Privacy Policy

Introduction

This is the Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement") for Central Asian Treasure (Tuv Aziin Erdene), LLC. and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("CATCO", "we", "us", or "our"). This Privacy Statement was last updated in July 2024. For more detail on CATCO's international operations please see https://www.CAT-CO.mn.

CATCO understands that your privacy is important. CATCO is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on CAT-CO.mn or other CATCO websites, including CATCO subscription pages or other CATCO websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement (collectively, the "Site"). In addition, information that you submit to CATCO in response to an email request for information or other outreach from CATCO, will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to the personal information of job applicants, potential candidates for employment, and participants of our optional recruiting programs and events or personal information collected via our recruiting websites.

CATCO may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here.

Personal Information That We Collect, And How We Use It

What information do we collect?

Account, registration, subscription, and marketing

CATCO collects information from you when you create your account or register for certain pages for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services, and for marketing communications (via emails, social media platforms) from CATCO based on your consent where required.

Personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, employment information that may identify you (such as company, job title, or position), IP address, geo location, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

If you do not provide such information, you may not be able to create an account or register for certain pages for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, or seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities.

Surveys and events

CATCO collects information if you register for conferences and other CATCO-sponsored events, and/or take part in surveys run by CATCO.

Personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, IP address, unique personal identifiers, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

In addition, we sometimes aggregate demographic information, and the types of systems and browsers of users CATCO also may conduct user surveys on the web or use technologies to provide CATCO with information on a number of areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, whether or not users found what they were searching for, whether the Site content is relevant to user needs, and the like.

How do we use personal information?

The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:

On the basis of your consent where required. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes, the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

For compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.

How We Might Disclose Your Personal Information

The third parties with whom we may need to disclose personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Site include:

• Our subsidiaries or affiliates
• Our advisors
• Our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services, the Site security and marketing and events services
• To the third parties listed in our cookie policies. To view a detailed list of such third parties and cookies used on CAT-CO.mn.
• Our business partners for publications and events co-organized by CATCO and them
• Law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order

CATCO may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to CATCO.

We may also disclose your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, financing transaction, merger, sale, joint venture, partnership, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Because CATCO is a global organization, we may need to transfer personal information which is collected on the Site or through other means as described under this Privacy Statement across the CATCO group of companies or to third parties listed above to help operate our business efficiently. This also includes third parties located in different countries around the world. These arrangements may involve your personal information located in various countries around the world where CATCO maintains and stores personal information in systems and applications where privacy laws differ. The personal information is only accessible by authorized persons or vendors who are bound by privacy requirements, and we only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect personal information held in that country.

Retention Of Your Personal Information

CATCO retains your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our services) and the length of time thereafter during which we may have a legitimate need to reference your personal information to address issues that may arise
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations)

Marketing

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further marketing communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every email that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to CATCO email newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

Cookies And Other Tracking Technologies

CATCO may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A "cookie" is a small amount of data sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services.

With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information.

Once you have given your consent to use cookies, we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browsers settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.

Security Processes

CATCO has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personal information. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any personal information provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personal information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personal information, CATCO cannot guarantee that your personal information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and CATCO cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when personal information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.

Links To Other Websites

This Site contains links to other websites not operated by CATCO.

CATCO is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-CATCO websites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.

Compliance With Law

CATCO may be compelled to surrender personal information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

Your Rights

Depending on where you reside, you may have the following rights in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. You have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the personal information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify such personal information. You also have the right to request that we erase your personal information, stop processing your personal information, restrict the processing of your personal information, and provide your personal information in a portable format. Where processing of personal information is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to such processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. You also may have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.

If you would like to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact the appropriate data protection point of contact in the "Contact Us" section of this Privacy Statement. Please note that we may need you to prove who you are (including providing additional information from you) before we can act on your request.

Children

CATCO understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 18 years of age and younger.

Categories Of Sources Of Personal Information

We collect this personal information directly from you, from your devices, and from third-party sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, and social media platforms, where permitted under applicable local laws.

Purposes For The Collection Of Personal Information

We collect personal information to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including to:

• Develop, improve, operate repair, and maintain our products and services
• Provide support and respond to requests for information
• Maintaining or servicing accounts or registrations
• Advertise and market our products and services, and personalize user experiences
• Conduct research, analytics, and data analysis
• Operate and maintain our facilities and infrastructure
• Undertake quality and safety assurance measures, and conduct security control and monitoring
• Detect and prevent fraud and perform identity verification
• Facilitate and implement any reorganization, financing transaction, merger, sale, joint venture, partnership, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings)
• Maintain records, comply with law, legal process, and internal policies, and exercise and defend legal claims.

Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information outside of the following purposes: (1) performing our services, (2) detecting security incidents, (3) resisting malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions, (4) ensuring physical safety, (5) for short-term transient use, including certain non-personalized advertising, (6) maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, or providing similar services, and (7) verifying and maintaining the quality or safety of a service or product or improving, upgrading, or enhancing a service or product.