Legal Bases Chart

Last updated: July 20, 2024

If you are located in the EEA or another territory with comparable data protection laws, there are several different legal grounds we may rely on to justify our processing of your Information. These are:

Consent. You give us your permission to process your Information or otherwise ask us to process your Information.
Performance of a contract. We need to process your Information to provide you with a product or service you have bought or otherwise to carry out a contract we have in place with you.
Legal obligation. We need to process your Information to comply with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
Vital interests. We need to process your Information to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of someone else.
Legitimate interests. Processing your Information is in our own legitimate interests that we’ve explained to you and our interests don’t outweigh any risks or harms to your rights and freedoms that arise from us processing your Information.

We have set out below the legal bases that we rely on for the purposes in the Privacy Policy that your Information is used for.

Purpose	Legal basis
Provide CRDN Services	Performance of a contract
Improve our Services	Legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: making our services work better for for you and us, fixing problems you experience and providing you with new and enhanced features alongside the services
Communications	Service messages: performance of a contract Other communications: consent
Advertising and marketing	Ads to you on our Services: Consent (or in some instances, legitimate interests*) Ads to you on third party products and services: legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: promoting
Operate our business	Legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: to generate information necessary to run our business and make business decisions
Safety, security and fraud prevention	Legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: making sure our Services are safe and secure for you and all other users and identifying misuse of our Services
Comply with law and our terms of use	Comply with law: legal obligation Terms of use: legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: making sure that you abide by the terms of use for our Services
With your consent	Consent
Deriving aggregate data	Legitimate interests Our legitimate interests: to create metrics and insights that help us fulfil any of the above purposes without further using information that identifies you

*For some Services there are technical aspects of the delivery and measurement of ads to you where we may rely on our legitimate interests rather than consent to process Personal Information relating to you. For example, capping the number of instances you see a given ad and measuring the performance of an ad. Our legitimate interests are to ensure that ads that you see are properly delivered to you and accounted for and to understand how ads that you see perform.