PRIVACY NOTICE
LAST UPDATED: APRIL 20, 2022
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at FlexCompute
Inc ("Company", "we", "us",
"our"). We are committed to protecting your
personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any
questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices
with regards to your personal information, please contact us at
info@flexcompute.com.
When you visit our website www.simulation.cloud (the
"Website"), and more generally, use any of our
services (the "Services", which include
the Website), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal
information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy
notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what
information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in
relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it
carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy
notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our
Services immediately.
This privacy notice applies to all information collected through
our Services (which, as described above, includes our Website), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events.
Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you
understand what we do with the information that we
collect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to
us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us
when you register on the Website,
express an interest in obtaining information about us or our
products and Services, when you participate in activities on the
Website or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of
your interactions with us and the
Website, the choices
you make and the products and features you use. The personal
information we collect may include the following:
All personal information that you provide to us must be true,
complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such
personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP)
address and/or browser and device characteristics — is
collected automatically when you visit our
Website.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or
navigate the
Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like
your name or contact information) but may include device and usage
information, such as your IP address, browser and device
characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring
URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when
you use our
Website
and other technical information. This information is primarily
needed to maintain the security and operation of our
Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies
and similar technologies.
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply
with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights,
or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the
following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your
personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking
technologies to collect and store your
information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies
(like web beacons and pixels) to access or store
information. Specific information about how we use such
technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is
set out in our Cookie Notice.
4. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED
INTERNATIONALLY?
In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information
in countries other than your own.
Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our
Website
from outside, please be aware that your information may
be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our
facilities and by those third parties with whom we may
share your personal information (see "WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?" above), in and other countries.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area,
then these countries may not necessarily have data
protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive
as those in your country. We will however take all
necessary measures to protect your personal information
in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable
law.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as
necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this
privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long
as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this
privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is
required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or
other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice
will require us keeping your personal information for
longer than .
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to
process your personal information, we will either delete
or anonymize such information, or, if this is not
possible (for example, because your personal information
has been stored in backup archives), then we will
securely store your personal information and isolate it
from any further processing until deletion is
possible.
6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or
market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to
children under 18 years of age. By using the
Website, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you
are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent
to such minor dependent’s use of the
Website. If we learn that personal information from users less
than 18 years of age has been collected, we will
deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to
promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from
children under age 18, please contact us at
info@flexcompute.com.
7. GDPR COMPLIANCE AND YOUR PRIVARY RIGHTS
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your
account at any time.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and
you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal
information, you also have the right to complain to your
local data protection supervisory authority. You can find
their contact details here:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm
If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact
details for the data protection authorities are
available here:
https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or
change the information in your account or
terminate your account, you can:
- Log into your account settings and update your user account.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will
deactivate or delete your account and information from
our active databases. However, we may retain some
information in our files to prevent fraud,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations,
enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable
legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies:
Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default.
If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your
browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you
choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could
affect certain features or services of our
Website. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by
advertisers on our
Website
visit
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Opting out of email marketing:
You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any
time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails
that we send or by contacting us using the details
provided below. You will then be removed from the
marketing email list — however, we may still communicate
with you, for example to send you service-related emails
that are necessary for the administration and use of
your account, to respond to service requests, or for
other non-marketing purposes. To otherwise opt-out, you
may:
- Note your preferences when you register an account with the site.
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and
mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT")
feature or setting you can activate to signal your
privacy preference not to have data about your online
browsing activities monitored and collected. At this
stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and
implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we
do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any
other mechanism that automatically communicates your
choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for
online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the
future, we will inform you about that practice in a
revised version of this privacy notice.
9. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you
are granted specific rights regarding access to your
personal information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as
the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are
California residents to request and obtain from us, once
a year and free of charge, information about categories
of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third
parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with which we shared
personal information in the immediately preceding
calendar year. If you are a California resident and
would like to make such a request, please submit your
request in writing to us using the contact information
provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California,
and have a registered account with
the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted
data that you publicly post on the
Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us
using the contact information provided below, and
include the email address associated with your account
and a statement that you reside in California. We will
make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the
Website, but please be aware that the data may not be
completely or comprehensively removed from all our
systems (e.g. backups, etc.).
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update
this notice as necessary to stay compliant with
relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time.
The updated version will be indicated by an updated
"Revised" date and the updated version will be effective
as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes
to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by
directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to
review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of
how we are protecting your information.
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice,
you may
email us at
info@flexcompute.com
or by post to:
Flexcompute Inc
130 Trapelo Rd, MA 02478
United States
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE
DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may
have the right to request access to the personal
information we collect from you, change that information,
or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review,
update, or delete your personal information, please click
Contact Support. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
13. WEBSITE ANALYTICS PRIVACY POLICY?
Online retargeting is another form of online advertising
that allows us and some of our advertising partners to
show you advertising based on your browsing patterns and
interactions with a site away from our sites.
We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to
collect and store your information.
Analytics
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors,
such as [Google Analytics], [Remarking with Google
Analytics], [Google Display Network Impression Reporting],
[Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting],
[Google Marketing Platform integration], [HubSpot], [Adobe
Analytics], [AWS], [Azure] and others, to allow tracking
technologies and remarking services on the Site through
the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies,
to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of
the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and
better understand online activity. By accessing the Site,
you consent to the collection and use of your information
by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review
their privacy policy and contact them directly for
responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal
information to these third-party vendors. However, if you
do not want any information to be collected and used by
tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party
vendor or the
Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool
or
Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
Types of Cookies Used by Google
Some or all of the cookies may be stored in your browser.
To manage how cookies are used, you can refuse the use of
certain cookies through your Google personalization
settings anytime by visiting
g.co/privacytools. You can also
manage cookies in your browser
(though browsers for mobile devices may not offer this
visibility). For example, if you use Google Chrome as your
browser, you can visit chrome://settings/cookies.
Functionality
Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact
with a service or site to access features that are
fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental
to the service include preferences like the user’s choice
of language, product optimizations that help maintain and
improve a service, and maintaining information relating to
a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart.
Security
Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent
fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service.
Analytics
Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows
services to understand how users interact with a
particular service. These insights allow services both to
improve content and to build better features that improve
the user’s experience.
Advertising
Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and
rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad
settings at
g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user,
muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring
the effectiveness of ads.
Personalization
Cookies used for personalization enhance the user’s
experience by providing personalized content and
features.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
How the process works:
Try this real URL to see an example: