What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.
When registering, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, register using a ‘Login with Microsoft’ link. Your identity and e-mail address will be verified by Microsoft, and we will know that you control the e-mail address.
When registered and posting, we record the IP address that the post originated from. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience — your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
- To improve our site — we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
- To improve customer service — your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
- To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
What is your data retention policy?
We will make a good faith effort to:
- Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server no more than 31 days.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Additional disclosures for data subjects in the EEA, the U.K. and Switzerland
Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom and Switzerland may have additional rights under local law.
Acting as a Data Controller
We collect your information as a data controller when we have a legal basis to do so. The
following legal bases pertain to our collection of data:
- Our use of your personal information is in our legitimate interest as a commercial
organization (for example in order to make improvements to our products and services and to
provide you with information you request); you have a right to object to processing as
explained in the section below entitled Your Legal Rights; - Our use of your personal information is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to
enter into a contract with you (for example, to facilitate your participation a trial class
that you have requested, where we use your personal information to respond to your customer
service requests, to provide our services through our Websites; and/or - Our use of your personal information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or
regulatory obligation that we have (for example, where we are required to disclose personal
information to a court or tax authority). - Our use of your personal information is in accordance with your consent (for example, when
you consent to sharing your personal information with another party for their own
marketing).
Retention of Your Personal Information
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services to you, to
fulfill the purposes described in this Policy and/or our business purposes, or as required by
law, regulation, or internal policy.
Your Legal Rights
Subject to certain exemptions, and in some cases dependent upon the processing activity we are
undertaking, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
Right to access, correct, and delete your personal information
You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you and:
- the source of your personal information;
- the purposes, legal basis and methods of processing;
- the data controller’s identity; and
- the entities or categories of entities to whom your personal information may be
transferred.
You also have the right to request that we delete your information.
We are not required to comply with your request to erase personal information if the processing
of your personal information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or for the
establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Right to restrict the processing of your personal information
You have the right to restrict the use of your personal information when:
- you contest the accuracy of the data;
- the use is unlawful but you do not want us to erase the data;
- we no longer need the personal information for the relevant purposes, but we require it for
the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or - you have objected to our personal information use where such use is justified on our
legitimate interests and we must verify as to whether we have a compelling interest to
continue to use your data.
We can continue to use your personal information following a request for restriction, where:
- we have your consent; or
- to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
- to protect the rights of another natural or legal person.
Right to data portability
To the extent that we process your information (i) based on your consent or under a contract; and
(ii) through automated means, you have the right to receive such personal information in a
structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or you can ask to have it transferred
directly to another data controller.
Right to object to the processing of your personal information
You can object to any processing of your personal information which has our legitimate interests
as its legal basis, if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate
interests. If you raise an objection, we have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have
compelling legitimate interests which override your rights and freedoms.
Right to obtain a copy of personal information safeguards used for transfers outside your
jurisdiction
You can ask to obtain a copy of, or reference to, the safeguards under which your personal
information is transferred outside of the UK/EEA.
Right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority
You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority if you have concerns
about how we are processing your personal information. We ask that you please attempt to resolve
any issues with us first, although you have a right to contact your supervisory authority at any
time.
How to Exercise Your Rights
If you would like to exercise any of the rights described above, please send us a request at
privacy@panoramicdata.com. In your message, please
indicate the right you would like to exercise and the information that you would like to access,
review, correct, or delete.
We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes
before disclosing the personal information requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a
fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
We may not always be able to fully address your request, for example if it would affect the duty
of confidentiality we owe to others or if we are legally entitled to deal with the request in a
different way.
This document is CC-BY-SA. It was last updated 2024-04-21.