CrunchDAO Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 30, 2026

Welcome to the CrunchDAO Privacy Policy. This policy explains how Crunch Foundation, a foundation company incorporated in the Cayman Islands ("we," "us," or "Crunch Foundation"), collects, uses, and shares your personal information (or any personal information you provide on behalf of others) when you use the CrunchDAO website, platform, and related services (the "Services"). For the purposes of the Cayman Islands Data Protection Act ("DPA"), General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and other applicable data protection laws (together, the "Data Protection Legislation"), Crunch Foundation is the data controller of your personal information.

California residents can find more information in our California Notice at Collection.

Information Crunch Foundation Collects

We collect information to provide better Services to all our users. When you’re not signed into a CrunchDAO account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. When you’re signed in, we collect information that we store with your CrunchDAO account.

Things You Create or Provide to Us

When you create a CrunchDAO account, submit competition entries or otherwise use the Services, you may provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You may also provide your mailing address and home/mobile phone number, or other personal information.

Your provision of this personal data is required for you to enter into the Terms of Use, a contract with us, as well as for you to enter competitions hosted on the Services. These entries are also a contract between you and the competition host, and we need your personal information to host the Services offered under that contract (see the Terms of Use for additional information). If you do not provide the minimum amount of personal data required to register an account, including your name and email address, you cannot use the Services, as this information is necessary for contractual reasons. Certain parts of the Services also require you to provide a mobile phone number, which is needed to protect against fraud and abuse.

We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our Services. This includes things like messages you write and receive, forum posts, notebooks, datasets, and competition submissions.

Information We Collect as You Use Our Services

Your apps, browsers & devices: We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access our Services or open one of our HTML emails by using different types of technology, including “clear gifs” or “web beacons.” This “automatically collected” information may include Internet Protocol address (also known as “IP address”) or other device address or ID, web browser or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after the Services, the pages you view on the Services, and the dates and times that you visit the Services. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.
Your activity: We collect information about your activity in our Services, which may include views and interactions with content and ads, people with whom you communicate or share content, and which datasets you view or download.
Cookies and web beacons: When you use the Services, we send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. For example, we use cookies to ensure proper navigation between pages on the Services. Crunch Foundation may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Services. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. If you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from the Services, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Services to their fullest potential.
Third-Party Analytics: We may also implement on the Services third-party content, such as advertising or analytic services, that uses “clear gifs,” “web beacons,” or other similar techniques, which allow the third-party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser or implement similar tracking mechanisms. This information is collected directly by the third party, and Crunch Foundation does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies. We currently implement services provided by Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Facebook/Instagram.
Linked accounts: When you link an account you may have on a third-party service (such as a third-party social networking site or email provider) to your CrunchDAO account, Crunch Foundation collects certain information stored in connection with that account that you have configured that service to make available, including your email address, provider ID, first and last name, and profile picture. By linking your accounts in this manner, you authorize Crunch Foundation to access and use your account on the third-party service in connection with your use of the Services.

Why Crunch Foundation Collects Information

Crunch Foundation uses the information we collect for the following purposes:

Provide Our Services

We use your information to deliver our Services, like administering competitions you enter or hosting datasets you upload or access. For example, we use the IP address assigned to your device to send you the data you requested, such as loading a dataset.

Another example is that we use unique identifiers stored in cookies on your device to help us authenticate you as the person who should have access to your CrunchDAO account.

Maintain & Improve Our Services

We also use your information to ensure our Services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our Services – for example, to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our CrunchDAO account members and to improve the way the Services work and look.

Develop New Services

We use the information we collect in existing Services to help us create new features and functionality.

Provide Personalized Services

We use the information we collect to customize our Services for you, including remembering your information so that you will not have to log in again the next time you visit the Services if you haven’t signed out. We also use data to provide customized third party content and information and to track your status in any Competitions or other activities.

