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- DO EEA AND SWITZERLAND RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
- DO WE HAVE A VERIFICATION PROCESS REGARDING ENFORCEMENT OF SPECIFIC RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA, THE EEA AND SWITZERLAND?
Thank you for choosing to be a part of Hypori, Inc. (collectively, “Hypori,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information (“Personal Data”) and your right to privacy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”), or our practices with regards to your Personal Data, please contact us at privacy@hypori.com.
When you visit our various websites (each a “Site” and collectively, the “Sites”), and more generally, use any of our products (the “Products”) or services (the “Services”), which may include the Sites, we appreciate that you are trusting us with your Personal Data. We take your privacy very seriously. In this Policy, we seek to explain to you, in the clearest way possible, what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take the time to read through it carefully. If there are any terms of this Policy that you disagree with, please discontinue the use of our Products and Services immediately.
This Policy applies to all information collected through our Sites, Products and Services, as well as any related services, sales, marketing, or events, regardless of your access (e.g., via browser, email), or (b) whether you are a user or a visitor to our Sites.
Please read this Policy carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information we collect.
This Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any third-party application or content that links to, or is accessible from, our Sites. This Policy applies with respect to your use of any Hypori Site, Product or Service, regardless of (a) your method of access, or (b) whether you are a user or a visitor.
Presently, Hypori, Inc. may now or in future have customers in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and Switzerland.
We may revise this Policy at any time by updating this posting. Use of the Sites, Products or Services after such revisions are posted will signify your agreement with this Policy. You should visit this page periodically to review this Policy and any revisions.
We collect Personal Data that you voluntarily provide to us when you use our Sites, register for our Products and/or Services, express an interest in obtaining information about our Products or Services, when you participate in activities regarding our Products or Services, or when you otherwise contact us.
The Personal Data that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites, Products and Services, the choices you make, and the features that you use.
We do not sell, share, or rent any content, data, or other such materials you may otherwise actively provide to us through use of our Sites, Products and Services, we promise.
When you visit our Sites, you are not required to actively provide any information, but the analytics software we use may collect some Personal Data. When you sign up to download or receive information or sign up to receive and use Products and Services, you are required to provide some Personal Data.
Please note that by providing your phone number to us, you agree to receive text messages from us. You may reply STOP to cancel. Information received will be used only for internal purposes and we will not share personal information.
Personal Data Collected Directly.
We may collect—directly from you—Personal Data such as:
Identifiers
- Contact details, e.g., name, company name, job title, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, country of residence, etc.
- Signatures.
- Contact preferences and interests.
- Accommodations and other event-related preferences.
- Any information or content you have permitted a social media network to share with us.
- Postings on blogs, forums, wikis and other social media applications/services.
- Photographs/videos submitted by you or taken at one of our events.
- Reviews about our Products or Services.
- Details you share when contacting us via email.
- Shared information concerning another individual. If you provide us with Personal Data of another person (e.g., a potential employee/referral), you are responsible for ensuring that such person is made aware of the information contained in this Policy and represent that the person has given you his/her documented authority or consent for sharing the Personal Data with us and permitting us to use the Personal Data in accordance with this Policy.
Professional or Employment-Related Information
- Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
- Education records maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, student disciplinary records, or similar information.
Sensitive, Special Treatment or Protected Characteristics
Profiles reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, trends, predispositions, behavior, etc.
We do not typically seek to collect the below sensitive Personal Data through our Sites or from users. We will obtain your explicit consent before we collect, use or otherwise process the below sensitive Personal Data in accordance with applicable data protection, GDPR and ePrivacy regulatory requirements.
- Generally, race, ethnic origin, and actual or suspected criminal convictions, offenses or activities.
- For California customers, age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran or military status. For customers in the EEA, race or ethnicity.
Personal Data Collected Automatically.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Products or Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (e.g., name or contact information) and is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Sites, Products and Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Log and Usage Data
Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance information that our servers automatically collect when you access our Products and Services, and which we record in our log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings, settings and information about your activity on our Sites, (e.g., date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and features you use/resources you access or download, referring/exit URLs, clickstream data, and device event information (e.g., system activity, error reports, and hardware settings.
Device Data
We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or other device you use to access the Products and Services. Depending on the device used, this data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system and system configuration information.
Location Data
We collect location data such as information about your device’s location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Products and Services. E.g., we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to this information or by disabling the Location setting on your device.
Cookies/Beacons
Cookies (small text files stored in a user's browser, referred to as “Cookies”), beacons (electronic images that allow us to count users who have accessed particular content and to access certain Cookies, referred to as “Beacons”), and tags through the Sites and through Cookies and other tracking technology to provide you with a personalized online experience.
