LINEAR PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is important to us.

Privacy Policy

We recommend that you read over our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to better understand how we provide services to you. The following Privacy Policy describes your rights and responsibilities as a User when using the Linear Design Services.

We recommend that you read over our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to better understand how we provide services to you. The following Privacy Policy describes your rights and responsibilities as a User when using the Linear Design Services.

This Privacy Policy describes Linear Design and its affiliates’ (collectively “we”, “our”, “us”) practices with respect to Personal Information that we process and gather from or about you when you use our website and services.

Linear Design Services are designed for businesses and are not intended for personal/ individual use. We, hence, treat most individuals who contact us about our services as individuals acting as business representatives rather than in their personal capacity. To the extent we process the personal information, we do so in our capacity as a service provider/processor in pursuant of the contractual arrangements with our business customers.

The website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. You must be at least 18 years old to use the website and/or the Linear Design services. We do not knowingly gather personal information from any child under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, do not use the Linear Design services, and do not provide any personal information to us. If you are a parent of a child under 18 years of age and become aware that your child has provided personal information to Linear Design, please contact us at [email protected], and you may request access, correction, deletion, and/or objection rights.

Definitions

‘Personal Information’ for United States Residents (other than California residents) means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person.

‘Personal Information’ for United States Residents (other than California residents) means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person.

‘Data Controller’ refers to entities including advertisers and publishers with whom you may have shared any information which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal information.

‘Selling of Personal Information’ for this privacy policy is defined “Selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third-party for monetary or other valuable consideration.”

‘Non-Personal Information’ means information not included in the definition of Personal Information, such as pages or ads visited, time spent on pages, browser and device type, and referring and exit pages.

‘Data Controller’ refers to entities including advertisers and publishers with whom you may have shared any information which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal information.

‘Selling of Personal Information’ for this privacy policy is defined “Selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third-party for monetary or other valuable consideration.”

‘Non-Personal Information’ means information not included in the definition of Personal Information, such as pages or ads visited, time spent on pages, browser and device type, and referring and exit pages.

Personal Information we gather/ receive about you

WE DO USE COOKIES, and we may gather information about your computer or other access device to mitigate risk, and for fraud prevention purposes.

In general, there are three categories of information we gather:

Personal Information gathered is either by consent or by performance of a contract/ agreement with you and/ or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof. This Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, name, email id, phone number, location, device used, device operating system, browser used, system specifications, time stamp and brand information (including guidelines, descriptions, logos, fonts, etc.).

When you provide personal information directly to us, this information is used by Linear Design solely for the purposes identified at the point you provide it.

Why We Gather Personal Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

We will not process your personal information in a way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it has been gathered or authorized by you in accordance with this section.

For any new purpose of processing that is not compatible with any of the purposes mentioned above, we will ask for your separate explicit consent.

To the extent necessary for any of the processing purposes, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current. We also undertake to gather only such amounts and types of your personal information that are strictly required for the purposes mentioned in this section.

How We Use Personal Information Gathered/ Received

Information we gather may be transferred, stored, used, and/ or processed as follows:

Contact information When you respond to our outbound email, through our website, register for our sponsored marketing event either using a landing page or event management provider, or become a user of our services, you will be asked to provide us with certain personal information about yourself which may include your name, email address, name of your organization, or contact number. Consistent with any permissions you may have communicated to us, we may use this information to directly communicate with you for marketing and promotional purposes via emails, notifications, or other messages and to communicate with you for research purposes, including via emails, notifications, or other messages. Users may also receive communications concerning our product updates, training sessions, events, or webinars. If you want to stop receiving such materials from us, you may follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

Billing information in certain circumstances, to use the Linear Design Services, you may be required to provide additional information for payment processing to third party service providers. We do not store, retain, or use Billing Information which may include a name, credit card number, and expiration date, or any related information to processing payments. However, information like subscription id and other payment verification details may be shared with us by the service providers.

User activity information in an ongoing effort to improve the website and the Linear Design Services, we automatically gather certain information when visitors visit the website and when platform users use the Linear Design Services (collectively, the “User Activity Information”). This information may include IP address, browser and device type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on pages, what sections of the website visitors visit, and other similar aggregate user information concerning your use of the website and the Linear Design Services. We may use this information to manage and improve your experience using the website and the Linear Design Services. In some areas of the world, certain user activity data may be considered as personal information. In this case, we comply with applicable laws regarding our use and processing of personal information.

Service data in connection with providing the Linear Design Services, we gather system connection information, such as the incoming IP address for each end user (“Service Information”). We utilize this data to support the Linear Design Services, including maintaining platform security and availability, fraud detection, and resolving ad serving errors.

How Long We Keep Personal Information For

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the relevant purposes set out in this privacy policy, as may be required by law or as otherwise communicated to you. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

How long we retain specific personal information varies depending on the purpose for its use, and we will delete your personal information in accordance with applicable law(s).

We will also retain user activity information for internal analysis purposes. User activity information is generally retained for a short period of time, except when this information is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the Linear Design Services or when we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your information at your direction or as described within this privacy policy.