Interest-Based Advertising

We engage third-party advertising partners to display ads promoting our services, including on social media platforms, search engines, and across the web. We use the information we collect to target our ads to you or others that may be interested. For example, if you visit our Services, we may retarget ads to you on social media based, and we may work with social media platforms and other advertising partners to serve ads to other individuals that may be interested in similar listings. To understand your choices, including your options to opt out, please see the “Your Right and Choices” section below.

Measure Performance

We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our Services are used and to measure the performance of our advertising. We use a variety of tools to do this, including Google Analytics. Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies, which means the cookies are set by Crunch Foundation. You can opt-out from Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Communicate with You

We use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity on your account, or let you know about upcoming changes. We will also use your email address to contact you with respect to competition entries, prize awards; for administrative and customer service purposes; to address intellectual property infringement, rights of privacy, or defamation issues; or regarding things you post on the Services. You will have the ability to opt-out of receiving any such non-essential communications by updating your Member Account settings.

Protect Crunch Foundation, Our Users, and the Public

We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our Services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues. We also analyze your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. When we detect violations of our policies, we may disable your account or take other appropriate action, including reporting the violation to appropriate authorities.

Comply with legal or regulatory obligations

We may use personal information to comply with regulatory, governmental, tax and law enforcement authorities. We may also use personal information to conduct due diligence on you or when carrying out internal checks and audits.

Please see “Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information” below for further information on the bases for our processing your personal information.

Managing and Deleting Your Information

Managing, Reviewing, and Updating Your Information

When you’re signed into your CrunchDAO account, you can always review and update information by visiting your account profile.

Exporting, Removing & Deleting Your Information

You can export a copy of content if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of CrunchDAO by contacting us. You may update, correct, or delete your profile information and preferences at any time by accessing your account settings page. If desired, you can delete your entire CrunchDAO account by choosing that option in your account settings page.

Please note that while your deletions are reflected promptly in active member databases, in some cases, we retain data for limited periods when it needs to be kept for legitimate business or legal purposes.

Data Retention

Information Retained For As Long As Required or Until You Remove It: You can delete your entire CrunchDAO account or selectively delete your discussion posts, uploaded datasets, and notebooks.
Information Retained For Extended Time Periods for Limited Purposes: Some personal information will be retained after your business relationship with us ends. For example, we may require it for our legitimate business purposes, or to comply with legal requirements (e.g., security, fraud prevention, financial record keeping, and complying with legal obligations).
Enabling Safe and Complete Deletion: We expect to delete your personal information once there is no longer any legal or regulatory requirement or legitimate business purpose for retaining your personal information. Otherwise, when you delete data in your CrunchDAO account, we immediately start the process of removing it from the product and our systems. Safe and complete deletion from our servers generally takes around 2 months, including a recovery period. Our encrypted backup storage may retain data for up to 6 months.

Sharing Your Information

When You Share Your Information

Many of our Services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. Any information that you voluntarily choose to include in a public area of the Services (like a public profile page or forum posting) will be available to the public. We urge CrunchDAO members to exercise common sense and prudence about what information to make available to others.

When Crunch Foundation Shares Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We disclose your personal information in connection with developing and maintaining the Services and operating Competitions:

With your consent: We’ll share personal information outside of Crunch Foundation when we have your consent.
To operate competitions: Crunch Foundation may disclose your personal information to the hosts of competitions to enable your participation and our operation of the competitions.
For external processing: We provide personal information to our affiliates, service providers, and other trusted businesses to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. These affiliates and service providers are generally data processors acting on our instructions. They may use your personal information where it is necessary for compliance with their legal obligations. In this case, the affiliate or service provider acts as the data controller. his includes service providers that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Services or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, payment processing, consumer research and website analytics). We may also share personal information with foundation model and large language model providers as well as other AI service providers that we use in the course of our business.
To advertising partners: We share information with third parties, such as advertising companies, social media providers, search engines and data providers, for interest-based advertising and other marketing purposes. These third parties may use the information we share to develop and improve their services, including to improve their ability to target ads on our and their other clients’ behalf. To learn about your choices, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.
For legal reasons: We will share personal information if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, enforce our Terms of Use, address fraud or security issues, or protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Crunch Foundation, our users, or the public.

