Privacy & Cookie Policy

Last update: July 17, 2018

Thanks for entrusting popowayCloud with your projects, your data, and your personal information. Holding onto your private information is a serious responsibility, and we want you to know how we’re handling it.

The short version

Summarized Privacy Policy of popowayCloud

This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.
Personal Data collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

• Analytics
  popowayCloud Analytics
  Google Analytics
  Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
• Contacting the User
  Contact form
  Personal Data: username and email address
• Registration and authentication
  Direct registration
  Personal Data: username, password and email address

We collect your information only with your consent; we only collect the minimum amount of personal information that is necessary to fulfill the purpose of your interaction with us; we don’t sell it to third parties; we don’t share it with our partners without your consent; you can ask us to delete your data at any time or change the way we communicate with you; and we only use it as this Privacy & Cookie Policy describes.

Of course, the short version doesn’t tell you everything, so please read on for more details!

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What information we collect and why

Privacy Policy of popowayCloud

This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Data Controller and Owner

Please refer to Credits (https://blog.popoway.cloud/credits/) part for the entire list and more information.

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies, Usage Data, username, email address, password and User ID.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.
All Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or the functioning of the service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Data Controller’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Registration and authentication and Contacting the User.

The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

• Analytics
  The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

popowayCloud Analytics

popowayCloud Analytics is an analytics software used by this Application to analyze data directly without the help of third parties.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics lets the Owner measure advertising ROI as well as track Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. Please read this support page for the mechanism and algorithm behind Google Analytics and AdWords, and the opt-out choice: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548

We have implemented the following:
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• Demographics and Interests Reporting

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

• Contacting the User
  The services contained in this section offer users a method to communicate with the Owner for the sake of product improvements and necessary support of product.

Contact form

By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

Personal Data collected: email address and User ID.

• Registration and authentication
  By registering or authenticating, Users allow this Application to identify them and give them access to dedicated services.
  Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services. In this case, this Application will be able to access some Data, stored by these third party services, for registration or identification purposes.

Direct registration (This Application)

The User registers by filling out the registration form and providing the Personal Data directly to this Application.

Personal Data collected: email address, password and username.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User’s Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.

This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Users have the right, at any time, to ask the Data Controller for the deletion of their data.

Users have the right to change the method and frequency that the Data Controller communicate with them.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page (https://www.popoway.cloud/cookie) often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the top part of this page. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.

Definitions and legal references