Website Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how PipByte collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you visit the PipByte website, create an account, or use PipByte services.

2. Information We Collect

Account information: name, username, account identifiers, date of birth where required, and related account information.

Contact information: email address, telephone number, address, and other contact details you provide.

Verification information: identity and eligibility information and documents submitted for verification.

Transaction information: deposits, withdrawals, trading activity, asset information, wallet addresses, transaction identifiers, and related records.

Technical information: IP address, browser and device information, operating system, log information, and website usage information.

Communications: information you provide through contact forms, comments, support requests, or other communications.

3. How We Collect Information

We collect information directly from you when you register, complete forms, submit verification information, fund an account, request a withdrawal, use PipByte services, or contact us.

We may also receive information from service providers and transaction, verification, security, fraud-prevention, market-data, and other services where permitted and necessary.

Technical information may be collected automatically through cookies, similar technologies, and security logs.

4. How We Use Personal Information

To create and maintain your account and provide requested services.

To verify identity and eligibility and meet applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

To process deposits, withdrawals, trading-related activity, and other account requests.

To provide market information, account features, notifications, customer support, and other services.

To maintain security, detect fraud, prevent abuse, and investigate suspicious activity.

To improve website functionality, reliability, usability, and service quality.

To communicate with you about your account, security, service requests, and important notices.

To meet legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, dispute-resolution, and recordkeeping obligations.

5. Legal Bases

Depending on applicable law, PipByte may process personal information because it is necessary to provide a requested service or perform a contract, comply with legal obligations, protect legitimate interests, prevent fraud or security threats, or because you have provided consent.

6. Sharing Information

We may share information with service providers that support hosting, security, identity verification, payments, transaction processing, customer support, communications, analytics, market data, or other business functions.

We may disclose information to regulators, law-enforcement authorities, courts, government bodies, professional advisers, or other parties where required or permitted by law.

We may share information with related entities where necessary to provide services or meet legal and operational requirements.

We may disclose information in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, or sale of assets where permitted by law.

7. International Processing

PipByte and its service providers may operate across different jurisdictions. Personal information may therefore be processed in countries other than the country where you live, subject to applicable legal requirements.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, maintain appropriate records, meet legal or regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect security.

9. Security

PipByte uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organisational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.

You are responsible for protecting your account credentials and using appropriate security practices.

10. Cookies

The website may use cookies and similar technologies for core functionality, session management, security, preferences, analytics, and other permitted purposes.

Where required by law, appropriate consent controls will be provided for non-essential cookies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings.

11. Marketing Communications

Service-related communications may be sent when necessary to operate your account or provide requested services.

Where permitted, PipByte may send marketing communications. Applicable opt-out or preference controls will be provided.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access to personal information, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection to certain processing, or withdrawal of consent.

These rights may be subject to legal exceptions, including requirements to retain information for regulatory, legal, security, fraud-prevention, accounting, or dispute-resolution purposes.

To exercise an applicable right, use the official PipByte privacy or contact channel provided on the website. Identity verification may be required.

13. Children

PipByte services are not intended for individuals who are not legally permitted to use the relevant financial or trading services.

14. Third-Party Websites and Services

The PipByte website may link to third-party websites or services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.

15. Privacy and Security Requests

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, use the official PipByte privacy or contact channel provided on the website.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

PipByte may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date will be updated when a new version is published.