ketteQ Privacy Notice

Information Collection on our General Website

If you are a Visitor, we may collect your name, email address, and other information you choose to submit when you browse our Website, complete forms, fill in surveys, request information from us, sign up for our mailing list or newsletters, or otherwise visit or interact on our Website.

Other Information Collection, Logging, and Automatically Collected Information

If you interact with our Website or Platforms, your browser or device will be subject to collection of logging and other automatically collected information. This includes information collection via cookies, web beacons, and other automatically collected information. The information we and others automatically collect may include your IP address, date and time you access our Website or Platforms and the pages and content you access during your visit, language preferences, websites that you link to or from, whether you receive or open an email or other communication from us (or via our Services), and the links you click on within those emails, information from your mobile device or your computer about how you interact with our website or online services, including unique device identifier, mobile network information, the type of device used and the operating system on that device, browser type, a list of files downloaded or pages viewed, and any errors encountered (collectively, “Usage Data”).

If you are a Visitor on our Website, please note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites and online services. These third parties may provide us information in connection with content, widgets, components, or other tools offered on our Website or as part of our Platform. These third parties may collect information from these sources when you use our Website. The information third parties collect may be associated with your personal information. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content, and for other purposes. We do not control any personal information once collected by these parties. We do not respond to “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.

In all cases, we may collect and use other information you choose to provide or with your consent.

Other Ways We Use Information We Collect

In addition to the uses described above, we may use all of the information we collect in order to:

• Maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience on our Website and Platforms.
• Support business development, research, marketing and promotional purposes, press inquiries or aggregate statistical analysis and site customization.
• Communicate with Visitors and Customers about our Services, including receipts, technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages. We may also provide customer and technical support, including notices about accounts and subscriptions and changes to our service.
• Respond to your requests and inquiries.
• Monitor and enforce our contracts, legal terms, acceptable use or other policies or similar terms.
• Comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance obligations. Additionally, to support compliance efforts on behalf of others and ourselves that support our provision of services to you.
• Provide a personalized experience. Automatically collected and device information may also be used to help us estimate our audience size, usage patterns, and analyze trends and administer our services, and used for research and marketing purposes.
• Help detect and prevent fraudulent use of our Services and other prohibited, illicit or illegal activity. We may use information to compare information for accuracy, and to very identity.
• Monitor information security, manage and protect our technical infrastructure (servers, networks, etc.), detect and prevent fraud and other prohibited, illicit or illegal activity, and to protect the rights and vital interests of you, others, and ourselves.
• Address existing or anticipated disputes and to protect our legal interests.
• Otherwise operate our business, including support for transactions impacting our company as a whole (such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, underwriting or asset purchases).
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your information to us and for other purposes disclosed to you in connection with our Services.
• Other purposes permitted by law or to which you consent.

To enhance our Services, we may also retain and use your information in an anonymized or de-identified format where your identity is not recognizable. Such information is not subject to the same usage restrictions as personal information and can be used to improve our products and services, conduct research, or for our other business purposes.

As permitted by law, we may combine the information we gather about you in identifiable form, including information from third parties. We may use this information, for example, to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.

How We Secure Information

We are committed to maintaining measures to protect the security of your personal information maintained in our systems. However, no network or system is ever entirely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of networks and systems that we operate or that are operated on our behalf. If we face a security breach, we may notify you as required by law via email or conspicuous posting on this site.

The safety and security of your personal information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone.

How We Share Information

We may share your information with third parties as reasonable to operate our business (including for the purposes described above), to provide the Website and Services to you and others, as permitted or required by law, or as directed or authorized by you. For example:

Affiliated Companies. We may share some or all of your information with our parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.

Third Party Sharing. We work with third parties to help us provide our Website and Services and to support internal operations. In some cases, they may use your information subject to their own privacy policies and to comply with their own legal and regulatory obligations. We work with different types of third parties, presently including:

• Data hosting, storage and cloud service providers.
• Platform and/or application security service providers. This includes providers such as [Google Analytics, Salesforce, HubSpot, Dealfront, Apollo.]
• Technical and customer support providers.
• Marketing and analytics providers; and
• Other third parties.

Professional Advisors, Law Enforcement and Regulators. We share information with our professional advisors who provide legal, compliance, auditing, accounting, banking, consulting, or other professional services, and with regulators, law enforcement, or government agencies to:

• Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those compliance obligations of federal, state or local regulators
• Protect our interests, property or legal rights, or those of our customers or third parties
• Respond to a subpoena, court order, or similar law enforcement request, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of this Privacy Notice or other applicable terms; and
• For other legal purposes, such as to enforce our terms and conditions, or to exercise or defend legal claims.

Corporate Transaction. In the event of a corporate transaction or reorganization, we may share your personal information. We may share your information in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business, or other similar event.

Other Disclosures. In addition to the above disclosures, we may disclose personal information in the event that we believe such disclosure is (i) necessary to provide our services or operate our business; (ii) in accordance with purposes we describe when you share it with us; (iii) permitted by law; or (iv) with your consent or at your direction.

We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

What Choices Do I Have?

Update personal information

If you are a Customer who holds an online account with us, you can adjust certain information you have provided about yourself by logging into your account. You may also request changes to your information by emailing us at  info@ketteq.com. In some cases, if you are an employee of a business Customer, you may need to coordinate updates with an administrator within your organization. As permitted by law, we may deny a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or prevent the provision of our Services. In some cases, Customers may be required to update their information with third parties before such update can be reflected in our records.

Marketing communications

You may receive marketing communications from ketteQ, including if you sign up for marketing or other communications. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe link in each email, or by contacting us at [info@ketteq.com]. Please note that you may continue to receive non-marketing emails from us after you opt out. Please note that we do not control communications from others, including Customers. If you are a Consumer, you should contact your Customers directly to understand communication choices they may provide you.

Cookies

You have choices regarding certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser’s setting to notify you of cookie placement or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our website may not function properly or at all as a result.

Links to Other Websites; Third Party Applications

ketteQ is not responsible for any practices employed by websites linked to or from our website, nor their information or content. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, this Privacy Notice is no longer in effect.

ketteQ operates and maintains social media networking pages on websites such as Facebook, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn. If you post to any of our social networking pages on third-party websites, you are providing information to the public and do so at your own risk. Please visit the privacy policies of any third-party websites before posting to our pages there.

Children’s Privacy

ketteQ’s Services are not intended to interact in any way with minors. Any access to or use of the Services by anyone under the age of 13 is unauthorized. If you are under 13, and you provide any information on or through our Services, we may contact your parent or guardian about your communications. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian or otherwise believe we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us.

Updates to Our Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we make changes, we will revise the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Notice. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective once they are posted unless otherwise indicated. We may choose to notify you by email to the email address in our records.  We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Notice to be sure you are familiar with the most current version.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concern about this Privacy Notice or the privacy practices at ketteQ, please contact us at info@ketteq.com.