Marketing Information
To enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers and services to you and to update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behavior), IP addresses, social media profiles, social media URLs and custom profiles, for purposes of targeted advertising and event promotion.
Except for certain information that is required by law, your decision to provide Personal Data to us is voluntary. Therefore, you may decline to provide us with your Personal Data. Note, however, that if you opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of our Products and Services.
Personal Data may be collected from you either directly or indirectly when you: (a) order our Products using a Site, (b) use our Products from a Site, (c) access our Services, (c) participate in surveys or submit reviews, (d) submit our online forms or communicate with us on email, (e) upload or post any comments/content to our Sites, on social media, or blogs, (f) interact with us on social media, or (g) sign up for our mailing lists or text messages, register for events we host or sponsor, submit information as part of certain online services, or otherwise provide us information through the Sites.
We may use the Personal Data we collect and receive where one (1) or more of the following justifications exist:
Consent
To obtain your documented consent to our processing of your Personal Data.
Managing Our Relationship with You
To fulfill your request for Product orders, support or Services under an existing or potential contract with you; to facilitate your conducting business with us; or to perform a transaction with you. Where a transaction involves our suppliers or strategic alliances, this may include sharing information with other parts of Hypori, Hypori’s business partners or alliances, clients, financial institutions and postal or government authorities involved in fulfillment (subject to confidentiality obligations that may exist).
Requests
To provide information or Services requested by you.
Business Management/ Operations
To ensure the proper functioning of our business operations and administration of our general business, accounting, record-keeping and legal functions.
Monitoring Your Use of Our Systems
To monitor user activities on our systems to ensure users are complying with applicable laws and regulations and aren’t performing activities that would negatively affect our reputation.
Social Media Environment
To enable online sharing and collaboration among members who have registered to use them; to protect our assets and the assets of our clients; to protect our brand on social media; to understand sentiment, intent, mood and market trends and our stakeholders’ needs to improve our Products and Services through key-word searches, conversation stream monitoring and analysis; and to gain insights in conversation trends over a specified period, but not to identifying an individual.
Protecting or Improving the Security and Functioning of Our Sites, Networks, and Information
To ensure that you receive an excellent user experience and/or to maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Sites (e.g., fraud monitoring and prevention), Products, Services, information, tools, systems, databases and other technology assets and business.
Audit the Downloading of Information from Our Sites
To get to know our Site visitors’ preferences and improve services accordingly.
Analytics and Improving Our Sites
To better understand how you access and use our Sites, Products and Services, and for analytical purposes to evaluate our Products and Services; to ensure the proper functioning our business operations; to improve our Products, Services, and business operations; to develop services and features; and to provide a better user experience.
Anonymous Information
To assess, improve and develop our business, Products and Services, and for research and analytics purposes.
Historical, Statistical or Research and Development
To analyze Personal Data to better understand historical or statistical trends subject to appropriate data protection safeguards.
Online Account Registration or Administration
To administer online accounts as part of a contract; to enable account features; to customize your view of our Sites or to personalize information you receive from us; to register you for a service or program; and to send you Product, Service and new feature information or information about changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
Targeted Advertising
To develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with 3rd parties to do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
Marketing Communications
To keep you informed about our Products, Services, updates, offers, events, programs, products, tools, and solutions by post, email, SMS, phone and fax; to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence and, where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting us at privacy@hypori.com.
Event, Conference or Similar Communications
To facilitate your participation in a private or public forum, event or conference.
Contest or Prize Administration
To fulfill your participation in prize promotions, contests and other promotional offers that we may administrate.
Content Creation/Production Activities
To use your Personal Data for video, TV, film, marketing, advertising or other related content creation, production and distribution activities where you are involved based on prior consent and releases.
Recruitment
To ensure that we recruit appropriate employees, send relevant information about careers and opportunities, and to analyze the effectiveness of our recruitment efforts and resources in connection with a job application or inquiry.
Managing Our Employment Relationship with You
To assess performance or to terminate an employment contract to which our employees are a party.
Protection of Vital Interests
To prevent or act regarding Policy violation, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, and illegal activities.
Complying with Legal Obligations
To comply or fulfill our legal proceedings, employment, labor, tax or similar legal requirements.
Law Enforcement Requests and Harm Prevention
To comply with a law, regulation, legal process, court order or by any rule of law or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the rights of those who use our Sites, Products and Services; to prevent or detect crime; to apprehend or prosecute offenders. Nothing in this Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party, including a governmental request, to disclose your Personal Data.
Protection of Legal Rights and Prevention of Misuse
To protect our Sites and business operations; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; where we believe necessary to investigate, to prevent or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party; or to violations of this Policy.
Affiliates and Change of Ownership
To facilitate mergers, acquisitions, reorganization, sale of assets or similar functions.
Testimonials
To post testimonials that may contain Personal Data. Prior to posting any testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and content of the testimonial. Should you wish to update or delete a testimonial, please contact us at privacy@hypori.com.
User-to-User Communications
To enable user-to-user communications with each user’s consent.
Requesting Feedback
To obtain feedback and to contact you about the use of our Products and Services.
User Inquiries
To respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Products or Services.
We will process your Personal Data for the above-mentioned purposes based on your prior consent, to the extent such consent is mandatory under applicable laws.
If you are asked to click on / check “I accept,” “I agree” or similar buttons / checkboxes / functionalities, we will consider this step as providing your consent for us to process your Personal Data, only in the countries where such consent is required by regulations. In all other countries, such actions will be considered as mere acknowledgement.
We will not collect Personal Data for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice or, as applicable, obtaining your consent, unless it is in your own or another person’s vital interest (e.g. medical emergency) to do so.
We will not intentionally disclose (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your Personal Data to any third parties for their own direct marketing use. We may use your Personal Data for our business purposes, e.g. internal research, technical development and demonstration. This is not considered “selling” of your Personal Data. Hypori has never disclosed or sold any Personal Data to third parties for a business or commercial purpose, and Hypori will not sell Personal Data in the future belonging to Site visitors, users and other consumers.
For clarity purposes, we do not share any of your data for marketing purposes; it is only used in furtherance of performing our work internally and for no other purpose.
To ensure that your Personal Data is processed, used, stored, and transferred securely and, in connection with EU law, we may use third parties that provide sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data.
(a) Generally. Personal Data collected during our activities and on our Sites may be shared with the below listed parties:
(i) Our affiliates, clients, and strategic alliances on a need-to-know and authorized basis.
(ii) Third Parties. Third parties, such as vendors, suppliers, and partners. We may share some of your Personal Data with these third parties so they can provide their services, but we don’t allow them to share or use any of your Personal Data for any other purpose.
Please note, the terms and privacy policies of the third parties we use may apply to you as well, in particular: Google Analytics, Pardot and Visual Visitor. Your acceptance of applicable third-party terms is required to access our Sites, Products and Services. We strongly recommend that you read their privacy policies and terms and conditions of use to understand how they collect, use, and share information. Their standards may differ from ours. We do not endorse such third parties unless expressly stated otherwise.
DISCLAIMER: This overview of third parties is a snapshot. We strive to keep this list as up to date as reasonably possible. However, it is possible that not all current third-party providers are listed.
(iii) Purchasers. Prospective / actual purchasers of, or sellers to, Hypori on a need-to-know basis in the event of a sale, merger, joint venture, reorganization, assignment or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.
(iv) Government Agencies. With government agencies pursuant to a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
(v) Account Holder. Hypori may share your information with the account holder or other users associated with your account. For example, an employer or task leader may have access to certain information about your use of the Hypori Products.
(vi) Additional Users. When you add additional users to your account, we send them an invitation to join our site and request such users to provide us with certain additional contact information including such users’ email addresses. When you use such a service, you represent and warrant to us that you have an existing business or personal relationship with such additional user sufficient to avoid liability under any law that applies to unsolicited email. You will be deemed to be the sender of any such email (or other electronic communication) and we will be deemed to merely be a service provider facilitating your sending of the email (or other electronic communication).
Hypori does not accept credit card payments.
We retain Personal Data for as long as we reasonably consider it to be necessary for the purposes for which it was collected (unless a longer retention period is required by law), after which time we will securely delete or anonymize the information. You can also request deletion of your Personal Data by contacting privacy@hypori.com.
Some of our disclosures may involve the transfer of Personal Data to countries or regions where the local law may grant you fewer rights than you have in your own country. We have designed this Policy to provide a globally consistent level of protection for Personal Data all over the world. This means that before we transfer Personal Data to those areas, if ever, we will take the necessary steps to ensure that your Personal Data will be given adequate protection as required by applicable data protection.
Yes, you can opt out of direct marketing or promotional emails.
We may send periodic promotional emails to you, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent to do so. You may opt out of such communications at any time by following the opt-out instructions contained in any email, by emailing privacy@hypori.com or by postal mail using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy. If you opt out of receiving emails containing information that we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any Products or Services you have requested or received from us.
In terms of any text messages you may receive from us, to opt out, you may reply STOP to cancel at any time.
Yes, we may use Cookies, Beacons and other technologies on our Sites to collect Personal Data, to remember your settings and for authentication purposes.
