1. About this Privacy Policy
We care about your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we, BDev Ventures LLC and our affiliates (hereinafter “BDev Ventures”), take care of your privacy. It explains how we collect, use, process, share, disclose and store your Personal Data -as this term is defined below, collected through your interactions with us; including through our website www.bdevventures.com, (hereinafter the “Site”), sale’s process, marketing activities, and other means, as further detailed on Section 3.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data”, “Personal Information” or “Information about you” means any data relating to an identified or identifiable individual including but not limited to: your name, last name, company name, email address, phone number, date of birth, card type credit or debit, card number, expiration date, postal code, details of your purchase and payment history, amongst others.
The aim of this Privacy Policy is to ensure that you understand the Personal Data we collect from you, the purposes for which we collect it, how we use it, and how we share it. In sum, to explain to you how we protect your privacy, and explain to you your rights in connection to the Personal Data we collect and process about you.
For further clarifications on this Privacy Policy, questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us (see Section 18 How to contact us).
2. About BDev Ventures
BDev Ventures LLC is a Delaware Limited Liability Company headquartered at 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 180, Mountain View, California, 94040, USA.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”), BDev Ventures is the data controller of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy, unless expressly specified otherwise. More information about our global locations is available here: www.bdevventures.com.
3. Personal Data we collect from you
The invalidity or unenforceability of any particular provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not affect the remaining provisions hereof, and these Terms and Conditions shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid or unenforceable provision had been omitted.
3.1 When do we collect your Personal Information?
- Register, or complete or submit information or forms on our website.
- Download content on our website.
- Register for webcasts, seminars, conferences, etc.
- sponsored by us, or a partner.
- Provide us with feedback and information via phone, email, social media, etc.
- Answer a survey.
- Subscribe to our newsletters or other content-related material.
- Use Live Chat.
- Use forums or leave comments on our website.
- Purchase or use BDev Ventures services.
During in-person meetings or at BDev Ventures’s events, conferences, workshops or gatherings.
Online information about you may also originate from the use of cookies and similar technologies (for example, pixel tags and device identifiers) on our Site or sites of third parties. For more information on cookies and similar technologies, please see Section 6 below.
Please note that BDev Ventures does not control the content that you may post to BDev Ventures’s forums or social networks; in some cases, such content may be publicly available on the Internet. You should carefully consider whether you wish to submit Personal Information to these forums or social networks and whether you wish to make your profile available to other users.
3.2 Categories of Personal Information and Specific Pieces of Personal Information we collect from you.
We have collected within the last twelve (12) months, and may collect in the future the following categories of Personal Information listed below from consumers, for commercial and/or business purposes under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”):
- Identifiers and registration contact information: such as name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, account name, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, or other similar identifiers.
- Customer records information: such as name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, bank account number, credit or debit card number, other financial information.
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law: such as age, gender.
- Commercial information: such as delivery information and records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies and transactions made with us.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information: device information and device identifiers, browsing type and language, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement, and data connection and use, such as information you download.
- Geolocation data: such as city, state, zip code, etc. related to your IP address.
- Inferences on your preferences and characteristics.
- Other information, such as any other information you choose to provide us directly in relation to the use of our services, surveys we send you, etc., customer information such as questions and other messages that you send us directly through online forms, chats, e-mail, phone, or post, summaries or voice recordings of your interactions with customer service.
3.3 Categories of Personal Information and Specific Pieces of Personal Information we collect from you.
We have collected within the last twelve (12) months, and may collect in the future the following categories of Personal Information listed below from consumers, for commercial and/or business purposes under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”):
- Identifiers and registration contact information: such as name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, account name, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, or other similar identifiers.
- Customer records information: such as name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, bank account number, credit or debit card number, other financial information.
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law: such as age, gender.
- Commercial information: such as delivery information and records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies and transactions made with us.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information: device information and device identifiers, browsing type and language, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement, and data connection and use, such as information you download.
- Geolocation data: such as city, state, zip code, etc. related to your IP address.
- Inferences on your preferences and characteristics.
- Other information, such as any other information you choose to provide us directly in relation to the use of our services, surveys we send you, etc., customer information such as questions and other messages that you send us directly through online forms, chats, e-mail, phone, or post, summaries or voice recordings of your interactions with customer service.
3.4 Privacy Shield Framework compliance
BDev Ventures complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States. BDev Ventures has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, BDev Ventures commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact BDev Ventures at: [email protected].
BDev Ventures has further committed to cooperate with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) with regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from the EU.
4. How do we use your Personal Data
- Such business purposes may be:
- To fulfill the purpose for which the Personal Information is provided;
- To provide you with information, products and/or services that you request from BDev Ventures;
- To communicate and respond to your requests and inquiries to BDev Ventures;
- To operate our business and provide you with our products and services: engage in transactions with clients, and process orders from our services;
- To follow up with our products and/or services after delivering them (live chat, email, or phone inquiries).
- To provide consumers with e-mail alerts, event registrations, and other notices concerning BDev
- Ventures’s products and/or services, or events or news that might be of interest to the consumer;
- To administer and improve the functionality of our Site and its technical and functional management and present its content to our clients or others;
- To analyze, develop and improve the use and performance of our Site;
- To modify, enhance, or improve our services and/or provision of such services to our clients;
- As necessary and appropriate to protect the rights, property of BDev Ventures, our clients, or others;
- To carry our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any agreement entered between BDev
- Ventures and a BDev Ventures’s clients or other contractual third-party, including billing and collections;
- For testing, research, analysis, and product and services development;
To manage the security of our Site;
To comply with applicable law and regulations to operate our business;
To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations; - As described to the consumer when collecting the consumer’s Personal Information, or as otherwise as set forth by the CCPA.
Such commercial purposes (“Commercial Purposes”) may be to market our products and/or services and/or related products and services, and to tailor our marketing and sales activities to our clients’ interests.
We do not collect additional categories of Personal Information, nor process the collected Personal Information for a different purpose than the ones described on this Privacy Policy.
The Personal Information we collect allows us to keep you posted on BDev Ventures’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events. Also, to customize the content and advertising you see on our website personalizing your experience and allowing us to deliver the type of content and product offerings you are most interested in and to send periodic emails regarding our products and/or services. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt-out anytime by accessing the following: [email protected].
4.1 Personal Data we collect automatically
Our website automatically collects certain data, through automatic data collection tools such as cookies, beacons, among others. These tools automatically collect the following information:
- Technical information including, but not limited to, browser type, operating system, device information, online identifiers including cookie data and Internet Protocol address (IP), domain name, referral URL, time zone setting, and/or time-stamp for your visit, information about your devices.
- Usage information including, but not limited to, geographic location information (such as your country and/or state), date and time you visited our Site, numbers and frequency visitors to our Site, page views and search queries, clickstream behaviors, amongst others. Also, it may include details of your use of third-party applications in connection with our service.
4.2 Sources of Personal Information. Personal Information we collect from third-parties
- Data brokers from which we purchase data to complement the data we collect.
- Partners:
- Authentication partners: if you register or log in into our services using third party credentials (e.g. Facebook) we will import your information from such third-party source to help you create an account on our website.
- Technical services partners that helps us without technology, and may provide us with certain data (e.g. such as mapping IP address to location data) to help us to provide our services,
- Advertising partners, that provide us with services on our website (analytics, marketing, etc.) providing with inferences about your preferences and interests to offer you a better service and customized offerings.
- Payment partners, if you choose to pay for a service and/or product, we may receive data from our them, to enable us to send you invoices, process your payment.
- Resellers, distributors, that deliver the product and/or service you have contracted, and therefore may supply us with data to help us provide improve our services, amongst others.
