Notice at Collection

Last Updated: June 2023

data.world understands the importance of data practices in helping organizations and people manage data effectively. We provide a cloud-native enterprise data catalog and discovery and collaboration platform (the “Services”). We value our relationships with our community members, enterprise customers, users, and site visitors and know that data privacy is important. This notice at collection provides the categories of personal information we collect about consumers and the purposes for which we use information. This Notice of Collection is part of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and our enterprise software agreements.

We collect information about you directly from you, from third-parties, and automatically through your use of the data.world Site and Services. 

• Information We Collect Directly from You. The information we collect from you depends on how you use our Site. When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and enable you to create a user-name and password,  and any additional information you choose to give us. We may also collect your payment information for your subscription plan through our third-party payment processor, Stripe and/or Braintree, as detailed below, and information when you contact us. We may also collect information that you provide to register for an event, request a demonstration of the Services, try out our Services, respond to an online form to subscribe, or to download, newsletters, blogs, attend events or access other content.  

• Information We Collect from Third-parties. We also collect information about you from third-parties, such as organizations you are associated with or with whom you collaborate on our Site. For example, we collect information about you from third-parties in connection with you joining their organization on our Site or collaborating with them, such as your name, email addresses, titles, roles and other information these third-parties provide us. We may also collect information on how you are using the Site in the context of such organization or third-parties and provide that information to the organization you are associated with or with which you are collaborating as described under the Disclosures of Personal Data & Accountability for Onward Transfer section below.

• Information We Collect Automatically. We automatically collect the following information about your use of our Site through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies: your domain name; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; the length of time you visit or use our Site; and the referring URL, or the web page that led you to our Site. We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you, including, where applicable, your user name, name, and other Personal Data. Please see the section “Cookies and Similar Technologies” in our Privacy Policy for more information.

• Information We Collect from Social Networks. Our Site includes social media features, such as the ability for you to use the “share this” button. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you are visiting on our Site and set a cookie to enable the features to function properly. They are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on our Site. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy and other policies of the companies providing them.

• Information you Provide Us from Social Networks. Members that have registered an account with us may also log into our Site through social networking accounts, including Facebook, Google, Twitter, or GitHub, among others.

  • Facebook. If you log into our Site using Facebook, you must log into Facebook using your Facebook email address and password. By logging into our Site using your Facebook credentials, you are granting us permission to: (i) access and collect your Facebook basic profile information (this includes your name, profile picture, user ID and email address); (ii) send you email; and (iii) access your Facebook data at any time even if you are not using Facebook. If you allow us to have access to this information, then we will have access to this information even if you have chosen not to make that information public.

  • Twitter. If you log into our Site using Twitter, you must log into Twitter using your Twitter email or user name and password. By logging into our Site through Twitter using your Twitter credentials, you are granting us access to read public Tweets from your timeline, see whom you follow, and see the email address associated with your Twitter account.

  • Google. If you log into our Site using Google, you must log into your Google account using your Google email address and password. By logging into our Site through your Google account and Google credentials, you are granting us access to your name, email address and profile picture as it is displayed in Google.

  • GitHub. If you log into our Site using GitHub, you must log into your GitHub account using your GitHub user name and password. By logging into our Site through your GitHub account and GitHub credentials, you are granting us access to your user name, email address and profile picture as it is displayed in GitHub.

We store the information that we receive from social networks with other information that we collect from you or receive about you. We do not collect or access your third-party social network passwords nor post content on your behalf. Any third-party social networking site controls the information it collects from you. For information about how they may use and disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult their respective privacy policies. We have no control over how any third-party site uses or discloses the Personal Data it collects, discloses, or retains about you.

• Children’s Privacy. Our Site is intended for use by general audiences and is not directed to or intended for use by children. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Data from children younger than the age of 13. If you believe that we have unintentionally received Personal Data about a minor under the age of 13 years old, please contact us at privacy@data.world. If we become aware of any collection of Personal Data from children, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. 

