PINYA XP, Inc. ("PINYA XP," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use our services, or interact with our platform.
At PINYA XP, we understand the trust you place in us when sharing your personal information. We take this responsibility seriously and have implemented comprehensive measures to ensure your information remains secure and is used only for legitimate business purposes. Our privacy practices are designed to comply with global privacy regulations while enabling us to provide you with the innovative services you expect from our Groovy platform.
When you visit our website or use our services, we collect information through various channels and interactions. This includes information you provide directly to us, such as when you create an account, request a demonstration, or contact our support team. We collect standard information about your name, contact details, company affiliation, and professional role. If you choose to engage with our platform's features, we may collect additional information about your preferences and how you use our services.
Our website automatically collects certain technical information when you visit, including your IP address, browser type, device information, and how you interact with our content. We use this information to improve our services and ensure our website functions properly. Through our authentication processes, we may collect additional verification data necessary for maintaining the security and integrity of our blockchain-based services.
Your information enables us to provide our services and improve your experience with PINYA XP. We use the collected information to manage your account, process your requests, and provide the authentication and verification services central to our Groovy platform. This includes verifying your identity, processing transactions, and maintaining the security of our blockchain-based systems.
We analyze user behavior and platform performance to enhance our services and develop new features that better serve your needs. This analysis helps us understand how users interact with our platform, identify potential improvements, and maintain the high standards of service you expect from PINYA XP.
Marketing communications are an important way we keep you informed about our services, updates, and relevant industry developments. We use your contact information to send these communications, always providing you with the option to manage your preferences or opt-out of marketing messages. Please note that even if you opt-out of marketing communications, you will still receive important service-related messages necessary for the operation of your account.
We understand the sensitive nature of the information we collect and maintain strict controls over how it is shared. We share your information with trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, and serving you. These providers are bound by confidentiality agreements and are prohibited from using your information for any purpose other than providing services to PINYA XP.
In certain circumstances, we may share your information with third parties for legitimate business purposes, such as when required by law, to protect our rights, or to prevent fraud. We may also share anonymized, aggregate data that cannot be used to identify you for analytical and research purposes.
We respect your right to control your personal information. You may request access to your personal information, correct inaccurate data, or ask us to delete information we hold about you. You can also manage your cookie preferences through our website settings and control what marketing communications you receive from us.
For users in certain jurisdictions, additional rights may apply under local privacy laws. We honor these rights and provide mechanisms for you to exercise them. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have questions about our privacy practices, please contact our Privacy Officer using the information provided below.
Protecting your information is fundamental to our business. We employ industry-standard security measures to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of your personal information. These measures include encryption, access controls, security monitoring, and regular security assessments. Our blockchain technology provides additional layers of security and verification for sensitive transactions and authentications.
For questions about this Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
PINYA XP, Inc. Attn: Privacy Officer 300 Peachtree Road NE STE1775 Atlanta, GA 30308
Email: privacy@pinyaxp.com Phone: 1.844.PINYAXP (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern)
We regularly review and update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes in our practices and services. We encourage you to review this notice periodically to stay informed about how we protect your privacy.
Information Provided by You
You may provide us with information about you when you:
During such processes, the Personal Information we collect from you or that you provide typically includes your name, the company you work for, address, email, phone number, your position or title, and/or your Groovy username and password. If you sign up for or login under an educational account, we may also collect your educational data such as your student ID, transcripts, or other proof of enrollment. You can choose not to provide us with your Personal Information, but if you do not provide us with your Personal Information when we request it, we may not be able to provide you with the websites and Services you use, or tailor them to you.
Information Provided by Others
We may collect information about you from third-party sources, including partners from whom we collect or purchase Personal Information, or who provide us with publicly available information that may contain Personal Information, or who provide analytics based on various sources to help us understand how to improve our products and marketing; individuals who provide your information as a referral; and individuals at the company where you work. We may combine this information with Personal Information provided by you. We may collect other public and third-party information about you to supplement information we hold. For example, your name, email address, phone number, and title that you provide to us may be combined with information about the company you work for that is obtained from professional networking sites and information service providers.
Usage and Device Data
When you login to the Subscription Services as a User or visit or navigate our websites, we may collect device information and data related to your usage and utilization of the Services or our websites such as user ID, username, password, email address, user type, duration of session, connections made, your utilization of specific features or functions, version and update status, IP addresses, mobile and device IDs, location, browser information, language and time zone settings, user interactions (such as the pages, cards, and files viewed), system configuration information, unique device identifiers, how you arrived at our site, and other computer and connection information and diagnostic data. We may also collect and utilize aggregated statistical and usage information.
