Welcome and thank you for visiting this site, which is operated as Portabote International Inc. (collectively, “Portabote“, “Us” “our” or “We“). These Privacy Policies (these “Policies“) are provided by Portabote and are applicable to all Portabote’s digital operations at or through our websites, our mobile/tablet sites, and our social media presence. Visitors to this website are sometimes referred to in these Policies as “you” or “your” and you and we together are sometimes referred to as the “parties”.

PLEASE READ THESE POLICIES CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. YOUR ACCESS AND/OR USE OF THE WEBSITE CONFIRMS YOUR UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING POLICIES. IF YOU DO NOT FULLY ACCEPT THESE POLICIES, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE WEBSITE.

This privacy policy describes how Portabote International Inc. uses and protects any information that you give us. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide us with personal information through this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Who we are

Our website address is: www.portabote.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Portabote collects non-personally-identifying information 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. Portabote’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Portabote’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Portabote may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Portabote also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Portabote does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Portabote choose to interact with this website in ways that require Portabote to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Portabote gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors to login to our website by providing a username and email address.

In each case, Portabote collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Portabote. Portabote does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

All of the information that is collected on Portabote will be handled in accordance with GDPR legislation.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Portabote discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Portabote’s behalf or to provide services available through this website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Portabote, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Portabote will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Portabote discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, if you give permission to have your information shared, or when Portabote believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Portabote, third parties, or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of this Portabote website and have supplied your email address, Portabote may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Portabote 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.

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 it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Portabote takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Use of Personal Information

We will not use the information you provide when you register for an account, attend our events, receive newsletters, or purchase our products for anything other than its clear intention.

We will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

We would like to send you email marketing communication which may be of interest to you from time to time. If you have consented to marketing, you may opt out later.

You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

Legal Grounds for Processing Personal Information

We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:

• our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you;
• explicit consent that you have given;
• legal obligations.

Access to Data

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please follow the instructions at the end of this section.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to, for the sole purpose of successfully keeping you engaged with the best experience of Portabote. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.

Portabote will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation.

When deletion is requested or otherwise required, we will anonymise the data of data subjects and/or remove their information from publicly accessible sites if the deletion of data would break essential systems or damage the logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or other related aspects.

If you would like to request deletion of your account and associated data, please contact us.

Rights in Relation to Your Information

You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

• request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
• ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
• ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information (for information on deletion from archives, see the “Retention of personal information” section);
• object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
• withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).

If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please follow the instructions at the end of this Privacy statement.

Rights in Relation to Your Information

You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

Third Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under our control. When following a link and providing information to a 3rd-party website, please be aware that we are not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This privacy policy only applies to the websites listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on portabote.com, you should read their own privacy policies.

Cookies

Additionally, information about how you use our website is collected automatically using “cookies”. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Portabote may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Portabote’s sole discretion. Porta-Bote encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any 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.

Contact Portabote

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you by emailing [email protected].