Company: IPST
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-099309
Chunk: 220

Company: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-16
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 220
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. Accordingly, we are subject to several data privacy and security related regulations, including but not limited to: U.S. state privacy, security and breach notification laws; the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and other European privacy laws, as well as privacy laws being adopted in other regions around the world. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission and many state attorneys general have interpreted existing federal and state consumer protection laws to impose evolving standards for the online collection, use, dissemination and security of information about individuals. Certain states have also adopted robust data privacy and security laws and regulations. In response to such data privacy laws and regulations and those in other countries in which we do business, we have implemented several technological safeguards, processes, contractual third -partyprovisions, and employee trainings to help ensure that we handle information about our employees and customers in a compliant manner. We maintain a global privacy policy and related procedures and train our workforce to understand and comply with applicable privacy laws. Digital asset regulation $IP tokens and other digital assets are relatively novel and the application of state and federal securities laws, taxes and other laws and regulations to digital assets is unclear in certain respects. The U.S. federal government, states, regulatory agencies, and foreign countries may also enact new laws and regulations, or pursue regulatory, legislative, enforcement or judicial actions related to digital assets. For example, the U.S. executive branch, the SEC, the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation, among others, have been active in recent years, and in the U.K., the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023, or FSMA 2023, became law. Moreover, the regulatory status of digital asset treasury companies like us is currently uncertain. We will continue to monitor laws and regulations related to digital assets to determine any compliance changes that we need to make. Intellectual Property We strive to protect the reputation of our brand. We establish, protect and defend our intellectual property in several ways, including through employee and third -partynondisclosure agreements, copyright laws, domestic and foreign trademark protections, intellectual property licenses and social media and information security policies for employees. We have been granted over 75 trademark registrations in the United States for, among others, Heritage Distilling ®, Heritage Distilling Co. (Stylized) ®, our HDC Logo ®, Cask Club ®, Tribal Beverage Network ®and the individual names and logos of certain of our products and numerous trademark registrations in other countries for the Heritage Distilling ®, Heritage Distilling Co. (Styl