Digital Sovereignty Alliance Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 12, 2025

The Digital Sovereignty Alliance ("DSA," "we," "us," "our") is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education surrounding emerging technologies, including decentralized technologies, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Web3 innovations, and artificial intelligence. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes DSA's data collection and use practices. Please review this Policy carefully as it relates to your use of the DSA website, when you sign up for newsletters, attend our virtual or in-person events, make donations, and contact our staff. (collectively our "Services"). By using our Services, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Policy.

For purposes of this Policy, "Personal Information" refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and date of birth.

I. Personal Information We Collect

The DSA obtains Personal Information you provide directly to us when you request more information on our website or interact with our organization at in person events. This information may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Home address
  • Age
  • Date of birth
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • Profession
  • Bank account details
  • Credit card details

We may also obtain your Personal Information from other sources, such as partner organizations, email data bases, or public sources.

The DSA does not collect any Personal Information from you automatically when you visit our website, and our website does not employ cookies or other automatic information collection technologies.

II. How We Use Your Personal Information

The DSA only uses your Personal Information to facilitate our Services and operate our organization, including for the following reasons:

  • To send you information and educational materials at your request;
  • To maintain our membership database;
  • To contact you with related information about our organization.

In certain circumstances, where legally required, we may disclose your Personal Information to government and law enforcement authorities, in each case to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests. We may also disclose your personal information in the event of a merger or reorganization of the DSA.

The DSA never sells your Personal Information, nor does it disclose your Personal Information for any monetary purposes.

III. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Rights

If you are a California resident, the CCPA provides you with specific rights regarding your Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

a. Right to Know and Access

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months, including:

  • The categories of Personal Information we collected about you
  • The categories of sources from which we collected your Personal Information
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting your Personal Information
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share your Personal Information
  • The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you

b. Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

c. Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services

d. Exercising Your California Privacy Rights

To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may make a verifiable consumer request for access or data deletion no more than twice within a 12-month period.

Your request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it

We will respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We do not sell the Personal Information of our users. We do not share Personal Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes as defined in California's "Shine the Light" law.

IV. Privacy Choices

a. Opt-out of emails

To stop receiving communications and information from DSA, you may opt out at any time by following the opt-out instructions included in any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at admin@dsaf.org.

b. Questions about our privacy practices

The DSA takes the privacy and security of your Personal Information seriously. For questions about our privacy or security practice, or how we handle your Personal Information as described in this Policy, please contact us at admin@dsaf.org.

V. Information Security

We have implemented commercially reasonable precautions designed to protect the Personal Information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Despite our efforts, however, we are unable to guarantee that any Personal Information we collect from you will remain completely secure. No technology is foolproof, and information transmission and storage systems occasionally can be breached and accessed by third parties in violation of law. Therefore, we encourage you to use caution when using the internet or any mobile device and to take reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality of your passwords, account information, and payment information.

VI. Changes to This Privacy Policy

The DSA reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Information. Your continued use of our Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy indicates your agreement with the terms of the revised Privacy Policy.

VII. Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices or this Policy, please contact us at:

admin@dsaf.org