Privacy Policy
Block Funds
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy outlines Block Funds, LLC’s privacy practices with respect to the personal information that we ask you to provide through our website at BlockFunds.com (the “Site”) and how we treat this information. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use, and all the terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Use also apply to this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings given to them in the Terms of Use.
IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE
Your Consent
You will be deemed to have consented to the terms of this Privacy Policy by using the Site in any way, even just browsing. We may also ask you to indicate your consent more formally by checking a box or otherwise taking an affirmative action.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We might change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Unless otherwise indicated by the Company, any changes will become effective on a prospective basis from the date of posting. It is your responsibility to check the Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of those changes.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect a variety of personal information to operate the Site and provide the Service, including:
• Your name, address, phone number, email address, birth date, and other personal information.
• Financial information, including your social security number, income, and net worth.
• Copies of your tax returns, brokerage statements, W-2 forms, and other financial documents.
• Your user name and password.
• Information to confirm your identity, such as a completed electronic check transaction or a credit report.
• Your W-9 form.
• Information to confirm your place of residence.
• Information about your use of the Site.
• Information about your computer configuration.
• Information to confirm your relationship with other parties associated with the Site.
• Information about your bank accounts or other sources of payment.
• Your IP address.
We also collect a variety of non-personal information, including aggregated data, provided that the information is not stored or associated with information that personally identifies you. This Privacy Policy does not apply with respect to such non-personal information and we may use non-personal information for any purpose permitted by law.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information to:
• Verify that you are permitted to use and invest through the Site and the Service.
• Present and personalize the Site for you.
• Help track your investments.
• Assist in our anti-fraud efforts.
• Comply with applicable law.
• Respond to your questions.
• Protect our rights and in connection with our general business administrative and oversight purposes.
• Send personal information to third parties as outlined below.
• Process your transactions at the Site.
• Determine whether your computer information is compatible with the Site.
• Keep track of your use of the Site.
• Send you information about your investments.
• Notify you of other possible investments in which you might have an interest.
• Analyze use of the Site.
• Improve the Site.
• Send you information about the Site.
• Send you materials about us.
• Use for other purposes we disclose to you.
What We Provide To Third Parties
We do not provide any third party with any of your personal information except in these situations:
• Upon your request.
• We use third parties to perform services for the Site, such as hosting services, electronic signature providers, electronic payment service providers, and services that verify the qualification of investors. Each of these third parties will need to view, maintain, store, or otherwise use some of your personal and/or financial information to perform their services for the Site.
• If you invest, we will identify you on tax returns and other government forms.
• We will provide information if we believe we are required to do so by law.
• If our Company or an Affiliate is sold, including if all of our Company’s or Affiliate’s interests in an investment related to one of your specific investments, all of your information may be transferred to our successor.
• If you choose to participate in discussions or messages boards at the Site, other users will be able to see your full name (but not any other personal information) and any other information you voluntarily provide to be seen. We do not provide any of your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
Our Affiliates
We may provide personal information to one or more of our affiliates, meaning a company that we control or that is under common control with us. All of our affiliates use of such personal information will also be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. Notifications and Communications from Us We will send you email notifications from time to time. For example, we may send you emails:
• To confirm your registration.
• To provide you with legal notices.
• To notify you of new investment opportunities.
• When the online profile you created is changed.
• To ask you to participate in surveys, or otherwise provide feedback.
• To confirm your investment in a project.
• To ask you for information.
You may also receive emails from third party providers.
Modifying and Deleting Personal Information
You may request that we modify or delete your personal information by loggin in and updating your profile. Even if you request deletion or modification, we may retain certain information as required by law or for necessary business purposes.
How We Protect Your Information
We have put in place systems designed to protect your personal information, including:
• We employ a secure channel, using Secure Sockets Layer encryption, the standard for secure Internet network connections, to protect information exchanged over the Internet between your web browser and our servers.
• We use automated tools to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload information, change information, or otherwise seek to gain unauthorized entry into our systems.
• We take additional steps to protect especially sensitive information.
• In general, we use the same level of data encryption that is used by banks. Nevertheless, due to the nature of the internet, no security system is perfect. We cannot guaranty that your personal information will remain private or secure.
Cookies, Etc.
A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your browser from our computer. We use cookies to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use the Site upon a future visit. You may set your browser so that it does not accept cookies, although this may affect the usability of the Site.
