FileScience Privacy Statement

Effective Date: September 29, 2020

 

This FileScience Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement") describes how FileScience and its affiliates (together, "FileScience" or "we") collect and process information about you.

 

We appreciate that you trust us when you provide us with your information. Protection of information is our top priority because we want to keep your trust.

 

We design all of our products and services with data protection in mind. We work hard to keep your information secure. We regularly monitor and update our security practices to help better protect your privacy.

 

In this Privacy Statement, (i) to "process" personal data means to perform any operation on the information, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organizing, storing, adapting, use, disclosure, combining, erasing or destroying and (ii) "personal data" means data that identifies, directly or indirectly, an individual natural person.

 

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, THEN PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO US OR USE THE SERVICES.

 

  1. WHERE THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT APPLIES

This Privacy Statement applies to our "Services", which means public portions of FileScience’s websites, including, but not limited to FileScience.io (https://www.filescience.io), FileScience Cloud-to-Cloud (https://cloud.filescience.io), and registered users of these websites and our Core Products. If a particular product, website or service posts its own privacy policy, then that policy -- not this Privacy Statement -- applies when they are inconsistent.

 

Our right to process personal data also is described in our agreements ("Customer Agreements") with our business customers ("Customers"). In our Customer Agreements, FileScience is typically contractually prohibited from accessing the personal data that Customers store and otherwise process through FileScience’s Services. If a provision of a Customer Agreement conflicts or otherwise is inconsistent with a provision of this Privacy Statement, then the term of the Customer Agreement will prevail to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency.

 

This Privacy Statement does not apply to information that is collected by any third-party website or service that you access through the Services.

 

  1. DATA CONTROLLER

The data controller (i.e., the person who or entity that determines the purpose and means of processing) for the personal data collected pursuant to this Privacy Statement is Cyber Guardian Consulting Group, LLC. d/b/a FileScience, 63 John Street – Suite 3, Kingston, NY 12401.

 

Please note that when we collect personal data pursuant to a Customer Agreement, we typically act as a data processor on behalf of our Customer.

 

  1. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

Use of the Services sometimes involves cross-border transfers of personal data.

For cross-border transfers of personal data, FileScience uses appropriate safeguards to require that your personal data be protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable data protection laws. These safeguards include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46 GDPR) and other valid mechanisms for transfers of personal data among our affiliates and data processors.

 

 

  1. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

The Effective Date of this Privacy Statement is set forth at the top of this webpage. As we add new features to the Services, differ our operations or are required by applicable laws, we may amend this Privacy Statement. If we make a material change to the Privacy Statement that reduces your privacy rights, we will notify you in advance through the Services. Your continued use of the Services after the Effective Date constitutes your acceptance of the amended Privacy Statement. The amended Privacy Statement supersedes all previous versions.

 

  1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal data you choose to give us

 

When you use the Services, we collect the personal data that you give us when using the Services. This includes:

Personal data FileScience does not seek to collect

 

FileScience does not need special categories of personal information (also known as "sensitive personal information or data"), as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to provide the Services. FileScience avoids collecting sensitive personal data from you through the Services or otherwise. Unless FileScience specifically requests it, please do not provide sensitive personal data to FileScience. If you choose to provide FileScience with unsolicited sensitive personal data, FileScience will process it only as necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. In the rare circumstances in which FileScience does seek to collect sensitive personal data, FileScience will do so in accordance with data protection laws and/or ask for your consent.

 

Information we receive from others

 

We receive information about you from others, including our vendors, service providers, resellers and other business partners. We also receive information about you from the third parties that help us operate the Services, such as for fraud detection, digital forensics, marketing services (such as when we acquire information on potential leads) and similar functions.

Information collected when you use the Services

 

When you use the Services, we collect information about which features you use and how you use them and information about the computer, tablet or mobile telephone ("Device") that you use to access the Services (collectively, "Usage Data"). Usage Data is personal data under certain privacy laws.

FileScience collects the following Usage Data:

We may link personal data and Usage Data or different types of Usage Data. We also may link personal data that we collect with publicly-available personal data, such as personal data available in public databases. If the linked information directly or indirectly identifies an individual natural person, we will treat it as personal data.

 

Voice data

 

We do not keep and process your voice data.

 

FileScience Customer Experience Program

 

FileScience collects certain information through the FileScience Customer Experience Program ("CEP").

Unless you consent to FileScience processing your personal data as part of CEP, FileScience will only collect pseudonymized Usage Data as part of CEP. FileScience gathers such pseudonymized Usage Data to improve FileScience products and services. FileScience achieves the pseudonymization by associating such data with a randomly generated number (pseudonym) instead of the personal ID associated with your FileScience account. FileScience cannot identify you by the pseudonym without you providing additional information to FileScience for identification purposes.

