Privacy Notice

Effective Date: March 1, 2024

Last Updated: February 28, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to Base58Labs. Base58Labs ("we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and use our research platforms, algorithmic infrastructure, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This Privacy Notice is provided in a layered format so you can easily navigate to the specific areas set out below.

2. Who We Are (Data Controller)

Base58Labs is the controller and responsible for your personal data. Base58Labs is a private limited company incorporated and registered in the United Kingdom (Company Registration Number: 123456).

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below:

  • Entity Name: Base58Labs
  • Email Address: info@base58labs.com
  • Postal Address: 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: Includes email address and, where applicable, telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, research materials, and Services.
  • Blockchain & Web3 Data (Important): Includes your public cryptographic wallet addresses (e.g., Ethereum addresses) and public on-chain transaction history. Please note: Blockchain networks are decentralized, public, and immutable. When you interact with our Web3 infrastructure, your wallet address and transaction data will be recorded on a public ledger.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).

4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

  • Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you subscribe to our research publications or request marketing to be sent to you.
  • Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Public Blockchain Networks: We may collect Blockchain Data directly from public, decentralized networks (such as the Ethereum mainnet) when you interact with our smart contracts, algorithms, or infrastructure.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Performance of a Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., providing access to premium research or API services).
  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., to improve our Services, ensure network security, and analyze market structure).
  • Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  • Consent: Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third-party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in Section 5:

  • Internal Third Parties: Subsidiaries and affiliated entities within the Base58Labs group (including BASIS) acting as joint controllers or processors.
  • External Third Parties: Service providers acting as processors who provide cloud hosting, IT, and system administration services.
  • Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers based in the UK and EU who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Regulators and Authorities: HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

7. International Transfers

As a global research firm, we may share your personal data within the Base58Labs ecosystem, which may involve transferring your data outside the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA).

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK/EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that specific contracts approved for use in the UK (such as the International Data Transfer Agreement or standard contractual clauses) are implemented, granting your personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

8. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate, enterprise-grade security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Disclaimer Regarding Blockchain Data: Due to the inherent nature of blockchain technology, any data recorded on a public blockchain (including wallet addresses and transaction details) is immutable. This means we cannot delete, alter, or restrict the processing of personal data once it has been broadcasted and confirmed on a public ledger.

10. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under UK data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
  • Request erasure of your personal data (subject to the immutable nature of public blockchains as stated in Section 9).
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@base58labs.com.

No Fee Usually Required: You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

11. Changes to the Privacy Notice

We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review. This version was last updated on the date specified at the top of this document. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.