1. Introduction
1.1 thingc Robotics provides its website visitors with access to information, updates and certain products and services (the “Services”) through this website (the thingc Robotics Website”).
1.2 This Privacy Policy details the thingc Robotics practices in connection with the collection and use of information and the circumstances when thingc Robotics may disclose such collected information.
1.3 By visiting the thingc Robotics Website, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies as detailed in this Privacy Policy and you consent to the collection, use and sharing of your information by thingc Robotics as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
1.4 This Privacy Policy deals with the treatment of the personal information of website visitors to the thingc Robotics Website. This Privacy Policy does not extend to the practices of companies or people that are not controlled or managed by thingc Robotics.
2. Commitment
2.1 thingc Robotics is committed to creating a safe and secure online environment and safeguarding the privacy of its website visitors.
3. Collecting Information
3.1 Website visitors may access the thingc Robotics Website while remaining anonymous and without disclosing any personal information.
3.2 During a visit to the thingc Robotics Website, thingc Robotics may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information from website visitors, including but not limited to:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of the thingc Robotics Website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
(b) information that you provide to thingc Robotics for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
(c) information that you provide to thingc Robotics when using the Services on the thingc Robotics Website, or information that is generated in the course of the use of those Services;
(d) information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to thingc Robotics or send through the thingc Robotics Website;
(e) any other personal information that you choose to send to thingc Robotics.
4. Using Personal Information
4.1 Personal information submitted to thingc Robotics through the thingc Robotics Website will be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or on the relevant pages of the thingc Robotics Website.
4.2 thingc Robotics may use your personal information to:
(a) contact you;
(b) administer the thingc Robotics Website and business;
(c) enable your use of the Services available on the thingc Robotics Website;
(d) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(e) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(f) send you the thingc Robotics email newsletter, if you have requested it (such circulation can be terminated at any time at your request and notification to thingc Robotics);
(g) provide statistical information only to third parties about thingc Robotics users;
(h) address any queries and/or complaints made by or about you relating to the thingc Robotics Website;
(i) maintain thingc Robotics Website security and prevent fraud.
4.3 thingc Robotics will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
5. Disclosing Personal Information
5.1 thingc Robotics may disclose your personal information to any of its employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
5.2 thingc Robotics may disclose your personal information to any thingc Robotics Affiliate (which shall mean for the purposes of this Privacy Policy any individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, or joint stock company that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with such individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, or joint stock company) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
5.3 thingc Robotics may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that thingc Robotics is required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise, protect or defend the legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk) of thingc Robotics;
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that thingc Robotics are (or are contemplating) selling.
5.4 Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, thingc Robotics will not provide your personal information to third parties.
6. International Data Transfers
6.1 Information that thingc Robotics collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which thingc Robotics operates in order to enable thingc Robotics to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
6.2 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6 and as may be provided elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
7. Retaining Personal Information
7.1 This Section 7 sets out the thingc Robotics data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that thingc Robotics is compliant with its legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
7.2 Personal information that thingc Robotics processes for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, thingc Robotics will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that thingc Robotics is required to do so by law;
(b) if thingc Robotics believes that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend the legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk) of thingc Robotics.
8. Security of Personal Information
8.1 thingc Robotics will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
8.2 thingc Robotics will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.
8.3 You are advised that thingc Robotics uses third party vendors to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology required to run the thingc Robotics Website. By using the thingc Robotics Website you acknowledge that your data may be stored on a third-party storage server and transmitted through third party networks.
8.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and thingc Robotics cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
9. Amendments
9.1 thingc Robotics may at its sole discretion and without notice update this Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing a new version on the thingc Robotics Website.
9.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this Privacy Policy.
9.3 thingc Robotics may notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy by email.
10. Your Rights
10.1 You may instruct thingc Robotics to provide you with any personal information thingc Robotics may hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, thingc Robotics may accept a photocopy of your passport certified by an attorney or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
10.2 thingc Robotics may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
10.3 You may instruct thingc Robotics at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
10.4 In practice, you will usually expressly agree in advance to the use by thingc Robotics of your personal information for marketing purposes.
10.5 Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the thingc Robotics Website. If you refuse cookies, you do so with the knowledge that such refusal will result in a drawback to the extent that certain features of the thingc Robotics Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
11. Updating Information
11.1 Please let thingc Robotics know if the personal information that thingc Robotics holds about you needs to be corrected or updated.
12. Cookies
12.1 The thingc Robotics Website uses cookies.
12.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
12.3 Cookies do not typically contain any personal information that may personally identify a user, but personal information that thingc Robotics stores about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
12.4 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.
13. Child Users
13.1 Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to thingc Robotics. thingc Robotics does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 13 years for age (“Child Users”). The thingc Robotics Website is not directed to Child Users. If thingc Robotics becomes aware of personal information that has been collected from a Child User without verified parental consent, thingc Robotics will delete such information.