Welcome to NuQode’s Privacy Policy, a testament to our unwavering dedication to safeguarding your privacy as you engage with our diverse range of services. This Privacy Policy outlines our protocols and practices regarding the gathering, utilization, and sharing of your information while utilizing the Service. It aims to inform you about your privacy entitlements and the legal safeguards in place to protect your data.
The collection and utilization of Your Personal data are instrumental in enhancing and delivering the Service to you. Your use of the Service implies your consent to the collection and utilization of information as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring the security of your data. This policy elucidates how we collect, process, and safeguard your information, emphasizing transparency and adherence to legal obligations.
Your Personal data is utilized to optimize and enhance the Service we provide. By engaging with our Service, you acknowledge and agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy concerning the collection and utilization of your information.
We prioritize the confidentiality and security of your data, upholding stringent measures to uphold your privacy rights. This policy aims to foster trust by being transparent about how your information is handled, ensuring compliance with legal standards.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
When utilizing our Service, we may request that you furnish certain personally identifiable information enabling us to contact or recognize you. This information may encompass, though not exclusively, the following:
- Email address
- First and last name
- Phone number
- Usage Data
Usage Data
While using the Service, we automatically gather Usage Data, encompassing details like your Device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser specifics, visited pages, duration of visit, unique device identifiers, and additional diagnostic information.
Accessing the Service through a mobile device prompts the automatic collection of specific data, including your mobile device type, unique ID, mobile device IP address, operating system, mobile Internet browser type, and distinct device identifiers.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We employ Cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as beacons, tags, and scripts, to observe and retain specific information, with the aim of enhancing and evaluating the functionality of Our Service.
These technologies include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: These are small files stored on Your Device. You can adjust Your browser settings to decline Cookies or receive alerts when a Cookie is sent. However, not accepting Cookies may limit access to certain parts of our Service. If Your browser settings don’t refuse Cookies, our Service may use them.
- Web Beacons: These small electronic files, like clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs, are embedded in certain areas of our Service and emails. They aid in tasks such as tracking users who visit specific pages or open an email, assisting in website statistics (e.g., monitoring section popularity), and ensuring system and server integrity.
Cookies can be categorized as “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your device even when offline, while Session Cookies are deleted once You close Your web browser. For more comprehensive insights into cookies, resources like the TermsFeed website articles can provide further information.
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are crucial for providing services accessible through the Website and enabling the use of its features. They aid in user authentication and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, requested services cannot be delivered, and they are exclusively used for this purpose.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies ascertain whether users have consented to the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies track Website traffic and user interactions to gather information on Website usage. The data collected may indirectly or directly identify users through a pseudonymous identifier linked to the accessing device. Additionally, they are used to test new pages, features, or functionalities, evaluating user responses.
For comprehensive details about the cookies employed and your choices concerning them, please refer to our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section within our Privacy Policy.
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are crucial for providing services accessible through the Website and enabling the use of its features. They aid in user authentication and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, requested services cannot be delivered, and they are exclusively used for this purpose.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company harnesses Personal Data for several key objectives:
- Service Provision and Maintenance: This includes monitoring Service usage to ensure its functionality and efficiency.
- Account Management: Managing your user registration grants access to specific Service functionalities tailored for registered users.
- Contractual Obligations: Personal Data supports the execution and compliance of purchase contracts or any other agreements through the Service.
- Communication: Utilizing email, phone calls, SMS, or electronic notifications facilitates updates, informative messages, and security-related notifications pertinent to Service features, products, or contracted services.
- Information and Offers: Providing news, special offers, and general information about goods, services, and events akin to your past purchases or inquiries, unless you opt out of receiving such information.
- Request Management: Attending to and managing your inquiries and requests made to Us.
- Business Transitions: Utilizing information for evaluating or conducting mergers, asset sales, restructurings, or similar proceedings wherein Personal Data about Service users may be transferred as part of the assets.
- Additional Functions: Using information for purposes like data analysis, understanding usage patterns, assessing promotional campaign effectiveness, and continuously enhancing Service, products, services, marketing, and user experience.
