Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting , a website (“Site”) owned by Equs, Inc. (“Equs”, “our”, “we” or “us”). Your privacy and your rights concerning your privacy are important to us. This Privacy Policy, as amended or otherwise changed from time to time (the “Privacy Policy”) along with our Cookie Policy, explains the manner in which we collect, use, maintain and disclose user information obtained through the Site. By using the Site, you (“User” or “you”) consent to the data practices prescribed in this Privacy Policy. Please note that this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and governed by our Terms of Use. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.

Your Consent

By using or accessing the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, and the Terms of Use. Whenever you submit information to us on or through this Site, through a mobile device, or otherwise, you consent to the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or our Cookie Policy, please do not use our Site, and please do not submit any personal information to us through a mobile device or otherwise.

About Children

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information via this Site from visitors in this age group. If a User submitting personal information is suspected of being younger than 18 years of age, Equs will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Individuals Residing Outside of the United States

If you are visiting the Site and reside outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located. This may involve the transfer of information about you out of your country of origin to a jurisdiction that does not offer the same level of privacy protection as the country where you reside. By using the Site, you understand and consent to your information being processed in the United States and used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personally Identifiable Information

We define Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) as any information that can be reasonably used to directly or indirectly identify an individual, including, for example, (1) name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, location information, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as email addresses and medical, educational, financial and employment information. These are just examples, and not the PII we collect.

Information you Provide

You can view most of our content on our Site without needing to provide us with your name, contact information, or other typical categories of PII. Should you sign up to receive email notifications from us, we will collect and maintain your name, email address, company name (if applicable), zip/postal code, and other information you choose to provide to us when you sign up for updates until, and unless, you click the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of any marketing or newsletter emails that have been sent to you by us and complete a brief questionnaire regarding your subscription preferences.

If you have applied for a position through the Careers page on the Site, we collect your name, phone number, email address, and any information included in your resume or application with us, including, for example, your date of birth, education history, military service, immigration status, employment history, and information about references you identify. We will only retain such PII in accordance with our “Data Retention” section below. If you choose to apply to one of our job positions, you will be required to input PII into a system that is managed by our third party service provider who will process your PII for purposes of tracking and processing your job application. Please review Section 8 of our Terms of Use regarding external links.

Passive Information Collection

When you visit the Site, we passively collect information about your device and your activity while visiting our Site. Please go to our “Online Tracking” section below and/or view our Cookie Policy for additional information.

Use of Information

Except as otherwise stated, we may use PII collected via this Site, through a mobile device, or otherwise, to improve the content of our Site, to customize the Site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), for our direct marketing and research purposes, and for any other purpose specified in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may make full use of all information acquired through this Site that is not in a personally identifiable form. We may combine such information with other actively collected information unless we specify otherwise at the point of collection.

We may also use the PII we collect on our Site:

• To enforce the legal terms (including but not limited to our Terms of Use) that govern your use of the Site;
• For the purposes for which you provided the PII;
• To respond to your questions and/or comments;
• To provide technical support and security for the Site;
• To retain and store your PII in our systems;
• To prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities (including, without limitation, copyright infringement) on or through the Site;
• To comply with our legal and/or regulatory obligations; or
• To protect the safety of our Users, for example, when we believe it necessary to share information to assist in an investigation regarding, or to prevent, illegal activities, suspected fraud, or potential threats to the safety of any person.

The PII we collect will not be shared for targeted advertising purposes or sold to third parties. We may disclose PII you provide through this Site, through a mobile device or otherwise, to other Company affiliates worldwide and our service providers that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes. Please see our “Third Party Data Recipients” section below for further information on our data sharing practices.

Should you click on an external link, specifically on our Careers page, please review Section 8 of the Terms of Use.

Online Tracking

Our Site uses cookies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These cookies collect information, including PII, such as:

• Information about your browser, network, and device;
• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this Site; and
• Your IP address.

This information may also include details about your use of this Site, including:

• Site clicks;
• Internal links you visited;
• Pages visited;
• Scrolling;
• Searches; and
• Timestamps of your Site activity.

Please note that we do not use the above described information to gather additional PII about you such as name, contact information, or sensitive personal information.

