Effective Date: September 12, 2025

The Interchain Foundation and its operating groups, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Company," “us” or “we”) are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal data of provided by individuals applying for a job or other role at (“Job Applicants”), as well as the personal data of our current and former employees and contractors (collectively, “Workers”) and their emergency contacts and beneficiaries. Please read this Job Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) to learn how we treat your personal data when you are one of our Job Applicants or Workers. If you are located in in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you have certain rights under General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) and as the EU GDPR forms part of the law of England and Wales by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (together, the “GDPR”) with respect to your personal data, as outlined below. In this Privacy Notice, we use the term “personal data” as it is defined under the GDPR. This Privacy Notice only applies to Job Applicants and Workers located in the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.

As we continually work to improve our operations and business, we may need to change this Privacy Notice from time to time. Upon material changes, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on ’s intranet, by sending you an email and/or by some other means.

Below details the categories of personal data we may collect and may have collected over the past twelve (12) months. Note that the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data may vary depending on the nature of your relationship with us, including whether you’re a Job Applicant, a Worker, or a Worker’s emergency contacts and beneficiaries.

FOR JOB APPLICANTS:

Depending on where you are in the application stage (e.g., screening, assessment tests, interviews, background and reference checks, or decision stage), the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data may vary. We may collect:

• Personal Contact Data such as name, alias, mailing address, email address, phone number.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Data such as information regarding your interaction with our career website, application, or advertisement, including chats and instant messaging.
• Geolocation Data such as IP-address-based location information.
• Sensory Data such as photos, videos, and recordings of you and your environment.
• Professional or Employment-Related Data such as resume, job title, job history, performance evaluations, membership in professional organizations and unions, and job interview notes, responses to screening questions and assessment results.
• Education Data such as grades or transcripts, student financial information, and student disciplinary records.
• Special Categories of Personal Data - in countries where it is legal to do so - such as genetic, biometric and health data, as well as personal data revealing racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or ideological convictions or trade union membership.

FOR WORKERS:

Similar categories of data we collect in your role as a Job Applicant as described above may be collected and retained if you are employed by the Company. For additional categories of personal data that may be collected solely from Workers, please see below.

• Geolocation Data such as IP-address-based location information.
• Professional or Employment-Related Data such as performance management information (e.g., employment status, work schedule, job assignments, hours worked, accomplishments, awards), training and development information, discipline and counseling information, and employment termination information.
• Other Personal data such as dependent information, emergency contact information, and beneficiary information.

Depending on the nature of your relationship with us, including whether you’re a Job Applicant, a Worker, or a Worker’s emergency contacts and beneficiaries, we only process your personal data where applicable law permits or requires it, including where the processing is necessary to assess your potential employment with us, to comply with our legal obligations, for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties, or with your consent. We may process your personal data for legitimate business purposes and for the following purposes:

• Process and manage your application: We use your personal data to process your job application, establish a job applicant profile for the recruitment process, assess your qualifications for a specific role with us, schedule and conduct interviews, communicate with you, and carry out background and reference checks (see the following bullet point for additional information). We may collect audio and visual information of job applicants through photographs used for identification purposes. With your consent, we may record video of you in connection with the application process, for example through a third party screening service.
• Process and manage your employment: If you are offered a position with us, we will use your personal data in the employment on-boarding process and managing your personnel records including enrolling and administering employee benefits, paying wages, managing workflows, carrying out job promotion processes, evaluating performance, and other related employment purposes (as authorized by you and permitted by applicable law).
• Conduct reference and background checks (as permitted by applicable law): We use personal data we collect to conduct reference checks and to evaluate your qualifications and experience. We may also conduct background checks (as authorized by you and permitted by applicable law).
• Provide immigration support: If applicable and as permitted by applicable law, we may collect your personal data to assist with immigration support, such as applying for visas or work permits.
• Analyze and improve our recruitment process and tools: For example, we analyze trends in our applicant pool, and use personal data to understand and improve our recruitment process and tools, including improving diversity and inclusion.
• Record-keeping: We keep records of your personal data as required by law and in accordance with our record retention policies.
• Meeting legal requirements and enforcing legal terms: We collect and process your personal data for purposes of: fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities; protecting the rights, property or safety of you, us or another party; enforcing any agreements with you; responding to claims; and resolving disputes. Additionally, we may use information about protected characteristics to analyze and monitor the diversity of our job applicants and Workers in accordance with applicable laws.

We will only process your personal data for the purposes we collected it for or for compatible purposes. If we need to process your personal data for an incompatible purpose, we will provide notice to you and, if required by law, seek your consent. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation.

We may also process your personal data for our own legitimate interests, including for the following purposes:

• To prevent fraud.
• To ensure network and information security, including preventing unauthorized access to our computer and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution.
• To support internal administration with our affiliated entities.
• To conduct data analytics analyses to review and better understand our recruitment process.

You will not be subject to automated decision-making or profiling (as such terms are described in the GDPR) without your prior consent.

We may collect and process certain special categories personal data about you, in countries where it is legal to do so, such as genetic, biometric and health data, as well as personal data revealing racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or ideological convictions or trade union membership, to the extent such processing is necessary for us to carry out our obligations with respect to your application or employment. Where we have a legitimate need to process special categories of personal data about you for purposes not identified above, we will only do so only after providing you with notice and, if required by law, obtaining your prior, express consent.

Unless specifically noted, we disclose personal data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section.

• Affiliates. Our affiliates help us to perform business functions on our behalf.
• Service Providers. These parties help us to perform business functions on our behalf, such as:
  • Hosting, technology and communication providers.
  • Security and fraud prevention consultants.
  • Background and reference check screening services.
  • Hiring process and benefits management and administration tools.
  • Health and safety technology providers.

We seek to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of personal data and how we are processing that information. You should also help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism, limiting access to your computer or device and browser, and signing out after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain personal data about you for as long as necessary to perform our business or commercial purposes, including employment-related purposes, for collecting your personal data. When establishing a retention period for specific categories of personal data, we consider who we collected the personal data from, our need for the personal data, why we collected the personal data, and the sensitivity of the personal data. In some cases we retain personal data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Note that if you are a Job Applicant that applied through a third-party such as a recruiting company or submitted your application through a recruiting software (e.g., Greenhouse, Linkedin, etc.), you may be subject to their separate terms of service and privacy policy.

If you are a Job Applicant or Worker located in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK, we are required to provide you with additional information about our processing of your personal data. Please note that, except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the information in this section as well as the other sections of this Privacy Notice apply to you.

If you are a Job Applicant or Worker located in the UK, Switzerland or EEA, is the controller of your personal data. As a data controller, is responsible for ensuring that’s processing of your personal data complies with the GDPR.

Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure, and Objection

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during the recruitment process. By law, you may have the right to request access to, correct, and erase the personal data that we hold about you, or object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You may also have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another party.

Right to Withdraw Consent

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, or transfer of your personal data, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances.

We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal data that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or anonymized your personal data in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

Where permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the personal data we collect about you to the United States and other jurisdictions that may not be deemed to provide the same level of data protection as your home country for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. Where necessary, we have implemented standard contractual clauses to help secure the transfer.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Notice, the ways in which we collect and use your personal data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please contact:

• hello@interchain.io
• Interchain Foundation - Gartenstrasse 4, CH-6300 Zug, Switzerland

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