This Privacy Policy describes how Carbyne Ltd. And its affiliates (collectively, “Carbyne,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions.
You can jump to particular topics by going to the headings below:
Information We Collect
How We Use Information
Sharing Of Information
Your Choices
How We Protect and Retain Information
Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
Third-Party Applications/Websites
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Contact Information
Additional Information For California Residents
Information We Collect
We collect information about you in a variety of ways depending on how you interact with us and our websites and services, including:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you register for an account, sign up to receive communications from us, purchase our services, or contact us by phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automatically through the use of cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies when you interact with our websites, applications, advertisements, and emails.
- From other sources, including, for example, our affiliates, business partners, service providers, and other third parties, or from publicly available sources. For example, if you submit a job application, or become an employee, we may conduct a background check.
| Context | Types of Data | Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data |
|---|---|---|
| Applicant Information | If you apply for a job posting, we collect information necessary to process your application and make a hiring decision. This may include, among other things, your email address, Social Security Number and work history. Providing this information is required for employment. | We have a legitimate interest in processing your application, meeting our legal obligations, and communicating with you regarding your application. |
| Cookies and First-Party Tracking | We use cookies and clear GIFs. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to a computer’s hard drive while a website is viewed. | We collect this information to analyze our website and ensure that it runs efficiently. Where required by law, we base the use of third-party cookies upon consent. |
| Cookies and Third-Party Tracking | We may place tracking technology on our website that collects analytics, records how you interact with our website, or allows us to participate in behavior-based advertising. This means that a third party uses technology (e.g., a cookie) to collect information about your use of our website so that they can report analytics to us or provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests. That third party might also collect information over time and across different websites in order to serve advertisements on our website or other websites. | In some instances we may base the use of third-party cookies on your consent. |
| Demographic Information | We collect personal information, such as your age or location. | We have a legitimate interest in understanding our users and providing tailored services. |
| Mailing List | When you sign up for one of our mailing lists we collect your email address or postal address. | We share information about our products and services with individuals that consent to receive such information. |
| Mobile Devices | We collect information from your mobile device such as location or other unique identifying information broadcast from your device when visiting our website | We collect this information to identify unique visitors, and understand how users interact with us on their mobile devices. |
| Public Health and Safety | In certain situations where a serious public health threat has been identified, we may collect information from employees, guests, and other individuals accessing our facilities. This may include medical and health information, such as body temperature, symptoms, and underlying health conditions. In some cases, we may also collect medical, health, and related information about an employee’s children, family member, or other individuals under the employee’s care. | We have a legitimate interest in protecting the health and safety of our employees and guests. In some jurisdictions we may be required by law, regulation, or governmental order to collect and retain information related to issues of public health and safety. We have a legitimate interest in complying with the laws in the jurisdictions in which we operate. |
| Surveys | When you participate in a survey, we collect information that you provide through the survey. If the survey is provided by a third party service provider, the third party’s privacy policy applies to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information. | We have a legitimate interest in understanding your opinions, and collecting information relevant to our organization. |
| Web logs | We collect information, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when the internet is used), domain name, click-activity, referring website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors. | We have a legitimate interest in monitoring our networks and the visitors to our websites. Among other things, it helps us understand which of our services is the most popular. |
| Website interactions | We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser. | We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you interact with our website to better improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests in order to select offerings that you might find most useful. We also have a legitimate interest in detecting and preventing fraud. |
| Account Registration | We collect your name and contact information when you create an account on our website or by using our products. We also collect information relating to the actions that you perform while logged into your account. | We have a legitimate interest in providing account related functionalities to our users. Accounts can be used for easy checkout and to save your preferences and transaction history and to provide the emergency call enhancement service. |
| Customer Employee’s Information | We collect the name, and contact information, of our customers and their employees with whom we may interact. | When we collect personal information on behalf of our customers, our customers determine the purpose for which we collect that information and how we are permitted to use it, including with whom we are permitted to share it. You should refer to our customer’s privacy notice to better understand the privacy practices that will apply to your data. |
