Last updated: April 13, 2023

We at Equity St. Portal, LLC, and Equity St. Capital Corp (collectively "Equity St.") respect and protect the privacy of visitors to our websites and our customers. This Privacy Policy describes our information handling practices when you access our services, which include our content on the websites located at www.equityst.com or any other websites, pages, features, or content we own or operate (collectively, the “Site(s)”) and related services (referred to collectively hereinafter as "Services").

This Privacy Policy will be delivered to all new account holders in order to satisfy the federal law that requires crowdfunding platforms to inform their clients of the crowdfunding platform's policies regarding the privacy of client information. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to describe the types of non-public information we collect about you, explain to you what we will do with this information, and explain the ways that we protect your privacy.

Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you are comfortable with our handling of the information we collect, you do not need to take any action at this time. If you have any questions about this Policy, please email us at support@equityst.com.

Equity St. 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 sending you a link tot eh updated privacy policy and, if applicable, a notice using the Model Privacy Form set forth in Regulation S-P) and also post a notice on the Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page even if you have not received a notification of material change in order to be aware of the latest information on Equity St.’s privacy practices.

1. SIMPLIFIED PRIVACY NOTICE 

You may be asked to provide personal information anytime you are in contact with any Equity St. company. We may utilize this information to provide and improve our products, services, and content (additional details below). We may share personal information about you with our Affiliates as a normal part of conducting business and offering Services to you. However, we do not disclose, and do not wish to reserve the right to disclose, nonpublic personal information to third parties except for the reasons set forth in Section 6 below (Such as processing transactions, maintaining accounts, and responding to requests from regulators). Importantly we do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes and will not sell your information to third parties under any circumstance.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

By accessing and using our Services, you signify acceptance to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may provide additional disclosures or information about the data processing practices of specific Services. These notices may supplement or clarify our privacy practices or may provide you with choices about how we process your data. Where we require your consent to process your personal information, we will ask for your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described further below. 

If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately logout, exit the Site, and discontinue access or use of our Services.

3. OUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOU

Equity St. typically operates as an intermediary in transactions between investors and issuers. When investors invest, it collects the personal information to facilitate that investment and/or conduct due diligence on the investor, and passes some of that information on to other parties so they can perform their role in the transaction (e.g., the issuer, the escrow agency collecting the funds, etc.). The entities you contract with will determine the means and purposes of processing your personal information in relation to the Services provided to you. 

If you have any questions about your Equity St. Account, your personal information, or this Privacy Policy, please email us at support@equityst.com.

4. THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal information is typically data that identifies an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. This includes information you provide to us, information which is collected about you automatically, and information we obtain from third parties. The definition of personal information depends on the applicable law based on your physical location. Only the definition that applies to your physical location will apply to you under this Privacy Policy.

Information you provide to us. To establish an account and access our Services, we'll ask you to provide us with some important information about yourself. This information is either required by law (e.g. to verify your identity), necessary to provide the requested services (e.g. you will need to provide your bank account number if you'd like to make an investment at Equity St.), or is relevant for certain specified purposes, described in greater detail below. As we add new features and Services, you may be asked to provide additional information.

If you choose not to share certain information with us, we may not be able to serve you as effectively or offer you our Services. Any information you provide to us that is not required is voluntary.

We may collect the following types of information from you:

• Personal Identification Information: Full name, date of birth, nationality, gender, signature, utility bills, photographs, phone number, home address, and/or email.
• Formal Identification Information: Government issued identity document such as Passport, Driver's License, National Identity Card, State ID Card, Tax ID number, passport number, driver's license details, national identity card details, visa information, and/or any other information deemed necessary to comply with our legal obligations under financial or anti-money laundering laws.
• Institutional Information: Employer Identification number (or comparable number issued by a government), proof of legal formation (e.g. Articles of Incorporation), personal identification information for all material beneficial owners.
• Financial Information: Bank account information, payment card primary account number (PAN), transaction history, trading data, and/or tax identification.
• Transaction Information: Information about the transactions you make on our Services, such as the name of the recipient, your name, the amount, and/or timestamp.
• Employment Information: Office location, job title, and/or description of role.
• Correspondence: Survey responses, information provided to our support team or user research team.
• Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as call and video recordings.
• Information we collect from you automatically. To the extent permitted under the applicable law, we may collect certain types of information automatically, such as whenever you interact with the Sites or use the Services. This information helps us address customer support issues, improve the performance of our Sites and Services, provide you with a streamlined and personalized experience, and protect your account from fraud by detecting unauthorized access. Information collected automatically includes:
• Online Identifiers: Geo location/tracking details, browser fingerprint, operating system, browser name and version, and/or personal IP addresses.
• Usage Data: Authentication data, security questions, click-stream data, public social networking posts, and other data collected via cookies and similar technologies.
• For example, we may automatically receive and record the following information on our server logs:
• How you came to and use the Services;
• Device type and unique device identification numbers;
• Device event information (such as crashes, system activity and hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL);
• How your device interacts with our Sites and Services, including pages accessed and links clicked;
• Broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location); and
• Other technical data collected through cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies that uniquely identify your browser.

