- Effective Date: January 1, 2016
- Document Version: 1.0
- General Terms
- SensorHost values your privacy in your personal information and your data (or content) that you store in our service. This Privacy Policy explains what information SensorHost collects about you and why. We also want to be transparent on what we may do with that information and how we handle your content.
- The Scope of this Privacy Policy:
- This Privacy Policy is included into the SensorHost Terms of Service, and applies to the information obtained by us through your use of this website and the service. The terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings provided for those terms in the Terms of Service if not otherwise defined.
- This Privacy Policy can change in the future:
- According to SensorHost evolution, we may need to update this Policy and change in the terms of the service. We will always maintain our commitment to respect your privacy and comply with the laws applicable to us and to you.
- We will always publish any revision to this Policy, along with its effective date, in our website. We will ask for your consent to such changes if required by applicable law; in other cases, please note that your continuation of your SensorHost Service account after any change means that you agree with, and consent to be bound by, the new Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any changes in this Policy and do not wish your information to be subject to the revised Policy, you will need to close your account before the new Policy becomes effective.
- Personal Information Collection and Use
- What information SensorHost collects about you and why:
- We collect very little personal information about our users. Mainly we collect two types of information:
- Personal information to create and maintain your account.
- Information collected by Google Analytics while you navigate through our website, in order to help us improve our service.
- A detailed list of the "Personal Information" SensorHost may collect, and why we collect it:
- Your name, username, email address, physical or postal address, contact phone numbers and contact preferences. This lets us create and maintain your account, and deliver and support the Service. This information also helps us communicate with you about your use of the Service, product announcements and software updates, as well as answer to your assistance requests. In addition, we may use your Personal Information to send you marketing emails, When purchasing services or equipment from SensorHost the information and details on credit/debit cards will never be stored on our systems, they will only ever be stored by our fully PCI compliant payment processing partners. Any Content you add to your account. We don't use this information for any purpose other than to make sure it is available to you when you use the Service.
- Anonymous information about your navigation:
- As you navigate through SensorHost website, certain anonymous information will be passively collected, that is, gathered without your actively providing the information. This information might be collected using various technologies, such as cookies, Internet tags or web beacons, and navigational data collection (log files, server logs). Additional information is collected from your internet browser (such as the URL of the website you just came from and the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the browser version your computer or mobile device is currently using; the date and time you access the Website and the pages that you access while at the Website). All together, this information is used for internal marketing purposes and to analyze trends to help us SensorHost products, services and website.
- You may set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but most features of the SensorHost website will not work without cookies.
- We do NOT collect information about you to deliver any targeted advertising to you, or track your visits to any third-party website.
- Contact Emails and how to Opt Out:
- From time to time, we may want to contact you with information about product announcements, software updates and scheduled maintenance downtimes. We also may want to contact you with information about products and services from our business partners. You may opt out of such communications at any time by logging into your SensorHost account and change the settings of your Contact Preferences.
- Information Access and Disclosure
- About SensorHost sharing your Personal Information or Content:
- SensorHost is not in the business of selling or renting user information, and we only disclose information when:
- We have your explicit consent to share the information.
- We need to share your information with affiliated and unaffiliated service providers to fulfill your product or service requests.
- We believe it is necessary to investigate potential violations of our Terms of Service, to enforce those Terms of Service, or when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or potential threats against persons, property or the systems on which we operate the Service.
- We determine that the access or disclosure of information is required or permitted by law, to comply with applicable laws, including compliance with warrants, court orders or other legal process.
- We need to do so in connection with the sale or reorganization of all or part of our business, as permitted by applicable law.
- About SensorHost accessing your Personal Information or Content:
- As a rule, SensorHost, and its employees do not monitor or view your personal information or Content stored in the Service, but it may be viewed in the following cases:
- If we believe our Terms of Service have been violated and confirmation is required.
- If we need to do so in order to respond to your requests for user support, or we otherwise determine that we have an obligation to review it as described in our Terms of Service.
- Your Content also may be viewed where necessary to protect the rights, property or personal safety of SensorHost and its users, or in order to comply with our legal obligations, such as responding to warrants, court orders or other legal process.
- Data Ownership, Storage and Security
- Data ownership
- Your data belongs to you and you are free at any time to download an archive of it provided that you have not deleted the data using links or controls within our website, asked for deletion of the data, or that you have not cancelled your account and your account is in credit (for paid account types) on SensorHost.
- SensorHost stores all the data in Australia:
- When you use SensorHost service your information and content will be stored on our servers, which are currently located in Australia. By using SensorHost sites and services you are confirming your consent to such information, including Personal Information and Content, being hosted and accessed in Australia.
- Access or Correct information SensorHost holds about You
- Users who wish to (i) access any Personal Information that we hold about you; (ii) request that we correct or delete the Personal Information that we hold about you; or (iii) request that we not use or stop using your Personal Information for marketing purposes may do so by contacting us initially by email using the published email address at the bottom of most of our web pages. We will comply with such requests to the extent permitted or required by law.
- Security of your Data:
- SensorHost is committed to protecting the security of your information and takes reasonable precautions to protect it. However, Internet data transmissions, whether wired or wireless, cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and as a result, we cannot ensure the security of information you transmit to us or we transmit to you; accordingly, you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your data transmission, we make all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems:
- Your SensorHost password is uniquely and randomly salted and then protected by one-way encryption, and only you have access to it.
- Your personal information and data stored in our systems is protected by various physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. We regularly evaluate our technologies, facilities, procedures and potential risks to maintain the security and privacy of our users' data.
- Certain SensorHost services support the use of standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions. However, this is not a guarantee that such data transmissions cannot be accessed, altered or deleted due to firewall or other security software failures.
- If SensorHost learns of a security system breach, we may attempt to notify you and provide information on protective steps, if available, through the email address that you have provided to us or by posting a notice on our web site. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive such notices in writing.
- Information Deletion
- What Happens when you Stop Using SensorHost:
- you can stop using SensorHost at any time by cancelling your account. If you cancel your account, the Content in your account will not be deleted unless you purposely delete that information. If you cancel your account the information will no longer be accessible to you or others who may access the Service, but residual copies of your deleted Content may continue to exist on SensorHost's back-up and archiving systems for up to five years due to the nature of those systems' operations.
- What Happens when you delete Content Data you stored on SensorHost:
- You can delete Content you have posted to SensorHost at any time. If you delete content information it will no longer be accessible to you or others who may access the Service, but residual copies of your deleted Content may continue to exist on SensorHost's back-up and archiving systems for up to five years due to the nature of those systems' operations.
- SensorHost may Close Your Account:
- If SensorHost closes your account due to a Terms of Service violation, then you may contact SensorHost to request deletion of your data, and SensorHost will evaluate such requests on a case by case basis, pursuant to our legal obligations.
- Other websites:
- This website may contain links to other websites. SensorHost is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.
- Contacting Us
- How to Contact SensorHost:
- SensorHost welcomes your feedback regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have questions, comments or concerns about this Policy, please contact us by email using the address found at the bottom of most of our web pages.