If you consent to FileScience processing your personal data as part of CEP, FileScience will connect your personal data to your CEP Usage Data. The personal data FileScience connects to your CEP Usage Data is limited to your FileScience account ID and account information. As in this case FileScience links personal data and Usage Data, FileScience treats the CEP Usage Data linked to your personal data as personal data. Your consent to FileScience processing your personal data as part of CEP allows FileScience to provide you more specific feedback and guidance about FileScience products, services, and features operation. You can consent to FileScience processing your personal data as part of CEP by checking the corresponding box in the product settings.

 

Information collected through Data Collection Technology

 

We use cookies, pixel tags (also known as web beacons, flash cookies, and clear GIFs) and similar technology ("Data Collection Technology") to automatically collect information about you when you use the Services. Please read Section 6 below to learn more about how FileScience uses Data Collection Technology.

 

Other information with your consent

 

We collect other information when you give us permission at the time of collection for the purposes disclosed to you at that time.

 

  1. COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY

Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer's hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the "lifetime" of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Services.

Cookies set by FileScience are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by other parties are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable FileScience to provide third-party features or functionality on or through the website (such as interactive content and analytics). Third-party cookies recognize your browser when it visits the Services and also when it visits certain other websites and services.

Cookies also are typically categorized as "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies. Session cookies are erased when your web browser is closed. For example, a session cookie tracks how you navigate through the Services so that you do not need to re-enter the same information during the same visit to the Services. Persistent cookies store your preferences and other information for your current and future visits – they are still stored in your browser when you reopen your browser. For example, we may use persistent cookies to record your choice of language and country location.

 

FileScience also uses other types of data collection technology, such as web beacons (also called a pixel tag or clear GIF). A web beacon is a piece of computer code that enables us to monitor user activity and website traffic.

 

To learn more about cookies, web beacons and other data collection technology, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

How We Use Data Collection Technology

 

Data collection technology helps us improve your experience of the Services by, for example, storing your website language preferences, so you do not have to select it each time you use the Services, compiling statistics about use of the Services, helping us analyze technical and navigational information about the Services, and detecting and preventing fraud.

 

The Services use the following cookies:

We use Google Analytics to better understand how our visitors and customers use our Services. Please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for more information about how Google uses the information it collects through our websites. For Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, please see https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Please see also Section 13 below.

Detailed description of the specific cookies used, including their purpose and expiration period can be found in FileScience’s Cookie notice.

 

Cookie Management

 

You can control and manage cookies using the Privacy Preference center, if FileScience makes it available in your region, or directly in your browser. Most browsers allow viewing, managing, deleting or blocking cookies. Please be aware that if you delete or block cookies directly in your browser then some of your preferences can be lost, as well as some functionality may no longer be available, including the ability to opt-out and mange cookies via the Privacy Preference center as this function itself uses cookie for keeping your preferences.

 

You may find the guidelines on how to control cookies for common browsers at the links below:

Our Statement on Do Not Track Signals

 

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome) incorporate a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain personal data about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option, and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including FileScience, do not respond to DNT signals.

 

  1. HOW WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA

FileScience processes personal data:

FileScience processes Usage Data:

  1. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

FileScience may share personal data collected through the Services as follows:

 

With our affiliates: We provide personal data to our affiliates that process personal data for purposes consistent with those described in this Privacy Statement or notified to you when your personal data are collected. For example, we may share your contact information as part of an attendee lists with our affiliates.

 

With our vendors and services providers: We share information with our vendors, including customer service, marketing and security testing service providers. FileScience will ensure that any vendor with which we share personal data agrees to safeguard it. Please also see Section 13 below for more information about how FileScience uses Google’s services.

 

With resellers: We share personal data with our resellers and other third parties that promote, resell and/or white-label the Services and receive personal data from them.

 

As part of a corporate transaction: We may share and transfer personal data if we are involved in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control by FileScience or any affiliated company (in each case, whether in whole or in part).

 

When required by law: FileScience or FileScience’s affiliates may use servers and other equipment to provide the Services that are located in countries where litigants, law enforcement, courts, and other agencies of the government may have the right to access personal data stored within their jurisdictions upon terms and conditions provided by local law. FileScience also may provide access to your personal data to government authorities if FileScience suspects or believes that your data contains prohibited content or data or that the data is used for illegal purposes. FileScience reserves the right to disclose personal data to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party when we believe disclosure is necessary. When reasonably possible, FileScience will provide notice of any required or requested disclosure and reasonably cooperate to limit such disclosure to the extent allowed by law.

 

For other lawful disclosures: We also share information (i) if disclosure would mitigate FileScience’s liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect legal rights of FileScience, users, Customers, vendors, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to pursue available remedies or limit the damages; (iv) to enforce our agreements; and (v) to respond to an emergency.

