Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 22, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our service. It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.

  • Company (referred to as either "the company", "we", "us" or "our" in this agreement) refers to Tafonic LLC, 764 Avelar Street, East Palo Alto, CA 94303.

  • Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

  • Service refers to the services (software-as-a-service offerings) provided by the company.

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform tasks related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used.

  • Website refers to the company website, accessible from https://www.tafonic.com.

  • You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Full name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • City, State, Country

Usage Data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.

Usage data may include information such as your device's Internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

Use of Your Personal Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.

  • To manage your account. The personal data you provide can give you access to different features of the service that are available to you as a registered user.

  • To contact you by email, telephone, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication (such as push notifications) regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services.

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other services and events, which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which case personal data held by us is among the assets transferred.

  • For other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, marketing and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service and to contact you.

  • We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with or during negotiations of a merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.

  • We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

  • We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

  • When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

  • We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The company will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company's operating offices and in any other place where the parties or resources involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction, where the data protection laws may be different from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your personal data by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The company may disclose your personal data in good faith that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation.

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.

  • Prevent or investigate possible wrong doing in connection with the service.

  • Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public.

  • Protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but we would like to remind you that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Analytics

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.

  • Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

  • You can opt-out of having your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

  • For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process personal data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.

  • Performance of a contract: Processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • Legal obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the company is subject.

  • Vital interests: Processing personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.

  • Public interests: Processing personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the company.

  • Legitimate interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the company.

In any case, the company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

The company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal data and to guarantee that you can exercise your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to your personal data. You have the right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Object to processing of your personal data. This right exists when we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object if we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

  • Request erasure of your personal data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.

  • Request the transfer of your personal data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

  • Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the service.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority for more information.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise your rights under the GDPR by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The CCPA requires us to disclose the different categories of personal information we collect, how this information is acquired, how we use it and the third parties with whom we share it. This has been explained above.

Your Rights under the CCPA

The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:

  • The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of personal data are being collected and the purposes for which the personal data is being used.

  • The right to request. You have the right to request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and sharing of personal information.

  • The right to say no to the sale of personal data. You have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information.

  • The right to delete personal data. You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.

  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer rights.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

If you are a California resident, you can exercise your rights under the CCPA by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell the personal information of the users of our service.

Do Not Track Policy

Some third party websites may keep track of your browsing history. If you are are visiting such websites, you can set your web browser preferences to inform those websites that you do not want to be tracked.

At this time our service does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will take the necessary steps to remove that information from our servers.

Links to Other Websites

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our service after those revisions become effective will constitute your acceptance of the new policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email at info@tafonic.com.