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Canonic Privacy and Data Protection Policy

I. OBJECTIVE, SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY

  1. Canonic Inc and its affiliates worldwide including Canonic Private Limited (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”) are dedicated to protect and respect the individual’s legal rights of privacy and data protection while collecting, storing, using and transmitting the Personal Data (as defined below).
  2. Unless a separate privacy policy is provided to You for any specific product or service of the Company, this Privacy and Data Protection Policy (“Policy”) explains Our privacy and data protection practices vis-à-vis how We collect, use, process, disclose and transfer the Personal Data, through the website canonic.dev.com (“Website”) and mobile applications (collectively, the “Platform”) of the individuals who browse, access or use the Platform or provide information on or through the Platform (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “You”, “Your”) in connection with Our services, described more particularly in the terms of use and other policies as may be available on the Platform (collectively the “Terms of Use”) (such services being hereinafter referred to as “Services”). This Policy will inform You about Your rights and the choices You may have with respect to Your Personal Data, and how You can contact Us about Our privacy and data protection practices. We are committed to respect Your Personal Data, online privacy and ensuring that the Personal Data is processed for Our legitimate business purposes and in a transparent manner, as set out herein.
  3. THIS POLICY SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION AND TOGETHER WITH THE TERMS OF USE AND IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF USE OR THE POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE/ACCESS THE PLATFORM OR ANY OTHER COMPANY’S PRODUCT OR PROCEED BEYOND THE PRIVACY POLICY SCREEN. IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE THE PLATFORM, OR ANY OTHER COMPANY’S PRODUCT, WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS POLICY AND ITS CONTENT, AND HAVE PROVIDED YOUR CONSENT ON SUCH BASIS.
  4. Further, We may engage third parties who will be working with or for the Company, and who may have the access to the Personal Data to perform their functions, but they may not use it for any other purposes. The Company may act as a data processor or a data controller depending on the Service being provided and the amount of control the Company has over the purpose(s) and means of the data processing.
  5. Please note, that any Personal Data provided to the Company by Our clients or any other third party is governed by their respective privacy and data protection policies. This Policy does not govern any other information or communications that may have been collected by such parties. The Company only accesses such Personal Data on request of the client or the owner of such Personal Data.
  6. You agree that the Company reserves the right to take any legal or other action against You including the right to deny the usage rights to the Platform and the Services and referral to the appropriate authorities.
  7. For the purpose of this Policy, the term “Personal Data” refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual and includes the information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

II. TYPES OF THE PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED

We collect certain data including Personal Data about You, depending upon the Services You avail and the manner You interact with Us. Further, we also collect certain data from third parties which may include Your Personal Data and such Personal Data is also governed by this Policy. For providing the Services to You, We may collect from the following categories of the data :