We use information-gathering tools, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information as you navigate our websites and use our Subscription Services. Through these tools, we receive and store information about how you use our websites and Subscription Services and about your online activities over time and across different sites. For example, your browser or device may send some of the Usage and Device Data above to our servers whenever you visit a Groovy website or use our Subscription Services. The information we receive through cookies and similar technologies may be associated with you, depending on the website or Subscription Services you are using. In addition, third parties may be able to collect information about your online activities when you use our websites or Subscription Services using cookies or other technologies.
Web beacons may also be included in emails we send you. This technology contains identifiers that enable us to recognize when you have received or opened an email or clicked links within it and how you otherwise interact with our emails.
We advertise online, including displaying PINYA XP ads across the Internet on websites and in apps. When we advertise online to you, we may collect information through such technologies about which ads are displayed to you, which ads you click on, and the web page where the ad was displayed to you.
For more information about the types of cookies we use and managing cookies, please see our PINYA XP Cookies page and the "Your rights in respect of your Personal Information" section below.
Buttons, Tools, and Content from Other Companies
PINYA XP websites may include buttons, tools, or content that link to other companies’ services (for example, a Facebook "Like" button). We may collect information about your use of these features. In addition, when you see or interact with these buttons, tools, or content, or view a Groovy web page containing them, some information from your browser may automatically be sent to the other company, including Facebook. Your information may be processed for additional purposes by that company. Such further processing purposes may go beyond the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. Please read that company’s privacy notice for more information regarding its use of that information. For example, a link to Facebook's privacy notice can be found at https://en- gb.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
PINYA XP Social Networking Pages
We maintain pages on many social networking sites. We may collect information that you make publicly available on social networking sites, as well as when you interact with our social networking pages. Social networking sites may, in some instances, provide statistics and insights to PINYA XP that help us understand the types of actions you take on our social networking pages.
Public Chat, Message Boards and User Postings
You may provide Personal Information to us through your participation in chat sessions, message boards, user communities associated with our Subscription Services (such as PINYA XP Dojo and Buzz), blogs, forums, email exchanges, or newsgroups on our websites or within the Groovy platform—including by posting comments, uploading photos, or submitting other content. That information may be available to anyone who has access to the website or platform. Such information can also appear in search engine results or through other publicly available platforms and can be “crawled” or searched by third parties.
Our Use of Personal Information We Collect
We may use the Personal Information we collect about you as a User of the Subscription Services, as a visitor to our websites, or through other means (e.g., in person) to:
Disclosure of Information We Collect
We work with companies that provide services or help support our business. behalf. These companies may have access to your Personal Information including:
At Groovy events and webinars, you may, if required by applicable law, consent to disclosure to sponsors and other third parties via the event registration form or by allowing your attendee badge to be scanned by a sponsor. In these circumstances, your information will be subject to the sponsors’ privacy statements. If you do not wish for your information to be disclosed to sponsors in such circumstances, you may choose to not opt-in via event registration or elect to not have your badge scanned, or you can opt-out in accordance with the opt-out procedure in this privacy notice.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:
When we aggregate and disclose de-identified information collected by our websites or the Services to provide statistical information or market research to third parties; or
When you consent to the sharing.
If you are referred to Groovy by someone else, we may disclose information regarding the status of that referral to the individual who referred you.
Information Security, Retention, and Storage
We understand that the security of your Personal Information is important. We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls designed to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, despite our efforts, no security controls are completely effective, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of your Personal Information.
Your Personal Information is stored on our servers and the servers of companies we hire to provide services to us. We will retain your Personal Information for as long as we have an ongoing legitimate need to do so, including as necessary to provide you with the websites and Services you use; to comply with our legal obligations and legal rights including to prevent fraud or enforce our agreements; and for our internal business needs, such as maintenance of our archive and backup systems for a period after your use of our websites and Services ends. We will also store a permanent record of any request not to send direct marketing or to process your information so that we can respect your request in future.
