Privacy Policy
[Rainy Day Group, Inc. dba Pierre] (“Pierre”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information in connection with your use of our website, desktop, applications and any other services that we own or control that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).
Personal Information We Collect
Information you provide to us.
- Account information, such as your display name, email address, password, avatar, SSH key, and profile photo.
- Authentication and integration information, such as Secure Shell (SSH) keys and Continuous Integration keys.
- Payment information, such as financial account information and shipping information, billing address and transaction information. We do not have access to payment card numbers. The information you provide in connection with your purchases is handled by our third-party payment processor, Stripe, in accordance with their terms of service and privacy policies.
- Communications with us, such as information that you provide in connection with your use of the Services, such as messages, posts, files, support requests, questions, surveys, feedback, and any other information you may send us.
- Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications, and details about your engagement with those communications.
- Information from cookies and other automated technologies, such as information about the devices you use to engage with our Services, and online activity data.
- Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
Information we collect automatically.
We and our service providers may automatically log and combine information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Services, online resources, and our communications, such as:
- Device data such as your computer’s or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, MAC address, screen resolution, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area.
- Online activity data such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Services, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, duration of access, and whether you have opened or otherwise engage with our communications.
- Location information. If you have enabled location services on your device, we may collect location information to provide the Services. You may opt out of location tracking as described in the “Privacy Choices” section below.
We use the following tools for automatic data collection:
- Cookies, which are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns.
- Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
- Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
Information we obtain from third parties.
When you grant us access to your account with a third-party service, the information we receive from your third-party account depends on the settings, permissions and privacy policy controlled by that third-party service. You should always check the privacy settings and notices in the relevant third-party services to understand what data may be disclosed to us or shared with us, such as:
- Cookies, which are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns.
- Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
- Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
- Social media platforms. We may receive information about your activity when you follow us on social media and networking platforms. Additionally, if you access our Services through a social networking site or a third-party login service (such as Single Sign-On (SSO) or Google), we may collect information about you from that third party that you have made available via your privacy settings.
- Third-party integrations. Should you choose to integrate a third-party product within our Services, we may receive or access information to configure your integration(s) in accordance with your preferences.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:
- Provide our Services. We use personal information to operate, maintain, and provide you with our Services;
- Communicate with you about our Services. We use personal information to respond to your requests, provide user support, communicate with you about our Service, including by sending announcements, surveys, reminders, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- Improve, monitor, personalize, and protect our Services. We use your personal information to improve and keep our Services safe for our users, which includes:
- Understanding your needs and interests, and personalizing your experience with the Service and our communications.
- Improving and adding features to our Services.
- Troubleshooting, testing and research, and keeping the Services secure.
Marketing and advertising. We and our advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:
- Email. We may from time-to-time send you direct marketing emails, including, but not limited to, notifying you of special promotions, offers and events via email. You may opt out of our marketing emails as described in the “Opt-out of marketing communications” section below.
- Research and development. We may use personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze trends, usage, activities and statistics, and to improve the Service and our business. As part of these activities, we may create or use aggregated, de-identified or other anonymized data from personal information we collect.
Compliance and protection. We may use personal information to comply with legal obligations, and to defend us against legal claims or disputes, including to:
- Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
- Protect our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
- Audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
- Enforce the terms and conditions that govern our Services; and
- Prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information as described below:
- Service providers. We may rely on third-party service providers in furtherance of the purposes described above. In these cases, personal information may be accessed by these third parties and processed or stored on our behalf. These service providers can include hosting services, cloud computing and storage services, maintenance services, security services, and support services.
- Professional advisors. We may disclose personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
- Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
- Business transferees. Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, Pierre (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
How You Share Personal Information
- With the public. If you decide to participate in one of our Services’ features, such as our online blogs, you make this information available to other website visitors, users and in some cases to the general public.
Privacy Policy
- Delete your account. You may delete your account information by accessing your account within the Services or by contacting us as provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
- Opt out of marketing communications. You can opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the emails you receive from us. If you do so, you will continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails until you cease using our Services linked to those service updates.
- Opt out of location tracking. You can control our collection of location data using your mobile device’s settings. Please note, however, that if you opt out of our collection of location information, you may no longer be able to use some features of the Services.
- Third-party opt-out. There are a number of ways to limit online tracking, which we have summarized below. Please note that these opt-out tools are not associated with us and we cannot guarantee that these tools work as their providers advertise them:
- Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
- Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our websites from setting cookies by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers. Where Google Analytics is used, you can also opt out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can learn more about Google Analytics’ practices at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
- Platform opt-outs. The following advertising partners offer opt-out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising:
- Google: www.adsettings.google.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/about/ads
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls
- Microsoft: https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings
- Advertising industry opt-out tools. You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:
- Digital Advertising Alliance: https://optout.aboutads.info/
- Network Advertising Initiative: https://optout.networkadvertising.org
Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use to access or interact with our Services.
- Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Third-Party Services
Our Services can contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content can be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of or representation that we are affiliated with any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions.
Information Security
We employ various technical, organizational, and physical safeguards that are designed to protect your personal information. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of personal information.
Use of the Services by Children
Our Services are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or otherwise where consent is required. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us as set out in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
Retention
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it and as described in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we process personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Cross-Border Processing of Personal Information
If you provide us with your personal information when using the Services, then please note that we are headquartered in the United States. To provide and operate our Services, it is necessary for us to process personal information in the United States.
If we transfer personal information across borders such that we are required to apply appropriate safeguards to personal information under applicable data protection laws, we will do so. Please contact us for further information about any such transfers or the specific safeguards applied.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you, for example through posting the Privacy Policy on our Services.
How to Contact Us
You can reach us by email at pierre@pierre.co or at the following mailing address:
Pierre
777 Florida Street #307
San Francisco, CA 94110