1. Please read carefully

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DataImpacX.com cares about the privacy of its visitors and users. To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how DataImpacX.com LLC., together with its affiliated companies worldwide (“Data ImpacX”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), collect, use, and share your Personal Information ("PI"), as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to all DataImpacX users, including unregistered visitors and registered users (collectively, “Users”, “you”, or “your”), and to all Data ImpacX services, including our websites (including www.dataimpacx.com and any of its subdomains, the “Website”), web applications (“DataImpacX Apps”), mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.

 

Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information.  If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us at joan.fitzgerald@dataimpacx.com.

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2. What ‘Personal Information’ do we collect?

 

2.1. User information:

To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:

1. Information you provide us. When you register for our Services, sign up for any Data ImpacX events, subscribe to our blog(s) or newsletter(s), purchase and/or register domain names, use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., Data ImpacX’s support tickets, emails), you may provide us Personal Information, such as name, email address, phone number, payment information (for Users with Paid Services), information you include in your communications with us and with other users on our platform, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as an ID card, driver’s license, passport, or official company registration documents).

2. Information we collect when you use the Services. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc

3. Information we collect from other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources, such as i) security providers , fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we may collect Personal Information from lead enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering; iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.

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2.2. Data ImpacX jobs applicant information

We also collect information that is provided to us by Data ImpacX jobs candidates (“Applicants”), when they apply to any of the open positions published online, by e-mail or otherwise.

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3. Why do we collect such ‘Personal Information’

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We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

2. To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

3. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

4. To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 8 below);

5. To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new customers;

6. To facilitate, sponsor, and offer certain contests, events, and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners, and grant prizes and benefits;

7. To analyze our performance and marketing activities;

8. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;

9. To provide you with professional assistance.

10. To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and

11. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations. 

 

We may use techniques like “machine learning” (European law refers to this as “automated decision-making”) to help us improve our services. When we use machine learning, we either: (i) still have a human being involved in the process (and so are not fully automated); or (ii) use machine learning in ways that don’t have significant privacy implications. We may also use machine learning to help us monitor and identify spam or other abusive or fraudulent activity.

 

We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 3 where:

1. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with services, to provide you with our customer assistance and technical support);

2. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or

3. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to maintain and improve our Services and the effectiveness of Data ImpacX by identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.

 

We also collect and use Personal Information in order to contact Users and to comply with the laws applicable to us.

 

4. How we share your ‘Personal Information’

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We may share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:

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4.1. Third Party Service Providers: 

Data ImpacX has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These may include hosting and server co-location services, website and app hosting services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service Provider(s)”).

In case that Data ImpacX shares personal data with a Third Party Service Provider that provides AI services, Data ImpacX will ensure that the Third Party Service Provider is under a contractual obligation not to use the data in order to train or improve its AI models.

The Personal Information may be shared solely in accordance with this policy.

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4.2. Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties:

Data ImpacX may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

 

4.3. Protecting Rights and Safety:

Data ImpacX may share any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Data ImpacX, any of our Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

 

4.4. Data ImpacX Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies:

We may share your Personal Information internally within our family of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Sharing Personal Information by Data ImpacX subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland with Data ImpacX’s subsidiaries located outside these regions will only take place under an approved transfer mechanism, such as the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses.

 

4.5. In connection with a change in corporate control:

In addition, should Data ImpacX or any of its affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event.

 

5. Where do we Store/Process your ‘Personal Information’?

 

5.1. Data Transfers:

Data ImpacX processes data about individuals across the world and may transfer your Personal Information outside of your country. Your security, privacy and confidentiality are our priority and that's why Data ImpacX conducts a vetting process that includes an assessment of the privacy laws in those countries to validate they have strong data protection laws.

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Data ImpacX may share personal information with third parties under certain circumstances including with third parties acting as agents who help us run our business and provide services. Data ImpacX remains responsible should a third party acting as our agent process personal information subject to this Policy in a manner inconsistent with this Policy, except where Data ImpacX is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

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Data ImpacX.com commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information.  E.U., UK and Swiss individuals with inquiries or questions regarding our Privacy Policy should first contact us at: joan.fitzgerald@dataimpacx.com.  If you have an unresolved complaint, under the recourse mechanism you may contact the applicable state representatives or attorney's general in the U.S. or EU Data Protection Authorities. Data ImpacX commits to cooperate with and comply with the advice given by such authorities.

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If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, you may - under certain conditions - invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.