1. What Types of Personal Information Do We Collect?

These are the categories of personal information we may collect from you:

1. Business Contact Personal Information: Your first name, last name, job title, employer name, work address, work email, and work telephone number. If you or a partner choose to provide us with other information, like your personal email address, telephone number, or mailing address, then Stacking Bytes will collect this information, too.

2. Technical and Device Information: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser information, device ID, type of computer, and technical information about how you connect to our Websites and social media platforms, such as the Operating System and the Internet Service Provider utilized. If you are required to log in to gain access to a particular Website feature or portal, we collect usernames, passwords, and other login credentials to authenticate access.

3. Subscription Information: If you make a purchase, then Stacking Bytes will collect information about subscription types.

4. Audio and Visual Data: If you attend or give a presentation during a Stacking Bytes-hosted in-person or virtual event, participate in a webinar or agree to be recorded during a telephone conversation or virtual meeting, we may record and store your voice and image and collect other personal information you provide to us, like your professional biography. If you choose to personalize your account with a photo or social media profile, then Stacking Bytes will collect this information, too. We may document events in other ways, too, such as by taking photographs, conducting interviews, and recording participation in a live question-and-answer session.

5. Cookies and Analytics Data: Stacking Bytes and our third-party service providers use cookies, local storage (HTML5), scripts, and similar technologies with all our Websites and some social media platforms so they function properly. We use such technologies to continuously improve our Websites and to customize your experience when you visit them. To some extent, cookies and analytics technologies help us provide you with custom, personalized content (including targeted advertising), identify you across multiple devices, and monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns.

6. Feedback Data: Through our Websites and social media platforms, Stacking Bytes may make available various online community forums and blogs. You may choose to participate with these resources by interacting with us, interacting with other users, or adding your own posts. Stacking Bytes may invite you to participate in studies or otherwise provide feedback about your experience. If you do so, then Stacking Bytes considers your participation and your posts to be freely given, and we may collect and use your feedback without compensation or attribution to you. However, we're under no obligation to publish, maintain, or retain any of your posts.

7. Personal Information About California Consumers Subject to the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”): Stacking Bytes may collect the following categories of personal information about California consumers. We may collect this personal information directly from you, from third-parties, and from your interactions with our Websites and social media platforms. As defined by the CCPA, the personal information categories are:

• Business contact information, including identifiers such as name, email address, address, and phone number

• Commercial information, such as records of Offerings purchased and other transactional data

• Internet or other network or device activity details, such as technical data about your use of our Websites or social media platforms

• Geolocation data, such as your approximate location based on IP address

• Audio, electronic, or visual data, such as part of a photo or recording for a Stacking Bytes in-person or virtual event.

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2. When Do We Collect Your Personal Information?

Business Contact Personal Data: Stacking Bytes collects your business contact information when you:

• Sign up to attend or participate in an in-person event or webinar

• Sign up for a contest or promotion

• Sign up for SMS or email alerts or notifications related to our Offerings

• Download a white paper or other materials

• Agree to be recorded during a telephone conversation or virtual meeting

• Log in to a Website feature or portal

• Visit a Stacking Bytes office

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Technical and Device Information: Stacking Bytes collects your technical and device information when you:

• Visit our Websites and social media platforms

• Log in to a Website feature or portal

• Sign up for and use a free product trial

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Subscription Information: Stacking Bytes collects your product subscription information when you:

• Purchase Offerings

• Sign up to attend or participate in a live event or webinar for which Stacking Bytes charges a fee

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Audio and Visual Data: Stacking Bytes collects your audio and visual data when you:

• Attend a Stacking Bytes-hosted in-person or virtual event

• Attend a partner-hosted in-person or virtual event

• Participate in a recorded telephone or conference call conversation

• Choose to personalize your account with additional information, such as a photo or social media profile

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Cookies and Analytics Technologies: Stacking Bytes uses cookies and analytics technologies when you:

• Visit our Websites and social media platforms

• Log in to a Website feature or portal

• Sign up for and use a free product trial

If you would prefer not to be tracked, most browsers will allow you to (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies — however, doing so may affect how our Websites work. For further information regarding Stacking Bytes' use of cookies and how to set your cookie preferences, please refer to the Stacking Bytes Cookie Notice.