• Sensitive Personal Information. As detailed in our Terms of Use, you agree that you will not make any submission on the site open and available to the public that contains personal information, Personal Data, sensitive personal information, or other data that relates to an identified or identifiable living person. We may collect your payment information for your subscription plan through our third-party payment processor, Stripe and/or Braintree. We will not request any further sensitive personal information from you in order to provide you with the Services, except as required by law.

We use the information collected to fulfill the Services you have requested and to provide a more personalized user experience. The type of information collected, used, or processed may depend on the type of Service you have selected. Failure to provide Personal Data may cause some Services to become unavailable.  We use and process your Personal Data for a variety of purposes, including:

• Customer service. We use your information for customer service purposes, including to provide services to you; to provide you with Member, User and technical support, or other similar purposes; and to establish and update your Member or User account.

• Marketing. We use your information to contact you for our marketing purposes, including to provide you with special offers, promotions, news, and newsletters; to contact you about products we think may interest you; and for other marketing, advertising, and promotional purposes. We also may use the information that we learn about you and your use of the Site to assist us in advertising our services on third-party websites.

• Business. We aggregate information regarding Site usage and navigation and use this information for business development purposes, for auditing purposes, to tailor the User, Member or Visitor experience, and to promote the services in presentations, blogs and papers we publish.

• Administration. We use your information for administrative purposes, including to help us better understand how our Users, Members and Visitors use and access the Site; to identify and repair the Site, to provide summarized reports to prospective partners, service providers, regulators, and others; to implement and maintain security, anti-piracy, fraud prevention, and other services designed to protect you and us; to enforce our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, our enterprise software agreements, and other policies.

• Research and development. We use your information for research and development purposes, including to improve our Site, Services, and enhance the User, Member and Visitor experience; to understand our User, Member and Visitor demographics; and for other research and analytical purposes.

• Hiring practices. If you are applying to work with us, we will use the information you provide to process your job application and to monitor our recruitment statistics. If you are located outside the United States, we may request additional privacy terms to process the application, and if hired we will provide the privacy terms as part of such employment. We may use third parties to verify information contained in your application. We retain information regarding applicants as required by applicable law. If you do not want this information retained or if you no longer wish to be considered for a job, you can contact us at the information provided below. 

• Protection of us and others. We use your information where we believe it is necessary to protect us and others. We may use your information to detect, investigate, and prevent activity we think may be potentially illegal, unlawful, fraudulent, or harmful and to enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or enterprise software agreements. 

• Termination of Service. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, terminate service and/or access to the Site for Users, Members or Visitors who infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

We rely on the accuracy of the information provided directly to us and encourage you to ensure that the information you provide is accurate, complete, and reliable based upon its intended use. 

We will retain your information for a period of time consistent with us providing the Services as described in this Notice at Collection and our Privacy Policy. We retain your information for as long as needed to continue the ongoing business relationship to provide the Services to you. We also retain information as long as necessary to comply with legal obligations; resolve disputes; or to enforce our agreements. We maintain procedures designed for the secure disposal or destruction of Personal Data. You may contact us at any time at privacy@data.world to delete your account and data.

To provide and market our Services, data.world may disclose your information with our company affiliates, service providers, or sub-processors. Company affiliates may act for us for any of the purposes contained in this Notice at Collection or our Privacy Policy, including our current and future parent company, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership with data.world.

We only share or disclose information with third-party service providers to the extent necessary to provide the requested Services. For example, these providers may be assisting us in such functions as:

• Data storage and hosting of the Site

• Security and monitoring of the Site

• Marketing and analytics

• Support

• Event hosting

• Customer verification

• Billing and payments 

When you submit your payment information, you are authorizing Stripe and Braintree, our third-party payment processors, to collect, retain, process, and disclose the financial information you provide as part of that subscription process as well as the information Stripe and Braintree collect from you using cookies or other similar means. Stripe agrees to use that information in accordance with its privacy policy located at https://stripe.com/us/privacy, and Braintree in accordance with its privacy policy located at https://www.braintreepayments.com/legal/braintree-privacy-policy. 

