When you buy a hardware wallet via official Ledger website the following information is collected; it stored for a long time:
- Your name (first name, last name);
- Your e-mail address;
- Your postmail address;
- Your phone number;
- Your physical address and other contact details;
- Your credit card number;
- Your other payment information;
- When you contact customer support, they will record and store their correspondence with you;
- You also may be asked to perform a small
KYC procedure when contact customer support;
- Your IP address;
- Your operating system;
- The type of device you use;
- Date and time you visit the website;
- Browsing Data (information about your visit including the URL clickstream to, through and from our website, products you viewed or searched for, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction)
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https://shop.ledger.com/pages/privacy-policyI don't know about others but to me, this is way too much information for a third party site. You don't give off all this much private details just to a third party site just to ensure to protect your privacy. Compliance with these needed information had very much made your data go public already. You don't know the person at the other end and in cases as these. In issues of privacy data, the less known to the third party, the more safe you are.
Ledger really need to look into there terms of service because it's really compromising a lot. Having a users private details like home address could lead to blackmailing and other crimes especially with the fact that, a user's wallet address could be scanned to know its content. It's not a fair way to operate.