Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how the personally identifiable information ‎‎("Personal Information") you may provide on the indietech.ai website ("Website" ‎or "Service") and any of its related products and services (collectively, "Services") is ‎collected, protected and used. It also describes the choices available to you ‎regarding our use of your Personal Information and how you can access and update ‎this information. This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you ("User", ‎‎"you" or "your") and Indie Tech Ltd. ("Indie Tech Ltd.", "we", "us" or "our"). By ‎accessing and using the Website and Services, you acknowledge that you have ‎read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy. This Policy ‎does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to ‎individuals that we do not employ or manage.‎

Automatic collection of information

When you open the Website, our servers automatically record information that ‎your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device's IP ‎address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language ‎preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to the Website and ‎Services, pages of the Website and Services that you visit, the time spent on those ‎pages, information you search for on the Website, access times and dates, and ‎other statistics.‎

Information collected automatically is used only to identify potential cases of ‎abuse and establish statistical information regarding the usage and traffic of the ‎Website and Services. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in ‎such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.‎

Collection of personal information

You can access and use the Website and Services without telling us who you are or ‎revealing any information by which someone could identify you as a specific, ‎identifiable individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the features on the ‎Website, you may be asked to provide certain Personal Information (for example, ‎your name and e-mail address). We receive and store any information you ‎knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, make a ‎purchase, or fill any online forms on the Website. When required, this information ‎may include the following:‎

  • Personal details such as name, country of residence, etc.‎
  • Contact information such as email address, address, etc.‎
  • Account details such as user name, unique user ID, password, etc.‎
  • Proof of identity such as photocopy of a government ID.‎
  • Payment information such as credit card details, bank details, etc.‎
  • Geolocation data such as latitude and longitude.‎
  • Information about resume, job history, incorporation information, and business details such as contract information and rates`.‎
  • Any other materials you willingly submit to us such as articles, images, feedback, etc.‎

Some of the information we collect is directly from you via the Website and ‎Services. However, we may also collect Personal Information about you from other ‎sources such as public databases, social media platforms, third-party data providers, ‎and our joint marketing partners. Personal Information we collect from other ‎sources may include demographic information, such as age and gender, device ‎information, such as IP addresses, location, such as city and state, and online ‎behavioral data, such as information about your use of social media websites, page ‎view information and search results and links. You can choose not to provide us ‎with your Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of ‎some of the features on the Website. Users who are uncertain about what ‎information is mandatory are welcome to contact us (see contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy).‎

Use and processing of collected information

In order to make the Website and Services available to you, or to meet a legal ‎obligation, we may need to collect and use certain Personal Information. If you do ‎not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you ‎with the requested products or services. Any of the information we collect from ‎you may be used for the following purposes:‎

  • Create and manage user accounts
  • Fulfill and manage orders
  • Deliver products or services
  • Improve products and services
  • Send administrative information
  • Send marketing and promotional communications
  • Respond to inquiries and offer support
  • Request user feedback
  • Improve user experience
  • Post customer testimonials
  • Deliver targeted advertising
  • Administer prize draws and competitions
  • Enforce terms and conditions and policies
  • Protect from abuse and malicious users
  • Respond to legal requests and prevent harm
  • Run and operate the Website and Services

Processing your Personal Information depends on how you interact with the ‎Website and Services, where you are located in the world and if one of the ‎following applies: (i) you have given your consent for one or more specific ‎purposes; this, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal ‎Information is subject to California Consumer Privacy Act or European data ‎protection law; (ii) provision of information is necessary for the performance of an ‎agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof; (iii) ‎processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which you are ‎subject; (iv) processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest ‎or in the exercise of official authority vested in us; (v) processing is necessary for ‎the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.‎

Note that under some legislation we may be allowed to process information until ‎you object to such processing (by opting out), without having to rely on consent or ‎any other of the following legal bases below. In any case, we will be happy to ‎clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular ‎whether the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual ‎requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.‎

Billing and payments

We use third party payment processors to assist us in processing your payment ‎information securely. Such third party processors' use of your Personal Information ‎is governed by their respective privacy policies which may or may not contain ‎privacy protections as protective as this Policy. We suggest that you review their ‎respective privacy policies.‎

Managing information

You are able to correct certain Personal Information we have about you. The ‎Personal Information you can correct may change as the Website and Services ‎change.

