SOCIALCHAIN
Privacy Notice for California Residents
Last Updated: June 28, 2026
1. Introduction
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements and is expressly made part of the information contained in SocialChain’s (“we,” “our,” or “us”) “Privacy Policy” at https://socialchain.app/privacy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) that interact with us, including through our identity verification and related services (“KYC Services”). We adopt this Privacy Notice for California Residents (“CA Privacy Notice”) to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
As mentioned in our Privacy Policy, we also provide identity verification and related services (“KYC Services”) to our Clients (meaning legal entities like fintech platforms, exchanges, Web3 services, trust-driven apps, and AI or data platforms that use our KYC Services) through our PiVerify service. In providing these services we process personal information from or about you as an end user of our customer on behalf of our customers. This Policy does not cover how our Clients may treat your personal information, which is detailed in the Client’s privacy statements and not subject to our control. When providing the KYC Services, we collect information at the direction of our Clients. Because a Client’s collection or use of personal data is specific to their use and implementation of the KYC Services, please consult the relevant Client’s privacy statement, privacy notice, or the relevant written contract for the KYC Services for more information. We do not have a direct relationship with our Clients’ customers or end-users. If you are a customer of one of our Clients and would like information on their use of your information, please contact the Client that you interact with directly.
2. Notice at Collection and Use of Personal Information
Information We Collect
Our app at Pi Network mobile application, the Pi Browser mobile application, the Pi Node desktop software, Pi applications on Pi Apps Platform including Pi Wallet, Pi KYC, Pi Developer portal, the website, https://minepi.com/, and Pi Network official social media accounts and pages (the “App”) and KYC Services collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“Personal Information”).
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information from or about you:
Category | Examples |
Identifiers and other Personal Information categories, as listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) | Full name, phone number, email address, Facebook name, username, passport, driver’s license, national identity card, state ID card, tax ID number, passport number, driver’s license details, national identity card details, visa information, etc.) proof of address, source of fund declaration, purposes of fund documents, and source of wealth) |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Age and citizenship |
Commercial information | Transactions, records of personal property, purchase or consuming histories |
Biometric information | Scans of facial geometry; facial features; palm prints |
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information | Photos of the face (including selfie images) and photo or scan of the face on the identification document, videos, sound recordings. |
Professional or employment-related information | Occupation, employment information. |
Internet and other electronic network activity | IP address; phone numbers; device-specific information, such as the hardware model, operating system version, advertising identifier, unique application identifiers, unique device identifiers, browser type, operating system and language; user-created content, such as your chat messages, comments, likes, thumb-ups/downs, arts and graphics in social applications including chats and forums; device phonebook after receiving your explicit consent; details about how you’ve used our services; access times; pages viewed; identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; the page that referred you to the Site; the pages or features of our Site to which a user browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which the Site is used by a user, search terms, the links on our Site that a user clicked on or used, and other statistics; account status, Pi data, account behavior data |
Geolocation data | Information about your approximate location based on your IP address. If you are a Pi Node – meaning you run the desktop software of Pi Node downloadable from link https://node.minepi.com/ – your IP address is public. |
Sensitive Personal Information | Social Security Number, driver’s license, passport, racial or ethnic origin, biometric information |
Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
To provide our services. We will use your information in the following ways:
To comply with law. We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
To optimize our platform. In order to optimize your user experience, we may use your information to operate, maintain, and improve our Services. We may also use your information to respond to your comments and questions regarding the Services, and to provide you and other users with general customer service.
To fulfill your requests. With your consent, we may use or share your Personal Information with your consent, such as when you instruct us to take a specific action with respect to your personal information, or you opt into third party marketing communications.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain information we collect as long as it is necessary and relevant to fulfill the purposes outlined in this CA Privacy Notice. In addition, we retain personal information to comply with applicable law where required, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Terms of Use, and other actions permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration or as that term is traditionally defined. However, we do engage in certain activities related to marketing, advertising and data analytics that could be a “sale” of personal information or engaging in “targeted advertising” under the CCPA. You can exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information in the following ways:
Opt-Out of Online Tracking: You can exercise your right to opt-out of certain online tracking activities that could be considered a sale or sharing of your personal information by clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” link on the footer of the page or through an opt-out preference signal. If you choose to exercise this right through an opt-out preference signal and we detect such a signal, it will be honored. If you submit a request to opt-out, including through an opt-out preference signal, after you have consented to our sale or sharing of personal information, we will opt you out of any further selling or sharing of personal information.
Opt-Out of Other Sales/Sharing: You can exercise your right to opt-out of certain email marketing activities that could be considered a sale or sharing of your personal information through DoNotSell@minepi.com
Further Information
Please review our Privacy Policy and this entire CA Privacy Notice for further information about personal information we collect, and your rights under the CCPA.
3. Our Collection, Use, Disclosure, Sale and Sharing of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information
Information Collected
In the preceding 12 months, and depending on how you interact with us, we may have collected the categories of Personal Information listed above in Information We Collect.
Sources of Personal Information
SocialChain obtains the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Purposes for Collecting and Using Personal Information
We may collect your Personal Information for the business or commercial purposes described above in Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information.
Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose
In the preceding twelve (12) months, as described above, SocialChain may have disclosed Personal Information in the following categories to third parties for a business purpose:
Category of Personal Information | Category of Third Party Disclosed, Sold or Shared With | Business or Commercial Purpose |
Identifiers | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients | Provide our services Comply with law Optimize our platform Fulfill your requests |
Other personal information categories, as listed in the California Customer Records statute | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients | |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients | |
Biometric data | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients | |
Professional or employment-related information | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers | |
Commercial Information | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients | |
Internet or electronic network activity information | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Services Clients | |
Inferences | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Services Clients | |
Sensitive Personal Information | Affiliates Law Enforcement Advisors and Service Providers KYC Validators* KYC Services Clients |
* KYC validators may be individual Pioneers from your country or region, have passed the PI KYC and agreed to the SocialChain Validator Services Agreement that contains a Data Processing Agreement. The information shared with a specific KYC validator will be only a subset of your KYC data to help with identity verification. Please refer to the KYC App design for more details on how KYC validators access your information.
In addition, we may disclose and in the preceding 12 months, may have disclosed all of the categories of Personal Information identified above in Information We Collect to the following categories of third parties: (i) judicial courts, regulators, or other government agents purporting to have jurisdiction over us, our subsidiaries or our affiliates, or opposing counsel and parties to litigation; and (ii) other third parties as may otherwise be permitted by law. We may also transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We may disclose Personal Information to all of the third parties listed above to comply with our legal obligations or for the business or commercial purposes identified above in Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration or as that term is traditionally defined. However, certain of our marketing or advertising activities or analytics tools used could be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under the CCPA. You have the right to opt-out of these types of disclosures of your personal information. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of California Residents under 18 years old.
In the preceding 12 months, we have sold or shared the following categories of personal information (as described in more detail above) to the following categories of third parties:
Category of Personal Information Sold or Shared | Categories of Third Parties to Which Personal Information is Sold or Shared | Business or Commercial Purposes |
Identifiers |
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Personal Information Categories Listed in the California Customer Records statue (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.80(e)) | ||
Commercial Information | ||
Internet or other electronic network activity information |
Our Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
Under the CCPA, certain personal information we collect and process may be considered “sensitive personal information.” The CCPA requires that we provide you with a right to limit our use or disclosure of such sensitive personal information in certain circumstances. Currently, we are not using your sensitive personal information for purposes that would require that we provide you with a right to limit.
4. Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights. The CCPA does not restrict our ability to do certain things like comply with other laws or comply with regulatory investigations. We also reserve the right to retain, and not to delete, certain personal information after receipt of a request to delete information from a California resident where permitted by the CCPA or another law or regulation.
Right to Know
You have the right to request that SocialChain disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months, including:
You also have a right to know if we have sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose over the past 12 months and, if so, the categories of Personal Information sold or disclosed and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold or disclosed, along with the business or commercial purpose for which the personal information was sold or disclosed.
Right To Delete
You have the right to request that SocialChain delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions permitted by law.
Right To Correct
You have the right to request that we correct your Personal Information. You may make such a request by visiting our privacy portal and through other means.
Right to Opt-Out
You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
Right to Limit the Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to request to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information where required by the CCPA. Please note that we are not using your sensitive personal information for purposes that would require that we provide you with a Right to Limit.
Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Consumer Privacy Rights
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act, including by exercising the rights specified herein. Some of the functionality and features available to you may change or no longer be available to you in some instances.
5. Exercising Your CCPA Rights
Request to Know and Request to Delete and Correct
You can make a Request to Know, Request to Correct and/or Request to Delete (“Consumer Rights Request”) in the following ways:
You may only make a verifiable Consumer Rights Request twice within a 12-month period.
Once we receive your Request to Know or Request to Delete, we will begin the process to verify that you are the person that is the subject of the request (the “Verification Process”). The Verification Process consists of matching identifying information provided by you with the information we have about you in our records. Upon making a request, you should be prepared to provide us with information that will help us to verify your identification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to your request.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us but if you have an account with us, you may make a request through the account. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
We will acknowledge your Request to Know and/or Request to Delete within 10 business days and will endeavor to respond substantively to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to additional 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
We will retain correspondence, documents and information related to CCPA requests for 24 months as required by law.
Request to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing
You can make a Request to Opt Out in the following ways:
6. Authorized Agent
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Authorized agents can make requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act by contacting us through https://pinetwork.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/create/1. We will require authorized agents to provide proof of the consumer’s consent and designation as an authorized agent for purpose of making the request, and will require authorized agents to provide information necessary to verify the identity of the consumer who is the subject of the request.
We may also require that a consumer verify his or her own identity directly with us before we respond to an authorized agent’s request.
We reserve the right to deny requests in certain circumstances, such as where we have a reasonable belief that the request is fraudulent.
7. Other California Privacy Rights
California Shine The Light Law
Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with which they have an established business relationship, (1) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please contact us at https://pinetwork.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/create/1.
We will respond to such written requests within 30 days following receipt at the e-mail or mailing address stated above. If we receive your request at a different e-mail or mailing address, we will respond within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 150 days from the date received. Please note that we are required to respond to each customer only once per calendar year.
California Do Not Track Notice
Because there are not yet common, industry-accepted “do not track” standards and systems, the Site does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals. In addition, we may allow third parties to collect Personal Information from your activity on our Site, as described in this Notice and the Privacy Policy.
8. Changes to Our Privacy Notice
SocialChain reserves the right to amend this Privacy Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will post the updated Notice on the Website and update the Notice’s last updated date.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, the ways in which SocialChain collects and uses your Personal Information described above, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
https://pinetwork.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/create/1
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