FileScience may aggregate information collected through the Services and remove identifiers so that the information no longer identifies or can be used to directly identify an individual, household or device ("Aggregated Information"). FileScience may share Aggregated Information with third parties and does not limit third parties' use of the Aggregated Information.

 

  1. YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

This section contains specific privacy notices for individuals located in the European Union and for California residents.

 

IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN A JURISDICTION WITH DATA PROTECTION LAWS THAT OFFER YOU PRIVACY RIGHTS NOT DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE CONTACT US AT privacy@filescience.io. We respect your privacy rights and will do our best to accommodate your requests.

 

Lawful bases for processing: We need to inform users about the legal bases for our processing of their personal data. Our legal bases depend on the context in which the personal data are processed.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we process your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@filescience.io.

 

Your data protection rights: For personal data for which we are the data controller and for which applicable law grants you data protection rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@filescience.io. If you would like to submit a request to review your personal data, to correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete personal data about you which you have previously provided to us or if you would like to receive an electronic copy of your personal data, including for purposes of transmitting it to another company (i.e., right to portability), to object to processing based on legitimate interest, including the absolute right that we stop using your data for direct marketing, to withdraw previously given consent or object to automated decision making and profiling, please reach to us in each case, when these rights are provided to you by law.

 

Specifically:

Note that FileScience does not carry out automated decision-making and profiling creating legal effects or significantly affecting data subjects.

 

In your request, please make clear what personal data you would like to have changed or to what processing you object, whether you would like to have your personal data deleted or what other limitations you would like to put on our use of your personal data. We will respond your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in accordance with data protection regulations.

We may reject some requests, including if the request is unlawful, duplicative or if it may infringe on privacy rights of a third party.

 

Please note that we often need to retain certain data for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transaction that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase, you may not be able to change or delete the personal data provided until after the completion of such purchase). Our databases and other records may have residual data which will not be removed. If you have additional questions regarding the correction or deletion of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us at privacy@filescience.io.

 

If our products and services are made available to you by a Customer pursuant to a Customer Agreement, your eligibility to receive incentives and rewards, if any are offered, may be adversely affected by your election to remove personal data about you. Please contact the Customer for further information.

 

Marketing Emails: If you do not wish to receive marketing-related emails from us, please click the unsubscribe link in one of our marketing emails.

 

Accountability: you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal data. Please see https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

 

If you are a resident of the United Kingdom, you have the right to lodge a complaint to ICO. For more details, please see https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.

 

For California residents

 

This California Privacy Rights Notice ("California Privacy Notice") explains privacy rights available to residents of the State of California as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA").

 

If this California Privacy Notice and any provision in the rest of our Privacy Statement conflict, then this California Privacy Notice controls for the processing of Personal Information of residents of the State of California. In CCPA, California residents are referred as "consumers" and we refer to them in this California Privacy Notice as "California Consumers" and "Personal Information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California Consumer or household.

 

Your California Consumer Privacy Rights

 

CCPA offers California Consumers the following key privacy rights:

More information on CCPA and how you can exercise your consumer privacy rights can be found here: https://filescience.io/ccpa

 

The following table lists categories of Personal Information that generally match the categories in the definition of Personal Information in CCPA. We indicate for each listed category the specific types of Personal Information in the category that we have collected within the past 12 months and why we collect it. We provide information about how we use and disclose Personal Information above in our Privacy Statement.

 

Category of Personal Information listed in CCPA

Examples of Personal Information in CCPA Category that FileScience Collects

Why FileScience Collects this Personal Information

A. Identifiers

Name, postal address, email address, unique identifier, Internet Protocol address, account name, and similar identifiers.
Unless you choose to apply for employment with FileScience, we do not collect your social security number, driver’s license number or passport number.

We collect your name, telephone number, email address and contact address when you buy products and services or create an account. If you choose to create an account, you also must create a username and we will assign one or more unique identifiers to your account.
We also collect this Personal Information

  • To troubleshoot problems
  • To learn how users interact with and the Services
  • To improve the Services and develop new features
  • To customize your experience
  • To promote our products and services and to conduct trainings on them
  • To communicate with you
  • To deliver online and offline events
  • To complete transactions requested by you

We automatically collect your IP address, your computer and/or mobile device ID, domain server, type of device(s), browser type and language, operating systems time zones, the date and time of your use of our products and services and referral URL. We use this information (some of which we refer to as "Usage Data" in our Privacy Statement) to troubleshoot problems, learn how users interact with the Services and to improve the Services and develop new features.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))

Name, signature, address, telephone number and current employer and work address.
Unless you choose to apply for employment with FileScience, we do not collect employment history, medical information or your health insurance information unless you choose to specifically provide it to us.

N/A

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Except as required by law, we do not collect information about legally-protected classifications, including race, national origin, citizenship, marital status, gender, sexual orientation/identity, medical condition, AIDS/HIV status, genetic information, military or veteran status, religion, disability, political affiliations or activities or status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking.

