PRIVACY POLICY
We, IBYTECODE TECHNOLOGIES, respect your need for online privacy and protect any Personal Information that you may share with us, in an appropriate manner. Our practice as regards use of your Personal Information is as set forth below in this Privacy Policy Statement. As a condition to use of Services provided by iByteCode Technologies, you consent to the terms of the Privacy Policy Statement as it may be updated from time to time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically. This Privacy Policy Statement applies exclusively to www.ibytecode.com and www.ibcapps.com (including their sub-domains). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Service.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION
iByteCode does not knowingly collect Personal Information from users who are under 13 years of age.
INFORMATION RECORDED AND USE:
Personal Information
During the Registration Process for creating a user account, we request for your name, email address and contact information. You will also be asked to choose a unique username and a password, which will be used solely for the purpose of providing access to your user account. Your name and email address will be used to inform you regarding new services, releases, upcoming events and changes in this Privacy Policy Statement. When you elect to sign up for a user account, you also have the option to create the user account using any of the trusted third party user authentication services integrated with iByteCode Services. In doing so, no Personal Information within your third party email accounts is transferred to your user account without your explicit consent.
iByteCode will have access to third party personal information provided by you as part of using iByteCode Services. This information may include third party names, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses and will be used for servicing your requirements as expressed by you to iByteCode and solely as part and parcel of your use of iByteCode Services. We do not share this third party personal information with anyone for promotional purposes, nor do we utilize it for any purposes not expressly consented to by you. When you elect to refer friends to the website, we request their email address and name to facilitate the request and deliver this one time email.
We post user testimonials on the website. These testimonials may include names and we acquire permission from our users prior to posting these on the website. iByteCode is not responsible for the Personal Information users elect to post within their testimonials.
Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used
Usage Details
We in order to enhance your experience of the iByteCode services will record your usage details such as time, frequency, duration and pattern of use, and the amount of storage used to help us provide you the best possible service.
Contents of your User Account
We store and maintain files, emails and other data stored in your user account at Amazon AWS. In order to prevent loss of data due to errors or system failures, we also keep backup copies of data including the contents of your user account. Hence your files and data may remain on our servers even after deletion or termination of your user account. We assure you that the contents of your user account will not be disclosed to anyone and will not be accessible even to employees of iByteCode except in circumstances specifically mentioned in this Privacy Policy Statement and Terms of Use. We also do not process the contents of your user account for serving targeted advertisements.
Payment Information
In case of services requiring payment, we request credit card or other payment account information, which will be used solely for processing payments. We will not store your payment information except for the name and address of the cardholder. Subject to your prior consent and where necessary for processing future payments, your financial information will be stored in encrypted form on secure servers of our reputed Payment Gateway Service Provider who is beholden to treating your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy Statement.
Visitor Details
We use the Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referring URL, files accessed, errors generated, time zone, operating system and other visitor details collected in our log files to analyze the trends, administer the website, track visitor’s movements and to improve our website.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use temporary and permanent cookies to enhance your experience of our iByteCode Services. Temporary cookies will be removed from your computer each time you close your browser. By selecting ‘keep me signed-in’ option in iByteCode Services, a permanent cookie will be stored in your computer and you will not be required to sign-in by providing complete login information each time you return to our website. If you have turned cookies off, you may not be able to use registered areas of the website. We tie cookie information to your email address when you elect to remain logged in so as to maintain and recall your preferences within the website.
Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by iByteCode Technologies or our service providers [such as analytics service providers] in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content information such as login tokens and preferences.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our websites may contain links to other sites that are not controlled in any way by us. Please be aware of this when you click on any such links; we are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any website other than our own. Consequently, we strongly suggest that you review the privacy policy of every website you visit, whether or not they are linked to by our own site.
FEDERATED AUTHENTICATION
You can log in to our site using federated authentication providers such as Facebook Connect. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain Personal Information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form.
WITH WHOM WE SHARE INFORMATION
We may need to disclose Personal Information to our affiliates, service providers and business partners solely for the purpose of providing iByteCode Services to you. In such cases iByteCode will also ensure that such affiliates, service providers and business partners comply with this Privacy Policy Statement and adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We will obtain your prior specific consent before we share or disclose your Personal Information to any person outside iByteCode for any purpose that is not directly connected with providing iByteCode Services to you. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any Personal Information regarding visitors and users with our business partners. Please be aware that laws in various jurisdictions in which we operate may obligate us to disclose user information and the contents of your user account to the local law enforcement authorities under a legal process or an enforceable government request. In addition, we may also disclose Personal Information and contents of your user account to law enforcement authorities if such disclosure is determined to be necessary by iByteCode in our sole and absolute discretion for protecting the safety of our users, employees, or the general public.
HOW SECURE IS YOUR INFORMATION
We adopt industry appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information, username, password, transaction information and data stored in your user account. Access to your name and email address is restricted to our employees who need to know such information in connection with providing iByteCode Services to you and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
In the event we decide to use your Personal Information for any purpose other than as stated in this Privacy Policy Statement, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of your Personal Information for those other purposes. From time to time, we may send emails to you regarding new services, releases and upcoming events. You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other secondary messages from iByteCode by selecting the ‘unsubscribe’ function present in every email we send. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.
ACCESS TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer wish us to possess your information, you may request correction, updating, or deletion of your information by emailing us.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy. If we make any substantial changes to this privacy policy and the way in which we use your personal data we will post these changes on this page and will do our best to notify you of any significant changes. Please check our privacy policy on a regular basis.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our website.
END OF PRIVACY POLICY
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy Statement, please contact us at contact@ibytecode.com. We shall respond to all inquiries within 30 days of receipt upon ascertaining your identity.