We use cookies: to allow our hosting platform to securely serve this Site to you (“necessary cookies”); to remember your preferences and personalize your experience on our Site (“performance cookies”); and to collect statistical data about your Site experience (“analytics cookies”). The statistical data that we collect via analytical cookies and share with our data analytics providers are used to help us better understand our Site audience and how Users interact with our Site. We do not use or share this information for targeted advertising purposes. These analytics and performance cookies collect information about you on our Site only when you consent to our cookie banner.

Our Site offers plugins to enter social networking websites such as Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Discord, and Reddit among others. If you have a social media account and choose to follow, like, friend, share, or comment on our social media websites, we may receive information about you for purposes of improving the quality of our Site content and our User’s experience. We will retain this information for timeframes consistent with our “Data Retention” section below. Certain information about your interactions with our Site may also be collected and shared with the respective social media provider who may use this information in accordance with their own respective privacy policies. Please note that we have no control over the practices of such social media providers, and we suggest that you consult with the privacy policies of such social media providers before using the social media plugins.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

Form Block Submission

When you submit information to this Site via our online webform, we collect the data in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us.

Marketing Emails

If you provide us with your email address, we may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with our email marketing provider so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Third Party Data Recipients.

In the operation and maintenance of the Site, we use third-party vendors that provide web hosting, business analytics, and fraud prevention. These third-party vendors have access to and may collect information only as needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information collected for any other purpose. These third-party vendors are also required to follow data security practices that are at least as protective as the practices to which we adhere.

In addition, we may also share your information:

• In response to legal process, for example, a court order or a subpoena, a law enforcement or government agency’s request, or similar request. We reserve the right to release information that we collect to law enforcement or other government officials, as we, in our sole and absolute discretion, deem necessary or appropriate.
• To third parties in order to investigate, prevent or take action (in our sole and absolute discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities; suspected fraud; situations involving potential threats to any person, us or the Site; or violations of the law, our Terms of Use or to verify or enforce compliance with the Terms of Use governing the Site.
• In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
• We may also share aggregated or anonymous information that cannot identify you with third parties. For example, we may disclose the number of visitors to our Site or the number of people who have downloaded a particular document.

Other than as stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose any of your PII to any other third parties.

Security

We want you to feel confident when using the Site, and we employ technical and organizational measures that are intended to protect the information we collect. However, you should keep in mind that the Site runs on software, hardware, and networks, any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control. While no Site can guarantee security, we use industry-standard data encryption technology, and we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures that are intended to protect the PII you provide to us and all User data we collect against any unauthorized access. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access PII on our systems, and they may only do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information.

Rights with Respect to Information We Collect

Depending on the applicable law where you reside, you may be able to assert certain rights related to your PII. If any of the rights listed below are not provided under law for your jurisdiction, we has absolute discretion in providing you with those rights.

It is important to understand that your rights to personal information are not absolute. Depending on the applicable law, access may be denied. Such rights and potential limitations include the following as described below.

• Right to Know. You may have the right to obtain confirmation that we accessed and processed your PII and receive further information about how we collect, use, and share your PII.
• Right to rectification. You may request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete PII.
• Right to withdraw consent. You may, at any time, withdraw your consent to the processing of your PII. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of our processing based on your previous consent.
• Right to make a PII access request. You may request in writing, copies of your PII. Each request should make clear that a PII access request is being made. This information will be provided within legally required timeframes subject to a potential fee associated with gathering of the information (as permitted by law). The information you request will only be provided to the extent such information does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
• Right to erasure. You may request that we erase your PII, subject to applicable law. We will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so. For example, there may be an overriding legitimate ground for keeping the PII, such as, business record retention obligations with which we must comply. If we have a lawful reason not to comply with your erasure request, we will provide this reason to you. Please note that for some deletion requests, we may not be able to ensure or guarantee complete or comprehensive removal in all places. The content may have been shared or reposted by other parties who act outside of any business relationship with us or may not cooperate with our request for them to delete your personal information, or federal or state law may require maintenance of the content or information.
• Right to restrict processing. You may request that we limit the way we use your PII under the following circumstances:
  • You contest the accuracy of your PII and want to verify the accuracy of such PII;
  • Your PII has been unlawfully processed and you would rather restrict your PII rather than request we delete it;
  • We no longer need your PII, but you need us to keep it in order to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim; or
  • You have objected to us processing your data under applicable law, and we are investigating the validity of your objections.
• Right to data portability. You may request that we provide a copy of your PII in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have it transferred to another provider of the same or similar services. To the extent possible, we will comply with such transfer request. Please note that a transfer to another provider does not imply erasure of your PII, which may still be retained for legitimate and lawful purposes.
• Right to submit an appeal to us and/or lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. We encourage you to contact us about any questions or complaints in relation to how we process your PII and you may have the right to appeal any decision we may make regarding your privacy request. You also may have the right to contact your state Attorney General or relevant supervisory authority directly.
• If you reside in the EU, you can file a complaint with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution by phone at +1.212.484.4181, or by visiting the website http://info.adr.org/safeharbor (opens in a new tab), or your relevant data protection authority.
• In the UK, the relevant data protection authority is Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, 0303 123 1113, casework@ico.org.uk.
• In Ireland, the relevant data protection authority is the Data Protection Commission, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, R32 AP23 Co. Laois; phone: +353 (0761) 104 800; Call: 1890 25 22 31; Fax: +353 57 868 4757; email: info@dataprotection.ie
• Right to Non-discrimination. Lastly, you may have the right to not have discriminatory action taken against you for exercising your rights.

