Last updated: 05 May, 2025
Binance Bahrain B.S.C. (closed), registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain (registration number 152370), and with its registered offices at Block 316, Road 365, Building 1, Flat 907, Manama, Bahrain ) (“Binance Bahrain”, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers, and we take our data protection responsibilities with the utmost seriousness.
This Privacy Notice describes how Binance Bahrain collects and processes your Personal Data through Binance’s websites and applications that are referenced in this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice applies to all Personal Data processing activities carried out by us, for Binance Bahrain users. For the purpose of this Privacy Notice, “Personal Data” is defined as any information that relates to an identifiable individual, either directly or indirectly.
Binance Bahrain is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data as it decides why and how it is processed and thereby acting as the Data Controller for Personal Data collected and processed in connection with the provision of Binance Bahrain’s Services.
To the extent that you are a customer or user of our services, this Privacy Notice applies together with the Binance Bahrain Terms of Use available here (the “Terms of Use”) and any applicable Product Terms (as defined in the Terms of Use) and any other agreements we may have with you.
To the extent that you are not a relevant stakeholder, customer, or user of our services, but are using our website, this Privacy Notice also applies to you together with our Cookie Notice.
This Privacy Notice should therefore be read together with our Cookie Notice, which provides further details on our use of cookies on the website. Our Cookie Notice can be accessed here.
1. What personal information does Binance Bahrain collect and process?
Personal Data is data that identifies an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. This includes data you provide to us, data which is collected about you automatically, and data we obtain from third parties.
Information you provide to us: To open an account and access our services, we will ask you to provide us with some information about yourself. This information is either required by law ( e.g., to verify your identity and comply with “Know Your Customer” obligations), necessary to provide the requested services (e.g., you will need to provide your email address in order to open your account), or is relevant for certain specified purposes, described in greater detail below. In some cases, if we add services and features you may be asked to provide us with additional information.
Failure in providing the data required implies that Binance Bahrain will not be able to offer you our services.
We may collect the following types of information from you including:
Information we collect from you automatically. To the extent permitted under the applicable law, we may collect certain types of information automatically, for example whenever you interact with us or use the services. This information helps us address customer support issues, improve the performance of our sites and services, maintain and or improve your user experience, and protect your account from fraud by detecting unauthorized access.
Information collected automatically includes:
Information we collect from our affiliates and third parties: From time to time, we may obtain information about you from Binance Affiliates or third-party sources as required or permitted by Applicable Law.
2. Why does Binance Bahrain process my Personal Data?
Our primary purpose in collecting Personal Data is to provide our services in a secure, efficient, and smooth way. We generally use your Personal Data to deliver, provide, operate, our services, and for content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes. In particular, we process your Personal Data for any or all of the following purposes:
3. Can minors use the Binance Bahrain Services?
Binance Bahrain does not allow anyone under the age of 21 to use Binance Bahrain Services and we do not knowingly request or collect any information about persons under the age of 21. If you are under the age of 21, please do not provide any personal information to Binance Bahrain Services.
If a User or Customer submitting personal information is suspected of being younger than 21 years of age, Binance Bahrain will require the relevant Customer or User to close his or her account, and will take steps to delete the individual’s information as soon as possible.
In compliance with applicable laws, we will retain Date of Birth (DOB) information when an individual who is under the legal age attempts to complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) identity verification process. This retention is necessary to prevent repeated attempts to re-register while an individual is under the legal age and to protect the integrity and security of our services by prohibiting underage access to our platform.
4. What about cookies and other identifiers?
We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your user experience, provide our services, enhance our marketing efforts and understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements.
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on a user/ visitor’s computer or mobile device. A copy of our cookie policy is available here.
5. How and why do we share your personal data? share my personal information?
We may share your Personal Data with third parties (including other Binance entities) if we believe that sharing your Personal Data is in accordance with, or required by, any contractual relationship with you (including Binance Bahrain Terms & Conditions) or us, applicable law, regulation or legal process. When sharing your Personal Data with other Binance entities, we will use our best endeavours to ensure that such entities are either subject to this Privacy Notice, or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice. For more information please refer to Section 1.
We may also share personal information with the following persons or in the following circumstances:
Affiliates: Personal Data that we process and collect may be transferred between Binance companies as a normal part of conducting business and offering our Services to you. See Section 1 “Binance Relationship with you” and Section 2. “What Personal Data does Binance Bahrain collect and process?”.
Third parties: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, transmitting content, and assessing and managing credit risk.These third-party service providers only have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with our contractual agreements and as only permitted by applicable data protection laws.
