Introduction

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all visitors and users of the pws.peerxp.com hosted services and websites (collectively, the “Website” or “Websites”), which are offered by PWSLab. Self-managed PWSLab instances are not included in the definition of Website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using any part of the Websites, you acknowledge you have been informed of and consent to our practices with regard to your personal information and data.

What information PWSLab collects and why

Information from Website Visitors

Like most website operators, PWSLab collects basic non-personally-identifying information from Website visitors of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. We collect this information to better understand how visitors use the Website, to improve our Websites and experience for visitors, and to monitor the security of the Websites. From time to time, PWSLab may publicly release non-personally-identifying information collected from Website visitors in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Website.

PWSLab also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from visitors. PWSLab does not use such information to identify or track individual visitors, however. We collect this information to understand how visitors use the Websites, to improve performance and content, and to monitor the security of the Websites.

Usage Data Information from Self-managed PWSLab Instances

PWSLab collects information about usage from each self-managed PWSLab instance through a usage ping. The usage ping sends a payload containing data such as a total number of projects and pipelines, as well as license information and hostname to PWSLab. Only aggregates of usage data are sent: no project names or other content is sent to PWSLab. You can view the exact payload of the usage ping in the administration panel in PWSLab. Here you can also opt-out of the usage ping.

Personally-Identifying Information

Users of the Websites may choose to interact with PWSLab in ways that provide us with their personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that PWSLab gathers depend on the nature of your interaction with us, as well as the amount of information you choose to share. For example, we ask visitors who use our blog forums to provide a username and email address to identify them on the Website. We will also collect the information you provide with us in connection with creating an account on the Website. Profile information is shared publicly, as well as an activity under your profile and the date your profile was created. If you report a security vulnerability to PWSLab and request public acknowledgment, then we may publicly disclose the personal information you provided to us in connection with the report, including your name to fulfill your request for acknowledgment. In each case, PWSLab collects such personally-identifiable information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the user’s interaction with or request of PWSLab. We will not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this Privacy Policy.

Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent you from engaging in certain Website-related activities or being able to access and use certain features and services.

Information PWSLab Does Not Collect

PWSLab does not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers, genetic data, health information, or religious information. Although PWSLab does not request or intentionally collect any sensitive personal information, we realize that users might store this kind of information in a PWSlab repository.

Bases for Processing Your Information

Performance of a contract. The use of your information may be necessary to perform the contract that you have with us. For example, if you use our Websites to purchase PWSLab product subscriptions or services, post and comment through our Websites, or request information through our Websites, we will use your information to carry out our obligation to complete and administer that contractor request.

Legitimate interests. We use your information for our legitimate interests, such as to provide you with the best content through our Websites and communications with users and the public, to improve and promote our products and services, and for administrative, security, fraud prevention, and legal purposes.

Consent. We may rely on your consent to use your personal information for certain direct marketing purposes, such as sending you newsletter updates about PWSLab products. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the unsubscribe feature provided with each marketing email or by contacting us at the addresses given at the end of this Privacy Policy.

How PWSLab uses and protects personally-identifying information

Sharing Your Information

PWSLab only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to those of its employees that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on PWSLab’s behalf or to provide services available on the Website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

PWSLab will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, as described above, PWSLab discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when PWSLab believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of PWSLab, third parties, or the public at large.

PWSLab takes measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

International Transfer of Information

The Website is hosted in India. Our employees that process information for us as described above may be located in India or in other countries outside of your home country; by using the Website, you consent to the international transfer of your information by PWSLab.

PWSLab Communications with You

If you are a registered user of the Websites and have supplied your email address, PWSLab may occasionally send you an email to tell you about security, system information, new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with PWSLab and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. We will only send mass marketing emails with your affirmative consent. There’s an unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each of the marketing emails we send you so you can stop receiving such emails at any time.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish your request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We will not publish your personally-identifiable information in connection with your request.

Cookies, Tracking Technologies and Do Not Track

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. PWSLab uses cookies to help PWSLab identify and track visitors, their usage of the Websites, and their Website access preferences. PWSLab visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers may set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Websites. Disabling browser cookies may cause certain features of PWSLab’s websites to not function properly.

Certain pages on the Website may set other third-party cookies. For example, we may embed content, such as videos, from another site that sets a cookie. These sites set their own cookies and we do not have access or control over these cookies. The use of cookies by third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies

We use third party tracking services, but we don’t use these services to track you individually or collect your personally identifiable-information. We use these services to collect information about how the Website performs and how users navigate through and use the Website so we can monitor and improve our content and Website performance.

Third party tracking services gather certain simple, non-personally identifying information over time, such as your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring and exit pages, timestamp, and similar data about your use of the Website. We do not link this information to any of your personal information such as your username.

Do Not Track

“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference you can set in your browser if you do not want online services to collect and share certain kinds of information about your online activity from third-party tracking services. PWSLab does not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site beyond our basic tracking, which you may opt out of. Because we do not share this kind of data with third-party services or permit this kind of third-party data collection for any of our users, and we do not track our users on third-party websites ourselves, we do not need to respond differently to an individual browser’s Do Not Track setting.

Global Privacy Practices

Information we collect will be stored and processed in India in accordance with this Privacy Policy but we understand that users from other countries may have different expectations and rights with regard to their privacy. For all Website visitors and users, no matter their country of location, we will:

• provide clear methods of unambiguous, informed consent when we do collect your personal information;
• only collect the minimum amount of personal data necessary for the purpose it is collected for, unless you choose to provide us more;
• offer you simple methods of accessing, correcting, or deleting your information that we have collected, with the exception of information you voluntarily provide that is necessary to retain as is for the integrity of our project code as described further below; and
• provide Website users notice, choice, accountability, security, and access, and we limit the purpose for processing. We also provide our users a method of recourse and enforcement.

If you are located in the European Union, you are entitled to the following rights with regard to your personal information and data:

• Right of access to your personal data, to know what information about you we hold
• Right to correct any incorrect or incomplete personal data about yourself that we hold
• Right to restrict/suspend our processing of your personal data
• Right to complain to a supervisory authority if you believe your privacy rights are being violated

Additional rights that may apply to you in certain instances:

• Right of data portability (if our processing is based on consent and automated means)
• Right to withdraw consent at any time (if processing is based on consent)
• Right to object to processing (if processing is based on legitimate interests)
• Right to object to processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes
• Right of erasure of your personal data from our system (“right to be forgotten”) if certain grounds are met

To exercise your privacy rights, you can email us at the address given below in the ‘Contacting PWSLab About Your Privacy’ section of this Privacy Policy.

Data Retention and Deletion

If you already have an account on the Websites, you may access, update, alter, or delete your basic user profile information by logging into your account and updating profile settings.

PWSLab will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to perform our contractual obligations, provide you services through the Website, to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, preserve legal rights, or enforce our agreements.

We will delete inactive accounts after a period of twelve (12) months. We will also erase information once it is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed.

Contacting PWSLab About Your Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about the way we are handling your information, or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please email us with the subject line “Privacy Concern” at PWSLab Legal.

We will respond within 30 days of receiving your message at the latest but please note for promptest response, we recommend emailing us.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, PWSLab may change its privacy policy from time to time, and in PWSLab’s sole discretion. We will provide notification to users who have provided us email addresses of material changes to this Privacy Policy through our Website prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our home page or sending email to the email address specified in your account. PWSLab encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any minor changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.