Disclosure of information

Depending on the requested Services or as necessary to complete any transaction ‎or provide any service you have requested, we may share your information with ‎your consent with our trusted third parties that work with us, any other affiliates ‎and subsidiaries we rely upon to assist in the operation of the Website and Services ‎available to you. We do not share Personal Information with unaffiliated third ‎parties. These service providers are not authorized to use or disclose your ‎information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with ‎legal requirements. We may share your Personal Information for these purposes ‎only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree ‎to abide by our policies with respect to Personal Information. These third parties ‎are given Personal Information they need only in order to perform their designated ‎functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose Personal Information ‎for their own marketing or other purposes.‎

We will disclose any Personal Information we collect, use or receive if required or ‎permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, and ‎when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, ‎protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a ‎government request.‎

In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition ‎by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account, and ‎Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred.‎

Current Third-Parties Indie Tech Uses

The following are a list of providers that Indie Tech uses to carry out requested services that have access to some or all of your information when you are interacting with Indie Tech.

  • Microsoft Corporation, login, authentication and Indie Tech servers
  • Docusign, Inc, contract management system
  • Stripe, Inc., payment processing
  • Affinda, resume parsing

Retention of information

We will retain and use your Personal Information for the period necessary to ‎comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements ‎unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may use any ‎aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you ‎update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. Once ‎the retention period expires, Personal Information shall be deleted. Therefore, the ‎right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data ‎portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.‎

Transfer of information

Depending on your location, data transfers may involve transferring and storing ‎your information in a country other than your own. Your Personal Information will be accessible to law enforcement and/or regulatory authorities according to the applicable laws of such other jurisdictions.

You are entitled to learn about ‎the legal basis of information transfers to a country outside the European Union or ‎to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by ‎two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by ‎us to safeguard your information. If any such transfer takes place, you can find out ‎more by checking the relevant sections of this Policy or inquire with us using the ‎information provided in the contact section.‎

The rights of users

You may exercise certain rights regarding your information processed by us. In ‎particular, you have the right to do the following: (i) you have the right to ‎withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing ‎of your information; (ii) you have the right to object to the processing of your ‎information if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent; (iii) ‎you have the right to learn if information is being processed by us, obtain ‎disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the ‎information undergoing processing; (iv) you have the right to verify the accuracy ‎of your information and ask for it to be updated or corrected; (v) you have the ‎right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your information, ‎in which case, we will not process your information for any purpose other than ‎storing it; (vi) you have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the ‎erasure of your Personal Information from us; (vii) you have the right to receive ‎your information in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format ‎and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any ‎hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that your information is processed ‎by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a ‎contract which you are part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.‎

If you wish to exercise any user data rights, please contact us (see contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy).‎

The right to object to processing

Where Personal Information is processed for the public interest, in the exercise of ‎an official authority vested in us or for the purposes of the legitimate interests ‎pursued by us, you may object to such processing by providing a ground related to ‎your particular situation to justify the objection.‎

Data protection rights under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data ‎protection rights and Indie Tech Ltd. aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to ‎correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. If you wish ‎to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to ‎be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you ‎have the following data protection rights:‎

  • You have the right to request access to your Personal Information that we store and have the ‎ability to access your Personal Information.‎
  • You have the right to request that we correct any Personal Information you believe is ‎inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the Personal Information ‎you believe is incomplete.‎
  • You have the right to request the erase your Personal Information under certain conditions of ‎this Policy.‎
  • You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information.‎
  • You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your Personal Information. When ‎you restrict the processing of your Personal Information, we may store it but will not ‎process it further.‎
  • You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a ‎structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.‎
  • You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Indie Tech Ltd. relied ‎on your consent to process your Personal Information.‎
  • You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our ‎collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, please ‎contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area ‎‎(EEA).‎

California privacy rights

In addition to the rights as explained in this Policy, California residents who ‎provide Personal Information (as defined in the statute) to obtain products or ‎services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain ‎from us, once a calendar year, information about the Personal Information we ‎shared, if any, with other businesses for marketing uses. If applicable, this ‎information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names ‎and addresses of those businesses with which we shared such personal information ‎for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in the current year will ‎receive information about the prior year). To obtain this information please contact ‎us.‎

Furthermore, California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their ‎Personal Information which may include selling, disclosing or transferring Personal ‎Information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable ‎consideration. To do so, simply contact us.‎

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to Indie Tech Ltd. through the ‎contact details provided in this document. Please note that we may ask you to ‎verify your identity before responding to such requests. Your request must provide ‎sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person you are ‎claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person. You ‎must include sufficient details to allow us to properly understand the request and ‎respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal ‎Information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request ‎and confirm that the Personal Information relates to you.‎