N/A

D. Commercial information

Records products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

We create records of the Services purchased or considered, as well as your purchasing history in order to provide you with the Services that you have purchased and to offer other products that may be useful to you.


You provide payment and billing information when you purchase our products and services process your credit/debit card number – this information is collected by a third-party payment card processor and not shared with us.

E. Biometric information

We do not collect information about your physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics.

N/A

F. Internet or other similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information on a California Consumer’s interaction with online services and digital advertisements.

We collect information about your browsing history, search history, information on your wireless and mobile network connection (e.g., service provider and signal strength), identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and information associated with your interactions with our products and services. We use this information (some of which is "Usage Data" as described in our Privacy Statement) to help us learn how our Customers and users’ access and use our products and services and to improve the consumer experience. We also automatically collect information about interactions with our digital advertisements in order to understand which of our Services are most popular and to improve our marketing efforts.

G. Geolocation data

Physical location or movements from GPS, WiFi and/or Bluetooth (when a device’s operating system settings allow collection).

We collect your IP address automatically. We may be able to determine your general location based on the IP address. Our mobile applications do not collect your precise location (e.g., your GPS coordinates).

H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information.

Recorded telephone calls.

If you contact us via telephone, we may record the telephone call. As required by law, we will notify you if a call is recorded at the beginning of the telephone call. We do not collect any thermal, olfactory or similar information.

I. Professional or employment-related information

Depending on how and why you use the Services, we may collect information about your current employer who or that is the Customer or a prospective customer.

We may use information about your position and your current employer, so that we can associate you with a particular Customer or account, to understand more about you in order to provide you with relevant information to promote our products and services, to deliver advertising and to communicate with you.

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

N/A

N/A

K. Inferences drawn from other categories (A. – J above) to create a profile about a California Consumer

Profile reflecting your preferences and characteristics.

We may analyze your actual or likely preferences through the Personal Information we collect and process as described in our Privacy Statement. On some occasions, we may add our observations to your internal profile. We analyze Customer and user behavior through our CEP and other quality assurance and improvement programs.

FileScience does not sell (within the meaning of CCPA) your Personal Information to third parties and accordingly, we do not provide you with information about how to opt-out of sale of your Personal Information. If this policy changes, we will notify you and provide you with information about how to opt out of sale of your personal data by us. Sharing your personal data with our service providers is not a sale of your personal data because we make sure that our service providers are contractually obligated to use the personal data only to provide services to us and not sell it. FileScience will ensure that any service provider with which we share personal data contractually agrees to safeguard it and not sell it or otherwise exchange it for value.

 

HOW TO SUBMIT A REQUEST TO EXERCISE YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

To submit a request to exercise your privacy rights:

  1. Send an email to privacy@filescience.io with the subject line "California Privacy Rights Request."

Please note:

A different California law permits California residents to request a notice disclosing the categories of Personal Information about you that we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. At this time, FileScience does not share Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes

 

If at any time you believe that FileScience has not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please contact us at privacy@filescience.io. We will use good faith efforts to determine and correct the problem.

 

  1. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES

The Services may include links to third-party websites and services that are not operated by us. When you click these links, you will be directed away from the Services. A link to a third-party website or service does not mean that we endorse it, or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit a third-party website or service, you are subject to its privacy practices and policies, not ours. This Privacy Statement does not apply to any personal data that you provide to these other websites and services.

 

  1. PROTECTION & RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

We take precautions intended to help protect personal data that we collect and store for ourselves and our Customers. We also expect that you will use appropriate security measures to protect your information. For more information on what security measures FileScience applies, please check: https://www.filescience.io/data-processing-terms/.

 

We may suspend your use of all or part of the Services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that information you provided to us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at privacy@filescience.io.

 

We keep your personal data only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law. In practice, this means that we delete or anonymize personal data in your account to which we have access not later than after three (3) years of continuous inactivity unless we must keep it to comply with applicable law or because an issue, claim or dispute is not yet resolved.

 

  1. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our products and services are not directed to or intended for use by minors. If we learn that we have received any information directly from a child under age 16 without his or her parent’s verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use the Services.

 

  1. G SUITE1TERMS AND CONDITIONS

FileScience utilizes certain Google APIs to provide backup and recovery services for your data in the following G Suite products: Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Team Drives (collectively, "Google User Data"). In order to provide such backup and recovery Services to you, FileScience requires read-only access to the lists of users and Team Drives in your G Suite organizational structure as well as reading and writing access to all other Google User Data.

 

FileScience stores the Google User Data in data centers operated by FileScience or FileScience’s data center providers.

 

FileScience does not share the Google User Data with third parties without appropriate consent except as follows:

  1. HOW TO CONTACT US

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@filescience.io

 

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