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Feedback Data: Stacking Bytes will collect your feedback when you:

• Participate in our online community forums and blogs

• Respond to Stacking Bytes polls and questionnaires

If you interact with Stacking Bytes, interact with other users or add your own posts, then Stacking Bytes considers your participation and your posts to be freely given, and we may use your feedback without compensation or attribution to you. Stacking Bytes is under no obligation to publish, maintain, or retain any of your posts.

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3. How Do We Use Your Personal Information? 

Stacking Bytes may use your personal information to:

• Provide you with information about our Offerings and send you reports, white papers, and other resources that you specifically requested to receive from us

• Manage accounts that you create with us

• Send you SMS or email alerts or notifications related to our Offerings

• Send you information about Stacking Bytes Offerings that we believe you may be interested in when you have not opted out of receiving such marketing materials

• Analyze your feedback through surveys or research

• Contact you when a partner or other third-party makes a referral to us and we reasonably believe that they have your consent or another lawful basis for providing your personal information to Stacking Bytes. A partner is a separate organization that collaborates with Stacking Bytes to deliver solutions, services, or Offerings to customers

• Monitor and keep secure our equipment, intellectual property, physical office locations, Offerings, Websites, accounts on social media platforms, and technology assets

• Diagnose and fix problems related to our Offerings

• Maintain endpoint and network security

• Prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity

• Comply with contractual, legal, and regulatory obligations

• Enforce the terms and conditions that we agree to with our customers and those who decide to try out our Offerings before purchasing them via evaluations and free trials. Stacking Bytes Terms and Conditions

• Carry out a corporate transaction, such as a merger or sale of assets of all or part of our company

• Comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or request

• Protect your safety or the safety of others

• Interact with our professional advisors (such as auditors, insurance companies, financial service providers, and attorneys) as needed for us to run our business

• Inform third-parties (including partners and resellers of our Offerings) to the extent that you consent to such sharing (where required by applicable law) or expressly direct us to interact with such third-parties

 

In the preceding 12 months and where applicable, we have disclosed each of these categories to our service providers, affiliates, partners, resellers, and event sponsors, in line with the applicable purpose(s) described above. Business contact information provided by customers for SMS or email alerts or notifications related to our Offerings is not disclosed to third-parties for marketing or advertising purposes and is treated in accordance with Stacking Bytes Terms and Conditions.

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4. What Sources Provide Us with Personal Information?

As described above, Stacking Bytes collects personal information from you when you interact with us online or in person. We also collect your personal information from other sources when we reasonably believe that they have your consent or another lawful basis for providing your personal information to Stacking Bytes.

Other sources of personal information include:

• Partners and resellers that market and sell our Offerings

• Stacking Bytes-related companies

• Social media platforms

• Data brokers

• Providers that make user-generated content available to others, such as local business reviews or public social media posts

• Communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to seek personal information from these sources

• Referrers, who may share a contact's name and email address with us using a referral option

 

5. Does Stacking Bytes Share Your Personal Information?

When we collect and use your personal information as described in this Notice, Stacking Bytes may share it with those listed below:

• Stacking Bytes-related companies

• Service providers as necessary to provide our Offerings

• Service providers as necessary to fulfill a request made by you

• Stacking Bytes professional advisors, such as auditors, insurance providers, financial service providers, and attorneys

• Public authorities, as required by law to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or to protect Stacking Bytes or its customers

• Customers as necessary to prevent or investigate alleged fraud or other unlawful criminal activity

• Online content technology providers

• Advertisers. You may opt out by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory opt-out page here. If you are located in the European Economic Area, click here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads; you will continue to receive generic ads

• Event sponsors. In addition to this Notice, your personal information is subject to sponsors' privacy practices