  1. Contact Information: We may collect contact information such as name, email address, resident country, phone number, designation (if under an employment), educational qualifications, technical knowledge related to information technology etc.
  2. Unique identifiers: We may collect information such as customer phone number, account number, subscription number, system identifiers (including username or online credentials), device advertisers, advertising IDs, and IP address.
  3. Government-issued identification information numbers: We may collect information such as social security number, driver’s license number, aadhaar number and passport number. Further, we may also collect any Personal Data that would be required by the Company to ensure compliance with any applicable laws.
  4. Transaction and Commercial Information: We may collect information such as customer account information, qualification data, number of entries made in the database, recording of customer sessions, any files or images uploaded or created using the Platform, configuration information of any project created using the Platform, number of application programming interface call, purchase history and related records (returns, product service records, records of payments, credits etc.), records related to downloads and purchases of products and applications, non-biometric data collected for consumer authentication (passwords, account security questions), customer service records, reviews and suggestions shared by the customer.
  5. Inferred Information derived from other information listed in this section:We create inferred and derived data elements by analysing Our relationship and transactional information.
  6. Online and Technical Information, including internet or other electronic network activity information: This category includes data such as IP address, MAC address, SSIDs or other device identifiers or persistent identifiers, online user ID, encrypted password, device characteristics (such as browser information), web server logs, application logs, browsing data, viewing data, website and app usage, cookies, web beacons, clear gifs and pixel tags.
  7. Other Information: We may collect Your information such as name, contact details, preferences, etc. through surveys and forms, when You choose to participate in these surveys etc. When You communicate with or use the Platform to communicate with other users (such as partners) on our platform, We collect information about Your communication and any information You choose to provide.
  8. Cookies: When You visit the Platform, We use cookies to automatically collect, store and use technical information about Your system and interaction with Our Platform.
  9. Permissible information: To the extent permitted by law, the Company may record and monitor Your communications with Us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This may include communications through telephone, by email, via the contact form, via a link contained in an email sent by Us or via some other electronic message offered to You, via the chat function, web care, surveys or (panel) surveys, the (mobile) website, if You sign up for newsletters or via social media. This may also include recording of telephone conversations.
  10. Collection of anonymized data: We may also collect and/or generate anonymized and aggregated information from Your use of the Platform. The anonymized or aggregated information is not Personal Data since We are not able to re-identify You using any means available to Us from that anonymized or aggregated information. The anonymized and aggregated information is used for a variety of functions, including to help Us identify and remediate any bugs, and to improve the performance of Our Platform. We may share this information with third parties for Our or their purposes in an anonymized or aggregated form that is designed to prevent anyone from identifying You.

III. WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

1. We collect Your Personal Data for providing Services or for any other request raised by You. Below is the list of purposes for which We may process Your Personal Data:

  • Creation of Your account, sending any agreements,
  • For providing You the Services;
  • Facilitation of payment, in connection with chargeable Services;
  • Automated processing in order to provide Our Services;
  • Handling of complaints, questions and disputes with respect to the Terms of Use, the Services or this Policy;
  • To detect, prevent and address any technical issues;
  • To monitor usage of Our Services;
  • To communicate the updates made on the Platform;
  • Acceptance and issuing of offers to current and potential clients and performance of contracts with the Company.

2. Further, We may also use the Personal Data for the purpose of the following

  • Analytics, servicing, understanding the ways and manners in which We can improve Our Services and users’ experience and the quality of Our Services and Platform;
  • Communicating marketing or promotional information about Our Platform and Services, which could be done directly, but also for instance via social media campaigns on Facebook, for example, and/or search engines like Google;
  • Preventing, detecting, investigating and taking action against crimes, any other illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of Company’s Terms of Use in any jurisdiction;
  • Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such legal proceedings;
  • Complying with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

3. We collect the Personal Data to provide the Services requested by You or to fulfill Your request. Where additional, optional information is sought, You will be notified of such requirement at the point of collection. Further, We process the Personal Data, so long as We have a ground under the law to do so. Accordingly, We process the Personal Data based on one of the following conditions:

  • Performance of a contract:Herein, We process the Personal Data as it is necessary in order to fulfill Our obligations set forth under a contract or for the performance of Our agreement with You;
  • Legal obligationHerein, We process the Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping records for tax purposes or providing information to a public body or law enforcement agency;
  • Legitimate interests:Herein, We process Your Personal Data information where it is in Our legitimate interest in running a lawful business. We will only rely on such a ground where an assessment has been performed balancing the interests and rights involved and the necessity of the processing in order to provide our Services, products and features to You. Few examples of Our legitimate interests are: (i) to offer information and/or Services to individuals who visit the Platform; or (ii) to prevent fraud or criminal activity and to safeguard our IT systems etc.;
  • Your consent: In some cases, We will seek Your specific permission to process Your Personal Data and We will only process Your Personal Data in this way if You agree for Us doing so. You may withdraw Your consent at any time by requesting Us at support@canonic.dev

4. To the extent permissible under the applicable law, We may use and disclose any non-personal data (data which does not contain any information that can be used to identify natural person) for any purpose. However, in the event We combine any non-personal data with Personal Data, then We will only use and disclose such combined information as per this Policy.

