Page last updated: January 31, 2024
Lido Privacy Notice
Introduction
This Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) explains how the personal data of individuals are handled – the “Data Subjects” or the “Data Subject”, or “you”, “your”, in connection with accessing and using the website and any services available at https://lido.finance (together referred to as the “Services”).
If you are interested in how cookies are used and how to change your cookies choice, please go to section “Cookies and Automatically Collected Data”
Categories of Personal Data Collected, Purposes of and Bases for the Processing
When providing the Services, it could be processed certain personal data for the following purposes:
| Purpose of processing | Personal data | Legal ground (basis) |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose of processing Communicating with you regarding your inquiries, questions or support tickets | Personal data Email address, subject of inquiry and its content, attachments and any other information you voluntarily provide | Legal ground (basis) Legitimate interests / contractual obligations |
| Purpose of processing Sending email newsletters | Personal data Email address | Legal ground (basis) Your consent |
| Purpose of processing Provides access to users of the website to a decentralized protocol, known as “Lido” | Personal data Wallet addresses, transaction and balance information | Legal ground (basis) Contractual obligations (terms of use) |
| Purpose of processing Analyzing website visitors’ actions to improve Services | Personal data See section “Cookies and Automatically Collected Data” | Legal ground (basis) Your consent |
Your personal data are collected directly from you or from other parties you have authorized such collection. There is no process for special categories of personal data about you unless you voluntarily provide such data.
If you would like to learn more about the definitions used throughout this document such as the “legal grounds”, “legitimate interests”, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office’s website.
Cookies and Automatically Collected Data
As you navigate through and interact with website and the Services, you may be asked to consent to use cookies, which are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device, and web beacons, which are small electronic files located on pages of the website, to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
The data is automatically collected from cookies and web beacons may include information from your web browser (such as browser type and browser language) and details of your visits to website, including traffic data, location data and logs, page views, length of visit and website navigation paths as well as information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address and how you interact with the Services. These data are collected this data in order to improve website and Services.
The information is collected automatically and may also include statistical and performance information arising from your use of Services and website. This type of data will only be used in an aggregated and anonymized manner.
You can disable/delete the cookies set by website — please find the appropriate instructions by following these links on how to implement the deletion in different browsers:
— For Google Chrome browser please refer to this instructions
— For Firefox browser please look up here
— For Safari browser please visit
— For Internet Explorer browser please refer to
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any personal data through the Services and the website. Personal Information is not collected or processed about a child, where a child under the GDPR is defined as an individual below the age of 16 years old.
Your Rights With Regard to the Personal Data Processing
In connection with the accessing, browsing of the website and using the Services, you shall be entitled to exercise certain rights laid down by the GDPR and outlined herein below, however exercise of some of those rights may not be possible in relation to the website and Services taking account of the Services’ nature, manner, form and other applicable circumstances.
Right to Access: you may request all personal data via email.
Right to Rectification: exercise of the given right directly depends on the data category concerned: if it concerns online identifiers, then their rectification isn’t possible, but such categories of personal data as email address may be rectified by sending a request via e-mail.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): the personal data could be deleted by a request via e-mail.
Consent Withdrawal Right: you shall be entitled to withdraw consent to the processing of the personal data to which you provided your consent. In particular, you can change your cookie choices by using cookie consent tool built in the website. You can exercise your right to withdraw consent by unsubscribing from email newsletter.
Automated Decision-Making, Profiling: neither is being carried out, your consent will be sought before carrying out any such activities.
You shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
Personal Data Storage Period or Criteria for Such Storage
Your Personal data will be stored till:
they are necessary to render you the Services;
your consent is no longer valid;
your personal data have been deleted following your data deletion request;
in other circumstances prescribed by applicable laws.
In any event, your personal data will not being stored for periods longer than it is necessary for the purposes of the processing.
Personal Data Recipients and Transfer of Personal Data
For the purposes of rendering the Services to you and operating the website,your personal data may be shared with certain categories of recipients and under circumstances mentioned below:
01providers, consultants, advisors, vendors and partners acting as data processors (meaning they process your personal data on behalf and according to your instructions), which may supply hosting services, web analytics services, email marketing and automation services to run and operate the website, maintain, deliver and improve the Services. With all such parties we enter into data processing agreements required to be concluded by the applicable laws between controllers and processors to protect and secure the personal data by using appropriate technical and organizational measures;
02only in strict compliance with the applicable provisions, the personal data may be shared with governmental authorities upon their decision, receipt of court orders mandating to disclose the personal data. In any such case, it will be strived to disclose only a portion of the personal data which is definitely required to be disclosed, while continuing to be treated the rest of the data in confidence;
03with any other third parties, if it has been explicitly requested to do so by you and as long as it doesn’t infringe the applicable laws.