Privacy of children

We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the ‎age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal ‎Information through the Website and Services. We encourage parents and legal ‎guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy ‎by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the ‎Website and Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a ‎child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us through the ‎Website and Services, please contact us. You must also be at least 16 years of age ‎to consent to the processing of your Personal Information in your country (in some ‎countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).‎

Cookies

The Website and Services use "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. ‎A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. ‎Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. ‎Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the ‎domain that issued the cookie to you.‎

Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during the course of your visit to the ‎Website, and they expire when you close the web browser.‎

Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within our Website and remain on your ‎desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. They ensure ‎a consistent and efficient experience for you while visiting the Website and Services.‎

Cookies may be set by the Website ("first-party cookies"), or by third parties, such as those who ‎serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the Website ("third party cookies"). ‎These third parties can recognize you when you visit our website and also when you visit certain ‎other websites.

We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes ‎to operate the Website and Services. You have the ability to accept or decline ‎cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually ‎modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to ‎decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the ‎Website and Services.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and ‎navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us ‎recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the ‎content.‎

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and Services in accordance with the choices you ‎make. For example, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the ‎Website and Services during future visits.‎

Analytical cookies

These cookies enable us and third party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes ‎on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as ‎names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.‎

Social media cookies

Third party cookies from social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc) let us track social ‎network users when they visit or use the Website and Services, or share content, by using a ‎tagging mechanism provided by those social networks.‎

These cookies are also used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with ‎these tags will be used in accordance with our and social networks’ privacy policies. We will not ‎collect or share any personally identifiable information from the user.‎

Do Not Track signals

Some browsers incorporate a Do Not Track feature that signals to websites you ‎visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Tracking is not the ‎same as using or collecting information in connection with a website. For these ‎purposes, tracking refers to collecting personally identifiable information from ‎consumers who use or visit a website or online service as they move across ‎different websites over time. How browsers communicate the Do Not Track signal ‎is not yet uniform. As a result, the Website and Services are not yet set up to ‎interpret or respond to Do Not Track signals communicated by your browser. Even ‎so, as described in more detail throughout this Policy, we limit our use and ‎collection of your personal information.‎

Email marketing

We offer electronic newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any ‎time. We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential and will not ‎disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the ‎information use and processing section or for the purposes of utilizing a third party ‎provider to send such emails. We will maintain the information sent via e-mail in ‎accordance with applicable laws and regulations.‎

We will comply with applicable anti-spam law, such as the CAN-SPAM Act and CASL.All e-mails sent from us will clearly state ‎who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the ‎sender. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by ‎following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting ‎us. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.‎

Our emails may contain a "web beacon" (or "tracking pixel") to tell us whether our emails are ‎opened and verify any clicks through to links or advertisements within the email.‎ We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more ‎interesting to users and to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue ‎receiving them.‎ The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be ‎downloaded to your device, you should read the email in plain text view or with images ‎disabled.‎

Links to other resources

The Website and Services contain links to other resources that are not owned or ‎controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy ‎practices of such other resources or third parties. We encourage you to be aware ‎when you leave the Website and Services and to read the privacy statements of ‎each and every resource that may collect Personal Information.‎

Information security

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure ‎environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain ‎reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect ‎against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal ‎Information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the ‎Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to ‎protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and ‎privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, ‎integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you ‎and the Website and Services cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information ‎and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party, despite best ‎efforts.‎

Data breach

In the event we become aware that the security of the Website and Services has ‎been compromised or users Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated ‎third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security ‎attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, ‎including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to ‎and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, ‎we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that ‎there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is ‎otherwise required by law. When we do, we will post a notice on the Website, send ‎you an email.‎

Changes and amendments

We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms relating to the Website and ‎Services from time to time in our discretion and will notify you of any material ‎changes to the way in which we treat Personal Information. When we do, we will ‎revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to ‎you in other ways in our discretion, such as through contact information you have ‎provided. Any updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon ‎the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of ‎the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Policy (or such ‎other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes. ‎However, we will not, without your consent, use your Personal Information in a ‎manner materially different than what was stated at the time your Personal ‎Information was collected.‎

Acceptance of this policy

You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and ‎conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be ‎bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you ‎are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services.‎

Contacting us

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to ‎contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal ‎Information, you may send an email to security@indietech.ai.‎

This document was last updated on September 27th, 2023‎