IV. RENTENTION AND STORAGE OF THE PERSONAL DATA

  1. The Personal Data will be retained as under:
  2. Personal Data We retain until You delete it: Some data can be deleted anytime by You, such as the content that You create or upload on Our Platform. Our Platform allows You to correct or delete the Personal Data stored in Your account. For example, if You wish to delete Your Personal Data, You should submit a delete request at support@canonic.devor change the details of Your account. When You delete any Personal Data, We follow a deletion process to make sure that Your Personal Data is safely and completely removed from Our servers or retained only in anonymized form, if required, as explained below. Please note, We might take upto 3 (three) months to delete the data from the date of delete request. We try to ensure that Our Services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when You delete something and when copies are deleted from Our active and backup systems. Further, Your Personal Data is stored with us for a period of 2 (two) years if You have not requested for deletion but You have deleted Your Account.
  3. Information retained until Your Account is deleted: We retain some of the Personal Data for the life of Your Account if it’s required by Us to provide You the Services or is useful for helping Us understand how Users interact with Our features and how We can improve our Services.
  4. Personal Data that expires or is anonymized after a specific period of time: In some cases, We store certain Personal Data for a predetermined period of time. For each type of data, We set retention timeframes based on the purpose of its collection. For example, the Personal Data collected for the purpose of providing the Services is stored and retained for a period of 10 (ten) years post the completion of the Services. We also take steps to anonymize certain data post the expiry of the set time periods.
  5. Information retained for extended time periods for limited purposes: Please note that the Personal Data sometimes may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by local law, regulation, or professional standards and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights. Sometimes business requirements also oblige Us to retain certain information, for specific purposes, for an extended period of time. For example, when You make a payment to Us, We’ll retain such data for longer periods of time as required for tax or accounting purposes.
  6. We may store Your Personal Data using Our own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your Personal Data may also be stored by third parties, via cloud services or other technology, with whom the Company has contracted, to support the Company's business operations, such as data centers, domain administrators, cloud service providers, etc. These third parties do not use or have access to Your Personal Data other than for cloud storage and retrieval. When We share information with others, We put contractual arrangements and security mechanisms in place as appropriate to protect the information and to comply with our information protection, confidentiality and security standards.
  7. We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with Our partners such as publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, We share information publicly to show trends about the general use of Our Services

V. SHARING OF THE PERSONAL DATA

  1. Save and otherwise provided in this Policy, We do not rent, share, list or sell the Personal Data with any third parties, except as necessary for our legitimate professional and business needs, to carry out Your requests, and/or as required or permitted by an applicable law. The Personal Data may be shared with the third parties only if is for the purposes identified above or in the event You consent for the sharing of such Personal Data. We always endeavor that the third parties with whom We share the Personal Data comply with the rules or policies specified under this Policy and subsequently notify the Company if it makes a determination, it can no longer meet this obligation. We will take all the reasonable steps to prevent or stop unauthorized use or disclosure of the Personal Data by the third parties.
  2. Further, We may disclose information about You: (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials, (iii) to our subsidiaries or affiliates; (iv) to fulfill the purpose for which it was provided, (v) for any other purpose disclosed by Us when You provide the information; or (vi) when We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity. We may disclose Personal Data to third party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) enforce Our Terms of Use and this Policy; (b) respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; (c) respond to any authority, having the right to receive such information under law; or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of the users or the general public.
  3. In the event of any change in control of the Company which may include proposed or actual reorganization, sale, merger, joint venture, assignment, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal or financing of all or any portion of the Company or of any of the Company assets, We may disclose or transfer Your Personal Data to such third party. Should such an event take place, We will endeavor to direct the transferee to use the Personal Data in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.