Legal authorities: We may may share your information with courts, law enforcement authorities, regulators, attorneys or other third parties: (a) to comply with applicable law and legal obligations; (b) for the establishment, exercise, or defence of a legal or equitable claim; (c) to respond to law enforcement and regulatory requests, including (1) when we are compelled to do so by a subpoena, court order, search or seizure warrant, or similar legal procedure, or (2) for international law enforcement requests, pursuant to a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) or letters of request; (d) to comply with one or more forms of “travel rules” that require our transmitting of your information to another financial institution, regulatory authorities or other industry partners; (e) when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers, Binance Bahrain, or others, including to prevent imminent physical harm or material financial loss; (f) to investigate violations of our Terms of Use or other applicable policies; or (g) to detect, investigate, prevent or address fraud or credit risk, other illegal activity or security and technical issues, to report suspected illegal activity or to assist law enforcement in the investigation of suspected illegal or wrongful activity.
Business transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the user consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Binance or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, user information will be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of Binance Bahrain and others: We release accounts and other personal information when we believe such release is appropriate to: (i) comply with the law, law enforcement requests, or with our regulatory obligations; (ii) enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Binance Bahrain’s users or others. This includes exchanging information with other entities and organisations for fraud protection.
With your consent: We also may disclose your Personal Data as may be described in a notice to you at the time the information is collected or before it is shared, or in any other manner to which you consent.
6. International transfers of personal information
To facilitate our global operations, Binance Bahrain may transfer your personal information outside the Kingdom of Bahrain to countries where an adequate level of protection is afforded and approved by the Bahrain Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Waqf or to countries which may not offer the same level of protection of Personal Data. We may transfer your Personal Data to Binance Affiliates, third-party partners, and service providers based throughout the world. These parties are contractually obliged to protect the confidentiality and security of your Personal Data, in compliance with the applicable data protection law. Binance Bahrain puts in place suitable safeguards to ensure that such transfers are carried out in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
7. How secure is my information?
We design our systems with paramount importance placed on the security and privacy of your data. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent your information being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission and while stored by using encryption protocols and software.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your personal information. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.
Our security procedures mean that we may ask you to verify your identity to protect you against unauthorised access to your account password. We recommend using a unique password for your Binance Bahrain account that is not utilized for other online accounts and to sign off when you finish using your shared computer.
8. What about advertising?
In order for us to provide you with the best user experience, we may share your personal information with our marketing partners for the purposes of targeting, modeling, and/or analytics as well as marketing and advertising.
You have a right to object at any time to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
9. What rights do I have?
You have a number of rights in relation to your privacy and the protection of your personal information. You have the right to request access, rectify and erase your personal information and to object to our processing of your personal information or ask that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain instances. In addition, when you consent to our processing of your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time. These rights may be limited in some situations - for example, where we can demonstrate we have a legal requirement to process your personal data.
Right to access: you have the right to obtain confirmation that your personal information is processed and to obtain a copy of it as well as certain information related to its processing;
Right to rectification: you can request the rectification of your personal information which is inaccurate, or incomplete. You can also change your personal information in your Binance Account at any time;
Right to erasure: you can, in some cases, have your personal information deleted; Please follow the FAQ for further self-help information on how you can request that your account is deleted yourself. Please note that personal data may still be retained in the event of account deletion to comply with our legal obligations.
Right to object: you can object, for reasons relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal information. For instance, you have the right to object where we rely on legitimate interest or where we process your data for direct marketing purposes;
Right to restrict processing: you have the right, in certain cases, to temporarily restrict the processing of your personal information by us, provided there are valid grounds for doing so. We may continue to process your personal information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable laws;
Right to contest to a decision based solely on automated processing: You have the right to require that decisions be reconsidered if they are made solely by automated means, without human involvement; we use automated tools to make sure that you are eligible to be our customer taking into account our interests and legal obligations; if these automated tools indicate that you do not meet our acceptance criteria, we will not onboard you as our customer;
Right to withdraw your consent: for processing requiring your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Exercising this right does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given before the withdrawal of the latter.
Right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority: We hope that we can satisfy any queries you may have about the way in which we process your personal data. However, if you have unresolved concerns, you also have the right to complain to the data protection authority in the location in which you live, work or believe a data protection breach has occurred.
If you have any questions or objections as to how we collect and process your personal information, please contact us using the webform available here
10. How long does Binance Bahrain keep my personal information?
We keep your personal information to enable your continued use of the Binance Bahrain Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Notice, as may be required by law for record keeping purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you.
11. Contact information
Our data protection officer can be contacted via email at [email protected], and will work to address any questions or issues that you might have with respect to the collection and processing of your personal information.
12. Notices and revisions
Our business changes regularly, and our Privacy Notice may change also. You should check our websites frequently to see recent changes.
13. Languages
This Privacy Policy may be published in different languages. In case of any discrepancy, this English version shall prevail.
