Photon Privacy Policy

Last modified: November 19, 2020

We, the Onion Mill LLC, as the provider of the mobile application and service Photon (the "service"), take data protection matters very seriously and wish to ensure that your privacy as a user of the service is protected.

In this Data Protection Policy, we therefore explain how we handle your personal data in connection with your use of the App.

1. General Aspects

1.1. We shall comply at all times with the applicable data protection laws, in particular the stipulations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG).

1.2. We collect, process, and use your personal data only if your consent has been obtained or if such processing or use is permitted by law.

2. Personal Data

Personal data means any details about a certain or identifiable person that relate to the personal or material circumstances of that person; Section 3 (1) BDSG. This includes information such as your name, postal address, email address or telephone number.

3.1. In accepting this Data Protection Privacy you give us your revocable consent to collect, process, and use the personal data that you directly or indirectly provide to us to the respective extent necessary for the purpose of processing the bitcoin wallet seed, with end-to-end encryption applied as per user direction:

  • Your email address, phone number, and your encryption key so that we can serve them to you for the purposes of encrypted cloud synchronisation.

We will not in any way store the content of your bitcoin wallet seed in clear text.

3.2. We also collect anonymous technical data, such as the name of your Internet Service Provider, web browser, operating system, screen resolution, information about the website from which you linked to us, the number and date of your visits, the average duration of your visits, and the pages on our website that you visit. These data are stored automatically. They are analysed in anonymous form and solely for statistical purposes with the aim of further improving our website for you.

3.3. You may revoke your declaration of consent at any time by giving us a respective notice. The easiest and fastest way to revoke your consent is to write a short email to info@photonsdk.com.

4. Sharing of Personal Data

We will not share your personal data with third parties unless you have given your prior explicit consent or such sharing of data is prescribed by law or legally permissible. We will not sell your data to third parties, nor market them in any other manner. Data is shared with government agencies and authorities only in compliance with mandatory national laws. Our employees and partners are obligated by us to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the data protection regulations.

5. Data Storage

Your data will be stored only as long as required for us to provide our services or as long as we are legally obligated to save it.

6. Information, Correction, Deletion

You can obtain information at any time, free of charge, about the personal data we store about you. If your data is incorrect or wrongly stored by us, we shall be please to correct, block or delete such data. Please notify us immediately of any changes in your data.

Please send any requests for information, questions, complaints or suggestions to the following address: info@photonsdk.com.

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