Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 26 September 2025
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) of GOAT Foundation, an exempted limited guarantee Cayman Island foundation, its affiliates, and any related entities (collectively, "GOAT", "we", "our", or "us") provides information about the collection, processing, and use of your information when accessing and using our services (collectively, “Services”) available at https://www.goat.network/ and any of our other websites, web applications, or mobile applications exclusively controlled and operated by us (collectively, the “Sites”).
By accessing or using any of the Services, you agree that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you are not authorized to access or use any of the Services and should not use the Services. This Privacy Policy is governed by the law and the dispute resolution procedures specified in the Terms of Use.
1. Information We May Collect.
As a blockchain project, we strive to honor blockchain ideals of privacy. While the information we collect varies depending upon the circumstances, we may collect the following information about you (subject to applicable legal requirements and restrictions):
·Contact data: your email address (to the extent you provide it to us).
·Blockchain information: your wallet address, public key, transaction hashes, transaction ID, on-chain activities, interactions with the Services on the blockchain, and other similar activities.
·Personal characteristics: characteristics of protected classifications under applicable law such as race, sex, age, and disability, to the extent required by applicable law for example, and without limitation, as part of KYC procedures.
·Content and communications: on-chain content, comments, direct communication, web forms, online polls, or interactions with our blogs and posts.
·Commercial information: including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or use histories or tendencies.
·Usage data: internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, clickstream data (e.g., such as the pages you view, links you click, and activity time stamps), and information about your interactions with our Sites, applications, or advertisements.
·Device and location data: technical and location information related to the device you use, including IP address, device ID, browser type, operating system, device type, software version, phone model, phone operating system, referring URL, date and time of your visit, and general location information (such as city, state, or geographic area).
·Cookies: please see Section 6 below.
·Profiles and inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting a user’s preferences.
2. Sources of Information We May Collect.
2.1 Information We May Collect From You.
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Registration, accounts and profiles: If and when you create a user account with us (a “User Account”), we may collect your blockchain address(es), usernames, and email address.
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Marketing, surveys and events: if you sign up to receive news, updates, offers and other marketing communications from us, or attend any events hosted by us, we may collect your name, contact information, and information about your preferences.
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Your communications and requests: when you email us or otherwise send us communications, we may collect and maintain a record of your contact details and communications, and our responses.
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Any other information you directly provide to us.
2.2 Information We May Collect from Third Parties.
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Third-party accounts: if you connect your third-party accounts to your User Account, we may collect certain personal data about you from those third parties accounts.
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Purchases, orders, and payments: if we make available for direct purchase any blockchain assets, and you purchase such blockchain assets, or sign up for certain Services, we may collect information in order to process your payment, such as your name, billing address, payment type, as well as credit card number or other payment account details.
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Social media: if you choose to link, create, or log in to your User Account with a social media service, we may collect certain information from your profile with that social media service. If you post or if you engage with a separate social media service or interact with us on our page with any social media service, we may collect information about you related to those interactions.
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Other: we may obtain information, such as demographic information or updated contact details, from third parties; we may also collect information from public records.
2.3 Information We May Collect or Derive About You Automatically.
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Websites and Applications: We and our third-party providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, log-files, and other technologies to collect information about a user from their browser or device, including, without limitation, your browser type, device type, operating system, software version, phone model, phone operating system, platform-dependent information, requested document, referring URL, date and time of your visit, clickstream data (e.g., about the pages you view, links you click and date and time stamps for your activities on our Sites), and the IP address associated with your transactions in the system. The information that we collect automatically may be linked with other information we have collected.
3. Use of Information.
We may use your information for the following purposes:
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Providing the Services: to provide and maintain our Services and features of our Services.
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Analyzing and improving our business: to better understand how you access and use our Services, customize and improve our Services and features of our Services, and develop new features and products.
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Advertisement and marketing: to advertise and promote our Services. 
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Customer support: to provide customer support for and answer inquiries about the Services.
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Safety and security: to protect against, investigate, and stop fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity. We may also use it to address security risks, solve potential security issues such as bugs, enforce our agreements, and protect our users and us.