VI. TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

We provide Services globally and We may use third parties located in other countries to help Us run Our business. As a result, the Personal Data may be transferred outside the countries where We and Our clients are located. The Personal Data may be transferred internally to Our affiliates and externally to third parties (including any data uploaded or provided by You, Your user or any other client or its user) across international borders for the purposes described in this Policy. This may include transfers to countries that may not have laws that provide the same degree of protection for the Personal Data as Your home country.

VII. DATA PROTECTION STRATEGIES

We follow several strategies to protect your data such as:

  • Data loss prevention: We employ tools to ensure that Your data is not lost, accidentally deleted or stolen;
  • Firewalls: We use firewalls to monitor and filter network traffic, ensuring that only authorized users are allowed to access or transfer data;
  • Authentication and authorization: We use tools to ascertain and verify the credentials, assuring that user privileges are applied correctly; and
  • Endpoint protection: We use endpoint protection software to protect gateways to our network.

VIII. DATA PROTECTION IMPACT ASSESSMENT

In the event that We change Our processes relating to data processing and protection, particularly through introduction of new technologies, We will undertake a risk assessment (“Data Protection Impact Assessment”) to analyze the risk to Your data. This Data Protection Impact Assessment shall take into account the current nature, scope, context and purpose of data processing under this Policy, to flag any significant changes or risks to Your rights. If the risk level is found to be high even after undertaking standard risk mitigating measures, Our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) will contact appropriate statutory authority for consultation.

IX. THIRD PARTY LINKS

Our Platform may contain links to or display links to the websites or mobile applications that are owned or operated by the third parties which may not be governed by this Policy. Such websites links are independent from the Company, and the Company has no control over the content on that website, even if the Company provides information or Services to the owner of that website. The Company is not making any representations about, endorsing, or accepting any responsibility for the content or the use of such website. Further, We are not responsible or liable for any damage or loss related to the use of any third party website. We encourage users to review the privacy and data protection policy of each website visited before accessing or disclosing any Personal Data.

X. SECURITY MEASURES

  1. We use reasonable security measures to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the Personal Data under Our control. However, despite our best efforts, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed against all threats. To the best of Our ability, the access to Your Personal Data is limited to those who have a need to know. Those individuals who have access to the Personal Data are required to maintain the confidentiality of such data. In addition, please note that emails, messages sent via Your web browser, and other similar means of communication with other users, are not encrypted. Therefore, while We strive to protect Your information, We cannot guarantee its security. In case You require to share any Personal Data with the Company, please share it with Us at support@canonic.dev. You understand and acknowledge that, We cannot ensure the security of any information received through such channels.
  2. Please also be aware that We may use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that may be non-negotiable. These service providers have informed Us or the general public that they apply security measures they consider adequate for the protection of information within their system, or they have a general reputation for applying such measures. However, We will not be liable (to the fullest extent permitted by law) for any damages that may result from the misuse of any information, including Personal Data, by these companies.

XI. YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO PERSONAL DATA

1. In the event, We process Your Personal Data, You may avail Yourself the rights explained below. Please note that prior to fulfilling Your request in relation to the rights provided below, we may verify Your identity associated with Our Platform. In case We are unable to verify Your identity, We reserve the right to deny a request. If You authorize someone to make a request on Your behalf, We may also deny Your request if We are unable to verify with You that the individual making the request is authorized to act on Your behalf.

2. In the event, We are processing Your Personal Data on behalf of another entity or are acting as a data processor, We will forward Your requests, inquiries or claims concerning these processing activities to the respective data controller the necessary action.

3. Your Rights are as follows:

  • The Rights of Access to and Portability of Your Personal Data:You may request access to Your Personal Data by submitting a request at support@canonic.dev If required by law, upon request, We will grant You reasonable access to Your Personal Data We will provide Your Personal Data to You in a portable format to allow it to be transmitted to third parties.
  • The Right to Delete Your Personal Data: Typically, We retain Your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Policy and to provide You the Services, unless a longer retention period is mandated by law. You may, however, request that We delete Your Personal Data by submitting a request at support@canonic.dev If required by law, We will accept such a request to delete information. Please note that in many situations We are required by applicable law to retain all, or a portion, of Your Personal Data to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, to protect against fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity, or for another one of our business purposes.

