PairDown Privacy Statement

Effective date: March 03, 2023

Non-legalese tl;dr:

I care a lot more about working on a fun project and building a useful tool than harvesting or selling your data. I have a hard time imagining that ever changing but I guess, just in case, here's some legalese cribbed from GitHub's policy below.

Thanks for entrusting PairDown ("PairDown, "we", "us" or "our") with your competition and your personal data. This Privacy Statement explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your data, including any personal data we collect and process in connection with our website and any applications, software, products, and services provided by PairDown (collectively, the "Service(s)").

The short version

We use your personal information as this Privacy Statement describes. No matter where you are, where you live, or what your citizenship is, you have the same high standard of privacy protection when using PairDown's products as all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location.

Summary

PairDown Privacy Statement

Who is responsible for the processing of your information?

The data controller of your personal data is PairDown.

PairDown acting on your behalf

In some cases, PairDown is acting only on your behalf for the personal data we collect and process in connection with our Service. In such cases, PairDown will only process the data in order to provide, protect, and improve Service.

What information PairDown collects

The personal data we collect depends on how you interact with us, the services you use, and the choices you make. We collect information about you from different sources and in various ways when you use our Service, including information you provide directly, information collected automatically, third-party data sources, and data we infer or generate from other data.

Information users provide directly to PairDown

We collect personal data you provide to us. For example:

Registration information

We collect information such as your email address and credentials such as your password, during account creation.

Payment and billing information

If you make a purchase or other financial transaction, we collect credit card numbers, financial account information, and other payment details.

Content and files

We collect any text you submit to our Service; and if you send us email messages or other communications, we collect and retain those communications.

Feedback and ratings

We collect any feedback or ratings you provide, including through written communications and via surveys.

Information PairDown automatically collects

When you visit or use our Service, we collect some information automatically. For example:

Transaction information, Subscription and licensing data

If you have a paid Account or subscription with us, or make a purchase or sale using our Service, we automatically collect certain information about your transactions on the Service, such as your full name, address, region, state, country, zip code, the date, time, and amount charged.

Usage information and Interactions

If you're accessing or using our Service, we may automatically collect information about how you use and how your device interacts with the Service, such as the pages you view, the referring site, your IP address and information about your device, session information, the date and time of each request, device type and ID, operation system and application version, information contained in or relating to your competition, and telemetry data (i.e., information about how a specific feature or service is performing) regarding your use of other features and functionality of the Service. As further described below, we automatically collect usage information and interaction data using cookies (which may use a cookie ID), depending on your settings or preferences, in connection with our Service.

Information we collect from third parties

Other companies with whom you choose to engage. PairDown may collect personal data about you from third parties. PairDown does not purchase personal data from third-party data brokers.

Service Providers. We may also receive information from processors or service providers who process the data on our behalf, such as our payment processor who process payment and billing information in connection with our Service.

Content you post on our Service. Information you submit when creating a competition or make otherwise publicly available through the Service will be collected by PairDown as described in this Privacy Statement. Such information may also be available to the PairDown user community as well as the general public.

When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. And you may use web browser or operating system controls to prevent certain types of automatic data collection. But if you choose not to provide or allow information that is necessary for certain services or features, those services or features may not be available or fully functional.

How PairDown uses your information

We may use your information to provide, administer, analyze, manage, and operate our Service. For example, we use your information for the following purposes:

Provide our products and deliver our services including troubleshooting, improving, and personalizing the features on the Service. Business operations such as billing, accounting, improving our internal operations, securing our systems, detecting fraudulent or illegal activity, and meeting our legal obligations. Improve and develop our products and services including to develop new services or features, and conduct research. Personalization of our Service by understanding you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Service. Provide customer support and respond to your questions. Deliver promotional communications with you about new services, features, offers, promotions, and other information about our Service. Send you information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages. We combine data we collect from different sources for these purposes and to give you a more seamless, consistent, and personalized experience.

How we share the information we collect

We share personal data as described below, including with your consent or as necessary to complete your transactions or provide the services you have requested or authorized. In addition, we may share each of the categories of your personal data described above with the types of third parties described below for the following business purposes:

Public information

You may select options available through our Service to publicly display and share your name and/or username.

Please note that if you would like to compile PairDown data, you must comply with our Terms of Service regarding information usage and privacy, and you may only use any public-facing information you gather for the purpose for which our user authorized it. For example, where a PairDown user has made an email address public-facing for the purpose of identification and attribution, do not use that email address for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards, or for commercial advertising. We expect you to reasonably secure information you have gathered from PairDown, and to respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from PairDown or PairDown users.

Service providers

We share your personal data with service providers who process the information on our behalf to provide or improve our Service. For example, our service providers may perform payment processing, customer support ticketing, network data transmission, web analytics, security, and other similar services. Our service providers may process data in your region or in any other country where they operate facilities.

For security purposes

We will disclose personal data if we believe it is necessary to:

• protect our customers and others, for example to prevent spam or attempts to commit fraud, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
• operate and maintain the security of the Service, including to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks; or
• protect the rights or property or ourselves or others, including enforcing our agreements, terms, and policies.

For legal disclosure

PairDown may disclose personal data or other information we collect about you to law enforcement or other governmental agencies if required in response to a valid legal process.

Change in control or sale

We may share your personal data if we are involved in a merger, sale, or acquisition of corporate entities or business units as described in this Privacy Statement.

Please note that some of the features on our Service include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or allow us to share personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.

Finally, we may share de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.

Your choices regarding our processing of your personal data

We provide choices about the personal data we collect about you.