Should you want to exercise any of your rights listed above, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@equs.ai.

We will comply with such request, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so, including: (a) when denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another’s privacy; (c) to protect our rights and properties; or (d) where the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.

If you are a California resident, we are required to provide additional disclosures to you under California law. Please see our “California Addendum” for further information.

How to Submit a Privacy Request

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights (“Privacy Request”), please contact us. The steps needed to complete your Privacy Request are detailed below.

Before we can fulfill your Privacy Request, we need to (i) verify your identity or your authority to make the request (if you are submitting a Privacy Request as an agent) and (ii) confirm that the personal information you are requesting belongs to you. For most requests, we will ask you to provide information that matches at least two pieces of PII we store about you before responding to your Privacy Request. If you would like to request specific pieces of PII that we have collected, or if you would like us to delete highly sensitive PII, you will need to match at least three pieces of information we store about you, and you must provide a signed declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose PII you are requesting. We may refuse any request if we are unable to verify the identity of the person making the request or if we cannot authenticate the legitimacy of the request using commercially reasonable efforts. Under such circumstances, we may follow up with you for additional information as reasonably necessary to authenticate your request.We will only use PII provided in a verifiable Privacy Request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the Privacy Request. You may grant an authorized agent written permission to submit Privacy Requests, but we may deny requests from an authorized agent if we are unable to verify your identity directly as the subject of the PII at issue. To verify a Privacy Request from an authorized agent, we may require proof that you gave the authorized agent signed permission to submit the Privacy Request, such as by requiring you to directly confirm with us that you provided permission for the authorized agent to submit your Privacy Request, and/or we may ask you to verify your identity directly with us. After verifying your identity, we will respond to your request by either fulfilling your Privacy Request or explaining why we are denying your Privacy Request. The timeframe in which we respond will vary based on the applicable law where you reside.

Data Retention

We retain PII as needed to provide the Site and services to you or for other legitimate purposes such as ensuring security of our data and systems, complying with our legal obligations, complying with tax, audit, or other books and record policies, resolving disputes, and conducting internal investigations, and enforcing our agreements or other legal rights. Due to the different purposes for retaining your PII, the actual retention timeframes regarding your information may vary depending on the type of PII we collect from you and the purposes for which we use your PII. For PII that we collect directly from you, our retention policy is generally informed by the following factors:

• Is this information necessary to provide the Services?
• If consent was obtained, what timeframes were indicated in the consent?
• What statutory, contractual or other legal obligations do we have to retain this information?

For system logs and device/activity information and other data that is automatically collected from you, we keep this information for a one (1) year timeframe. If we determine that your PII is no longer needed for the purposes described above, it will be deleted or anonymized so that it can no longer be attributed to you. Our retention times will be consistent with applicable law. Please note that residual copies of your PII may be removed from backup systems subject to our backup data retention schedule.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy in the future to reflect changes in law, our collection and use practices, the features on the Site, or advances in technology. We will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the email address you provided us and/or by posting a new a revised Privacy Policy with a new “Last Updated” date. The provisions contained in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices with respect to our Site. We encourage you to check frequently to see the current Privacy Policy to be informed of how Equs is committed to protecting your information and providing you with improved content on our Site in order to enhance your experience.