We may also use identifiers to recognize you when you access our Sites via an external link, such as a link appearing on a third party site.

Information we collect from our affiliates and third parties. From time to time, we may obtain information about you from our affiliates or third-party sources as required or permitted by applicable law. These sources may include:

• Public Databases, Credit Bureaus & ID Verification Partners: We obtain information about you from public databases and ID verification partners for purposes of verifying your identity in accordance with applicable law. ID verification partners use a combination of government records and publicly available information about you to verify your identity. Such information may include your name, address, job role, public employment profile, credit history, status on any sanctions lists maintained by public authorities, and other relevant data. We obtain such information to comply with our legal obligations, such as anti-money laundering laws. In some cases, we may process additional data about you to assess risk and ensure our Services are not used fraudulently or for other illicit activities. In such instances, processing is necessary for us to continue to perform our contractual obligations with you and others.
• Analytics Providers: We may work with these providers to provide us with de-identified information about how you found our Sites and how you interact with the Sites and Services. This information may be collected prior to account creation.

5. ANONYMIZED AND AGGREGATED DATA

Anonymization is a data processing technique that modifies personal information so that it cannot be associated with a specific individual. Except for this section, none of the other provisions of this Privacy Policy applies to anonymized or aggregated customer data (i.e. information about our customers that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual customer).

Equity St. may use anonymized or aggregate customer data for any business purpose, including to better understand customer needs and behaviors, improve our Services, conduct business intelligence and marketing, and detect security threats. We may perform our own analytics on anonymized data or enable analytics provided by third parties.

Types of data we may anonymize include, transaction data, click-stream data, performance metrics, and fraud indicators.

6. HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a secure, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We generally use personal information to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our Services, content and advertising; and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes. We may use this information in the following ways:

6.1 To maintain legal and regulatory compliance

Most of our core Services are subject to laws and regulations requiring us to collect, use, and store your personal information in certain ways. For example, Equity St. must identify and verify customers using our Services in order to comply with anti-money laundering laws across jurisdictions. In addition, we use third parties to verify your identity by comparing the personal information you provide against third-party databases and public records. When you attempt to use a bank account to make an investment at Equity St., we may require you to provide additional information which we may use in collaboration with service providers acting on our behalf to verify your identity or address, and/or to manage risk as required under applicable law. If you do not provide personal information required by law, we will not be able to process your investment.

Additional Accreditation Verification Measures. In addition to the information you provide to us, under certain circumstances, federal law may require Equity St. or any of its affiliates to take additional steps to verify that your qualifications for regulated levels of investment. If such circumstances apply to the offering of certain securities in which you would like to invest, you agree to utilize an independent third-party verification provider to verify your status. You understand that Equity St. or such other provider may contact you directly in such instance, and you agree to promptly work with Equity St. or such other provider to complete the verification process. Equity St. or an affiliate will pay the service provider’s fees and costs for this service. Equity St. will not share with you the information received from Equity St. or such other service provider regarding you or your status unless such information is the basis for Equity St. or an affiliate declining to accept your investment subscription.

6.2 To enforce our terms in our user agreement and other agreements

Equity St. handles sensitive information, such as your identification and financial data, so it is very important for us and our customers that we actively monitor, investigate, prevent, and mitigate any potentially prohibited or illegal activities, enforce our agreements with third parties, and/or prevent and detect violations of our posted user agreement or agreements for other Services. In addition, we may need to collect fees based on your use of our Services. We collect information about your account usage and closely monitor your interactions with our Services. We may use any of your personal information collected for these purposes. The consequences of not processing your personal information for such purposes is the termination of your account.