We retain and use your information as described in this Privacy Statement, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile within 90 days of your request. After an account has been deleted, certain data will remain. However, we will delete or de-identify your personal data, including your username and email address by associating them with a ghost user.

If PairDown processes personal data other than your profile information, such as information about you PairDown receives from third parties, then you may, subject to applicable law, access, update, alter, delete, object to or restrict the processing of your personal data by contacting PairDown Support.

Additionally, if you are unable to access certain personal data we have via the means described above, you can request access by contacting us as described at the bottom of this privacy statement.

Communication preferences

We use your email address to communicate with you, if you've said that's okay, and only for the reasons you've said that's okay. For example, if you contact our Support team with a request, we respond to you via email. You have control over how your email address is used and shared with other Users on and through our Service. You may manage your communication preferences in your profile's email settings.

We may also send marketing emails, based on your choices and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. There's an "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of each of the marketing emails we send you.

Please note that you cannot opt out of receiving important communications from us, such as emails from our Support team or system emails, but you can configure your notifications settings in your profile to opt out of other communications.

Our use of cookies and tracking technologies

Cookies and tracking technologies

PairDown uses cookies to provide, secure and improve our Service or to develop new features and functionality of our Service. For example, we use them to (i) keep you logged in, (ii) remember your preferences, (iii) identify your device for security and fraud purposes, including as needed to maintain the integrity of our Service, (iv) compile statistical reports, and (v) provide information and insight for future development of PairDown. We provide more information about cookies on PairDown that describes the cookies we set, the needs we have for those cookies, and the expiration of such cookies.

Our emails to users may contain a pixel tag, which is a small, clear image that can tell us whether or not you have opened an email and what your IP address is. We use this pixel tag to make our email communications more effective and to make sure we are not sending you unwanted email.

The length of time a cookie will stay on your browser or device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or are deleted. The expiration time or retention period applicable to persistent cookies depends on the purpose of the cookie collection and tool used. You may be able to delete cookie data.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

We use cookies and similar technologies, such as web beacons, local storage, and mobile analytics, to operate and provide our Services.

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser on your device. A cookie can later be read when your browser connects to a web server in the same domain that placed the cookie. The text in a cookie contains a string of numbers and letters that may uniquely identify your device and can contain other information as well. This allows the web server to recognize your browser over time, each time it connects to that web server.

Web beacons are electronic images (also called "single-pixel" or "clear GIFs") that are contained within a website or email. When your browser opens a webpage or email that contains a web beacon, it automatically connects to the web server that hosts the image (typically operated by a third party). This allows that web server to log information about your device and to set and read its own cookies. In the same way, third-party content on our websites (such as embedded videos, plug-ins, or ads) results in your browser connecting to the third-party web server that hosts that content.

Mobile identifiers for analytics can be accessed and used by apps on mobile devices in much the same way that websites access and use cookies.

How do we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies?

The PairDown Services use cookies and similar technologies for a variety of purposes, including to store your preferences and settings, enable you to sign-in, analyze how our Services perform, track your interaction with the Services, develop inferences, combat fraud, and fulfill other legitimate purposes. Some of these cookies and technologies may be provided by third parties, including service providers. For example, our analytics partners may use these technologies in our Services to collect personal information (such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and similar usage information, identifiers, and device information) related to your online activities over time and across Services for various purposes.

We and/or our partners also share the information we collect or infer with third parties for these purposes.

The table below provides additional information about how we use different types of cookies:

What are your cookie choices and controls?

• If your browser sends a Do Not Track (DNT) signal, PairDown will not set non-essential cookies and will not load third party resources which set non-essential cookies.
• Many browsers provide cookie controls which may limit the types of cookies you encounter online. Check out the documentation for your browser to learn more.
• If you enable a browser extension designed to block tracking, such as Privacy Badger, non-essential cookies set by a website or third parties may be disabled.
• If you enable a browser extension designed to block unwanted content, such as uBlock Origin, non-essential cookies will be disabled to the extent that content that sets non-essential cookies will be blocked.
• You may use the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to communicate your privacy preferences. If PairDown detects the GPC signal from your device, PairDown will not share your data (we do not sell your data). To learn more, visit Global Privacy Control — Take Control Of Your Privacy These choices are specific to the browser you are using. If you access our Services from other devices or browsers, take these actions from those systems to ensure your choices apply to the data collected when you use those systems.

Retention of personal data

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations. For example, we may retain your personal data for longer periods, where necessary, subject to applicable law, for security purposes.

How PairDown secures your information

PairDown takes reasonable measures necessary to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction; maintain data accuracy; and help ensure the appropriate use of your personal data. To help us protect personal data, we request that you use a strong password and never share your password with anyone or use the same password with other sites or accounts.

PairDown personnel does not access private content except for

• security purposes
• to assist the account owner with a support matter
• to maintain the integrity of the Service
• to comply with our legal obligations if we have reason to believe the contents are in violation of the law, or with your consent. PairDown will provide notice regarding private data access where not prohibited by law or if in response to a security threat or other risk to security.

How to Contact Us

If you have a privacy inquiry or concerns about the way PairDown is handling your personal data, please let us know immediately. We want to help. You may contact us by filling out the Privacy contact form. We will respond promptly.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

PairDown may change this Privacy Statement from time to time for a variety of reasons, including to comply with new laws and regulations, to cover new features and functionality, and to increase transparency. We will provide notice of material changes to this Privacy Statement through our Website at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our home page or sending email to the primary email address specified in your PairDown account.

License

This Privacy Statement is licensed under this Creative Commons Zero license.