Third-party service providers We may share your information with the certain third-party service providers that support us in delivering the Linear Design Services to our customers. We may also share your information with companies that help us operate and market the Linear Design Services, such as billing our customers, analyzing our website visitors, providing customer and technical support, database, analytics, hosting services, and other operational support. We ensure that such service providers are contractually required to protect your personal information at all times. However, we cannot control the actions of third-party service providers therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your information will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

To comply with the law, we may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement or governmental authorities, or authorized third parties if and to the extent we are required to do so by law, regulation, or legal process.

Business transfers If we undertake or are involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, we may sell, transfer, or share some or all our assets, including your personal information. To the extent required by applicable law, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

To enforce our rights, prevent fraud, and for safety We may use personal information to protect and defend the rights, property, or our safety or its customers, including enforcing contracts or policies or in connection with investigating and preventing fraud or security issues.

Corporate affiliates We may share information with its corporate affiliates, its parents, and/ or subsidiaries.

Others We may also disclose your information under circumstances not mentioned here with the prior consent of the person or third-party that submitted the information to us.

Where Do We Store Personal Information

Our servers are located at Cloudways by Digital Ocean. If you are located outside of United States, please be aware that any information provided to us, including personal information, will be transferred from your country of origin to United States; to enable us to provide Linear Design Services to you. Your decision to provide information to us, or to allow us to gather such information through our website or Linear Design Services, constitutes your consent to this information transfer. If you do not consent to this information transfer, do not submit personal information to the website.

How We Protect Personal Information

We use reasonable technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal information that is submitted to us voluntarily through our website or the Linear Design Services or gathered through interactions with the Linear Design Services. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of third parties with whom you elect to share your personal information, and we cannot accept liability for improper access to that information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your personal information. We cannot ensure that information you share on our website and/ or through Linear Design Services will not become publicly available.

Personal Information Breach Notification

In the event that your information is compromised, we will notify you and competent Supervisory Authority/(ies) without undue delay no later than 30 days of becoming aware about the breach by e-mail with information about the extent of the breach, affected information, any impact on the service and our action plan for measures to secure the information and limit any possible detrimental effect on the individuals.

Your Rights

You have certain rights depending on your location and applicable data protection laws.  These may include

(i) The right to notice

(ii) The right to request access, correction in your personal information

(iii) The right to say no to the sale of Personal Information (opt-out)

(iv) The right to delete or transfer your personal information

(v) The right not to be discriminated against

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided below.

Your California Rights

California law grants additional privacy rights to California residents. In particular, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires businesses to disclose, for the past 12 months, (i) the categories of personal information collected, (ii) the sources of the collected personal information, (iii) the purposes for which the collected personal information is used, (iv) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose, and (v) the categories of any personal information sold. Linear Design provides these disclosures in the following table.

 

Category

Sources of Collection

Purposes of Collection

Disclosure for a Business Purpose

Information Sold

Identifiers

Website visits, lead information submitted through the Website

For user registration, to enable Disruptive to provide its products and services and to allow Disruptive to communicate with you

To Third Party Providers to assist in providing Disruptive products and services and processing associated payments; to other third parties to allow them to market their products or services to you

N/A

Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute

Lead information submitted through the Website, submission of payment information

For user registration, to enable Disruptive to provide its products and services and to allow Disruptive to communicate with you

To Third Party Providers to assist in providing Disruptive products and services and processing payments

N/A

Commercial information

Lead information submitted through the Website

To provide Disruptive products and services to users and maintain purchase history

To Third Party Providers to facilitate delivery of products and services

N/A

Internet or other electronic network activity

Your browsing and search history on the Website and other interactions with the Website or advertisements

To improve the user experience on the Website, diagnose server problems and administer the Website; to allow third parties to customize advertisements to you

To Third Party Providers for the purpose of enhancing the Website and improving the effectiveness of our advertising; to other third parties to allow them to market their products or services to you

N/A

Geolocation data

IP address

To improve the user experience on the Website

To Third Party Providers for the purpose of enhancing our Website and improving the effectiveness of our advertising

N/A

Inferences drawn from other personal information

Your browsing and search history on our Website and other interactions with our Website or advertisements

To improve the user experience on the Website; to allow third parties to customize advertisements to you

To Third Party Providers for the purpose of enhancing our Website and improving the effectiveness of our advertising; to other third parties to allow them to market their products or services to you

N/A

How to Exercise Rights

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

In order to exercise any of your rights you can contact us at [email protected].

Your request to us must:

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if we cannot:

We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy, our use of cookies, or our policies regarding the collection, use, processing, retention, and/or disclosure of your personal information, you may contact us by post at:

Aiquire Inc. (‘Linear Design’)
625 W Adams St Chicago, Illinois 60661

or by emailing at: [email protected]

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) provides help and guidance to ensure we apply good practice standards for protecting personal information. You can reach our DPO by email at [email protected] to submit inquiries regarding personal information, privacy, and security.

If you contact us, we may keep copies of your correspondence with us and contact details that you have provided us while making your inquiries (such as your name, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline), in order to investigate your concerns, respond to your inquiries and as required by the law, regulation or legal process.

By using our website and Linear Design services you consent to the Privacy Policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy provides up to date information about how we use personal information and will update any previous information we have published about using personal information. We may make minor updates to this Privacy Policy from time to time, however if we make any material changes to the manner in which we process and use your personal information, we will announce this clearly on our website.

Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy!