Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Beacon Hashvault collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use our website and analytical tools. Please read it carefully. This is a general template and should be reviewed against your specific legal obligations before publication.
1. Who We Are
Beacon Hashvault provides AI-driven risk analysis and decision-support tools for individuals managing supplemental and independent income streams. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Beacon Hashvault acts as the data controller in respect of personal information collected through this website and associated services.
References to "we", "us", or "our" in this policy mean Beacon Hashvault. References to "you" mean any visitor, registered user, or customer interacting with our website or services.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information in a limited number of ways, depending on how you interact with our services:
- Account information: Name, email address, and credentials provided when you register or contact us.
- Usage data submitted to the service: Financial or income-related inputs you choose to provide for the purpose of generating analysis, summaries, or risk assessments.
- Technical data: IP address, browser type, device information, and general usage patterns collected automatically through standard web technologies.
- Communications: Records of correspondence when you contact our support channels.
- Cookies and similar technologies: Used to maintain session state, remember preferences, and understand aggregate usage of the site.
3. How We Use Information
We use collected information only for purposes consistent with providing and improving our services, including:
Delivering the Service
To process inputs and generate the analysis, reports, or decision-support outputs you request.
Account Management
To create and maintain your account, authenticate access, and respond to support requests.
Service Improvement
To understand aggregate usage patterns and improve the reliability and relevance of our tools.
Security & Integrity
To detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent, unauthorized, or harmful activity on our platform.
Legal Compliance
To meet record-keeping and regulatory obligations where applicable under UK data protection law.
Communications
To send service-related notices and, where you have consented, occasional updates about our offering.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Where applicable UK data protection law requires a lawful basis for processing personal data, we rely on one or more of the following:
- Contractual necessity: Processing required to provide the service you have requested.
- Legitimate interests: Processing necessary for the security, improvement, and operation of our platform, balanced against your rights and interests.
- Consent: Processing based on your explicit consent, such as for optional marketing communications, which you may withdraw at any time.
- Legal obligation: Processing required to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell personal information. We may share limited data with the following categories of recipients, strictly as necessary:
- Service providers: Hosting, infrastructure, analytics, and support tools that process data on our behalf under appropriate contractual safeguards.
- Professional advisors: Legal, accounting, or regulatory advisors where necessary for the operation or protection of our business.
- Regulatory or legal authorities: Where disclosure is required to comply with a legal obligation, court order, or valid regulatory request.
- Business transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to continued protection of your information under this policy.
6. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Retention periods vary depending on the type of data and the context in which it was collected. Where information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize it.
7. Data Security
We apply reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. These measures include access controls, encryption in transit where applicable, and restricted internal access to personal data on a need-to-know basis. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal data, which may include the right to:
- Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Request deletion of your personal data, subject to certain legal exceptions.
- Object to or restrict certain types of processing.
- Request portability of data you have provided to us in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
- Lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided on our website. We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
9. Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to operate core functionality, remember preferences, and gather anonymized usage statistics. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings; however, doing so may affect the functionality of certain features of the site.
10. International Data Transfers
Where personal data is transferred outside of the jurisdiction in which it was originally collected, we take reasonable steps to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, consistent with applicable data protection requirements, to ensure an adequate level of protection for your information.
11. Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed at, and are not intended for use by, individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. The updated version will be indicated by a revised date and will take effect as soon as it is published. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal data is handled, please contact us through the channels listed on our website. We will respond to reasonable requests within a reasonable timeframe.