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Privacy Notice

Last Updated: September 5, 2025

LINEA ASSOCIATION GLOBAL PRIVACY NOTICE

Effective: 5 September 2025


Linea Association (“Linea Association,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) knows your personal information is important. As a result, we process your personal information responsibly and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

We appreciate the trust you place in us when you use our offerings, and when you visit our website, https://linea.build. This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) applies to our website (including subdomains) and offerings (collectively, “Offerings”) on or in which it is posted, linked, or referenced.

This Privacy Notice describes how we process the personal information collected when you access the Offerings. When you leave the Offerings, this Privacy Notice no longer applies. Any subsequent website, application, or service you access is subject to its own terms of service and privacy notice (if any) and not this Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, including how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns. In this Privacy Notice “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural living individual.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. If you do not agree with this Privacy Notice or any part thereof, you should not access or use any part of the Offerings. If you change your mind in the future, you must stop using the Offerings. You may exercise your rights in relation to your Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Notice and you may contact us at any time regarding those rights using the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

1. Our Relationship With You

You are subject to the Terms of Service of the Offerings. This means that the Linea Association is the entity that provides the Offerings and determines the purpose and the means of processing for your Personal Information, or other similar designation under law.

2. Personal Information We Collect

We collect Personal Information about you as described in this section. In summary, some information you provide to us. We also collect certain information automatically. All information we collect is subject to the use limitations described in section 3.

When you visit the Offerings, we collect: (1) technical information that is used to deliver the Offerings and for other purposes as described below, and (2) information that you provide to us.

Personal Information You Provide to Us We collect information that you provide to us. The specific types of information we collect will depend upon your engagement with the Offerings. Some Personal Information that you provide to us is required for the use of the Offerings. However other Personal Information is optional.

  • Use of the Offerings - we may process personal information that you provide to us when using the Offerings. This may include information such as how you engage with our Offerings and information you choose to share with us. For example, if you request support we will process the information that you provide in that context.

Information Collected Automatically

We may automatically collect certain information due to your use of the Offerings. We use this information to enable the basic functionality of the Offerings.

  • Device and Usage Information. When you access our website, we may automatically process various points of information that your browser transmits to us. This may include information such as date/time stamps, usage information and statistics, your internet protocol (IP) address, location (eg, city or state), hardware and software information (including operating system version and type), browser type, device identifiers, device event information, crash data, cookie data, and your interactions with the Offerings.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies. When you access the Offerings, we may collect Personal Information via cookies, pixel tags, or similar technologies on the Offerings (collectively referred to as “Cookies”).
  • Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) is a setting you can enable in your web browser to communicate your privacy preference for not having certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites. For all the details, including how to turn on GPC, visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

3. How We Use the Personal Information We Collect?

Our use of your Personal Information is described below. In summary, we only use your information for the purposes for which it is collected.

We use the Personal Information we receive or collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide our Offerings, including to allow access to, operate and support our Offerings. This includes addressing and responding to your requests for the Offerings.
  • For administrative and legal purposes, such as for compliance purposes. This includes enforcing our Terms of Service or enforcing or defending other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency, and to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies as permitted by law, such as preventing the Offerings to be accessed by individuals in sanctioned territories, or by sanctioned individuals.
  • For safety, security and integrity focused on investigating in good faith alleged violations of our Terms of Service, including unauthorized access and use. In order to protect the Offerings, and ensure your continued access to the Offerings, your Personal Information is collected to prevent malicious actors from attacking and disrupting the Offerings.

4. Who We Share Personal Information With

In order to provide the Offerings, we must share your Personal Information in certain cases. This includes sharing your Personal Information with our Service Providers and the other third parties listed in this section. We do not sell your Personal Information.

We may disclose Personal Information about you under the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers. We work with third parties for the purpose of providing the Offerings such as hosting, maintenance, network management, cybersecurity and support. These third parties may have access to or process your Personal Information as part of providing those services to us. For example:
    • We use cloud service providers who we rely on for data storage, disaster recovery and to perform our obligations to you.
    • We use service providers to help us prevent malicious actors from threatening the Offerings and to comply with legal obligations, such as preventing individuals from sanctioned territories, or sanctioned individuals, from accessing the Offerings.
  • Legal. Personal information about you may be disclosed to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, public authorities or pursuant to the exercise of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or request, to enforce our terms and conditions, to prevent or resolve security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Linea Association, our users, a third party, or the public.

5. Your Rights

Your rights associated with the Offerings are described below. Please note these rights may only be available to you in specific regions, countries or states based on where you reside. In certain cases, we may be prevented from allowing you to exercise these rights but we will inform you if that is the case when you seek to exercise the rights.