| Distance Information | When you use one of our products we may collect your location from the GPS, Wi-Fi, and/or cellular technology in your device to determine your location and your distance from an emergency, emergency responder, law enforcement officer or other events or individual who may be relevant to the situation. | When we collect personal information on behalf of our customers, our customers determine the purpose for which we collect that information and how we are permitted to use it, including with whom we are permitted to share it. You should refer to our customer’s privacy notice to better understand the privacy practices that will apply to your data. |
| Feedback/Support | If you provide us feedback or contact us for support we will collect your name and email address, as well as any other content that you send to us, in order to reply. | We have a legitimate interest in receiving, and acting upon, your feedback or issues. |
| Mobile Devices | Some of our products may permit individuals to transmit information from their mobile devices, such as audio, video, or text. | When we collect personal information on behalf of our customers, our customers determine the purpose for which we collect that information and how we are permitted to use it, including with whom we are permitted to share it. You should refer to our customer’s privacy notice to better understand the privacy practices that will apply to your data. |
The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect as part of providing our products and services:
How We Use Information
In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways:
- To identify you when you visit our websites and analyze your use of our website and services.
- To provide and improve our products and services.
- To communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback.
- To send marketing and promotional materials including information relating to our products, services, sales, or promotions, or those of our business partners.
- To detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violation of our policies and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
- To debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website and services.
- To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim.
For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time).
Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose. For example, if you or your employer engages us to provide our services, we may collect your information to perform our contract with you or your employer, but we also collect your information as we have a legitimate interest in maintaining your information so that we can help our customers meet their data retention requirements and for other legally required reasons and to quickly and easily respond to questions about your order.
To the extent we maintain and use personal information in a deidentified form, we will not attempt to reidentify the information, except for the purpose of determining whether our deidentification processes satisfy our legal obligations.
Affiliates and Acquisitions. We may share information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control). If another company acquires, or plans to acquire, our company, business, or our assets, we will also share information with that company, including at the negotiation stage. Where required by law, we implement measures to ensure that our affiliates provide adequate protection of personal information and comply with their responsibilities under applicable law.
Other Disclosures without Your Consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of our product platform, person or property, or a violation of our policies. We may also share information without your consent in the event of an emergency where the health and safety of an individual or the general public may be at risk.
Service Providers. We share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers help us to administer our website, conduct surveys, provide technical support, process payments, and assist in the fulfillment of the services. Where required by law, we endeavor to ensure that these service providers are subject to contractual obligations to provide adequate protection of personal information and comply with their responsibilities under applicable law.
Other Disclosures with Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties only when we have your consent or direction to do so.
Your Choices
In some instances you may request that we take certain action regarding your information. You may exercise these choices by following the directions provided below and we will respond to your request where required by law. In any case, we will not discriminate against you on the basis of your decision to exercise any of these choices.
Access To Your Personal Information. You may request access to your personal information, confirmation that we have information about you, or information about the public and private entities to whom we have shared data as a controller. In certain limited circumstances, you may also request to receive access to your data in a portable, machine-readable format.
Changes To Your Personal Information. We rely on you to update and correct your personal information through your account. If your account does not permit you to update or correct certain information, you can contact us at the email address below. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.
Deletion Of Your Personal Information. In some circumstances, you may request that we delete or anonymize your personal information. If required by law, we will grant requests to delete or anonymize information, but in many situations we are required to keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purpose .
Objection to Certain Processing. You may object to our use or disclosure of your personal information by contacting us at the address described below.
Online Tracking. We do not currently recognize the “Do Not Track” signal.
Opt-out of Targeted Advertising. You may opt-out of online tracking based targeted advertising (e.g., cookies) by clicking the cookie settings link here. Please note that if you change browsers or computers, or if you clear your browser’s cache, you may need to click the link again to apply your preference. You may also opt-out of other forms of targeted advertising by submitting a request as described below.
