Privacy is core to our DNA, our culture, and our values. We are committed to making our policies clear and focused on empowering users to be masters of their identities–and their data.
What information does AcademicT collect?
When you are on our website
When you’re using our website, we track your usage which includes statistics such as which pages you visit and how long you look at them. This information may include but is not limited to IP address, geolocation information, browser type and information about the use of our website, including a history of the pages you view.
All this information is used to personalize your experience or send you onboarding emails and invoices. In cases of high-risk of fraud, we might ask for a phone number for verification purposes (we never use it for marketing purposes).
When you use our services
We monitor your usage, and log requests that you make. Those logs can include IP address, geolocation information, browser type, etc. We destroy those logs at the latest after 4 months.
When you contact our support
If you reach out via email, we keep conversations and other data you might send during those exchanges. Those conversations are removed after a period of up to 6 months.
When we parse public web data
We use servers to look at publicly available online pages and process business data on them. Only public pages are looked at and only publicly available online data that can be found by a search engine are indexed by our servers. If a website, via a robots.txt file, asks crawlers not to look at the content, we respect this indication. Our robots view systematically the robots.txt file before exploring and indexing the public data available on the website. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites.
On those public pages, we look for business data such as names, professional emails, social networks URLs, etc. If we come across private consumer data (for example a Gmail or Hotmail address), we do not process it.
How do we use your data?
To provide our services
When using our services, you agree to our Terms of Service which allows us to process your data to give you access to Academict’s data.
To improve the User Experience
We’re looking at usage patterns and various statistics to understand what to improve on AcademicT. We’re also using the data that goes through our services to improve the services themselves. We only use this information to validate data we already have or that is being supplied by a user, not to enrich our databases.
To inform businesses regarding content that is publicly displayed online
To provide the service, we also give you access to the publicly accessible business data we have indexed. It is important for our users’ (and the businesses they work for) to have access to the business data shared. This helps them discover relevant contacts within companies they want to reach out to.
To offer customer support
We provide customer support via email, to help you take full advantage of our service or fix any problem you encounter.
To fight fraud
There are always bad actors on the web: We actively fight credit card fraud and misuse of our services.
To market new services
Regularly, we launch new services. We’ll let users know about those releases if they have asked us to keep them up to date.
Your Rights, Controls and Choices
Your rights
You have the following rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you:
- To access your personal data, and some related information as described in the section below “know if we have information concerning you and what that information is”;
- To require any inaccurate personal data to be rectified, completed including by means of providing a supplementary statement;
- To require us to delete the personal data in certain circumstances;
- To require us to restrict or block the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances (when processing is restricted, we can still store your personal data, but may not use it further);
- To object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time and you may have the right to object to our processing of some or all of your personal data (and require them to be deleted) in some other circumstances;
- Where we are processing your personal data based on your consent to such processing, to withdraw your consent at any time.
Update, correct and delete your information
If you’re a client of our service, you can reach us via mail and update any of your information after we can verify your identity.
Know if we have information concerning you and what that information is
In particular, you have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:
- If you’re in our client database
- Exactly what data we hold
- How long the data will be kept
Permanently remove all of your data
If you’re a client of our service, you can delete all your data by sending a request via email. If you have any concerns, please reach out to support@academicT.com.
Duration of the processing
For users of our service, we process your data as long as you are an active client. We remove almost everything within three weeks.
If your data was found online, we process it as long as it stays online. We make sure to regularly come back where we found it, if it isn’t there anymore or if we believe that your personal data that we hold is inaccurate, we remove it from our databases and stop all processing.
Securing your data
We take the security of the data we manage very seriously and always try to keep our methods up to date. The servers we use to store and process personal data are exclusively in the United States.
Additional notices for certain jurisdictions
California
We have prepared additional disclosures and notices consistent with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Our Privacy Notice for California Residents, the terms of which are incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.
Nevada
If you would like to request that we refrain from selling your Covered Information (as defined under Nevada law), please contact us at support@academict.com
The company AcademicT is incorporated in the United States. You can reach us via email: support@academict.com.