(a) Cookies. We may use Cookies to better display our Sites, to save you time, to provide better technical support, and to anonymously track Site, Product and Service usage. For example, Cookies help us to: (a) keep track of whether you are signed in or have previously signed in; (b) remember your settings on the pages you visit; (c) display personalized content and targeted advertisements on our Sites as well as on other websites and services; (d) perform analytics, and measure traffic and usage trends, and better understand the demographics of our users; (e) diagnose and fix technology problems; and (f) otherwise enhance, our Sites.
Most or all browsers permit you to disable or reject certain Cookies (which will prevent certain tracking). However, if you set the browser you use to reject Cookies or otherwise disable them, you may not be able to use any or all the functionality at one or more of the Sites or Products or it may take additional time to utilize such functionality. If you wish to use any such functionality that requires the use of Cookies at any of our Sites, then you must accept the use of Cookies for that Site, and thereby, give us your permission to link your data.
(b) Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags and Other Technologies. We may use Beacons, web bugs or pixel tags in connection with our Products, Services and Sites to, among other things, track the activities of users of our Products and Services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Products and Services. We and our third-party service providers may also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, to identify when our emails are viewed, and to track whether our emails are forwarded.
(c) Log Files. Most browsers collect certain information, such as your IP address, device type, screen resolution, operating system version, and Internet browser type and version. This information is gathered automatically and stored in log files.
(d) Third-Party Analytics. We may use automated devices and applications to evaluate the use of our Sites, Products and Services. We may use these tools to gather non-Personal Data about users to help us improve our services and user experiences. These analytics providers may use Cookies and other technologies to perform their services and may combine the information they collect about you on our Sites with other information they have collected for their own purposes. This Policy does not cover such uses of data by third parties.
(e) Do-not-track signals. You may disable any tracking on our Sites (e.g., by disabling Cookies).
Our Sites, Products and Services may contain links to other websites run by third parties for your convenience and informational purposes only.
Our provision of third-party links do not amount to our endorsement of these other websites, nor their content, owners, or practices. We do not control or assume responsibility for the content, accuracy or practices of these other websites or third parties. The inclusion of third-party links does not suggest that the opinions expressed on the third-party site are representative of the views or opinions of Hypori. This Policy does not apply to those other websites, which are governed by their own terms and policies.
We intend to maintain Personal Data accuracy, completeness, current status, and security. In the event of changes in your Personal Data, you may inform us at privacy@hypori.com to make sure that our information is up to date. Hypori users may view and access their profile and make changes to the Personal Data stored on the CORAS/Plasticity Sites, Products and Services. Please note that Hypori users cannot opt out of receiving Product and transactional emails related to their Hypori account.
We will not accommodate a request to change your Personal Data if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. In such instances, we will inform the user about the legal obligations that prevent us from fulfilling the request.
We will maintain an audit history of any requests to access, correct or delete Personal Data to maintain a record of compliance with regulatory requirements.
We implement commercially reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your Personal Data and prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, unauthorized interception, or information alteration. For example, Hypori takes appropriate measures to make sure that the Personal Data you provide is stored on computer servers in controlled, secure environments.
All of our partners, employees, consultants, workers and data processors (i.e., those who process your Personal Data on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of Personal Data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of such Personal Data.
We have implemented strong technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of Personal Data that we process, e.g., use of firewalls with intrusion detection, 24/7 monitoring, physical security through our hosting providers, encryption via SSL when using our SSL-based services, payment processing providers, and processing and authentication standards for password and username.
Your choice to disclose Personal Data in an email submission or online form is voluntary. Despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your Personal Data, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized 3rd parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal or modify your information. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, transmission of Personal Data to and from our Sites, Products and Services is at your own risk. You should only access our Sites, Products and Services from a secure environment.
Hypori is committed to protecting children's privacy online. Our Sites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 13 in the U.S and 16 in California or in the EEA. We will not knowingly or intentionally collect, store, use, or share, Personal Data of children under the age of 13 in the U.S and 16 in California or in the EEA without prior documented parental or guardian consent.
If you are under the age of 13 in the U.S and 16 in California or EEA, please do not provide any Personal Data, even if prompted by the Sites to do so. If you are under the age of 13 in the U.S and 16 in California or EEA and you believe you have provided Personal Data to us, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify us and we will delete all such Personal Data.
If we become aware that we have inadvertently received Personal Data from a user under the age of 13 in the U.S, 16 in California or in the EEA, we will delete that data from our records.
Yes, if you are a CA resident, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your Personal Data.
CA Civil Code Section 1798.83, also “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are CA residents to request and obtain from us, once a year, free of charge, information about categories of Personal Data (if any) that we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Data in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a CA resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to us in writing at privacy@hypori.com.
If you are under 18, reside in CA, and have a registered account with a Product or Service, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Products or Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us at privacy@hypori.com and include a statement that you reside in CA. We will make sure that the data is not publicly displayed on the Products and Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (backups, etc.).