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Legal compliance: as needed or requested by regulators, government entities, and law enforcement to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
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Defending our rights: to manage and respond to actual and potential legal disputes and claims, and to otherwise establish, defend, or protect our rights or interests, including in the context of anticipated or actual litigation with third parties.
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Audits, corporate governance, and internal operations: related to financial, tax and accounting audits; audits and assessments of our operations, privacy, security, and financial controls, risk, and compliance with legal obligations; our general business, accounting, record keeping and legal functions; and related to any actual or contemplated merger, acquisition, asset sale or transfer, financing, bankruptcy or restructuring of all or part of our business.
4. Disclosure of information.
We may share or disclose the information we collect about you as follows:
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Service providers: with third-party service providers who use information to perform services for us so we can provide, deliver, and improve the Services, such as hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and/or support providers.
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Advertising and marketing partners: with third parties that provide advertising, campaign measurement, online and/or mobile analytics, and related services. These third parties may receive or access browsing and/or other data about your use of the Services, in order to help us better reach individuals with relevant ads and/or measure our ad campaigns, and/or to better understand how individuals interact with our Services over time and across devices. 
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Subsidiaries, affiliates, and business partners: with our affiliated companies (i.e., our parent company and other companies under common ownership, control or management with us) and business partners to offer exclusive content on our Services. They may use such information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
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Legal compliance: in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. In addition, we may share certain information when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of our company and/or others.
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Business transfers: We may disclose and/or transfer information as part of any actual or contemplated merger, sale, transfer of assets, acquisition, financing and/or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy or similar event, including related to due diligence conducted prior to such event where permitted by law.
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Protect our rights: We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to respond to claims asserted against us, to enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and/or to protect the rights, property, or safety of GOAT or our affiliates, partners, clients, customers and/or others.
5. Retention of Information.
Except to the extent prohibited by law, and subject to this Privacy Policy, we will retain and use your information for as long as it is needed to provide you with any products, services, communications, information you have requested, or access to the Sites, to document our business relationship with you, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. As soon as it is reasonable to assume your information is no longer needed or required, we will cease to retain your information, or remove the means by which the data can be associated with you.
6. Cookies.
Cookies, pixels, web beacons, tags, log-files, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) enable websites and applications to store information or facilitate access to information stored on your device to enable certain features and distinguish you from other visitors.
We may use Cookies, which may be provided by us or third parties, on our Services to enable certain functionality, for security and fraud detection and prevention, to collect usage information about our Sites and the emails that we send, and to personalize content and provide more relevant ads and information. We may combine the information we collect via Cookies with other information about you.
You can manage Cookies using your browser settings. We do not control the use of third party cookies and recommend that you review the privacy policies of third party providers to understand how they use Cookies and your personal data. More information on Cookies and their use can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
7. Third-Party Links and Sites.
We may integrate technologies operated or controlled by other parties into parts of the Services. For example, the Services may include links that hyperlink to websites, platforms, and other services not operated or controlled by us. Please note that when you interact with these other parties, including when you leave the Sites, those parties may independently collect personal data about you and solicit information from you. You can learn more about how those parties collect and use your personal data by reviewing their privacy policies and other terms.
8. Age Requirements.
Our products are restricted for users of legal age and children under the age of 18 are not allowed to use our Services. We do not knowingly collect or maintain information from children we actually know at the time of collection are under the age of 18. Should we discover that we have collected information online from a child who is under 18, we will promptly delete that information. If you have concerns over the collection of children’s information on the Services, please contact us at the email address provided in Section 11 below.
9. Security.
We implement and maintain reasonable administrative, physical, and technical security safeguards to help protect data from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information about you. You are responsible for all of your activity on the Services, including the security of your blockchain network addresses, cryptocurrency wallets, and their cryptographic keys.
10. Changes to this Privacy Policy. 
This Privacy Policy is kept under regular review and may be updated from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the “Effective Date” above. If a material change is made to this Privacy Policy, we may choose to provide notice to you in advance of such change, such as by posting notice of that change on the first page of this Privacy Policy or on our homepage, or by sending an email to the email address we have on record for you.
11. Contact Us.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at Contact@GOAT.network.