These companies are prohibited from retaining, sharing, storing, or using the Personal Data for any secondary purposes. By contract, we require our sub-processors to maintain appropriate security and privacy measures with respect to PersonalData in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, 

We may also share your information in the following ways:

• Site Members and Visitors. Depending on how you established your profile settings, your user name, name, and profile information may be available to other Site Visitors and Members. We may share your information with other Visitors and Members, who may use that information to contact you, regarding your Submissions or other information you have posted on our Site. 

• Business transfers. We may share your information with another entity if we or any of our current or future corporate affiliates are acquired by or merged with another legal entity, if substantially all of our assets are sold or transferred to another legal entity, as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of a similar transfer of assets.

• Program and Content Partners. We often work with third parties to develop white papers or other content and to host and sponsor events, like webinars and conferences. If you access this content or register to sign up for an event, we will share the information you provide to access the content or event with these third-party partners and sponsors. The registration process for events requires providing consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. These third parties may use your information to contact you, including for their own marketing purposes. You can opt out from being contacted by these third parties during the registration process. 

• Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may share aggregate or de-identified information about Visitors, Users and Members with third parties for marketing, analytics, advertising, research, training, or similar purposes.

• Integrations. We offer Users and Members the ability to use, at the User’s or Member’s discretion, certain third party services to analyze or process Submissions on the Site (“Integrations”). When you use an Integration, we may share your information with the provider of the Integration you use. We are not responsible for how the provider of the Integration may collect, use, disclose, and share your information. Please review the integration provider’s privacy policy for additional details.

• Reports. We may share your information with the owner or administrator of any organization you belong to on our Site or with the owner of any dataset to which you were invited to join as a contributor. This information includes your username, when and what activities you are conducting on our Site related to that organization or that dataset and how you are interacting with that organization or that dataset. Those owners or administrators determine their own policies regarding storage, access, modification, deletion, sharing and retention of your information which may apply to your use of our Site, and we do not control how they choose to share or disclose your information. We recommend that you periodically check with those owners or administrators about their polices and settings.

• Customer service. We may share your information with the owner or administrator of any organization you belong to on our Site or with the owner of any dataset to which you were invited to join as a contributor for customer service purposes, including to resolve service issues; to provide you with technical support, or other similar purposes; and to establish and update your subscription account.

• In response to legal process.  We may use or disclose your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including to respond to a subpoena or court order; to cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental investigations; and as part of legal proceedings. U.S. governmental agencies, courts, or law enforcement may be able to request access or obtain your Personal Data (for example, in response to a court order) or Personal Data contained in your Submissions to the private side of our Site.

• To protect us and others. We may share your information where we believe it is necessary to:

  • prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft

  • to enforce a contract

  • to protect copyrights, trademarks, or intellectual property

  • to protect our and the legal rights of others, our Site, or safety of you, data.world, our corporate relatives, and our employees, customers, partners, agents, other Members and visitors, or the public in general

  • to enforce our Terms of Use or our enterprise software agreements, as applicable, and our Privacy Policy

  • to monitor and remediate security issues

Your privacy is important to us. We use technologies, such as cookies, that gather information on our website. That information is used for a variety of purposes such as to understand how visitors interact with our websites, or to serve advertisements on our websites or on other websites. The use of technologies, such as cookies, constitutes a “sale” of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act. In addition, we may use your personal information in a way that constitutes “sharing” under the California Privacy Rights Act.  You can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” by clicking on the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link at the bottom of our website and selecting your preferences below, or broadcasting the global privacy control signal. Note that due to technological limitations, if you visit our website from a different computer or device, or clear cookies on your browser that store your preferences, you will need to return to this screen to select your preferences and/or rebroadcast the signal.

For more information, please visit our Privacy Policy at: https://data.world/legal/privacy/