4. Please note that in the event We identify that Our system has been hacked or security measures have been breached and Your Personal Data is disclosed, We will notify You as soon as possible but no later than 72 (seventy-two) hours.

5. Some Limitations: The rights provided herein are subject to certain limitations as specified under applicable laws. Any individual requests will be completed within the time allotted by relevant regulations, which starts to run from the point of the Company confirming Your request. To the extent permissible by applicable law and where permitted, We may impose a charge for subsequent requests from the same individual which will be determined by the Company.

6. Please note, if We delete Your Personal Data after Your request, it will affect Our ability to provide the Services to You and We may need to keep such Personal Data for a while during the shutting down and billing process.

XII. DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER CalOPPPA

Users based out of California also have the following additional rights under CalOPPA:

  • Users can visit Our Website anonymously;
  • Users will be notified of any Policy change on Our Policy page;
  • Users can change their personal information by emailing us at support@canonic.dev.

XIII. CHILDERN UNDER SIXTEEN

We do not collect any data from children under the age of 16 (sixteen). In the event You are under the age of 16 (sixteen), You must ask Your parent or guardian for permission to use the Platform. We attempt to delete any information so received on the Platform, if We learn that the Personal Data is the information of a child under 16 (sixteen). If You believe that We might have any Personal Data from a child under 16 (sixteen), please contact Us at support@canonic.dev.

XIV. USE OF COOKIES

  1. We use two types of cookies, (i) Transient Cookies and (ii) Persistent Cookies.
  2. Transient Cookies are automatically deleted when You close Your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of Your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow Your computer to be recognized when You return to Our Website. Session cookies are deleted when You log out or close your browser.
  3. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
  4. You can configure your browser settings according to Your wish and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that You may not be able to use all functions of this Website if You choose to refuse the third party cookies.
  5. We use cookies to identify You for follow-up visits if You have an account with Us. Otherwise You will have to log in again for each visit.
  6. The purpose of using technically required cookies is to simplify the use of Our Website for Your benefit. Several functionalities of Our Website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these functionalities it is required to re-identify the browser. The use of analytical cookies serves the purpose of improving the quality of our website and its contents. These cookies show the use of the Website, enabling us to optimize our offering.

XV. THIRD PARTY ANALYTICS

1. We may use third party web analytics services on the Platform. The service providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to collect information (such as IP address) and use that information to help Us analyse how visitors use the Platform. When You access or browse the Platform, a cookie banner will inform You of the use of these analytics technologies. They will only be used if You accept them or if You continue using the Platform. You may change Your cookie settings at any time to accept or refuse these analytics technologies by clicking on the cookie control tool below to adjust Your cookie preferences. Adjusting Your cookie preferences may disable certain functionality on the Platform. You consent to the processing of information about You by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Policy.

2. At present, some of the analytic partners We work with are:

  • Google Analytics
  • Hotjar

We may update this list from time to time.

3. For more information on these third parties, including how to opt out from certain data collection, please visit the sites below. Please be advised that if You opt out of any Services, You may not be able to use the full functionality of the Platform.

XVI. AMENDMENT TO THIS POLICY

We keep Our Policy under regular review and We may modify this Privacy and Data Protection Policy from time to time to reflect our current privacy and data protection practices. Any changes to the processing of Personal Data as described in this Policy affecting You will be communicated to You through an appropriate channel, depending on how We normally communicate with You.

XVII. PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION CONCERNS

If You are concerned about the handling of Your Personal Data, or if You have any complaints or queries related to Your Personal Data or Our Policy, please contact Our grievance officer mentioned below:

Name: Simranjot Singh

Email: simranjot@canonic.dev

Last updated: 26th May 2022