6.3 To detect and prevent fraud and/or funds loss

We process your personal information in order to help detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud and abuse of our services and to protect you against account compromise or funds loss.

6.4 To provide Equity St.'s Services

We process your personal information to provide the Services to you. For example, when you want to store funds on our platform, we require certain information such as your identification, contact information, and payment information. We cannot provide you with Services without such information. Third parties such as identity verification services may also access and/or collect your personal information when providing identity verification and/or fraud prevention services.

For example, the Services use your information to:

1. identify you when you sign-in to your account;

2. enable us to provide you with the Services;

3. send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us;

4. present projects or opportunities to you when you use the Services which we believe will be of interest based on your geographic location and previous use of the Services;

5. notify an Issuer of your interest in the event you indicate an interest in making an investment with the Issuer through the Services;

6. administer your account with us;

7. enable us to contact you regarding any question you make through the Services;

8. analyze the use of the Services and the people visiting to improve our content and Services;

9. use for other purposes that we may disclose to you when we request your information.

10. We may make certain automatically collected information about your interactions and activities on the Services, such as the business or investment areas of interest to you or you have invested in, and your past activities, projects or proposals, publicly available on or through the Services. Any such publicly available information will be accessible by other Users.

6.5 To provide Service communications

We send administrative or account-related information to you to keep you updated about our Services, inform you of relevant security issues or updates, or provide other transaction-related information. Without such communications, you may not be aware of important developments relating to your account that may affect how you can use our Services. You may not opt-out of receiving critical service communications, such as emails or mobile notifications sent for legal or security purposes.

From time to time (i) we will send you as a user of the Services email relating to your personal transactions but will keep these emails to a minimum; (ii) you will receive certain email notifications (forwarded messages, etc.) for which you may opt-out; (iii) we may send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary or proper to do so; (iv) if you email us directly, we may email you back and keep records of all correspondence; and (iv) we may send you emails from time to time letting you know about special promotions, featured investments and other Equity St. news. It is your responsibility to ensure that you maintain a current email address with Equity St., and notify us if there are any changes.

6.6 To provide customer service

We process your personal information when you contact us to resolve any questions, disputes, collect fees, or to troubleshoot problems. Without processing your personal information for such purposes, we cannot respond to your requests and ensure your uninterrupted use of the Services.

6.7 To ensure quality control

We process your personal information for quality control and staff training to make sure we continue to provide you with accurate information. If we do not process personal information for quality control purposes, you may experience issues on the Services such as inaccurate transaction records or other interruptions.

6.8 To ensure network and information security

We process your personal information in order to enhance security, monitor and verify identity or service access, combat spam or other malware or security risks and to comply with applicable security laws and regulations. The threat landscape on the internet is constantly evolving, which makes it more important than ever that we have accurate and up-to-date information about your use of our Services. Without processing your personal information, we may not be able to ensure the security of our Services.

6.9 For research and development purposes

We process your personal information to better understand the way you use and interact with Equity St.'s Services. In addition, we use such information to customize, measure, and improve Equity St.'s Services and the content and layout of our website and applications, and to develop new services. Without such processing, we cannot ensure your continued enjoyment of our Services.

6.10 To enhance your experience

We process your personal information to provide a personalized experience, and implement the preferences you request. For example, you may choose to provide us with access to certain personal information stored by third parties. Without such processing, we may not be able to ensure your continued enjoyment of part or all of our Services.

6.11 To facilitate corporate acquisitions, mergers, or transactions

We may process any information regarding your account and use of our Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, or other corporate transactions.

6.12 To engage in marketing activities

Based on your communication preferences, we may send you marketing communications (e.g. emails or mobile notifications) to inform you about our events; to deliver targeted marketing; and to provide you with promotional offers. You may opt out of these communications at any time. Our marketing will be conducted in accordance with your advertising marketing preferences and as permitted by applicable law.

In the event you indicate an interest in making an investment through our Site, we will notify the Issuer of your interest and will provide your Personal Information to the Issuer.

6.13 For any purpose that you provide your consent. 

We will not use your personal information for purposes other than those purposes we have disclosed to you, without your permission. From time to time, and as required under the applicable law, we may request your permission to allow us to share your personal information with third parties. In such instances, you may opt out of having your personal information shared with third parties, or allow us to use your personal information for any purpose that is incompatible with the purposes for which we originally collected it or subsequently obtained your authorization. If you choose to limit the use of your personal information, certain features or Equity St. Services may not be available to you.

7. LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION

For individuals who are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland (collectively “EEA Residents'') at the time their personal information is collected, our legal bases for processing your information under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will depend on the personal information at issue, the specific context in the which the personal information is collected and the purposes for which it is used. We generally only process your data where we are legally required to, where processing is necessary to perform any contracts we entered with you (or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you), where processing is in our legitimate interests to operate our business and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, or where we have obtained your consent to do so. In some rare instances, we may need to process your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. Below is a list of how Equity St. uses your personal information, as described above in Section 6, with the corresponding legal bases for processing. If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the "How to contact us" heading below.

8. WHY WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHER PARTIES

We take care to allow your personal information to be accessed only by those who require access to perform their tasks and duties, and to share only with third parties who have a legitimate purpose for accessing it. Equity St. will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent. We will only share your information in the following circumstances:

We may share your information with third-party identity verification services in order to prevent fraud. This allows Equity St. to confirm your identity by comparing the information you provide us to public records and other third-party databases. These service providers may create derivative data based on your personal information that can be used in connection with the provision of identity verification and fraud prevention services.

Additionally, we may need to share your information in continuance of the transaction for which you have voluntarily utilized our services. The ways in which we share that information immediately follows.

Potential Disclosure of Subscriber Information to Related Transaction Parties; Ongoing Compliance with Governmental Requirements. The company(ies) sponsoring an investment project (collectively, the "Sponsor"), lenders relating to the investment project, or other parties involved with the investment and related transactions (collectively, "Related Transaction Parties") may require that Equity St., the Manager, or any of their respective affiliates provide such Related Transaction Parties with the names, investment amounts, and other information regarding the various investors in a financing offering, notwithstanding the usual privacy policies of Equity St. or any of its affiliates. You hereby expressly consent and agree that any of Equity St., the Manager or any of their respective affiliates may provide such information (which may include, without limitation, Social Security numbers or similar identifying information, evidence of your qualification as an "accredited investor," or other information related to your involvement with an investment project) to any such Related Transaction Parties requiring such information as part of the consummation of, or continued participation in, the investment project or the related transactions contemplated hereunder, as Equity St. or any of its affiliates may deem appropriate in its or their sole and absolute discretion.

The Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and other governmental authorities may from time to time impose certain compliance or reporting requirements that may require Equity St. or any of its affiliates to request from you additional financial or personal information. These regulations may require increased due diligence, compliance activity, or reporting on the part of Equity St. or any of its affiliates. You hereby warrant that you will, upon request, supply to Equity St. or any of its affiliates all information reasonably necessary or advisable to carry out such functions or requirements.

With financial institutions with which we partner to process payments you have authorized.

With service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations. Our contracts require these service providers to only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us, and prohibit them from selling your information to anyone else. Examples of the types of service providers we may share personal information with (other than those mentioned above) include:

• Network infrastructure
• Cloud storage
• Payment processing
• Transaction monitoring
• Security
• Document repository services
• Customer support
• Internet (e.g. ISPs)
• Data analytics
• Information Technology
• Marketing

With companies or other entities that we plan to merge with or be acquired by. You will receive prior notice of any change in applicable policies.

With companies or other entities that purchase Equity St. assets pursuant to a court-approved sale or where we are required to share your information pursuant to insolvency law in any applicable jurisdiction.

With our professional advisors who provide banking, legal, compliance, insurance, accounting, or other consulting services in order to complete third party financial, technical, compliance and legal audits of our operations or otherwise comply with our legal obligations.

With law enforcement, officials, or other third parties when we are compelled to do so by a subpoena, court order, or similar legal procedure, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of our User Agreement or any other applicable policies.

We may share personal information about you with our Affiliates as a normal part of conducting business and offering Services to you.

Where we believe it is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of any person. If you establish a Equity St. Account indirectly on a third-party website or via a third party application, any information that you enter on that website or application (and not directly on a Equity St. website) will be shared with the owner of the third party website or application and your information will be subject to their privacy policies. For more information see the “Third-Party Sites and Services” section below.

9. HOW WE PROTECT AND STORE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We understand how important your privacy is, which is why Equity St. maintains (and contractually requires third parties it shares your information with to maintain) appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the personal information you entrust to us.