• Contest and promotion sponsors

• Partners and resellers that sell our Offerings

• Your employer/organization

6. What is Stacking Bytes' Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data?

If the law requires us to have a legal reason for collecting and using your personal information, such as the European Union or United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (either, the “GDPR”), then the reason will depend on the type of information we collect and why we collect it. When you interact with Stacking Bytes as a representative of a customer or sign up for a free trial, we use your personal information either because you gave us permission (where required by law) or because we need it to fulfill an agreement we have with you or your company.
When you fill out a form to ask about Stacking Bytes or one of our Offerings, we use your personal information either with your permission (where required by law) or because it's in our legitimate interest to respond to your request, communicate with you, and send you information about our Offerings (like via marketing calls or emails, depending on your preferences).

If you sign up for newsletters or events, request a demo, download resources, or take part in surveys, we use your consent to send you more information about our Offerings that we think might interest you. You can opt out of these communications at any time.

We also rely on your consent when it comes to using cookies on our websites. You agree to this when using our sites, although cookie rules can vary based on where you are located.

If we need to use your personal information based on our legitimate interests, we will tell you this when collecting the data. Our legitimate interests include things like running our Websites, communicating with you when you ask for information, and marketing our Offerings.

Sometimes, we also need to process your information to meet legal requirements, like keeping business records or complying with tax laws.

7. Security Safeguards

We adopt data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, and we follow generally accepted practices to protect such data.

For your own safety, please note that the security of data transmitted through the internet can never be guaranteed. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your password or other form of authentication involved in accessing password-protected or secured areas of any Stacking Bytes portal. Access to and use of password-protected and/or secure areas of any Stacking Bytes portal is restricted to authorized users only.

 

8. Retention of Personal Data

Subject to the conditions and restrictions set out under applicable laws or privacy frameworks, we will retain your personal information for as long as needed to fulfill the purpose for which we collected it and for a reasonable period thereafter to comply with audit, contractual, or legal requirements or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so. We may retain aggregated or de-identified data indefinitely or to the extent allowed by applicable law. We may retain personal information in computer backup or archival copies generated in the ordinary course of our business.

 

9. Individual Privacy Rights

Subject to the conditions and restrictions set out under applicable law and/or Privacy Frameworks, you may have the following rights:

• You may request access to, and correction or deletion of, your personal information

• You may object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict its processing, and request that we provide your personal information to certain third-parties

• You may have the right to complain to Stacking Bytes and/or a data protection authority about Stacking Bytes' collection and use of your personal information

If you have consented to Stacking Bytes' collection and use of your personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on another lawful basis.

If your employer is a Stacking Bytes customer, then please contact them directly if you wish to exercise your privacy rights concerning your personal information, which they provide to Stacking Bytes to process for them. Under applicable law and the agreements we have in place with our customers, Stacking Bytes cannot respond directly to your request in this event.

If you are a California resident, then the CCPA applies to you, and you may have the right to:

• Know what kind of personal information we collect about you and how we use, disclose, share, and sell it

• Request that we correct inaccurate personal information

• Instruct us to delete your personal information

• Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. Stacking Bytes shares personal information as described above in Section 5, which may be considered a “sale” of personal information under the CCPA

• Limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal data. Stacking Bytes does not collect, share, or sell sensitive personal data

• Not receive discriminatory treatment from Stacking Bytes for exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA

• Designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf when exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA

You may exercise your privacy rights by emailing your request to dpo@stackingbytes.com. When you do so, please provide your complete name and your email address, which we'll use to communicate with you. Stacking Bytes will use this information only to verify you and process your request. If you are an authorized agent, then we reserve the right to request you demonstrate evidence of your authorization, either by providing us with a signed permission form or a copy of your power of attorney granting you such authority.

If you're a California resident, then you can opt out of the sale/share of your personal information by emailing your request to dpo@stackingbytes.com.

If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at:

Attn: Data Protection Officer
Stacking Bytes LLC
dpo@stackingbytes.com 

 

10. Updates to This Notice

We may update this Notice and its effective date at any time to reflect changes to our practices. We encourage you to periodically review this Notice for the latest about our privacy practices.