Itechnode is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The following privacy statement (further ‘Privacy Policy’) is designed to help you understand all the ways we apply to collect and use the information you provide us with and to help you make informed decisions when utilizing our website, products, and services. The personal data of our customers and visitors are processed and used with special care.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY (“POLICY”) ESTABLISHES A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU, THE USER OF THE ONLINE PLATFORM, AND US. BY REGISTERING YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US OR BY OTHERWISE VISITING/ACCESSING THE ONLINE PLATFORM, YOU ARE GIVING US YOUR EXPRESS CONSENT TO VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE US AND ALLOW US TO USE, COLLECT, ACCESS, PROCESS, STORE, DISCLOSE AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. THIS POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS (WHICH MAY HAVE THEIR OWN PRIVACY POLICY OR PRIVACY NOTICE) THAT ARE CONNECTED VIA LINKS TO THE ONLINE PLATFORM.
YOU MAY BE REQUIRED TO AGREE TO THIS POLICY BY TICKING THE BOX NEXT TO THE WORDS “I AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS”. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROCEED FURTHER TO USE/ACCESS THIS ONLINE PLATFORM. YOU WILL HAVE THE OPTION TO NOT GIVE YOUR CONSENT OR TO WITHDRAW ANY CONSENT GIVEN PREVIOUSLY, PROVIDED THAT THE DECISION TO NOT GIVE CONSENT OR TO WITHDRAW THE CONSENT IS GIVEN TO US IN WRITING. IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION OR WITHDRAW THE CONSENT TO PROVIDE US WITH ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AT ANY TIME, WE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO PROVIDE THE BENEFITS OR SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE SAID PERSONAL INFORMATION WAS SOUGHT.
THIS POLICY SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TERMS OF USE OF THE ONLINE PLATFORM AND ANY CAPITALIZED TERMS THAT ARE USED BUT NOT DEFINED HERE, SHOULD BE ASSIGNED THE SAME MEANING AS THE TERMS.
Collecting Information
While visiting our website or using our products or services you may provide us with your personal data that you consciously disclose. Also, our website uses information collected on an aggregate basis, as you and other visitors browse our website. We can collect, store, and use certain types of personal information, including:
information you provide to us by filling in forms on our website (e.g. by requesting information about our products or services);
information you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters;
information you provide to us when submitting your resume (including your contact details);
information contained in the website or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through this website;
information that is required to obtain a trial or commercial license of our products or otherwise become a registered user of our products or services;
information about your visits and usage of this website (i.e., your IP address, location, type, and version of browser, operating system, source of referral, duration of visit, number of page views, and navigation paths).
Use of Information Collected
Personal data collected by itechnode may be used by itechnode for a wide range of purposes:
Information about our novel products and services,
announcement about past, current, or future projects,
feedback and/or editorial purposes,
marketing and market research,
promotion,
recruitment,
advertising,
license generation,
payment processing,
customer support,
statistical analysis,
to record your consent to itechnode to obtain and store your personal data.
For the above-mentioned purposes, we use only personal data that we receive from you through contact forms on our website. Please be aware that we require your express agreement to comply with this Privacy Policy when submitting data via our contact forms or when applying for or acquiring licenses for our products.
Personalizing and identifying information, such as names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and other individual information voluntarily provided by visitors to itechnode may be added to its databases and used for future telephone calls and correspondence.
If you decide to communicate with us via email, we reserve the right to retain the contents of your email correspondence, along with your e-mail address and our responses.
The data collected through third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics can be used for statistical analysis of customer behavior, software development, content enhancement, or personalization.
Cookies
Like many other commercial websites, itechnode website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Data collected via cookies and web server records may include dates and times of visits, pages visited, time spent on our website, and websites visited prior to and subsequent to our own website.
You can turn off cookies on or off in your browser at any time, but please keep in mind that disabling cookies may prevent you from using our website to its full potential.
Third-Party Analytics Software
This website uses third-party analytics software such as Google Analytics which is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics utilizes "cookies", which are text files saved on your computer, to facilitate an analysis of your website usage. The data generated by the cookie, including your IP address, will be uploaded to a Google server located in the United States and stored there. This information is used by Google to assess your usage of the website, generate reports on your website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet use to website operators.
Google may also share this information with third parties if required by law, or if such third parties process the data on Google’s behalf. The IP address displayed in your browser when using Google Analytics is not associated with any other information stored by Google. Your browser configuration can be changed to reject cookies. Please be aware that disabling cookies may prevent you from fully utilizing our website. By accessing this site, you consent to Google processing data about you in the manner previously described and for the foregoing purposes.
Anonymous data collected through this website
Apart from the data collection outlined above, we also employ technology to collect anonymized data regarding the usage of our website. For example, our web server automatically records a variety of information about our visitors, including the pages they visit, their IP addresses, and the web browsers they use.
This information is not personal to us but rather allows us to collect statistical data about our visitors and the manner in which they interact with our website.
Our website includes hyperlinks that link to other pages on the website. We may employ technology to monitor the frequency of these links and the pages on our website that our visitors select to view. Again, this technology doesn’t personally identify you – it simply allows us to collect data on the usage of these hyperlinks.
Links to other websites
This website may include hyperlinks to third-party websites. These links are provided for your convenience and do not represent our endorsement of, or relationship with, those websites. We do not own, operate, or participate in the operations of those websites. We are not responsible for the data or privacy practices of those websites. Third-party sites have their own privacy policies. We strongly recommend that you review any privacy policy that is posted on any third-party site before using it or providing any personal information about yourself.
Third-Party Cloud Services
Some of our products help users to make data exchange of their desktop software with cloud-based services. In such products, itechnode does not obtain nor collect any personal or other information of users, except their personal data that are required to identify them as registered users of our products. Each time we do so we ask the user for explicit consent to provide us with this information in conformance with this Privacy Policy. In order for our products to be able to access the necessary cloud services, users will have to explicitly agree to the relevant Privacy Policies of those services (such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and etc.).
Disclosure to Third Parties
Your personal data shall not be sold, bartered, or otherwise transferred to third parties. This includes third parties who help us operate our website, conduct our business or serve you, provided they agree to keep the information confidential. We may release your information if we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable law, to enforce our site policies, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ourselves or other parties. Non-personal information about the visitor may be made available to third parties for marketing, advertising, or other purposes.
Terms of Use
Please also take the time to review our Terms of Use, Disclaimers, and Limitation of Liability that apply to our website.
Your Consent
You agree to comply with our privacy policy by visiting our website.
Retaining personal data
Your personal data is stored by itechnode on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services itechnode utilizes.
Personal data that we process pursuant to your consent will be stored indefinitely or until your consent is revoked unless required by applicable law and presuming it is necessary for processing.
We shall retain personal data, including electronic documents,
to the extent required by law;
to the extent that the information or documents are pertinent to ongoing or future legal proceedings;
to the extent that they are necessary for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights, or to provide information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention or credit risk reduction.
Security Measures
We have stringent security measures in place to protect personal information provided to us by our customers or website visitors from unauthorized disclosure or access. For instance, all our staff are required to sign a written agreement acknowledging the importance of protecting personal information and its confidentiality.
However, you should be aware that transmitting information via the internet and other electronic means poses certain security risks and we cannot guarantee the security of information sent to us through these channels.
Right to Amendment
itechnode reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without providing any previous notice.