We may store and process all or part of your personal and transactional information, including certain payment information, such as your encrypted bank account and/or routing numbers, in the US and elsewhere in the world where our facilities or our service providers are located. We protect your personal information by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations.

For example, we use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities. Full credit card data is securely transferred and hosted off-site by payment vendors in compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). This information is not accessible to Equity St. or Equity St. staff.

However, we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, unauthorized acquisition, or alteration of your data will not occur. Please recognize that you play a vital role in protecting your own personal information. When registering with our Services, it is important to choose a password of sufficient length and complexity, to not reveal this password to any third-parties, and to immediately notify us if you become aware of any unauthorized access to or use of your account.

Furthermore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security or confidentiality of information you transmit to us or receive from us by Internet or wireless connection, including email, phone, or SMS, since we have no way of protecting that information once it leaves and until it reaches us. If you have reason to believe that your data is no longer secure, please contact us using the contact information provided in the “How to contact us” section below.

10. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store your personal information securely throughout the life of your Equity St. Account. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations or to resolve disputes. While retention requirements vary by jurisdiction, information about our typical retention periods for different aspects of your personal information are described below.

• Personal information collected to comply with our legal obligations under financial or anti-money laundering laws may be retained after account closure for as long as required under such laws.
• Contact Information such as your name, email address and telephone number for marketing purposes is retained on an ongoing basis until you unsubscribe. Thereafter we will add your details to our suppression list to ensure we do not inadvertently market to you.
• Content that you post on our website such as support desk comments, photographs, videos, blog posts, and other content may be kept after you close your account for audit and crime prevention purposes (e.g. to prevent a known fraudulent actor from opening a new account).
• Recording of our telephone calls with you may be kept for a period of up to six years.
• Information collected via technical means such as cookies, webpage counters and other analytics tools is kept for a period of up to one year from expiry of the cookie.

11. THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

We will not share your information with third-parties, except to the extent you authorize one or more third-party applications to access your Equity St. Services, then information you have provided to Equity St. may be shared with those third parties. A connection you authorize or enable between your Equity St. account and a non-Equity St. account, payment instrument, or platform is considered an “account connection.” Unless you provide further permissions, Equity St. will not authorize these third parties to use this information for any purpose other than to facilitate your transactions using Equity St. Services. Please note that third parties you interact with may have their own privacy policies, and Equity St. is not responsible for their operations or their use of data they collect. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as contact details, financial information, or location data, is governed by their privacy practices and Equity St. is not responsible for unauthorized third-party conduct. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.

12. CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not knowingly request to collect personal information from any person under the age of 18. If a user submitting personal information is suspected of being younger than 18 years of age, Equity St. will require the user to close his or her account and will not allow the user to continue using our Services. We will also take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. Please notify us if you know of any individuals under the age of 18 using our Services so we can take action to prevent access to our Services.

13. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Depending on applicable law where you reside, you may be able to assert certain rights related to your personal information identified below. If any of the rights listed below are not provided under law for your operating entity or jurisdiction, Equity St. has absolute discretion in providing you with those rights.

Your rights to personal information are not absolute. Depending upon the applicable law, access to your rights under the applicable law may be denied: (a) when denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another's privacy; (c) to protect our rights and property; (d) where the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.

Access and portability. You may request that we provide you a copy of your personal information held by us. This information will be provided without undue delay subject to a potential fee associated with gathering of the information (as permitted by law), unless such provision adversely affects the rights and freedoms of others. In certain circumstances, you may request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have us transfer your personal information directly to another entity.

Rectification of incomplete or inaccurate personal information. You may request us to rectify or update any of your personal information held by Equity St. that is inaccurate. You may do this at any time by logging in to your account and clicking the Profile or My Account tab.

Erasure. You may request to erase your personal information, subject to applicable law. If you close your Equity St. Account, we will mark your account in our database as "Closed," but will keep certain account information, including your request to erase, in our database for a period of time as described above. This is necessary to deter fraud, by ensuring that persons who try to commit fraud will not be able to avoid detection simply by closing their account and opening a new account, and to comply with Equity St.’s legal obligations. However, if you close your account, your personal information will not be used by us for any further purposes, nor shared with third parties, except as necessary to prevent fraud and assist law enforcement, as required by law, or in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Withdraw consent. To the extent the processing of your personal information is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of Equity St.'s processing based on consent before your withdrawal.

