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DFIN PRIVACY NOTICE
Last
updated We currently do not collect any data on our visitors. However, if we did this privacy notice for
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
Do we process any sensitive personal
information?
Do you receive any information from third
parties?
How do you process my information? We process your information to provide, improve, and
administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud
prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for
other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have
a valid legal reason to do so. Click here to learn more.
In what situations and with which
How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and
procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no
electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able
to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your
information. Click here to learn more.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the
applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal
information. Click here to learn more.
How do I exercise my rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by filling out
our data subject request form available Want to
learn more about what
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
5. WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?
6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
13.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
14.
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information
that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you
voluntarily provide to us when you
In Short: Some information — such as your
Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is
collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information
when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal
your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include
device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device
characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device
name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services,
and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to
maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal
analytics and reporting purposes.
The information we collect includes:
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your
personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact
with our Services, including:
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON
TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is
necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under
applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you
with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual
obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business
interests. The General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid
legal bases we rely on in order to process your
personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to
process your personal information:
If you
are located in
Canada, this section applies to you. We may process
your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express
consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in
situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You
can withdraw your consent at any time. Click here to learn more. In some
exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process
your information without your consent, including, for example:
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short: We may share information in
specific situations described in this section and/or with the following
5. WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES? The Services
6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL
LOGINS?
In Short: If you choose to register or log
in to our services using a social media account, we may have access to certain
information about you.
Our Services offer you the ability to register
and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your
Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive
certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The
profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider
concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, and
profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such
a social media platform.
We will use the information we receive only for
the purposes that are described in this privacy notice or that are otherwise
made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control,
and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your
third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy
notice to understand how they collect, use and share
your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on
their sites and apps.
7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION? In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for
as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice,
unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will
require us keeping your personal information for longer than
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need
to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store
your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until
deletion is possible.
8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal
information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable
technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security
of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and
efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the
Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure,
so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other
unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and
improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will
do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal
information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only
access the Services within a secure environment.
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
In some regions (like
We will consider and act upon any request in
accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in
the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal
information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection
supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are located in
Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are
available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Withdrawing your
consent: If we are relying on your
consent to process your personal information, However, please
note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its
withdrawal, nor If you have
questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating
systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT")
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At
this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT
signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser
signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not
to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must
follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised
version of this privacy notice.
11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE
SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of
California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal
information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also
known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are
California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of
charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would
like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using
the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California,
and have a registered account with Services, you have the right to request
removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request
removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided
below and include the email address associated with your account and a
statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not
publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not
be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups,
etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
The California Code of Regulations defines a
"resident" as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of
California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in the
State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or
transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as
"non-residents."
If this definition of "resident"
applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your
personal information.
What categories of
personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of
personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
We may also collect other personal information
outside of these categories instances where you interact with us in person,
online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
How do we use and
share your personal information? You may contact us
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise
your right to opt out we may deny a request if the
authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized
to act on your behalf. Will your
information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with
our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each
service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes
the information on our behalf.
We may use your personal information for our own
business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological
development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling"
of your personal information.
Your rights with
respect to your personal data
Right
to request deletion of the data — Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal
information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect
your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain
exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by
another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance
requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be
required to protect against illegal activities. Right to be
informed — Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right
to know:
In
accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete
consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or
to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request. Right to
Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you
exercise your privacy rights. Verification
process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to
verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have
the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you
to provide information so that we can match it with information you have
previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you
submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the
information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may
contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have
previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the
circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided
in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To
the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you
for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity
from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide
additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for
security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally
provided information as soon as we finish verifying you. Other privacy
rights
To exercise these
rights, you can contact us
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant
with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to
time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised"
date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If
we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a
notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be
informed of how we are protecting your information.
13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this
notice, you may
14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR
DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country,
you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect
from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To
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