Privacy Policy

Who This Policy Applies To

This Policy applies to visitors and users of The Solana Pulse website, including people who read content, use website features, contact us, submit advertising or partnership enquiries, create or access an account, or choose to receive newsletter communications.

Information You Provide

Depending on how you interact with the website, you may provide:

• Name, email address, and other contact details. • Company, project, website, campaign objective, placement preference, timeline, budget range, currency, and enquiry details submitted through advertising or partnership forms. • Newsletter subscription details and communication preferences when newsletter functionality is available. • Account, login, password-recovery, or profile information where account features are used. • Any other information you voluntarily include in a message or form submission.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, language, and approximate location. • Referring page, pages viewed, timestamps, session activity, and interactions with website features. • Cookie identifiers, consent preferences, security signals, and analytics or advertising identifiers where permitted. • Technical logs used for security, troubleshooting, performance, and fraud or spam prevention.

How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website and its content. • Respond to general, editorial, correction, press, advertising, and partnership enquiries. • Review advertising proposals, prepare quotations, manage campaign communications, and maintain related business records. • Deliver newsletters, alerts, confirmation emails, or other requested communications when those services are active and you have subscribed. • Measure website performance, understand content usage, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on one or more of the following:

• Your consent, including for optional cookies and subscribed email communications. • Steps requested before entering an agreement, or performance of an advertising, sponsorship, or other commercial agreement. • Our legitimate interests in operating, protecting, improving, and measuring the website, where those interests are not overridden by your rights. • Compliance with legal, regulatory, accounting, or security obligations.

Newsletter and Email Communications

When newsletter functionality is available and you choose to subscribe, we may use your email address and communication preferences to send confirmation messages, breaking-news alerts, daily or weekly newsletters, and other communications you have requested.

• Subscription-based communications will be sent only in accordance with the consent or other lawful basis applicable to the recipient. • You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in an email or by contacting us. • We may retain a minimal suppression record after an unsubscribe request so that we do not send further marketing communications to that address.

Advertising and Partnership Enquiries

Information submitted through the Advertise page is used to assess the enquiry, communicate with the sender, prepare relevant campaign options or quotations, confirm placements and schedules, and maintain records connected with an approved campaign or partnership.

• Budget information is used only to understand campaign scope and suitable options. • Billing or transaction information may be processed where necessary for an approved campaign. • Publication of sponsored content does not permit an advertiser to access unrelated visitor or subscriber personal information.

Cookies and Consent Choices

We use cookies and similar technologies for essential website functions, saved preferences, security, analytics, embedded content, and advertising or marketing features where enabled. Non-essential technologies are managed according to the consent options presented on the website.

• You can accept, reject, or adjust available categories through the website’s consent interface. • Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before withdrawal. • A current list of cookies, services, purposes, and retention periods is available in our Cookie Policy (EU).

Analytics, Advertising and Embedded Services

The website may use analytics, advertising, consent-management, spam-prevention, caching, font, video, social-media, and embedded-content services. Depending on the service and your consent choices, these providers may receive technical information, cookie identifiers, usage events, or interaction data.

• Analytics services may be used to understand traffic and content performance. • Advertising services may be used to deliver, measure, or manage advertising where enabled. • Embedded media or social content may allow the relevant third party to collect information under its own privacy terms. • The current service and cookie inventory is maintained in the Cookie Policy and consent interface.

AI-Assisted Editorial Tools

The Solana Pulse may use AI-assisted tools to support editorial research, drafting, summarisation, formatting, or quality-control tasks. Editorial output remains subject to human review.

• Personal information submitted through contact, advertising, account, or newsletter forms is not intended to be included in editorial AI prompts or workflows. • We do not use editorial AI tools to make automated decisions about users that produce legal or similarly significant effects. • Where a technology provider processes information on our behalf, access should be limited to the relevant operational purpose and governed by applicable contractual and security controls.

Data Sharing and Service Providers

We do not sell or rent personal information. We may share limited information when reasonably necessary with:

• Hosting, caching, security, analytics, email-delivery, form-processing, spam-prevention, advertising, payment, and other operational providers. • Professional advisers, contractors, or business partners who need the information for an authorised purpose and are subject to appropriate obligations. • Authorities or other parties where disclosure is required by law, necessary to protect rights or safety, or connected with legal claims. • A successor organisation in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or transfer of website operations, subject to applicable safeguards.

International Data Transfers

Some service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Where applicable law requires additional protection for an international transfer, we seek to rely on recognised safeguards, contractual protections, adequacy decisions, or another permitted transfer mechanism.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including responding to an enquiry, providing a requested service, managing an advertising relationship, maintaining security, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and meeting legal or accounting requirements.

• Contact and advertising records are retained according to the duration and needs of the relevant communication or business relationship. • Newsletter subscription data is retained until you unsubscribe or the service is discontinued, subject to a minimal suppression record where required. • Cookie consent and analytics records are retained according to the settings and periods described by the applicable service or Cookie Policy. • Information may be deleted, anonymised, or securely archived when it is no longer required.

Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, misuse, or disclosure. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information held about you. • Request correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of eligible information. • Object to certain processing or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. • Opt out of subscribed email communications and adjust available cookie preferences. • Lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection authority in your jurisdiction.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request, and some rights may be limited by legal obligations or applicable exemptions.

Children’s Privacy

The website is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children without the consent or authorisation required by applicable law. If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed.

External Links

The website may link to third-party websites, platforms, projects, exchanges, protocols, or services. Their privacy and security practices are controlled by those third parties. We recommend reviewing the relevant privacy information before providing personal data or using an external service.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when website features, service providers, editorial tools, advertising activities, newsletter functionality, or legal requirements change. The revised version will be published on this page with an updated date. Material changes may also be communicated through an appropriate website notice.

Contact

To ask a privacy question or submit a request concerning your personal information, contact:

Email: [email protected]