protocol (IP) address and location;
• referrer addresses;
• the type and version of your web browser;
• device identifiers including mobile advertising identifiers;
• your operating system; and
• information from your digital services.
We also record general statistical and tracking information including page views (hit counts). We use this data to optimize our Site, to improve visitors experience and for security and monitoring purposes. Additional data such as identifying your IP address might be collected to meet regulatory obligations such as verifying your residency status.

Location Data.
Location (e.g. latitude/longitude) data will be collected of your mobile device If you have given the app permission to access your location. Please adjust your settings in your mobile device to restrict the app’s access to your location data If you want to opt-out of the collection of your location data. Geolocation data may be used to enhance the Services when linked to the location of BitBeirut properties.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We will use your Personal Information to:
-Understand and strive to meet your needs and preferences in using our Services;
-Develop new and enhance existing service and product offerings;
-Manage and develop our business and operations;
-Carry out any actions for which we have received your consent;
-Prevent and investigate fraudulent or other criminal activity;
-To address service requests and resolve user questions; and 
-Meet legal and regulatory requirements.
We also reserve the right to use aggregated Personal Data to understand how our users use our Services, provided that those data cannot identify any individual.

How We Share Personal Data
We do not disclose your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy, as follows:
Service Providers. Your Personal Information may be disclosed, stored, and/or transferred (or otherwise made available) to third-party providers of services to assist us in running our business and to perform certain services and functions. These might including identification and background checks, cloud-based information hosting and maintenance, website hosting, record keeping, payment processing, transfer agent, email communication and customer support services, analytics, marketing, and advertising service providers, and to exchanges, trading platforms, and financial institutions. We use Facebook and Instagram to track visits to our Site. These examples are not exhaustive and we may use other vendors over time as well to help us run our business and provide services to you.
Affiliates. BitBeirut reserves the right to share certain Personal Information with its affiliates such as entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with BitBeirut (examples of such entities include operators of BitBeirut ATMs and software partners). Our affiliates may use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
For Legal and Compliance Reasons. We and our service providers may disclose personal Information if we believe we are required to do so by law or to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, such as a warrant, subpoena, or other court order, or to prevent fraud or illegal activity, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable domestic or international laws or legal processes. Your Personal Information may also be released in order to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights, as well as to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to people or property.
In Connection with a Corporate Transaction. Your Personal Information may be shared with third parties in case of a business transaction. A business transaction might involve a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of BitBeirut,  part of a corporate reorganization, or stock or asset sale, or other change in corporate control. Your Personal Information may also be one of the transferred assets as part of the transaction or bankruptcy.
For Safety & Security. We may reveal your Personal Information to third parties, including law enforcement agencies, in order to protect the safety and security of our users or of any third party.
Cookies, Pixel Tags, and Similar Technologies
Our Site uses “cookies.” A cookie is a small amount of data, often including a unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies, as follows: Session cookies: We use session cookies to improve navigation on the Site and to collect aggregate statistical information. A session cookie expires when you close your browser. These cookies are strictly necessary to use the Site and cannot be refused. 
Additionally, If you have registered with the Site, these cookies will help identify you for verification purposes and to enhance your experience and to personalize services offered to you.  
“Persistent” cookies: Persistent cookies are bits of information that are placed on the hard drive of your computer and can remain for extended periods of time. Persistent cookies also enable us enhance users experience on the Site. You may set your browser so that it does not accept cookies, and you may also use the direct opt-out tools provided by the parties described below. If you do not enable or if you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain personalized features of our Services.
Our site uses “pixel tags”  which are small graphic images (also known as “tracer tags,” “web beacons,” or “single-pixel images”) – to  inform us about site utilization or to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns on our Site. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on our Site. Pixel tags inform us whether emails have been opened, to help ensure that our messages are of interest to our Registered Users.We may tie the information gathered by pixel tags to our users’ Personal Information, in which case it will be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.In particular, the Site uses:
• Google Analytics, an analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for Site operators and providing other services relating to Site activity and internet usage, including tracking which pages of our Site you visit so we can optimize your experience with our Site. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. You can opt-out from the collection of this information by Google by downloading and installing a browser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Third party advertising cookies and pixels. The ads appearing on this Site, if any, may be delivered to users by third-party advertising companies. You may find more information on what cookies and similar technologies have been set and how to manage and delete them at http://preferences-mgr.truste.com. For more information on advertising cookies, please also consult the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org. If you do not want Twitter specifically to show you interest-based advertising on and off Twitter, you can visit your Twitter settings under Personalization and data, or visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice tool at optout.aboutads.info. If you do not want Facebook to show you interest-based advertising, you can visit Facebook settings under Your Ad Preferences on Facebook.
Social Media Through our Site you have the opportunity to engage with our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications. When you use these services, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture and gender) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the Site, plug-in or application.
Feedback, Questionnaires and Surveys. Our Site allows site visitors and customers to participate in surveys and questionnaires. We also encourage our users to provide feedback to us about our Site and our Services. if you choose to participate in these activities you will be prompted to provide additional Personal Information. This information with be removed when we aggregate information derived from survey and questionnaire information for monitoring or improving the use and appeal of this Site.
It is your choice to undertake these activities and you will have the ability to opt-out as provided below.
Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain content and links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by BitBeirut. BitBeirut has no control over, does not review and is not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. When you click one of these links, you will leave our Site and go to another site. During this process, another your Personal Information might be collected by another entity, and that collection is subject to the third party’s privacy policy/notice. BitBeirut is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, and we encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects Personal Information.
Data Security
We have put in place commercially-reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures in an effort to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of Personal Information, and we take reasonable steps to secure and safeguard this Information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. With that said, there is no such thing as 100% security of the networks, servers, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf. For example, email sent to or from the Site may not be secure. Before submitting any Personal Information via the Site, please be aware of these inherent risks and understand that you do so at your own risk.
Data Retention
We keep your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so in connection with your account, or as required by law (e.g., for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is longer.
Your Choices
In general, you may browse the Site without providing Personal Information. However services offered to you will be limited in scope without registering as a customer and providing the needed Personal Information. You may be able to update or delete certain of your Personal Information on the Site depending on the services/functionalities you are using. Accordingly, at your request, we will take reasonable steps to remove your Personal Information from our databases. However, please note that:
• we may not be permitted to delete your Personal Information completely, due to regulatory reporting requirements and data backups and records of deletions;
• if you request deletion of your Personal Information, you may be unable to use certain features of the Site and any associated Services;
•  Part of your Personal Information may remain in our databases following the deletion of your account; and
• we may not be able to remove de-identified, anonymous, or aggregate data from our databases. Any deletion requests may be sent to [email protected].
If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of these communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link included in those emails, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Please understand that you will not be allowed to opt-out of transactional notices or other legal and related notices concerning your relationship to the Site or your account.
Children’s Privacy
This Site is not directed to children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly seek to collect or maintain Personal Information or other information from children under the age of 18. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete any Personal Information or other information later determined to be provided by a child under the age of 18. Use of the Site by children under the age of 18 is not permitted. If you become aware that a minor has provided Personal Information through our Site, please email us at [email protected].
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from or otherwise change this Privacy Policy at any time, which will become effective as of posting on the Site. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we collect, use, and share Personal Information.
Updates to the Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us at [email protected] .