Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 18, 2023
Introduction
We are DB8 Inc (“DB8”) provides the website www.DB8.com (the “Website”) and a platform for content generation and debate amongst its users (the “Service”), more fully described on the Website and in our Terms of Service.
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information DB8 collects about you and why, what we do with that information, how we share it, and how we handle the content you place in our products and services. For the purposed of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" means is any information related to an identifiable individual or that may be used to identify an individual. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding Personal Information, including Personal Information of visitors to our Website and of account holders of our Service (“Account Holders”).
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy each time you use our Website or our Services to see if the policy has been changed, as indicated by the “Effective Date” set out above. We may at our discretion choose to highlight the fact that we made material changes by posting a notice on our Website and/or by sending you a notice (if we have your contact details), as appropriate.
Information you provide us:
Using our service as a data subject, any person whose personal data is being collected, held, or processed, certain information must be provided.
If you are a user of the Website or the Service, you may provide us with Personal Information. The type of information collected includes your email and user name. This information is used to send email newsletters and surveys. This information is also used to create audiences for targeting on Facebook, Google, etc.
If you have an account with DB8 you may choose to provide us with Personal Information through your Account. The type of information collected includes your name; email address; phone number; city/location; age; gender; and other self-identified demographics such as your generation, work status, etc. As an account holder, you will need to provide us with at minimum a username and password. This information is used for sending email newsletters and surveys to you as part of the Service. This information is also used to allow for filtering on DB8’s survey results.
By Contacting Us. When you contact us (whether via email or through the Website or one of our social media accounts), we collect any Personal Information you choose to provide to us.
By Applying to Work with Us. If you would like to work with us and submit hiring materials to us, we collect any Personal Information you share with us in your hiring materials, such as your resume, cover letter, transcripts, or certifications.
Information we collect from your use of DB8 Service
DB8 may also collect certain information from visitors, account holders, and subscribers of the Website, such IP address(es), the device and browser type, the web page you visited before coming onto DB8’s sites, what pages on our sites you visited, the duration that you visited the sites for, identifiers associated with your device, traffic, logs, referring/exit pages, date and time of visits, error information, clockstream data, and estimated or precise geo-locations . This information is logged to help diagnose technical problems, to administer our Website and in order to constantly improve the quality of the Services. We may also track and analyze non-identifying and aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our visitors, account holders, and subscribers and provide such information to third parties. Our third-party partners may also use this information to help them better manage content on our Website.
How We Use Personal Information.
We use your Personal Information in the following ways:
To authenticate and verify you during account creation;
To provide access to the Service and Website;
To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance the Service and Website;
To develop new products, features, and services;
To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information relating to the Services, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide customer support;
For marketing and advertising purposes, such as developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be relevant, valuable, or otherwise of interest to you, where you have subscribed to receive such materials;
To find and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise;
For compliance purposes, as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency; and
For other purposes for which we provide notice at the time the Personal Information is collected.
DB8 reserves the right to aggregate and anonymize Personal Information shared by you via the Services and use such aggregated and anonymized information as we see fit.
Cookies on the Website
When you interact with the Website we strive to make that experience easy and meaningful. When you come to our Website, our web server sends a cookie to your computer. Cookies are files that web browsers place on a computer's hard drive and are used to tell us whether visitors, account holders, and subscribers have visited the Website previously. If you click on a link to a third-party Website, such third party may also transmit cookies to you.
Standing alone, cookies do not identify you personally. They merely recognize your browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to DB8, either by responding to a promotional offer, opening an account, or registering for a free trial, you remain anonymous to DB8. Cookies come in two flavors: session and persistent-based. Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you've closed your browser or turned off your computer. They include such information as a unique identifier for your browser.
Who we share your information with
We may share your Personal Information with our selected business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you. For example, these business partners may include our web hosting provider and our IT service providers.
We use a number of sub processors and service providers to both assist us in providing the Website and Services and in addition, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case information held by us about our visitors, account holders, and subscribers and their End Users will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our visitors, account holders, and subscribers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Data Retention
Following termination of your account, or if you remove any User-Generated Content from the Services, we may retain your User-Generated Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. Furthermore, DB8 and its users may retain and continue to use, store, display, reproduce, share, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute any of your User-Generated Content that otherwise has been stored or shared through the Website or the Service. Accordingly, note that our license to your User-Generated Content continues even if you stop using the Services pursuant to our Terms of Service. When you post something publicly, others may choose to comment on it, making your Content part of a social conversation.
Our servers and those of third parties who may receive your Personal Information may be located outside of Canada. Accordingly, your Personal Information may be available to foreign governments or their agencies under a lawful order, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
Your data rights
You have the following rights in respect of your Personal Information:
The right to access the Personal Information we hold about you.
The right to require us to rectify any inaccurate Personal Information about you without undue delay.
As an account holder or subscriber of DB8, you have the following rights:
The right to have us erase any Personal Information we hold about you in circumstances such as where it is no longer necessary for us to hold the Personal Information or, in some circumstances, if you have withdrawn your consent to the processing.
The right to object to us processing Personal Information about you such as processing for profiling or direct marketing.
The right to ask us to provide your Personal Information to you in a portable format or, where technically feasible, for us to port that Personal Information to another provider provided it does not result in a disclosure of Personal Information relating to other people.
The right to request a restriction of the processing of your Personal Information.
The right to address a challenge concerning the personal information handling policies and practices at DB8.
Where our processing of your Personal Information is based on your consent to that processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time but any processing that we have carried out before you withdrew your consent remains lawful. You may exercise any of the above rights by contacting contact@db8.com.
Contact Us
If you want to enforce any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your Personal Information, please contact our Data Protection Officer per the information below:
a. Via email: Email us at contact@db8.com using the subject line “Attention: Privacy Officer”.
b. Via mail: Mail us correspondence to: 151 Charles Street W, Kitchener, ON, N2G 1H6, Canada