Your privacy is critically important to us. At Codioful, we have a few fundamental principles:
- We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
- We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
- We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
- We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.
This privacy policy has been adopted from Automattic’s Privacy Policy and the license is Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Who We Are and What This Policy Covers
Codioful ("i", "us", "we", or "our") operates the https://codioful.com website (hereinafter referred to as the "Site", "Website", or "Service").
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.
How And What Information We Collect About You
We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.
Information You Provide To Us Voluntarily
While using our Service, we collect personally identifiable information (PII) that you provide to us such as name, email address via contact form, email newsletter form, survey etc. We also store a copy of our communications to operate and improve our Service. You may visit our Site, and use our Service anonymously. We collect these information if you provide your information voluntarily, otherwise some Site or Service related functions, activities and interactions may not work properly.
Information We Collect Automatically
Log Information: Like most online service providers, we follow a standard procedure of using log files when you visit our Site. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, web browsers, internet service providers (ISP), mobile devices, and hosting/servers typically make available, such as the browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, the date and time of access, operating system, mobile network, and demographic information.
Usage Information: We collect information how the Service is accessed and used. This usage information includes, your device, screen size, browser type, browser version, IP address, name of cellular network, device manufacturer, the pages of our Service that you visit, time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, referring site, exit pages, number of clicks, and other diagnostic informations. We use this information to, for example, provide our Service to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Service better.
Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to calculate several data such as when and how many people visit our Service from certain geographic regions. This helps us to create specific features, changes and improvements to our Service, for example, if we see lots of arabic people visit our Service then we can add arabic language to make our Service more accessible for those arabic peoples.
Cookies: Like any other website, our Site uses 'cookies'. A cookie is a string of information sent to your browser from our Site and stored on your device, and your browser provides to our Site each time you return. These cookies are used to store information including your preferences, the pages on the Site you accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize your experience by customizing our Website content based on your browser type and/or other information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Pixel Tags And Other Technologies: Other tracking technologies are also used such as pixel tags (also known as web beacons), scripts to collect and track information. These are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. We use other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads.
Other Sources: We may also get information, such as a mailing address, from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users (…but we hope will be!), which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes about our service.
Third Party Vendors And Their Privacy Policies: We use and partnered up with some third party to run our Website and provide our Service to you. They uses technologies like cookies, JavaScripts, or pixel tags that are used in their respective services and links that appear on Codioful, which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their service such as advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Each of our partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. Codioful has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third party vendors. For more information about their cookies and other technologies, we described the basics and hyperlinked to their detailed Privacy Policies below.
Why We Collect And Use Your Information
We collect informations and use them in variety of ways. We already mentioned above how we collect informations and describe below about the purpose of collection and how we use the collection.
Why We Collect And Use Your Information
Future Improvments And Developments: To further develop and improve our Services–for example, by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or will help them to create and manage their own projects or services more efficiently; To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;
Impact of Advertising: To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition — for example, we may analyze how many individuals accessed our Service after receiving a marketing message or the features used by those who continue to use our Services after a certain length of time;
Protecting Our Service: To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Automattic and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Services; To monitor the usage of the Service, To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Communicate With You: For example, we may email you to solicit your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date on Automattic; text you to verify your payment; or call you to share offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. (Please keep in mind that even if you opt out, we’ll still send you important updates relating to your account); To notify you about changes to our service, even if we change this privacy policy. To provide customer care and support
To personalize your experience: using our Services, provide content recommendations (for example, through our Reader Post Suggestions), target our marketing messages to groups of our users (for example, those who have a particular plan with us or have been our user for a certain length of time), and serve relevant advertisements. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information: A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or
(5) You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.
Why And How We Share Your Information
We do not sell our users’ private personal information. We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.
Subsidiaries, Employees, And Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Service or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, send email campaigns to let you know about new updates, deals, policy changes, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
Legal and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
To Protect Rights, Property, And Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Codioful, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Codioful goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services and we may share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.
Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
How Long We Keep Your Information And Secure It
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to Codioful Website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic to Codioful Website and investigate issues if something goes wrong on our Website.
Some other informations may be collected and stored in order to keep in touch with you such as making businesses or sending updates to you until you request us to delete your information or unsubscribe from our emails.
No online service, method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, we can not guarantee its absolute security. We work very hard, and strive, to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Service for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
What Is Your Choices And Rights About Your Information
There are several choices and rights for you to take control of your information. We list them in details below.
Choices You Can Make About You
Limit Access to Information on Your Mobile Device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps.
Opt-Out of Marketing Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or let us know. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you other communications, such as support email if you contact us for support.
Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our Site, with the drawback that certain features of our Site may not function properly without the aid of cookies. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
What is Your Rights About Your Information
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (as known as the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.
You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data by emailing us to [email protected]
EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
How to Reach Us: If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us.
Transferring And Handling Your Information
If you live and/or use our Service from EU: As our Service is offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Service in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the Why We Collect And Use Your Information section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include:
In the case of US based entities, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them, or ensuring they have signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield; or In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them.
You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.
If you live and/or use our Service from outside EU: Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Bangladesh and US, and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer and store the data, including Personal Data, to US server, and access, process, maintain it remotely from Bangladesh.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer and maintenance.
Codioful will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Other Things You Should Know
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Codioful does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Ads And Analytics Services By Others
Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Codioful and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers.
Third Party Services And Their Privacy Policy
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google is one of a third party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.google.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Google Analytics: We use analytics service through Google Analytics to track our Site and Service users such as which country people visited our Site, how they find us, what pages they access, how long they access, when (time and date) they access and other related analytics data. Visit their detailed Privacy Policy here - https://policies.google.com
Send Grid: We use SendGrid to collect and send email campaigns to our subscribers. We store the data on their servers so if you opt-out from any of our email, your information such as email address will automatically deleted from our subscription list. We encourage you to visit their Privacy Policy here - https://sendgrid.com/policies/privacy/services-privacy-policy/
Links to Other Sites: Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Codioful. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Codioful may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Codioful encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.
Changelog
11 Dec, 2019 - Initial Privacy Policy in place