Restriction of processing. In some jurisdictions, applicable law may give you the right to restrict or object to us processing or transferring your personal information under certain circumstances. We may continue to process your personal information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable law.

Automated individual decision-making, including profiling. Equity St. may rely on automated tools to help determine whether a transaction or a customer account presents a fraud or legal risk. In some jurisdictions, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, save for the exceptions applicable under relevant data protection laws.

Marketing communications. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from Equity St.. Direct marketing includes any communications to you that are only based on advertising or promoting our products and services. We will only contact you by electronic means (email or SMS) based on our legitimate interests, as permitted by applicable law, or your consent. If you do not want us to send you marketing communications, please go to your account settings to opt-out email a request to support@equityst.com. 

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland: To the extent we can rely on legitimate interest under the applicable law, we will only send you information about our Services that are similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. We will contact you by electronic means for marketing purposes only if you have consented to such communication. You may raise such objections with regard to initial or further processing for purposes of direct marketing, at any time and free of charge. 

How to make a privacy request. You can make privacy rights requests relating to your personal information by going to your Privacy Rights Dashboard or, if you cannot access the Dashboard, by contacting us at support@equityst.com. Our Privacy Rights Dashboard also allows you to set your communication preferences and make individual rights requests relating to your personal information. We strongly encourage you to make any individual rights requests through the Privacy Rights Dashboard because it ensures that you have been authenticated already (based on the KYC information you have provided to open your account and by providing the necessary login credentials and multi-factor authentication to access the account). Otherwise, when we receive an individual rights request via other intake methods, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request to protect your privacy and security.

How to lodge a complaint. If you believe that we have infringed your rights, we encourage you to first submit a request by contacting us at support@equityst.com so that we can try to resolve the issue or dispute informally.

14. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

In addition to the rights provided for above, if you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding whether we share certain categories of your personal information with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. To the extent we share you personal information in this way, you may receive the following information:

• the categories of information we disclosed to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year; and
• the names and addresses of third parties that received such information, or if the nature of their business cannot be determined from the name, then examples of the products or services marketed.

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California residents have certain rights in relation to their personal information, subject to limited exceptions. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this California Privacy Rights section. This section describes the categories of personal information Equity St. has collected, the categories of personal information Equity St. has disclosed, and a description of California residents’ rights.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

The chart below described the categories of personal information Equity St. has collected in the preceding 12 months, the sources and purpose of such collection, and the parties to whom the information was shared for business purposes.

California Residents’ Rights

Under the CCPA, you may have the following consumer rights. Please note that these rights are not absolute and in certain cases are subject to conditions or limitations as specified in the CCPA:

For personal information collected by us during the preceding 12 months preceding your request that is not otherwise subject to an exception, California residents have the right to access and delete their personal information. Equity St. will not discriminate against those who exercise their rights. Specifically, if you exercise your rights, we will not deny you services, charge you different prices for services or provide you a different level or quality of services.

To the extent we sell your personal information to third parties, you also have the right to request that we disclose to you: (i) the categories of your personal information that we sold, and (ii) the categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold. You have the right to direct us not to sell your personal information. Equity St. does not sell your personal information in its ordinary course of business and will never sell your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent.

Should Equity St. engage in any of the activities listed in this section, your ability to exercise these rights will be made available to you in your account settings. You can exercise your rights by going to your Privacy Rights Dashboard or contacting us at support@equityst.com so that we may consider your request.

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally either require the successful login to your account or the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Although we try to limit the personal information collected in connection with a request to exercise your rights, certain requests may require us to obtain additional personal information from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the right to know and right to deletion, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity.

If you are a California resident, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request to access or a request to delete on your behalf. To do so, you must: (1) provide that authorized agent written and signed permission to submit such a request; and (2) verify your own identity directly with us. Please note, we may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf. We will respond to your authorized agent's request if they submit proof that they are registered with the California Secretary of State to be able to act on your behalf, or submit evidence you have provided them with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4121 to 4130. We may deny requests from authorized agents who do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf, or are unable to verify their identity.

Do Not Track

Some Internet browsers - like Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari - include the ability to transmit "Do Not Track" or "DNT" signals. Since uniform standards for "DNT" signals have not been adopted, we do not currently process or respond to "DNT" signals.

15. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you have a complaint, please contact us on our Support page, at or by writing to us at support@equityst.com.