This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how International Precious Metals Limited, the IPMB Ecosystem and its Website www.ipmb.com, “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”, collects, uses, shares and stores personal data. This Policy applies to the site www.ipmb.com, applications, products, and services and any other sites or applications, products and services that link to the site (collectively, “Services”). By using the Services, you understand and agree that we will collect, process, and use your personal data as described in this Policy.
It is important that you read this Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
This Policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
Who we are and contact details
The Company is the controller and responsible for your personal data. In some cases, we may process your personal data based on an agreement with a third party; in those cases, that third party is a data controller and us is a data processor. In those cases, the terms of that agreement may govern how we process your personal data.
If you have any questions about this Policy how we process your personal data or our privacy practices, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, the Cyprus regulator for data protection issues. We would appreciate you coming to us with your complaint in the first instance to give us a chance to resolve it.
Changes to the Policy and your duty to inform us of changes
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. We encourage you to check this Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of its latest version.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Third-Party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins (such as social media plug-ins) and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Third-party wallet extensions
For some of our Services (such as minting a GeM NFT, purchase or sale of our IPMB token), we use third-party electronic wallet extensions, such as MetaMask. When you interact with MetaMask or any other third-party electronic wallet extension, your interactions are governed by the applicable privacy policies of these parties.
Personal data means any data about an individual that can identify that individual. We may collect, use, process, store and transfer personal data about you. We may collect and process data that includes:
We also collect data that is anonymous in that such data does not, by itself, allow the identification of individuals. This anonymous data includes aggregated (such as statistical or demographic data) and de-identified data. One example is where we may aggregate data relating to your use of our website to calculate the share of our users who access a specific webpage. If we combine or connect anonymous data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data, that we will process and use in accordance with this Policy.
Failure to provide data
Where we need to collect your personal data because of a legal obligation or based on the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you. If this is the case, we may have to cancel a Service you have with us. We will notify you if this happens.
We collect and hold information relating to you from different sources.
The information we hold comes essentially from the information you personally provide us or that was transferred to us from a Controller pursuant to a relevant agreement. We may, however, collect your data from other sources. We set these out below.
Every time you use or access the Services, and our website, data is collected. This data is stored in log files on the server and can include:
The temporary storage of data and log files. The IP address is temporarily stored in the system as it is necessary to provide website access to your computer or other device. The IP address is retained while that website is being accessed. These log files are stored to ensure website functionality, optimize the content of our website, and ensure the security of our IT system.
To collect personal data automatically, we use cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
When our business clients use some parts of the Services, we may process and store some personal data on their behalf, as a data processor. This may happen, for example, when a business client uploads information about their client/end-user, as the recipient of a token
In those cases, our business client is the controller and we will process the relevant personal data as data processor based on an agreement we may have with our business client.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in these circumstances:
We do not generally rely on consent to process your personal data although we will get your consent to send you direct marketing communications to you via email or text. You have the right to withdraw your consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes and Bases for Processing
In general, we may use your personal data to provide, fix, and improve our Services, develop new Services, and market our Services.
Below, we explain the ways we plan to use your personal data and the grounds we rely on. We may rely on more than one ground to use your data. The below list is non-exhaustive. You can contact us any time to ask for more details on the grounds we are relying on to use your data.
Purpose: to register you as a new customer.
Basis for processing: a) to perform a contract with you, b) necessary for our legitimate interests.
Purpose: to create your account and manage our relationship with you (such as to notify you for changes to our Services, website, terms, or privacy policy or other appliable terms, or to ask you to leave a review).
Basis for processing: a) to perform a contract with you, b) necessary to comply with our legal obligations, c) necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to see how our customers use our products and services).
Purpose: to process and deliver your orders and our Services to you and keep record of any transactions or actions taken in connection with our Services (including to manage payments, fees, and charges, collect and recover money owed to us)
Basis for processing: a) to perform a contract with you, b) necessary for our legitimate interests (recover debts).
Purpose: to enable you to take part in a draw, competition, survey
Basis for processing: a) to perform a contract with you, b) necessary for our legitimate interests (to see how customers use our products to develop them and grow our business)
Purpose: to administer and protect the Services, our website and our business
Basis for processing: a) necessary for our legitimate interests (to run our business, provide administration and IT services, network security), b) necessary to comply with our legal obligations
Purpose: to deliver relevant website content and ads to you and see how effective our advertising is
Basis for processing: necessary for our legitimate interests (see how customers use our products or services, to develop them, to grow our business, to improve our marketing strategy).
Purpose: to use data analytics to improve our Services, website, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Basis for processing: necessary for our legitimate interests (define types of customers for our products/services, update our website and keep it updated and relevant, to grow our business and improve our marketing strategy).
Purpose: to make suggestions and recommendations to you about Services or new Services that may be of your interest
Basis for processing: necessary for our legitimate interests (develop our products/services, grow our business).
Change of Purpose
We will use your personal data for the purposes for which we collect it or where we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason only if this reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Marketing and Promotional Offers
In case you agree, we will send you marketing messages in relation to our Services or new Services that we think you may want or need or may be of your interest.
Third-party Marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
How to stop Marketing Messages from Us or Third Parties
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing material and messages at any time. You can use any of the following methods:
Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, you will not stop receiving service communications, such as updates regarding the Services you use.
CEO & Founder
John is a company entrepreneur and has traded gold for multinational banks for 25 years. He’s worked in mines, mining processes, logistics, and bullion dealing. Sovereign Funds and Multinationals have noticed his value-creating ability. He supplies metal to global refineries and advises on precious metal recovery, solving supply chain problems on all continents.
John is a company entrepreneur and has traded gold for multinational banks for 25 years. He’s worked in mines, mining processes, logistics, and bullion dealing. Sovereign Funds and Multinationals have noticed his value-creating ability. He supplies metal to global refineries and advises on precious metal recovery, solving supply chain problems on all continents.