Privacy Policy

Last Updated at: Oct 14, 2024
TheBenefactor.net is a Crypto Driven Social Networking Platform for this next generation of web3 that offers a means of crypto payment to our platform user's outside of the current traditional methods using our native token ( PIF ) Pay it Forward. The official contact email is: [email protected] for any related questions / comments or concerns.

What information do we collect:
Upon entrance to our site you will notice there is an option to accept cookies. Please see our cookies policy information 
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Any function on our site that asks about connecting your wallet or connecting to any other payment source ( i.e., PayPal, MetaMask Processing ) is strictly a one-time usage in real time and no private and or personal information will be stored or saved on our server in any such case unless the user chooses to store their crypto address on file for later use.

Under the 
Contact-Us form any submission on this part will be sent to our site administrators for further processing. All emails are stored on our dedicated server for the length of your account for any future conversations that entail referring back to said email.

Any personal Information or monetary transactions for banner advertisement payments will be strictly a one-time engagement in real time and no private and or personal information will be stored or saved on our server in any such case unless the user chooses to store their crypto address on file for later use.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from people who are not allowed to use our sites and services, such as children under the age of 18. 
Contact-Us if you believe that we've mistakenly collected personal data from someone not allowed to use our services. We'll investigate immediately and take proper action to said unbeknownst collection of personal information.

How do we use personal information:
We collect personal data for many reasons, including to improve your experience, and to run our business. Specific reasons why we collect your personal data include the following:

1. To be able to run our sites and provide better services for you, example: to help you send or request money, make purchases, show you your account information, verify access to your account, and keep your account and payment information up to date.
2. Your information may be used for verification to be able to validate to become a verified user if applicable.
3. Protect our business and our customers from risk and fraud, including fraud that involves our business partners, strategic ventures, or other individuals and merchants.
4. In the event in which we deem necessary to gain access to your account for any misuse of platform policy or any sort of abusive, ill will behavior towards staff, subscribers, content creators or any wrongdoing will result in deletion of account
5. Personalize your experience when you use our sites and services, as well as other third-party sites and services. In this case, we might use tracking technologies like cookies. See our 
Cookies for more details.
6. Connecting your wallet or connecting to any other payment source ( i.e., PayPal, MetaMask Processing ) on a single one-time usage transaction in real time.
7. Make it easy for you to find and connect with others.
8. Contact you when you need us, such as answering a question you sent to our customer service team.
9. Comply with laws and enforce our agreements with you and other people who use our services.
10. Posts will be monitored for any behavior that violates any sort of verbal threatening, aggressive profanity, ill will behavior towards staff, individuals, subscribers, content creators. If said actions occur please refer to “Use of automated decision-making and profiling” & disciplinary actions will apply and your information will be used in such a case.

What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data & the lawful bases for processing your information is as follows:

CONSENT: You the individual has given us ( TheBenefactor.net ) consent to process your personal data for the purpose of age validation and credentials that represent who you say you are.
CONTRACT: We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party payment process ( i.e., PayPal, MetaMask Processing, WalletConnect ) to access your account.
LEGAL OBLIGATION: Processing is necessary for compliance with legal obligation to which you ( user, individual ) is subject to.
LEGITIMATE INTERESTS: The context in which your personal information is collected at TheBenefactor.net is used for that purpose and there is no other use otherwise specified.

When do we share personal data:

We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party payment process ( i.e., PayPal, MetaMask Processing, WalletConnect) to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback from posts and or emails. Similarly, to improve your experience, we work with third-party partners to display their video content on TheBenefactor.net. When you watch or otherwise interact with content from these partners, they may receive and process your personal data as described in their privacy policies.

How do we secure personal data:

Helping to keep your personal data safe against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration is our top priority. To protect your personal data, we use technical, physical, and administrative security measures that include:

- Firewalls
- Data encryption
- Physical access controls in our Administration Panel

While we protect our systems and services, you're responsible for keeping your password(s) and account information private. You are also responsible for making sure your personal information is accurate and up to date. If your account is closed / deleted, we may keep your personal data stored up to 1 year and other information as required by law for any appropriate use. If we do, we'll continue to handle it as we describe in this statement.

How long do we keep your personal data for:

Once you become a content creator / verified user you will be asked for additional personal information under “What Information do we Collect” which is stored on our dedicated server for the life of your active account. If you delete your account we may keep your personal data stored up to 1 year and other information as required by law for any appropriate use.

Monetary transactions of any payment processing feature on TheBenefactor.net will be solely for that single use purpose in real time and no private and or personal information will be stored or saved on our server in any such case unless the user chooses to store their crypto address on file for later use.

Under the 
Contact-Us form any submission on this part will be sent only to our site administrators for further processing. All emails are stored on our dedicated server for the length of your account for any future conversations that entail referring back to said email.
Any personal Information or monetary transactions for banner advertisement payments will be strictly a one-time engagement in real time and no private and or personal information will be stored or saved on our server in any such case.

Your rights in relation to personal data:

When it comes to how your personal data is collected, stored, used, and shared, you have rights and choices.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we've collected about you in the past 12 months. You also have the right to ask us to delete your personal data we have collected about you. If you want to see or delete your personal data, 
Email Us your request from our contact us page. We will not deny you services, charge you different prices, or provide you with a different level of service solely for exercising your privacy rights.

If you request to see or delete your personal data, we'll first need to verify who you are before we can respond to your request. If we can't verify your identity, we will not be able to fulfill your request. If you want to delete your personal data, you have choices:

- Log in to your account and delete information you previously added
- Contact us and request that we delete specific information
- Close your account

If you close your account or request that we delete personal data, we still need to keep some personal data so we can:

- Complete any previous / pending or recent transaction or services you requested or that may be outstanding and or pending.
- Detect and prevent malicious, fraudulent, or illegal activity
- Protect your ( or another person's ) legal rights, including the right to free speech
- Manage our internal business processes that are reasonably related to your expectations when using our services
- Comply with laws

Use of automated decision-making and profiling:

In the event when there is either misuse, harassment, profiling, verbal abuse and any other kind of misuse or abusive, unreasonable behavior on our platform we have the right to edit, delete and or access said abusers account if such action is required to investigate further to resolve any such matter of importance and this use of our administration rights will only be used for such purpose.

How to contact us:

TheBenefactor.net can be reached at 
[email protected] with any questions / comments or concerns. If you wish to file a complaint for any reason, please use the email address just above.

Use of cookies:

Upon entrance to our site you will notice there is an option to accept our cookie policy. Cookies may be used to store a unique identification number tied to your computer or device so that you can be recognized as the same user across one or more browsing sessions and across one or more sites on TheBenefactor.net. You have the right to deny or accept cookies. If you choose to disable cookies, however, some of the functionality of the Services may be impaired. If you use a Google Chrome Browser 
use this link for further information on Cookies and their function and an explanation on how to access cookies. For all other browsers please refer to help in your browser settings menu.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at 
TheBenefactor.net/privacy-policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you within "TheBenefactor.net" or by sending an email to the email address associated with your account from [email protected] By continuing to access or use our Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.