International Data Transfers

Crunch Foundation is located in the Cayman Islands, and we utilize infrastructure, service providers, and operating affiliates (including development companies) located in the United States and other global jurisdictions. Therefore, your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries that do not offer equivalent protection of personal information as under the Data Protection Legislation. In such cases, we rely on standard contractual clauses or other legally approved transfer mechanisms to ensure your data remains protected and to ensure data information is processed in accordance with Data Protection Legislation.

Your rights

You can exercise your right to request access to, correct, remove, and restrict the processing of your personal information (in certain circumstances). You also have the right to be informed about the purposes for which your personal information is processed, object to the processing of your information, request that your personal data be deleted (in certain circumstances) or export your information to another service.

Please contact our data protection office at crew@crunchdao.com to exercise these rights. You may also lodge a complaint to the Cayman Islands Ombudsman or, if you are an EU or UK data subject, with your local supervisory authority.

Legal bases for processing your personal information

We process your information for the purposes described in this policy, based on the following legal grounds:

With your consent: We ask for your agreement to process your information for specific purposes.
When we’re pursuing legitimate interests: We process your information for our legitimate interests while applying appropriate safeguards, such as:

Providing, maintaining, and improving our Services.
Customizing our Services, marketing, and advertising.
Detecting and preventing fraud or security issues.
Enforcing legal claims and our Terms of Use.

When we’re providing a service: We process your data to provide a service you’ve asked for under a contract (e.g., entering competitions).
When we’re complying with legal obligations: We process your data when responding to legal processes or enforceable governmental requests.

We will only use your personal information in pursuance of our legitimate interests where we have considered that the use is necessary and, on balance, our legitimate interests are not overridden by your legitimate interests, rights or freedoms.

We will not take decisions producing legal effects concerning you, or otherwise significantly affecting you, based solely on automated processing of your personal information, unless we have considered the proposed processing in a particular case and concluded in writing that it meets the applicable requirements under the Data Protection Legislation.

Your Rights and Choices

Personal Information requests. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Services, you may request the following in relation to your personal information:

Information about how we have collected and used personal information. We have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy.
Access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine readable, readily usable format. Correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
Deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide our Services or for other lawful purposes.

Please note that your opt out will be specific to the device and browser you use when you opt out. We do not have actual knowledge of selling personal information relating to minors under the age of 16.

Third Party Websites & Data Security

The Services contain links to websites and services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices of third-party sites. We encourage you to learn about their policies before providing them with personal information.

Crunch Foundation uses a variety of physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to improve the security of our systems and your personal information. You also have the right to be informed of a personal data breach (unless the breach is unlikely to be prejudicial to you).

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published, and if changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or formal data requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact Crunch Foundation at:

Email: crew@crunchdao.com
Mailing Address:
Crunch Foundation
c/o Highvern Cayman Limited
PO Box 448, Elgin Court, Elgin Avenue
George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-1106
Cayman Islands

California Notice at Collection

For California residents, here is a high-level snapshot of our privacy practices, but you need to read the entire Privacy Policy for complete information.

Data Category Collected	Do We Collect?	Primary Purpose of Processing	Key Disclosures	Can You Limit Sharing?
Identifiers, such as name, email address, and IP address	Yes	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	Yes
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records Statute (e.g., name, contact details)	Yes	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	Yes
Commercial information, including but not limited to records of products or services purchased	No	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	No
Biometric or precise geolocation information	No	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	No
Professional and employment information, or education information	Yes	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	Yes
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including but not limited to browsing history and search history	No	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	No
Inferences drawn from information to create a profile about your behavior, preferences, etc.	Yes	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	Yes
Sensitive personal information	No	To deliver our Services; to improve, monitor, personalize and protect our Services; to communicate with you; to conduct promotions and surveys; for marketing and advertising	Service providers	No
			Marketing and advertising partners	Yes