This page explains how Chain-List operates, what information may be collected
when you use the website, how that information may be used, and the choices
available to you.
1. About Chain-List
Website: Chain-List
Website address: https://chain-list.com
Contact: support@chain-list.com
Chain-List is currently operated as an independent, non-incorporated
project. Chain-List is not presented as a separate company or legal
entity.
For questions concerning the website, privacy, accounts, or legal matters, you can
contact us at
support@chain-list.com.
Chain-List uses third-party hosting and infrastructure services to operate the website.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you use Chain-List.
If you create an account, we may collect your username, email address, password in
securely hashed form, account creation date, and any optional profile information you
choose to provide, such as an avatar, bio, city, or country.
When you use Chain-List, you may also voluntarily submit ratings, reviews, comments,
photos, favourites, lists, and other content. Information that you choose to make
public may be visible to other users and may appear on publicly accessible
pages.
We may also automatically process certain technical information required to operate and
protect the website, including your IP address, browser and device information, operating
system, pages requested, date and time of requests, technical logs, and information
relating to security incidents or attempted abuse.
If you use a feature such as Near Me, your browser may request permission to
provide your device's location. Location information is used to provide the requested
location-based feature and is not sold or used for advertising
purposes.
3. How We Use Information
Information may be used to operate Chain-List, maintain user accounts, provide website
functionality, display ratings and other user contributions, provide location-based
features, improve the website, maintain security, prevent spam and abuse, respond to
support requests, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Chain-List does not sell personal information.
Chain-List does not currently use personal information for behavioural
advertising or advertising profiling.
If our services or the way information is used changes in the future, this policy may be
updated accordingly.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Where data-protection laws such as the GDPR apply, personal information will be processed
on an appropriate legal basis depending on the activity.
This may include providing a service requested by you, our legitimate
interests in maintaining security and preventing abuse, your consent where
consent is required, or compliance with a legal obligation.
The applicable legal basis may differ depending on the specific information and purpose
of processing.
5. Data Retention
We do not keep personal information indefinitely without a reason.
Information is generally kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose
for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
For example, account information will generally remain while your account is active.
User-generated content may remain available while the relevant account or content exists.
Security and technical logs may be retained for a limited period for security and
abuse-prevention purposes.
Certain information may need to be retained for longer where required by law or
reasonably necessary to protect the service and its users.
Where you buy or are gifted a membership, a numbered receipt is created as the record
of that transaction and a copy is emailed to the buyer. Records of this kind may be
kept even after an account is closed, because tax and accounting rules require a
trader to keep them.
6. Your Rights
Depending on the laws applicable to you, you may have rights concerning your personal
information, including the right to access, correct,
delete, restrict, or object to certain
processing of your information. You may also have the right to request
portability of your information or withdraw consent
where processing is based on consent.
You can contact us at
support@chain-list.com to exercise
these rights.
Where available, you can also manage certain information directly through your account,
including your profile, reviews, favourites, lists, and
privacy preferences.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests
in order to protect your account and information.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Chain-List uses cookies and similar technologies where necessary to provide and secure
the website.
For example, authentication technology may be used to maintain your signed-in session,
while another cookie may remember your privacy preferences.
Chain-List does not currently use advertising or analytics cookies.
Where optional technologies such as browser storage or external content require consent
under applicable law, they remain disabled until the relevant consent is
provided. You can change your applicable preferences at any time through
Cookie Preferences.
8. Third-Party Services
Chain-List may use third-party providers for hosting, databases, email delivery, maps,
security, authentication, and other technical services required to operate the
platform.
Only services actually used by Chain-List should be considered covered as current
third-party services. Where a provider processes personal information on our behalf,
we take reasonable measures to ensure that the processing is handled appropriately.
Some providers may process information in countries different from the country
in which you live. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers,
appropriate safeguards will be used.
Specific third-party providers may be identified in this policy as the website and its
services develop.
9. User Content
Chain-List allows users to publish ratings, reviews, photos, comments, lists, and other
contributions.
You are responsible for the content you submit and should only submit
content that you have the right to publish.
You should not use Chain-List to publish unlawful content, another person's private
information without authorisation, content that infringes someone else's rights, or
content intended to harass, threaten, defraud, or deliberately mislead others.
Chain-List may remove or restrict content that violates applicable law, these rules, or
the rights of other users.
10. Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your Chain-List account by contacting
support@chain-list.com.
Where a self-service deletion feature is available, you may also delete your account
through the website.
Deleting an account may not immediately remove information that Chain-List is legally
required to retain or that is reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, or the
establishment or defence of legal claims.
Where appropriate, information that no longer needs to be associated with an account may
be deleted or anonymised.
11. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information against
unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.
These measures may include secure password hashing, HTTPS/TLS, access controls,
authentication protections, rate limiting, and security monitoring.
Security measures may change as Chain-List develops. No internet service
can guarantee absolute security.
If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability affecting Chain-List, please
contact support@chain-list.com
rather than publicly disclosing it.
12. Changes to This Policy
Chain-List may change its features, technology, services, or methods of processing
information over time.
This policy may therefore be updated when necessary. The “Last updated” date at
the top of this page will be changed whenever the policy is revised.
Where applicable law requires additional notice concerning a significant change,
appropriate notice will be provided.