Privacy

The pools process payout addresses, worker names, connection information, submitted shares, share difficulty, hashrate estimates and activity timestamps to accept work, calculate rewards, diagnose faults and protect the service. A payout address is public blockchain information, but can still be personal data when linked to a person.

Website and mining connections disclose your IP address to the servers handling them. Hosting, network and security systems may process technical request and connection logs. IP addresses are also used for request rate limits.

To help choose mining-server locations, the operator can see an approximate country and city for a mining worker, inferred locally from its connection IP after an accepted share. This information is private to the admin dashboard, is not an exact physical location, and may reflect a VPN or mobile provider. This location feature does not write raw IPs or packet contents to disk or send IPs to a third-party lookup API. Its coarse location records expire after 24 hours.

Arena nicknames and activity can be displayed publicly with a miner profile. Server-location requests contain the location, hashrate, contact details, time zone and ping measurements you choose to submit. Those requests are available to the operator through a private dashboard, not a public request list.

If you contact the operator, the information you send is used to handle your request. Contacting us through X also involves that platform’s own privacy practices.

Mining statistics, shortened addresses, nicknames, draw tickets and boost results may be visible on the website. Address lookup pages expose statistics for the address being looked up. Do not treat a mining address or worker name as a secret, and avoid putting personal information in worker names or public nicknames.

Payout transactions are recorded on public blockchains. DirectPool cannot remove or rewrite blockchain records, or copies independently held by other people.

The website uses local browser storage for recent address lookups, server-region preferences and block-alert preferences or previously seen block events. These values remain on your device until cleared or replaced. You can remove them using your browser’s site-data controls.

The private operator dashboard uses an authentication cookie named dp_admin with a seven-day session lifetime. It is not a public miner account or an advertising cookie.

Enabling browser notifications requires your permission. You can revoke it in your browser settings. This notice does not imply that browser storage or necessary service cookies are advertising consent.

Information is used to deliver requested mining and website features, maintain accounting records, respond to messages and protect service reliability. Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, these activities relate to providing the requested service, legitimate interests in security and operation, and applicable legal obligations. Optional browser permissions remain under your control.

Hosting, network, database and backup providers may process information needed to operate their services. Access to private operational data is intended for the operator and service providers performing those functions. External block explorers and social links have their own policies when you visit them.

Retention varies by record type. Mining accounting, technical histories, messages, server requests and backups serve different operational purposes. This page does not promise a deletion deadline that has not been established. Ask the operator for the retention information relevant to your request.

Depending on the law that applies, you may have rights to access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability or objection, and to complain to a relevant data-protection authority. Some records may need to be retained for accounting, security or legal reasons. Public blockchain records cannot be deleted.

For a privacy request, contact the DirectPool operator at @directpool_io on X. Describe the data concerned without sending a private key, seed phrase or password. Proof of control may be needed before changes are made to an address-linked record.