Your personal information holds significance in several situations where its sharing becomes essential:
- Service Providers: Collaborating with service providers is crucial for enhancing our Service’s efficiency. Sharing your personal information enables these providers to monitor Service usage patterns and facilitates effective communication with you. This ensures a smoother and more personalized experience while using the Service.
- Business Transitions: In the dynamic landscape of business, mergers, acquisitions, or transitions involving the company might necessitate the sharing or transfer of personal information. During negotiations or as part of business dealings like asset sales, financing, or acquisitions, your data might be shared as a fundamental aspect of the transition process.
- Affiliates: Our affiliations with parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or entities under common control often require information sharing. In such cases, adherence to this Privacy Policy is a prerequisite, ensuring that the shared information remains safeguarded and utilized within the established ethical guidelines.
- Business Partnerships: Collaborating with various business partners might involve sharing your information to provide you with tailored products, services, or exclusive promotions. This collaboration aims to enhance your experience by offering personalized and relevant offerings through our network.
- Interaction with Other Users: Public interactions within the platform or sharing personal information in public spaces may lead to the visibility and potential distribution of this information to all users. Such shared information could extend beyond the platform’s confines, potentially impacting a wider audience.
- Consent-Based Disclosure: Any additional disclosure of your personal information beyond the stipulated circumstances might occur only with your explicit consent. Your approval serves as the cornerstone for sharing your data for specific purposes beyond those explicitly outlined in our privacy policies.
These scenarios elucidate the diverse contexts in which your personal information might be shared, underscoring our commitment to transparency, privacy, and adherence to established guidelines in safeguarding your data.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will maintain your Personal Data for the necessary duration to fulfill the objectives stated in this Privacy Policy. This includes compliance with legal obligations, resolution of disputes, and the enforcement of our policies and agreements.
In addition, Usage Data will be retained primarily for internal analysis. Typically, this data is held for a shorter duration, unless its retention is pivotal to fortify security, enhance Service functionality, or mandated by legal obligations requiring longer retention periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed in the Company’s operational offices and other locations involved in the data processing. This implies that such information may be transferred and maintained on computers situated outside your state, province, country, or governmental jurisdiction. These locations may have different data protection laws than those in your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by the submission of such information, signifies your acceptance of this transfer.
The Company is committed to taking all reasonable measures to ensure the secure treatment of your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will occur to any organization or country unless adequate controls, including stringent data security measures, are in place to protect your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You possess the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data collected by Us or seek assistance in its deletion. Our Service might offer options to delete specific information about you directly from within the platform.
For your convenience, you can update, modify, or delete your information anytime by accessing your Account, if applicable, and navigating to the account settings section dedicated to managing your personal details. Alternatively, you can reach out to Us to request access to, rectify, or erase any personal information provided to Us.
It’s important to note that certain information might need retention due to legal obligations or lawful grounds. In such cases, despite deletion requests, we might need to maintain specific data as required by law or for legitimate reasons.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions:
In scenarios involving a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, the transfer of Your Personal Data may occur. We pledge to notify you before any such transfer takes place, ensuring transparency as Your data becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law Enforcement:
Under specific circumstances, the Company might be obliged to disclose Your Personal Data as mandated by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities, such as courts or government agencies.
Other Legal Requirements:
Your Personal Data may be disclosed in good faith when necessary to comply with legal obligations, safeguard the Company’s rights or property, investigate potential misconduct related to the Service, ensure the safety of Service Users or the public, or protect against legal liabilities.
Security of Your Personal Data:
Although We prioritize safeguarding Your Personal Data, it’s crucial to note that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing it electronically can guarantee absolute security. While We employ commercially acceptable measures to protect Your data, complete security cannot be assured.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers we engage with might access your Personal Data. These third-party entities collect, store, use, process, and transfer information concerning your Service usage adhering to their respective Privacy Policies.
Analytics:
To monitor and analyze Service usage, we may employ third-party Service providers.