We or our service providers (such as Google Analytics) may collect data related to your use of the Service, including which of our pages you access, the frequency of such access, and your product and service preferences. This data collection may be accomplished by using cookies, web beacons, page tags or similar electronic tools. Such web surfing data may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, click stream data, operating system and the dates and times that you visit the Site. Web surfing data and similar information may be used for administrative purposes, to assess the usage, value, and performance of our online products and services, and to improve your experience with the Service. As with cookies, the web surfing information collected is aggregated, anonymous "click stream" and transactional data, and is not associated with any users as individuals.
If you would prefer not to see advertising based on your personal preferences, you can change your personal settings in your Google account (look for “Ad Settings”) or visit the website of the Network Advertising Initiative located at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ to request participating websites to not track your browsing.
Third Party Sites
You might navigate to websites maintained by third parties by clicking on a link from our Site, including through a banner advertisement. Once you leave our Site, the terms of this Privacy Policy no longer apply and we have no control over the collection or use of personal information you provide to such websites.
Complaints and Suggestions
Please send your privacy-related complaints and suggestions to:
Block Funds
4622 Pennsylvania Ave Suite 700
Kansas City, MO 64112
support@blockfunds.com
WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY
Block Funds values your privacy, trust, and relationship.
We are required by law and regulatory bodies to ask for certain information in order to perform our services for you, but we are committed to protecting your personal and financial information. This Privacy Policy answers some questions about what information we collect, what we do with it, and how we protect it. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
OUR POLICY
Welcome to the web site www.Block Funds.co (the “Site”) owned and operated by Block Funds LLC (Henceforward “Block Funds,” “we,” “us,” and/or “our”). This Site has been created to provide information about our company and its services (the “Services”) to our users (“you,” “your”). This Privacy Policy sets forth Block Funds’s policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”), and other information that is collected from Site visitors and users of the Services.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at info@Block Funds.co
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you interact with us through the Site or the Services, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information such as when you register for access to the Services (for example, contact information such as your name, email address, and mailing address; and when you wish to use certain Services (for example financial information such as bank account numbers, your Date of Birth and last 4 digits of your social security number), or contact us with inquiries or respond to one of our surveys.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Block Funds and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.
Non-Identifiable or Aggregated Data: When you interact with Block Funds through the Site or Services, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you.
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. Block Funds may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Block Funds affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers, and how our users use and interact with the Services. Also, in an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, Block Funds often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us.
This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. Block Funds may share this non-identifiable and aggregate data with its affiliates, agents and business partners, but this type of non-identifiable and aggregate information does not identify you personally. Block Funds may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our Services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
In operating this Site, we may also use a technology called “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your browser when you access the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Site without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Site. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Data except with your permission. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site’s features.
The use of cookies by our any of our affiliates or service providers is not covered by our privacy policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site and use our Services.
OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION
Block Funds uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by email, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to the Services, we will use your Personal Data to provide you with access to such services and to monitor your use of such services. We also may obtain information about you from third party sources to verify your identity so we can properly process your requests and prevent fraud.
Block Funds and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Related Companies”) may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our users and to improve the Services. Block Funds and its Related Companies may use this information to communicate with you regarding the Services or to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If at any time you wish not to receive any future marketing communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below. Note however that as user of the Service we will send you administrative communications that are reasonably necessary to the Service, such as billing or service notifications. If Block Funds intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected.
OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets and you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Related Companies: We may also share your Personal Data with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: Block Funds, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases, ID verification, processing applications, shipping and fulfillment, and processing payments and completing transactions. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Legal and Regulatory Requirements: Block Funds may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Block Funds, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public against fraud or other harm, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
YOUR CHOICES
If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete or request deletion by making the change in your registered account settings page, by emailing our Customer Support at info@Block Funds.co or by contacting us at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
When you sign up for our Services or newsletter(s), we will send periodic emails to you regarding the Services or to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or you can contact us at info@Block Funds.co
SECURITY
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us at info@Block Funds.co
EXCLUSIONS
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by Block Funds other than Personal Data collected through the Site or Services. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to Block Funds through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards (collectively, “Public Areas”), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and Block Funds shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, distribute and exploit such Unsolicited Information without limitation or attribution.
BLOG
Our Web site may offer a publicly accessible blog. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog, contact us at info@Block Funds.co In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
TESTIMONIALS
We may display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our site in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name and other information. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact us at info@Block Funds.co
SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES
You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or Linkedin. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
Our Web site also includes Social Media Features such as the Facebook Like button, Twitter, and Add This button. These Features are interactive mini-programs and may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
CHILDREN
Block Funds does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Block Funds through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. This Site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Block Funds (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply that Block Funds endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Service.
CHANGES TO Block Funds’S PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACTING Block Funds
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Block Funds’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site at info@Block Funds.co