Promotional Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials to you. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you communications related to services we provide to you.
Revocation Of Consent. Where we process your personal information based upon your consent, you may revoke consent. Please note, if you revoke your consent for the processing of personal information then we may no longer be able to provide you services.
Submitting Requests
You may exercise the choices described above by contacting us as indicated in the “Contact Information” section below.
As required by law, we will require you to prove your identity. We may verify your identity by phone call or email. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, the organizational customer of ours that you are affiliated with, or the date and context that we collected the requested information from you. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity. Following a request, we will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct, or delete personal information.
We will not be able to honor any requests relating to personal information collected by us in our capacity as a processor (i.e., when we are performing services for our customer). Such requests should be sent to our customer and not to Carbyne.
How We Protect and Retain Information
No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
Some of our websites permit you to create an account. When you do you will be prompted to create a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account by someone else that has obtained your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by you. You should notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
We process and retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
As a multi-national company, we may transmit information between and among our affiliates and service providers. As a result, your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Nonetheless, where possible we take steps to treat personal information using the same privacy principles that apply pursuant to the law of the country in which we first received your information. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States. If you would like more information concerning our attempts to apply the privacy principles applicable in one jurisdiction to data when it goes to another jurisdiction you can contact us using the contact information below. You may also request a copy of any Standard Contractual Clauses we use for the transfer of your data outside of the EEA, which includes the categories of information transferred by contacting us using the contact information below.
Third-Party Applications/Websites
For your convenience, we may provide links to websites and other third-party content or services that we do not own or operate. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. We have no control over the privacy practices of websites or services we do not own. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or application for details about such third party’s privacy practices.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may change our Privacy Policy and practices over time. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning our privacy practices, or if you need to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact us by email at [email protected] or via the contact form available here.
If you are not satisfied with our response, and are in the European Union or United Kingdom, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
Additional Information
In some jurisdictions businesses may be required to disclose the following additional information related to their privacy practices. If you are a resident of such a jurisdiction, the following privacy disclosures may apply to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Policy.
- California Shine the Light. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with third parties or affiliates for those parties to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the Contact Information section above.
- Notice of Collection. The table below describes the categories of personal information we collect, disclose for a business purpose, “sell” and/or “share” (as those terms are defined under some state privacy laws). Please note, in addition to the recipients identified below, we may disclose any of the categories of personal information we collect with government entities, as may be needed to comply with law, provide our services or prevent illegal activity. We do not “sell” your personal information for money. As discussed elsewhere in the Privacy Policy, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies for purposes of targeted advertising. For more information and further details regarding how we use personal information, please see the Information We Collect section of the Privacy Policy. For information regarding how long we retain personal information, please refer to the How We Protect and Retain Information section of the Privacy Policy
| Category of Personal Informationl | Category of Recipients | |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosures for a Business Purpose | Sharing for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising | |
| Identifiers – this may include real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | ● Advertising networks |
| Government Issued Identification – this may include social security number, driver’s license number, or state issued identification number, passport number. | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N / A |
| Characteristics of protected classifications – this may include age, sex, race, ethnicity, physical, or mental handicap, etc. | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N / A |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information – this may include browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.. | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | • Advertising Networks |
| Geolocation data | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N/A |
| Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N/A |
| Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | • Advertising Network |
| Professional or employment-related information | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N/A |
| Additional categories of personal information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) – this may include signature, physical characteristics, or description, , insurance policy number. | ● Affiliates or subsidiaries ● Other service providers ● Professional services organizations, this may include auditors and law firms | N/A |
California Sensitive Information Disclosure. We collect the following categories of sensitive personal information (as defined under California law): precise geolocation data, and protected classes of personal information. This information is collected in order to provide our services and assist law enforcement with information necessary to respond to reports of criminal activity and emergencies. We do not use such information for any purposes that are not identified within the California Privacy Rights Act Section 1798.121. We do not “sell” or “share” sensitive personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
Effective Date: May 1, 2023