Google Analytics:
Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google, tracks and reports website traffic, utilizing the data collected to monitor Service usage. This data is shared with other Google services, possibly used to personalize ads within Google’s advertising network. You have the option to opt-out of sharing your Service activity with Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing visit activity information. For deeper insights into Google’s privacy practices, visit their Privacy & Terms webpage: Google Privacy & Terms.
CCPA Privacy
This additional privacy notice for California residents supplements the information provided in our Privacy Policy and is applicable solely to individuals residing in California.
Categories of Personal Information Collected:
We collect information that can be associated directly or indirectly with an individual or device. The categories listed below reflect types of personal information that may have been collected from California residents within the past twelve months. It’s important to note that not all examples within a category were necessarily collected, but this list represents our good faith belief based on our knowledge.
Category A: Identifiers
Examples: Real name, address, IP address, email, driver’s license number
Collected: Yes
Category B: Personal information under California Customer Records statute
Examples: Name, Social Security number, financial details, medical information
Collected: Yes
Category C: Protected characteristics under California or federal law
Examples: Age, race, religion, marital status
Collected: No
Category D: Commercial information
Examples: Purchase records
Collected: No
Category E: Biometric information
Examples: Biometric data like fingerprints or faceprints
Collected: No
Category F: Internet or similar network activity
Examples: Interaction with our Service or ads
Collected: Yes
Category G: Geolocation data
Examples: Approximate physical location
Collected: No
Category H: Sensory data
Examples: Audio, visual information
Collected: No
Category I: Professional or employment-related information
Examples: Name, Social Security number, financial details, medical information
Collected: Yes
Category J: Non-public education information
Examples: Student records
Collected: No
Category K: Inferences drawn from personal information
Examples: Profiles reflecting personal preferences
Collected: No
Not Considered Personal Information under CCPA:
- Publicly available government records
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer data
- Information outside CCPA scope (e.g., health data under HIPAA or GLBA-covered personal information)
We comply with laws excluding certain personal information, like HIPAA-covered health information, FRCA, GLBA, and FIPA-covered data from CCPA’s scope.
Sources of Personal Information
We gather the listed categories of personal information from various sources:
- Directly from You: This includes details from forms completed on our Service or preferences you share through our platform.
- Indirectly from You: Observations derived from your activities on our Service contribute to this information.
- Automatically from You: Information collected through cookies set by us or our Service Providers as you navigate our Service.
- From Service Providers: Third-party vendors aid in monitoring and analyzing Service usage. Additionally, other vendors assist in delivering the Service to You.
Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may utilize or reveal the personal information we gather for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” under the CCPA, which might include the following:
- Operating and providing our Service to You.
- Offering support, addressing inquiries, investigating concerns, and enhancing our Service.
- Fulfilling the purpose for which you provided the information, such as responding to inquiries or questions about our Service.
- Complying with law enforcement requests, court orders, applicable laws, or governmental regulations.
- Internal administrative and auditing needs.
- Detecting and preventing security threats or illegal activities, including prosecution if necessary.
These examples are illustrative and not exhaustive. For more comprehensive details on how we use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section in our Privacy Policy.
If we plan to collect additional personal information categories or utilize the gathered information for significantly different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes, we’ll update this Privacy Policy accordingly.
Utilization of Personal Information: Our Practices and Intent
We engage in the use and disclosure of collected personal information for “business” or “commercial” purposes under CCPA guidelines. This includes:
- Service Operations: Managing and facilitating our Service.
- Support and Enhancement: Addressing inquiries, improving, and supporting our Service.
- Purpose Fulfillment: Using information for its intended purposes, such as responding to Service-related queries.
- Legal Compliance: Adhering to legal requests, court orders, or governmental regulations.
- Administrative Operations: Conducting internal administrative tasks and audits.
- Security Measures: Identifying and preventing security threats or illegal activities.
These examples serve to illustrate our practices but are not exhaustive. For a comprehensive understanding of how your information is utilized, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section in our Privacy Policy.
Should we intend to gather additional personal information categories or apply collected data for significantly different purposes, updates to this Privacy Policy will reflect these changes accordingly.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your information, please contact us at hello@nuqode.com. Our team is available to assist you and address any inquiries you may have.