You may have the following rights associated with the processing of your Personal Information:

  • Right to Access or Right to Know. You have the right to obtain access to the Personal Information we hold about you and to request certain information about our processing. You have the right to receive an explanation of (i) why we process your Personal Information, (ii) the categories of Personal Information we have about you, (iii) who we share your Personal Information with, (iv) how long we store your Personal Information and (v) who we received your Personal Information from if it was not collected from you directly. We will also inform you about your privacy rights. We will notify you where we engage in automated decision making.
  • Right to Rectification or Correction. You have the right to correct, update or complete any Personal Information we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete. Please note that we may rectify or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion.
  • Right to Erasure or Deletion. You may request to have your Personal Information anonymized, erased, or deleted, as appropriate. In this case, if there is no overriding legitimate interest or requirement to continue processing your Personal Information, we will erase your data.
  • Right to Object to Processing. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest or if we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
  • Right to Restrict Processing. You have a right in certain circumstances to stop us processing your Personal Information other than for storage purposes.
  • Right to Portability. You have the right to receive, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, Personal Information that we hold about you, if we process it based on our contract with you, or with your consent, or to request that we transfer such Personal Information to a third party.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your Personal Information at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdraw your consent.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work, or where you believe an incident took place.
  • Right Against Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
  • Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising, Sale or Sharing. You can ask us to stop using your Personal Information for targeted advertising when required by law.

You may exercise these rights by contacting us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.

Please note that, prior to any response to the exercise of such rights, we may require you to verify your identity. In addition, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request and will inform you if that is the case. Note that applicable laws contain certain exceptions and limitations to each of these rights. Subject to certain restrictions, you can ask an agent to exercise your rights for you. If you have an agent exercising your rights, that person must provide to us your written authorization allowing them to make such a request on your behalf. We reserve the right to deny the agent’s request if we are not reasonably able to confirm proper authorization and/or verify your identity as the requestor.

6. Retention of Information

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, to make the Offerings available to you, or as instructed by you, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may also keep your data for as long as it is needed in relation to a legal claim, complaint, litigation or regulatory proceedings.

7. Security and Storage

We implement a variety of security measures that are reasonably designed to protect the safety of your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction when you enter or submit your Personal Information on the Offerings. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any information to us via the Internet. IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR PRIVACY HAS BEEN BREACHED THROUGH USE OF THE OFFERINGS, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY.

8. Co-Branded Websites

If our website links to other websites that include our branding, this Privacy Notice does not apply to those other websites. Visitors to those websites are advised to carefully read the notices on those individual websites.

**9. Changes to Our Privacy Notice **

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection, use or sharing practices or advances in technology. We will make the revised Privacy Notice accessible throughout the Offerings. You should review this Privacy Notice periodically.

By continuing to access or use the Offerings, you are confirming you have read and understand the latest version of this Privacy Notice.

10. Complaints

If you wish to lodge a complaint about how we process your Personal Information, please contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section below. We will endeavor to respond to your complaint as soon as possible. You may also lodge a claim with the applicable supervisory authority.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights with respect to your Personal Information, please contact us at [email protected].

Supplemental Privacy Notice

(EU, Turkey, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (EEA+))

This Supplemental Privacy Notice applies to you only if you are a natural living person and you are located in the European Union, a European Free Trade Association country, Turkey, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“EEA+”). If you are located in the EEA+ and engage with the Offerings, the Linea Association is the data controller with regard to the provision of the Offerings. This Supplemental Privacy Notice is incorporated into and forms part of the Linea Association's Global Privacy Notice.

This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides supplemental notices that are unique to the EEA+ region.

1. Legal Bases for the Processing of Personal Information

In accordance with our legal requirements in this region, we are required to identify and inform you of the legal basis that we use for the processing of your Personal Information. In this section we provide you with information about the legal bases we rely on when processing your Personal Information.

If you are located in EEA+ our legal basis for processing your Personal Information is described in this section. Please note that more than one legal basis may exist for the processing of your Personal Information:

  • Consent. This is the case where you have consented to the use of your Personal Information.
  • Contract.
    • The performance of the contract is used as the legal basis for the processing of your Personal Information for the purpose of providing the Offerings to you. For example, we need your Personal Information to provide you with our Offerings or to perform our obligations associated with our contract with you.
  • Legitimate Interest.
    • We have a legitimate business interest in processing your Personal Information to provide the Offerings. We only rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis when the legitimate interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms associated with privacy and data protection on balance. We ensure we comply with any requests you make to exercise your associated rights.
    • The processing of your Personal Information where legitimate interests are used as the legal basis for the processing of your Personal Information may include the following purposes: for compliance, fraud and safety purposes and to provide the Offerings.
  • Legal Obligation.
    • We may have a legal obligation to process your Personal Information. We may also process your Personal Information when necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

2. International Data Transfers

If you provide us with your Personal Information when using the Offerings from the EEA, Turkey, Switzerland or the UK, then we may transfer your Personal Information outside of those regions for storage and processing.

3. Complaints

You have the right to contact the appropriate supervisory authority at any time to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of your data. The list of EU supervisory authorities is located here. All other supervisory authorities can be located via a search for their website homepage.