How to Contact Us If you decide you no longer wish to receive communications from us, you may opt out at any time by emailing privacy@equs.ai or by following the link to unsubscribe in any email that has been sent to you by Blockchains.

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about the foregoing Privacy Policy as outlined above, please contact us at privacy@equs.ai.

CALIFORNIA ADDENDUM

Last Updated: October 2, 2026

This California Privacy Addendum (“California Addendum”) supplements the information contained in the main Privacy Policy above and applies solely to individuals who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). This California Addendum provides required privacy disclosures to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other applicable California privacy laws.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND DISCLOSURES

A requirement under the CCPA is to provide California residents with information on our data processing activities related to personal information in the preceding 12 months. Under California law, “personal information” is generally defined as information that, by itself or in combination with other information, identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household. The “Categories of Personal Information We Collect” section below describes our data processing activities over the past 12 months. Please note that not all categories of personal information described below will be collected or processed for every individual and our data collection practices may vary based on the nature of your relationship with us and what information you choose to provide to us.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURES

Data Retention Period

Over the past 12 months, we retained your personal information in accordance with the retention timeframes noted in the Data Retention section of our main Privacy Policy.

Selling and/or Sharing Your Personal information

In the past 12 months, we did not sell or share your personal information, or the information of any minor under the age of 16 years old, for targeted advertising purposes.

Sensitive Personal information Processing Activities

Over the past 12 months, we did not use your sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you (i.e., profiling) for a purpose that would grant you a right to limit such sharing.

Profiling / Automated Decision-making Activities

Over the past 12 months, we did not process your personal information using automated decision-making tools to make significant decisions (involving legal ramifications or similarly significant real-world effects) about you.

California Addendum of Financial Incentive

Over the past 12 months, we did not provide any financial incentives connected to the collection of your personal information.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information including the right to access, delete, correct, and/or opt out or limit use of their personal information as well as the right to non-discrimination and the right to appeal/complain to us and/or the California Privacy Protection Agency (opens in a new tab) and State Attorney General (opens in a new tab). Such rights are further described in the “Rights with Respect to Information We Collect” section above. If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please go to the “How to Submit a Privacy Request” section above. Please note that in certain instances we may be able to reject your request to the extent permitted under the CCPA.

OTHER CALIFORNIA PRIVACY LAWS

Shine the Light

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. To exercise your rights, you may make one request each year by contacting us.

Do Not Track

Our Site honors “Do Not Track” signals.

CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Identifiers
(name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account username, screen name, password, or other similar identifiers)
Do we Collect? YES

Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
(name, signature, address, telephone number, education or employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information)
Do we Collect? YES

Protected classification characteristics under California/federal law
(Age (over 40 years), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth / related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran, or military status)
Do we Collect? Only if you choose to provide this information in a job application

Commercial information
(Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies)
Do we Collect? YES

Internet or other similar network activity
(Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, video, application, or advertisement, including user generated content)
Do we Collect? YES

Geolocation data
(Physical location or movements; NOT PRECISE LOCATION)
Do we Collect? YES

Sensory data
(Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, etc.)
Do we Collect? NO

Professional / employment information
(Current or past job history or performance evaluations)
Do we Collect? YES if you submit a job application

Non-public education information
(per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99) (FERPA))
Do we Collect? YES if you submit a job application

Inferences drawn from other personal information
(Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes)
Do we Collect? YES if you submit a job application

Sensitive personal information
(1) SSN, driver's license, state ID card, or passport number
(2) account log-in, financial account, debit card/credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing account access
(3) precise geolocation (within a radius of 1,850 feet)
(4) racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership
(5) contents of messages (unless we are the intended recipient)
(6) genetic and health data
(7) biometric information for identification purposes
(8) sex life or sexual orientation
Do we Collect? YES if you choose to submit this information in a job application

For a list of data sources and purposes for the above data categories please see the “Use of Information” section above. For a list of third-party recipients receiving the above data categories, please see the “Third Party Data Recipients” section above.