Privacy Policy
Democracy 3.0, Ltd. (“Organization”, “we”, “us”) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit platform utilizing innovative technology to reduce disinformation and polarization, and empower citizens to participate in the democratic process with: One Face, One Voice, One Vote.
Our website address is: https://democracy3o.org/
By using our website or otherwise submitting any personal information to
us, you confirm that you have read this Privacy Policy and consent to the
privacy practices described herein. This privacy policy also does not apply
to any job applicants, employees or volunteers of the Organization.
1. Who are we?
The organization was established in 2023 by a dedicated group of visionary Silicon Valley leaders and global innovators who were deeply affected by and concerned with the repercussions of astroturfing and external interference in the current social networks that are undermining democratic processes.
We combine cutting-edge biometric verification and other user privacy protection technologies to ensure that only real people can join our platform, eliminating bots and fake accounts. The platform will ensure that when users publish content, join organizations, or vote for a topic, they are doing so as a real individual and they can only have a single account on the platform.
Our platform uses advanced biometric verification techniques, including facial recognition, zero knowledge proof blockchain, homomorphic encryption, and NFT technology to verify that the person registering is a unique individual never seen before and to give them an anonymous identity. You get to participate, join and vote on issues but you do not have to share any private information about yourself to the larger community unless you want to as part of an organized grass root group.
We are fully committed to protecting the privacy of everyone using our platform. We strive to provide a safe, secure environment in which your personal information is held. This includes information which could identify you personally, like your name, contact information, or anything else which might be identify you.
2. What personal information do we collect?
- Information you provide to us. When signing up to our platform, each user is face and voice verified. In addition, when using various features on our website (including the waitlist page or the donation page), you may be asked to provide personal information such as your name, your contact information and/or your credit card information. We may also gather personal information such as your email address when you contact us via e-mail. We may also from time to time run surveys or campaigns on our website and ask our community to participate.
- Automatically collected information. We collect IP addresses of users of our website, and we may also store your browser’s environment variables. Note that this is freely available when you browse the web and contains information like your operating system, the device you are on, the browser version and so on. This information is kept partly for security reasons to allow us to block fraudulent use of the platform, but principally to help improve the impact of the site as a campaign platform by enabling us to understand your user experience when you visit our sites, for example serving up different web pages if you’re on a mobile vs. a tablet vs. a laptop.
- Information received from third parties. We may receive personal information from our service providers that perform services on our behalf. For example, our service providers may collect your name, email address, physical address, phone number, government identification number, social security number, and other financial information. Additionally, our website includes social media features, such as LinkedIn, YouTube or other widgets. These social media companies may also recognize you and collect information about your visit to our website, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with social media features on our website are governed by the privacy policy of those companies.
3. How do we use personal information?
We only use your personal information in the following cases:
- when we have your express consent, e.g., regarding any information that you provide to us when making a donation and where such information must be shared with a payment handling service or any other third-party service that is needed to process a payment;
- for our internal purposes to (i) evaluate or audit the usage and performance and safety of our website; (ii) evaluate and improve the quality of our website and various functionalities offered thereby and/or to design new functionalities; (iii) operate the website and customize the content; (iv) conduct internal research; (v) display or evaluate the effectiveness of our activities; or (vi) maintain internal records;
- For legal, safety or security reasons, such as to comply with legal requirements; protect and defend the safety, property or rights of the Organization or its users, or stakeholders; and detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or
- In an anonymous or aggregated format for any purpose.
- or where we are required by law to keep certain information. We may also share your information with a payment handling service in connection with your donations.
In any cases, we will not use any of your personal information for any commercial purpose. Please note that the Organization uses other social media, including but not limited to LinkedIn or YouTube, and any information provided by you on any such platform is not covered by the scope of this privacy policy. We do not control any such third parties or their privacy practices and data collection policies, and they may have their own privacy statements, which you should consult.
4. Do we use Cookies to collect personal data on you?
To provide better service on our platform and ensure that we prevent fraudulent multiple support for campaigns, we may use cookies to collect your personal data when you browse.
5. What are your rights?
You have a number of legal rights over your personal information. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the relevant data protection regulator for your country. For example, you have the right to
- be given clear, transparent, and easily understandable information about how your information is used,
- have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete,
- ask for the deletion or removal of your information where there is no compelling reason for us to keep it,
- block or suppress further use of your information,
- to obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes across different services,
- lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process personal information with your national data protection regulator, and
- if you have given your consent to our use of personal information, withdraw that consent at any time.
When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be “blocked” to make sure the restriction is respected in future.
We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information for:
- baseless or excessive/repeated requests
- or further copies of the same information.
Alternatively, we may be entitled to refuse to act on the request. Please consider your request responsibly before submitting it. We will respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within 28 days from receiving your request, but if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we will let you know. Please note that you have the right to close your account on our platform at any time. If you encounter any issues in doing so, you can contact us at: info@democracy3o.org.
6. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will place a prominent posting on our website or as required by law. Modifications are effective upon posting of the updated Privacy Policy on our website. Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, disputes arising hereunder will be resolved in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the dispute arose.
Our Contact Information
Please contact us with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, our use and disclosure practices, or your consent choices:
info@democracy3o.org
Att.: Privacy
1401 21st St. STE #5053
Sacramento, CA 95811