Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 14, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures onthe collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Serviceand tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve theService. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use ofinformation in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized havemeanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitionsshall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or inplural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Accountmeans a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of ourService.
Affiliatemeans an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control witha party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of theshares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election ofdirectors or other managing authority.
Company(referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us"or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Board Tales.
For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company isthe Data Controller.
Cookiesare small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any otherdevice by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on thatwebsite among its many uses.
Countryrefers to: Switzerland
DataController, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data ProtectionRegulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointlywith others determines the purposes and means of the processing of PersonalData.
Devicemeans any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone ora digital tablet.
DoNot Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatoryauthorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for theInternet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internetusers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
GDPRrefers to EU General Data Protection Regulation.
PersonalData is any information that relates to an identified or identifiableindividual.
For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Datameans any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number,location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to thephysical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or socialidentity.
Servicerefers to the Website.
ServiceProvider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalfof the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed bythe Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of theCompany, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company inanalyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, ServiceProviders are considered Data Processors.
UsageData refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use ofthe Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, theduration of a page visit).
Websiterefers to Board Tales, accessible from https://www.boardtales.org/
Youmeans the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or otherlegal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using theService, as applicable.
Under GDPR, You can be referred to as theData Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us withcertain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact oridentify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is notlimited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using theService.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device'sInternet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, thepages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the timespent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device,We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limitedto, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IPaddress of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobileInternet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sendswhenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through amobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to trackthe activity on Our Service and store certain information. Trackingtechnologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and trackinformation and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use mayinclude:
· Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on YourDevice. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate whena Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not beable to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browsersetting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
· Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails maycontain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as cleargifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example,to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for otherrelated website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certainsection and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session"Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile devicewhen You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You closeYour web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeedwebsite article.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposesset out below:
Necessary/ Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential toprovide You with services available through the Website and to enable You touse some of its features. They help to authenticate users and preventfraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that Youhave asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide Youwith those services.
CookiesPolicy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if usershave accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
FunctionalityCookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to rememberchoices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your logindetails or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide Youwith a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter yourpreferences every time You use the Website.
Trackingand Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to trackinformation about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. Theinformation gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify youas an individual visitor. This is because the information collected istypically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device youuse to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages,features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react tothem.
For more information about the cookies we use and yourchoices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookiessection of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the followingpurposes:
Toprovide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
Tomanage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service.The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalitiesof the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
Forthe performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertakingof the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchasedor of any other contract with Us through the Service.
Tocontact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or otherequivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application'spush notifications regarding updates or informative communications related tothe functionalities, products or contracted services, including the securityupdates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
Toprovide You with news, special offers and general information about othergoods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that youhave already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receivesuch information.
Tomanage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
Forbusiness transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct amerger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other saleor transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as partof bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data heldby Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
Forother purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such asdata analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of ourpromotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products,services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the followingsituations:
· With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information withService Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contactYou.
· For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personalinformation in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale ofCompany assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our businessto another company.
· With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates,in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venturepartners or other companies that We control or that are under common controlwith Us.
· With business partners: We may share Your information with Ourbusiness partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
· With other users: when You share personal information or otherwiseinteract in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewedby all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
· With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information forany other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as longas is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retainand use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legalobligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply withapplicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements andpolicies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internalanalysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period oftime, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improvethe functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain thisdata for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed atthe Company's operating offices and in any other places where the partiesinvolved in the processing are located. It means that this information may betransferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state,province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protectionlaws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Yoursubmission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensurethat Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policyand no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or acountry unless there are adequate controls in place including the security ofYour data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist indeleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certaininformation about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at anytime by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the accountsettings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You mayalso contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personalinformation that You have provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certaininformation when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or assetsale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before YourPersonal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required todisclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to validrequests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the goodfaith belief that such action is necessary to:
· Comply with a legalobligation
· Protect and defend therights or property of the Company
· Prevent or investigatepossible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
· Protect the personal safetyof Users of the Service or the public
· Protect against legalliability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, butremember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method ofelectronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commerciallyacceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee itsabsolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers We use may have access to YourPersonal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process andtransfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance withtheir Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor andanalyze the use of our Service.
GoogleAnalytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics serviceoffered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the datacollected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared withother Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize andpersonalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made youractivity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the GoogleAnalytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google AnalyticsJavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with GoogleAnalytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practicesof Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You withnewsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that maybe of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of thesecommunications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructionsprovided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage andsend emails to You.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email marketing sendingservice provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.
For more information on the privacy practicesof Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
· Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Datafor one or more specific purposes.
· Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessaryfor the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractualobligations thereof.
· Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary forcompliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
· Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order toprotect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
· Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a taskthat is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of officialauthority vested in the Company.
· Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for thepurposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify thespecific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whetherthe provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or arequirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality ofYour Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law ifYou are within the EU, to:
· Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, updateor delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you canaccess, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your accountsettings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, pleasecontact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of thePersonal Data We hold about You.
· Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. Youhave the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold aboutYou corrected.
· Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists whereWe are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processingand there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want toobject to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also havethe right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for directmarketing purposes.
· Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Usto delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us tocontinue processing it.
· Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You,or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured,commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right onlyapplies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us touse or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
· Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consenton using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be ableto provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification,cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask Youto verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make arequest, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data ProtectionAuthority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For moreinformation, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contactYour local data protection authority in the EEA.
"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by CaliforniaOnline Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third party websites do keep track of Yourbrowsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Yourpreferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to betracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settingspage of Your web browser.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. Wedo not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone underthe age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Yourchild has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become awarethat We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 withoutverification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information fromOur servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processingYour information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We mayrequire Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are notoperated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed tothat third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy ofevery site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for thecontent, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We willnotify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice onOur Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Lastupdated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodicallyfor any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they areposted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You cancontact us:
· By email:
boardtalesblog@gmail.com