Cross-border Data Transfers
Your Personal Information may be stored in and transferred to the United States, or stored in and transferred to other countries where our affiliates and the companies that provide services or help support our business are located, such as Australia, India, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Spain, Malaysia, and the Philippines. In order to use our Services and websites, you acknowledge that your Personal Information may be transferred and processed outside your country or jurisdiction. Certain of these countries may not have the same data protection laws and protections as the country in which you initially provided the information including, where relevant, the laws and protections of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or a country in the European Economic Area (EEA). When we transfer your Personal Information, we take appropriate steps to ensure your privacy rights continue to be protected.
In the case of transfers of Personal Information outside of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or the EEA, we take appropriate steps to ensure that the recipient of your Personal Information offers an adequate level of protection and security, for example by entering into standard contractual clauses for the transfer of Personal Information as approved by the European Commission.
Data Privacy Framework Notice
Groovy complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Groovy has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) for the processing of personal data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF. Groovy has also certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles) for the processing of personal data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy notice and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.
EU, UK and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding Groovy’s handling of personal data received in reliance on the Data Privacy Framework should first contact Groovy at info@ groovy.click. We will respond to any such request or inquiry within 45 days. In compliance with the Data Privacy Framework, Groovy commits to refer unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the Data Privacy Framework to JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider based in the United States. If we have not addressed a Data Privacy Framework complaint to your satisfaction, please visit https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us- data-privacy-framework for more information or to file a complaint. The services of JAMS are provided at no cost to you. If neither Groovy nor our dispute resolution provider resolves your complaint, you may have the ability, under certain conditions, to invoke binding arbitration through the Data Privacy Framework Panel.
Please be aware that we may be required to disclose personal data that we receive under the Data Privacy Framework in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. Groovy’s commitments under the Data Privacy Framework are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the United States Federal Trade Commission.
Your Rights in Respect of Your Personal Information
We take reasonable steps intended to ensure that your Personal Information we collect is accurate, complete, and current, including by using the most recent information provided to us. Our Services may allow you to review and edit your Personal Information by accessing your account or similar feature of the website or Services you are using.
For our websites and marketing, the following describes your options for managing the various types of cookies we use on our websites and in performing the Services:
If you wish, you may opt out of all website cookies except Required Cookies on our Groovy Cookies page.
Individual Rights
Some or all of the rights listed above may not apply to you or may be subject to limitations, depending on applicable law. You may submit a request to us by contacting us using the Groovy contact information provided below. Please note that to respond to your request, we may need you to provide additional information to verify your identity. Once we verify your identity, we will assist you with your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you remain unhappy with a response you receive from us about the treatment of your Personal Information you can also refer your concerns to the relevant privacy or data protection supervisor in your jurisdiction.
As previously noted, we may process your Personal Information as a processor on behalf of our Customer. In those circumstances where our Customer is the controller of your Personal Information, if you wish to exercise any rights you may have under applicable laws, please contact the Customer directly.
Text Messaging
By opting in to receive text messages from Groovy, you agree to receive text notifications and communications about Groovy and the Services, even if your mobile number is registered on any state or federal do-not-call list. Message frequency may vary. Consent is not a condition of purchase of any product or services. Message and data rates may apply to, and you agree to be responsible for, all text messaging charges and fees imposed by your wireless provider.
Opting Out of Marketing Communications
You may opt out of receiving Marketing Communications by unsubscribing to the marketing mailings, text messages, or newsletters you no longer wish to receive. To unsubscribe from email Marketing Communications, please submit your information through https://www.Groovy.click/subscription?nm or follow the “Unsubscribe” instructions that are contained within the mailing, newsletter, or other Communication that we send to you. To unsubscribe from text message communications, please reply with STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE to any mobile message sent from us. You may also unsubscribe to Marketing Communications by sending an email to info@groovy.click with “Unsubscribe” in the body, together with a description of the Marketing Communications you no longer desire to receive. Please note that you will continue to receive alerts and other notifications related to your use of the Subscription Services unless you manage your receipt of such communications by logging in to the Groovy platform and changing your user notification preferences.
Opting out of Marketing Communications does not opt you out of receiving important business communications related to your current relationship with Groovy, such as communications about your subscriptions or event registrations, service announcements or security information.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may change or update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes to our Personal Information handling practices or our services or technology, or to respond to new legal requirements. If we do, we will update the “last updated” date on the first page of this Privacy Notice. If we make a material update, we may provide you with notice prior to the update taking effect, such as by posting a notice on our website or log-in page, or sending you an email, or where required under applicable law and feasible, seek your consent to these changes. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Notice for the latest information on our privacy practices.